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CALL FOR PAPERS
Fan Studies Network Australasia Conference, 2019
Venue: Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
Date: 11-13th December, 2019
Proposal Deadline: 15th July, 2019
The 2019 FSN Australasia Conference focuses on the impact of technological, cultural, and media change on shifting fan practices, and vice versa: the impact of fan practices on technological, cultural, and media change. The Conference aims to showcase diverse approaches to a wide range of fan communities and practices across four core areas:screen and digital cultures (such as film, television, videogames, online and other digital media); public leisure cultures (such as sport, theme parks, festivals and conventions, popular culture stores, and concerts); audio cultures (such as podcasts, radio, and music); and material cultures (such as comic books, toys, books, and board games). Please see attached CFP for further information on suggested presentation topics.
We invite submissions for individual research papers of 20 minutes as well as pre-constituted panels of three to four presenters. Proposals of no more than 300 words (with 150 word bio) should be sent to Jessica Balanzategui [log in to unmask] by 15th July 2019, as should any queries.
Keynote speakers:
Dr Bertha Chin
Lecturer of Social Media and Communication
Swinburne University of Technology, Sarawak, Malaysia
Editor: Crowdfunding the Future: Media Industries, Ethics, and Digital Society (with Lucy Bennett & Bethan Jones, 2015)
Editor: Crowdfunding Issue of New Media and Society (with Bennett and Jones, 2015)
Editor: Transcultural Issue of Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies (with Lori Morimoto, 2015).
Dr Benjamin Woo
Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Communication
Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Author: Getting a Life: The Social Worlds of Geek Culture (2018)
Author: The Greatest Comic Book of All Time: Symbolic Capital and the Field of American Comic Books (with Bart Beaty, 2016)
Editor: Scene Thinking: Cultural Studies from the Scenes Perspective (with Stuart Poyntz and Jamie Rennie, 2016).
Professor Melanie Swalwell
Professor of Digital Media Heritage
Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
Editor: Fans and Videogames: Histories, Fandoms, Archives (with Angela Ndalianis and Helen Stuckey, 2017)
Editor: Born Digital Cultural Heritage Issue of Refractory: A Journal of Entertainment Media (with Angela Ndalianis, 2016)
Lead Investigator of the digital heritage project “Play it Again: Creating a Playable History of Australasian Digital Games” in collaboration with the Australian Centre of the Moving Image.
Further industry events and keynote speakers to be announced.
Conference Steering Committee:
Dr Jessica Balanzategui ([log in to unmask])
Dr Liam Burke
Dr Naja Later
Tara Lomax
Andy Lynch
Professor Angela Ndalianis