Diaspora Screen Media Network: Charting Glocal Imaginaries

DSMN将探索包括纪录片和短片在内的精选海外银幕媒体文本如何与新媒体和互联网数字世界相结合，以创造新的全球形式的视觉意识，被视为“全球本地想象”。在最近追踪全球文化动员的工作的基础上，该项目将通过使用英国亚裔和黑人英国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”格式如何与当今日益流动的视觉文化（即通过伯明翰和北安普顿）的国家、地区或跨国视角相结合或并列。网络活动将探索散居的屏幕媒体文本与当代“媒体生态”的接触（Fuller 2005），以形成对散居观众的定位性和流动性的新理解。它将为教育部门、创意专业人员和公众（包括与参与者有联系的学生团体和移徙社区）之间的对话提供一个场所。在定义“全球本土化”的想象（例如媒体例子及其分布）时，该项目将研究使用社交媒体的公众如何看待具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，重新定义和代表离散主题（例如文化认同、搬迁、文化翻译、家园和归属、宗教信仰和习俗）。从方法上讲，该网络将阐明关于散居媒体文化的新的跨领域辩论，解决最近获取散居屏幕媒体文本的模式，以及通过社交媒体进行交流。在确定电影和在线媒体制作、接收和推广的不断变化的景观时，它提出了以下问题：通过新媒体的介入对主题和议题的修改，流散的屏幕媒体在社会影响方面是如何变化的？新媒体对流散屏幕文本的重新映射是否鼓励了一种更微妙的“全球想象”？这可能是如何定义的？讲习班和研讨会将通过一个具体的研究问题（见CfS）来解决这两个关键研究问题所隐含的散乱电影和新媒体生态之间相互关系的要素：1。北安普顿大学（UoN）：“英国黑人和英国亚裔电影与新媒体”将重点关注散居海外的屏幕媒体文本和用于制作和接收的数字技术的现状。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的变化将成为研究人员和行业从业者、埃罗尔·弗林电影节（北安普顿）、FlatPack电影节和米德兰艺术中心（伯明翰）的电影节策展人、大学生和公众讨论的重点。2. 米德兰兹艺术中心（MAC），伯明翰：“社交网络和新媒体”将考察散失的屏幕媒体文本的新媒体形式。他们因新媒体的使用而改变的角色将由行业从业者、电影节程序员、大学生和早期职业研究人员来解决。将邀请合作伙伴，例如Threshold Studios（北安普顿）、HOME（曼彻斯特）和MACE（林肯）。3. 伯明翰城市大学（BCU）：“全球化散居海外的本地电影和媒体”，一个为期两天的研讨会，邀请演讲者、电影制作人、大学生和公众人士参加。根据研讨会的发现，演讲将追踪与新媒体相关的案例研究中确定的全球局部想象的新途径。主讲人将是《Handsworth Songs》的导演John Akomfrah，以及《宝莱坞电影：欲望神庙》（2013）和《流散想象的理论化》（2007）的作者Vijay Mishra。将邀请所有网络合作伙伴和利益相关者参加。4. 活动将在各场馆进行放映。

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.