[ecrea] cfp: Media Engagement: Connecting Production, Texts and Audiences Symposium

  MEDIA ENGAGEMENT: CONNECTING PRODUCTION, TEXTS AND AUDIENCES
  INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM

<https://www.westminster.ac.uk/events/media-engagement-connecting-production-texts-and-audiences-international-symposium>

Date: 04 May 2016, 9-5pm - Deadline for abstracts 23rd March

Location: Regent Campus, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2HW – View map
<https://www.westminster.ac.uk/about-us/our-locations/maps-and-directions/regent-street>

The symposium is hosted by the University of Westminster in association
with Lund University, and the Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation.

https://www.westminster.ac.uk/events/media-engagement-connecting-production-texts-and-audiences-international-symposium

Preceded on 3rd May by the Camri Seminar Media Industries and
Engagement, 3rd May 5-7pm

How do people engage with media, such as television drama, twitter
feeds, or reality entertainment? Media engagement is a broad term for
research into how we experience media content, artefacts and events,
from our experience of live performances, to social media engagement, or
participation in media itself. Media engagement offers a rich site of
analysis for exploring the dispersed connections across industry
contexts, cultural forms, and audience experiences.

This symposium provides a platform for research on new terms of media
engagement. We want to understand industrial contexts for engagement,
including performance metrics, production practices and policy
discourses. And we want to understand people’s shifting and subjective
relations with media as live audiences, catch up viewers, illegal users,
as consumers and users, fans and anti-fans, contestants and
participants. Media engagement thus encapsulates research on audiences,
fans or producer-users, and the ways these different groups co-exist
with those making content and driving policy and politics. The aim of
the symposium is to investigate how industrial contexts, producers and
audiences co-create, shape and limit experiences within emerging
mediascapes.

We welcome research that relates to the following areas of enquiry for
media engagement:

 1. Industrial contexts for engagement: production practices, policy
    discourses and stakeholder coalitions
 2. Empirical production and audience research: quantitative and
    qualitative methods and practices
 3. Audience experiences and engagement: affect, emotion and passion
 4. Fans and anti-fans: labour and fan practices
 5. Unmeasured audience: informal media economies and illegal practices

The conference includes a combination of invited speakers and open
panels. Confirmed speakers include Professor Göran Bolin (Södertörn
University, Sweden), Professor Raymond Boyle (Glasgow University, UK),
Professor John Corner (Leeds University, UK), Professor Annette Hill
(Lund University, Sweden), Professor Jeanette Steemers (University of
Westminster, UK), Dr Paul Torre (University of Northern Iowa, USA), and
Professor Anne Marit Waade (Aarhus University, Denmark). The symposium
is connected with the Media Experiences project
<http://mediaexperiences.blogg.lu.se/>, a production and audience study
of television drama, documentary and reality entertainment based at Lund
University, in collaboration with Endemol Shine Group, and funded by the
Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation.

Please submit abstracts of 300 words in English by 23rd March 2016 to
Jose Luis Urueta <mailto:(jose.luis_urueta /at/ kom.lu.se)>.

There is a registration fee of £25 for the symposium. Register now
<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/media-engagement-connecting-production-texts-and-audiences-tickets-21381259924>.

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Preceded by the CAMRI Seminar: Media Industries and Engagement
<https://www.westminster.ac.uk/research-seminars/media-industries-and-engagement>, 

Tuesday 3 May 2016, 5pm-7pm.

*Media Industries and Engagement
<https://www.westminster.ac.uk/research-seminars/media-industries-and-engagement>*

Tuesday 3 May, Boardroom, 309 Regent Street, London, 5pm to 7pm

Speakers: Julie Donovan (Formats Consultant), Annette Hill (Lund
University), Jane Roscoe (Head of London Film School), Douglas Wood
(Group Director of Research and Insight, Endemol Shine), Chair Jeanette
Steemers (University of Westminster)

Today media engagement is multi-faceted, working across political and
public spheres, policy and industry sectors, audiences, and popular
culture. The panel, including speakers from the television and film
industry, takes the form of a dialogue between industry and academic
researchers involved in a collaborative project on production and
audience research on engagement, which is funded by the Wallenberg
Foundation and in collaboration with Endemol Shine Group.

Find more information on the seminar here
<https://www.westminster.ac.uk/research-seminars/media-industries-and-engagement>.

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