[ecrea] CFP: Shared Histories: Media Connections Between Britain and Ireland

Shared Histories: Media Connections Between Britain and Ireland.

A conference, to be held in Dublin, 6-7th July 2016.

Call For Papers.


The relationship between Ireland and the rest of the British Isles has
a long and complex history. One key dimension has been the connections
and interactions between the various media of communication – print
and electronic – which have mediated this relationship. This
conference seeks to address this important, but relatively neglected,
topic at a timely moment in the history of Ireland, England, Scotland
and Wales.

The conference organisers want to take a long view as well as look in
detail at particular moments. It therefore invites papers from the
sixteenth century onwards, dealing with all forms of media (print,
periodical, broadcasting, ephemera) as well as with structures of
ownership, regulation, distribution and identity.

The conference will examine the different kinds of media interactions
from the arrival of print to the emergence of broadcasting, under what
conditions they operated and to what effect.  How did these
interactions take place? What were the networks through which material
flowed? What were the major developments in the content and reception
of the media from the sixteenth century onwards? How helpful is it to
think in terms of distinctive ‘national’ media traditions? In what
sense, if any, are concepts such as centre and periphery of value in
thinking about these relationships, or do they need revision? How has
the development of relationships between the peoples of these islands
been influence by shared histories of media exchange and interaction?

Proposals of up to 400 words stating the topic in relation to the
conference theme should be sent to: Steven Conlon at:
(mediaconference2016 /at/ dcu.ie)  by 1 June 2015

The conference is jointly organised by the School of Communications,
Dublin City University, the Centre for Media History Aberystwyth
University, Newspaper & Periodical History Forum of Ireland , and the
journal Media History. For further details please contact, Mark
O’Brien (mark.obrien /at/ dcu.ie), Siân Nicholas (shn /at/ aber.ac.uk), Jamie
Medhurst, (jsm /at/ aber.ac.uk), Tom O’Malley (tpo /at/ aber.ac.uk)


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