[ecrea] Censorship and Creative Practice Symposium CFP

>Watching the Media - Censorship, Limits and Control in Creative Practice
>Call for Papers
>
>
>A one day research symposium at Edge Hill 
>University, in collaboration with the Media, 
>Communication and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA)
>
>The Media Department at Edge Hill University and 
>the Practice Section of MeCCSA invite you to 
>submit a paper for a one day research symposium 
>on 15 April 2011, investigating the role of 
>censorship in media creative practice.
>
>Practitioners in media and the arts face 
>numerous limits and forms of censorship and 
>control and the main aim of the symposium is to 
>explore how are these limits 
>delineated/negotiated and by whom. Specifically 
>the symposium wishes to investigate how artists 
>and media practitioners respond to social, 
>cultural and political contexts, how practice is 
>often politicised in relation to power and how 
>practitioners themselves envisage the pressures 
>and limitations affecting thinking, production 
>and performance. Censorship can be regarded as a 
>moral issue (expected ethical and professional 
>dilemmas faced by the media industry; the power 
>shift towards the consumer who is now also a 
>producer of content; the resurgence of 
>religious/scientific debates), a political issue 
>(financing; management of the cultural 
>industries; security and military concerns; 
>manipulation but also instances of resistance 
>from within the system) and corporate censorship 
>(the media product as a cultural commodity; the 
>simulacrum of competition; the fluid nature of 
>the practitionerâ¬"s role within the industry). 
>Many of these debates are now held in relation 
>to new technologies and their potential for 
>disrupting once clearly delineated boundaries, 
>producing a hiatus in regulation frameworks, 
>renegotiating the role of the 
>consumer-practitioner and bringing new 
>subjectivities into the creative process.
>
>The symposium aims to produce a framework for 
>understanding the limits of contemporary 
>practice in Britain and elsewhere and offer the 
>industry and governmental bodies some recommendations for the future.
>
>Selected papers will be published in a special 
>issue of the journal Transgressive Culture.
>
>Confirmed keynote speakers: Professor Julian 
>Petley, Brunel University School of Arts, Film and TV, and Media Watch.
>
>Paper proposal of 300 words could investigate 
>the following questions, although alternative 
>approaches are strongly encouraged:
>
>Does censorship still exist?
>Does creative practice face any limits and what 
>are they? How are they negotiated?
>Who should decide what is censored and regulated?
>What impact does regulation produce?
>Does censorship necessarily hamper creativity or 
>can it be an enhancing device?
>What is self-censorship in the context of 
>creative practice and how does it impact on practitionersâ¬" work?
>How can we contextualize the pressures put on 
>contemporary media and creative practice?
>How is the issue of censorship framed by 
>professional concerns versus government priorities?
>
>
>Please submit your proposals by 6 December 2010 
>concomitantly to Dr Jason Lee, Chair of the 
>MeCCSA Practice Section - (j.lee /at/ derby.ac.uk) and 
>Dr Ruxandra Trandafoiu - (trandar /at/ edgehill.ac.uk), symposium co-organizer.
>
>Notification of acceptance (via e-mail) by 14 
>February 2011. Registration by 21 March 2011. 
>The symposium will take place at Edge Hill 
>University in Ormskirk, West Lancashire. Arrival 
>and registration at 9.30 a.m.; departure by 4.30 
>p.m. on 15 April 2011. Costing and accommodation details will follow.
>

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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Free University of Brussels
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