[ecrea] CFP: 2016 Challenging Media Landscapes Conference: Access, Participation and the Mediatised World

*2016 Challenging Media Landscapes Conference*

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*/Access, Participation and the Mediatised World/*

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*CALL FOR PAPERS AND PANELS: SUBMISSION DEADLINE WED 29 JUNE*

*SUBMIT PROPOSALS TO: **(artdes-cmlabstracts /at/ salford.ac.uk).*

Conference date: 14-15 November 2016

Venue:  MediacityUK, Salford, Manchester.

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*KEYNOTE SPEAKERS*

Professor Christian Fuchs (University of Westminster, UK)

Professor William Uricchio (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)

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*Access, Participation and the Mediatised World*

In a world replete with media networks, content and services delivered 
through traditional and newer wired and wireless environments, the 
opportunities for access to, and participation in, media are seemingly 
proliferative. The accessible and inclusive nature of media is often 
emphasised and celebrated strongly by commercial players and 
governmental interests, as well as a considerable number of academic 
voices. Others, hailing from academia and civil society quarters, whilst 
recognising the accessibility and participative affordances of media 
environments, also point to serious deficiencies.

Whilst some endorse strongly the ease of access and participation in 
media environments driven by commerciality, others point  to a perceived 
devaluation of public service media of various kinds. Whilst some herald 
the existence of diversity of supply of content and point to a plurality 
of voices engaged in rich, vibrant and challenging exchange, others are 
concerned by a lack of variety of content beyond the mainstream, as well 
as the latter’s marginalisation despite network expansion. Whilst some 
are enthused by the increased creative agency that the digital landscape 
affords media users, others are critical of the imbalanced power 
structures within participatory cultures that typically result in media 
corporations exploiting users' labour. The increased technological 
sophistication and capability of easily accessible media environments 
celebrated by some, stands in contrast to concerns over network 
security, including covert intrusion into, and surveillance of, online 
mediatised environments leading to concerns over the quality of 
participatory life in a mediatised world. Yet again, the activism of a 
wealth of civil society groups and other alternative voices to the 
‘mainstream’  - arts organisations, those campaigning for participative 
rights of various kinds; and media industry reform campaigners to 
mention but a few -  points to uneasiness with the idea of a fully 
accessible and participative media system, as well the role and 
potential of these voices as agents for change.

This conference calls for individual papers and themed panels which 
engage critically with these ideas and approaches. We welcome a range of 
work which might be conceptual and theoretical, ‘applied’ subject 
focused, practice-as-research, or advocacy based, in orientation. We are 
interested in papers in -  or across - following broad areas and themes:

·Access, participation and gender

·Access, participation and ethnicity and diversity

·Access and participatory approaches and experiences in television

·Access to, and participation in, social media environments

·Journalism (encompassing citizen journalism; literary journalism, and 
journalism as a participative practice)

·Access to, and participation in, media and cultural policy processes

·Access to, and participation in, media education practice

·Participatory digital cultures and the Web

·Participatory approaches in film making

·Computer and videogames and participation

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*Conference Panel Session Proposals*

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Proposals for subject panels are invited in any of the above areas. Your 
proposal should be no more than 500 words long and submitted in Word 
document format by Wed 29 June 2016 to:

(artdes-cmlabstracts /at/ salford.ac.uk).

The panel proposal should  include an indication of the topics to be 
covered by each speaker (including a draft title of each presentation, 
if possible). Panels should comprise 3-4 participants.

Proposals should give the names, institutional affiliations and email 
addresses of all panel speakers. You will be notified of acceptance by 
Tuesday 12 July, 2016.


*Individual Conference Abstract Proposals*

Abstracts of no more than 400 words should be submitted in Word document 
format by Wed  29 June 2016 to:

(artdes-cmlabstracts /at/ salford.ac.uk).

Your abstract should address one of the above themes and have a separate 
cover sheet providing your name(s), institutional affiliation(s) and 
e-mail address(es). You will be notified of acceptance by Tuesday 12 
July, 2016. Full papers are due no later than 1 November, 2016.

Details on booking registration and accommodation options will follow on 
acceptance of your proposal.

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*For further enquiries, contact:*

Seamus Simpson,
Professor of Media Policy,
University of Salford,
MediaCityUK,
Salford Quays,
Salford.
Manchester M502HE

Email: (s.simpson /at/ salford.ac.uk) <mailto:(s.simpson /at/ salford.ac.uk)>


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