[ecrea] Flow Conference 2018 Call for Questions

Flow 2018: Precarity, Preservation, Praxis


The 2018 Flow conference will be held September 27-29, 2018. At the 2016 
conference, we celebrated Flow’s 10th anniversary by looking back to 
consider the changes in television and new media over the last decade. 
This year, we want to extend that line of thinking and consider how we 
preserve, consume, and create the media of the past, present, and future.


Flow has encouraged scholars to identify and engage with historical and 
contemporary trends and developments within media culture. Continuing 
this proud tradition, the conference welcomes questions addressing key 
issues on the changing landscape of television and new media studies. 
With the casualization of labor and the instability of the job market, 
precarity has become an increasingly pressing issue for both the media 
industries and the academy. Equally precarious is the state of 
preservation, as the production and circulation of media content 
outstrips the resources and workforce assigned to preserve it. Woven 
throughout and between precarity and preservation is praxis, the ways in 
which labor, strategy, and skill are marshalled to combat these threats 
in the industry and in academia. As such, this year's conference focuses 
on the intersections of and flows between precarity, preservation, and 
praxis.


We especially welcome questions that will generate conversation around 
the following topics:

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    Access & archives

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    Authorship & authority

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    History & materiality

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    Labor & compensation

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    Pedagogy & praxis

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    Policy & politics

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    Identity & nationality

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    Transcultural flows & borders

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    Precarity & professionalization

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    Technology & ephemerality


Each year, we request that participants send in questions that engage 
the topics above, as well as those we may have overlooked. Once 
selected, the questions will be posed to the Flow community for 
responses. Based on those responses, we will select panelists for each 
question and invite them to prepare position papers to be posted online 
and discussed at the conference.


For examples of previous questions, please review questions posed for 
Flow 2016: 
http://www.flowjournal.org/flow-conference-2016/flow-2016-conference-schedule/ 
<http://www.flowjournal.org/flow-conference-2016/flow-2016-conference-schedule/>

Questions must be submitted by Friday, February 23, 2018.
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