Research - Media, Culture and Production
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Mission Statement
The aim of the Centre is to act as driver for research activity in the area of Media, Culture and Production. The Centre facilitates participation across Schools through implementing annual research themes agreed in cross-School research planning meetings. These themes inform Centre supported activities that include:
- Monthly work-in-progress seminars/workshops;
- Study day and, annual colloquium;
- End of year research symposia;
- Invited visiting fellowship/researcher programme,
- Collaborative grant application planning.
Four key research clusters are supported by Centre activities. These are:
Text, Genre and Visual Culture
This research cluster takes a special interest in the textual analysis of film, television, and visual culture. The group's main approaches are theoretical and historical, but it engages with, develops and applies a range of qualitative and reflective methods. QMU staff active in this area include:
Culture, Industry and Production
This research cluster focuses on both theoretical and practice based research that addresses the production of culture. The group’s research approach incorporates social and economic history, ethnography, and discourse analysis, informed by a set of theoretically driven questions such as the nature of authorship, the ordering of cultural industries, relations between culture and economy, lifestyle and consumption and the appropriation of cultural forms and values. QMU staff active in this area include:
Culture, Place, Identity and Diaspora
This research cluster focuses on questions of transnational networks, cultural transmission and identity formation, Performing culture(s), systems of information transmission, labour mobility and skills transfer in the cultural industries. QMU staff active in this area include:
Discursive Practices
Members of this group are interested in research that critically addresses discursive practices in their mediated, cultural and social contexts. The scope of research includes organisations, institutions and their constituencies. Areas of focus include the professionalization of communication used by these actors for strategic, policy purposes both in the public and business spheres. QMU staff active in this area include:
The Centre also supports the following Divisional work:
Research Initiatives:
Journals:
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