[ecrea] Call for Papers on Television, MPCA/ACA, Conference October 3-5 2014

CALL FOR PAPERS ON TELEVISION


Midwest Popular Culture/American Culture Association 2014 Conference


Oct. 3-5, 2014

JW Marriot Indianapolis in Indianapolis, IN
10 S. West St., Indianapolis, IN 46204
Phone: (317) 860-5800 <file://localhost/tel/%2528317%2529%2520860-5800>.

The Television area of the Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest 
American Culture Association is now accepting proposals for its 2014 
conference in Indianapolis, Indiana. We are looking for papers that 
examine any aspect of television, from any time period, and using any 
number of methods. Potential topics for paper or panel proposals 
include, but are not limited to:

   * The impact of online distribution and streaming and the rise of
     Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon as producers of original programming
   * The intersections between television and social media, from
     hashtags to live-tweeting
   * The representations of gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity,
     and class and economics
   * The increasing discourse surrounding the showrunner as an auteur
     figure
   * The "return" of miniseries and event series programming
   * The role of remakes, reboots, spin-offs, adaptations, and franchises
   * The trends in less "quality" genres and formats: talk shows, soap
     operas, morning TV

Please submit a paper abstract of 250 words or a panel proposal 
including short abstracts and titles of each prospective paper to the 
"Television" area on the MPCA/ACA Submission website 
(submissions.mpcaaca.org <http://submissions.mpcaaca.org>). We strongly 
encourage pre-constituted panel submissions. Please know that you will 
need to register to the website in order to submit a proposal. Please do 
not submit the same item to more than one Area.


Include name, affiliation, address, and e-mail address of each 
author/participant. You must specify any AV and any special scheduling 
needs with your proposal. MPCA/ACA can provide an LCD projector for 
presentations.

If you have any questions about submissions to the Television area, 
please contact area chair Cory Barker at (barkerc /at/ indiana.edu) 
<mailto:(barkerc /at/ indiana.edu)>.

Further information about the conference and the Midwest Popular 
Culture/American Culture Association is available at: http://www.mpcaaca.org

Please note the availability of graduate student travel grants: 
http://mpcaaca.org/about/grants.html


--
Cory Barker
Graduate Student
Department of Communication and Culture
Indiana University
twitter.com/corybarker <http://twitter.com/corybarker>
(765) 499-0080
(barkerc65 /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(barkerc65 /at/ gmail.com)>