[Commlist] CFP: Reaching Young Audiences: Investigating media content for children and young people in a multi-platform era

*Call for Papers*

Reaching Young Audiences: Investigating media content for children and 
young people in a multi-platform era

DATES

9-10 November 2023

PLACE:

University of Copenhagen, Dept. of Communication, Denmark.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Dr Noel Brown (Liverpool Hope University)

Dr Anna Potter (University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia)

SUBMISSION DEADLINE:

15 May 2023

WEBSITE:

https://komm.ku.dk/forskning/filmvidenskab-og-kreative-medieindustrier/rya/arrangementer/reaching-young-audiences/ 
<https://komm.ku.dk/forskning/filmvidenskab-og-kreative-medieindustrier/rya/arrangementer/reaching-young-audiences/>

CONFERENCE INTRODUCTION

Much has happened in the production, distribution and consumption of 
film and media content for children and young audiences in the past 
years, both with regards to the nature of the content produced and the 
way in which this content reaches its intended audience. This conference 
invites papers that explore both historical and current aspects of a 
wide variety of productions for children and young audiences, focusing 
on film and television as well as content for social media and new 
platforms. There will be keynotes by Dr Noel Brown, Liverpool Hope 
University (author/editor of – among many other publications – The 
Oxford Handbook of Children’s Film, Contemporary Hollywood Animation: 
Style, Storytelling, Culture and Ideology Since the 1990s and The 
Children’s Film: Genre, Nation and Narrative) and Dr Anna Potter, 
University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia (author of – among many 
other publications – Producing Children’s Television in the On-Demand 
Age and Creativity, Culture and Commerce: Producing Australian 
Children’s Television with Public Value).

We encourage proposals on topics that include but are not limited to:

•              Practices of commissioning, screenwriting and production 
for children and young audiences in a historical or current context

•              Themes, narratives and aesthetics of productions for 
children and young audiences across genres and (plat)forms

•              Media use and audience studies

•              Methodologies for researching children and young audiences

•              Transnational and global issues, trends or traditions

•              Representation, diversity and intersectionality

•              Understandings of children and adolescents as a 
particular audience

•              Emerging forms/genres/formats and new platforms

•              Cross-media strategies and storyworlds

•              Co-creation and children/young audiences as content and 
knowledge producers

•              Changing patterns of distribution and consumption

•              Policy and regulation issues

•              Film and media literacy

Submission details

•              Deadline for submission of abstracts: 15 May 2023, 23.59 CET

•              Abstracts should be max. 300 words excluding bibliography 
and should include a biographical note of max. 100 words per author

•              Please send your submission to: (eva /at/ hum.ku.dk) 
<mailto:(eva /at/ hum.ku.dk)> with the topic ‘Reaching Young Audiences 
conference submission’

•              Proposal acceptance notification: 1 June 2023

•              The conference will be in person only

Organisation & Contact

The conference is organized by the research project Reaching Young 
Audiences: Serial fiction and cross-media storyworlds for children and 
young audiences (funded by Independent Research Fund Denmark). The 
conference marks the end of the research project and will include 
presentations by affiliated researchers and industry practitioners.

For more information, please contact Associate Professor Eva Novrup 
Redvall: (eva /at/ hum.ku.dk) <mailto:(eva /at/ hum.ku.dk)>

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