MEDIA ENGAGEMENT: CONNECTING PRODUCTION, TEXTS AND AUDIENCES INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM

Date:    04 May 2016, 9-5pm - Deadline for abstracts 23rd March

Location: Regent Campus, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2HW – View map

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

2015 IAMCR cfp

The International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) invites submissions of abstracts for papers and panel proposals for the 2015 IAMCR conference to be held from 12 -16 July, 2015 in Montreal, Canada. The deadline to submit your abstract is midnight GMT on 9 February 2015.

http://iamcr.org/congress/montreal2015-cfp

Hegemony or Resistance? The Ambiguous Power of Communication

This year’s conference theme seeks to explore the ambiguous relationship of communication towards hegemony and resistance. It relates, for example, to the various ways in which communication has been described not only as a value of our times – echoing an ideal for social transparency and communality – but also as a threat in terms of global domination. This ambiguity has prompted debates in academia about communication being at the same time a value and a tool, a space of consent and one of struggle, and having (more authentic) local and global dimensions.

18th International Contemporary Art Festival SESC_Videobrasil

Southern Panoramas: open call for submissions

Application period: July 16–October 15, 2012
www.videobrasil.org.br

Until October 15, artists from the southern circuit may submit up to three works in any format.
The International Contemporary Art Festival SESC_Videobrasil celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2013, and affirms its position as one of the major Brazilian initiatives for the dissemination of art. The Southern Panoramas exhibition, the central segment of the Festival, toasts the art of that circuit, which covers Latin America, Caribbean, Africa, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Oceania, and Southern Asia.
Open July 16 through October 15, 2012, the Southern Panoramas call selects artists from those regions. Works in any languages or formats can participate. The exhibition, which is due to take place as of October 2013, will include awards for residency in international partner institutions. The application process for selection is free and totally online.

Intercom 2012 :: XXXV Congresso Brasileiro

XXXV Congresso Brasileiro de Ciências da Comunicação será realizado de 3 a 7 de setembro de 2012 na Unifor - Universidade de Fortaleza, em Fortaleza - CE. Tema central: Esportes na Idade Mídia - diversão, informação e educação Prazo para submissão de trabalhos: 29 de junho Prazo para inscrição no Congresso: 26 de junho

ISEA2012 Albuquerque: Machine Wilderness

The Eighteenth International Symposium on Electronic Art, ISEA2012 Albuquerque: Machine Wilderness is a symposium and series of events exploring the discourse of global proportions on the subject of art, technology and nature.

Subthemes/Conference Tracks:
- The Cosmos: "Radical Cosmologies"
- Creative Economies: "Econotopias"
- Wildlife: "Trans-Species Habitats"
- Transportation: “Dynamobilities”
- Power: "Gridlocked”

DEADLINE: October 15, 2011

Conference: September 19 - 24, 2012

http://www.isea2012.org/

Creativity and Cognition

The 8th ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition will be held from November 3rd through November 6th at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

The theme of Creativity and Cognition 2011 is Creativity and Technology. We seek to understand human creativity in its many manifestations, to design new interactive techniques and tools to augment and amplify human creativity, and to use computational media technologies to explore new creative processes and artifacts in all human endeavors ranging from the arts to science, from design to education.

We cordially invite submissions to the 8th ACM Conference on Creativity & Cognition (C&C 2011) as well as to the related art program, tutorials, workshops, and graduate student symposium. We welcome contributions from researchers and practitioners, from artists and scientists, from designers, educators and decision makers.

Deadline: March 25, 2011.

http://dilab.gatech.edu/ccc/index.html

The 11th Consciousness International Reframed conference

Call for papers!
The 11th Consciousness International Reframed conference
‘MAKING REALITY REALLY REAL‘

In cooperation with the Planetary Collegium, University of Plymouth, England, TEKS – Trondheim Electronic Arts Centre, Trondheim, Norway, is hosting the 11th Consciousness Reframed International Research Conference, with the title of ‘MAKING REALITY REALLY REAL‘. The conference will be part of Norway´s new biennial for art and technology, Meta.Morf, that takes place in Trondheim from October 7 to November 7, 2010.

The Consciousness Reframed conference series was founded by Roy Ascott at the University of Wales in 1997. Consciousness Reframed is a forum for trans-disciplinary inquiry into art, science, technology, design and consciousness, drawing upon the expertise and insights of artists, designers, architects, performers, musicians, writers, scientists, and scholars, usually from at least 20 countries.

http://www.teks.no