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

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



May 23rd, 2012

A symposium organised by the Department for Media, Art and Design, Canterbury Christ Church University





Publication Opportunity:



Selected papers from the symposium will be published in an edited book. The conference organisers are in negotiation with Cambridge Scholars Publishers who has expressed interest in the publication.





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 fulfil 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:



·         active (intended or unintended) audience practices vis-à-vis public service contents;

·         public uses of public service media platforms;

·         public service aggregators of user agency;

·         user generated public service content;

·         user folksonomies, collaborative tagging in the context of public service content;

·         gaming in the public service framework;

·         Crossmedia, cross-genre initiatives for mobile and digital media receiver (XBox, etc.) platforms for public service content;

·         new forms of public service funding via microdonations and further ways;

·         uses of public service contents and platforms overlapping with e-politics, e-health, e-education, etc. platforms.





There is no fee for attending the symposium. Refreshments and lunch will be provided.



The deadline for submission of abstracts is March 26th, 2012. All abstracts should be submitted via e-mail to:  Ferenc Hammer (f.hammer73 /at/ canterbury.ac.uk)



http://www.canterbury.ac.uk/arts-humanities/MediaArtAndDesign/Events/Home.aspx<http://www.canterbury.ac.uk/arts-humanities/MediaArtAndDesign/Events/Home.aspx>



For further information please contact:

Dr. Ferenc Hammer

Associate, Visiting Research Fellow

Department for Media, Art and Design, CCCU

(f.hammer73 /at/ canterbury.ac.uk)






Dr Agnes Gulyas
Principal Lecturer
Department of Media
Canterbury Christ Church University
North Holmes Road
Canterbury
CT1 1QU
Tel: 01227-782907
Email: (agnes.gulyas /at/ canterbury.ac.uk)


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