[ecrea] CFP - Contingency Culture: Adapting to change in the film and media industries

Contingency Culture:  Adapting to change in the film and media industries

University of Brighton in Hastings

Wednesday, 29th April and Thursday, 30th April 2015



The landscape of media production is in a state of extraordinary and 
fast moving transition.  The digitisation of the distribution and 
production of content has created an environment where change is the 
only constant.  Media practitioners have had to adapt to working in 
conditions of flux, where the old power relationships no longer stand, 
where the divide between producer and consumer has become porous and the 
economic rulebook has been torn up.  This is an environment in which 
producers of film, radio, television, journalism and games have had to 
learn to work with change rather than against it and to accept that a 
culture of contingency has become the norm.



Contingency Culture will address the impact of the digital revolution on 
media practitioners and academics, providing an opportunity to discuss 
the pragmatic and tangential processes of decision making that affect 
cultural production.  It will examine the tools that have become 
available, the new working conditions that have emerged and the new 
modes of collaboration that have become possible.  The symposium will 
encompass the diverse fields of production studies, creative labour and 
research as practice.



With the wave of media practitioners moving into academia, the dynamics 
of research into media and the creative industries are also 
transforming. This symposium addresses the impact of the digital 
revolution on practitioners and academics, providing an opportunity to 
discuss the pragmatic and tangential processes of decision making that 
affect cultural production. Practitioners and academics interested in 
the emergent and diverse fields of creative and digital labour are 
warmly invited to attend to share their work.



Please send 250 word abstracts by 21st Jan 2015, to Lance Dann at 
(L.Dann /at/ brighton.ac.uk) along with brief biographical details.



An indicative list of topics includes:



·         Digitisation and the growth of the digital economy

·         Free labour and the reputational economy

·         Crowdfunding and the new economies of the web

·         Media technologies and cloud collaboration

·         Emerging and developing cultures of the production

·         Internationalism, outsourcing and the global economies

·         Cross-disciplinary relationships

·         Gender in the post-digital workplace.

·         Working to formats and market forces

·         The automation of creation

·         The new cultures of indie production

·         Creative control and indie production

·         Post crash economics of creative production

·         Digital democracy and the creative process

·         Apple, Amazon and the power of the algorithm





A volume of the conference proceeding will be published after the 
event.  Interviews and presentations from the conference will be 
presented as a radio programme on Resonance 104.4FM in September 2015.



For more information please visit:  
http://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/contingencyculture/http://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/contingencyculture/http://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/contingencyculture/




Abigail Wincott

Senior Lecturer, Broadcast Media & Broadcast Journalism
College of Arts and Humanities
University of Brighton
Hastings
Office hours: 1-2pm Mondays
http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/staff/abigail-wincott


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