[ecrea] CFP: Reality Television Conference – July 5-6, 2013 (Bournemouth Uni).

CFP: Reality Television: Media Convergences and Narrative Futures 
Conference – July 5-6, 2013.

CALL for papers – extended deadline – Tuesday 28th May

The Media School – Bournemouth University – UK

Organisers: Dr Christopher Pullen & Dr Peri Bradley

Conference page;

http://media.bournemouth.ac.uk/about/events/2013/apr/ev002-reality-television-conference.html

Proposals are invited for papers (of 20 minutes length) considering the 
contemporary potential of reality television for an academic media 
conference held by The Media School in Bournemouth University, at 
Kimmeridge House on Talbot Campus. There will be no registration fees 
for accepted papers. Confirmed plenary speakers include:

    *

      Professor Stella Bruzzi of the University of Warwick - author of 
New Documentary (Routledge 2006)
    *

      Dr Deborah Jermyn, Reader at the University of Roehampton - 
co-editor of Understanding Reality Television (Routledge 2003)
    *

      Professor Helen Wood of DeMontfort University – co-author of 
Reacting to Reality Television: Performance, Audience and Value 
(Routledge 2012) and co-editor of Reality Television and Class (Palgrave 
2011)


The conference places a particular focus on issues of media convergence 
and narrative innovation. Proposals for the conference may involve a 
purely academic focus involving textual investigation, such as 
considering media narratives, representations, cultures and/or 
audiences. Also proposals are invited which might consider issues within 
creative practice or industry. A published edited collection is planned, 
to include a range of papers that will be presented at the event.

With the rise of reality television formats, which involve media 
convergent opportunities, such as connecting to mobile technologies, and 
involving increased distribution through web based downloading, 
alongside an increased interest and popularity in the use of scripted 
reality formats, this conference offers an innovative chance to share 
research interests, intersecting contemporary television, new media and 
narrative potentials.

General topics could include:

Convergent media technologies

Multiplatform textual innovations

Contemporary narrative forms

Realism and the hyper-real

Issues of identity

The politics of representation

Potentials for minority groups

Theories of intimacy and affect

As a small example, texts that could form possible case studies include:

Community celebrity: The Hills (MTV) - The Only Way is Essex (ITV)

Talent searches: The XFactor (ITV) - The Glee Project (Oxygen)

Relationships & dating: Playing in Straight (Channel 4) – Temptation 
Island (Fox)

Historical recreation: The 1900 House (Channel 4) – Pioneer Quest (CBC)

Personal makeover: The Swan (Fox) – Queer Eye for the Straight Guy (Bravo)

Food & domesticity: Come Dine with Me (Channel 4) – The Chew (ABC)

Education & otherness / addiction: The Undateables (Channel 4) 
Intervention (A & E)

Domestic audiences: Gogglebox (Channel 4)


Please send abstracts (of 200 words length) and a biography, indicating 
any technical requirements for the delivery of your paper, byTuesday 
28th of May 2013 to Chris ((cpullen /at/ bournemouth.ac.uk)) and Peri 
((pbradley /at/ bournemouth.ac.uk) ) Decisions will be made by Friday 31st of 
May 2013

Conference page

http://media.bournemouth.ac.uk/about/events/2013/apr/ev002-reality-television-conference.html


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Associate Professor Tania Lewis
Vice Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow
School of Media & Communication
RMIT University
Building 36.3.7 City Campus
GPO Box 2476, Melbourne VIC 3001
Australia

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fax: +61 3 9639 1685
email: (tania.lewis /at/ rmit.edu.au)

web: www.rmit.edu.au/staff/tania-lewis
        www.telemodernities.org/

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