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The third Media in Transition conference centers on television's political and cultural role at the dawn of our new millennium. We aim to ask bold and clear questions, and to start to answer them in light of the medium's 75-year history as well as the emerging scholarship on this most powerful of communications systems.
What is the role of television in specific societies or regions today? How is this role changing? What part are digital technologies and new systems of communication playing in this transition? What are the likely outcomes of present trends? What are the darkest possibilities? What does the history of television in diverse countries and regions tell us about its possible futures?
Topics of special interest include but are not limited to:
Convergence: economic, technological, aesthetic
Globalization and its discontents
New genres of global television
The telenovella: its history and cultural work
Genre theory for television stories
The broadcast era in the USA
Television and new media
Economic/political trends in national/global programming
Television and national and/or local communities
Television in the digital future
Television and sports
The politics of television in transition
Histories of national and trans-regional television
Trends in news reporting
The fate of the documentary
Games and television
Proposals or drafts of papers will be accepted on a rolling basis until the final deadline of January 31, 2003.
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