Alternative Media and Remediation

Event: Thursday, 15^th September 2011

Deadline for submissions: Friday, 20^th May 2011

Digital culture innocuously pervades our everyday lived experience. It shapes how we define ourselves, organises our communication and mediates our cultural moment. The Online Mainline event aims to map the territory of the new digital age, examining how the online environment has come to shape our offline world and experiences in new, innovative and productive ways. Impacting upon our social experiences, business organisation and industry connections, the online environment has come to define the ways in which our society becomes mediated across generations and cultures.

Examining how online media functions as a mainline for the mediation and remediation of culture in the new digital age, the Online Mainline event seeks to open up an avenue for dialogue surrounding the uses and limitations of the online context as a tool for social, political and economic benefit. Seeking to analyse the new media and its associated alternative (and in some instances embryonic) media forms in the remediation of culture, areas of research interest that this event will interrogate include:

• Blogging and the Podcast
• Developing Technologies
• Social Networking Sites (Twitter, Facebook, Bebo)
• Youtube Generation
• Online and Social Organisation
• Online as Lifeline
• Fandom and Online Creativity
• Sharing Online and File Download
• Age and the Internet
• Online Gaming
• Gendering of New Technologies
• Online Convergence
• Online News
• Business and the Online Environment
• This list is not exhaustive and a diverse range of submissions are encouraged

Deadline for 300 word proposals: Friday, 20^th May 2011

Final papers should be 20 minutes in duration (including clips and demonstration)

Email submissions to: 

Proposals should include:

• Presenter Contact Details
• Biographical information (200 words)
• Proposal in Word format (300 words)
• Details of technical requirements

Please direct enquiries to: Dr Kerry Gough, email: 

A Screen Cultures Research Group Event