MCLC: New Media and Cultural Transformation--cfp reminder

[Denton, Kirk]

MCLC LIST
From: sun shaoyi (shaoyis at gmail.com)
Subject: New Media and Cultural Transformation--cfp reminder
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Dear All.

This is a reminder that the "New Media and Cultural Transformation" CFP
deadline November 18, 2012:

New Media and Cultural Transformation:
Film, TV, Game, and Digital Communication
 
Call for Papers
 
School of Film-TV, Shanghai University
New York University Shanghai Center
 
December 7-9, 2012

 
Over the past two decades, the computer and Internet-based new digital
media have profoundly changed our conception of cinema, television, and
communication, and led to the emergence of many new forms of artistic,
social and self expressions. Consequently, new terms like “transmedia,”
“convergence media,” “participatory culture,” “self mass communication,”
“interactivity,” “e-cinema,” and “digitextuality” have been frequently
evoked to describe and theorize this cultural transformation. While it is
tempting to regard this as implying a revolutionary or “paradigm” shift in
artistic/cinematic expressions and media practices, it is also of vital
importance to recognize the fact that more traditional models associated
with “old” media remain relevant in our everyday life. To address the
significant changes to contemporary culture that are taking place under
the rubric of new media, therefore, is to view the current moment as a
critical juncture where almost every familiar medium is being
“re-invented” and “re-mediated,” but at the same time to respect the
historical roots from which digital art and media emerged.

 
Organized by Shanghai University’s School of Film-TV and NYU Shanghai
Center, the conference aims to open the doors to an interdisciplinary
examination of new media and its implications for the arts and
communication in the 21st century. With a broad focus on cinema,
television, gaming, and communication, the conference encourages
submissions of high-quality papers from around the world on new media
and/or digital technology and its role in the developing aesthetics in
cinema, television, gaming, and communication.
 
The following topics are especially but not exclusively sought from paper
and panel proposals:

 
- Digital technology and Film/Animation/Television/Communication
- Interdisciplinary approaches to game and gaming
- Machinema
- Interactive media and the arts
- Social Media and self-communication and artistic expression
- Web-film and e-cinema
- Digital technology and content distribution, marketing & consumption
- Human-machine symbiosis
- Screen aesthetics and transmedia platforms
- Computer programming as an artistic practice
- Mobility and perpetual connectivity: fragmented time and digital nomads

 
The working languages of the conference will be Chinese and English.
Simultaneous translation between Chinese and English may be provided,
depending on budget.

 
Date and Location:

 
Date:                   December 7-9, 2012 (Registration: Friday, Dec. 7,
2012);
Location:            International Conference Center, Shanghai University
 
Registration:

 
Once accepted, NO registration fee is involved. Participants do need find
their own sources for international traveling and on-campus accommodation
expenses.
 
Submission Guidelines

 
1.  Submissions should be made electronically via e-mail. Submissions will
be acknowledged within 48 hours. Submissions shall imply that at least one
author will register for the conference and be present at the time
designated in the conference program.
 
Submissions must be received by Nov. 18 (Sunday), 2012.  E-Mail
submissions to:

 
Prof. Shaoyi Sun
School of Film & TV, Shanghai University
       P.O. Box 308, 149 Yan Chang Road
       Shanghai 200072, China
       E-Mail: shaoyis at gmail.com
 
2. Be sure to include the following information in your submission:
 

* title of the submission, name (s) of the author (s)
* two or three keywords that describe the submission
* mailing address (es) and e-mail address (es)
* corresponding author if different than lead author

 
Further Correspondence
 
Send your inquiries to:
 
Prof. Shaoyi Sun
School of Film & TV, Shanghai University
       P.O.Box 308, 149 Yan Chang Road
       Shanghai 200072, China
E-Mail: shaoyis at gmail.com


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