The future of television starts here
A conference entitled Television Studies Goes Digital is being held in September at London Met with the aim of examining the future of television studies in the digital age.
John T. Caldwell of UCLA, with his paper User-Generated Content/Producer-Generated Consumption: How Outsourcing, Crowd-sourcing, and Industrial Identity Theory Fuel Digital TV will challenge the assumption that digital TV is a matter of producer-generated consumption versus user-generated content.
William Boddy of The City University of New York will present Dislocated Screens: The Place of Television in a Mobile Digital Culture. This will focus on the uncertain status of traditional domestic television in a rapidly-changing landscape of new technological platforms, business models and means of moving-image reception. This will be followed by Jeanette Steemers and James Walters of Westminster University dealing with children's TV production.
Dr. Karen Lury of the University of Glasgow will address two aspects of the aesthetics of digital TV: the effects of digital broadcasting and digital production. Max Dawson of Northwestern University will consider the longer and shorter forms of television storytelling. This will be followed by Niki Strange of the University of Sussex challenging the audience with"The Days of Commissioning Programmes are over…": The BBC’s ‘Bundled Project.'
Session 3 will deal with digital TV audiences. Lizzie Jackson of the BBC will detail the shift from viewer to participant, while Helen Wood of Du Montfort University will consider sociological approaches to capturing ‘user flows’ and will discuss ways in which consumers' dynamic viewing patterns can be captured.
Dr James Bennett is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies and admissions tutor for Media Studies and Mass Communications Undergraduate degrees.
Television Studies is a research specialism within the department and enquiries for post-graduate study are invited in these areas. Enquire here.
