[Commlist] Children's Media Syposium

*CALL FOR PAPERS *

*The Children’s Media Syposium 2019*

*Creativity Rebooted: Platforms and Possibilities*

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The second biennial Children’s Media Symposium will be held on 
Australia’s beautiful Sunshine Coast, hosted by the University of the 
Sunshine Coast’s School of Creative Industries, on November 21 and 22 
2019. This year’s CMS will consider how digitisation, participatory and 
convergence cultures, emergent digital media, and streaming services 
like YouTube and Netflix have transformed platforms, texts and 
possibilities for children’s storytelling. We are delighted to announce 
Professor Julian Sefton Green, Professor of New Media Education at 
Deakin University is our 2019 keynote.

The 2019 Children’s Media Symposium once again offers opportunities for 
productive collaboration between the creative sector and the academic 
community.  This time participants are invited to consider the concept 
of ‘creativity re-booted’. The reboot is a ‘unique adjunct to the 
regenerative processes that have historically existed to revitalise, 
reinvent and recycle textual forms’ (Proctor 2013). Further, the term 
‘reboot’ describes broader industrial and institutional efforts to adapt 
and remake media content, policies and platforms for 21^st century 
audiences. Reboot encompasses imaginative creative practice that seeks 
to innovate in, and transform children’s media, including but not 
limited to screen texts, television-like content, computer games and 
various online sites, and similarly disrupt more traditional texts 
including illustrated books, comics, young adult fiction, magazines, and 
graphic novels.

We invite submission of abstracts of 250 words for individual papers (20 
minutes) or suggestions for three-paper panels.

Participants are encouraged to consider topics including but not limited to:

  * Transmedia storytelling for and by children
  * Localisation and globalisation in the children’s mediascape
  * Fluidity between screen to page formats in children’s storytelling
  * Fandom and participatory culture
  * Debates and contentions in children's screen content
  * Innovative modes for producing stories for children, such as in
    digital media
  * The role of digital games and creative learning in children’s lives

The symposium will showcase creative research from a variety of 
disciplines while allowing industry practitioners to share their 
creative practice across a range of contemporary media content for 
children. For more information see www.childrensmediasymposium.com

Please email your abstract to A/Prof Anna Potter at 
(childrensmedia /at/ usc.edu.au) <mailto:(childrensmedia /at/ usc.edu.au)> by *Monday 
May 20^th , 2019.*

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