Dear all,
BAFTSS members might be interested in the following announcement:
2015 Challenging Media Landscapes Conference
Cultures and Industries of Creativity in Contemporary Media Landscapes
FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS AND PANELS: SUBMISSION DEADLINE MON 22 JUNE
Conference date: Monday 16 November 2015
Venue: MediacityUK, Salford, Manchester.
This conference is hosted and organized by the University of Salford and is part of the four day 2015 Salford International Media Festival (see: www.salfordmediafestival.co.uk)
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Professor Angela McRobbie (Goldsmiths, London)
Professor David Hesmondhalgh (University of Leeds)
The terms ‘creative’ and ‘cultural’ industries are now part of common parlance and discourse in academia, the media and related industries, and urban and transnational
policy circles. Amounting to much more than a factor in the post-Fordist shift to add economic value to service and entertainment industries, ‘creativity’ is
now articulated as fundamental to the operational life and well-being of multinational corporations, contemporary cities and artisanal practitioners.
Academic analysis of questions of creativity tends to centre on the media and cultural industries as the key sites for its incubation, production, marketing and
exploitation. For academics, to engage with creativity in media and cultural contexts raises critical questions of autonomy and control, creative labour and its exploitation, the development and functioning of urban and virtual environments, as well as artistry
and expression within constantly evolving conditions where the formerly clear boundaries between related industries are increasingly blurry. Analyses of creative and cultural industries are broad in their conceptual and practical origins and focus, historically
rooted and often trans- and interdisciplinary in nature, aiming to make sense of a radically transforming and characteristically multifarious media environment.
This conference calls for papers which engage critically with these ideas and approaches. We welcome a range of papers which might be conceptual and theoretical, ‘applied’
subject focused, or practice-as-research in orientation. We are interested in papers in - or across - following broad areas:
· Cinematic industries (including agents and events of distribution and consumption,
such as Netflix and film festivals)
· Television and radio industries
· Computer and videogames industries
· Creative arts and design
· Creative industries, new technologies and gender
· Issues of ethnicity in the creative industries
· Popular music
· Journalism (encompassing citizen journalism; literary journalism, and journalism as
a creative practice )
· Media and cultural policy
· Technological innovation and creativity
· Digital cultures and the World Wide Web
· Creativity in media education practice
Conference Panel Session Proposals
Proposals for subject panels are invited in any of the above areas. Your proposal should be no more than 500 words long and submitted in Word document format by Monday 22 June
2015 to:
The panel proposal should include an indication
of the topics to be covered by each speaker (including a draft title of each presentation, if possible). Panels should comprise 3-4 participants.
Proposals should give the names, institutional affiliations and email addresses of all panel speakers. You
will be notified of acceptance by Tuesday 14 July, 2015.
Individual Conference Abstract Proposals
Abstracts of no more than 400 words should be submitted in Word document format by Monday 22 June 2015 to:
Your abstract should address one of the above themes and have a separate cover sheet providing your name(s), institutional affiliation(s) and e-mail address(es). You will be notified of acceptance by Tuesday 14 July, 2015.
Full papers are due no later than 2 November, 2015.
Details on booking registration and accommodation options will follow on acceptance of your proposal.
For further enquiries, contact:
Seamus Simpson,
Professor of Media Policy,
University of Salford,
MediaCityUK,
Salford Quays,
Salford.
Manchester M502HE
Dr Anthony Smith
Lecturer in Television Theory | The
School of Arts and Media
MediaCityUK, University of Salford, Salford M50 2HE
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