[ecrea] CFP Call for Papers: Producers and Audiences

Call for Papers: Producers and Audiences

International Conference

Media and Communication Research, Lund University, Sweden, March 20th 
2014. Organisers Professor Annette Hill, Dr Tina Askanius, Joanna Doona 
and Carolina Martinez.

Media production and culture are intricately connected. Producers 
create, produce, distribute and sell content, formats and brands for 
international audiences.  We engage and disengage with creative content, 
formats and brands, as publics, viewers, listeners, fans, consumers and 
participants. And media producers and audiences can switch roles, 
leading a double life as creators and consumers, producers and users. 
Yet despite these connections, production and audience studies 
traditionally remain separate spheres. Recent developments in the 
business of media and cultural industries highlight shifts in 
production, distribution, economics and cultural experiences across a 
range of content from television, film, radio, music, print, digital and 
mobile media. How can production and audience research allow space for 
broader questions about culture and our engagement with it? This 
conference explores challenges for production and audience research, 
theory and practice. The aim is to examine the complex interplay between 
production and culture in global, political, industrial and social contexts.

The conference follows three areas of enquiry in media, communication 
and cultural studies: relations between producers and audiences; 
theories, methods and practices; and creative content for contemporary 
mediascapes. Areas of research enquiry include:

1.     Political, social, economic and cultural relations between 
producers and audiences

2.     Production and audience theories, methods and practices

3.     Empirical research in production and/or culture across diverse 
genres and content, including television, film, radio, music, print, 
digital and mobile media

4.     Fans and anti-fans

5.     International formats for global audiences

The schedule includes a combination of keynote addresses, 
pre-constituted panels, and open panels. Confirmed speakers include 
Professor John Corner (Leeds University, UK), Professor Peter Dahlgren 
(Lund University, Sweden), Julie Donovan (International Formats 
Consultant), Professor Annette Hill (Lund University, Sweden) Professor 
Vicki Mayer (Tulane University, USA), Jane Roscoe (Head of International 
Content for SBS Australia), Professor Jeanette Steemers (University of 
Westminster, UK), Douglas Wood (Head of Research, Shine Group).

Please submit abstracts of 300 words in English by December 9th 2013 to 
(pac2014 /at/ kom.lu.se). For further information please consult our website 
www.kom.lu.se/pac2014. Please note there is a registration fee of 650 
SEK (70 Euros) that covers food and drink for the day and an evening buffet.

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