To celebrate the first decade of NECSUS – a journal originating in the heterogenous and vibrant community of media scholars organised within NECS – we asked friends, colleagues, accomplices, and fellow travellers to address some basic questions about the present and future of media studies, from their respective backgrounds and scopes of interests. Having started ten years ago with an issue titled #Crisis, we considered that surviving throughout a decade, expanding our format, consistently increasing our readership and widening the network of our contributors might give us a chance to look at what awaits us, beyond past and present crisis – but with a critical lens.