[Filmfestivalresearch] 2016 Centre for Media & Celebrity Studies - Keynote Speaker P. David Marshall

Dr Samita Nandy samitanandy at gmail.com
Wed Dec 23 17:25:37 CET 2015


*The following keynote might be of strong interest to faculty, students and
professionals examining stardom and persona in relation to film festivals.
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Thursday, December 31, 2015.*


We are honoured to announce that the 2016 CMCS conference *Bridging Gaps*:
What are the media, publicists, and celebrities selling? will feature
keynote speech by Professor P. David Marshall. Details are given below.


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*2016 CMCS Keynote Speaker Professor P David Marshall*
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*Bridging Gaps*: What are the media, publicists, and celebrities selling?
Red Room, Four Points by Sheraton Barcelona Diagonal
Barcelona, Spain
July 3-5, 2016

*“Commodifying the Celebrity-Self: The Peculiar Emergence, Formation and
Value of “Industrial” Agency in the Contemporary Attention Economy” by P
David Marshall *

Professor Marshall, a research professor and holding a personal chair in
new media, communication and cultural studies at Deakin University, has
published widely in two areas: the public personality/celebrity and new
media culture. His books include* Companion to Celebrity* (December
2015), *Celebrity
and Power* (1997; second edition, 2014), *Fame Games* (2000), *Web Theory*
(2003), *New Media Cultures* (2004), and *The Celebrity Culture Reader*
(2006). He has been a keynote speaker at many international conferences as
well as interviewed for articles and many broadcast media programs from
CNN, FoxNews, BBC, and the ABC/Radio National to the *Sydney Morning Herald*,
*New York Times* and the *Toronto Star*.  His previous academic positions
have been at Northeastern University in Boston, the University of
Queensland in Brisbane, and Carleton University in Ottawa along with
visiting positions at New York University, York University and Karlstad
University. He is also Visiting Distinguished Foreign Expert in the School
of Journalism and Communication at Central China Normal University (CCNU)
in Wuhan China.

His current writing and research has focused on some key areas in
contemporary popular culture: he has been developing the idea of ‘persona
studies’, where the presentation of the public self has expanded well
beyond celebrity culture via particularly online forms: it now structures
and patterns reputation and value across many professions and through many
recreational and leisure pursuits. He has developed three related concepts
to help explore this change in contemporary culture: presentational media,
the intercommunication industry, and the personalization complex.
Forthcoming books include: *Promotional Vistas* (Palgrave, 2016), *Contemporary
Publics* (2016), and *Persona Studies:  Celebrity, Identity and the
transformation of the public self *(Palgrave), and *Persona in formation*
(Minnesota, Forerunner Series, 2016).  He is also the founder of the *Persona
Studies *Journal and *M/C*. His personal blog can be found at:
www.pdavidmarshall.com
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*Conference URL*: http://cmc-centre.com/conferences/barcelona/

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