<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS – 10th DECEMBER 2008<br><br>Internet Attractions: online video and user-generated ephemera<br><br>AHRC workshop on ephemeral media, University of Nottingham, 23-24 June 2009<br><br><a href="http://www.ephemeralmedia.co.uk/">http://www.ephemeralmedia.co.uk/</a><br><br>key speakers: Professor Nick Couldry (Goldsmiths), Professor Barbara<br>Klinger (Indiana), Hugh Hancock (Strange Company), Emily Renshaw-Smith<br>(Current TV - to be confirmed)<br><br><br><br>The emergence of new media technologies in the 1990s and 2000s,<br>specifically the rise of digital and Internet technology, has been<br>linked to fundamental changes in the media environment, shaping newly<br>emerging circuits of production and consumption and propagating a<br>cultural landscape where media seem available everywhere and all the<br>time. This AHRC-sponsored workshop examines a particular feature of<br>our accelerated media world - the growth of the brief or 'ephemeral'<br>texts that exist beyond and between the films, television programmes,<br>and radio broadcasts more commonly isolated for analysis.<br><br>What does ephemeral mean? In the context of the workshop it connotes<br>short-form media (i.e. texts that are no more than a few minutes long)<br>but also media which are fleeting in the way they circulate, or that<br>are often overlooked within mainstream academic study. 'Ephemeral<br>media' offers a rubric to designate and explore some of the key<br>strategies, forms and practices that are helping producers and publics<br>alike to negotiate today's fast-changing mediascape. More generally,<br>it invites historical and theoretical reflection on the significance<br>of screen ephemera - on those forms of screen culture that, whilst<br>momentary, remain active components of media experience.<br><br>The first workshop in the series focuses on user-generated ephemera,<br>in particular the proliferation of online video. The emerging digital<br>media environment has created new opportunities for user-generated<br>content to achieve broad distribution and so create a public of users.<br>This has been typified, and enabled, by recent phenomena such as<br>YouTube. The fleeting and competing nature of user-generated content<br>has placed particular emphasis on the role of media performance - what<br>can be understood broadly as a display of communicative competence for<br>assessment by an audience. The workshop will examine the status and<br>significance of user-generated ephemera (in particular online video)<br>and the kinds of performance inscribed herein.<br><br>Questions under discussion might include: How is performance framed in<br>user-generated ephemera? How is user-generated ephemera assessed and<br>discussed by audiences? How does the temporality of circulation on the<br>Internet shape the kind of publics that are convened around<br>user-generated ephemera? How do ephemeral media performances represent<br>national, regional, ethnic identity? How are questions of authorship<br>understood in forms that frequently involve the reworking of existing<br>material? What role do "gatekeepers" play in filtering the<br>user-generated performances that are distributed to online audiences?<br><br>The workshop is interested in, but not limited to, the following media<br>forms and issues:<br><br><br><br>Production and genre – creative amateur practices, technologies,<br>genres involved in making online video; the relation between amateur<br>and professional media production<br>Performance and address – styles of online acting, dance, musical<br>performance; projections of gesture and voice within online video and<br>other user-generated ephemera (e.g. webcams, online pornography,<br>blogging)<br>Sensory communication – the use of sound and image: audiovisual<br>methods and strategies<br>media environments - the relation of user-generated ephemera to<br>continuities/changes in the media landscape; historical precursors to<br>online video and user-generated ephemera<br>Audiences – online communities and the construction of user<br>hierarchies; questions of authorship and negotiation in "bottom up"<br>forms of ephemeral media; dynamics of cultural borrowing and<br>authorship in online remakes, mashups, and machinima<br>Distribution and Intellectual Property - the role of gate keepers and<br>cultural intermediaries; questions of censorship, policy and<br>legislation relating to ephemeral media production, distribution and<br>consumption<br>critical methodologies – the means and possibilities of studying<br>user-generated ephemera<br><br><br><br>The ephemeral media workshop is part of the AHRC's 'Beyond Text'<br>research programme and is designed to facilitate discussion in a small<br>group environment. It can provide travel (up to £100), accommodation,<br>and subsistence costs to all accepted participants. To apply for the<br>workshop, please send a 250 word paper proposal and a short biography<br>highlighting relevant research interests or publications to<br>generalenquiries@ephemeralmedia.co.uk by 10th December 2008.<br><br><br><br>This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an<br>attachment may still contain software viruses, which could damage your<br>computer system: you are advised to perform your own checks. 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