<div dir="ltr"><h1 class="gmail-m_-5349059312699574473entry-title" style="box-sizing:inherit;clear:both;margin:0px 0px 1.05em;line-height:1.225"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:21.4667px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)">11th Australian Media Traditions Conference<br></span></b><span style="font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Media Convergence: Continuities and Change.</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">The Australian Media Traditions Conference 2019 will be held at the </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">University of Melbourne from 27-29 November</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">. The call for papers is open until the </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">end of May.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">  </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Our international keynote speaker is Professor Alexis Weedon, a cofounder of the journal <i>Convergence. </i>Alexis is </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">UNESCO chair in New Media Forms of the Book, and</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"> <span style="background:rgb(255,254,254)">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.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm;background:rgb(255,254,254);font-weight:normal">Australian keynotes will be announced soon.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Call for papers:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm;font-weight:normal">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.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">Possible topics and approaches include:</span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:black;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:normal">contemporary media histories of convergence (e.g. the Fairfax/Nine merger)</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:black;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:normal">comparative media histories (case studies from now and then, or then and then)</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:black;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:normal">transnational histories of convergence</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:black;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:normal">audience studies – how audience engagement has changed media coverage and influence</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:black;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:normal">Indigenous media in the post-digital sphere</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:black;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:normal">media in translation</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:black;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:normal">book publishing in the post-digital sphere</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:black;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:normal">changes in public broadcasting</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:black;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:normal">change in journalism culture and/or practice</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:black;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:normal">the rise of new media forms and/or objects</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:black;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:normal">histories of new-media interventions in political and social life</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:black;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:normal">cultural and social residues of media convergence</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:black;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:normal">the Netflix effect in Australia</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:black;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:normal">histories of media marketing</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:black;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:normal">studies of notable continuity in the Australian media and Australian journalism from colonial times up to the late twentieth century.</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">Papers concerned with Australian media traditions outside these themes will also be welcome.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">Please send a 250-word abstract with three keywords, plus a short bio, to <a href="mailto:CFP@AMT2019.com" target="_blank"><span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">cfp@amt2019.org</span></a> by </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Friday 31 May 2019</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">. Include your family name and the word “abstract” in the subject line.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">Proposals for panels are also welcome.  Please contact Dr Sybil Nolan</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">  <a href="mailto:sybil.nolan@unimelb.edu.au" target="_blank"><span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">sybil.nolan@unimelb.edu.au</span></a> if you wish to submit one.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:normal"> </span></p></h1></div>