Another one brimming with surveillance studies possibilities...
David
Dr David Murakami Wood
ESRC Research Fellow, Global Urban Research Unit | Visiting Scholar, Postgraduate Program in Urban Management
Newcastle University, UK | Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil
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Call for Papers
The Big Reveal II: Lifestyle Television Conference, University of Brighton, UK
29 - 31 May 2009
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 1 March 2009
The first international Big Reveal conference examined the phenomenon of ‘Lifestyle television’, and took place at the University of Salford, UK, two years ago, resulting in the book Exposing Lifestyle Television: The Big Reveal (Ashgate, 2008). At that first conference, it could be claimed that despite the rapid expansion of the genre in television scheduling over the last twenty years, the area was still relatively under-explored by scholars. In the two years since, there has been more research on the phenomenon of ‘lifestyle programming’, and the form itself has become a dominant mode in the prime time schedule.
The lifestyle television format has been used for programmes covering subjects as diverse as cooking, gardening, home and body makeovers, parenting, nutritional education, and instructions on cleaning your house. ‘Lifestyle’ has now come to include the kind of programming that would once have been presented in documentary form. Furthermore, the impact of digitization and a proliferation of new channels has seen lifestyle formats streamed across a multitude of platforms, inviting audience engagement on a number of levels.
This conference sets out to address the implications of this form of television and these new contexts, and asks how media and communications scholars should address the genre.
What are the effects of the format on television schedules and on traditional forms of programming? How do audiences read and incorporate Lifestyle TV into their everyday lives? Do forms of television that centre on the encounter between a television ‘expert’ and ‘ordinary’ people require new forms of regulation? Does this form raise particular ethical questions? How have these formats been franchised and how are they delivered in different national/global contexts? To what extent is the global economic crisis reflected in the discourses of recent lifestyle programming?
The aim of the conference is to bring international academics from across the disciplines together to discuss the questions that the ‘Big Reveal II’ sets up. Scholars working in television studies, critical theory, cultural and gender studies, media and communication studies, anthropology and the social sciences are invited to submit abstracts.
We welcome proposals for papers and themed panels that investigate questions of gender, class, sexuality, race and identity, as well as those which theorise the discourses of lifestyle television, their technological contexts, and their varied audiences.
Topics for consideration might include, but are not limited to, the following:
Historicizing Lifestyle Television
Class, Politics and Taste
Body Politics and ‘Beauty’
Cultures of Consumption and Celebrity Culture
Queer Politics, Sexualities and Lifestyle
Camp and Lifestyle
Greening Lifestyle and ‘Green’ Consumption
Lifestyling Philanthropy
The Television Expert
Counselling on Television
‘Ordinary’ People
Political Economy of Lifestyle TV
Audiences and Lifestyle TV
Regulation, Ethics and Television
Confirmed keynote speakers are:
Dr Gareth Palmer (University of Salford, UK), Dr Su Holmes (University of East Anglia, UK),
Professor Peter Lunt (Brunel University, UK)
Please send 300-word abstracts or panel proposals by March 1st 2009 to: Deborah Philips [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>, Irmi Karl [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> and Julie Doyle [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Conference Website: http://www.it.brighton.ac.uk/BigReveal2
‘The Big Reveal II’
University of Brighton
United Kingdom
T: +44 01273 600900/642494
***OUT NOW!***
Geographies of Sexualities (Browne, K, Lim, J. and Brown G. eds)
To read more and get a paper copy go to: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Geographies-Sexualities-Theory-Practices-Politics/dp/0754647617/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1215094915&sr=8-1
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