CFP: 'From Central to Digital: Television in Russia' International Conference

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   *From Central to Digital: Television in Russia*

international conference; 10-11 March 2011

Russian State University for Humanities, Moscow , in collaboration with the
University of Leeds

*Conference website: http://dtv.vladstrukov.com*

*1 December 2010*- deadline for submitting paper and panel proposals

As many other countries anticipating the digital television transition,
Russia faces a few formidable challenges, including selecting technical
standards, developing new digital content, regulating relationships between
platforms and service providers, and balancing between public and commercial
interests. The complexity of the process is exacerbated by the sheer size of
the country and by uneven development of its regions.

The conference aims to explore social and cultural implications in the
transition to digital television by providing an analysis of the regulatory
framework, DTV markets, forms of signal delivery, configuration of DTV
channels in Russia ’s regions, and convergence of media platforms. The
conference specifically endeavours to examine the role of digital
technologies in transforming the political and cultural landscape of Russian
television by looking at internet television channels, multi-regional
channel *Russia Today,* and other delivery platforms. It plans to
investigate social and cultural implications of DTV in Russia by focusing on
new genres, hybrid forms of media texts, innovative content of DTV
programming as well as on the changing role of DTV audiences.

Papers are sought from a spectrum of disciplines such as Television and Film
Studies, Media and Communication Studies, Cultural Studies, History, and
Political Science. The themes for papers might include:

*DTV theory and practice*: success and complexity of digitalization
(processes, experiences and first results of introducing new technology into
Russian media landscape, case-studies of existing DTV platforms).

*Advancing DTV*: interrelations of the state, business and the public in the
process of Russian media digitalization; DTV and public and private spheres,
central and regional players.

*Locating Russian DTV*: traditions of the Soviet television, changes and
innovations of 1990-2000s in the context of new media forms.

*International Perspective*: comparison of Russian digital switchover with
cases in Europe, USA , China , Japan , and former Soviet republics.

*DTV audiences*: case studies of Russian DTV audiences, diversification and
segmentation of audiences, influence of digital technology on social
activism, new fandoms.

*DTV programming*: analysis of changes to TV content because of new
technologies, new television texts and their messages, global versus local
produce, constructions of a new social, political and cultural reality on
DTV channels.

*DTV as a new medium / language*: cultural implications of DTV technology,
new formats, interactivity, viewers’ creativity as resources for future
development; creolized TV-Internet texts, technological convergence versus
cultural hybridization.

*Confirmed List of **Plenary **Speakers: *

*Professor Stephen
Hutchings<http://www.llc.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/staff/rees/StephenHutchings/>
* ( University of Manchester ); *Professor **Andrei
Richter<http://www.journ.msu.ru/?chp=pages&id=74>
* <http://www.journ.msu.ru/?chp=pages&id=74>( Moscow State University ); and
*Mr **Michael Starks <http://pcmlp.socleg.ox.ac.uk/2010/annenberg/faculty>**
**( Oxford University ).***

* *

*Organizers / Contact Information *

Vlad Strukov (Russian DTV conference)

SMLC University of Leeds , Leeds LS2 9JT United Kingdom

*v.strukov at leeds.ac.uk*<http://uk.mc297.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=v.strukov@leeds.ac.uk>

Vera Zvereva

k. 307, 5 korpus,

Department of History and Theory of Culture

Russian State University for the Humanities

6, Miusskaia pl. Moscow , Russian , Moscow )

e-mail: *zverca at yandex.ru*<http://uk.mc297.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=zverca@yandex.ru>

*You can submit either a paper or a panel proposal.* If you plan to submit a
paper proposal, please provide an abstract of your paper (either in English
or Russian, maximum 400 words) along with your registration form. If you
plan to submit a panel proposal, please provide a panel description (either
in English or Russian, maximum 300 words), an abstract for each paper on the
panel (either in English or Russian, maximum 400 words) and a registration
for each presenter.

The registration form should include the following information: title, name
and surname, name of your organization, your position, postal address,
e-mail address, and contact telephone number.

The working languages of the conference are Russian and English.

Preliminary conference programme will be announced on 20 December 2010. The
final conference programme will be published on the conference website in
January 2011.

*Planned Publication*

Papers presented at the conference will be considered for publication in
leading Russian and British academic journals. Materials of the round table
discussion will be published in *Iskusstvo kino* [Art of cinema] journal.

-- 
Helena Goscilo
Professor and Chair
Dept. of Slavic Langs. and Lits. at OSU
1775 College Road
Columbus, OH 43210
Tel:  (614) 292-6733
Fax: (614) 688-3107
Leverhulme Professor, Visiting Professor at University of Leeds, UK

Motto:
"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book."
Friedrich Nietzsche

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