[H-verkko] CFP: 1984: Freedom and Censorship in the Media – Where Are We Now?

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1984: Freedom and Censorship in the Media – Where Are We Now?
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1984: FREEDOM AND CENSORSHIP IN THE MEDIA – WHERE ARE WE NOW?

University of Sunderland – London Campus (23rd-24th April 2014)

In response to an overwhelming international interest from academics, we have
decided to relocate the conference to the University of Sunderland’s London
Campus. The conference will now take place on the 23rd and 24th of April 2014.
In light the change in venue and dates, we are reopening the call for papers.
The new deadline for the submission of abstracts is January 17th 2014.

The conference aims to examine censorship both nationally and internationally
and in all forms of media.

Selected papers will be published with a leading UK publisher in a forthcoming
edited collection based on the event.


Confirmed keynote speakers
Professor Martin Barker, University of East Anglia
Jerry Barnett, SexAndCensorship.org
Professor Julian Petley, Brunel University
Professor Clarissa Smith, University of Sunderland

In 2013 has raised concerns about new censorship measures. Jerry Barnett has
referred to it as ‘Internet Censorship 1.0’, It seems that 2014 is not so
far away from 1984 in terms of the social and political struggles for the
control of the media landscape. Censorship is still the currency of the
contemporary political discourse.

Worries over effects of media content and technologies are never far from the
headlines. When anxieties centre on protecting children and the fortification of
the social fabric, regulation often seems like the first resort. The year 2014
will see the thirtieth anniversary of the 1984 Video Recordings Act (VRA): this
event offers the opportunity to reflect on how and why concerns about individual
media technologies and particular media genres become so important that
campaigners and politicians can claim that ‘the very soul of the nation’ is
at stake. Using the VRA as a starting point, this conference aims to critically
examine the key issues in politics and campaigning which shape calls for
censorship. If new technologies always spark old anxieties around ‘effects’
and propensities to cause ‘harm’, what might we learn from extant
legislation and their implementation? As we settle into the internet age and
media on demand, policing national media borders seems ever more futile, yet the
clamour for legislation to protect children and society shows no signs of
abating.

We invite submissions that explore issues relating to censorship which may be
specific to the history, implementation and legacies of the Video Recordings Act
but we also welcome papers which examine media regulation/censorship in
contemporaneous issues and their historical antecedents. Their broader cultural
contexts, which are national and international in focus and which draw
connections between 

Suggested topics:

Censorship
Evolving practices and technologies of media classification and/or censorship
‘Problematic’ media cultures
Regulation of representations of sex, gender and sexualities
Digital and online censorship
Oppositional voices
Protecting and questioning national borders
Campaigns and campaigners
Activism/activists and the political arena
International narratives of censorship
British regulation in a global context
National and international regulation/censorship
Documentary and avant-garde
Controversies around computer games
History of contemporary film censorship/classification
Audiences and the social experiences of censorship
Censorship and the creation of communities of dissent
Regulations and government policy

Proposals for individual papers or pre-constituted panels are welcomed. The
submission deadline is 17th January 2014 and notifications of acceptance will be
made by the 31st January 2014.

Proposals should include title, abstract (350 words), 3-5 key bibliographical
references, along with the name of the presenter, institutional affiliation and
biographical information (100 words), and email.

Panel organizers are asked to submit panel proposals including a panel title, a
short description of the panel and information on all the papers following the
guidelines listed above.

Panels may consist of three speakers with a maximum of 20 minutes speaking time
each.

All submissions, expressions of interest and enquiries should be sent to:

admin at where-are-we-now.co.uk

Please see the conference website for more details: www.where-are-we-now.co.uk

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Ilmoituksen lähetti: Agricola <agricola at utu.fi>
Ilmoitus vanhentuu: 18.1.2014
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