[ecrea] YouTube Conference CFP

YouTube Conference: Call for Papers

23/4 September 2016, Middlesex University, The Burroughs, Hendon, London.
Keynote speaker: Professor Jean Burgess

Please send an abstract of 350 words plus a short bio of 100 words for 
single papers or 500 words and individual bios for group panels by email 
attachment to (youtube /at/ mdx.ac.uk).
Deadline for receipt of abstracts is 4 April 2016.

YouTube has just passed its tenth birthday and it is timely to review 
not only how it has changed in that time, but also its wider influence. 
 By focusing on YouTube as a platform we want to draw together research 
that is distributed across disciplines to help cross-fertilise knowledge 
about YouTube and its users, and to identity the research questions and 
methods that best capture its ever-expanding reach, impact and 
significance.  We plan to include a panel of industry insiders to offer 
insights into possible futures in the light of current developments 
alongside the academic papers which we now invite you to propose.

Keynote Address

Professor Burgess will consider how YouTube and the broader online video 
environment have changed in the past decade, and what its competing 
futures look like. She will also discuss how we might learn to recognise 
such patterns of change empirically, and the key methodological 
approaches to studying the co-evolution of proprietary digital media 
platforms and their cultures of use over time.

Possible questions to address (but not limited to these):

How has the institutionalisation of YouTube changed its nature?
Has YouTube accelerated processes of media convergence and transformation?
What is the changing relationship of television to YouTube?
How have production techniques and practices developed as the platform 
matured?
What communities of practice have been influential in the development of 
YouTube norms?
How has the development of new aesthetic forms been enabled by YouTube?
What innovations in performance and modes of address can be detected on 
YouTube?
To what degree do YouTube’s affordances operate as a social medium?
What new forms of celebrity and fandom have emerged on YouTube and why?
What wider social, cultural and political changes can be attributed to 
YouTube’s influence?
Why do we need to regulate the corporate power of YouTube’s owners Google?
Is YouTube a positive space for self realisation and expression of 
marginalised identities?
How do concerns over data harvesting and privacy apply to YouTube?
How have conflicts over rights affected the monetization of YouTube 
activities?
What potential does YouTube have as a repository of curated archives?
What are the genres that have thrived on YouTube and what wider 
significance does this have?  (e.g. education, journalism, advertising 
and marketing,  campaigning and propaganda,  entertainment, documentary, 
 drama, comedy and parody, how to ...)
Is the development of specific apps for Music, Kids and Gaming a 
significant new trend?
What research methods are used to study YouTube? What are their 
strengths and weaknesses?

Conference organisation team:
Professor Jane Arthurs
Dr Alessandro Gandini
Dr Paul Kerr
Nicola Skinner

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