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Dr Joanne Garde-Hansen, Director of the MA Global Media and Communication and Prof Gilson Schwartz of the University of São Paulo, were among 400 applicants from 18 countries to secure funding from FAPESP/British Council Researcher Links 2013. The aim of the fund is to bring UK and Brazil researchers together on cutting edge issues. They will run a 3 day workshop at the University of São Paulo entitled Beyond the Digital - Collective Memory and Social Networks in Emerging Global Conflicts. This will engage 20 UK and 20 Brazilian Early Career Researchers, with a range of UK and Brazil professorial mentors. The workshop will explore innovative areas of media research stemming from the new, contemporary emergence of global and local voices of protest. The main aim is to bring to bear the theme of ‘collective memory and social networks’ upon a growing digital media literacy and emerging global democracy. ECRs will explore how (often closed) organisations, businesses and public spheres are repurposing memory and public feeling using social technologies in the context of real, global conflicts. They will exchange knowledge on digital heritage, memory and archives, the political economy of serious games as well as the historicity of entertainment and ludic ecosystems in cultural and creative industries, social networking and the regulation of online culture. The project complements the Santander funded Iconomy and Memory in UK/Brazil project.