[ecrea] Conference: Film, media and social engagement in the digital age

Conference
Film, media and social engagement in the digital age
19.10.13-20.10.13
University of Toronto

Extended Deadline - 15 September 2013

An interdisciplinary conference for researchers and practitioners

The call for papers has been extended, so you still have time to send your abstract.

Our goal is to create a broad debate, emphasizing the need to evaluate the increasing use of digital screens in contemporary society and how people and countries are dealing with their own image, identity and digital cultural space both artistic and social and political. The Conference aims to examine and question the differences in digital practices among several countries, the responses from the global society, and the possibilities and future strategies arising by digital culture.

The consumerism of digital screens and their use in contemporary society is growing fast and getting more significance than ever. Social media increasingly play a key role in major cities acting as an alternative source of information to the mainstream media, and even as a free platform for public assemblies often replacing the physical spaces of associations, cooperatives and cultural centers. During the recent public demonstrations that recently invaded the streets of Brazil, or even during political protests in countries such as Turkey and Egypt, social media served as an important strategy for social resistance and political demonstration.??Film and media practitioners and educators have been expanding the use of digital through new experiences with unusual and innovative technical and artistic "approaches", as well as researchers and academics are questioning and analyzing these new practices, which are increasingly dominating global society.

How people and countries are dealing with the advent of new technologies reflects social problems and makes us deepen the debate on issues such as our own identity and the state of research conducted in these countries.

How countries are acting towards this new phenomena? Does globalization standardized the use of new media?

The following key topics will be emphasized during the conference:

1. Film, Media and New Technologies: History, Theory, and Methodology?

2. Film and Digital Screen Aesthetics?

3. Analogical versus Digital

4. Film and Digital Animation?

5. Games: Narrative and Interactivity?

6. Challenges and New Perspectives in Audiovisual Production?

7. International Co-Production, Third Parties and the Process of Globalization of
    National Cinemas?

8. Internet and Streaming Video?

9. Hacktivism?

10. Digital Art and Literature (eBooks, eReaders)?

11. Social Media Engagement (Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Orkut)


SUBMITTING PROPOSALS:
Abstract (250 words maximum) and Brief Bio-CV (100 words maximum) by September 15th.

Send your proposal (tobrafftvconference /at/ gmail.com)



BRAFFTV Film and Media Conference 2013

Organizing Committee

Ricardo Sternberg (Department of Spanish&  Portuguese, University of Toronto)

Hudson Moura (Department of Spanish&  Portuguese, University of Toronto)

Regina Cunha (UFRN-Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte)



Sponsors

BRAFFTV-Brazilian Film and Television of Toronto

Department of Spanish&  Portuguese, University of Toronto

Department of Communication, UFRN-Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte



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