[ecrea] cfp: Audiences, Users, and Producers of Public Service Content: Challenges Ahead

Audiences, Users, and Producers of Public Service Content: Challenges Ahead

May 23rd, 2012

Canterbury Christ Church University (CCCU)

A symposium organised by the Department for Media, Art and Design, CCCU

Keynote speaker: Dr James Bennett

Dr Bennett is Senior Lecturer in Television at Royal Holloway,
University of London. He is currently principal investigator on an AHRC
funded project on multiplatform television and the relationship amongst
the BBC, Channel 4 and the television and digital media independent
production sector. His paper will offer some provocations on the way in
which these production strategies, and cultures, conceive of the newly
empowered audience of multiplatform television.


Call for Papers

Public service provisions are going through dramatic transformations as
a result of technological developments, policy changes, market
pressures and new user habits in the media sectors. A significant part
of this transformation is connected to the enhanced and novel roles of
audience initiative to use and generate content. The scale and
significance of the understanding of the new public service content use
is still contested, evidences are often sporadic, case studies are
still often isolated. Fundamental questions are still abound: Is the
public ready to fulfill roles outlined by the new participatory content
use culture? Are public service media companies, and professionals
consider seriously shifting to a radically more demand-oriented mood in
the daily practice? How would the populist feature of ?from below? user
activity change political discourses and landscapes?

We invite submissions for a symposium on assessing recent developments
in the fields of audience activity, platform and content use, and user
content making in the public service framework. The symposium is open
to academics as well as media industry practitioners working in the
field. Papers/presentations are invited in the general subject area of
user generated content and public service provisions, including:

?=09active (intended or unintended) audience practices vis-=E0-vis public
service contents;
?=09public uses of public service media platforms;
?=09public service aggregators of user agency;
?=09user generated public service content;
?=09user folksonomies, collaborative tagging in the context of public
service content;
?=09gaming in the public service framework;
?=09Crossmedia, cross-genre initiatives for mobile and digital media
receiver (XBox, etc.) platforms for public service content; ?=09new forms
of public service funding via microdonations and further ways;
?=09uses of public service contents and platforms overlapping with
e-politics, e-health, e-education, etc. platforms.

All abstracts should be submitted via e-mail to:  Ferenc Hammer
(f.hammer73 /at/ canterbury.ac.uk)

The deadline for the submission is March 18th, 2012. Authors of
selected proposals will be notified by March 30th, 2012. A selected
group of the best contributions are planned to be published in a
scholarly journal. For further information please contact:

http://www.canterbury.ac.uk/arts-humanities/MediaArtAndDesign/Events/Home.a=

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Information: Dr. Ferenc Hammer
Associate, Visiting Research Fellow
Department for Media, Art and Design, CCCU
(f.hammer73 /at/ canterbury.ac.uk)















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Hammer, Ferenc Ph.D.

Associate, Visiting Leverhulme Fellow
Canterbury Christ Church University
Department of Media, Art and Design
Canterbury, CT1 1QU, United Kingdom Office: Powell, 1st floor Nr. 8
Tel: +44 (0) 1227 767700
Cell: +36 70 331 4661


Associate Professor
Institute for Art Theory and Media Studies, E=F6tv=F6s Lor=E1nd University
Mail: M=FAzeum krt. 6-8., 1088 Budapest, Hungary
Phone-fax: +36 1 411 6558

http://web.mac.com/hammerferenc




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