[ecrea] CFP: The politics of expertise in media and cultural research

*Call for papers: The Politics of Expertise in Media and Cultural Research*

In cultural research, any mentions of experts or expertise usually refer 
to art critics (Bourdieu, 1996), art collectors (Braden, 2015), cultural 
intermediaries (Prince, 2010) or consultants (Prince, 2014). In media 
and cultural research as a whole, including the works cited, the idea of 
the expert and expertise itself is not explored in great depth. Yet, 
being known as an expert is crucial to ensure regular work in a 
precarious and competitive cultural labour market. What does expertise 
mean to cultural and media workers? In what ways, and where, do cultural 
and media workers perform expertise? How can we, as cultural 
researchers, explore and conceptualise expertise?

The Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research (BCMCR) at 
Birmingham City University hosts this informal symposium aimed at 
putting expertise firmly on the research agenda. We encourage 
submissions from all areas of media and cultural research, and invite 
participants to discuss how the idea of expertise pertains to their 
research.

Topics may include (but are not limited to):

·Expertise in cultural policy making

·Questions of expertise, professionalism and amateurism

·Expertise and new media

·Expertise and gender

·Expertise and race

·Expertise and class

·Expertise in cultural institutions

·The performance of expertise

·Interrogating technological expertise

·Expertise and celebrity

·Experts in the media

·Art and aesthetic expertise

·Theorising expertise

·Experts in media history

Presentations need to be no more than 15 minutes long. Please send a 
short abstract of no more than 200 words and a biography to 
(karen.patel /at/ bcu.ac.uk) <mailto:(karen.patel /at/ bcu.ac.uk)> by Friday 30 
September 2016. The symposium will take place on Wednesday 30 November 2016.

Karen Patel

PhD researcher in social media and cultural work

Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research

Birmingham City University

https://twitter.com/KarenPatel

http://karenpatelresearch.wordpress.com/

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