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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:150%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:150%">Call For Papers: “Streaming Diversity? On and
off-screen diversity in an era of automated media culture” <br></span></b></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:150%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:150%">Special Issue of <i>Convergence: The
International Journal of Research Into New Media Technologies</i><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:150%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:150%">Guest editors: Dr Maura Edmond, Dr Olivia Khoo, Dr
Claire Perkins and Dr Verity Trott, from <a href="https://twitter.com/gendermedialab" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">@Gender&MediaLab</span></a> in the School of Media,
Film and Journalism at Monash University, Australia.<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:150%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:150%">Deadline for abstracts: <b>22 September 2023</b> |
Expected publication date: August 2024</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:150%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:150%"><br><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:150%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:150%">The unprecedented growth of
video-on-demand streaming platforms has brought both new optimism and
new complications to concerns around screen ‘diversity’. Without the
limitations of linear television, streaming services have far greater
capacity for producing and distributing more diverse screen content.
Many of the streaming platforms have made high profile public
commitments to diversity, such as Netflix’s ‘Inclusion Report’,
introducing new policies and commissioning processes intended to support
culturally diverse representation and content production. Large
global SVODs and smaller region-specific and genre-specific platforms have also
launched original series and commissioned content that has been widely marketed
as and celebrated for its diverse representations. Together, this has
created a popular impression that streaming platforms are
improving diversity in terms of both representation and practical
opportunities for screen creatives. This special issue of Convergence will
critically explore the impacts of video streaming platforms on
different dimensions of ‘diversity’.<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:150%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:150%">Existing studies on diversity in the
screen sector have consistently demonstrated long standing and entrenched
inequality regimes affecting women and non-dominant groups, but there remains
limited research on how this plays out at the streaming services
specifically. Research on SVOD-related impacts have focused instead on
understanding how major global companies like Netflix have interacted with
existing local screen industries and production ecosystems, affected global
distribution and content flows, and created overall regulatory imbalances. We
are calling for papers that will examine the impacts of
video streaming platforms that extend our understanding
of diversity in an era of automated, on-demand video. <br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:150%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:150%"><br><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:150%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:150%">In keeping with the themes of this issue, we
welcome proposals looking at streaming services and experiences
outside US contexts.<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:150%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:150%">Questions of interest include, but are not limited
to:<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:150%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:150%">- How is diversity represented and made
discoverable via platform features such as the image tiles and categories used
in catalogues?<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:150%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:150%">- How do recommendation systems understand and
operationalise ‘diversity’?<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:150%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:150%">- What values and messages
about diversity are being communicated by the content commissioned
by streaming services?<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:150%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:150%">- What are we to make of existing policies and
practices intended to support diversity, equity and inclusion at
the streaming platforms?<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:150%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:150%">- What policy options are there for regulating
‘diversity’?<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:150%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:150%">- How do audiences, users and communities engage
with streaming platforms to discover, view or value ‘diverse’
content?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:150%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:150%"><br><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:150%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:150%">Please submit a 500-word abstract & 100 word
bio by 22 September 2023 to:<span></span></span></b></p>

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20 October 2023. Full articles will be due 01 March 2024<span></span></span></p>

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</div><br><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Dr Claire Perkins<div><div>Director, Bachelor of Media Communication</div><div><br></div><div>School of Media, Film & Journalism</div><div>Room B436, Caulfield Campus</div><div>Monash University</div><div>Victoria 3145</div><div>AUSTRALIA</div><div>+61 3 9903 1239<br></div><div><a href="mailto:claire.perkins@monash.edu" target="_blank">claire.perkins@monash.edu</a></div><div><br></div><div>Website: <a href="https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/claire-perkins" target="_blank">https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/claire-perkins</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Series co-editor, <i><a href="https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/series-screen-serialities-html.html" target="_blank">Screen Serialities</a> </i>(Edinburgh UP)<br></div></div><div><br></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">We acknowledge the Traditional Owners, and Elders past and present, </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">of all the lands on which Monash University operates.</span></font><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>