[Commlist] Call for Papers: International Symposium on Documentary Film Mutations

Call for Papers: International Symposium on *Documentary Film Mutations*

Documentary Film Mutations: International Symposium at the School of 
Fine Arts (Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain) on *4-5 July* 2019.

Deadline for Submission of Abstracts: *6th May* 2019.

Throughout the first two decades of this century, and thanks to the 
potentialities of emerging digital technologies, the documentary film 
genre has experimented relevant changes in its aim of filming the 
reality and its communication to the society. New forms of 
representation, strategies of communication, participation, 
mobilization, and methodologies for the evaluation of its social impact 
have emerged over this period. Therefore, nowadays it seems necessary to 
read the documentary film in relation with its synergies with (i) 
emerging fields related to digital media, such as social media and big 
data; and (ii) complementary forms of representation like animation, 
immersive experiences or interactive platforms. In this vein, this 
symposium invites contributions that examine the interaction between 
documentary films and digital media focusing on those cases in which the 
documentary process seeks to report human rights violations and social 
injustices. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) how the 
documentary film is currently taking vantages of digital media 
opportunities for this purpose:

- Animated documentary: the representation of the real through the 
animation.

- Web-documentary (interactive documentary)

- Transmedia practices (documentary production coordinate with social 
media campaigns)

- Methodologies of evaluation of the social impact of documentary films 
through social media analytics (quantitative and qualitative methodologies).

- Strategies of data visualization, interactive platforms and 
documentary films

- Immersive documentaries and VR film-making: the reconstruction of the 
reality through virtual 3D environments.

Please send your abstract (500 words), title and selected bibliography 
along with 150-300 words author short bio (including your affiliation 
and contact information) to Fernando Canet ((fercacen /at/ upv.es)) by 6 May 
2019, at the latest.

The symposium is organized by Dr. Fernando Canet (Department of Media 
Communication, Information System and Art History, Polytechnic 
University of Valencia) and Dr. Sergio Villanueva (Department of 
Library, Information and Communication Science, University of 
Barcelona), and supported by the ECREA Film Studies Section.

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