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Dear Colleagues, Colleagues in the North West might be interested in the following research seminar. All the best, Elke EQUITY ON DEMAND: the shifting study of women’s employment behind-the-scenes in television’s digital era. Kirsten Stoddart (University of Salford) Wednesday, 27 March 2019. CE204. 3.30pm. This paper demonstrates the differences in production practices for Subscription Video on Demand original content creation and the ‘traditional’ production practices still utilised in the UK and USA, and how those practices are affecting, aiding or disadvantaging women scripted television crew members. In addition, it will look at key crew roles such as producer, director, writer and editor, and how women’s representation in those roles has fluctuated since 2012 and the rise of “TVIV” (Jenner, 2016). With over four hundred original scripted series in circulation in 2017 (Huddleston Jr, 2017), employment rates in general are up across scripted television (Clark, 2017) but the representation of women on writing/producing teams remains low. Contemporary scripted (fictional) television generates $51bn in wages per year in the USA (Motion Picture Association of America, Inc., 2017) while the UK TV production sector was worth £2.5bn in 2016 (Oliver & Ohlbaum Associates Ltd, 2017). Yet despite rising production activities and expenditures, women are still significantly underrepresented in behind-the-scenes crews across the board (Lauzen M. , 2016; 2017), and particularly in those traditionally ‘masculine’ or technical positions (Grugulis & Stoyanova, 2012; O’Brien 2014). -- Dr Paddy Hoey Senior Lecturer in Media & Politics Edge Hill University Author: Shinners, Dissos and Dissenters: Irish Republican Activist Media since the Good Friday Agreement<http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526114242/>. Manchester University Press. ________________________________ Edge Hill University<http://ehu.ac.uk/home/emailfooter> Teaching Excellence Framework Gold Award<http://ehu.ac.uk/tef/emailfooter> ________________________________ This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Edge Hill or associated companies. Edge Hill University may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security and business communications during staff absence.<http://ehu.ac.uk/itspolicies/emailfooter> -------------------------------------------------------- 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/ --------------------------------------------------------