Conference Convenors: Carmen Gregori-Signes, Claudia Alonso-Recarte, Miguel Fuster-Márquez, Sergio Maruenda-Bataller Secretary: Joaquín Primo-Pacheco We are delighted to announce that the Departament de Filologia Anglesa i Alemanya at the Universitat de València and the Institut Interuniversitari de Llengües Modernes Aplicades de la Comunitat Valenciana (IULMA) will be hosting, on the 19th-21st of October 2022 in Valencia, Spain, the
Edited by: James Rendell and Kate Egan Submission deadline: 31st July 2022.
Iluminace 1/2023: Television and COVID-19: How to Deal with Global Pandemics While Broadcasting (Extended deadline for abstracts July 15, 2022;
A two-day research symposium Symposium organizers: Prof. Rayna Denison (University of Bristol) and Dr. Cristina Formenti (University of Udine) “On the stroke of 5:15, I happened to be walking into the radio and television department of Harrods and there, on a third of the television sets in the place was Kermit, waving his green arms about. Everybody, customers and assistants alike, paused and edged towards him.
Since its inception, mediatization has been a contested term within media and communication research that includes different perspectives on the interrelation between technological and sociocultural change.
Event Website https://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/research/projects/global-natives/news/young-people-entertainment-and-cross-media-storyte.html This pre-conference is timed to coincide with the start of the ECREA Conference, taking place from 19-22 October 2022 in Aarhus. Keynote Sophie H. Bishop: ‘Young People and Influencer culture in the UK’
Application for roundtable sessions at The BBC at 100 symposium, 14-15 Sept 2022 The BBC at 100 symposium will take place at the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford and online on 14-15 Sept 2022.
Networking Knowledge, the journal of the Media, Communication and Cultural Studies (MeCCSA) Postgraduate Network, invites contributions from postgraduate students and early career researchers for publication in an upcoming issue focused on television, video-on-demand, and binge watching. Academic articles, creative work, interviews, and media reviews from any field of media, communication, and cultural studies are welcome.
Editors: Jennifer Dawes, Midwestern State University, jennifer.dawes@msutexas.edu Nora M. Isacoff, Columbia University, ni2237@columbia.edu Overview : The proposed book will be an interdisciplinary examination of the AppleTV show Severance , in which employees of a biotech firm consent to having their brains severed so that their work selves and non-work selves do not retain each other’s memories.
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words. – Ursula LeGuin, 2014 Science fiction includes a myriad of thematics from futurism, technology, transhumanism, apocalypse, other-worldliness, interspeciality, alterity and to history.
