[ecrea] CALL FOR PAPERS (24 Feb 2012) Social Media and Cross-border Cultural Transmissions: Technologies, Policies, Industries

*CALL FOR PAPERS (DEADLINE: 2**4** FEBRUARY 2012) *

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*Social Media and Cross-border Cultural Transmissions:
Technologies, Policies, Industries *

*/Organized by the Asia Research Institute, National University of
Singapore/**//*

Date                      :               21-22  June 2012

Venue                  :               Asia Research Institute, National
University of Singapore

Website               :
http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/events_categorydetails.asp?categoryid=6&eventid=1252 

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This interdisciplinary workshop takes a transcultural approach to
exploring newly emerging online practices of cultural transmission.
Culture industries across Asia have been dynamically transformed during
the past decades, and are significantly affected by multilayered
economic, socio-political and technological turbulence occurring on both
global and domestic levels. This workshop explores how social media,
online consumer practices and transcultural pop flows have facilitated
the emergence and development of new global cultural distribution
avenues and transformed the cultural industry landscape, and how Asia is
at the centre of this newly emerging global cultural economy. The
workshop will focus on three specific areas:

1. Technologies: this workshop identifies key moments in the development
of cultural distribution in the era of Web 2.0 technology. In
particular, it focuses on the increased use of mobile social media in
Asia, and its socio-politico-economic implications in the region—in both
the positive and negative perspectives.

2. Policies: this workshop explores the relationship between changed
consumer practices and market environments in Asia, and its influence on
the re/formation of media cultural policies and governance in various
Asian countries (such as policy-making around the copyright and online
piracy issues).

3. Industries: this workshop expands current theorisations on the global
cultural distribution dynamics, dynamics that were once predominantly
centred on the Euro-American axis. Dynamics that are now empowered by
Web 2.0-driven user participation on social networking sites (SNS), yet
are still under the significant influence of dominant corporate media
chains.

The primary intention of the workshop is to examine both positive and
negative connotations of the impact of Web 2.0 technologies on
cross-border cultural transmission and the transformation of cultural
industries in Asia. This workshop aims to explore the following questions:

    * How have contemporary cultural flows formed by particular
      combinations of globalisation dynamics and technological
      innovations, and how and why has Asia become the emerging hub of
      such a phenomenon?
    * Who is at the centre of these changed cultural distribution
      dynamics, and how do they combine and appropriate old and new
      modes of cultural distribution?
    * To what extent is such a newly emerging mode of cultural
      distribution still a tool employed by powerful groups (e.g.,
      corporate media and state governments) attempting to support their
      control and domination of pop consumer groups?
    * In what ways has web user participation, particularly online youth
      activities on social networking sites, shifted the mode of
      “transcultural flows” in the global cultural market environment?
    * How have such shifts demonstrated the expansion of the dynamics of
      global cultural flows, considering they were once predominantly
      centred on the Euro-American axis?
    * How have changes in these paradigms affected the cultural
      industries in Asia and elsewhere in the context of transformations
      in industry structure, technology, market development and
      policy-making?

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The workshop is intended to be an intimate gathering of scholars across
all social science fields and disciplines, both within and outside Asia.
We invite the submission of theoretical and empirical contributions to the
study of transcultural flows of Asian popular products in the era of Web
2.0 technology. In this, we encourage papers that reflect the diverse
media cultural dynamics active within the different areas of creative
industries and markets.

*SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS*


Paper proposals should include a title, an abstract (250 words maximum)
and a brief personal biography of 150 words using the Paper Proposal
Submission Form
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Please send your form to Dr JUNG Sun at (arijs /at/ nus.edu.sg)
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by *24 February 2012*. Successful applicants will be notified by *mid
March 2012* and will be required to send in a completed draft paper
(5,000 - 8,000 words) by *15 May 2012*.

*CONTACT DETAILS*

/Convenor:/

*Dr JUNG Sun*

Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore

Email: (arijs /at/ nus.edu.sg)
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