Call for chapter proposals: Conditions of Mediation
Apologies for cross-posting CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS Conditions of Mediation: Phenomenological Approaches to Media, Technology and Communication Editors: Tim Markham and Scott Rodgers In June 2013, the ICA preconference Conditions of Mediation (see http://conditionsofmediation.wordpress.com for further information) brought together scholars from a wide range of perspectives – including audience studies, political theory, metaphysics, media archaeology, software studies, science and technology studies, cultural geography and urban studies – to critically reflect on both the merits and limits of phenomenological approaches for understanding media, in philosophical, theoretical, political and empirical terms. Inspired by this very successful conference, we are now preparing a proposal for an edited book under the same title. The proposed format of the book is to have a substantive introduction, two ‘dialogues’ involving Graham Harman, Lisa Parks, Paddy Scannell, Shaun Moores, Nick Couldry and David Berry (based on their keynote papers), and 10-12 short paper chapters of 4000 words (excluding bibliography). We are therefore issuing an Open Call for Chapter Proposals. If you are interested in contributing a chapter to this edited book, please send a chapter title and 400 word abstract by no later than 15 September 2013 to Scott Rodgers at s.rodgers@bbk.ac.uk. Those that are subsequently invited to submit a full chapter will need to have this completed by 1 March 2014. Please direct any inquiries to Scott Rodgers at s.rodgers@bbk.ac.uk. We look forward to receiving your chapter proposals.
Final Reminder - apologies for cross-posting CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS Conditions of Mediation: Phenomenological Approaches to Media, Technology and Communication Editors: Tim Markham and Scott Rodgers In June 2013, the ICA preconference Conditions of Mediation (see http://conditionsofmediation.wordpress.com for further information) brought together scholars from a wide range of perspectives – including audience studies, political theory, metaphysics, media archaeology, software studies, science and technology studies, cultural geography and urban studies – to critically reflect on both the merits and limits of phenomenological approaches for understanding media, in philosophical, theoretical, political and empirical terms. Inspired by this very successful conference, we are now preparing a proposal for an edited book under the same title. The proposed format of the book is to have a substantive introduction, two ‘dialogues’ involving Graham Harman, Lisa Parks, Paddy Scannell, Shaun Moores, Nick Couldry and David Berry (based on their keynote papers), and 10-12 short paper chapters of 4000 words (excluding bibliography). We are therefore issuing an Open Call for Chapter Proposals. If you are interested in contributing a chapter to this edited book, please send a chapter title and 400 word abstract by no later than 15 September 2013 to Scott Rodgers at s.rodgers@bbk.ac.uk. Those that are subsequently invited to submit a full chapter will need to have this completed by 1 March 2014. Please direct any inquiries to Scott Rodgers at s.rodgers@bbk.ac.uk. We look forward to receiving your chapter proposals.
Apologies for cross-posting. Members on this list may be interested in an edited video now available from Conditions of Mediation, a preconference of the 2013 International Communication Association conference, hosted at Birkbeck, University of London, UK on 17 June 2013. The video includes contributions from Graham Harman, Lisa Parks, Paddy Scannell, Shaun Moores, Nick Couldry and David Berry, followed by two wide-ranging discussions, chaired by Scott Rodgers and Tim Markham. For more detail on the event, and to view the video, visit: http://www.conditionsofmediation.wordpress.com
Dear all: Birkbeck’s School of Arts is currently inviting applications for up to 17 Postgraduate Research Scholarships, which consist of full home/EU postgraduate fee waivers and an annual stipend at research council rates. Some of these studentships may be awarded for research proposals in the areas covered by the Department of Film, Media and Cultural Studies. For further information about Film, Media and Cultural Studies at Birkbeck, as well as information on the postgraduate research funding application procedures in the School of Arts, see below. Please contact the departmental member(s) you feel most directly relates to your research, but send any general enquires to Dr. Tim Markham, Director of Postgraduate Research, at t.markham@bbk.ac.uk. About Research in the Department of Film, Media and Cultural Studies The Department of Film, Media and Cultural Studies at Birkbeck hosts a wide range of research areas, including: arts policy and management; curatorial studies; digital media; East Asian cultural studies; film, television and moving image; journalism studies; media and cultural theory; and performance. We invite research proposals in any of the broad research areas above – including proposals for practice-based research – and are particularly interested in research projects which pose questions related to one or more of the following themes: · Bodies/Affect/Experience · Cultural Exchange/Media Flows · Cultural Histories/Archive/Memory · Gender/Sexuality/Representation · Identity/Subjectivity/Crisis · Media/Cities/Space · Politics/Media/Social Change · Post-media/Convergence/Expanded Media M.Phil/PhD Research Funding in Birkbeck’s School of Arts Birkbeck’s School of Arts invites applications for M.Phil/PhD research funding for the 14/15 academic year. Please see link below for information, guidance, application forms and deadlines. http://www.bbk.ac.uk/arts/research/research-bursaries-studentships-funding We now invite applications for up to 17 Postgraduate Research Scholarships. These consist of full home/EU postgraduate fee waivers and a stipend at research council rates (currently £15,726 per annum) and include a number of Birkbeck Anniversary Scholarships to mark the 190th anniversary of the College's foundation. We also invite applications for Arts Research Studentships (ARS) consisting of part/full fee waivers for students applying to undertake postgraduate research in the departments of English & Humanities, European Languages & Cultures, History of Art, Iberian & Latin American Studies, and Film, Media & Cultural Studies, as well as via the School’s Arts and Humanities PhD Programme. Other full awards, such as the competition for AHRC studentships under named calls, will have separate application procedures. Please check the website for notifications, application procedures and staff contacts. Any further specific funding opportunities (such as the Murray and Sasakawa funds) will be listed there.
CALL FOR PAPERS Proposed Thematic Panel for GeoMedia 2015: Spaces and Mobilities in Mediatized Worlds (http://geomedia.se/) New Perspectives on Media Production Spaces By no means have media production spaces been ignored in academic research. Analyses of media production have often been anchored to specific settings, for example the studio in television production studies, the newsroom in journalism ethnographies, or the loft-style office in creative industries research. Yet in many ways these traditions sit uneasily alongside the sorts of media spaces that emerge through recent attempts to theorise media in terms of ‘practices’. The value of work on media practices has been to emphasize the highly contingent interweaving of media into ‘everyday life’, a process which is fluid, indeterminate, and non-media centric. Yet, such work has overwhelmingly centered on the spaces of media consumption. Media production spaces, by contrast, are theorized as institutionalised, closed-off, strategically coherent and medium-specific. The geographies of media production, in other words, are often implicitly assumed to inhabit a different level of analysis. This thematic panel aims to offer new perspectives that trouble the dichotomy between the geographies of media production and everyday mediation, and particularly how the former is often seen as institutionalized while the latter mundane. To begin with, what counts as media production is up for grabs, for example in the erosion of producer/audience distinctions, the loosening of medium specificity in the wake of digitalization, or in the dispersal of media production sites. At the same time, there are conceptual reasons to challenge the idea that media production spaces are centers of power. This session will explore the indeterminate spaces of media ‘production’ and their contingent negotiation with, anticipation of and even subjugation to the spaces, values and sensibilities of everyday life. Papers might address the above themes via the following topics: · Affective/emotional dimensions of media production spaces/places · The social spaces of professionalized media fields and their material geographies · Localized geographies of film/television/music/gaming production and post-production · Code/software spaces and media production · Sport spaces and media production · The urban habitus of media professionals and semi-professionals · Site-specific encounters of media and non-media people · Spaces of ‘produsers’, ‘prosumers’, ‘citizen journalists’ and other non-professional media contributors · Time/temporality/timeliness/rhythm and media production spaces · Media producer anticipations/constructions of audience/user geographies · Architectural/infrastructural environments of media production · Cultural policy and the governance of media production · The body as site of media production · Practices of media space branding · Below the line media production spaces The above list is indicative rather than exhaustive – proposals on other topics still within the above broad session theme will be gratefully received. If you are interested in proposing a paper for this panel, please send an abstract between 200-250 words to both Helen Morgan Parmett (Helen.MorganParmett@wwu.edu) and Scott Rodgers (s.rodgers@bbk.ac.uk) by no later than 15 September 2014. Following the GeoMedia 2015 conference, we plan to propose the papers from this panel (or a development thereof) for a special theme issue in a refereed journal in media and cultural studies.
REMINDER: CALL FOR PAPERS Proposed Thematic Panel for GeoMedia 2015: Spaces and Mobilities in Mediatized Worlds (An Interdisciplinary International Conference Karlstad, SWEDEN, 5-8 May 2015, website: http://geomedia.se/) New Perspectives on Media Production Spaces By no means have media production spaces been ignored in academic research. Analyses of media production have often been anchored to specific settings, for example the studio in television production studies, the newsroom in journalism ethnographies, or the loft-style office in creative industries research. Yet in many ways these traditions sit uneasily alongside the sorts of media spaces that emerge through recent attempts to theorise media in terms of ‘practices’. The value of work on media practices has been to emphasize the highly contingent interweaving of media into ‘everyday life’, a process which is fluid, indeterminate, and non-media centric. Yet, such work has overwhelmingly centered on the spaces of media consumption. Media production spaces, by contrast, are theorized as institutionalised, closed-off, strategically coherent and medium-specific. The geographies of media production, in other words, are often implicitly assumed to inhabit a different level of analysis. This thematic panel aims to offer new perspectives that trouble the dichotomy between the geographies of media production and everyday mediation, and particularly how the former is often seen as institutionalized while the latter mundane. To begin with, what counts as media production is up for grabs, for example in the erosion of producer/audience distinctions, the loosening of medium specificity in the wake of digitalization, or in the dispersal of media production sites. At the same time, there are conceptual reasons to challenge the idea that media production spaces are centers of power. This session will explore the indeterminate spaces of media ‘production’ and their contingent negotiation with, anticipation of and even subjugation to the spaces, values and sensibilities of everyday life. Papers might address the above themes via the following topics: · Affective/emotional dimensions of media production spaces/places · The social spaces of professionalized media fields and their material geographies · Localized geographies of film/television/music/gaming production and post-production · Code/software spaces and media production · Sport spaces and media production · The urban habitus of media professionals and semi-professionals · Site-specific encounters of media and non-media people · Spaces of ‘produsers’, ‘prosumers’, ‘citizen journalists’ and other non-professional media contributors · Time/temporality/timeliness/rhythm and media production spaces · Media producer anticipations/constructions of audience/user geographies · Architectural/infrastructural environments of media production · Cultural policy and the governance of media production · The body as site of media production · Practices of media space branding · Below the line media production spaces The above list is indicative rather than exhaustive – proposals on other topics still within the above broad session theme will be gratefully received. If you are interested in proposing a paper for this panel, please send an abstract between 200-250 words to both Helen Morgan Parmett (Helen.MorganParmett@wwu.edu) and Scott Rodgers (s.rodgers@bbk.ac.uk) by no later than 15 September 2014. Following the GeoMedia 2015 conference, we plan to propose the papers from this panel (or a development thereof) for a special theme issue in a refereed journal in media and cultural studies.
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