[Commlist] CFP: International Conference_Subscription video-on-demand in East Asia

Call for papers for International Conference

Subscription video-on-demand in East Asia: Its impact on regional 
production and distribution of media contents

Date: 13-15 December 2019
Place: Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto Japan

Conveners
Shinji Oyama
Professor at College of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University, 
Kyoto

Yu-Kei Tse
Assistant Professor at Department of Society, Culture and Media, 
International Christian University, Tokyo

Keynote Speaker
Ramon Lobato
Senior Research Fellow, School of Media and Communication, RMIT 
University, Melbourne, Australia

Author of Netflix Nations: The Geography of Digital Distribution (NYU 
Press, 2019) and Shadow Economies of Cinema: Mapping Informal Film 
Distribution (Bloomsbury, 2012)

(Other speakers to be confirmed)

The theme of the conference
We are pleased to announce the call for papers for the international 
conference focusing on Subscription Video-on-demand in East Asia, an 
event to be held at Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan on 13-15 
December 2019.

In recent years streaming television services have been increasing in 
number and diversity worldwide. Specifically, many subscription 
video-on-demand (SVOD) services have endeavoured to produce their 
original content and/or expanding into regional and international 
markets. Such ongoing development has challenged industrial practices in 
production and distribution of television on national, regional and 
global scales. How can we account for these evolving industrial dynamics 
of global internet television?

Focusing on the East Asian cultural contexts, this international 
conference seeks to better understand the emerging ecology of 
internet-distributed television – SVODs in particular – in East Asia. We 
invite submission of proposals that investigate the development of this 
ecology and its implications for the content production and distribution 
on national and regional levels. We are interested in questions such as: 
which SVODs are popular in respective markets? What kinds of business 
models do they employ and why? To what extent Netflix may challenge the 
local media industries in East Asia? What kinds of online television 
portals other than SVODs are emerging? How do content producers and 
distributors across East Asia respond to the changing industrial 
conditions? With these concerns in mind, possible topics for the 
proposals include, but are not limited to:

•   Overview of the national or regional ecology of internet-distributed 
television in East Asia
•   Popularity and unpopularity of Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and other 
local and transnational SVODs in East Asia
•   Impact of Netflix on content production, distribution, and 
consumption in specific East Asian markets
•   Business models of SVODs or other internet television portals
•   The infrastructural and market conditions of SVOD services in 
respective East Asian markets
•   National and transnational policy debates on content distribution, 
local content quotas, censorship, taxes, etc.
•   The regulations in different territories regarding SVOD and other 
online television services
•   International collaboration of content production between East Asian 
countries and regions
•   Changing conditions in television trades and licensing
•   Public debates about domestic audiences’ preferences for local and 
foreign television content
•   Difficulties and opportunities provided by SVODs and other online 
television services for local productions
•   De-westernizing media industry studies on SVODs and other online 
television services
•   Online piracy of media content and the international intellectual 
property system
•   Aesthetic or narrative analysis of television programs developed for 
Netflix or other local or international online portals
•   Production and commission of original content for SVODs and other 
online portals
•   The cultural and social position of national broadcast television in 
the changing media ecology in respective East Asian countries/regions

Submission
The title and abstract (up to 300 words) together with a short bio of 
the author(s) in English (or Japanese) should be submitted to 
(cfp.svodsinasia /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(cfp.svodsinasia /at/ gmail.com)> by 1 
September 2019 (subject heading: SVODs in Asia). The decision on the 
submission will be announced around 15 September 2019.

Inquiries
For all inquiries, please contact us via (cfp.svodinasia /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(cfp.svodinasia /at/ gmail.com)>
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