BCMCR Audience Conference 2023
Date & Time:
6th July, 09:00
Location:
BCU City Centre Campus, Parkside P134
Information:
A one-day conference, part of the 2022-2024 BCMCR theme of 'Audience'.
Conference Schedule
Registration/Coffee 8:30am
Welcome 9am
Panel 1 – Fandom 9:15-10:45am
a) Tweenhood, Liminality, and Postcolonial Context: Liminal Disabled Tweens’ Identification with Disney Animations in Algeria – Presenter: Selma Aitsaid (University of Leicester)
b) The stories we share? An exploration of new transnational audiences of Yeşilçam – Presenter: Zeynep Serinkaya Winter (Nottingham Trent University)
c) Contingent Consumption in Platformized Fan Culture: Meal Replacement and Buying Stocks – Presenter: Lin Zhang* (University of Turku)
Break 10:45-11am
Panel 2 – Methods 11 am-12:30pm
a) Keeping up with audiences: The best ways to research and represent media consumption and experiences – Presenter: ST Ahmed (UAE University)
b) The Researcher as Audience Member: An Autoethnographic Reflection on Researching what you like – Presenter: Claire Sedgwick (University of Derby)
c) Connected viewing of series and young adult identity formation –
Presenters: Christine Thoër and Katharina Niemeyer (University of Quebec)
Lunch 12:30-1:15pm
Panel 3 – Audio 1:15-2:45pm
a) “You are the longest and best relationship I’ve ever had!”: How an artist’s work can be shaped by the modality of their fan community – Presenter: Hannah Judson* (Stony Brook)
b) British pop stars as radio fans: the critical listening, and the musical reactions, of a niche audience 1960s – 2010s – Presenter: Martin Cooper (University of Huddersfield)
c) From ‘faithful listeners’ to The Eye: thematizing and conceptualizing podcasts’ audiences within the medium – Presenter: Aldona Kobus (Nicolaus Copernicus University)
Break 2:45-3pm
Panel 4 – TV/Video 3-4:30pm
a) Cobra Kai: Nostalgia, Ideological Change, and Escapism – Presenter: Faye Davies (Birmingham City University)
b) The Dancing, Joyful Audiences in the Cinema Auditoriums of the Bollywood Film Pathaan – Presenter: Rajinder Dudrah (Birmingham City University)
c) Issue of Perceived Audience and Embracing Liminality in Kashmiri and Solidarity Documentary – Presenter: Mehvish Rather* (Queen’s University)
Wrap-up 4:30-4:45pm
*Presenter joining us online