[ecrea] Call for Papers: Media and Transgression, International Conference at Lund University

*Call for Papers: Media and Transgression, International Conference at
Lund University*

Department of Communication and Media, Lund University, Sweden, *March
17th 2016*. Organisers Annette Hill, Michael Rübsamen, Tina Askanius and
Jose Luis Urueta.

Transgression is all about breaking the rules. Media and transgression
is a broad topic within which to critically examine rule breaking across
cultural industries, aesthetics, form and cross media content, and
production, participation and reception contexts. Transgression is about
people’s capacity to break the rules, to disturb and subvert political
and cultural institutions, to create and remix content, struggle over
meanings and produce new forms of political and self-expression. To that
end, transgression is about power, the power of elites and non-elites,
systemic and symbolic power, and the power of human agency within media,
society and culture.

This conference considers media and transgression in relation to the
following areas of enquiry: political transgression, for example social
movements, activism, and subversive politics; informal media economies,
including piracy policies, discourses and practices; cross media
content, form and aesthetics, such as hybrid genres, taboo topics,
mashup and remix cultures; and transgressive roles, for example the
blurred boundaries of witness-perpetrator, producer-user, fans and
anti-fans, audiences and publics within media and society.

The research questions include:

1.What are the various ways we can conceptualise and critically examine
transgression within media, society and culture?

2.What are the power relations at work in political and cultural
transgression?

3.How are media and cultural industries responding to informal and
formal media economies?

4.In what ways can we address the methodological and ethical challenges
of researching transgression?

These research questions can be applied to different approaches to
research on media and transgression within media, communication and
cultural studies, media history, film studies, sociology of media and
culture, political communication, anthropology, and cultural geography,
amongst others. The aim is to provide a platform for international
scholars from various disciplines to debate the complex issues at work
in understanding the theories, processes and practices of media and
transgression.

The schedule includes a combination of keynote addresses,
pre-constituted panels, and open panels. Confirmed keynote speakers
include Professor John Corner (Leeds University, UK), Professor Joke
Hermes (In Holland University, Netherlands), Professor Ernest Mathjis
(University of British Columbia, Canada) and Professor Kay Richardson
(Liverpool University, UK). Other invited speakers include Professor
Nico Carpentier (Uppsala University, Sweden), Professor Annette Hill
(Lund University, Sweden), Professor Paul McDonald (Kings College, UK),
Professor Bo Reimer (Malmö University, Sweden) and Dr Jane Roscoe
(Director of the London Film School).

Please submit an abstract of 300 words in English by *December 11th
2015* to the conference email: (jose.luis_urueta /at/ kom.lu.se)
<mailto:(jose.luis_urueta /at/ kom.lu.se)>. For further information please
consult our website _www.kom.lu.se_There is a registration fee of 750
SEK (80 Euros) that covers food and drink for the day and an evening
buffet.__




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