[ecrea] Symposium "Children's Products & Media: From Design to Circulation"

We are pleased to announce the organization of a one-day symposium:
Children's Products and Media: From Design to Circulation

It will take place in Paris on May 17, 2016. You are cordially invited
to participate to this event.

Free entry, but registration is preferred. Program below.

Detailed information and registration:
http://www.univ-paris13.fr/cocirpe/journee-detude/

Kind regards,

The organization committee (Sébastien François, Labex ICCA & Doriane
Montmasson, CERLIS, Paris Descartes University)
The team of the research project CoCirPE

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Children's Products and Media: From Design to Circulation


This symposium focuses on the production of children's material and
media cultures through the work of their creators. How do toy makers,
game designers, media producers, etc. anticipate their young consumers?
How do their knowledge and representations about childhood affect the
design process, the working organizations or the promotion strategies of
their creative industries?  And does the increasing circulation of media
contents change the way they address children and their parents?

The symposium provides the opportunity to discuss these issues at the
intersection of media production and childhood studies. The event is
connected to the research project CoCirPE (‘Conception et Circulation
des Produits culturels pour Enfants’/’Design & Circulation of Cultural
Products aimed at Children’) which is funded by the academic cluster
ICCA (‘Creative Industries & Artistic Creation’) and involves a team of
researchers from two universities (Paris 13 University and Paris
Descartes University).

The conference includes a combination of two panels with shorter
presentations (during which researchers from the CoCirPE project will
present the first results of their studies) and three invited speakers.
Three experts of creative industries and youth cultures will give
plenary talks:
- Marc Steinberg (Concordia University, Canada): author of Anime’s Media
Mix: Franchising Toys and Characters in Japan (2012), he is a specialist
of Japanese creative industries, especially animation (anime) and manga.
- Ning de Coninck-Smith (Aarhus University, Denmark) is a renown
historian of education and an expert of childhood. Her last works dealt
with children’s educational and play spaces: in 2015, she co-edited with
Marta Gutman the book Designing Modern Childhoods. History, Space and
the Material Culture of Children.
- Derek Johnson (Wisconsin-Madison University, United States of
America): his research focuses on media industries and their strategies
to determine how regarding their decisions about content circulation
(licensing, cross-media and transmedia franchises, etc.) transform their
organizations and working conditions. He published in 2013 Media
Franchising: Creative License and Collaboration in the Culture
Industries.

Presentations and discussion will be alternatively in English and in
French (no simultaneous interpretation).


PROGRAM

9:15-9:40:  Welcome Coffee

9:45-10:00: Introduction and presentation of the research project
CoCirPE ("Design and Circulation of Children's Cultural Products")

10:00-11:15: Conference #1

Marc Steinberg, Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Concordia University
Media Mix Mobilization: Producing Children’s Culture in Japan
(moderator: Gilles Brougère, EXPERICE, Université Paris 13)

11:15-11:30: Break

11:30-12:30: Session A (résultats CoCirPE)

- Eric Dagiral (CERLIS, Université Paris Descartes) et Laurent Tessier
(Institut Catholique de Paris) : Les représentations des relations
parents-enfants dans la conception d’applications numériques chez
Bayard-jeunesse
- Véronique Soulé et Nathalie Roucous (EXPERICE, Université Paris 13) :
L’enfant a-t-il sa place dans l’édition jeunesse ?
(moderator: Pascale Garnier, EXPERICE, Université Paris 13)

12:30-14:00: Lunch

14:00-15:15: Conference #2

Ning de Coninck-Smith, Danish School of Education, Aarhus University
Design scandinave et fabrication de l’enfance du début du siècle à nos
jours
(moderator: Régine Sirota, CERLIS, Université Paris Descartes)

15:20-16:20: Session B (résultats CoCirPE)

- Sébastien François (Labex ICCA) : Représentations de l’enfance en
conception : l’exemple des applications mobiles
- Leticia Andlauer (GERIICO, Université Lille 3) : Entre participation
et co-construction : des rapports entre joueuses et auteures dans un jeu
en ligne pour adolescentes
(moderator: Vincent Berry, EXPERICE, Université Paris 13)

16:20-16:30: Break

16:30 – 17:45: Conference #3

Derek Johnson, Department of Communication Arts, Wisconsin-Madison Univ.
“From Big Kids to Veteran Moms”: How Adults Claim Childhood Knowledges
and Identities in Media Industry Rituals
(moderator: Sébastien François, Labex ICCA)

17:45-18:00: Conclusion


INFORMATION

Place: MSH Paris Nord – 20, avenue George Sand – 92 21 La Plaine
Saint-Denis – France

Access (by public transportation): Line 12 (subway), ‘Front Populaire’
station (exit #3: avenue George Sand/Maison des Sciences de l’Homme

Information/Registration:
http://www.univ-paris13.fr/cocirpe/journee-detude/

Organization: Sébastien François (Labex ICCA) & Doriane Montmasson
(CERLIS, Paris Descartes University)

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Sébastien François
Postdoctoral Researcher, Labex ICCA
Paris 13 & Paris Descartes Universities
Twitter: @sebastien_fr




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