[csaa-forum] CFP - Australian Media Traditions Conference

[Kirsten Stevens]

*11th Australian Media Traditions Conference*Media Convergence:
Continuities and Change.



The Australian Media Traditions Conference 2019 will be held at the University
of Melbourne from 27-29 November. The call for papers is open until the end
of May.



Our international keynote speaker is Professor Alexis Weedon, a cofounder
of the journal *Convergence. *Alexis is UNESCO chair in New Media Forms of
the Book, and Director of the Research Institute for Media Art and
Performance (RIMAP), at the University of Bedfordshire, UK. She will be
discussing her current research on the history of cross-media storytelling.



Australian keynotes will be announced soon.



*Call for papers:*

Convergence – between “new” and “old” media; distinct media technologies
and forms; different sites and institutions of media production; and
between media and audiences – has been with us almost as long as media
themselves. The history of convergence includes recognisable patterns and
cycles which can be just as illuminating as clear instances of paradigmatic
change and innovation. As well as exploring radical departures, AMT
presenters are invited to analyse the significance of continuities and
discontinuities that pattern change in media, and to essay the cultural and
social residues of Australian media convergence.



Possible topics and approaches include:

   - contemporary media histories of convergence (e.g. the Fairfax/Nine
   merger)
   - comparative media histories (case studies from now and then, or then
   and then)
   - transnational histories of convergence
   - audience studies – how audience engagement has changed media coverage
   and influence
   - Indigenous media in the post-digital sphere
   - media in translation
   - book publishing in the post-digital sphere
   - changes in public broadcasting
   - change in journalism culture and/or practice
   - the rise of new media forms and/or objects
   - histories of new-media interventions in political and social life
   - cultural and social residues of media convergence
   - the Netflix effect in Australia
   - histories of media marketing
   - studies of notable continuity in the Australian media and Australian
   journalism from colonial times up to the late twentieth century.

Papers concerned with Australian media traditions outside these themes will
also be welcome.



Please send a 250-word abstract with three keywords, plus a short bio, to
cfp at amt2019.org <CFP at AMT2019.com> by Friday 31 May 2019. Include your
family name and the word “abstract” in the subject line.



Proposals for panels are also welcome.  Please contact Dr Sybil Nolan

  sybil.nolan at unimelb.edu.au if you wish to submit one.
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