In deze aflevering bespreken PhD student Lesley Verbeek (Open Universiteit) en co-onderzoeker en ervaringsdeskundige Daniëlle Amelsbeek (Eemhart) hoe zij op inclusieve wijze onderzoek doen naar stereotypes en stigma's in films over mensen met een verstandelijke beperking. 

In this episode, PhD student Lesley Verbeek (Open University) and co-researcher and expert by experience Daniëlle Amelsbeek (Eemhart) discuss how they conduct inclusive research on stereotypes and stigmas in films about people with intellectual disabilities. 

This episode is recorded in Dutch. Please find the English transcript at https://www.rmes.nl/rmes-podcast-talk-media-to-me-s03e15/ 

In this research master special of Talk Media to Me, PhD Council member and research master student Jord Telgenkamp (EUR) is joined by fellow student Lui Rommelspacher (EUR). Together they discuss how ableism shapes and is utilised in elite circles of Silicon Valley. They also reflect on their respective journeys of developing research interests and share their experiences as research master students.

Learn more about ableism: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9780230245181

In the thirteenth episode of Talk Media to Me; PhD Council member Femke van Bruggen (VU) talks to Gudrun Reijnierse, associate professor of Language and Communication at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, about the role of metaphors in political media campaigns and communication.

In the twelth episode of Talk Media to Me, PhD Council member Nurul Khansa Fauziyah (Maastricht University) talks to Sufri Eka Bhakti (University of Kent, UK) about how currently AI is shaping media studies. AI has helped many content creators to create beautiful visuals, but on the other hand, a content creator makes deepfakes and misuses other people's work with AI. The discourse on AI in shaping media studies is increasingly massive. In this episode, we will invite you to hear our discussion about this issue.

In this episode of Talk Media to Me, PhD Council member Nele Kadastik (RU) talks to PhD candidate Gaia Yonah (VU) about the power and complexity of storytelling. Gaia’s research bridges media studies and psychological analysis, focusing on how narrative structures shape emotional and cognitive responses. More specifically, she explores narrative complexity and how it unfolds in complex narratives, stories that challenge viewers’ understanding through ambiguity, fragmented structure, and interpretive uncertainty.

Learn more about the VU Story Lab: https://vu-storylab.nl/

In the tenth episode of Talk Media to Me, PhD Council member Keerthi Sridharan (UL) talks to Miriam Matthiessen (EUR) about visualizing invisibilized supply chains in inland shipping, the tangled nature of field work and method in media studies, and how to balance democratized knowledge production with institutional support and equitable labor practices.

In the ninth episode of Talk Media to Me, PhD Council member Merit Zimmerman (EUR) sits down with dr. Idil Galip (UvA) to talk about the growing prominence and status of memes in the art world, the "memetic turn" in media research, and their shared excitement for Severance and The White Lotus.

In the eighth episode of Talk Media to Me, PhD Council member Maud Rebergen (RUG) interviews her colleague Alexander Smit (RUG) on his dissertation research about how low-literacy adults experience the digitalized society and what policymakers can do to better include this marginalized group.

In the seventh episode of Talk Media to Me, PhD Council member Bjorn Beijnon (UvA) and his colleague Roselinde Bon (HU) talk about the prominent political role that big tech companies seem to be taking currently in the United States. They discuss how the second term of Trump is setting the stage for more political control through tech, and how occurrences such as censorship are used by big tech companies as strategic unknowns. 

In the sixth episode of Talk Media to Me, PhD Council member Bjorn Beijnon (UvA) talks to Nick van Hummel (RU) about his research on children and their media usage. They discuss how identity is socially and relationally constructed by children when interacting with media. Simultaneously, they also explore how differences in the fields of Media Studies and Social Sciences can be bridged in doing research on this topic.