[Commlist] CfP SERIES Vol 6 No 2 > Dialogues with Technology: TV Series, Production, Distribution and Representation

*SERIES Vol 6 No 2 – Call for papers: Dialogues with Technology: TV 
Series, Production, Distribution and Representation*

Full paper submission deadline: June 30, 2020

This themed issue of SERIES — Vol 6 No 2 (2020) — aims to look at how 
technology influences the production/distribution of TV series and how 
it is represented in their narratives and promotion.

In recent years, digital technologies have impacted on and shaped 
cultural, social and political paradigms, and have been integrated into 
the processes of creating and distributing cultural objects. This has 
established a dialogue between the computer and culture (Manovich, 
2001), changed the media (Bolter & Grusin, 1996), and became part of the 
reconfiguration of digitextuality (Everett & Caldwell, 2003). This 
context impacts the production, distribution, and promotion of 
television series, which then engage at a textual level with the 
technological challenges facing the medium.

Serial fiction seems to be at the forefront of the challenges faced by 
an entire industry with high technological specificity. This can be seen 
in seemingly prosaic but nevertheless pressing issues, such as the 
difficulties of streaming the Game of Thrones episode “The Long Night”, 
through the non-linear, interactive narrative designs in the Black 
Mirror episode “Bandersnatch”, to the aesthetic, narrative and 
productive implications of visual effects, transmedia strategies, 
previewing systems and future scenarios of visual production (Rubin, 
2019). On the other side, the viewer’s screens, pervasive software 
services lead to profound social and cultural changes that call into 
question creators, producers and critics’ ideas on the way in which we 
metabolize audiovisual discourses (Nikdel, 2015). It is then appropriate 
a trans-disciplinary glance to dialogues with technology established by 
producers and creators, narrative and industry, since “cinema is 
considered holistically as technology, space, experience and form” 
(Llinares, Arnold, 2015: 6).

To reflect the volatile and exponential progress of digital technology, 
we intend to pursue three main directions to explore the relationship 
between technology and TV series: audiovisual discourse, production 
processes, and corporate promotion and distribution of television serials.

To investigate the various layers of this topic, SERIES invite 
researchers to participate in this themed issue, which will address the 
following topics and lines of research into the relationship between 
television serials and digital technologies:

•       narrative aspects considered from thematic, aesthetic and 
philosophical approaches;

•       production in terms of tools, routines, and professional profiles;

•       distribution platforms, strategies, and their modes of circulation;

•       promotion tools, marketing, and transmedia strategies;

•       discourse, including metrics, social networks, and communication.

Articles should range between 5,000–8,000 words (including abstract, 
notes and references). Full guidelines can be found on 
our___website_<https://series.unibo.it/>. In order to be included in the 
issue, full manuscripts must be sent by***June 30, 2020*. Expected 
publication date:***December 2020*.

For more information and specific questions about the issue, please 
contact Luca Barra 
at___luca.barra@unibo.it_<mailto:(luca.barra /at/ unibo.it)>and Oswaldo García 
Crespo at___oswaldogarcia@uvigo.es_<mailto:(oswaldogarcia /at/ uvigo.es)>.

Please note no APCs are charged by SERIES.

If you have any questions, please contact the journal 
at___seriestv@upv.es_<mailto:(seriestv /at/ upv.es)>


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