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:
- Philosophies of Entertainment
- Inclusion and exclusion
- Convergent industries and economies
- New technologies and responsibilities
- Media convergence: histories and futures
Find out about the COSME PGR Conference 2024 here.
Our People
Co-Directors:
Our Members:
Professor Philip Drake
Matthew Bosica (PGR member)
Louis Harding (PGR member)
Ellie Rose (PGR member)