[Commlist] Pro-Social Play! Storytelling and Well-being across Media Borders

please find below the call for papers for our conference on:

*Pro-Social Play! *

*International conference on Storytelling and Well-being across Media 
Borders *

*17-19 October, 2019, University of Kent, U.K.*

www.prosocial-narrative.org <http://www.prosocial-narrative.org/>

- Plenary speakers:

Charles Forceville, Media Studies, University of Amsterdam

Tobias Greitemeyer, Social Psychology, University of Innsbruck, Austria

Anja Laukötter, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany

Harry Yi-Jui Wu, Medical Ethics and Humanities, Hong Kong University

- Roundtable discussion with the award winning film director, Clio 
Barnard, following a screening of /Dark River/ (2017)

- Workshops by artists at the arts charity People United on prosocial 
performances

This truly interdisciplinary and international conference brings 
together scholars of empirical and theoretical research as well as 
practitioners working on narrative arts for promoting pro-social 
behaviours and mental well-being across different media. To date, the 
pro-social narratives have often been studied with a focus on testing 
people's media exposure and pro-social effects. Nevertheless, as 
explicitly pointed out by most of these studies, we also need to 
investigate how the narrative factors are designed, structured and 
mobilised in a specific coherent way to effectively achieve the intended 
prosocial and mental health purposes. Hence, it is crucial to advance 
the theoretical link between the /design choice/ of narrative, media 
technological features for engaging people in difficult topics and their 
pro-social response. Establishing the link is precisely the main 
objective of this conference. This includes, but is not limited to, the 
following topics:

  * Narrative factors for evoking people's empathy, achieving
    educational purposes
  * Link between prosocial behaviour and mental health
  * Storytelling, practical application and mental health
  * Narrative medicine​
  * Technology features of different media platforms that afford,
    strengthen or constrain the pro-social, persuasive functions of
    narratives
  * Impact of social cultural conventions on different narrative designs
  * Historical perspectives of pro-social storytelling
  * Transmedia comparison of pro-social messages, for instance, across
    film, TV, comics, video games, games, literature, etc.
  * Pro-social storytelling in social media
  * Pro-social storytelling through live performances and live interaction
  * Balance between emotional engagement and message credibilities
  * Empirical evidence of pro-social, persuasive functions in
    storytelling across media
  * Pro-social narrative designs for children and adolescents
​

​Abstract submission deadline: *30.06.2019*

We invite two kinds of submissions: 1. Research papers 2. Workshops by 
artists, designers, health professionals and other practitioners working 
on pro-sociality and storytelling.

Abstracts (max. 300 words) and bio notes (max. 100 words) must be 
submitted (as PDF or Word attachment) to (mail /at/ prosocial-narrative.org)


For more details, please visit our website: 
http://www.prosocial-narrative.org.​;

Organising committee

Dieter Declercq,
Chiao-I Tseng and
Nicola Shaughnessy




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