Next week The Children’s Media Conference gathers people working with developing, producing and distributing content to children for a three-day programme in Sheffield. The conference is in its 20th edition in 2023, and the varied programme illustrates how all platforms are now in play when thinking about children’s media.
A comedy-drama about vampires and a high drama/satire of corporate culture would, on the face of it, seem unlikely bedfellows.
With the vast array of options of what to watch online, have you ever wondered why you picked that new comedy or that old documentary? Would you have chosen to watch them if they were on terrestrial TV? How much were you nudged to choose them by subtle prompts from the online streaming platforms?
Organized in partnership with: University of Brighton / The Glasgow School of Art / The OA Zine / Festival International de Vidéo Danse de Bourgogne This international online conference will focus on both seasons of Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij’s acclaimed television series The OA that went missing 4 years ago.
“Another world is not only possible; she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.” Arundhati Roy
Conference website: https://www.popmec.com/frontiers-conference/ The conference will focus on how the American imagination has shaped—and, in turn, has been shaped by—its frontiers and borderlands, marked by an intrinsic peripheral quality, sociocultural porosity, and a diverse range of experiences and identities.
Hosted by the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries, King’s College London Paper, panel, and roundtable proposals are now invited for the 2024 ‘Media Industries’ conference (‘MI2024’). After the success in 2018 of the inaugural conference ‘Media Industries: Current Debates and Future Directions’, unfortunately the planned 2020 conference had to be cancelled due to Covid lockdowns.
Organiser: British Sociological Association, Media Study Group CfP PDF: https://tinyurl.com/2k6nu4qt We are living in unusual times. As such, recent and ongoing events — including the pandemic, the energy/ cost of living crisis, the war in Ukraine — provide an opportunity to look again at our ideas about the role and operation of media at times of sustained crises and conflicts.
Guest editors: Giulia Taurino (Northeastern University), Georgia Aitaki (Karlstad University) Given recent technological advancements, media scholars have been discussing a digital, computational, algorithmic turn in television (Berry, 2011; Hansen & Paul, 2017;
A murder has, yet again, been committed in a small town in Maine. The local sheriff is baffled. Fortunately, however, the town’s most famous resident, retired English teacher turned mystery novelist Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury), is on the case!
Future Nostalgia and Present Utopia: Reimaging Futurism in Film and New Media Program in Film and Media Studies at the University of Pittsburgh Keynote Speaker: Diana Flores Ruíz Date: September 23-24 The University of Pittsburgh Film and Media Studies Program is pleased to announce “Future Nostalgia and Present Utopia: Reimaging Futurism in Film and New Media,” its twelfth