[Commlist] Call for papers: one-day symposium on Changing Mediations of Music, Audio and Sound

*Changing Mediations of Music, Audio and Sound: New Systems Across the 
World*

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Audio streaming, social media and short video platforms are transforming 
the systems by which sound media are configured internationally. 
Platformisation, datafication and automated recommendation have been 
central to such transformations, and now generative AI is bringing about 
further changes. These developments have generated great controversy, 
for example concerning effects on musicians, on local music production, 
and on the way that music is experienced in everyday life. These changes 
also have significant implications, via the rise of podcasting and other 
related developments, for the fate of radio, even if radio remains 
resilient in many territories. Arguably such transformations require a 
major rethinking of the politics of sound in everyday life.

This symposium brings together scholars engaged in high-quality research 
on these and related topics from across the world. The symposium is 
organised by the MUSICSTREAM <https://musicstreamproject.com/>project 
team at the University of Leeds (David Hesmondhalgh, D. Bondy Valdovinos 
Kaye, Raquel Campos Valverde and Zhongwei Li), in conjunction with 
colleagues from the University of Denver (Carlos Jimenez and Runchao Liu).

The symposium is timed to coincide with the annual conference of the 
International Communications Association (ICA), which is being held in 
Denver from 12-16 June 2025. While not an official pre-conference of the 
ICA, the symposium has been scheduled in such a way to allow those who 
have registered to attend the ICA conference to make their way to the 
conference in time for the opening plenary and reception. *The event 
will be free and everyone is welcome*, though free registration will be 
required in advance; full details, including how to register, will be 
made public in late January.

*If you would like to present your research at this symposium, please 
submit an abstract (of up to 300 words) to 
**(musicstreamproject /at/ gmail.com)* <mailto:(musicstreamproject /at/ gmail.com)>*by 
17.00 hours UTC on Monday 20 January 2025. *We welcome papers on any 
topic related to the ways in which platformisation is shaping and 
reshaping music, audio and sound in the present conjuncture, and we 
welcome scholars from all disciplines, including communication and media 
studies, music studies, sound studies, radio studies, cultural studies, 
sociology, law, management studies and any area that can help throw 
light on this area. The event will run from 9.30 to 4.30 and we envisage 
four panels of three papers each. We particularly welcome papers that 
throw light on developments beyond the Euro-American core of the 
platformised music/sound/audio system. Some contributions to the 
symposium will draw on chapters in a collection, /Music Streaming Around 
the World/, edited by David Hesmondhalgh, to be published by University 
of California Press in September 2025.

*Applicants will be notified of acceptance or otherwise by Monday 27 
January 2025*. Presentation slots are somewhat limited and if you would 
like to discuss your submission in advance, please contact the 
MUSICSTREAM team via as far as possible in advance of the 20 January 
deadline on *(musicstreamproject /at/ gmail.com)* 
<mailto:(musicstreamproject /at/ gmail.com)>


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