CALL FOR PROPOSALS: CONSOLE-ING PASSIONS International Conference on Television, Video, Audio, New Media, and Feminism July 11-13, 2018 Bournemouth University, Faculty of Media and Communication, Poole, UK Bournemouth University is now accepting proposals for Console-ing Passions 2018. Deadline for submissions: 23.59 (Greenwich mean time) 15 January 2018.

http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/music/composition/scoring/conference The annual conference, Music and the Moving Image , encourages submissions from scholars and practitioners that explore the relationship between the entire universe of moving images (film, television, video games, iPhone, computer, and live performances) and that of music and sound through paper presentations. The Keynote Speaker is TBA.

Viewer classification has been central to audience research and measurement since the early years of television. Efforts to gain knowledge of the viewing public have depended upon a system of classification and categorisation that segments and delineates the viewing public into recognisable social groups that can be used to steer programme policy and planning.

About In 1992 television researcher John Ellis stated that television was an “essentially national activity for the vast majority of its audience”. Since then we have witnessed a development that follows the logics of transnationalism: Television content is still produced locally – that means it is produced within specific countries under specific national laws and media regulations, and often first for a local market.

Techniques of the Fantastic Ninth annual conference of the Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung September 6th – 8th, 2018 at the University of Freiburg/Fribourg (Switzerland) The techniques of the fantastic are primarily associated to futuristic stories and science fiction, in which mankind designs its world under utopic or dystopic conditions.

Date of Event: 8th March  2018 Name of Organization: Centre for Media Research, and the Arts and Humanities Research Institute Ulster University, Northern Ireland Contact Email: hashtagresist2018@gmail.com Organisers: Dr Giuliana Monteverde and Dr Victoria McCollum (Ulster University) Deadline for Abstracts: 30th November 2017 Website: https://hashtagresist.wordpress.com/ We invite papers that explore protest and resistance in relation […]

The editors of Feminist Media Studies’ Commentary and Criticism section invite essay contributions on any topic related to feminism, media and the 1990s. We are particularly interested in submissions from beyond North America and the UK. The Commentary and Criticism section of Feminist Media Studies aims to publish brief (~1000 words), timely responses to current issues in feminist media culture, for an international readership.

The medium of television is responsible for a huge accumulation of redundant objects: old TV sets and VTRs (and the tables to put them on), superseded production equipment and software, videotape and film that is no longer useable. This raises various questions, from practical to historiographical and methodological ones. What are we to do with this accumulation of objects, many of which are not easily recycled?

The 11th Screenwriting Research Network (SRN) International Conference will be hosted by Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan. It will take place from Thursday September 13th  to Saturday  September 15th, 2018. Abstracts for original paper presentations and panels may be submitted until December 15, 2017.

This latest offering to CST has partly been inspired by my recent research and planning for a module on American Contemporary Television Drama, and partly inspired by a long fascination with the television anthology series – its place and status in the television landscape. The module, devised by Anthony N Smith at University of Salford, has been handed into my care whilst he undertakes some serious research of his own – and good luck to him.

Digital embeddedness (Markham, 2017) is increasingly shaping how we experience our social lives. At the same time, as all levels of culture and society are shaped by new technological advancements online that lead to new forms of mediatization, the ways and contexts in which digital media are integrated into communicative structures are becoming more diversified and – at the same time – globalized.