And We’re Coming Back with the 2023 SMEDIAs!

Here at oxygen.ie, we're gearing up and getting you ready for the SMEDIAs! We're getting our sponsors ready (with a preview of our sponsors from last year), our categories in order and our judges' eyeballs rea...

SMEDIAs Entry Guidelines

The 23rd annual National Student Media Awards are coming! Marking the best in student film, photography, journalism, and design, The SMEDIAs have been a consistent platform for students over the last 22 years ...

SMEDIAs FAQ

Q. How do I apply? Specifics about this will be in under each category. You will be able to enter the majority of our categories online. Under your chosen category, there will be a link to the applicatio...

SMEDIAs Categories

The 2023 National Student Media Awards are fast approaching! For the 23rd year in a row, we’re celebrating the best that students have to offer in journalism, photography, film, TV, radio and more! This ...

Don’t Worry Darling: You Could Have Done Better

Amongst talks of spitting at its Venetian premiere, onset feuds, and the most troubled post-production history known to man, Don’t Worry Darling had quite a lot to be, well, worried about. The second directori...

The Erasmus Diaries: Chapter 2

It is now October and life is slowly beginning to make sense here. In a way, time has seemed simultaneously so fast and so slow. It is only October, but I have submitted my first assignment, my parents are vis...

What lies beyond the Kim-Kraze?

In the era of reality television and social media, the posterity of a person's fame is directly correlated to how viral (understand shocking, entertaining, and therefore shareable) their content is. Since her ...

The Cultural Significance of ‘Avatar’

For most of us, James Cameron’s 2009 film Avatar feels like a flash in the pan; a relic of our childhood that was emblematic of the 3D craze that dominated the early 2010’s, but that’s largely how it would rem...