[Commlist] CFP: the DIGISCREENS Conference on Identity and Democratic Values in the Age of Streaming

CFP: the DIGISCREENS Conference on Identity and Democratic Values in the 
Age of Streaming

Conference date: 23rd and 24th of October 2025

Conference place Vilnius, Lithuania, Sinemateka

Conference organisers: The DIGISCREENS team (University of Bergen, 
Örebro University, University of Granada, Cinema and Media Research 
Center at Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre)

Selection committee: Jono Van Belle (Örebro University, Sweden), Angela 
Rivera (University of Granada, Spain), Lina Kaminskaitė-Jančorienė 
(Cinema and Media Research Center at Lithuanian Academy of Music and 
Theatre)

The rise of streaming platforms has changed the production, distribution 
and consumption of films and TV series. On the one hand, streaming 
platforms such as Netflix, Amazon Prime, Apple TV, or Max have increased 
the possibilities for viewers to watch content produced in a wide 
variety of national contexts. On the other hand, some policies, such as 
the European Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVSMD), have sought 
to level the market between domestic and transnational platform 
suppliers and protect the production of film and television in Europe 
(Lobato 2019; Kostovska et al. 2020). This competition to preserve the 
European audiovisual sector raises a number of questions about 
programming, content, and viewing habits as well as how audiences 
negotiate their identities in relation to what they watch.

The DIGISCREENS’ team invites participants to focus on how digital 
audiovisual platforms contribute to transform social and cultural 
dynamics in Europe in the era of streaming. This conference, concluding 
our project, aims to connect researchers working with films and TV 
series on streaming platforms from the perspective of policy, production 
and distribution, social and cultural values on screen or audience 
reception. We hope to bring together industry actors and academics to 
assess how the current audiovisual media landscape affects (a) the 
construction of identity and understanding of the other through global, 
yet culturally specific, mediations of gender, race, class, sexuality, 
and other social aspects, and (b) the negotiation of democratic values 
such as equality, inclusion, and solidarity.

We welcome submissions on (but not limited to):

* (trans)national audiovisual media policy;

* impact of audiovisual policy on global and national streaming platforms;

* audiovisual policy and negotiation of democratic values (equality, 
inclusion and solidarity);

* audiovisual policy and negotiation of identity (gender, race, class, 
sexuality, etc.) and diversity;

* the impact of global streaming platforms for European national film or 
TV industries;

* representation of diversity and identity (gender, race, class, 
sexuality, etc.) in films and TV series distributed on streaming platforms;

* audience viewing habits and streaming platforms;

* audience reception and representation of diversity and identity 
(gender, race, class, sexuality, etc.) in films and TV series;

* audience preferences choosing content;

* identities and diversity of audiences and streaming platforms;

* streaming and research methods;

* streaming audiovisual media and data.

The project DIGISCREENS is supported by The Research Council of Norway, 
Research Council of Lithuania, FORTE: Swedish Research Council for 
Health, Working Life and Welfare, la Agencia Nacional de Investigación 
del Ministerio de Ciencia e Investigación, under CHANSE ERA-NET Co-fund 
programme, which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 
2020 Research and Innovation Programme, under Grant Agreement no 101004509.

For more info about the DIGISCREENS project: 
https://www.uib.no/en/digiscreens

Send your an abstract (max 300 words) and a short bio 
(digiscreens.conference /at/ gmail.com) before Tuesday 15th of April. 
Participants will be notified by the 15th of May.

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