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[ecrea] CFP - The Ends of Television Conference, Amsterdam
Wed Oct 29 09:57:20 GMT 2008
Call for Papers:
The Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis
(ASCA) and the Department of Media Studies of
the Universiteit van Amsterdam invite papers for a 3-day conference on
The Ends of Television
Logics/Perspectives/Entanglements
Monday June 29 ? Wednesday July 1 2009 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Keynote speakers:
Joke Hermes (InHolland, Universiteit van Amsterdam)
Toby Miller (University of California Riverside)
Anna McCarthy (NYU)
Conference theme:
Is TV as we know it dead? Does TV Studies have
any relevance in a world of media convergence?
Are we at risk of becoming gravediggers of an
obsolete medium rather than innovators in a
cross-medial regime? The conference will address
some of the central frames through which TV has
been analyzed to test their relevance in an age
where digitalization and convergence is
redrawing the boundaries of media and of
disciplines. Rather than accept the narrative of
obsolescence or the nostalgia of seclusion, the
conference aims at seriously analyzing both the
contemporary specificity of TV and the
challenges thrown up by new developments in
technology and theory. For example: What is the
specificity of the TV image in an environment
suffused with moving images? Has the spectator
of TV changed in a media world that begs
?interaction?? How does the relevance of
ideology-critique and propaganda fare in the age
of surveillance? Is the educational role of TV
obsolete with the triumph of market logics?
Depending on how these and other questions are
answered, TV Studies must rethink its own status
as a discipline, beginning with its own position
vis-à-vis Film Studies and New Media Studies. Do
such separations still hold analytical purchase?
What old concepts need reformulation, and what
areas of study (e.g. cultural studies,
philosophy, sociology, anthropology, political
science, art history) can we both borrow from and enrich?
Contributions are invited which take a stand on
the relevance of TV, and TV Studies, through
substantial and close analyses of specific dimensions of television:
(Medium) Specificity
If we are witnessing the end of TV as we know
it, what is it being replaced with? What form
will TV take in the future, and what are its
aesthetic qualities? What is the ontology of the
televisual image and sound once it has been
digitized? How does the aural experience of
contemporary television sets enhance or affect
television watching? If ?flow? and ?liveness?
was what distinguished TV from film in the 20th
century, how does this hold true in the 21st?
What effects does the change from flow and
liveness to the archive have for our
understanding of the medium? How do TV, film and
new media relate to each other in the new constellation?
(Functional) Logics
How does TV function? Questions of broad and
narrow-casting, the blurring of genres and media
(cross media), the fluidity of audiences, the
multiple settings of TV reception, etc ? all
these dimensions point to an acceleration of
change in the logics of TV?s mode of
functioning. What broad changes can be
identified in the logics of TV, and how do they
relate to larger shifts in contemporary
societies, technologies, and communication
patterns? More specifically, what is the impact
of these changes when we consider the purposeful
use of TV? What will become of advertising when
television goes digital? What is the
relationship between branding and television?s
functional logics? What becomes of propaganda in
a multi-channel environment? In what sense has
TV?s governmental logic changed during the last
decade? How does media literacy function in knowledge societies?
(Conceptual) Changes
If the logics of TV are shifting, how might they
be studied in the contemporary context? What
new, or different perspectives can be brought to
bear in intellectually engaging with the medium?
Do the established (analytical) distinctions of
production, reception, textual analysis,
suffice? Do more dimensions need to be added, or
do the existing distinctions need to be
broadened, sharpened or reviewed, keeping in
mind the changing logics of television? ? e.g.
in the context of convergence, and multimedia
interaction, such as UGC, how do terms like
?production? and ?reception? change their meaning?
(Transdisciplinary) Entanglements
Given that the logics of television?s mode of
functioning, and the perspectives of TV Studies
need analysis and change, in what way do these
changes suggest an entangled and
cross-fertilized re-definition of the field
itself, its ends (goals), and its future
development? On the one hand, how might a
reviewing of television and its modes of
analysis enrich other disciplines (for example
Visual Culture, a re-defined Art History, Film
History, Media Archaeology)? On the other, what
might TV Studies gain from strategically
borrowing and re-working theories and concepts
from other fields (Sociology, Political
Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, Cultural
Analysis)? What contributions can more recent
paradigms like cognitivism or network theory
make? Can TV studies borrow terms from chaos
theory like emergence, non-linearity, or
attractors, and what do they contribute to the
already existing theoretical vocabulary?
Proposal deadline: proposals for papers and/or
panels should be sent to
<mailto:(asca-fgw /at/ uva.nl)>(asca-fgw /at/ uva.nl) before February 26 2009.
Organising committee: Sudeep Dasgupta, Marijke
de Valck, Jaap Kooijman, Jan Teurlings
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