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接触，以创造被视为“全球想象力”的新的全球视觉意识形式。在追踪全球文化动员的最新工作的基础上，该项目将通过使用英国、亚洲和英国黑人屏幕文本作为案例研究，填补当前研究中的一个空白，以确定新媒体的“全球”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敦)的国家、地区或跨国视角相结合或并列。网络活动将探索海外屏幕媒体文本与当代“媒体生态”的接触(Fuller 2005)，以形成对海外受众的地方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之间提供一个对话的场所，包括与参与者有关联的学生团体和移民社区。在定义“全球”形象时(例如，在媒体实例及其传播中)，该项目将审查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，重新定义和代表散居国外的主题(例如，文化认同、搬迁、文化翻译、家园和归属感、宗教信仰和习俗)。在方法上，该网络将阐述关于散居海外的媒体文化的新的交叉辩论，解决最近接触散居海外的屏幕媒体文本的方式，以及通过社交媒体进行交流。在确定电影和网络媒体制作、接受和推广的不断变化的格局时，它问：1.通过新媒体的干预改变主题和问题，散居的银幕媒体在社会影响方面是如何变化的？2.新媒体对散居的银幕文本的传统关注的重新映射是否鼓励了一种更微妙的“本土化想象”，这一点应该如何定义？研讨会和专题讨论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暗示的海外移民电影和新媒体生态之间的相互关系的要素：1.北安普敦大学(UON)：“英国和英国黑人亚洲电影和新媒体”将侧重于海外移民的现状，银幕媒体文本和在制作和接收中使用的数字技术。由于社交媒体和数字技术的影响，视觉文化的传播和消费模式正在发生变化，研究人员和行业从业者、Errol Flynn Filmhouse(北安普敦)电影节策展人、Flat Pack电影节和米德兰艺术中心(伯明翰)、大学生和公众将参与讨论。2.伯明翰米德兰兹艺术中心(MAC)：《社交网络与新媒体》将考察散居海外的银幕媒体文本的新媒体格式。行业从业者、电影节节目制作人、大学生和早期职业研究人员将讨论他们因新媒体使用而发生的角色变化。合作伙伴，如Threshold Studios(北安普顿)、Home(曼彻斯特)和Mace(林肯)将被邀请。3.伯明翰城市大学(BCU)：“全球化散居影院和媒体中的地方”，这是一个为期两天的研讨会，邀请演讲者、电影制作人、大学生和公众参加。在研讨会成果的基础上，演讲将追踪与新媒体相关的案例研究中确定的全球想象的新途径。主旨演讲者将是Handsworth歌曲的导演John Akomfrah和《宝莱坞电影：欲望的寺庙》(2013)和《理论散居的想象》(2007)的作者Vijay Mishra。将邀请所有网络合作伙伴和利益攸关方参加。4.活动将在场馆放映。

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.