Ecstatic Truth V: The Age of the Absurd 27-28th April 2020 (in conjunction with Under_the_Radar, Vienna) plus 29th April – Under_the_Radar symposium, Vienna Call for papers deadline: 16th February 2020 Ecstatic Truth is an annual symposium that explores issues arising from the interface between animation (in all its forms) and documentary (conceptualised very broadly as […]

New Directions in Media and Sociology Research (NDiMS) conference 2020 Gender, Equality and Voice 20 March 2020 | School of Media, Communication & Sociology (University of Leicester). Keynote speakers (confirmed): Dr. Ruth Lewis (University of Northumbria), Dr. Jilly Kay (University of Leicester) Despite decades of social change, the challenge for gender equality remains extremely topical.

organised by London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research Nowadays we live and breathe media, minute-by-minute, hour-by-hour. News, television, social media, celebrity culture, music, and more.

As the new decade dawns, Disney, Apple, WarnerMedia, and NBCUniversal have launched (or will soon launch) their own streaming platforms. These entrants prove once again that the ecology of television and digital content is one that continuously shifts, raising the question: Is a streaming war in full swing? With legacy media companies and major technology companies entering the ring, has the streaming arena now become too crowded?

Where to, Television Studies? What directions are there to investigate? What are the themes that are important as the medium morphs and changes? What methodological challenges do these changes pose to Television Studies and what place does television history continue to hold within our discipline? This conference will be a space where we can come together to set the agenda for television research and education.

*It’s a whole new world starting in November [2019]. * — Netflix CEO, Reed Hastings, speaking at the Royal Television Society Conference in Cambridge, England on 20 September 2019 (O’Connell 46)   Netflix’s dozen-year run as the unassailable superpower in the brave new world of streaming is being seriously challenged for the first time beginning in late 2019 and now into early 2020.

Recently, a very nice academic friend kindly asked me to talk to their television studies students about how to succeed with a career as a ‘television historian’. I explained that there hadn’t really been a ‘career’… it was just some stuff that happened when a hobby got out of control. So I didn’t go.  There was nothing to say. Hmmm… That blog seems to have run shorter than I’d planned.  Sorry for wasting your time.

The Politics of Colour Media Issue 17, Summer 2020 Guest Editor: Dr Kirsty Sinclair Dootson The East is Red (Wang Ping, 1965) Co-Editors-in-Chief: Ana Maria Sapountzi &

CFP for conference and edited collection, hosted by Huston School of Film & Digital Media, NUI Galway Sept 4-5 2020 Film and Visual Cultures [TV; advertising; photography; media] are instrumental not only in reflecting but in constructing and reinforcing popular images and narratives of ageing.

For its forthcoming issue, Mise-en-scène: The Journal of Film & Visual Narration ( MSJ ) currently seeks submissions that encompass the latest research in film and media studies.

**CFP: ‘Queer Representation: Pasts, Presents, Futures’ ** When: May 21st – 22nd 2020 The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Edinburgh Futures Institute and genderED, University of Edinburgh Keynote Speakers: Prof Richard Dyer (King’s College London) and Dr Abigail De Kosnik (UC Berkeley) This conference aims to examine how LGBTQ representation has changed through time,