Date: 04 May 2016,
9-5pm - Deadline for abstracts 23rd March
Location: Regent Campus, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2HW –
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The symposium is hosted by the University of Westminster in
association with Lund University, and the Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg
Foundation.
https://www.westminster.ac.uk/events/media-engagement-connecting-production-texts-and-audiences-international-symposium
Preceded on 3rd May by the Camri Seminar Media Industries
and Engagement, 3rd May 5-7pm
How do people engage with media, such as television drama,
twitter feeds, or reality entertainment? Media engagement is a broad term for
research into how we experience media content, artefacts and events, from our
experience of live performances, to social media engagement, or participation
in media itself. Media engagement offers a rich site of analysis for exploring
the dispersed connections across industry contexts, cultural forms, and
audience experiences.
This symposium provides a platform for research on new terms
of media engagement. We want to understand industrial contexts for engagement,
including performance metrics, production practices and policy discourses. And
we want to understand people’s shifting and subjective relations with media as
live audiences, catch up viewers, illegal users, as consumers and users, fans
and anti-fans, contestants and participants. Media engagement thus encapsulates
research on audiences, fans or producer-users, and the ways these different
groups co-exist with those making content and driving policy and politics. The
aim of the symposium is to investigate how industrial contexts, producers and
audiences co-create, shape and limit experiences within emerging mediascapes.
We welcome research that relates to the following areas of
enquiry for media engagement:
Industrial
contexts for engagement: production practices, policy discourses and
stakeholder coalitions
Empirical
production and audience research: quantitative and qualitative methods and
practices
Audience
experiences and engagement: affect, emotion and passion
Fans and
anti-fans: labour and fan practices
Unmeasured
audience: informal media economies and illegal practices
The conference includes a combination of invited speakers
and open panels. Confirmed speakers include Professor Göran Bolin (Södertörn
University, Sweden), Professor Raymond Boyle (Glasgow University, UK),
Professor John Corner (Leeds University, UK), Professor Annette Hill (Lund University,
Sweden), Professor Jeanette Steemers (University of Westminster, UK), Dr Paul
Torre (University of Northern Iowa, USA), and Professor Anne Marit Waade
(Aarhus University, Denmark). The symposium is connected with the Media
Experiences project, a production and audience study of television drama,
documentary and reality entertainment based at Lund University, in
collaboration with Endemol Shine Group, and funded by the Marianne and Marcus
Wallenberg Foundation.
https://www.westminster.ac.uk/events/media-engagement-connecting-production-texts-and-audiences-international-symposium
