The deadline for the call for papers to der ECREA pre-conference
"Communicating Climate Change ­ Global goes Regional" has been extended to
25 March 2010.

All papers should be submissed trough the ECREA-2010-Hamburg-Webpage:

Understanding Computer Game Culture: the Cultural Shaping of a New Medium
Jan Van Looy
978-3838332130 | £58.65 LAP Lambert Academic Publishing

In the past few decades, video games have developed from a marginal
technological experiment into a mainstream medium. During this period
they have gone through several transformations, from  arcade machines
offering a few minutes of solitary fun for a quarter to monthly
subscription-based online MMOs in which thousands of players spend

Special Debates Section: Curating Digital Narrative
(Vol 17, no 4, November 2011)

Guest editor: Tom Abba (University of West of England)

Convergence, in association with UWE's Digital Cultures Research Centre, invites short debates
papers (c 2-3000 words) exploring the challenges facing archival and curation of digital narratives.  As
technologies employed to produce new narrative forms develop, and platforms evolve to facilitate
each new manner and grammar of story, are we in danger of leaving future generations incapable of

Animation Studies: Peer Reviewed Online Journal for Animation History and Theory

Society for Animation Studies members are invited to submit conference
papers from SAS or other conferences, past and present in the growing
subject area of animation studies.   Non-members are welcome to submit
papers, but must join the society before an accepted paper can be published.
(Membership details available at animationstudies.org).

All papers are subject to peer review; acceptance of a

The Biographical Narrative in 21st Century Film and Television

POSTGRADUATE SEMINAR SERIES

THURSDAY 27TH MAY & THURSDAY 3RD JUNE 2010

This seminar series welcomes proposals for papers from postgraduate students that
consider the biographical narrative, the ‘Biopic’, in cinema and television of the last
decade.

Despite its status as one of the most commercially and critically successful film and
television genres of the 21st Century the Biopic, and its recent resurgence, has

CSSC Summer Courses at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, from June 17 to July 7

IASPM Australia-New Zealand Annual Conference
Call for Papers: Instruments of Change

24-26 November 2010
Monash Conference Centre
Level 7, 30 Collins Street, Melbourne
School of English, Communications and Performance Studies / School of Music
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Conference Theme
Popular music is a dynamic cultural force. The acts of listening,
playing, dancing, composing and recording are undertaken in a constant
state of flux, further complicated by flows of space and time. This

Strictly Public Service Broadcasting Creative Freedom and Ambition?”