THE AUDIENCE SPECTACULAR: Who’s watching and how? Ideas of audience in
screen media and performance
JAM 2010
April 16th, University of Reading
CALL FOR PAPERS
Rapidly emerging technologies and the effects of globalization continue to
shape the work of those practitioners concerned with re-positioning the
viewer, and impact strongly on developing discourses within the fields of
audience theory and spectatorship. Our dynamic role as audience members
and groups, responding to a wide variety of forms, is fore-grounded with
increasing urgency across media, prompting a dismantling of traditional models
of engagement and re-energised theorization.
JAM 2010 will aim to investigate audience identities across a range of media,
practices, and critical discourses. We want to address the spectating,
experiencing and participating audience member as well as thinking about the
role of audience member as something we perform, consciously or otherwise.
Journeys Across Media 2010 is the 8th annual conference run for and by
Postgraduates working in the Department of Film, Theatre & Television,
University of Reading.
We welcome proposals that address what it means to be an audience member
today, framed by some of the following concerns:
• Aesthetics
• Genre
• Narrative
• Representation
• Interaction
• New technologies
• Community
• Medium specificity
• Practice as research
• Liveness
• Activism
• Relational space
• Documentary
Proposals for practice as research presentations outside the twenty minute
format will be considered.
CALL FOR PAPERS deadline: Friday 30th January 2010
Please send a 250 word proposal and a 100 word biographical note to Becki
Hillman, Amanda Beauchamp and Feras Bait-Almal at [log in to unmask]
Journeys Across Media (JAM) is an annual one day interdisciplinary conference
organised by and for postgraduate students. It provides a discussion forum for
current and developing research in film, theatre, television and new media.
Previous delegates have welcomed the opportunity to gain experience of
presenting their work at different stages of development in the active, friendly
and supportive research environment of Film, Theatre & Television at the
University of Reading. Non-presenting delegates are also very welcome.
Journeys Across Media is supported by the Standing Committee of University
Drama Departments (SCUDD) and the Graduate School in Arts and Humanities,
University of Reading.
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