Innovation Adoption, Value Appropriation, Digital Business Models,  E-Commerce, Digital Transformation, Digital Innovations, Artificial Intelligence, Motion Picture Industry, Videogame Industry, Music Industry, Social Media & Influencers.

Deborah Castro is an Assistant Professor in Media Studies at University of Groningen. Her main research interests lie in the fields of audience and television studies.

Deborah received her doctorate in Communication at Autonomous University of Barcelona (awarded cum laude) in 2016 sponsored by the Spanish Government. During her Ph.D., she was a researcher with the Ibero-American Observatory of Television Fiction, and participated in several funded research projects with the Observatory of Spanish Television Fiction and New Technologies. In 2014, she was a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Radio-Television-Film, The University of Texas at Austin. She moved to Portugal in 2016 as a Post-Doctoral researcher at Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute. There, she designed and coordinated a project at the junction of human computer interaction and media studies, focusing on the exploration of the binge-watching experience. She was also a Visiting Assistant Professor at University of Madeira (2017-2018) where she taught master’s students of Interactive Media Design, and a lecturer at the Department of Media and Communication at Erasmus University Rotterdam (2018-2020).

Her work has been presented at several international venues, such as the annual conferences of the International Communication Association and the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Her research has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Revista Latina de Comunicación Social  (2018) and  International Journal of Communication  (2018), Critical Studies in Television  (2019, and Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies  (2019).

Film history, film geography, media anthropology

Cultural memory; popular culture; modern German literature and culture; culture of the Weimar Republic; intermediality; intertextuality

Berber Hagedoorn is Assistant Professor Media Studies & Audiovisual Culture at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Her research interests revolve around screen cultures (representations and crossmedia storytelling practices, particulary around television) and audiovisual cultural memory in Europe. For example, she studies how the combination of television with new (cross-)media technologies has influenced the role of television as a storyteller (‘history teacher’) and information source for current media generations. Hagedoorn is the Vice-Chair of ECREA’s Television Studies section (European Communication Research and Education Association) and Member of the EUscreen Foundation Board, organizing cooperation for European research and education into television’s history and its future as a multi-platform storytelling practice. She received the 2021 CLARIAH Teaching Fellowship for a project teaching students in the international classroom to use the English-language collections in the CLARIAH Media Suite for creative multimodal storytelling projects and she received the 2018 Europeana Research Grant award for digital humanities research into Europe’s cultural heritage online. She has extensive experience in Media and Culture Studies and Digital Humanities through large-scale European and Dutch best practice projects on digital audio-visual heritage and cultural memory representation, including Europeana, EUscreen and CLARIAH. Hagedoorn has published in a.o. Critical Studies in Television, Media and Communication, Studies in Documentary Film, Journal of European Studies, Continuum and VIEW. She is the co-editor of two special issues on ‘The Youthification of Television’ in Critical Studies in Television (16.2 & 16.4, 2021) and the forthcoming edited volume New Challenges in European Television Series: National Experiences in a Transnational Context (Comares). For more information, see: https://berberhagedoorn.wordpress.com

Julian Hanich is the author of three monographs: The Audience Effect: On the Collective Cinema Experience (Edinburgh UP), Cinematic Emotion in Horror Films and Thrillers: The Aesthetic Paradox of Pleasurable Fear (Routledge) and Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau: City Girl (Edition Text + Kritik). With Daniel Fairfax, he co-edited The Structures of the Film Experience by Jean-Pierre Munier: Historical Assessments and Phenomenological Expansions (Amsterdam UP); and with Christian Ferencz-Flatz he was responsible for an issue of Studia Phaenomenologica on ‘Film and Phenomenology.’ Currently, he is co-editing, with Martin Rossouw, a volume entitled What Film Is Good For: On the Values of Spectatorship (University of California Press, 2023) and, with Michael Wedel, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (Edition Text + Kritik, 2023). His research focuses on film aesthetics, cinematic emotions, film and imagination, film phenomenology, the collective cinema experience, and the beautiful in film.

Modern German Literature
Drama
Morality and literature, law and literature
Literary, cultural, and media theory
Literature and music

Narrative and cognitive film theory
Digital Film Forensics / Videographic criticism 
Complex cinema, puzzle films

Integrating and facilitating audiovisuals, multimedia-facilities and technics in research, education and communication. 
Specialisations:
Videorecording and Regie / video-contentcreation / live-streaming en webcasting / editing / videoconferencing / projectiontechnics / presentationtechnics / systemintegration /  AV&MM projects events and consulting

My ressearch often addresses the intersection of cogniton and artistic creation. I am particularly interested in screen acting practices, from cultural analyses of specific performances to actorly collaborations with filmmaking technologies such as motion-capture, prosthetics, and puppets. I have also worked extensively on politics- and activism-based documentary cinema through my long association with the Cinema Politica Network as a programmer, administrator, and local organizer.

(European) Crises; Cultural Production in Times of Conflict; Cultural Self-Reflection; Migration and Contemporary Culture
Literature and Film; Literary Theory; Visual Studies; Documentary Film; Film Theory
Sociology; Discourse Theory; Systems Theory
Self-Referentiality; Aesthetic Negativity

Koloniale geschiedenis, historische beeldvorming, journalistiek.

Popular Music, American Music, Jazz, Audiovisual Arts, Gender and Music

Fields of experties: Non-fiction film and media, everyday and emerging media, Middle East, post-colonial and settler colonial studies, mediated intimacies, operativity and media. Bio: Laliv Melamed is an assistant professor of film studies at the University of Groningen. She writes on sentimental politics, governance and media and specializes in nonfiction media and documentary. Melamed is the author of Sovereign Intimacy: Private Media and the Traces of Colonial Violence (University of California Press, 2023). Her other writings appeared in Journal of Cinema and Media Studies (forthcoming), Discourse, American Anthropologist Review, New Cinemas, Millennium Film Journal. In 2020, with the break of the pandemic, she launched a collaborative project titled Society for Sick Societies published by Social Text online, and co-edited Pandemic Media: Preliminary Notes Towards an Inventory (Meson Press, 2021). Currently, she is working on a book project on military optics and aspects of state secrecy, titled Optics of Opacity: The Cultural Imaginaries of Operative Images. In addition to her academic career, Melamed is a film programmer. She works for Docaviv Film Festival, and has curated programs for The Left Wing film club and Oberhausen Film Festival.

Decoloniality
Theory from the South
Media & National Identity
Digital & Emerging Media
Video Games
Media Theory
Critical Race Theory
Decolonial Ecopolitics

Sergio Rigoletto's research focuses on the politics of film aesthetics and its relation to social change, queer media cultures, international television, stars and performance studies and several aspects of Italian cinema. Writing in both English and Italian, he is the author of two books: Masculinity and Italian Cinema: Sexual Politics, Social Conflict and Male Crisis in the 1970s  (Edinburgh University Press: 2014) and Le norme traviate   (Meltemi: 2020). In 2013, he co-edited an anthology titled Popular Italian Cinema (Palgrave). Sergio Rigoletto’s most recent publications include an essay on questions around difference and spectrality in Call Me by Your Name (forthcoming in the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies) and another essay on Xavier Dolan's idiosyncratic use of musical parentheses (forthcoming in New Review of Film and Television Studies) .

Theories of International Relations, Visual Studies, Political Geography/Critical Geopolitics, Theories of Discourse, East Asian Studies

Contemporary cultural and media history - Specifically interested in: mediated memories, cultural practices, countercultures, amateur film & video, media technologies, and digital humanities

Memory Studies
Social Media
App Studies
Media Theory 

Hossein Tavazoni-Zadeh is a researcher and theatre director. His works mainly revolve around the sense and memory of place in cinema, architecture, and theatre, and the social issues tied to the image of the past.
Personal website: tavazoni.com

Visual Anthropology, Documentary Filmmaking

Film & Media Studies | Narrative Studies & Narratology | Arts & Cognition | Empirical Aesthetics|

Film and Media Technology, Experimental Media Archaeology, Film Phenomenology, Curatorial Studies and Museology, English Literature and Linguistics, Content Creation, Digital and Social Media, Visual Media, Online Marketing