Are you thinking about studying Book and Digital Media Studies? Learn more and watch the introduction video.

The MA Media Studies consists of four different programmes in the fields of Journalism and New Media (Dutch taught), Book and Digital Media Studies, Film and Photographic Studies and Cultural Analysis: Literature and Theory.

Are you thinking about studying Film and Photographic Studies? Learn more and watch the introduction video.

The master’s programme in Book and Digital Media Studies introduces you to the history of the written and printed word, and to theories and practices of publishing as well as digital textual media.

Are you thinking about studying Cultural Analysis: Literature and Theory? Learn more and watch the introduction video.

Recently Cambridge University Press published dr. Jan Osters monograph “Media Freedom as a Fundamental Right”.

Intermediality, Media Practices and Media Literacy is one of the six research themes of the LUCAS Modern and Contemporary cluster.

Both play and politics have the potential to create worlds in which new rules apply, meanings are created, and possibilities emerge for collaboration, strategy and creative solutions. In this sense, play and politics have always been very much alike. But what happens to this kinship in a post-digital…

This project aims at studying the social media reception of African publications as covered by the most important “altmetric” sources.

The Leiden Lectures in Media | Art | Politics (MAP) is a series of talks organized by Pepita Hesselberth and Yasco Horsman. Speakers from various academic backgrounds and in different stages of their careers reflect on diverging ways in which technological and social changes challenge and transform…

This book explores chronologically, for the first time, the representation and redefinition of Indonesia’s regional cultures through recording media, from the introduction of the gramophone record through the current video compact disc (VCD) era, taking as case study the Minangkabau ethnic group.

The Dutch-taught master’s programme in Journalism and New Media at Leiden University provides you with strong editorial and academic skills as well as a journalistic mindset. It is an ideal programme to kickstart your career in journalism.

Are you thinking about studying Media Technology (as of September 2025: Creative Intelligence & Technology)? Learn more and watch the introduction video.

How new media shape the communication strategies of the PRC’s official news agency Xinhua?

This PhD project analyses the politics and aesthetics of depictions of torture in American and European ‘war on terror’ films.

Staging the Archive: Art and Photography in the Age of New Media is dedicated to art practices that mobilize the model of the archive, demonstrating the ways in which such archival artworks probe the possibilities of what art is and what it can do.

Read the latest (news) articles and how the Leiden Science Run appeared in the media.

Play and Media is one of the six research themes of the LUCAS Modern and Contemporary cluster.

On this page, you can find video's explaining the research of LUCAS members.

Are you thinking about studying Arts, Literature and Media? Learn more and watch the introduction video.

For this project we delve into children's digital media use during the transition from kindergarten to group 3 and investigate its impact on their social development.

This interdisciplinary research master offers the best of three worlds: arts, literature and media. The courses provide period-specific training that focus either on the medieval and early modern or the modern and contemporary period.

How do videos, movies and documentaries dedicated to indigenous communities transform the media landscape of South Asia? Based on extensive original research, this book examines how in South Asia popular music videos, activist political clips, movies and documentaries about, by and for indigenous communities…

Find out who to contact with press enquiries and how we tell the world our news.

Do you have to be able to say everything on Twitter and Facebook? Is Instagram morally obliged to remove photos from attacks? Should we allow the terrorist group to recruit new members on the internet?

Nowadays children grow up with social media. This may influence the development of brain regions involved in social interaction. In their review article in Nature Communications, Crone and Konijn illustrate how neuroscience can contribute to a better understanding of how media and peers influence adolescents'…

The master’s programme Media Technology (as of September 2025: Creative Intelligence & Technology) at Leiden University focuses on creative exploration as well as the understanding of science and technology.

Visual art today is strongly interlinked with today’s society, a connection which is reinforced and deepened by social and other media. In Arts, Media and Society you will explore this relationship and analyse how it reflects and impacts the issues of our time, while also learning practical and academic…

'Politics of Withdrawal' considers the significance of practices and theories of withdrawal for radical thinking today.

Media & interaction is where artificial intelligence and machine learning meet philosophy, cognitive science, and the creative arts. Examples of research questions in this domain are: 'Can an algorithm be creative by human standards?', 'Can creative processes, such as composing music or writing poetry,…

There are several ways to stay up to date via social media.

Conducting research on reliability of journalism and the trust in media.

What are the critical elements in sonic materialization of fixed media electroacoustic music and how can these parameters be classified? How would interpretation be defined in performing fixed media music? What are the creative and new ways of presenting fixed media music by incorporating all the presentation…

How can we bridge the gap between experts and the general public?

Media & interaction is where artificial intelligence and machine learning meet philosophy, cognitive science, and the creative arts. Examples of research questions in this domain are: 'Can an algorithm be creative by human standards?', 'Can creative processes, such as composing music or writing poetry,…

The purpose of LENS is to foster, coordinate and support research of visual media of analog and digital photography, film, and video, and the visual arts.

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Are you eager to bring your own questions and curiosity into scientific research? Do the creation of media and use of technology drive your research interests? Could you be a researcher who challenges scientific practice and pushes its boundaries?

Denk je erover om Journalistiek en Nieuwe Media te studeren? Leer meer over deze master en bekijk onderstaande introductievideo.

The Computer Systems, Imagery & media (CSI) research programme performs research on methods and techniques for the design, implementation and application of advanced computer systems, in particular parallel, distributed and embedded computer systems.

The goal of the LIACS Media Lab (LML) at Leiden University is to conduct state-of-the-art research in the areas of deep learning, artificial intelligence and computer vision.

Experts and initiatives related to Academia in Motion (AiM) regularly appear in the media. Below are some examples of news coverage to date.

Yuxi Nie defended her thesis on 15 October 2019.