[ecrea] PhD course on Genre at the University of Copenhagen

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>Challenging genres  Genre challenges
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>Time: 17 November 11 am -19 November 3 pm, 2010
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>Place: University of Copenhagen
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>Course organizers: Professor Anne Jerslev and 
>Assistant Professor Mette Mortensen, Department 
>of Media, Cognition and Communication, Section 
>of Film and Media Studies, The University of Copenhagen.
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>Course Content: Todayâ¬"s intensified blurring 
>of boundaries between media, and between media 
>and their audiences is challenging our 
>understanding of genre. New genres emerge at the 
>same rapid pace as old ones are contested or 
>simply deemed out of date.  Even though terms 
>such as genre hybridity and cross genres have 
>pointed to generic instabilities and experiments 
>for a couple decades, the altered modes of 
>production and distribution raise a number of 
>topical questions: How should we understand 
>genre today? In which ways might genre be a 
>productive term for conceptualizing and 
>comprehending the new digital media landscape? 
>And not least, do we need to change our notions 
>of traditional generic expressions, e.g. in film and television?
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>The focus of this PhD seminar is the 
>transformation of genres. We welcome 
>participants and presentations covering all 
>aspects of genre and all media; theoretical as 
>well as analytical contributions; contributions 
>focusing on production processes, the market, 
>the institutional framings and understandings of 
>genre; new digital genres; questions of cross 
>media and genre; questions of audience participation and genre.
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>Presentations by senior scholars
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>Genre in Media Production
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>Hanne Bruun, Associate Professor, Department of 
>Information and Media Studies, The University of Aarhus.
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>How do we explain changes in media output? Are 
>changes to media output a result of economic, 
>political or other kinds of structural forces; 
>or are they a result of the change producing 
>agency of the media producers? I will suggest 
>that taking a theoretical approach in pragmatic 
>genre theory combined with the understanding of 
>â¬Ügenre schemataâ¬" in socio-cognitive 
>reception theory would help circumvent two 
>classic dichotomies in media production 
>analysis. Based on findings from my production 
>analysis of Danish television satire, genre 
>schemata seem to structure practices and belief 
>systems among media professionals creating 
>specific production cultures. However, these 
>schemata change through the interpretation 
>processes of media output production in 
>recursive interplay with structural forces.
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>Television series: Genre aesthetics and social history.
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>Jostein Gripsrud, Professor, Department 
>of  Information Science and Media Studies, 
>University of Bergen⬨and Centre 
>franco-norvégien en sciences sociales et 
>humaines, Fondation Maison des Sciences de lâ¬"Homme, Paris.
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>The basic idea in this paper is that the 
>development of the TV series as an aesthetic 
>form must be understood in relation to the 
>history of television as a medium and a social 
>institution on the one hand, and general 
>socio-cultural history on the other. This is 
>mainly argued referring to the history of US 
>radio and television series, but examples will 
>also be given from the UK, Germany and 
>Scandinavia. The importance of differences 
>between the US and European broadcasting systems 
>are discussed, as well as the role of major 
>technological developments such as the 
>introduction of TV distribution via satellite 
>and cable around 1980 and the digitisation processes around 20 years later.
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>A Media Aesthetic Reflection on Genre.
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>Liv Hausken, Associate Professor, Department of 
>Media and Communication, University of Oslo.
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>Genre is widely used as classifying statement, 
>especially in the field of arts and 
>entertainment. However, there has been some concern that the rapid
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>advance in new technologies would have a 
>detrimental and destabilizing effect on genre. 
>The idea of a post medium condition where all 
>kinds of cultural expressions can be available 
>at the same platform, modified, altered and 
>adjusted to a whole range of different displays, 
>seems to have threatened not only the concept of 
>medium but also that of genre. However, genre is 
>a concept, and not a solid object. It represents 
>a perspective. In this presentation I will argue 
>that also medium should be considered a 
>perspective, not a solid object, and that this 
>affects the conception of genre. I will argue 
>that moving from the idea of media as objects to 
>mediations as processes and functions allows us 
>to look into new cultural expressions without 
>being restrained to see them as combinations of 
>older, more or less stable or fixed entities. 
>Contrary to this, an emphasis on mediation 
>involves flexible distinctions between what is 
>considered a genre rather than a style or a 
>medium, so that a particular aspect of a complex 
>apparatus not always and in all contexts must be considered as fixed.
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>Meta-Media and Meta-Communication  Revisiting 
>the Conncept of Genre in the Digital Environment
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>Klaus Bruun Jensen, Professor, Department of 
>Media, Recognition and Communication, The University of Copenhagen.
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>As analytical categories, genres have 
>traditionally occupied a middle ground - between 
>media as technologies and institutions, on the 
>one hand, and discourses as material and modal 
>forms of expression and interaction, on the 
>other. With digital media, the very concept of 
>genre is in doubt: is the world wide web, 
>Facebook, or the writing on its walls the genre? 
>This lecture outlines a matrix of genres as 
>communicative practices. First, the computer and 
>the internet are described as meta-media, 
>incorporating previous forms of media as well as 
>genres. Second, genres are described as a 
>variety of meta-communication, suggesting what 
>kind of communication is being afforded. In 
>conclusion, the lecture suggests that genre 
>studies currently have the opportunity of coming 
>back in style in the digital media environment: 
>genres help to identify some of the distinctive 
>features of digital media, not just as forms of 
>representation, but also as resources of action.
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>ECTS points: Participation with paper: 3 ECTS. 
>Participation without paper: 1½ ECTS
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>Costs and practical matters
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>The Danish Research School FMKJ covers all 
>participation expenses (travel, meals, 
>accommodation) for doctoral students who are 
>enrolled members of FMKJ. Tickets and receipts 
>must be sent to FMKJ for reimbursement.
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>Doctoral students from other national or 
>international institutions are encouraged to 
>participate. While the course itself is offered 
>free of charge, they will have to pay their own 
>travel and accommodation costs, and a fee of 
>app. DKK 750 to cover lunches, coffee during 
>intervals, etc. during the course. Prior to the 
>course FMKJ will send an invoice for this amount to those who have enrolled.
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>Participants are expected to find accommodation 
>for themselves, although the FMKJ secretary can suggest suitable hotels.
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>Course enrollment and application deadline
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>The course application, including a 1-page 
>project outline, should be sent by email no 
>later than October 1, 2010 to the FMKJ Secretary 
>at <mailto:(fmkj /at/ ruc.dk)>(fmkj /at/ ruc.dk).
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>Participants who want to present a paper (10-12 
>pages) for feedback must submit the paper by 
>October 29, 2010 to <mailto:(fmkj /at/ ruc.dk)>(metmort /at/ hum.ku.dk).
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>Course readings
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>Course literature will be made available 3 weeks 
>before the course with required reading and 
>suggested literature for the Ph.D. course. 
>Students are expected to have read the 
>literature before the beginning of the course.
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>For further information: <http://www.fmkj.dk/>www.fmkj.dk

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