General Discussion Forum

Just a place for me to post interesting tidbits that are somewhat relevant to the class

The Digital Storytelling Festival

"The Digital Storytelling Festival was founded in1995 as an annual gathering where professionals and enthusiasts who use technology to communicate and share stories gather to examine creative works and new concepts being used in areas of education, community building, business, personal and legacy storytelling, new media and entertainment."

http://www.dstory.com/dsf_05/

We have been discussing gender and media (see Tennison's article and blog 5). I thought y'all may be interested in this Conference:

CFP: Console-ing Passions, the international conference on television, video, audio, and new media

Console-ing Passions, the international conference on television, video, audio, and new media, invites submissions for the 2006 conference to be held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

Dates: May 25-27th, 2006

Conference Location: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Founded in 1989 by a group of feminist media scholars and artists, Console-ing Passions works to create collegial spaces for new work and scholarship on culture and identity in television and related media, with an emphasis on gender and sexuality. Since 1992, Console-ing Passions conferences have featured new research on feminist perspectives, including race and ethnicity, post-colonialism, queer studies, globalization, national identity, fusion genres, the social and cultural insertion of new media, the historical development of media, and an ongoing feminist concern with gender dynamics in the production and consumption of electronic media (excluding cinema).

Console-ing Passions' emphasis on electronic media reflects its mission to provide an alternative scholarly space to those centered on film; papers or projects that include film as part of a larger perspective are welcome but non-film media are the primary focus.

Why do you see a need for this themed conference? What do you think they discuss and analyze?

Another CFP that might be interesting to the class:

Beyond Buffy?: ‘Teens’ on TV: Industry, Audience, Identity

An international conference to be hosted by

Oxford Brookes University

28-30 June 2006

CALL FOR PAPERS

Has teen TV moved beyond Buffy? Is The OC the new Dawson’s? This international conference will address questions around the growth of a new aesthetics of TV, particularly that associated with what has become known as quality teen TV, and developments in audience and fan community behaviours. We anticipate that contributors to the conference will come from a range of disciplines including psychology, education, sociology, linguistics, philosophy as well as the fields of communication, media and culture.

Topics may include (but are not limited to):

Ø How is consumption driving content?

Ø Do we now have star writers (e.g. Marti Noxon, Jane Espenson, Tim Minear)?

Ø Is there now a two-way traffic between film and TV stardom?

Ø How are new technologies affecting viewing practices?

Ø Who are the audiences for teen TV?

Ø What are teenagers watching and how are they watching it?

Ø How is teen TV defining adolescence?

Ø How far is teen TV renegotiating gender roles?

Ø Are outsiders the new insiders?

Ø Why is there a girl-on-girl kiss in every sweeps episode?

Papers are welcome on individual shows, genres, sub-genres, technologies, audiences and all related topics.

Confirmed speakers include:

Ø Matt Hills (University of Cardiff) author of Fan Cultures, The Pleasures of Horror and How to do Things With Cultural Theory.

Ø Glyn Davis (University of Bristol) co-editor of Teen TV: Genre, Identity, Consumption.

Ø Sue Turnbull (La Trobe University) author of ‘Not Just Another Buffy Paper: Towards an Aesthetics of Television’. Sue is also working on a teen TV consultancy with the Australian Centre for the Moving Image.

Ø Milly Williamson (Centre for Mass Communication Research, University of Leicester) author of The Lure of the Vampire.

Proposals for papers should be submitted in the form of abstracts of not more than 250 words by 31 December 2005. Abstracts should be sent by email to damychinn@brookes.ac.uk.

For more information contact either Dee Amy-Chinn on 01865 488619 (or damychinn@brookes.ac.uk) or Michele Paule on 01865 488497 (mpaule@brookes.ac.uk) or visit our website at www.brookes.ac.uk/schools/education/teensontvconference.html