THE AUDIENCE SPECTACULAR: Who?s watching and how? Ideas of audience in
screen media and performance
JAM 2010 April 16th, University of Reading
CALL FOR PAPERS
Rapidly emerging technologies and the effects of globalization continue to
shape the work of those practitioners concerned with re-positioning the
viewer, and impact strongly on developing discourses within the fields of
audience theory and spectatorship. Our dynamic role as audience members and
groups, responding to a wide variety of forms, is fore-grounded with
increasing urgency across media, prompting a dismantling of traditional
models of engagement and re-energised theorization.
JAM 2010 will aim to investigate audience identities across a range of
media, practices, and critical discourses. We want to address the
spectating, experiencing and participating audience member as well as
thinking about the role of audience member as something we perform,
consciously or otherwise.
Journeys Across Media 2010 is the 8th annual conference run for and by
Postgraduates working in the Department of Film, Theatre & Television,
University of Reading.
We welcome proposals that address what it means to be an audience member
today, framed by some of the following concerns:
? Aesthetics
? Genre
? Narrative
? Representation
? Interaction
? New technologies
? Community
? Medium specificity
? Practice as research
? Liveness
? Activism
? Relational space
? Documentary
Proposals for practice as research presentations outside the twenty minute
format will be considered.
CALL FOR PAPERS deadline: Friday 30th January 2010
Please send a 250 word proposal and a 100 word biographical note to Becki
Hillman, Amanda Beauchamp and Feras Bait-Almal at (jam2010 /at/ rdg.ac.uk)
Journeys Across Media (JAM) is an annual one day interdisciplinary
conference organised by and for postgraduate students. It provides a
discussion forum for current and developing research in film, theatre,
television and new media. Previous delegates have welcomed the opportunity
to gain experience of presenting their work at different stages of
development in the active, friendly and supportive research environment of
Film, Theatre & Television at the University of Reading. Non-presenting
delegates are also very welcome.
Journeys Across Media is supported by the Standing Committee of University
Drama Departments (SCUDD) and the Graduate School in Arts and Humanities,
University of Reading.
