[csaa-forum] CFP: Reality Television Conference – July 5-6, 2013 (Bournemouth Uni).

[TANIA LEWIS]

A last minute CFP that may be of interest if you're planning on being in
the Northern Hemisphere any time soon.

Cheers

Tania


*CFP: Reality Television: Media Convergences and Narrative Futures
Conference – July 5-6, 2013.*

*CALL for papers – extended deadline – Tuesday 28**th** May*

*The Media School – Bournemouth University – UK*

*Organisers: Dr Christopher Pullen & Dr Peri Bradley*

*Conference page;*

*
http://media.bournemouth.ac.uk/about/events/2013/apr/ev002-reality-television-conference.html
*

Proposals are invited for papers (of 20 minutes length) considering the
contemporary potential of reality television for an academic media
conference held by The Media School in Bournemouth University, at
Kimmeridge House on Talbot Campus. There will be no registration fees for
accepted papers. *Confirmed plenary speakers* include:

   -

   *Professor Stella Bruzzi* of the University of Warwick - author of *New
   Documentary* (Routledge 2006)
   -

   *Dr **Deborah Jermyn*, Reader at the University of Roehampton -
   co-editor of *Understanding Reality Television* (Routledge 2003)
   -

   *Professor Helen Wood* of DeMontfort University – co-author of *Reacting
   to Reality Television: Performance, Audience and Value* (Routledge 2012)
   and co-editor of *Reality Television and Class* (Palgrave 2011)


The conference places a particular focus on issues of media convergence and
narrative innovation. Proposals for the conference may involve a purely
academic focus involving textual investigation, such as considering media
narratives, representations, cultures and/or audiences. Also proposals are
invited which might consider issues within creative practice or industry. A
published edited collection is planned, to include a range of papers that
will be presented at the event.

With the rise of reality television formats, which involve media convergent
opportunities, such as connecting to mobile technologies, and involving
increased distribution through web based downloading, alongside an
increased interest and popularity in the use of scripted reality formats,
this conference offers an innovative chance to share research interests,
intersecting contemporary television, new media and narrative potentials.

*General topics could include:*

Convergent media technologies

Multiplatform textual innovations

Contemporary narrative forms

Realism and the hyper-real

Issues of identity

The politics of representation

Potentials for minority groups

Theories of intimacy and affect

*As a small example, texts that could form possible case studies include:*

Community celebrity: *The Hills* (MTV) - *The Only Way is Essex* (ITV)

Talent searches: *The XFactor* (ITV) - *The Glee Project* (Oxygen)

Relationships & dating: *Playing in Straight* (Channel 4) – *Temptation
Island *(Fox)

Historical recreation: *The 1900 House* (Channel 4) – *Pioneer Quest *(CBC)

Personal makeover: *The Swan* (Fox) – *Queer Eye for the Straight Guy*
 (Bravo)

Food & domesticity: *Come Dine with Me* (Channel 4) – *The Chew* (ABC)

Education & otherness / addiction: *The Undateables *(Channel 4) *
Intervention* (A & E)

Domestic audiences: *Gogglebox* (Channel 4)


Please send abstracts (of 200 words length) and a biography, indicating any
technical requirements for the delivery of your paper, by*Tuesday 28th* *of
May 2013* to Chris (*cpullen at bournemouth.ac.uk <chris_pullen at onetel.com>*)
and Peri (*pbradley at bournemouth.ac.uk* ) *Decisions will be made by Friday
31**st** of May 2013*

*Conference page*

*
http://media.bournemouth.ac.uk/about/events/2013/apr/ev002-reality-television-conference.html
*

-- 
Associate Professor Tania Lewis
Vice Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow
School of Media & Communication
RMIT University
Building 36.3.7 City Campus
GPO Box 2476, Melbourne VIC 3001
Australia

ph: +61 3 9925 2406
fax: +61 3 9639 1685
email: tania.lewis at rmit.edu.au

web: www.rmit.edu.au/staff/tania-lewis
        www.telemodernities.org/
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