[Commlist] 14th Dubrovnik Media Days cfp

14th Dubrovnik Media Days is international scientific conference 
organised by Department of Mass Communication, University of Dubrovnik 
(CROATIA), in association with Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. It 
will be held in beautiful city of Dubrovnik, October 25-26, 2019. This 
year’s topic is New media formats: Television.

The digital age has brought a new interactive practice of media 
consumption. The media matrix is changing in such a way that not only 
the boundaries between the media are deleted, but also those between 
producers, distributors and consumers. The industry adapts to the new 
technological opportunities and needs of the audience. The proliferation 
of television channels and the transformation of television from mass 
media into the niche media are in progress. The process of proliferation 
not only enhances the struggle for the user, but also inevitably 
jeopardizes one of the basic prerequisites of the prominent influence of 
public service on the national community - the mass reach of a 
particular television channel in the national context.

The tectonic twists and turns of what television is now experiencing 
reaffirms the reflections on multilevel scientific approaches to the 
study of television, which is in line with its prismatic nature and 
constant change of the media, culture and overall social matrix within 
which it operates. The first question is: how does the television tell 
stories? Second: What are the relationship between the stories we have 
on television to the societies and cultures in which they arise 
(including, of course, all the stories in which stories are produced, 
not just those that produced them)? And thirdly, why television? The 
third question will be crucial and it opens up a whole new set of 
questions that will help scientists from many disciplines explain why 
television continues to be so significant.

The following might be considered:
•How small nations try to build and preserve their own cultural identity 
in the context of the general internationalization of television media? 
Do they succeed?
•Is it possible to build both: local/national and global television and 
multimedia brands at the same time? Why brand matter more than ever?
•Television and Politics: Enhanced TV formats, Medialization of Politics 
and (re)shaping a Public Opinion and Political Processes.
•What new relationships are created between television text, audience, 
technology, and production practices in the post-broadcast era?
•How did television genres change and adapt in an era where television 
production is more abundant than ever?
•Which re-positioning of television genres brings media convergence and 
mobile and nonlinear television?
•What knowledge a modern television practitioner should have?
•Is television still our primary source of "ontological security" and 
"transition object" as Roger Silverstone discovered at the end of the 
twentieth century? Do they change our rituals associated with the 
television?
•What are the consequences of the transition from gatekeeper to 
curatorial culture?
•What are the consequences of the predominance of audiovisual content on 
all distribution platforms over textual content? Will we stop reading? 
Will that dominance change our culture?
•Why we love television?

These issues require an interdisciplinary approach that offers a synergy 
of anthropology, sociology, psychology, communication studies 
(especially television studies which are interdisciplinary by default), 
political science, economics and marketing. The combination of knowledge 
from all of these disciplines can provide a scientific breakthrough and 
create a broader insight into the complexity of elements that make up 
the modern forms of television.

Please send us up to 400 word abstract along with your paper title and a 
short biographical note indicating your current affiliation to 
(dmd /at/ unidu.hr) <mailto:(dmd /at/ unidu.hr)>

Deadline for submission of proposals: May 25, 2019

Deadline for full paper submission: October 15, 2019

Notifications of acceptance will be sent by June 10th, 2019, to the 
email address provided in the proposal.

Conference language: English.

Conference venue:
University of Dubrovnik
Branitelja Dubrovnika 41
20000 Dubrovnik, Croatia

The conference fee is 50€. This includes refreshments and dinner on 
Friday (25th).
Please note: the conference fee does not include accommodation and 
travel expenses.

Selected conference papers will be published in the special issue of the 
journal Collegium Antropologicum (Scopus).

For further information, please contact: Ivan Tanta ((ivan.tanta /at/ net.hr) 
<mailto:(ivan.tanta /at/ net.hr)>) or Davor Pauković ((davor.paukovic /at/ unidu.hr) 
<mailto:(davor.paukovic /at/ unidu.hr)>)


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