[Commlist] Old media persistence, Ecrea post-conference CFP

Old Media Persistence.

An ECREA virtual postconference co-organized by three ECREA Thematic 
Sections:

Communication History

Radio & Sound section

  Television Studies

Media and communication studies today especially focus on questions 
surrounding how digital media and digitization have changed and 
revolutionized previous media ecologies. Funding opportunities, PhD 
dissertations, journals and books on digitization and the relevance of 
digital media are overwhelming. This joint ECREA post conference, 
organized by the Communication History, Radio & Sound, and Television 
Studies Sections, invites colleagues to focus on and discuss claims that 
studying old media is imperative and still fully relevant to understand 
our contemporary media landscapes. In several media sectors, traditional 
media, such as television and radio, printing, analog photography and 
music, are still the most profitable businesses. The integration of old 
and new media seems to be more effective than disruptive models, and the 
so-called “old media” are still used and appreciated by media audiences 
worldwide. This post conference invites empirical and theoretical 
contributions from different angles. Potential topics may include, but 
are not limited to:

  * Old media persistence in terms of content, political mentality,
    business, law, regulation, audience and usage;
  * Remediation and persistence of old media forms into new media,
    processes of digitization of old media and persistence of old media
    business models;
  * The significance of traditional media (e.g. broadcasting, printing,
    analog photography and music, etc.) in contemporary digital culture;
  * Production studies of old media industries;
  * The persistence of propaganda and fake news from old to new media;
  * Old media and how they contribute to the process of datafication;
  * The persistence of old media in the everyday life of minoritarian or
    marginalised audiences;
  * New media histories for old media;
  * The persistence of old media activism;
  * The continuation and renewal of old controversies and debates (on
    governance, neutrality, etc.);
  * Nostalgia and use of old media archives as current practices both in
    the production of new media contents and in the audience consumption
  * Analog photography, vinyl, tapes and Super8 movies (among others):
    the return of nostalgic media

Please send your 500 word abstract and a short bio of 100 words to 
(info /at/ oldnewspersistence.com) <mailto:(info /at/ oldnewspersistence.com)>. 
Deadline for submissions is 31 May 2021 and the conference will take 
place as an online event only on 10 September 2021.



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