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Work and Play: An Interdisciplinary Conference 6th July 2016 Hosted by Futureworks Media School, Manchester, UK. Twenty-first century culture is reaching a crisis. Everywhere people are working, but seemingly nowhere are they getting paid. The workers generating cultural productions – “creatives” – have never been more ideologically valued, while the products of their creation – “content” – have arguably never been valued less. Traditional distinctions between work and play may no longer carry meaning, but what new patterns of production and consumption have arisen in their place? This conference aims to bring together researchers from media, music and sound, video games, film and TV, animation, sociology, history, literature, politics, art and aesthetics, to interrogate what it really means to work and play in the contemporary moment. Abstracts for 20-minute papers are welcomed on subjects including, but not limited to: • How have working practices changed within the creative industries? • How does the contemporary cultural imagination conceive of work, or of play? • Should enjoyment be considered a form of labour if it generates capital? • What does it mean to play at working, or to work at playing? • What constitutes a “work”, be it a work of genius or a work-in-progress? • The working versus the broken. The playing versus the paused. • Working across mediums, from radio plays to Let’s Plays. • Play as a process of psychological working-through. Please submit 250 word abstracts with accompanying 50-word bio and 5 keywords to the conference organisers at [log in to unmask] by 14th March 2016. -------------------------------------------------------- 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/ --------------------------------------------------------