Changing the rules of the game? An interdisciplinary symposium examining the relationship between sport and media May 16/17th 2018, hosted by the Centre for Communication and Culture, Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University, UK
DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS IS FAST APPROACHING - 19TH JANUARY 2018
The literature on the relationship between sport and media has grown quite noticeably in recent years, whether in relation to mega events, branding and marketing, fandom, sporting celebrity or broadcasting rights. It has been argued that the reach and popularisation of digital platforms has transformed the ways in which sports is played, watched, marketed and understood, driving new business models, generating novel connections between players and fans and, in some cases, changing the rules of the game as sports seek to broaden their appeal to media audiences and broadcasters.
While the expansion of broadcasting rights around the globe has fuelled record levels of investment in some sports, even the most popular are having to find new ways of engaging audiences, notably those from younger generations. For instance, the continuing investment of clubs and sports authorities in their own media platforms is likely to impact on the future development of sport around the globe. Elsewhere, E-sports are now being taken increasingly seriously by sporting organisations and sponsors with the 2022 Asian Games incorporating E-sports as a medal event.
This event seeks to take stock of current developments in the field and critically assess new theoretical and methodological approaches. Of particular interest will be current debates around mediatization in understanding contemporary trends in the domain of sport.
Loughborough University was recently named the best sporting university in the world in the global QS higher education league table and the event will feature contributions from both established and emerging scholars, including Toby Miller, Michael Silk and Kirsten Frandsen.
We welcome papers from post-graduate as well as established researchers in any discipline that can contribute to our understanding of the sport-media nexus, including, but not limited to; Broadcasting and sports rights Branding and marketing Crisis communication in sports Sport and celebrity Sport and disintermediation Globalisation, trans-nationalism and cosmopolitanism Sports coaching and tactics Fandom and fan experiences Fan media E-sports Sport and surveillance Mega events/media events/media spectacles Sport and everyday life Sport, media and identity Sports and (mis)management Datafication and sport Regulation of media sport
The conference fee, which will cover lunch and refreshments, will be £50.
Please send abstracts (250 words) to Michael Skey, [log in to unmask] by Friday 19th January 2018.
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1. CREATIVE PRACTICE RESEARCH IN THE AGE OF NEO LIBERAL HOPELESSNESS
-10th-12th May 2018 (2)
2. Book Launch - Home Media Research - University of Greenwich
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Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2018 13:33:02 +0000
From: Agnieszka Piotrowska <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: CREATIVE PRACTICE RESEARCH IN THE AGE OF NEO LIBERAL HOPELESSNESS -10th-12th May 2018
Dear Friends and Colleagues
We are delighted to remind you of our conference to take place between 10-12th May 2018 focusing on the importance of practice research in generating knowledge. The conference will take place at our Luton campus, which as you know is 22 short minutes from London. We invite filmmakers, writers, scholars, practitioner scholars as well as theorists and performers to have a couple of days of remembering why creativity matters even in today’s grim climate. https://www.facebook.com/Creative-Practice-Research-in-the-Age-of-NeoLiberal-Hopelessness-conference-472743596453012/
Our keynote speakers are Professor Catherine Grant, Birkbeck, University of London, who has moved from the traditional scholarship to video essay making, and Professor Thomas Elsaesser, Columbia University, who after a life time of acclaimed books and papers, has turned his hand to making of a personal documentary featuring his family’s archive. With the help of our keynote speakers, we will be considering the following:
• Why did they decide to include practice in their work?
• What have they learnt that they can share?
• Can a practitioner generate theories and how?
• What is the relationship between traditional knowledge and artistic research and professional practice?
• To what extent can creative practice research tap into areas of experience unavailable to traditional patriarchal scholarship?
• Do first person narratives unveil profound knowledge even though they are deeply subjective?
We want to celebrate the importance of individual reflection vis-à-vis the work one creates, echoing the feminist poet Adrienne Rich’s thought on the personal and creative work:
We are, I am, you are
by cowardice or courage
the one who find our way
back to this scene
carrying a knife, a camera
a book of myths
in which
our names do not appear.
(From Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971–1972) In film, can practice research move beyond a narrow discussion of the filmmaking practices into discussion on philosophy, ethics and gender? What do we learn through creative practice research that we cannot get at through ordinary routes? What is the relationship between ‘high’ theory and practice then? We will be hoping to tackle these and other questions in a number of 'nomadic' ways (paraphrasing Braidotti).
Additional information about the conference Theorists and practitioners from all fields and disciplines are welcome. We invite individual papers of about 20 minutes, pre-constituted panels of 3 members plus a respondent as well as workshops and other forms of screenings and performance.
The conference fee is £140 to include coffee breaks, lunches and a wine reception. PhD students register at £75 with the proof of their status. Please email me at [log in to unmask] or contact my PhD student Priyanka Verma on [log in to unmask] before 20th March 2018.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Happy New Year!
Dr. Agnieszka Piotrowska
Reader in Film Practice and Theory
Course Leader MA/MSc Digital Film
University of Bedfordshire
Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy Finalist Times Higher Awards Arts Excellence and Innovation 2017 https://agnieszka-piotrowska.com/ https://www.escapethemovie.net/ http://marecherathemovie.com<http://marecherathemovie.com/>
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Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2018 14:05:55 +0000
From: Patricia Holland <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: CREATIVE PRACTICE RESEARCH IN THE AGE OF NEO LIBERAL HOPELESSNESS -10th-12th May 2018
Hello Agnieszka
Just to mention that my recent textbook, The New Television Handbook (Routledge 2017) is very much based on the idea that theoretical ideas and creative practice interweave, and have done across media history. The book makes clear that practitioners have developed ways of thinking about the media, and thinkers have influenced
practitioners. Long may they continue to do so! I'm hoping that
when students use the book they will take on board an approach that refuses to separate 'practice' and 'theory'.
Pat. Holland
Bournemouth University
On 7 Jan 2018, at 13:33, Agnieszka Piotrowska wrote:
> Dear Friends and Colleagues
>
> We are delighted to remind you of our conference to take place between
> 10-12th May 2018 focusing on the importance of practice research in
> generating knowledge. The conference will take place at our Luton
> campus, which as you know is 22 short minutes from London. We invite
> filmmakers, writers, scholars, practitioner scholars as well as
> theorists and performers to have a couple of days of remembering why
> creativity matters even in today’s grim climate.
> https://www.facebook.com/Creative-Practice-Research-in-the-
> Age-of-NeoLiberal-Hopelessness-conference-472743596453012/
>
> Our keynote speakers are Professor Catherine Grant, Birkbeck,
> University of London, who has moved from the traditional scholarship
> to video essay making, and Professor Thomas Elsaesser, Columbia
> University, who after a life time of acclaimed books and papers, has
> turned his hand to making of a personal documentary featuring his
> family’s archive. With the help of our keynote speakers, we will be
> considering the following:
>
> • Why did they decide to include practice in their work?
> • What have they learnt that they can share?
> • Can a practitioner generate theories and how?
> • What is the relationship between traditional knowledge and artistic
> research and professional practice?
> • To what extent can creative practice research tap into areas of
> experience unavailable to traditional patriarchal scholarship?
> • Do first person narratives unveil profound knowledge even though
> they are deeply subjective?
> We want to celebrate the importance of individual reflection vis-à-
> vis the work one creates, echoing the feminist poet Adrienne Rich’s
> thought on the personal and creative work:
> We are, I am, you are
> by cowardice or courage
> the one who find our way
> back to this scene
> carrying a knife, a camera
> a book of myths
> in which
> our names do not appear.
> (From Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971–1972) In film, can practice
> research move beyond a narrow discussion of the filmmaking practices
> into discussion on philosophy, ethics and gender? What do we learn
> through creative practice research that we cannot get at through
> ordinary routes? What is the relationship between ‘high’ theory and
> practice then? We will be hoping to tackle these and other questions
> in a number of 'nomadic' ways (paraphrasing Braidotti).
>
> Additional information about the conference Theorists and
> practitioners from all fields and disciplines are welcome. We invite
> individual papers of about 20 minutes, pre- constituted panels of 3
> members plus a respondent as well as workshops and other forms of
> screenings and performance.
> The conference fee is £140 to include coffee breaks, lunches and a
> wine reception. PhD students register at £75 with the proof of their
> status. Please email me at [log in to unmask] or contact
> my PhD student Priyanka Verma on [log in to unmask]
> before 20th March 2018.
> We look forward to hearing from you.
> Happy New Year!
>
> Dr. Agnieszka Piotrowska
> Reader in Film Practice and Theory
> Course Leader MA/MSc Digital Film
> University of Bedfordshire
>
> Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy Finalist Times Higher Awards
> Arts Excellence and Innovation 2017 https://agnieszka-piotrowska.com/
> https://www.escapethemovie.net/ http://marecherathemovie.com BAFTSS
> Board Member http://www.baftss.org,
>
>
>
>
>
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Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2018 20:17:08 +0000
From: Jonathan Wroot <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Book Launch - Home Media Research - University of Greenwich
Dear all. Apologies for cross-posting.
With just over a week to go, please find attached details on the book launch for these two edited collections, to be held on Wednesday 17th January 2018.
Details can also be found through the following link:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-dr-jonathan-
wroot-tickets-41014103287
Information on the publications:
*Cult Media: Re-packaged, Re-released and Restored*
*DVD, Blu-ray and Beyond: Navigating Formats and Platforms within Media
Consumption*
https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9783319636788
https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9783319627571
All are welcome - the event is free, but spaces are limited - so please book in advance.
Best Wishes
Jonathan
Dr Jonathan Wroot
Lecturer in Film Studies
University of Greenwich.
PhD, MA and BA (Hons)
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
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On 7 December 2017 at 17:10, Jonathan Wroot <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Dear all. Apologies for cross-posting.
>
> Following the previous message (see below) - please now find attached
> details on the book launch for these two edited collections, to be
> held on Wednesday 17th January 2018.
>
> Details can also be found through the following link:
>
> https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-dr-jonathan-
> wroot-tickets-41014103287
>
> Information on the publications:
>
> *Cult Media: Re-packaged, Re-released and Restored*
>
> *DVD, Blu-ray and Beyond: Navigating Formats and Platforms within
> Media
> Consumption*
>
> https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9783319636788
>
> https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9783319627571
>
>
> All are welcome - the event is free, but spaces are limited - so
> please book in advance.
>
> Best Wishes
>
> Jonathan
>
>
>
> Dr Jonathan Wroot
> Lecturer in Film Studies
> University of Greenwich.
> PhD, MA and BA (Hons)
>
> Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
>
> Email: [log in to unmask]
>
> https://gre.academia.edu/JonathanWroot
>
> On 22 November 2017 at 10:35, Jonathan Wroot
> <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear all.
>>
>>
>> Apologies for cross-posting. Please find below details of two new
>> edited collections that will soon be published from Palgrave
>> Macmillan – both of which provide insights into various home media
>> platforms. They are edited by Jonathan Wroot and Andy Willis.
>>
>>
>> …
>>
>>
>> *Cult Media: Re-packaged, Re-released and Restored*
>>
>> *DVD, Blu-ray and Beyond: Navigating Formats and Platforms within
>> Media
>> Consumption*
>>
>> https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9783319636788
>>
>> https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9783319627571
>>
>> …
>>
>>
>> Book launch events are being planned. The first will be a roundtable
>> panel with contributors to the volumes, as part of the MeCCSA 2018
>> conference (10-12 January 2018).
>>
>>
>> On 17th January 2018, an event with a guest speaker (from the UK home
>> media industry) will be held at the University of Greenwich. An
>> Eventbrite link will be set up soon for registration – as it will be
>> free to attend and open for students, researchers and members of the
>> public. If you would like more information about this event, please get in touch.
>>
>>
>>
>> Best Wishes
>>
>> Jonathan Wroot
>>
>> [log in to unmask]
>>
>>
>>
>> …
>>
>> Cult Media endorsements:
>>
>>
>> “Through a range of illuminating case studies, this collection
>> develops our understanding of cult media, an increasingly widespread
>> and prominent term both culturally and commercially. Covering film
>> and television, formal and informal distribution and public and
>> private forms of exhibition, this collection maps the vital role cult
>> plays in contemporary media culture, in categorising forms of media,
>> in articulating audience taste and identity, and in complicating our
>> conceptions of the media text and media ownership.” (Kate Egan,
>> Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, Aberystwyth University, UK)
>>
>>
>>
>> “Wroot and Willis have assembled a terrific line up of scholars to
>> interrogate the intricacies of cult media distribution and reception,
>> from the VHS era to the digital age. Covering areas as diverse as
>> Japanese horror, Nordic Noir, Brucesploitation and Bollywood from a
>> range of methodological perspectives, Cult Media: Re-packaged,
>> Re-released and Re-stored provides a lucid and engaging assessment of
>> the afterlives of cult movies beyond the move theatre.” (Johnny
>> Walker, Senior Lecturer in Media, Northumbria University, UK)
>>
>>
>>
>> “Cult Media: Re-packaged, Re-released and Restored is an illuminating
>> collection of essays on the relations between cult media, new
>> technologies, and the repackaging of older media content. This
>> diverse collection – covering media texts, business operations,
>> piracy, the formation of canons and more – provides a range of
>> perspectives on cult media and is recommended to students and
>> scholars alike.” (Jamie Sexton, Senior Lecturer in Film and
>> Television Studies, Northumbria University, UK)
>>
>>
>> “Cult scholarship has often focused on the semi-mythologised
>> historical contexts of the grindhouse and the midnight movie. This
>> groundbreaking new collection shifts attention to home media and the
>> ways in which VHS, DVD and Blu-ray releases have transformed cult
>> practices. With chapters on everything from distribution companies
>> like Arrow and Criterion through to filesharing and fan vidding
>> communities, Wroot and Willis’s book is essential reading for everyone interested in the changing nature of cult.”
>> (Iain Robert Smith, Lecturer in Film Studies, King’s College London,
>> UK)
>>
>>
>>
>> DVD, Blu-Ray and Beyond endorsements:
>>
>>
>> "The volume makes a great addition to the important investigation
>> that reveals how the medium that carries the film to the consumer
>> plays as important a role as the aesthetic features of the film
>> text." (Dina Iordanova FRSA, Professor of Global Cinema and Creative
>> Cultures, University of St Andrews, Scotland)
>>
>>
>> "As the digital distribution revolution rolls on, it is easy to
>> overlook the importance of optical disc formats and the role they
>> have played -- and continue to play -- in media distribution. This
>> thought-provoking collection provides a timely exploration of the
>> cultural and industrial legacies of the DVD, and the ongoing
>> interplay between physical and digital media formats. Highly
>> recommended for anyone interested in the past, present, and future of
>> home entertainment." (Ramon Lobato, RMIT University, author of Shadow
>> Economies of Cinema)
>>
>> ...
>>
>>
>> Dr Jonathan Wroot
>> Lecturer in Film Studies
>> University of Greenwich.
>> PhD, MA and BA (Hons)
>>
>> Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
>>
>> https://gre.academia.edu/JonathanWroot
>>
>>
>>
>
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