Apologies for cross-posting

CALL FOR CHAPTER
PROPOSALS

Conditions of
Mediation: Phenomenological Approaches to Media, Technology and Communication

Editors: Tim Markham and Scott Rodgers

In June 2013, the ICA preconference Conditions of Mediation (see http://conditionsofmediation.wordpress.com
for further information) brought together scholars from a wide range of
perspectives – including audience studies, political theory, metaphysics, media
archaeology, software studies, science and technology studies, cultural
geography and urban studies – to critically reflect on both the merits and
limits of phenomenological approaches for understanding media, in
philosophical, theoretical, political and empirical terms.

Inspired by this very successful conference, we are now preparing
a proposal for an edited book under the same title. The proposed format of the book is to have
a substantive introduction, two ‘dialogues’ involving Graham Harman, Lisa Parks,
Paddy Scannell, Shaun Moores, Nick Couldry and David Berry (based on their
keynote papers), and 10-12 short paper chapters of 4000 words (excluding
bibliography).

We are therefore issuing an
Open Call for Chapter Proposals. If you are interested in contributing a
chapter to this edited book, please send a chapter title and 400 word abstract
by no later than 15 September 2013 to Scott Rodgers at s.rodgers@bbk.ac.uk. Those
that are subsequently invited to submit a full chapter will need to have this
completed by 1 March 2014.

Please direct any inquiries
to Scott Rodgers at s.rodgers@bbk.ac.uk.
We look forward to receiving your chapter proposals.

Final Reminder - apologies for cross-posting

CALL FOR CHAPTER
PROPOSALS

Conditions of
Mediation: Phenomenological Approaches to Media, Technology and Communication

Editors: Tim Markham and Scott Rodgers

In June 2013, the ICA preconference Conditions of Mediation (see http://conditionsofmediation.wordpress.com
for further information) brought together scholars from a wide range of
perspectives – including audience studies, political theory, metaphysics, media
archaeology, software studies, science and technology studies, cultural
geography and urban studies – to critically reflect on both the merits and
limits of phenomenological approaches for understanding media, in
philosophical, theoretical, political and empirical terms.

Inspired by this very successful conference, we are now preparing
a proposal for an edited book under the same title. The proposed format of the book is to have
a substantive introduction, two ‘dialogues’ involving Graham Harman, Lisa Parks,
Paddy Scannell, Shaun Moores, Nick Couldry and David Berry (based on their
keynote papers), and 10-12 short paper chapters of 4000 words (excluding
bibliography).

We are therefore issuing an
Open Call for Chapter Proposals. If you are interested in contributing a
chapter to this edited book, please send a chapter title and 400 word abstract
by no later than 15 September 2013 to Scott Rodgers at s.rodgers@bbk.ac.uk. Those
that are subsequently invited to submit a full chapter will need to have this
completed by 1 March 2014.

Please direct any inquiries
to Scott Rodgers at s.rodgers@bbk.ac.uk.
We look forward to receiving your chapter proposals.

Apologies for cross-posting.

Members on this list may be interested
in an edited video now available from Conditions of Mediation, a
preconference of the 2013 International Communication Association conference,
hosted at Birkbeck, University of London, UK on 17 June 2013. The video
includes contributions from Graham Harman, Lisa Parks, Paddy Scannell, Shaun Moores, Nick Couldry and David Berry, followed by
two wide-ranging discussions, chaired by Scott
Rodgers and Tim
Markham.

For more detail on the event, and to
view the video, visit: http://www.conditionsofmediation.wordpress.com

Dear all:

Birkbeck’s School
of Arts is currently
inviting applications for up to 17 Postgraduate Research Scholarships, which consist of full home/EU
postgraduate fee waivers and an annual stipend at research council rates. Some
of these studentships may be awarded for research proposals in the areas
covered by the Department of Film, Media and Cultural Studies.

For further information about
Film, Media and Cultural Studies at Birkbeck, as well as information on the
postgraduate research funding application procedures in the School of Arts, see
below. Please contact the departmental member(s) you feel most directly relates
to your research, but send any general enquires to Dr. Tim Markham, Director of
Postgraduate Research, at t.markham@bbk.ac.uk.

About Research in the Department of Film, Media and
Cultural Studies

The Department of Film, Media and Cultural Studies at Birkbeck hosts a wide range of
research areas, including: arts policy and management; curatorial studies;
digital media; East Asian cultural studies; film, television and moving image;
journalism studies; media and cultural theory; and performance.

We invite research proposals in any of the broad
research areas above – including proposals for practice-based research – and
are particularly interested in research projects which pose questions related
to one or more of the following themes:

·
Bodies/Affect/Experience

·
Cultural
Exchange/Media Flows

·
Cultural
Histories/Archive/Memory

·
Gender/Sexuality/Representation

·
Identity/Subjectivity/Crisis

·
Media/Cities/Space

·
Politics/Media/Social
Change

·
Post-media/Convergence/Expanded
Media

M.Phil/PhD Research Funding in
Birkbeck’s School of Arts

Birkbeck’s School
of Arts invites
applications for M.Phil/PhD research funding for the 14/15 academic year. Please
see link below for information, guidance, application forms and deadlines.

http://www.bbk.ac.uk/arts/research/research-bursaries-studentships-funding

We now invite applications for up to 17 Postgraduate
Research Scholarships. These consist of full home/EU postgraduate fee
waivers and a stipend at research council rates (currently £15,726 per annum)
and include a number of Birkbeck Anniversary Scholarships to mark the 190th anniversary
of the College's foundation.

We also invite applications for Arts Research Studentships (ARS) consisting of part/full fee waivers for students
applying to undertake postgraduate research in the departments of English & Humanities, European Languages & Cultures, History of Art, Iberian & Latin American Studies, and Film, Media & Cultural Studies, as well as via the School’s Arts and Humanities PhD Programme.

Other full awards, such as the competition for AHRC
studentships under named calls, will have separate application procedures.
Please check the website for
notifications, application procedures and staff contacts. Any further specific
funding opportunities (such as the Murray and Sasakawa
funds) will be listed there.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Proposed Thematic Panel for GeoMedia 2015: Spaces and Mobilities in
Mediatized Worlds (http://geomedia.se/)

New Perspectives on Media Production Spaces

By no means have media production spaces been
ignored in academic research. Analyses of media production have often been
anchored to specific settings, for example the studio in television production
studies, the newsroom in journalism ethnographies, or the loft-style office in
creative industries research. Yet in many ways these traditions sit uneasily
alongside the sorts
of media spaces that emerge through recent attempts to theorise media in terms
of ‘practices’. The value of work on media practices has been to emphasize the highly
contingent interweaving of media into ‘everyday life’,
a process which is fluid, indeterminate, and non-media centric. Yet, such work has
overwhelmingly centered on the spaces of media consumption. Media production
spaces, by contrast, are theorized as institutionalised, closed-off, strategically
coherent and medium-specific. The geographies of media production, in other
words, are often implicitly assumed to inhabit a different level of analysis.

This
thematic panel aims to offer new perspectives that trouble the dichotomy
between the geographies of media production and everyday mediation, and particularly
how the former is often seen as institutionalized while the latter mundane. To
begin with, what counts as media production is up for grabs, for example in the
erosion of producer/audience distinctions, the loosening of medium specificity
in the wake of digitalization, or in the dispersal of media production sites. At
the same time, there are conceptual reasons to challenge the idea that media
production spaces are centers of power. This session will explore the indeterminate
spaces of media ‘production’ and their contingent negotiation with,
anticipation of and even subjugation to the spaces, values and sensibilities of
everyday life.

Papers might
address the above themes via the following topics:

·
Affective/emotional
dimensions of media production spaces/places

·
The social
spaces of professionalized media fields and their material geographies

·
Localized
geographies of film/television/music/gaming production and post-production

·
Code/software
spaces and media production

·
Sport spaces
and media production

·
The urban
habitus of media professionals and semi-professionals

·
Site-specific
encounters of media and non-media people

·
Spaces of
‘produsers’, ‘prosumers’, ‘citizen journalists’ and other non-professional
media contributors

·
Time/temporality/timeliness/rhythm
and media production spaces

·
Media
producer anticipations/constructions of audience/user geographies

·
Architectural/infrastructural
environments of media production

·
Cultural
policy and the governance of media production

·
The body as
site of media production

·
Practices of
media space branding

·
Below the
line media production spaces

The above
list is indicative rather than exhaustive – proposals on other topics still
within the above broad session theme will be gratefully received.

If you are
interested in proposing a paper for this panel, please send an abstract between
200-250 words to both Helen Morgan Parmett (Helen.MorganParmett@wwu.edu) and
Scott Rodgers (s.rodgers@bbk.ac.uk) by
no later than 15 September 2014.

Following the GeoMedia 2015 conference, we plan to propose the papers
from this panel (or a development thereof) for a special theme issue in a
refereed journal in media and cultural studies.

REMINDER: CALL
FOR PAPERS

Proposed Thematic Panel for GeoMedia 2015: Spaces and
Mobilities in Mediatized Worlds (An Interdisciplinary
International Conference Karlstad, SWEDEN, 5-8 May 2015, website: http://geomedia.se/)

New Perspectives on Media Production Spaces

By no means have media production spaces been ignored in
academic research. Analyses of media production have often been anchored to
specific settings, for example the studio in television production studies, the
newsroom in journalism ethnographies, or the loft-style office in creative
industries research. Yet in many ways these traditions sit uneasily alongside
the sorts of media spaces that emerge through recent attempts to theorise media
in terms of ‘practices’. The value of work on media practices has been to
emphasize the highly contingent interweaving of media into ‘everyday life’, a
process which is fluid, indeterminate, and non-media centric. Yet, such work
has overwhelmingly centered on the spaces of media consumption. Media
production spaces, by contrast, are theorized as institutionalised, closed-off,
strategically coherent and medium-specific. The geographies of media
production, in other words, are often implicitly assumed to inhabit a different
level of analysis.

This thematic panel aims to offer new perspectives that
trouble the dichotomy between the geographies of media production and everyday
mediation, and particularly how the former is often seen as institutionalized
while the latter mundane. To begin with, what counts as media production is up
for grabs, for example in the erosion of producer/audience distinctions, the
loosening of medium specificity in the wake of digitalization, or in the
dispersal of media production sites. At the same time, there are conceptual
reasons to challenge the idea that media production spaces are centers of
power. This session will explore the indeterminate spaces of media ‘production’
and their contingent negotiation with, anticipation of and even subjugation to
the spaces, values and sensibilities of everyday life.

Papers might address the above themes via the following
topics:

·
Affective/emotional dimensions of
media production spaces/places

·
The social spaces of
professionalized media fields and their material geographies

·
Localized geographies of
film/television/music/gaming production and post-production

·
Code/software spaces and media
production

·
Sport spaces and media production

·
The urban habitus of media
professionals and semi-professionals

·
Site-specific encounters of media
and non-media people

·
Spaces of ‘produsers’, ‘prosumers’,
‘citizen journalists’ and other non-professional media contributors

·
Time/temporality/timeliness/rhythm
and media production spaces

·
Media producer
anticipations/constructions of audience/user geographies

·
Architectural/infrastructural
environments of media production

·
Cultural policy and the governance
of media production

·
The body as site of media
production

·
Practices of media space branding

·
Below the line media production
spaces

The above list is indicative rather than exhaustive –
proposals on other topics still within the above broad session theme will be
gratefully received.

If you are interested in proposing a paper for this
panel, please send an abstract between 200-250 words to both Helen Morgan
Parmett (Helen.MorganParmett@wwu.edu)
and Scott Rodgers (s.rodgers@bbk.ac.uk) by no later than 15 September
2014.

Following the GeoMedia 2015 conference, we plan to
propose the papers from this panel (or a development thereof) for a special
theme issue in a refereed journal in media and cultural studies.