MIPCOM 2020 – KEY TAKEAWAYS by Heidi Keinonen and Eerika Vermilä
The annual MIPCOM market was organized in mid-October as a virtual event. We composed a summary on...
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NON-HUMAN PERFORMANCE, MISE-EN-SCENE AND THE TRANSNATIONAL: SKIPPY THE BUSH KANGAROO by Jonathan Bignell
How might we describe and evaluate non-human “performances” in television fiction? I blogged a...
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EMOTIONAL CONSOLATION, POLITICAL ESCAPISM AND POST-OBJECT FANDOM: RE-WATCHING AND RE-STAGING THE WEST WING IN 2020 by Rebecca Williams
Writing in April 2020, Joke Hermes and Annette Hill note that audiences turned to television...
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RERUNS: NORMAL PEOPLE AND OUTRAGE DISCOURSE ACROSS TIME by Morgan Wait
Towards the end of April — into what we can now call Lockdown 1.0 as Ireland has recently entered...
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CRIME TV, PART ONE by Kenneth Longden
I have been indulging in crime lately; crime on TV to be precise. I have noticed a few academic...
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CfP: JoDMP special issue “Digital Media, Public Policy and the implementation of the revised AVMSD”. Deadline: Nov 20, 2020.
Special issue of Journal of Digital Media & Policy, 12.3 (October 2021) Deadline (extended):...
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CfP: conference “Censorship and blind spots: the BBC’s silences”. Jan 20, 2021. Deadline: Nov 26, 2020.
The BBC’s reputation for impartiality and independence is one of the cornerstones of its...
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CFP: British Association for American Studies 2021 Digital Conference. April 6-11, 2021. Deadline: Nov 30, 2020.
We are excited to announce details for the British Association for American Studies’s 66th Annual...
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CfP: Graduate conference “Communities and Networks”, Dec 4-5, 2020. Deadline: Nov 25, 2020.
Since the mid-nineties researchers have developed a monumental theory of information and...
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CfP: Canadian Communication Association (CCA) Annual Conference 2021 “Northern Relations”, June 1-4, 2021. Deadline: Dec 15, 2020.
Call for papers for the next annual conference of the Canadian Communication Association, which...
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CfP: conference “Detecting Europe in contemporary crime narratives: print fiction, film, and television”. June 21-23, 2021 @ Link Campus University, Rome (ITA). Deadline: Nov 15, 2020.
Confirmed Keynote Speakers Charlotte Brunsdon (University of Warwick) Theo D’haen (Leuven...
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IF STREAMING STARTS TO OFFER EVERYTHING, SHOULD WE FINALLY GIVE UP THE DVD? by Hannah Cooper
When BritBox was announced, many wondered what impact it would make. Unless it offered something...
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WHAT HAS TV CONSUMPTION BEEN LIKE FOR A NEW TELEVISION PRODUCTION STUDENT DURING A LOCKDOWN? by Matthew Price
While I have always been an avid television viewer, I have found that my content consumption...
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CfP: edited collection “The X-Files Companion”. Deadline: Jan 22, 2021.
Chapter proposals are invited for a proposed edited companion on the seminal television series The...
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CfP: eTropic special issue “Pandemic, Plague, Pestilence and the Tropics”. Deadline: Dec 01, 2020.
The Tropics has long been associated with exotic diseases and epidemics. This historical imaginary...
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CfP: AAS conference “Journeys: Memory and Migration”, June 10-11, 2021 @ Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh (UK). Deadline: Nov 26, 2020.
Confirmed Keynotes: Dr Dima Ayoub, Assistant Professor of Arabic and Middle East Studies,...
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IS IT TIME YET – TO GRIEVE? by Elke Weissmann
Last week, a number of UK TV executives discussed strategies for programming television,...
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VIEWS MY OWN: THE BBC’S POLICING OF SOCIAL MEDIA by JP Kelly
Ironic disclaimer: these views are my own. On the 29th of October 2020, the BBC announced new...
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NEGOTIATING A PANDEMIC THROUGH CULT TV: SURVIVORS, ONTOLOGICAL SECURITY AND HORROR by Ross Garner
Content warning: COVID-19; pandemic. Back in early February, as the first outbreak of COVID-19...
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LOOK, I’M BASICALLY FEELING OLD (AND A BIT GRUMPY)
An entirely not-secret diary by John Ritchie (aged 47 and a half-ish) Ohferfuckssake is it that...
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AT HOME IN THE HOUSE OF GAMES by Richard Hewett
How are we all getting on, then? I have just heard that London is moving into Tier 2 at the...
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DANISH CHILDREN’S CONTENT FOR 1-3-YEAR OLDS AND THE IMPORTANCE OF NATIONAL PLATFORMS LIKE THE DANISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION, DR
By Christa Lykke Christensen, member of research project Reaching Young Audiences The...
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BSG@2020: WATCHING BATTLESTAR GALACTICA ON BBC IPLAYER by Aris Mousoutzanis
‘Our goal’, Ronald D. Moore wrote in the mission statement for his Battlestar Galactica (Universal...
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The afternoon before my Dad died I was at the house with my kids. There was a blackout – we’d noticed because the iPad and computers stalled – but Dad hadn’t moved. There he still sat in his chair, dozing/glancing/dozing in...
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CfP: conference “Histories of Women in Film and Television: Then and Now”. July 10-11, 2021 @ Maynooth University, Kildare (IRE). Deadline: Jan 15, 2021.
DWFTH 5 revised for 2021: New call for papers–‘Histories of Women in Film and...
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