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CFP: Edited Collection - Television as Digital Media
Editors: James Bennett (London Metropolitan University) and Niki Strange
(University of Sussex/Cogapp Ltd)
Following the success of the Television (Studies) Goes Digital conference,
contributions are solicited for the publication of an edited collection
entitled Television as Digital Media.
Television is increasingly becoming a digital medium, making a ‘new media’
form out of a technology that has often been positioned as the old
technology par excellence. Without taking a technologically determined
view of television’s new digital form, we seek contributions that assess
how television’s digitalization, as part of a wider cultural change, do
bring about significant shifts in the ways we understand, theorize, use,
watch and enjoy television. From the production practices and industrial
strategies of the television industry, through to its regulation and its
uses and place in the lives of its audiences, television is changing and
requires us to re-think our understanding of it with these changes.
The collection already has an excellent line up of entries from esteemed
and newly emerging scholars, including Professors William Boddy (Baruch
College, City University NY), John Caldwell (UCLA), Roberta Pearson
(Nottingham), Jeanette Steemers (Westminster), Dr. Karen Lury (Glasgow),
and Dr. Helen Wood (De Montfort). This call for papers therefore looks to
extend and build upon the focus of these contributors’ essays (please see
www.digitaltvstudies.org.uk/abstracts.htm for details of provisional
abstracts).
We particularly welcome papers that take a cross-disciplinary approach,
converging fields of film, television, new media, cultural and media
studies scholarship together with other disciplines that digital
television increasingly asks us to touch upon. Suggested areas of
interest include, but are not limited to:
• New ‘television’ technologies: YouTube, Joost, Internet protocol
television etc;
• Public service broadcasting in a European context;
• The development of DTV outside of the US and UK;
• Digital television’s use by specific groups: subcultures,
diasporas, migrants etc.;
• Surveillance technologies in digital TV;
• Digital television in a global context: e.g. global formats,
digital distribution across borders; Bit-torrent, TV Without Frontiers
Directive etc;
• Issues of digital rights management (DRM), Intellectual Property
(IP), and Copyright;
• Ontologies of digital television: liveness, real-time, download
streams etc.
Final essays will be approx 7,000 words in length, with drafts due in
March of 2008 and final submissions by 1st of July 2008. Authors should
submit abstracts of no longer than 500 words by October 1st 2007, together
with a brief biography (250 words maximum). For more information please
contact James Bennett [log in to unmask]
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