From CAT Via Shira Dvir Gvirsman - call for abstracts The Future of Old Media (fwd)
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CALL FOR PAPERSThe Future of Old MediaHow the old media reinvent
themselves in the digital age2nd Tel Aviv Communication Conference, April
19-21, 2017Confirmed keynote speakers:- Julia Cage, SciencesPo, Paris-
James Curran, Goldsmiths College, University of London- John B. Thompson,
University of Cambridge- Lance Holbert, Temple UniversityThe Dan
Department of Communication at Tel Aviv University is organizing the
2ndTel Aviv Communication Conference, to take place on April 19-21, 2017.
This year’sconference will be dedicated to the future of the
so-called 'old media' in the digitalage.In the last two decades,
the claim has been made that the traditional media – thenewspaper,
the book, television, radio and the cinema, and the physical archive,
andeven the idea of audience itself – will not survive the digital
revolution. Scholars haverepeatedly expressed the fear, or the hope, that
the digital world will put an end to thereign of television, newspapers,
radio, the book... In this conference, we would like toopen this question
to critical debate. Looking closely at the various ways in which theold
media are being reinvented to maintain their relevance, we ask how
muchtransformation can a medium sustain before it becomes something new
entirely? Canthe transformations be considered as just one more step in
the evolution of media, oras the beginning of a new (st)age?We would like
to discuss the communicative, social and cultural significance of
thesecomplex dynamics, and reflect on the changes in each medium with
regard totechnological developments, content, production (including
professions, resources andbusiness models), audiences and consumption.We
are interested, for example, in the ways newspapers and news divisions of
majorbroadcasters are morphing into news sites, while independent sources
on the onehand, and online platforms (Facebook, Google, Twitter, Yahoo) on
the other,challenge the industry foundations; the ways television genres,
especially livebroadcasts and long series, re-invent television at the
very same time that coherentmulti-genre schedule is receding, and services
such as Netflix leave us wonderingwhat are the core elements that define
Television; how films, as long audiovisualstories to be enjoyed
collectively, resist fragmentation and are renovated through newforms of
anime and 3D technologies; how radio as flow is not dying while
radio’smemories, and radio “on demand” (podcasts) enjoy
an extraordinary digitaldevelopment; and how the oldest medium, the
printed book, is resisting the pressuresof the digital age. Finally, the
archive is a theme which cuts across media: “old”media as past
and forgotten programs are being made increasingly available, whichrevives
ancient worries about a surfeit of memory, but also leads us to think in
termsof metamorphosis, not disappearance.These are merely a few of many
changes we are witnessing, and we encourageproposals that engage in all
aspects of these questions.Please send abstracts no longer that 300 words
to shiradvir@me.com, andjerombourdon@gmail.com, until December 1st.Answers
will be given not later than December 15, 2016.Travel grants:We are
pleased to provide travel grants to graduate students, and
post-doctoralstudents who were accepted to the conference. A travel grant
can cover the costs oftravel to the conference, such as lodging and
flights.The organizing committee of the conference:Prof. Jerome Bourdon,
Dr. Shira Dvir, Dr. Elad Segev,Department of Communication, Tel Aviv
University.
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