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>CFP The Gendered Politics of Production: Girls and Women as Media
>Producers
>Tuesday June 16, 2015 at Middlesex University London
>Keynote Speaker: Professor Mary Celeste Kearney (University of Notre
>Dame, USA)
>
>Girls and women are arguably producing more media than ever before. As
>bloggers, vloggers and ³tweeters², filmmakers, television showrunners, web
>designers, game developers, and musicians to name only a few girls and
>women are active contributors to contemporary media production cultures.
>Yet, recent incidents such as Gamergate point to the continuous precarious
>positioning that girls and women occupy as both amateur and professional
>media producers within a context shaped by what Sarah Banet-Weiser (2015)
>has recently called ³popular misogyny.² What is at stake for female media
>producers within this context? How do identities such as gender, race,
>class, age, sexuality, nationality, and ability shape one¹s participation
>in
>production cultures? How are gendered neoliberal imperatives to be
>constantly productive informing who is producing media and what these
>media
>texts look like? And in what ways are girls and women mobilizing media
>production as an activist strategy to challenge sexism, racism, classism
>and
>other social inequalities across local, national, and international
>contexts?
>
>We are seeking papers for a one-day symposium that aims to examine these
>questions and explore girls¹ and women¹s production of a wide range of
>commercial and alternative media texts.
>
>Papers may address, but are not limited to, the following themes:
>
>€ Historical analysis of girls and women as media producers
>€ The production and circulation of feminist and activist media
>texts
>€ Gendered labour in media industries
>€ Methodological approaches to studying production cultures
>€ Relationship between gender, media production, and neoliberal
>entrepreneurship
>€ The politics of media production training programs
>€ Female media producers across global media networks
>€ Participation in digital media cultures
>
>This one-day symposium, featuring a keynote lecture by Mary Celeste
>Kearney
>(University of Notre Dame, USA), will be held at Middlesex University in
>London UK on June 16, 2015. It will serve as an opportunity for discussion
>and networking for feminist media scholars focusing on production cultures
>prior to the Console-ing Passions Conference in Dublin from June 18 20.
>This event is organized as part of Middlesex University¹s FemGenSex
>Research
>Network and the Media Department¹s Gender and Sexuality Research Cluster.
>
>Please submit abstracts of 250-words and a 50-word bio by March 15, 2015
>to
>Jessalynn Keller ([log in to unmask]), Feona Attwood
>([log in to unmask]),
>and Mariam Kauser ([log in to unmask]).
Sue Gollifer
Director ISEA International HQ
University of Brighton, UK
[log in to unmask]
http://www.isea-web.org/
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