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 for postgraduates, run 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.