[ecrea] CFP. Future of Old Media. Tel Aviv University Conf. April 19-21, 2017

*CALL FOR PAPERS*

*The Future of Old Media
How the old media reinvent themselves in the digital age
*2^nd Tel Aviv Communication Conference, April 19-21, 2017*

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*Confirmed keynote speakers*:
  - Julia Cage, SciencesPo, Paris
  - James Curran, Goldsmiths College
  - John B. Thompson, University of Cambridge
  - Lance Holbert, Temple University

The Dan Department of Communication at Tel Aviv University is organizing 
the 2^nd Tel Aviv Communication Conference, to take place on April 
19-21, 2017. This year’s conference will be dedicated to the future of 
the so-called 'old media' in the digital age.

In the last two decades, the claim has been made that the traditional 
media – the newspaper, the book, television, radio and the cinema, and 
the physical archive, and even the idea of audience itself – will not 
survive the digital revolution. Scholars have repeatedly expressed the 
fear, or the hope, that the digital world will put an end to the reign 
of television, newspapers, radio, the book... In this conference, we 
would like to open this question to critical debate. Looking closely at 
the various ways in which the old media are being reinvented to maintain 
their relevance, we ask how much transformation can a medium sustain 
before it becomes something new entirely? Can the transformations be 
considered as just one more step in the evolution of media, or as the 
beginning of a new (st)age?

We would like to discuss the communicative, social and cultural 
significance of these complex dynamics, and reflect on the changes in 
each medium with regard to technological developments, content, 
production (including professions, resources and business models), 
audiences and consumption.

We are interested, for example, in the ways *newspapers* and news 
divisions of major broadcasters are morphing into news sites, while 
independent sources on the one hand, and online platforms (Facebook, 
Google, Twitter, Yahoo) on the other, challenge the industry 
foundations; the ways *television *genres, especially live broadcasts 
and long series, re-invent television at the very same time that 
coherent multi-genre schedule is receding, and services such as Netflix 
leave us wondering what are the core elements that define Television; 
how *films*, as long audiovisual stories to be enjoyed collectively, 
resist fragmentation and are renovated through new forms of anime and 3D 
technologies; how *radio* as flow is not dying while radio’s memories, 
and radio “on demand” (podcasts) enjoy an extraordinary digital 
development; and how the oldest medium, *the printed book*, is resisting 
the pressures of the digital age. Finally, the *archive* is a theme 
which cuts across media: “old” media as past and forgotten programs are 
being made increasingly available, which revives ancient worries about a 
surfeit of memory, but also leads us to think in terms of metamorphosis, 
not disappearance.

These are merely a few of many changes we are witnessing, and we 
encourage proposals that engage in all aspects of these questions.

*Please send abstracts no longer that 300 words to (shiradvir /at/ me.com) 
<mailto:(shiradvir /at/ me.com)>, and (jerombourdon /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(jerombourdon /at/ gmail.com)>, until December 1st.
Answers will be given not later than December 15, 2016. *

*_Travel grants_**: *

We are pleased to provide travel grants to graduate students, and 
post-doctoral students who were accepted to the conference. A travel 
grant can cover the costs of travel to the conference, such as lodging 
and flights.

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The organizing committee of the conference:
Prof. Jerome Bourdon, Dr. Shira Dvir, Dr. Elad Segev,
Department of Communication, Tel Aviv University.
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