[ecrea] CFP Media Mixing

*Call for Papers*

*Media Mixing*

*International Symposium at Lund University,**Sweden*

Department of Communication and Media, *March 14th 2019*

Organisers: Annette Hill and Magnus Johansson

Mixed modes of storytelling abound in the contemporary media landscape. 
There are mixed genres, such as political comedy or docudrama, that mine 
the generic elements of information and entertainment to create 
storytelling based on real events. There are mixed modes of production 
and distribution, such as webisodes, or cross media content in scripted 
reality, attracting audiences from dispersed sites of reception. And 
there are the inter-generic spaces of media content, such as crime 
documentaries or podcasts, that draw upon the real world spaces of true 
life, the dramatised spaces of reconstructions, and the created for 
media spaces of studios, social media and live events. The inter-generic 
spaces of media signal the various pathways to engagement and 
disengagement with factual and fictional content, and the practices of 
audiences, users and producers as they criss-cross the media landscape. 
This international symposium critically examines media mixing, 
addressing both mixed modes of storytelling across genre and 
representation, transmedia narrative and aesthetics, and mixed modes of 
production, distribution and reception in the media landscape.

We invite contributions to this symposium on media mixing that address 
the theme from empirical and theoretical perspectives. The symposium 
seeks to debate the mixing of generic content within information and 
entertainment, and how this is connected to dispersed sites of 
production, distribution and reception contexts. Contributions ought to 
address the following areas of enquiry: media and democracy, news, fake 
news and political engagement, social activism, mimetic and visual 
cultures, cultural citizenship and popular culture, genre and 
representation, transmedia storytelling, media assemblage, media 
audiences, media and creative industries, distribution and piracy, 
amateur media, amongst other areas of inquiry. The research questions 
include: 1. How can we critically examine mixed modes of storytelling 
across news, radio and television, film, digital and social media? 2. In 
what ways can we understand the inter-generic spaces of content in the 
contemporary media landscape? 3. How can we research the opportunities 
and challenges of mixed modes of media production, distribution and 
reception? Different approaches to research on media mixing can include 
media, communication and cultural studies, political communication, 
sociology and anthropology, cultural geography, media history, film 
studies, memory studies, amongst others.

Confirmed speakers include Simon Dawes (Université de Versailles 
Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France)Joke Hermes (InHolland University, 
Netherlands), Annette Hill (Lund University, Sweden), Kristian Møller 
(IT University, Denmark), Anna Reading (King’s College London, UK), Jane 
Roscoe (University of West of England, UK).

Please submit an abstract of 300 words in English by *December 11th 
2018* to (magnus.johansson /at/ kom.lu.se).  For further information please 
consult our website http://www.kom.lu.se/en/research/mkv/_. _There is a 
registration fee of 800 SEK (85 Euros) that covers food and drink for 
the day and an evening buffet.



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