HI ourmedia friends-

If you can, try to submit something on digital TV and public access,
indigenous media, media by people with disabilities or media activism etc.
Seems like 'our media' are going to be left out of this otherwise...

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> Contributions are solicited for the publication of an edited collection
> entitled Television as Digital Media.
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> Editors: James Bennett (London Metropolitan University) and Niki Strange
> (University of Sussex/Cogapp Ltd)
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> Television is increasingly becoming a digital medium, making a Œnew media¹
> form out of a technology that has often been positioned as the old
> technology par excellence. Without taking a technologically determined
> view of television¹s new digital form, we seek contributions that assess
> how television¹s digitalization, as part of a wider cultural change, do
> bring about significant shifts in the ways we understand, theorize, use,
> watch and enjoy television. From the production practices and industrial
> strategies of the television industry, through to its regulation and its
> uses and place in the lives of its audiences, television is changing and
> requires us to re-think our understanding of it with these changes.
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> The collection already has an excellent line up of entries from esteemed
> and newly emerging scholars, including Professors William Boddy (Baruch
> College, City University NY), John Caldwell (UCLA), Roberta Pearson
> (Nottingham),  Jeanette Steemers (Westminster), Dr. Karen Lury (Glasgow),
> and Dr. Helen Wood (De Montfort). This call for papers therefore looks to
> extend and build upon the focus of these contributors¹ essays (please see
> www.digitaltvstudies.org.uk/abstracts.htm for details of provisional
> abstracts).
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> We particularly welcome papers that take a cross-disciplinary approach,
> converging fields of film, television, new media, cultural and media
> studies scholarship together with other disciplines that digital
> television increasingly asks us to touch upon.  Suggested areas of
> interest include, but are not limited to:
> €        New Œtelevision¹ technologies: YouTube, Joost, Internet protocol
> television etc;
> €        Public service broadcasting in a European context;
> €        The development of DTV outside of the US and UK;
> €        Digital television¹s use by specific groups: subcultures,
> diasporas, migrants etc.;
> €        Surveillance technologies in digital TV;
> €        Digital television in a global context: e.g. global formats,
> digital distribution across borders; Bit-torrent, TV Without Frontiers
> Directive etc;
> €        Issues of digital rights management (DRM), Intellectual Property
> (IP), and Copyright;
> €        Ontologies of digital television: liveness, real-time, download
> streams etc.
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> Final essays will be approx 7,000 words in length, with drafts due in
> March of 2008 and final submissions by 1st of July 2008. Authors should
> submit abstracts of no longer than 500 words by October 1st 2007, together
> with a brief biography (250 words maximum). For more information please
> contact James Bennett j.bennettATlondonmet.ac.uk
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