Dear colleagues, Please join us for a collaborative symposium presented by Red de investigadores en Plataformas <https://sites.google.com/view/redinpla/inicio> (REDINPLA) and the Music and Online Cultures Research Network <https://www.mocren.org/> (MOCReN): Methodological Exchanges. Music/Musicians, Interstitiality, and Platforms. The event is free to attend online at Wednesday, 12 August 2026, 10:00–13:00 Argentina and Brazil / 8:00–11:00 Colombia and Ecuador / 14:00–17:00 BST. The symposium features a talk from Santiago Videla on mediatisation and interstitiality in video game concerts, with discussant Steven Gamble, followed by presentations and Q&A by Karina Moritzen, Juan José Primosich, and Edward Katrak Spencer. You can register to join the event at https://sites.google.com/view/redinpla/registration if you would like to ask questions, or simply watch the YouTube livestream at https://www.youtube.com/live/lzOALnsD8dc. On a separate note, a reminder of the upcoming deadline for MOCReN's January 2027 Winter Workshop at Utrecht University: https://www.mocren.org/ww27. The call for participation closes on 21 August 2026 – join us in the Netherlands for a care-led and playful research development event on the theme music and (post-)truth in the age of GenAI ‘slopaganda’! Best regards, Stim Dr. Steven Gamble <http://stevengamble.com/> (he/him) Lecturer in Digital Humanities <https://www.southampton.ac.uk/research/institutes-centres/digital-humanities>, University of Southampton — 'Live music imaginaries in the reception of online popular music concerts <https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448261424887>’, New Media & Society, 2026 Popular Music and Online Cultures <https://online.ucpress.edu/jpms/issue/37/4> special issue of Journal of Popular Music Studies (37/4), 2025 Digital Flows: Online Hip Hop Music and Culture <https://academic.oup.com/book/58670> (OUP, 2024) How Music Empowers: Listening to Modern Rap and Metal <https://www.routledge.com/How-Music-Empowers-Listening-to-Modern-Rap-and-Metal/Gamble/p/book/9780367751364> (Routledge, 2021)