[ecrea] CFP: Critical Studies in Television Conference

*CFP: Critical Studies in Television Conference*

*State of Play: Television Scholarship in ‘TVIV’*

*5-7 September 2018, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, UK.*

*Keynote Speakers:* Derek Kompare, Meadows School of the Arts, SMU, USA 
and Karen Lury, University of Glasgow, UK.

Television is and always has been changing. The recent shifts, connected 
to new, online providers creating their own content and offering new 
forms of distribution, have led to some scholars (Jenners 2016) 
questioning if the age of TVIV has arrived. While Mareike Jenners 
remains unconvinced that the transformations are significant enough to 
warrant such a description, it is nevertheless noticeable that the 
recent changes affecting television have also had an impact on our 
subject of television studies. For example, Catherine Johnson’s work 
(2007, 2012) points to how even the transformations brought about by the 
deregulation and commercialisation of public service broadcasting 
require us to investigate more strongly aspects of television that 
pertain to marketing and PR. As others (e.g. Born 2011, Johnson, Kompare 
and Santo 2014) have shown, these shifts also impact on how television 
operates as a workplace. In relation to consumption, shifts towards 
360-degree commissioning (Mittell 2014) mean that we need to be more 
aware of the transmedia experiences of audiences (Evans 2011) and their 
roles as fan-ancers (Hills 2015). Looking at the development of new 
media and its use, Evans et al. (2017) have shown that our 
conceptualisations of audiences’ television consumption might be helpful 
to make sense of their second screen use as well. Outside and inside of 
national borders, television is morphing into a transnational entity 
that requires complex negotiations by the different stakeholders 
involved (Kuipers 2011, 2015). In addition to these industry-led 
changes, there are those that come from cognisant fields of research: 
the shift towards high-end drama production, particularly in America, 
for example, has attracted the attention of a number of film scholars 
who bring with them different terminologies, while other aspects of 
television – be that the representation of violence, law, disability, 
etc. etc. – have a longer history of attracting scholars from other 
disciplines.

In this conference, we are inviting papers that pertain to all aspects 
of television, but are particularly interested in abstracts that engage 
with the question of what television scholarship might be or become as a 
result of these shifts. As a journal, we are interested in all kinds of 
presentations, including traditional research papers, workshops, 
roundtable discussions, screenings and posters. Abstracts for individual 
papers, panels or other forms of communication are welcome on any theme 
connected to television and television scholarship, though we will give 
priority to papers engaging with the themes highlighted above. 
Collaborations and interdisciplinary projects are also of particular 
interest.

The conference will take place at Edge Hill University, in Ormskirk, 
north of Liverpool, UK. It is a residential conference, i.e. 
accommodation is available on campus. For details about booking and 
registration, please see the conference website at 
https://www.edgehill.ac.uk/media/research/research-events/

Please send abstracts of no more than 500 words by 12pm GMT on Friday 
2^nd March 2018 to (CSTconference /at/ edgehill.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(CSTconference /at/ edgehill.ac.uk)>.

The conference is a collaboration between Edge Hill University, Critical 
Studies in Television and the Television Studies Section of the European 
Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA).


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