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

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

Cinema in Italy. Report 2008

The Report 2008 about Cinema Industries and Markets, published by Ente dello Spettacolo, has been presented at  LUISS University.

The event has been jointly promoted by Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo and by Centre for Media and Communication Studies “Massimo Baldini” of LUISS University.

Dario Viganò

Michele Sorice

CMCS has also presented the research design about “Open Cinema”; it will be developped by CMCS and Ente dello Spettacolo, under the direction of Emiliana De Blasio and Paolo Peverini.

Reports and news, please click the following links:

Nòva – Il Sole 24Ore

Cinecittà News

Il Sole 24Ore

Asca

Cineconomy

The complete report is available HERE.

ASMI Conference

Great success for the ASMI Conference, held in Edinburgh on November 21st and 22nd. The high level of the papers, the interesting speeches conducted by the three keynote speakers (David Forgacs, Fausto Colombo, Giuseppe Richeri), the cooperative way to work have contributed to realize one of the most important cultural event in 2008.

Crisc-Cmcs participated with a paper by Emiliana De Blasio and the organizative work of Michele Sorice.

Thanks to Matthew Hibberd for his hard and excellent work to organize the Conference.

Some moments of the conference, clicking the picture below.

ASMI Edinburgh

“Basette” @ “Arcipelago”

The short film “Basette”, produced by Emiliana De Blasio (coordinator of Crisc-Cmcs) will be presented in Rome (Italy) at the 16th edition of the International Festival of Short Films and New Images. “Basette” will be on screen on June 13th, 8.30 p.m., cinema Intrastevere, Rome.