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[Commlist] cfp Virtual Space and Interactivity in Streaming Media within Transnational Contexts

Thu Jun 29 21:24:10 GMT 2023




We are pleased to invite you to our conference, ‘Virtual Space and Interactivity in Streaming Media within Transnational Contexts’ on Friday, 7 July 2023 at Avenue Campus (LTB), University of Southampton.

The widespread proliferation and expansion of streaming media networks over the early decades of the 21st century have inarguably had an impact on the nature of international film markets, distribution models and spectatorship practices. A number of video-on-demand organisations including /Netflix/, /BFI Player/ and /Criterion/ have been commended for providing new opportunities for films from niche subgenres and under-represented communities to reach wide global audiences. The ease-of-access of streaming media circuits have also been said to facilitate cultural dialogue and exchange, as they open new channels for the circulation of cinematic texts past and present across international borders. Yet, this utopian viewpoint is complicated by the number of issues that the dominance of streaming media in the current cinematic landscape raises in practice. To what extent do services like /Netflix/ represent a rupture from traditional business models and to what extent do they merely perpetuate existing systems? Are streaming services simply offering a way for cinematic texts to circulate across different cultures while still retaining their rich, culturally specific qualities, or are they placing pressure on film production companies to conform to pre-existing models in order to allow for easy consumption by a wide range of audiences across the globe? What impact has the massive expansion of Western streaming services had on more small-scale streaming platforms, particularly those targeted at a more niche regional audience? How have international streaming services responded to the censorship regulations of individual nation-states?

This hybrid one-day eventaims to provide a substantial contribution to these scholarly debates, enriching our collective understanding of streaming services and their impact on the transnational film industry. The conference will contain two panels, followed by a roundtable discussion. In addition, we are excited to announce that we have invited Prof.Matthew Freeman (Bath Spa University) as our keynote speaker. A press editor from Palgrave will also attend our conference for the following publishing plan. More details are available on ourwebsite <https://sites.google.com/view/streamingmediasoton2023/home>.

This event is sponsored by the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS), the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and the Department of Film, University of Southampton. This event is open to professional academics, early career researchers, doctoral students, and independent scholars. We encourage students interested in any aspect of streaming media, digital culture, interactive media, or transmedia to attend. You are welcome to register for the conferencehere<https://store.southampton.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/faculty-of-arts-and-humanities/events/virtual-space-and-interactivity-in-streaming-media-within-transnational-contexts>(free registration for current students at the University of Southampton!).

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us at: (streamingmediasoton2023 /at/ gmail.com). We look forward to welcoming you to the University of Southampton.


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