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

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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