[Commlist] CfP ECREA TV Section conference "Redefining Televisuality", Filmuniversität Potsdam Babelsberg

CALL FOR PAPERS

Redefining Televisuality: Programmes, Practices, Methods
ECREA Television Section Conference 2023

When: 25-27 October 2023

Where: Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf (Potsdam, Germany)

Link to event: 
https://www.filmuniversitaet.de/filmuni/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/veranstaltung/detail/redefining-televisuality-programmes-practices-methods-conference-2023 

Confirmed keynote: Dr. Karin van Es (Associate Professor of Media and 
Culture Studies, Utrecht University): "(Re)Claiming Television: Myths 
and Horseless Carriages"

Conference topic:
Televisuality, as theorised by John T. Caldwell in 1995, allows for a 
holistic view on the unique properties of television as industrial 
product, technology, aesthetic form, and object of cultural discourse 
and audience engagement. The concept of televisuality designates a 
system of business conditions, styles, ideologies, cultural values, 
modes of production, programming and audience practices that make up 
television as a medium within a specific historical and geographical 
context.

The ECREA Television Studies section's 2023 conference will discuss how 
the term can be redefined within the contemporary context, where 
broadcast is transformed and complemented by streaming, where social 
networks are increasingly becoming video-based social media, where 
television texts are "unbound" and float as remixed cultural artefacts 
across channels, platforms, and media, and where the transnational 
interconnections of the television and audiovisual industry, the 
conditions of economic and social crisis, and the changing audience 
practices are thoroughly transforming the medium.

USA networks' competition with cable and their fight for economic 
survival gave rise to Caldwell's original concept of televisuality as a 
strategy for the medium's resistance. Today, broadcast television 
competes with streaming and social media platforms in every country, 
which in turn make use of properties of televisuality in their 
aesthetics, economies, and production. At the same time, and in part 
propelled by this competition, serial narration, formerly a product of 
traditional television, experiences a golden age, with more high-end 
series produced than ever before. It can be argued that televisuality 
persists through the popularity of serial narration and production. But 
it is not only high-budget series that exhibit properties of 
televisuality. New forms of televisuality circulate transnationally in 
entertainment formats from UK, the Netherlands, Korea or Israel as well 
as in long-running serial fare from Nordic countries, European major 
continental markets, Turkey or Latin America. Entertainment, serial 
fiction, live broadcasts, news, sports and other televisual events as 
well as audiences' modes of engaging with audiovisual content across 
geographical and platform borders, all work to redefine the essence of 
televisuality.

For Television Studies the concept of televisuality provides a rich and 
ever changing prism for the analysis of its objects of study, as well as 
a constant challenge to our definition of the essence of TV as a medium 
and the question of how we can approach it both theoretically and 
methodologically. Therefore, the ECREA Television Studies section's 
conference also seeks to engage with questions of theory and methodology 
that are unique to the field and apt for defining, understanding and 
exposing televisuality within contemporary digital screen media contexts.

We particularly encourage contributions on the following topics:
* Televisuality and contemporary practices of television production and 
distribution;
* Methodologies for studying televisuality within Television and Media 
Studies;
* Televisuality and screen media audience practices;
* Styles, narratives and aesthetics of televisual programmes across 
genres and forms (scripted and unscripted);
* Live broadcasting, live streaming, and their connections;
* Scheduling, flow, interfaces, libraries and programming strategies;
* Intersections, similarities and differentiations of television, social 
media, social TV;
* Transformations in the global flows of television, and different ideas 
of televisuality;
* Ideological paradigms of TV and their resistance in contemporary media 
systems;
* Transnational aesthetics, production, distribution, and audience 
practices.

Submission details:

Extended Deadline for submission of abstracts: 21 May 2023, 23.59 CET.

Abstracts should be up to 450 words excluding bibliography. Abstracts 
should include a biographical note max. 50 words per author. Evaluation 
will focus on relevance to the conference topic, selection of research 
objects and clarity in use of methodology.

Co-authored abstracts need to state the first author. Only one abstract 
per first-author can be submitted.

Submission via conftool: https://conftool.projekte-filmuni.de/conftool/
Organisation & Contact
The conference is jointly organised by the ECREA Television Section's 
management team, Cathrin Bengesser, Deborah Castro & Luca Barra and the 
local hosts Susanne Eichner and Lisa Plumeier at Film University 
Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF.

Contact conference host: tv.conference(at)filmuniversitaet.de
Contact ECREA TV section: cbengesser(at)cc.au.dk
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