<div dir="ltr"><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;text-align:justify"><span style="line-height:115%"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><span style="color:black;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><em>The following conference might be of interest to scholars and students examining celebrity academics. Please share widely.</em></font></span></font></font></span><b><u><span style="line-height:115%"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><br></font></font></span></u></b></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;text-align:justify"><b><u><span style="line-height:115%"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies (CMCS) 5<sup><font size="2">th</font></sup></font><font color="#000000"> International Conference</font></font></span></u></b></div><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;text-align:justify"><b><span style="line-height:115%"><font color="#000000"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Bridging Gaps: <i>Where is the Critic in Television Journalism?</i></font></font></span></b></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt"><b><span style="line-height:115%"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">CUNY Graduate School of Journalism<br></font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"> New York City, USA<br></font><u><font color="#000000">August 31-September 1, 2017</font></u></font></span></b></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font><p><font color="#000000"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong><span lang="EN-US">Conference Keynote Speaker</span></strong><span lang="EN-US">:</span></font></font></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font><p><em><span lang="EN-US"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Andrew Mendelson</font></span></em><span lang="EN-US"><br><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> Associate Dean &amp; Professor, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font><p><font color="#000000"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong><span lang="EN-US">Conference Key Media Speaker</span></strong><span lang="EN-US">:</span></font></font></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font><div><em><span lang="EN-US"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Tim Harper</font></span></em><span lang="EN-US"><br><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> Journalist &amp; Visiting Professor, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism</font></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><font color="#000000"></font></span><br></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><font color="#000000"><strong>Call for Papers</strong>:</font></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><font color="#000000"></font></span><br></div><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;text-align:justify"><span style="line-height:115%"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">In broadcast journalism, the notion of the ‘TV academic’ is rare but important with the origins related to the Fourth Estate’s veritable position as critical government watchdogs. Similar in nature to questions on conflating the journalist with celebrity in popular discourse are those surrounding the academic and celebrity. In his case, Birmingham City University professor and broadcaster David Wilson discovered, “The greatest tension is the growing perception by some members of the public that I am a celebrity, rather than an academic.” At the same time, he notes that the benefits of being a public scholar greatly outweigh the downsides. </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;text-align:justify"><span style="line-height:115%"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Mainstream TV uses social media to augment its reach, facilitating dialogues between actors and viewers. These dominant tactics further engage by mitigating the role of perceived mediators between celebrities and their on-screen personas. In an analogous way, more conversations that include academics are crucial in mainstream TV. Without them, redefining or redesigning efforts that stimulate critical faculties in the collective mind and make for good citizenry become lost amidst the noise of what postmodern French philosopher Jean Baudrillard once characterized as an era of “more and more information, and less and less meaning”. </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;text-align:justify"><span style="line-height:115%"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">So how can an academic produce a TV show or offer television appearances while disregarding stereotypical trappings associated with the ‘celebrity academic’? How can these efforts be accomplished in ways that preserve the integrity of the academe yet also cater to mass audience within one’s area of scholarship? What are some ethical tactics and key platforms in which these voices are best and most widely heard?</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:115%"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">The Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies (CMCS) <em>Bridging Gaps</em></font><font color="#000000"> conference, in association with sponsors Centre for Ecological, Social, and Informatics Cognitive Research (ESI.CORE) and WaterHill Publishing, invites academics, journalists, publicists, producers and guests to attend, speak and collaborate at the international conference </font><em><font color="#000000">Bridging Gaps: Where is the Critic in Television Journalism</font></em><font color="#000000">? Join us in NYC where the conference will uniquely combine vibrant roundtable and workshop panels with a CMCS TV proposal in a collaborative network. </font></font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;text-align:justify"><font color="#000000"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:115%">The format of the conference aims at being open and inclusive ranging from interdisciplinary academic scholars to practitioners involved in all areas of television journalism, including tactics related to engagement capitalizing on existing public and private television channels and evolving forms of social media—from YouTube to Vimeo, Zoom to Jing, Periscope to Google Hangout. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:115%">Working papers and media productions will be considered for the conference.</span></font></font></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:115%"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Extended versions of selected best papers will be published in an edited book. </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b><u><span lang="EN-US">Registration includes</span></u></b><span lang="EN-US">: Your printed package for the complete conference, professional development workshops, coffee / tea breaks, access to evening receptions, complimentary evening drinks, consideration for publication, and the CMCS $100 best paper and $100 best screen awards.</span></font></font></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:normal"><b><u><span lang="EN-US"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Submission guidelines:</font></span></u></b></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font><ul type="disc"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">  </font><ul type="circle"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">   </font><li style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">250-word abstract or workshop / roundtable      proposal</font></span></li><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font><li style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Include a title, your name, e-mail      address, and affiliation if applicable</font></span></li><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font><li style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Submit to conference Chairs William Huddy, Josh Nathan, and Andrea Marshall at email address: </font><a href="mailto:celeb.studies2017@gmail.com" target="_blank"><b><font color="#0000ff" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">celeb.studies2017@gmail.com</font></b></a></span></li><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font><li style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Deadline for abstract submission: <b>April 15,      2017</b></font></span></li><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font><li style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Notification of acceptance:<b> May 15, 2017</b></font></span></li><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font><li style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Early bird registration deadline: <b>June 30,      2017</b></font></span></li><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font><li style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Full text due:<b> July 30, 2017</b></font></span></li><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font><li style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Conference reception and presentations:<b>      August 31 – September 1, 2017</b></font></span></li><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font></ul><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font></ul><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b><i><u><span lang="EN-US">Celebrity Chat</span></u></i></b><b><u><span lang="EN-US"> Video Submissions:</span></u></b></font></font></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font><ul type="disc"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">  </font><li style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Video length should be 10-20 minutes</font></span></li><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font><li style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Include a title, your name, e-mail     address, and affiliation if applicable</font></span></li><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font><li style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Submit to <i>Celebrity Chat </i>producer     Dr. Jackie Raphael at email address: </font><a href="http://cmc-centre.com/conferences/losangeles/celeb.studies2017@gmail.com" target="_blank"><b><font color="#0000ff" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">celeb.studies2017@gmail.com</font></b></a></span></li><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font><li style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Deadline for abstract submission: <b>April 15,     2017</b></font></span></li><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font><li style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Notification of acceptance:<b> May 15, 2017</b></font></span></li><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font><li style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Early bird registration deadline: <b>June 30,     2017</b></font></span></li><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font><li style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Full text due:<b> July 30, 2017</b></font></span></li><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font><li style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Conference reception and presentations: <b>August     31 – September 1, 2017</b></font></span></li><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font></ul><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;text-align:justify"><em><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:115%"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Topics include but are not limited to:</font></span></em></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font><ul style="list-style-type:disc"><ul style="list-style-type:circle"><ul style="list-style-type:square"><li style="font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:10pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Television Studies</font></span></p></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:10pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">TV Celebrity </font></span></p></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:10pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Celebrity Academic </font></span></p></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:10pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Onscreen Persona </font></span></p></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:10pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Fandom</font></span></p></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:10pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Audience</font></span></p></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:10pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Publicity </font></span></p></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:10pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">News </font></span></p></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:10pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Interviews</font></span></p></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:10pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Social Media</font></span></p></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:10pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Online Video </font></span></p></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:10pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Fiction</font></span></p></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:10pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Genre</font></span></p></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:10pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Biography</font></span></p></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:10pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Literature</font></span></p></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:10pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Fashion</font></span></p></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:10pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Photography</font></span></p></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:10pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Performance</font></span></p></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:10pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Life Writings</font></span></p></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:10pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Theory and Methods</font></span></p></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:10pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Research Agenda</font></span></p></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:10pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Business Models</font></span></p></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:10pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Ethics and Morality</font></span></p></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:10pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Media Literacy</font></span></p></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:10pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Education and Advocacy</font></span></p></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:10pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">International Relations</font></span></p></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:10pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Community Building</font></span></p></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:10pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Business and Community Partnerships <br><br></font></span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:10pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US">Conference Keynote: </span></b><span lang="EN-US">Andrew Mendelson </span></font></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:10pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US">Conference Key Media Speaker: </span></b><span lang="EN-US">Tim Harper</span></font></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:10pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US">Conference Chairs</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Josh Nathan and Andrea Marshall</span></font></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:10pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b>Committee Members</b>: Nicole Bojko, Jackie Raphael and Celia Lam</font></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:10pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b>Conference URL</b>: <a href="http://www.cmc-centre.com/nyc2017" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff">www.cmc-centre.com/nyc2017</font></a> <b>Twitter </b><a href="http://www.twitter.com/celeb_studies" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff">@celeb_studies</font></a> #BGCS17<br><br></font></p></li></ul></ul></ul></div>