A discussion of the academic job market and hiring processes in the UK and Ireland.
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The Overseas Job Market and the Media Studies Academy
Over the Rainbow: Selling the National Lottery in Post Celtic Tiger Ireland
In a cultural climate in which many now pick up a newspaper or turn on the nightly news with a strong sense of foreboding, a distinctive new ad has appeared in cinemas, run before every feature film I’ve gone to see in recent weeks.
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Transforming The Academy’s Female Winners into Losers
The proposition that the Academy’s female winners are in a more profound sense losers has emerged as a media talking point.
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In Praise of Dwangela
Where Pam and Jim (a couple whose sweetness is wonderfully conveyed by the fused appellation “Jam”) are associated with mild and often toothless critiques of the corporate regime, pulling pranks and expressing symbolic (and frequently non-verbal) opposition to or incredulity about the absurdities of corporate life, Dwangela perform a more substantive critical function.
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