Transforming Audiences 2

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

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

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.

There has never been a more exciting time for researchers interested in the place of media in people’s lives. The growth of diverse online offerings and easy-to-use creative tools, coupled with the global economic downturn, has made traditional media and conventional broadcasters increasingly uncomfortable. Some critics are concerned about the future of ‘quality’ media for audiences to enjoy, but others celebrate this flourishing of non-elite, grassroots media.

Transforming Audiences 2 – organised by the Audiences Group at the University of Westminster Communications and Media Research Institute, and run in association with ICA, IAMCR, and ECREA – will present a rich set of analyses of the current situation and raise important questions about the future. We have strongly encouraged papers from interesting new scholars as well as more established researchers.

Invited speakers include Liz Bird, Nick Couldry, Natalie Fenton, Christine Hine, Peter Lunt, and Shaun Moores.

Conference organised by David Gauntlett, Caroline Dover, Fatimah Awan, Anastasia Kavada and Annette Hill.

Transforming Audiences 2 will consider the following issues:

DIY media, ‘we media’, ‘user generated content’ and dispersed creativity, Audiences, identities and popular culture, Citizen media and new political communication, Transnational audiences and diasporas, Audiences and users around the world, The economics and business of contemporary media audiences, New methodologies in audience studies, Changing audience/producer relations, Media history and audiences, Philosophical and theoretical paradigms

Overall Schedule and Parallel Sessions Programme

Further 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.

Crisc-Cmcs at FilMobile Conference

Crisc-Cmcs will participate at FilMobile Conference, London, 4-5 April 2008.

The Centre will present the step 2 of its research about “Mobile Audiences” in Italy (Mobile Audiences between Access and Participation).

Futher details, 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