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Please note - the deadline for submitting proposals is 12 March. Twenty-First Century TV: Television in the Digital Era Postgraduate Conference 12 May 2015 The University of Northampton This one day conference aims to bring together postgraduate students working on all aspects of television in the digital, or post-digital, age. Television today can be online, on demand, downloaded, streamed, live, timeshifted, watched on multiple screens across multiple platforms. Producing and consuming television might involve games, apps, extended narratives, social media and a range of ancillary products. Have recent changes in technology radically transformed TV, or do traditional means of making and watching TV still persist? Proposals are invited on (but not limited to) the following topics: * Overflow and paratexts * Online content * User-generated content * Social media * Red button * Regional and local TV * International TV * Branding * Authorship, collaboration * Marketing * Advertising * Platforms and delivery * Multi screening * Time shifting and recording * Archiving * HD, 3D * CGI, special effects * Production, consumption * Communities, audiences, fans We welcome contributions from students registered on any postgraduate degree, and perspectives are invited from different disciplines. Please send proposals (250 words) for 20 minute papers plus a brief biography (100 words) to Lorna Jowett and Michael Starr by 12 March 2015: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Website: http://www.culttvonline.com/workshop-events The Cult TV: TV Cultures Network is funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) as part of the Digital Transformations in the Arts and Humanities theme and is affiliated with the Centre for Contemporary Narrative and Cultural Theory (CCN&CT) in the School of the Arts at the University of Northampton. Dr Lorna Jowett Reader in Television Studies University of Northampton Avenue Campus St George's Avenue Northampton NN2 6JD 01604 893294 -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. This mailing list is a free service and is not restricted to members. It is an unmoderated list and content reflect the views of those who post to the list and not of MeCCSA as an organisation. MeCCSA recommends that the list be used only for posting of information (for example about events, publications, conferences, lectures) of interest to members or to promote discussion of current issues of wide general interest in the field. Posts to the MeCCSA mailing list are public, indexed by Google, and can be accessed from the JISCMail website (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/meccsa.html). Any messages posted to the list are subject to the JISCMail acceptable use policy, which states that users should avoid engaging in unreasonable behaviour, or disrupting the general flow of discussion on a list. For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------