Diaspora Screen Media Network: Charting Glocal Imaginaries

Diaspora Screen Media Network：绘制全球本土想象图

• 批准号: AH/S004165/2
• 负责人: Rajinder Dudrah
• 金额: $ 2.06万
• 依托单位: Birmingham City University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FS004165%2F2
• 关键词: Diaspora; Screen; Media; Network; Charting

The DSMN will explore how selected diaspora screen media texts including documentaries and short films engage with new media and the digital world of the internet to create new global forms of visual awareness considered as 'glocal imaginaries'. Building on recent work that traces the global mobilization of culture, the project will fill a gap in current research by using British Asian and Black British screen texts as case studies in identifying how 'glocal' formats of the new media align with or juxtapose national, regional or transnational perspectives of today's increasingly fluid visual culture (i.e. here routed through Birmingham and Northampton).The network events will explore diaspora screen media texts' engagement with contemporary 'media ecologies' (Fuller 2005) in order to shape new understandings of the locatedness and mobility of diasporic audiences. It will provide an arena for dialogue between the educational sector, creative professionals and the general public including student groups and migrant communities with which participants have affiliations. In defining 'glocal' imaginaries (e.g. in media examples and their distribution), the project will examine how the work of representative filmmakers, cultural practitioners and writers is viewed by the public who use social media, and together create an open reciprocal relationship that redefines and represents diaspora themes (e.g. cultural identity, relocation, cultural translation, home and belonging, religious beliefs and practices). Methodologically the network will articulate new cross-cutting debates on diasporic media cultures, address recent modes of access to diaspora screen media texts, and communication through social media. In identifying the changing landscape of film and online media production, reception, and promotion it asks:1. How are diasporic screen media changing in terms of social impact through modification of themes and issues via interventions by new media?2. Does new media's remapping of diasporic screen texts' traditional concerns encourage a more nuanced 'glocal imaginary' and how might this be defined? The workshops and symposium will address through a specific research question (see CfS) elements of the interrelationship between diaspora cinema and new media ecologies implied by these two key research questions:1. University of Northampton (UoN): 'Black British and British Asian Cinema and New Media' will focus on the current state of diaspora screen media texts and digital technologies used in production and reception. The changing circulation and consumption patterns of visual culture due to the impact of social media and digital technologies, will feature in discussions involving researchers and industry practitioners, film festival curators at the Errol Flynn Filmhouse (Northampton), FlatPack Film Festival and Midland Arts Centre (Birmingham), university students and the public. 2. Midlands Arts Centre (MAC), Birmingham: 'Social Networks and New Media' will examine the new media formats of diasporic screen media texts. Their changing role due to new media uses will be addressed by industry practitioners, film festival programmers, university students and early career researchers. Partners, e.g. Threshold Studios (Northampton), HOME (Manchester) and MACE (Lincoln), will be invited. 3. Birmingham City University (BCU): 'Globalising the Local in Diaspora Cinema and Media', a two-day symposium with invited speakers, film-makers, university students, members of public. Drawing on workshop findings, presentations will track new pathways to a glocal imaginary identified in the case studies associated with new media. Keynote speakers will be John Akomfrah, director of Handsworth Songs, and Vijay Mishra, author of Bollywood Cinema: Temples of Desire (2013) and Theorising the Diasporic Imaginary (2007). All network partners and stakeholders will be invited. 4. Events will be accompanied by screenings at venues.

DSMN将探索选定的离散屏幕媒体文本，包括纪录片和短片，如何与新媒体和互联网的数字世界进行互动，以创造新的全球视觉意识形式，被认为是“全球本地化”。该项目将在最近追踪全球文化动员的工作的基础上，通过使用英国亚洲人和英国黑人的屏幕文本作为案例研究来填补当前研究的空白，以确定新媒体的“全球本地化”格式如何与国家对齐或并列，当今日益流动的视觉文化的区域或跨国视角网络活动将探讨散居屏幕媒体文本与当代“媒体生态”的互动（Fuller 2005），以形成对散居受众的定位性和流动性的新理解。它将提供一个竞技场，供教育部门、创作专业人员和一般公众，包括参与者所属的学生团体和移民社区进行对话。在定义“全球本土”概念时（例如在媒体实例及其传播中），该项目将研究使用社交媒体的公众如何看待有代表性的电影制作人、文化从业者和作家的作品，并共同创造一种开放的互惠关系，重新定义和代表散居地的主题（例如文化身份、搬迁、文化翻译、家园和归属、宗教信仰和习俗）。从方法上讲，该网络将阐述关于散居媒体文化的新的跨领域辩论，解决最近获得散居屏幕媒体文本的模式，以及通过社交媒体进行沟通。在确定电影和在线媒体制作，接收和推广的变化景观时，它要求：1。流散的屏幕媒体如何通过新媒体的干预改变主题和问题，从而在社会影响方面发生变化？2.新媒体对流散的屏幕文本的传统关注的重新映射是否鼓励了一种更微妙的“全球化想象”？研讨会和专题讨论会将通过一个具体的研究问题（见CfS）解决以下两个关键研究问题所暗示的散居电影和新媒体生态之间的相互关系：1。北安普顿大学（UoN）：“英国黑人和英国亚洲电影和新媒体”将集中在散居屏幕媒体文本和数字技术在生产和接收中使用的现状。由于社交媒体和数字技术的影响，视觉文化的流通和消费模式不断变化，将在研究人员和行业从业者，埃罗尔弗林电影院（北安普顿）电影节策展人，FlatPack电影节和米德兰艺术中心（伯明翰），大学生和公众的讨论中发挥作用。2.米德兰艺术中心（MAC），伯明翰：“社交网络和新媒体”将研究散居屏幕媒体文本的新媒体格式。由于新媒体的使用，他们的角色发生了变化，将由行业从业者，电影节程序员，大学生和早期职业研究人员解决。合作伙伴，如阈值工作室（北安普顿），家庭（曼彻斯特）和MACE（林肯），将被邀请。3.伯明翰城市大学（BCU）：“全球化的地方在散居电影和媒体”，为期两天的研讨会邀请演讲者，电影制片人，大学生，公众成员。根据研讨会的结果，演讲将追踪与新媒体相关的案例研究中确定的全球本地化想象的新途径。主题演讲者将是Handsworth Songs的导演John Akomfrah和宝莱坞电影的作者Vijay Mishra：欲望的寺庙（2013）和Theorising the Diasporic Imaginary（2007）。将邀请所有网络伙伴和利益攸关方参加。4.活动将伴随着在场馆放映。