*CFP* "REFLECTIONS AND REVERSALS. SYMBIOSIS BETWEEN POLITICAL COMMUNICATION AND AUDIOVISUAL FICTION", III INTERNACIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF POLITICAL COMMUNICATION

 Reflections and reverslas. Symbiosis between political communication and audiovisual fiction

III International Symposium of Political Communication

Faculty of Philology and Communication

University of Barcelona

December 2-3, 2021

Even though audiovisual fiction is usually studied within cultural bounds (Trenzado Romero, 2000), it also presents an important political dimension taking into account that representations play a large role “when it comes to determining which social reality is to be constructed; that is, which figures and forms will prevail in the process of modelling life and social institutions” (Ryan and Kellner, 1988: 13). The spectacularisation of politics is inspired, partly, by the processes of fictionalisation and, at the same time, spheres such as the cinema or scenarios characteristic of serialised fiction are also a reflection of that reality (Rodríguez and Padilla, 2018). In turn, fiction can be a pretext of understanding so as to find the significance of knowledge and to try to bring it closer to a framework of reality (Oliveros Aya, 2010). However, beyond being a call and a reminder of certain events or political phenomena, fiction can also represent reality “by means of a different type of evidence and therefore it can offer a different and more complete approach to realism” (Whitebrook, 1991: 5). It can be said that, as a significant part of mass culture, audiovisual fiction contributes decisively to the formation, debate, inspiration and interpretation of a variety of political imaginaries.

*CFP* "AUDIOVISUAL AND CREATIVE INDUSTRIES - PRESENT AND FUTURE", VOL.7 Nº2, THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FILM AND MEDIA ARTS

The present issue of the International Journal of Film and Media Arts invites full papers that deal in particular with:


• Audiovisual ecosystems in local, regional, national and international level

• New formats and languages in audiovisual media and on the internet

• Transmedia narratives

• Second Screen and the impact of the multitasking viewer

• Analysis and semiotics of audiovisual and multimedia discourses

• New theories, new concepts, new paradigms and new approaches in audiovisual communication

• New audiovisual research methods and techniques

 

All submission will be select by double-blind peer review. The author must provide separate files:
a) The title pageshould include the title, author’s name and affiliations, email address, acknowledgements (optional) and conflict of interest statement (if necessary).

*CFP* CALL FOR PARTICIPATION, POLITICAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION MEDIA AND POLITICS GROUP ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Political Studies Association Media and Politics Group Annual Conference

Centre for Research on Communities and Cultures

Canterbury Christ Church University

15-16 December 2021

This conference will facilitate a space for thinking critically about the concept of communities and how it is used in political discourse and political communication in the digital and (post)pandemic context. Topics may include, but are not limited to:

• Political discourses about and by communities

*CFP* "PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING AND AUTHENTICITY", SPECIAL ISSUE, CELEBRITY STUDIES JOURNAL

We are currently editing a special issue of Celebrity Studies on the topic of Professional Wrestling and Authenticity. At present the issue ranges from general theorisations to specific case studies unpacking how authenticity and celebrity can be figured in the world of wrestling, drawing upon star studies, celebrity studies, sports studies and audience studies to gain a full understanding of the wrestling star image.

We are seeking further submissions to our issue, particularly focussed on how formations of authenticity and celebrity within wrestling have been impacted by the pandemic.

Article topics might include, but are not limited to:

• Wrestlers, social media, and Covid awareness 
• Case studies of wrestler star images and transitions to new forms of labour (e.g. streaming, OnlyFans) 
• The development of ‘cinematic’ wrestling and its relationship to ‘authentic’ performance

 

*CFP* CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS, "ECO_MEDIA III: EVER-NEWER NORMALS", RMIT UNIVERSITY (MELBOURNE)

 eco_media III: ever-newer normals

eco_media 

RMIT University, Melbourne ( and online)

31 August, 2021

 

 

The eco_media project will run its third annual symposium in 2021. The symposium’s steering panel invites proposals for papers that sit at the nexus of theory, philosophy, empirical research, and creative practice. The aim of the eco_media project is to understand how environmental issues, questions, and concerns are communicated through media forms, and to play at the borders of disciplines including media and environmental studies, philosophy, and communication theory.

*CFP* "REINVENCIONES Y NUEVAS POÉTICAS DEL CINE EN LA ERA POST-INTERNET", REVISTA CONTRATEXTO

El número 34 de Contratexto abordará las profundas transformaciones que la democratización del acceso a internet, de las aplicaciones móviles, de las cámaras digitales, y en términos más generales, de las nuevas tecnologías y los nuevos medios audiovisuales, que han provocado en las tendencias estéticas y poéticas, la industria y la economía cinematográficas y las prácticas de producción, difusión y exhibición cinematográficas, pero también, en otra medida, en la reelaboración y la recepción crítica y académica de las obras cinematográficas. Estas transformaciones no sólo redefinen el arte cinematográfico, sino que obligan directamente a inventar nuevos términos y nuevos conceptos para diferenciar ciertas producciones del cine más convencional, comercial o institucionalizado (como lo que se ha venido llamando post-cine, o expanded cinema, entre muchos otros neologismos).

El cine narrativo tradicional ha integrado progresivamente los formatos domésticos o vernaculares contemporáneos (grabaciones caseras realizadas por los propios personajes, así como imágenes de conversaciones a través de programas como Skype). Los nuevos medios de comunicación han influido profundamente en nuestros modos de vida y en la manera en la que nos (auto)representamos y ponemos en escena, y esto se ve reflejado en el cine contemporáneo y en las historias que cuenta. El estudio de estas nuevas prácticas es esencial para una antropología de la imagen contemporánea actualizada. El lenguaje de los nuevos medios (Manovich, 2001) impacta irremediablemente sobre el lenguaje cinematográfico, y viceversa.

*CFP* “ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO RADIO STUDIES”, CHAPTER BOOK OF THE ROUTLEDGE MEDIA COMPANION SERIES

Dear colleagues, we are calling for abstracts for the new Routledge Companion to Radio Studies, to be published in 2021.

This Routledge Companion to Radio Studies will be a valuable reference source for the expanding field of radio, audio and podcast study. It will bring together 40-50 original essays to conceptualise the multidisciplinary field of radio studies. We welcome entries from early career researchers to emeriti scholars using theories and methods from media studies, historical studies, politics, communication, journalism, sociology and anthropology. We are looking for work that spans national boundaries and historical periods to present a coherent argument for understanding radio as a synecdoche for and a key agent in the creation of the last hundred years of technological, psychological, and cultural innovation and experience.

*CFP* “MEDIA AND UNCERTAINTY”, SECOND LISBON WINTER SCHOOL FOR THE STUDY OF COMMUNICATION

Media and uncertainty

Second Lisbon Winter School for the Study of Communication

January 7-11, 2020

Lisbon

Confirmed lecturers

Dominique Brossard, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Sonia Livingstone, London School of Economics and Political Science

Victor Pickard, University of Pennsylvania

Teresa Ashe, Open University

Carla Ganito, Universidade Católica Portuguesa

Fathali Moghaddam, George Washington University

SaskiaWitteborn, Chinese University of Hong Kong

*CFP* “GREEK SCREEN INDUSTRIES: PERSPECTIVES, METHODOLOGIES AND PRACTICES”, JOURNAL OF GREEK MEDIA & CULTURE, SPECIAL ISSUE

Digital technologies are rapidly transforming the modes of production, distribution and consumption of screen media worldwide. This special issue will focus on the impact of such developments on Greek screen industries, especially cinema, television and video-on-demand.

We are seeking abstracts for articles that will examine any aspect of these screen industries, from a national, transnational and/or diasporic perspective. We welcome innovative methodologies, and explorations of distinctive industrial practices that situate local practices in a global context.

*CFP* “CREATIVITY & RISK: PRACTICES OF LEARNING TO LEAP INTO THE UNKNOWN”, SYMPOSIUM, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH WALES CARDIFF

Creativity & Risk: Practices Of Learning To Leap Into The Unknown

Friday 6th September 2019

School of Performance and Production, University of South Wales Cardiff

Keynote speaker John Giwa-Amu runs production company Red and Black Films. The company’s first feature, Little White Lies, won two BAFTA Cymru Awards & was BIFA nominated. The Machine, selected from over 6,000 films, premiered in Tribeca and won three BAFTAs Cymru. The Party, directed by Sally Potter starring Cillian Murphy won the Guild Prize at Berlin 2017, a BIFA and grossed $3.5m theatrically. John has won the BBC Talent Award, is a Breakthrough Brit honouree, named a Future Leader by Screen International & graduated from Inside Pictures.

“Encouraging creativerisk-taking among tertiary learners is evidently a complex pursuit. There is a clear need for educators to feel comfortable in allowing their students space and autonomy to take risks”.  Dr. Phoebe Hart (2017)

*CFP* “LOOKING BACK, STEPPING FORWARD”, JAFP, UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA

Looking back, stepping forward

Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance symposium (JAFP)

Monday 15 July 2019

Universityof East Anglia

Adaptation, a concept that may be perceived to encompass a range of reworkings across and within media, allows us to interrogate creative and critical relationships between texts of different modalities, genres and styles. The ‘media journeys’ of adaptation continue to make the field and its multifarious processes exciting, urgent and evolving.

This symposium, which is organised to celebrate the conclusion of the first decade of the Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance – and the dynamic beginning of its second decade – welcomes proposals from scholars and reflective practitioners (creative artists across all performance media as well as archivists engaged with adaptations and translations in stage, screen or otherwise mediatic performance) at all stages of a professional career (academic or extramural to academia).

*CFP* “MEDIA & COMMUNICATION: THE STATE OF THE ART”, DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY

Media & Communication: The State of the Art

27-28 June 2019

De Montfort University, Leicester

Keynotes:

Professor Natalie Fenton (Goldsmiths, University of London)

Professor Matthew Fuller (Goldsmiths, University of London)

Professor Helen Wood (Lancaster University)

We see in the classroom, our students are concerned not with the BBC or newspapers, but with Instagram, Pinterest and other forms of networked digital media. This raises questions about the ways in which media theory is responsive to new technological developments: are traditional media theories sufficient to explain changes in technology, society and audiences? The central aim of this conference is to explore the extent to which existing theories of media and communication are adequate for the analysis of our contemporary media landscape.

*CFP* “THE YOUTHIFICATION OF TELEVISION AND SCREEN CULTURE”, BIANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE TELEVISION STUDIES SECTION OF ECREA

The Youthification of Television and Screen Culture

Biannual Conference of the Television Studies Section of ECREA

24-25 October 2019

University of Groningen, NL

Confirmed keynote speakers:

Prof. Jeanette Steemers (King's College London)

Dr. Vilde Schanke Sundet (Inland Norway University, Lillehammer)

Television is constantly testing its definitional boundaries. What was formerly defined by ways of transmission and screen technology, is more and more in dissolution in today's mediated landscape. Young people, especially, are turning away from traditional broadcast television - and turning towards other screens and formats. This development is forcing established structures to react and adapt to this new viewing culture. Novel formats, such as the Norwegian teen drama series 'SKAM' or the Spanish talent show 'Operación Triunfo Star Academy', proved to be extremely successful in overcoming the traditional boundaries of the medium, amongst others by including multi-platform technology and storytelling via social networks.

*CFP* “FILM AND ETHICS”, SPECIAL ISSUE, CINEMA: JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY AND THE MOVING IMAGE

This issue will be dedicated to explore film as a medium of ethical experience. A special focus will be given to enquire film’s aesthetic/ethical relationship: film’s path from normative ethics to applied ethics; the extent to which aesthetic form, or style, determine ethical meaning; the way it instigates ethical understandings and cultural-political awareness and how it involves ethical/political statements.

Exploring the issue of film and ethics also provides a rich way of revisiting the legacy of film theory, especially with regard to cinema’s ideological and political dimensions, since film’s aesthetics and ethics have always enjoyed a close, if sometimes troubled, relationship. Examples can be found in such different developments such as Jean Epstein’s notion of the ‘enhanced moral value’ of photogenie; the political and moral capacities of montage by Eisenstein; Kracauer’s and André Bazin’s moral and aesthetic realism, Cinéma Verité’s concerns about the ethics of the medium and its claimed objectivity; documentary film’s ethical enquires on ‘realism’; Jean Luc-Godard’s famous statement ‘les travellings sont affaire de morale’ (‘tracking shots are a question of morality’), and Werner Herzog’s notion of Ecstatic truth. On the other hand, the films of Lars von Trier, Quentin Tarantino, Michael Haneke, or the New French Extremism, are recent examples of ethical experiences done against ethics itself.

*CFP* “CREATIVE COMMUNICATION IN THE EMERGING CONSTELLATIONS”, 5TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE VISUALITY 2019, VILNIUS GEDIMINAS TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY

Creative communication in the emerging constellations

5th International Conference Visuality 2019

April 25-26th , 2019

Faculty of Creative Industries

Vilnius Gediminas Technical University

Vilnius, Lithuania

The Organizing Committee invites researchers and practitioners to submit papers for our international conference.  Please go to our conference website.

*CFP* "DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION IN COMMUNICATION", 6TH INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION DAYS

6th International Communication Days: Digital Transformation

2-3 May 2019

Istanbul, TURKEY

Üsküdar University Communication Faculty is hosting the sixth International Communication Days on 02 - 03 May 2019. This year’s symposium title is “Digital Transformation”. Since 2014, International Communication Days is being held annually with invited guests. In the previous symposiums, scholars discussed topics as “Digital Addiction” and “Digital Culture” and its effects on public opinion was noteworthy. This year, as invited papers, poster presentations will take place at the symposium.

In addition to the digital communication technologies that marked the era, the media sector and communication sciences have undergone significant changes and transformations. On the one hand, media professionals have been trying to adapt to the new era in which production, distribution and administration are surrounded by digital technologies. On the other hand, academicians have been searching new theories and methodologies in order to analyze and interpret the changing era. In Digital Transformation Symposium, the era of digitization will be discussed in several dimensions with the participation of academicians and media professionals. Thus, while developing a new vision for scientific field, it is aimed to display the requirements of the era in communication education by probing the experiences, education, job opportunities and processes in the digital world.

*CFP* “SURFACES, BOUNDARIES, FORMATS OF CONTEMPORARY IMAGES”, SPECIAL ISSUE IMAGO - STUDI DI CINEMA E MEDIA

Imago - Studi di cinema e media, n. 20/2019. Contemporary visual culture investigates the materiality of images and their status as objects, as well as their structure, their boundaries, and their points of contact with other experiences and phenomena. The /Imago 20/ dossier aims to address the multifarious ways images permeate the current mediascape (Pinotti-Somaini). The ever-increasing changeability that connotes the surfaces of digital images demands a thorough interrogation of pixel culture, shedding light upon the mobility, ductility, and reversibility of contemporary devices (Casetti). At the same time, a stronger awareness seems to be emerging about the issue of the aspect ratio, whose fluidity plays a primary role in both social and authorial practices (Doane).

Such an awareness has given the term “format” renewed relevance. On the one hand, in connection to cinema, it concerns the geometric configuration of images, i.e. the shape through which they frame the world. Recent mainstream cinema seems to be playing with horizontal, vertical and square frames, in order to produce complex creative and theoretical discourses; and the development of such a trend might be connected to the new frames implemented by smartphones and mobile devices.