Centre for Converged Screen Media and Entertainment - Department of Communication and Media

Centre for Converged Screen Media and Entertainment (COSME)

COSME is an interdisciplinary centre that examines the often-radical ways in which media convergence has impacted on screen entertainment. Focusing on technological, cultural, industrial and economic dimensions, in collaboration with industries, institutions and individual partners, COSME aims to improve awareness of how practices are influenced by cultures of convergence. Its research work will examine this from abstract concepts of ‘pleasure’ to grounded notions of ‘industry’, and from both a contemporary and historical perspective.

The Centre has three interrelated goals that connect the expertise of its members:

To interrogate how technological advances reshape screen entertainment in the era of digital convergence.
To examine the practices of converged media industries and institutions, and how they include and exclude marginalised groups.
To explore how changing cultural attitudes and/or shifting economic and policy infrastructures impact screen media production and distribution.

COSME’s strategic aims focus on:

Leadership: To implement a strategic approach to research leadership and facilitation.

Funding: To scale up external funding applications, and explore new opportunities.

Networks: To increase collaborative research projects and networks with external HEIs, and non-HEI partners.

Impact: To expand the impact of our research through public engagement and knowledge exchange.

Team: To strengthen mutual research goals; turning individual researchers into a coherent research team.

COSME’s current key themes are: