Transforming Audiences 2 Conference

Transforming Audiences 2 was a great success and received very positive feedback.

All informations about the conference, photos and videos from the event will be very soon available at http://www.transformingaudiences.org.uk

The CMCS (Centre for Media and Communication Studies “Massimo Baldini”) based at LUISS University, Rome, Italy, participated to the conference, with the appreciated paper “From Spectators to Participants? Political Engagement and Social Networking in Italy” presented by Emiliana De Blasio.

Some photos are available clicking the folder below.

Transforming Audiences 2

Transforming Audiences 2

3 – 4 September 2009, University of Westminster, London, UK

All the informations HERE

Transforming Audiences 2

Transforming Audiences 2: creativity / knowledge / participation

University of Westminster, in association with the ECREA Audience and Reception Studies Section, the Popular Communication Division of the International Communication Association (ICA), and the Audience Section of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR)

University of Westminster, London, UK

Sep 03 – Sep 04, 2009

Contact: e.spindler@wmin.ac.uk

Call for papers: http://www.transformingaudiences.org.uk/transforming-audiences-2-cfp.pdf

Website: http://www.transformingaudiences.org.uk

The first Transforming Audiences conference, in September 2007, featured over 100 presentations by audience researchers from around the world. Transforming Audiences 2 signals its development as Europe’s major recurring international conference for audience/user studies.

ECREA Section “Audience and Reception Studies” – Workshop

Workshop
Narrative Fact and Fiction
Patterns of narrative construction in media stories and differential effects

(Hosted by the “Narrative Network”, the ECREA Section “Audience and Reception Studies” and the Department of Communication of the University of Vienna)

Date: 4-5, April 2009, location: University of Vienna
One of the most important functions of media is to inform and connect citizens, enabling them to participate in democratic processes and providing the grounds for integration and social cohesion in a society. Specifically, media stories support and uphold these functions. Both journalistic stories referencing real life events as well as fictional stories referencing fictitious worlds contribute to the audience’s knowledge and world view – possibly complementing or contradicting each other. Fictional and factual stories increasingly converge in terms of style and content. Topics are followed up across pragmatic boundaries. A good example of this is Dan Brown’s book “The Da Vinci Code” that reinterprets biblical history, which has solicited popular historical books scrutinizing the novel’s assertions. While the distinction of fact and fiction is clear on the production side, it seems to be less clear in the audience’s mind and next to irrelevant for actual story experience and effects.

The workshop deals with the question how fictional and factual stories are intertwined at various levels and intends to deepen insights of how patterns of construction and the effects of stories differ with respect to its factual or fictional background. Contributions may address aspects such as: What different types of narrative patterns exist in factual and fictional media stories? What are characteristics of effective stories? How do factual and fictional stories interact in the audience’s mind?

Please send abstracts (150 words) for 30-minute presentations via email to the organizers

[susanne.kinnebrock@univie.ac.at; helena.bilandzic@uni-erfurt.de]
Deadline for submissions is February 8, 2009.

Television without Borders Conference

In the last few years, critics have proclaimed the end of television, but television has responded to challenges relatively quickly. Globalisation has increased the revenues of many national broadcasting institutions, created new export markets and fostered international co-productions, while digital technologies have been adapted and exploited to entice those audiences back that appeared to turn to other media, most notably the internet. The conference will explore some of these issues with papers investigating, for example, the role of YouTube and similar sites for the dissemination of foreign, and in particular, American product. Some speakers will discuss economic issues at stake in relation to transnational television, whilst others will investigate television in the age of globalisation by examining cultural questions such as language or music. Papers will analyse television and other media in the UK and continental Europe, New Zealand, Australia, Asia, and the Americas.

Date : 27 June 2008 – 29 June 2008

Location : University of Reading, Bulmershe Campus

Contact : Elke Weissmann
e.weissmann@reading.ac.uk
0044 118 378 5894

Particip@tions

The latest issue of Particip@tions, the International Journal of Audience and Reception Studies is now available.

Please, read HERE.

Media, Gender and Identity. New edition

New edition of David Gauntlett’s Media, Gender and Identity now available. The book is a highly readable introduction to the relationship between media and gender identities today. Fully revised and updated, including new case studies and a new chapter, it considers a wide range of research and provides new ways for thinking about the media’s influence on gender and sexuality.

Further informations HERE!

FilMobile

Exhibition, Conference & Screenings

4 April – 4 May 08

FILMOBILE is a network project developed at the University of Westminster bringing together the mobile phone industry, filmmakers and artists working with mobile devices. In April and May 2008 FILMOBILE is organising a major international event consisting of a gallery exhibition, cinema screenings and an international conference. This event will explore the cultural and economic impact brought about by new mobile technologies and initiate debates between artists, the media and the new mobile industry.

The FILMOBILE EXHIBITION at London Gallery West will feature mobile art works by Mark Amerika, Camille Baker, Bebe Beard, Melissa Bliss, Elly Clarke, Romain Forquy, Steve Hawley, Brian House, Brooke A. Knight, Simon Longo, Anne Massoni, Kasia Molga, Sylvie Prasad, Michele Pred, Henry Reichhold, Max Schleser and Jo Thomas.

The FILMOBILE CONFERENCE at The Old Lumiere Cinema includes more than 22 speakers from the USA, South Africa, Australia, Germany, Italy and the UK addressing the global impact of mobile technologies in the domain of art, media and communication. A live web broadcast with the Mobilefest in Brazil is scheduled to take place during the conference. For detailed conference program see here

Friday 4 April

Conference opening (16:00)Dr. Joram ten Brink
Panel 1 (16:15 – 17:30) – New Media – New Opportunities

Chair Max Schleser

• Tony Fish / AMF VENTURES Dennis Morrison / Zizzl Films
• Emily Renshaw-Smith / Current TV
• Helen Keegan / BeepMarketingEmma Bewley / TV Producer Leo Burnett
  

Panel 2 (17:45 – 18:30) – New Media – Mobile Art

Chair Camille Baker

• Melissa Bliss / Artist / Instant films
• Jo Thomas / Sound artist / A Musical Gestalt – Composing Electronic Sound for Mobile Technology
• Kasia Molga / Artist / The expression of the interdependence in the visual arts experience via mobile phones

FILMOBILE Cinema Screening (18:30 – 20:30)

• 18:30 – 19:30 SMS Sugar Man (Aryan Kaganof)
• 19:30 – 20:30 Why didn’t anybody tell me it would become this bad in Afghanistan (Cyrus Frisch)

20:30 FILMOBILE wine reception

Saturday 5 April

FILMOBILE Conference 10:30 - 18:30

FILMOBILE Conference 10:30 (Max Schleser)

Panel 3 (11:00 – 12:00) – Mobile Micro Mass Media

Chair: Gabriel Moreno

• Larissa Hjorth / RMIT University, Melbourne (Australia) / WAITING FOR IMMEDIACY(exercises for documenting everyday life)
• Professor Michele Sorice / Crisc-Cmcs, University of Rome (Italy) and University of Lugano (Switzerland) and Dr. Emiliana De Blasio / Crisc-Cmcs and University of Molise (Italy) / Mobile Audiences between Access and Participation
• Elizabeth Evans / University of Nottingham (UK) / Bursting Bubbles: Private Television, Public Space

Panel 4 (12:15 – 13:15) – Mobile Content Production and Delivery

Chair: Professor Dave Taylor

• Daniel Florencio / Multimedia producer (Brazil/UK) Mobile Media
• Monica Horten – University of Westminster (UK) / The political battle for mobile online content
• Mark Brill / Ping Corporation Ltd, immedia24 (UK) / Delivering Mobile Content to the Consumer

13:15-15:00 LUNCH

Screening Max with a Kaitai (2008 Max Schleser)

Panel 5 (15:00 – 16:00) – Mobile Filmmaking

Chair: Dr. Joram ten Brink

• Professor Steve Hawley / Manchester Metropolitan University (UK) / Aesthetics of the mobile video
• Dr. Thomas Meyer / University of Siegen (Germany) / Mobile-Mentary: An Approach
• Max Schleser / University of Westminster (UK) / Max With a Kaitai – a mobile-mentary

Panel 6 (16:15 – 17:15) – Mobile Participation

Chair: Peter Dunn

• Chris Chadwick / ICDC, Liverpool (UK) / Mobile Movies
• Camille Baker / SMARTlab, University of East London (UK) / MindTouch: embodied transference/transcendence
• Bebe Beard / Suffolk University, Bosten (USA) / When You Hold It To Your Ear You Can Hear the Ocean, See?

Panel 7 (17:30 – 18:30) – Mobile Stories

Chair: Tom Corby

• Brian House / Knifeandfork – New York (USA) / Subversive (Mobile) Storytelling
• Professor (Dr) Lizbeth Goodman / SMARTlab (UK) / Performing Live and Online in the Mobile Metaverse
• Dr. Terry Wright / University of Ulster / Drogheda viaduct and Battle of the Boyne

Conference and screenings at The Old Lumière Cinema
309 Regent Street, London W1R 8AL (tube Oxford Circus)

Download here the conference/exhibition folder

FilMobile poster