[ecrea] CFP: Workshop: Cultural Mediators in the Digital Age (Santiago, Chile, 10 Sept. 2018)

*Workshop: Cultural Mediators in the Digital Age (Santiago, Chile, 10 
Sept. 2018)*
Organisers: Arturo Arriagada, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez; Joanne 
Entwistle, King's College London; Agnès Rocamora, London College of Fashion.
Download full CFP: http://bit.ly/2FcLWQs
In the second round of this event we will explore how much of the early 
cultural intermediaries literature within cultural studies (emerging 
from the late 1980s-1990s) and across a range of industries (fashion, 
music, popular media/magazines, for example) is relevant to today’s 
cultural forms in the digital age. Specifically, the aim of the 
symposium is to gather experts on cultural industries to discuss and 
analyse how consumers’ practices performed in digital spaces (e.g. blog, 
social media, and websites) are facilitating the emergency of new 
cultural and economic forms in this industry. It will be cross- 
disciplinary and cross-sector, seeking also to examine the differences, 
synergies and similarities across key cultural industries (for example, 
fashion, music, print/publishing, film, food, gaming).

We invite participants to send abstracts that explore the practices, 
identities, and discourses of cultural mediators in the digital age from 
a broad range of disciplines – including sociology, media studies, 
geography, anthropology, cultural studies, STS. Questions and topics 
include but are not limited to:

-       How do CIs create meaning and valorise cultural products in the 
digital age?

-       How do their practices vary across industries (e.g. music, 
media, fashion, design, and food) in the digital age?

-       What role do digital technologies (particularly social media) 
play in the practices of CIs?

-       What forms of labour are emerging from consumers’ social media 
practices of mediation around goods and flows produced in the cultural 
industry?

-       How are the off- and online practices of CIs regulated, and by whom?

-       What type (s) of value (s) (e.g. economic, symbolic) are 
consumers producing through their online practices of mediation?

-       What kind of knowledge do consumers produce and circulate 
through social media in relation to flows and goods produced in the 
cultural industry?

-       Theoretically, what kind of sociological, cultural, and economic 
concepts and theories serve to understand online practices of mediation 
in relation to flows and goods produced in the cultural industry?

Please send abstracts (350 words) with a short bio (100 words) by April 
the 2nd to:

(symposiumcmda /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(symposiumcmda /at/ gmail.com)>

The abstract should include theoretical and methodological discussions 
and have to be submitted and presented in English. Please include 
relevant biographical information as well. On submission of the 
proposal, only the proposing author will receive an email confirming 
receipt. Abstract and paper presentations may be submitted and presented 
in English.

The Workshop organising committee will assess all proposals and 
communicate results by April the 27th.

The program will be available by May the 22nd.

This Workshop is organised by the School of Communications at University 
Adolfo Ibanez, the Culture, Media and Creative Industries Department at 
King’s College, and the London College of Fashion, University of the 
Arts London. ​

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