Balázs Boross has been awarded with the Best Paper Award of the UK Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association conference.
ERMeCC PhD candidate Balázs Boross - supervised by dr. Stijn Reijnders and prof. Susanne Janssen - has been awarded with the Best Paper Award of the annual UK Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association conference, hosted by Bournemouth University between 8 and 10 January. Dedicated to the theme "Media and the Margins", the conference attracted an exceptionally high volume of proposals this year, and proved to be the largest ever MeCCSA event in terms of attendees.
The paper, titled "Coming out with the media: the ritualization of self-disclosure in the Dutch television program Uit de Kast" deals with the consequences of mediation for coming out practices, and aims to demonstrate how ritual analysis can offer a fresh input into current debates on the relationship between media participation, agency and the regulative power of the media. The award committee praised the theoretical refinement, the analytical depth and the sophisticated argumentation of the work.