[Commlist] CFP: Media Industries 2020: Global Currents and Contradictions

*Final week reminder: deadline for submissions 16 September 2019*

Media Industries 2020: Global Currents and Contradictions
16-18 April 2020   King’s College London
media-industries.org

Second international Media Industries conference, hosted by the 
Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries, King’s College London

Following the success of Media Industries: Current Debates and Future 
Directions (2018) we are pleased to announce the next Media Industries 
conference will take place in April 2020.
Media Industries 2020 (MI2020) maintains an open intellectual agenda, 
inviting papers, panels or workshops exploring the full breadth of media 
industries, in contemporary and historical contexts, and from all 
traditions of media industries scholarship. MI2020 will therefore 
provide a meeting ground for all forms of media industries research.

As a specialized focus, the 2020 conference takes Global Currents and 
Contradictions as its coordinating theme. In media industries 
scholarship, repeated attention to a few key territories, frequently but 
not exclusively located in the Global North, has concentrated but also 
limited the scope of the field. In choosing the theme Global Currents 
and Contradictions, we are therefore particularly interested in 
receiving submissions engaging with industries, contexts and bodies of 
research that represent, extend or challenge the geographic reach of the 
field. To headline this theme, a programme of keynote speakers will be 
announced in due course.

PARTNERS
A core aim of the Media Industries conference is to bring together 
scholars researching media industries from across multiple professional 
associations and their relevant sub-groups or sections.
The Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King’s 
College London is therefore very pleased to be organizing MI2020 in 
partnership with:
•	British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS) - 
Screen Industries Special Interest Group
•	European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) - 
Media Industries and Cultural Production Section
•	European Media Management Association (EMMA)
•	European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS) - Screen 
Industries Work Group
•	Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft (GFM) - AG Medienindustrien
•	Global Media and China journal
•	International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM)
•	International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) 
- Media Production Analysis Working Group
•	International Communication Association (ICA) - Media Industry Studies 
Interest Group
•	Media Industries journal
•	Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) - Media Industries 
Scholarly Interest Group
•	South Asia Communication Association (SACA)
 HOST COMMITTEE
For King’s College London: Sarah Atkinson, Bridget Conor, Virginia 
Crisp, Sonal Kantaria (conference administrator), Wing-Fai Leung, Paul 
McDonald (conference chair), Jeanette Steemers and Jaap Verheul

ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Deb Aikat (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Courtney 
Brannon Donoghue (University of North Texas), Hanne Bruun (Aarhus 
Universitet), Evan Elkins (Colorado State University), Elizabeth Evans 
(University of Nottingham), Tom Evens (Universiteit Gent), Franco 
Fabbri, Anthony Fung (Chinese University of Hong Kong), David 
Hesmondhalgh (University of Leeds), Catherine Johnson (University of 
Huddersfield), Derek Johnson (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Ramon 
Lobato (RMIT University), Skadi Loist (Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad 
Wolf), Amanda Lotz (Queensland University of Technology), Alfred Martin 
(University of Iowa), Jack Newsinger (University of Nottingham), Sora 
Park (University of Canberra), Alisa Perren (University of 
Texas-Austin), Steve Presence (University of the West of England), Roel 
Puijk (Høgskolen i Innlandet), Willemien Sanders (Universiteit Utrecht), 
Kevin Sanson (Queensland University of Technology), Andrew Spicer 
(University of the West of England), Petr Szczepanik (Univerzita 
Karlova), Harsh Taneja (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), 
Patrick Vonderau (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg), Anna 
Zoellner (University of Leeds)

REGISTRATION
Registration for the conference will go live in mid-November 2019. Fees 
will be published then and will be tiered according to the delegate’s 
country of residence using the World Bank’s country classifications by 
Gross National Income per capita.

SUBMISSIONS
To submit, see the ‘Submission Instructions’ and accompanying link at 
https://media-industries.org.

Deadline
Submissions will be accepted until 16 September 2019 at 23.00hrs British 
Summer Time (BST) (please note: BST is Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) 
+ 1 hour)

Submission Categories
Submissions are welcomed in three categories.

i.	Open Call Papers
Format: solo or co-presented research paper lasting no more than 20mins.

ii.	Pre-constituted Panels
Format: 90mins panel of 3 x 20mins OR 4 x 15mins thematically linked 
solo or co-presented research papers followed by questions.

iii.	Pre-constituted Workshops
Format: 90mins interactive forum led by 4 to 6 x 6mins thematically 
linked informal presentations. Led by a chair or co-chairs, workshops 
adopt a roundtable format bringing together 4 to 6 speakers to offer 
short (up to 6 minute) position statements or interventions designed to 
trigger discussions around a central theme, issue, or problem. As such, 
the workshop does not involve the presentation of formal research 
papers, but rather is designed to create a forum for the speakers and 
the audience to engage in a shared discussion. The workshop format is 
flexible and can be adapted to allow the chair or co-chairs to introduce 
exercises or other activities where appropriate.
Delegates can make TWO contributions to the conference but only ONE in 
any category, i.e. presenting an open call paper and participating in a 
workshop will be permitted but presenting two open call papers will not 
be. Chairing a panel or organizing a workshop will NOT count as a 
contribution.


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