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Apologies for cross-posting. Colleagues, you may be interested in this call for abstracts. Contingency Culture: Adapting to change in the film and media industries University of Brighton in Hastings Wednesday, 29th April and Thursday, 30th April 2015 The landscape of media production is in a state of extraordinary and fast moving transition. The digitisation of the distribution and production of content has created an environment where change is the only constant. Media practitioners have had to adapt to working in conditions of flux, where the old power relationships no longer stand, where the divide between producer and consumer has become porous and the economic rulebook has been torn up. This is an environment in which producers of film, radio, television, journalism and games have had to learn to work with change rather than against it and to accept that a culture of contingency has become the norm. Contingency Culture will address the impact of the digital revolution on media practitioners and academics, providing an opportunity to discuss the pragmatic and tangential processes of decision making that affect cultural production. It will examine the tools that have become available, the new working conditions that have emerged and the new modes of collaboration that have become possible. The symposium will encompass the diverse fields of production studies, creative labour and research as practice. With the wave of media practitioners moving into academia, the dynamics of research into media and the creative industries are also transforming. This symposium addresses the impact of the digital revolution on practitioners and academics, providing an opportunity to discuss the pragmatic and tangential processes of decision making that affect cultural production. Practitioners and academics interested in the emergent and diverse fields of creative and digital labour are warmly invited to attend to share their work. Please send 250 word abstracts by 21st Jan 2015, to Lance Dann at [log in to unmask] along with brief biographical details. An indicative list of topics includes: · Digitisation and the growth of the digital economy · Free labour and the reputational economy · Crowdfunding and the new economies of the web · Media technologies and cloud collaboration · Emerging and developing cultures of the production · Internationalism, outsourcing and the global economies · Cross-disciplinary relationships · Gender in the post-digital workplace. · Working to formats and market forces · The automation of creation · The new cultures of indie production · Creative control and indie production · Post crash economics of creative production · Digital democracy and the creative process · Apple, Amazon and the power of the algorithm A volume of the conference proceeding will be published after the event. Interviews and presentations from the conference will be presented as a radio programme on Resonance 104.4FM in September 2015. For more information please visit: http://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/contingencyculture/http://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/contingencyculture/http://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/contingencyculture/