Call for Papers for ‘Excavating Media: Devices, Processes, Apparatuses’, an interdisciplinary conference addressing new approaches to media theory and history
The two-day conference will be held at the University of Cambridge on June 30 – July 1, 2017.
Details are available at: https://excavatingmedia.wordpress.com Weiterlesen
Workshop, Friday, 3 February 2017, 11am-6pm, Karlstad University, Room: Minerva, 12C608
What is media archaeology (good for)? In recent years, the term has become something of a catch-phrase, being employed all the way from an expanded cinema history to techno-materialist hardware studies. We have invited international experts to debate the use and value of an approach that wants to investigate the epistemological basis of our current media situation. The aim of the workshop is to explore how the concept has transformed during the transfer between different countries and disciplines (film, media, literature, art, cultural studies) – and how it at the same time can be used to connect varying research contexts. Weiterlesen
Stephan Gregory hat sein Diskussionspapier zum Workshop der AG Mediengeschichte „Was ist Mediengeschichte?“ (Universität Paderborn, 26.-27. Juni 2015) online gestellt. Zur empfehlenswerten Lektüre auf seiner Homepage geht es hier lang: http://von-anderen-medien.de/2016/11/21/medien-und-mediationen-was-heisst-und-wie-weit-reicht-mediengeschichte/
A conference at The Old Bishop’s House, Lund University, Sweden, May 17–19, 2017
Confirmed keynote speakers:
Michele Hilmes, University of Wisconsin, USA Simo Mikkonen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Since its commencement in 2013, the Entangled Media Histories (EMHIS) research and teaching network has worked to create an arena for international dialogue on the historical dimensions of transborder and transmedial flows by means of the concept entangled history. Our main academic aim has been to challenge the traditional blind spots in perspective and common methodological nationalism of media historical scholarship. With some important exceptions (such as for example Hilmes 2012; Fickers & Johnson 2012; Ribeiro & Seul 2016), media history has thus far often tended to be discussed within national contexts (which also includes most ‚comparative‘ studies) and from a mono-medial perspective, focussing exclusively on one medium at a time such as for example the press, radio or television. The fact that there are – and always have been – manifold cross-border and cross-medial interrelations has not always been properly highlighted.
With this conference we would like to further explore the theoretical and methodological implications of such a plea for integrated media history together with other researchers working in the field. We invite scholars from different disciplines across the humanities and interpretive social sciences, who have already dealt with similar issues or wish to explore them further. We also encourage open discussions on sources and methodologies in media historical research, including aspects on media archives and the challenges and opportunities surrounding digitized media material.
We especially invite papers relating to the following main themes:
Submission guidelines and practical information The conference language is English and the number of participants is limited to 65. For individual paper proposals (20 mins including discussion), please submit an abstract (300 words) plus short bio by Dec 1, 2016. Abstracts can only be submitted through the conference website http://emhis.blogg.lu.se/tracing-entanglements/ . Notification of acceptance of abstract will be given in the beginning of January 2017.
Extended abstracts (600–800 words) are required and will be published in a pre-circulated PDF book. Deadline for extended abstracts is Apr 1, 2017.
The conference will begin with registration and dinner on May 17th and end with a dinner banquet on May 19th. The paper sessions are held at The Old Bishop’s House and the open keynote sessions are held in the auditorium at the Centre for Languages and Literature, Helgonabacken 1, Lund. A conference fee of 100 € is required and will include all meals and conference material.
Following the conference, a selection of the papers presented will be invited to participate with a chapter in an edited book volume.
The conference is organised by the Media History Unit at Lund University, Sweden, in co-operation with the Research Centre for Media History at the Hans Bredow Institute/Hamburg University, Germany, and the Centre for Media History at Bournemouth University, UK. It is hosted by the Department of Communication and Media, Lund University, with financial support from The Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (STINT).
The deadline for paper proposals for the eleventh issue of VIEW Journal of Television History and Culture has been extended to September 27, 2016. Please consider sending in your abstract.
See the original CfP (below) for submission instructions.
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CfP VIEW Journal Vol. 6, Issue 11 / Summer 2017 History of Private and Commercial Television in Europe
The perception of the European television and media landscape has been traditionally shaped by the contrast and constant comparison with the American one: state-run stations or public service broadcasting in Europe vs. commercial networks in the US. However, in most European countries it took to the last third of the 20th century, until commercial TV got proper permission, or started its activities. As a result, to date, the structure is characterized by coexistence of public service and commercial stations (in a mixed system only later opened to pay and over-the-top operators).
The history of European televisions’ commercialization, however, is way less linear, and more interesting and complex. In many European countries there have been early attempts to launch some form of private television, on a local, national, or even supra-national basis. Some of the early attempts to plant private TV are short-lived or failed totally (for example FFG 1960 in Germany), others like the ITV-Network (UK) or RTL Télévision (Luxembourg) were able to establish themselves already during the 1950s on a regional level aside the major public-service providers. In Italy, after a debate already originating in the 1950s, there has since the 1970s been plenty of – initially illegal – locally focused broadcasters, leaving space in the following decade to national commercial networks. And media moguls, such as Silvio Berlusconi, started from their own country and later tried to enter other markets, with mixed results. Additionally, the public-service stations themselves are often subjects to the principles of commercialization: most of them inserted commercials from the early days in their programming and/or had to buy broadcasting rights (e.g. for feature films, or TV series, sitcoms and other formats) from international markets, thus establishing other kinds of competition. This even occurred at state-run television in Eastern Europe. It is clear, the process of television commercialization didn’t just start during the 1980s, but its implementation was from the very beginning, and followed very different paths in each European country. Moreover, the emergence of consumer societies in post-war Europe and the dissemination of private TV seems a deeply interwoven process.
This issue of VIEW seeks to deepen our understanding of how aspects of commercialization in TV shaped the media culture in Europe. We aim to offer a scholarly view on the history of institutions, political and economic interests, technical conditions, legal frameworks, professional cultures, programmes and their aesthetics, scheduling and advertising, aspects of reception and reactions in societies, related discourses, and backlash on public service TV. Transnational, comparative and entangled perspectives are preferred.
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Case studies on specific stations/companies/countries in Europe Historical cases of successful and/or failed attempts of establishing private TV Different developments/models of commercial TV in Europe: legal and illegal, free-to-air and pay TV Transnational circulation of ideas, professionals and formats in commercial television across Europe Direct and indirect relationships between Europe and the US, as a successful model for commercial television and/or as a critic and debatable issue Impact of commercialization on TV formats, genres, content, and television schedules and programme flows Competition to and convergence with public service TV Political and societal discourses related to justifying, supporting/contrasting and establishing commercial television Commercial television production and distribution cultures Commercial television consumption and reception practices “Silent” commercialization through license- and programme-trade History of television commercials. The influence of technical preconditions and developments Commercial TV archives and their issues (availability, conservation, catalogue)
Privatisation of TV in Eastern Europe after 1990/91 Video and audio essays presenting primary sources (e.g. oral interviews, audio-visual material) or other ways of exploring commercial TV in Europe.
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Deadline for abstracts(max. 500 words): September 27, 2016 Deadline for full papers (3 – 6,000 words): January 14, 2017
Contributions are encouraged from authors with different expertise and interests in media studies, television broadcasting, political economy of communication, media economics and media industries, audience studies, from researchers to television professionals, to archivists and preservationists. We welcome contributions in the form of articles and video essays.
Submissions should be sent both to the managing editor of the journal, Dana Mustafa via journal@euscreen.eu and the assistant managing editor, Rieke Böhling via boehling@uni-bremen.de.
For further information or questions about the issue, please contact the co-editors: Christoph Classen via classen@zzf-potsdam.de (Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam/Germany), Sonja de Leeuw via J.S.deLeeuw@uu.nl (Utrecht University/NL), and Luca Barra via Luca.Barra@unicatt.it (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano/Italy).
See www.viewjournal.eu for current and previous issues. VIEW is proud to be an open access journal. All articles are made findable through the DOAJ and EBSCO databases.
*** About VIEW journal ***
VIEW is published by the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision in collaboration with Utrecht University, University of Luxembourg and Royal Holloway University of London. It is supported by the EUscreenXL project, the European Television History Network and the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research.
XXVII conference of the INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR MEDIA AND HISTORY (IAMHIST)
July 10-13, 2017 – PARIS, FRANCE
Hosted by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research and Analysis of the Media (CARISM) and the French Press Institute, Panthéon-Assas University, Paris (France), the conference marks the 40th anniversary of IAMHIST as well as the 80th anniversary of the French Press Institute.
THEME:
MEDIA AND HISTORY: CRIME, VIOLENCE AND JUSTICE is the main topic of the conference and a special section will also deal with international and comparative approaches to media history. Workshops for younger scholars will be organized. Weiterlesen
The new academic journal „Internet Histories“ (Taylor & Francis/Routledge) has just opened its submissions website — please consider submitting an article.
Excerpt from the journal’s Aims and scope:
„Internet Histories: Digital Technology, Culture and Society“ is an international, inter-disciplinary peer-reviewed journal concerned with research on the cultural, social, political and technological histories of the internet and associated digital cultures.
The journal embraces empirical as well as theoretical and methodological studies within the field of the history of the internet broadly conceived — from early computer networks, Usenet and Bulletin Board Systems, to everyday Internet with the web through the emergence of new forms of internet with mobile phones and tablet computers, social media, and the internet of things. The journal will also provide the premier outlet for cutting-edge research in the closely related area of histories of digital cultures.
Read about the journal, its aims and scope, international editorial board, and more at http://tandfonline.com/loi/rint20
