Exhibition-Conference on The Stardom and Celebrity of David Bowie 1965—2015 From Dr Sean Redmond I’m not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I’m living on.Coming to Australia in 2015, ACMI presents David Bowie Is, the acclaimed global exhibition from the Victoria and Albert Museum. As part…
Scholars as Critics: A Professional Development Workshop for Academics This workshop will offer guidance and address questions on professional skills and career opportunities both inside and outside academia. In particular, the workshop will offer insights and resources for scholars to become critics and experts in media and in other public spheres. The workshop includes basic…
Bridging Gaps: Higher Education, Media and Society Call for Papers: In higher education, media studies bring critical awareness of representations and reproductions of popular personas, artefacts, processes, and practices in social, economic, and political contexts. From the perspective of cultural studies, critical discourse analysis of media productions enables scholars to go beyond observing aesthetic aspects and…
CFP: Consuming/Culture: Women and Girls in Print and Pixels Keynotes: Prof. Angela McRobbie and Prof. Feona Attwood http://openbrookes.net/consumingculture/ @PrintAndPixels 5th-6th June 2015 Submit abstracts of no more than 250 words to consuming.culture.conference@gmail.com by 1st October 2014. Keynote Speakers: Angela McRobbie is Professor of Communications at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK. Her unparalleled contribution to…
In her Doctoral research, Stefania Marghitu is exploring Kim Kardashian’s brand, and how users engage with her widely successful mobile app game, Kim Kardashian: Hollywood. She will also be discussing how the game was a popular example of what Jesper Juul calls a “casual game,” a type of gaming that is dominated by women users….
Teaching with selfies: new Creative Commons syllabus From Kath Albury, Selfies Research Network Introducing the newest initiative from the Selfies Research Network: an six-week course for university students studying selfies, and/or university instructors who would like to touch on selfie culture in their own classes. The course (which carries a Creative Commons license) includes: A…
Victorian Texts in Contemporary Fandoms (Due date: Sep, 25, 2014). From Amanda Blake In a practice Henry Jenkins famously refers to as “textual poaching,” fans appropriate characters and narratives from canonical texts in order to adapt and rewrite them in novel ways, and for a variety of reasons: artistic, political, communal, financial, emotional, sexual, and…
CFP: Be your selfie: identity, aesthetics and power in digital self-representation From Guest Editors Laura Busetta and Valerio Coladonato Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network This issue of Networking Knowledge will investigate the practice of the “selfie”, one of the most significant phenomena of self-representation in the digital mediascape. Selfies are a notable…
CFP: From Robson Green to Sean Bean: Mapping Northern Stardom on Popular British Television From Dr David Forrest Special dossier for the Journal of Popular Television Edited by Beth Johnson (Keele University) and David Forrest (University of Sheffield) We invite contributions that explore the stars of the North of England on contemporary British television. Considering…
Stardom and Fandom panel From Amanda Blake Join us for the 36th Annual Southwest Popular Culture and American Culture Association Conference, February 11 – 14, 2015 at the beautiful Hyatt Regency in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The conference theme this year is “Many Faces, Many Voices: Intersecting Borders in Popular and American Culture.” The Area Chair for…
