[ecrea] Kick-Starting Media symposium

_Registration Still Open:_

*/Kick-Starting Media:/*

*/Cultures of Funding in Contemporary Media Industries/**//*

*One-Day International Symposium: 9 June 2016*

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*Media Convergence Research Centre, Bath Spa University*

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*Held at Bath Spa University, Newton Park Campus*

*Newton Park, Newton St Loe, Bath, BA2 9BN*

/Confirmed keynotes:/

Professor Gillian Doyle, University of Glasgow

Professor Mario La Torre, University of Rome

A reminder that registration is still open for /Kick-Starting Media: 
Cultures of Funding in Contemporary Media Industries /taking place at 
Bath Spa University on Thursday 9th June 2016.


Recent public debates over funding in the media industries seem tied to 
the impact of digitisation, which has provided a catalyst for change in 
terms of how media is now produced and consumed across multiple 
platforms. As such, basic business models for funding media are changing 
too. Trends such as crowdfunding and co-creation as well as 
subscription-based platforms like Netflix and video-on-demand services 
such as iTunes have all made media more sharable and personal, but all 
of these trends and services also raise further questions about the 
funding priorities, strategies and policies in the arts, media and 
culture sectors. It is thus timely to take stock of cultures of funding 
in contemporary media industries, and this symposium aims to provide a 
platform for analysing impacts of these contemporary funding trends, be 
it on texts, audiences, technologies, cultures or industries.


It is with this aim in mind that /Kick-Starting Media: Cultures of 
Funding in Contemporary Media Industries/ considers funding cultures in 
and across different media, including film, television, comics, 
newspapers, videogames, radio and music. The event features panels on 
global cinema and television funding, public service broadcasting, 
transmedia and transnational production cultures, videogames, comics and 
anime funding priorities, digital, radio and music business models, news 
and journalism funding, as well as keynote lectures about the present 
and future models and implications of global media funding from 
Professor Gillian Doyle (University of Glasgow) and Professor Mario La 
Torre (University of Rome).

To register, please go to: 
https://www.bathspalive.com/online/article/kickstarting


The symposium fee is £20, which includes lunch, tea and coffee 
throughout the day, and an evening wine reception.


Further updates about the symposium, including a provisional programme, 
can be found here:

https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/schools/humanities-and-cultural-industries/events/kick-starting-media


For further information or for any queries please contact Matthew 
Freeman ((m.freeman /at/ bathspa.ac.uk) <mailto:(m.freeman /at/ bathspa.ac.uk)>).



*Dr Matthew Freeman, FHEA*

*Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication*
*Director, Media Convergence Research Centre*

*The Digital Academy*

*Bath Spa University*

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