M4A8: Media For All 8: Complex Understandings Stockholm University Stockholm, Sweden, June 17-19, 2019 |
Conference website | http://tolk.su.se/m4a8 |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=m4a8 |
Poster | download |
Deadline for submitting a workshop or panel proposal | May 30, 2018 |
Notification of acceptance for workshops and panels | September 1, 2018 |
Deadline for submitting an abstract for a presentation or poster | September 20, 2018 |
Notification of acceptance for presentations and posters | November 20, 2018 |
Registration opens, early bird rates | December 1, 2018 |
Registration, regular attendence fees | March 1, 2019 |
Guidelines for an Accessible Presentation | http://pagines.uab.cat/umaq/sites/pagines.uab.cat.umaq/files/UMAQ_files/conference/gmgreco_guidelines_accessible_presentation_v3.1.pdf |
Call for workshop, panel, poster and presentation proposals
8th Media for All International Conference
The Institute for Interpreting and Translation Studies at the Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism at Stockholm University is proud to announce the 8th Media for All conference – Complex Understandings on June 17–19, 2019.
The conference will be held at the main campus of Stockholm University in the Royal National City Park at Frescati. We are very happy that the conference will be coming to Scandinavia in 2019, and we aim to attract academics, researchers, language practitioners, translators, interpreters, broadcasters, government agencies, support groups and the audiovisual translation (AVT) and media accessibility (MA) industry – not only from Europe, but indeed from all over the world.
Web address: tolk.su.se/m4a8
Complex Understandings
The world is becoming ever more complex and this is particularly true for the world of audiovisual translation and media accessibility. With ever more ways and ever more environments (cinema, TV, video games, computers, smart phones and glasses, social media etc.) in which to take part of (and in) audiovisual material, the complexities for AVT and MA are increasing.
Not only that, but more diverse groups of inhabitants of our audiovisual world (such as the visually, aurally or cognitively challenged, language learners, the elderly, etc.) are demanding and getting their just rights as audiovisual citizens.
The media itself is also getting more complex, with more forms interacting (e.g. YouTube clips on Facebook, subtitling in smart phones or glasses, cinema releases reappearing as video on demand, interactive displays at museums, etc.). Media has also become democratized, with more prosumers creating – and translating – their own content.
Furthermore, AVT and MA research is becoming ever more complex, as we search for understanding, not only through descriptive, text-centred studies, but also through experimental, viewer-centred studies using ever more complex methods (such as eye tracking, EEG, skin conductivity and fMRI scans). Understanding audiovisual content and impact has never been more important in this increasingly polarized world.
The aim of the conference
This conference is about creating and mediating understanding in an increasingly complex mediascape. Understanding not only of audiovisual content, but also understanding of and between producers, consumers and prosumers, understanding for the technical and cognitive processes involved, understanding the needs and desires of consumers, and understanding of and for working conditions, among many other perspectives. So, let’s get together to understand all these complexities!
Call for papers
The organizers now initiate a call for papers in four different formats: workshops, panels, presentations and posters.
Call for workshop proposals
The day preceding the conference will include a number of workshops with a duration of either a full or a half day. We invite proposals for high-quality workshops within the scope of the conference (see also the themes below), which will give participants hands on experience of new approaches, new technology or new techniques in the fields of AVT and MA. Workshops could include new techniques, systems and practices for practitioners, as well as new approaches and methods for researchers.
A proposal for a workshop should include a description of the topic that will be taught as well as a detailed description of the planning of the workshop and what the participants can expect.
Call for panel proposals
The organizers are opening up spaces for a few high-quality panels within the aim and scope of the conference. We invite panel proposals which focus on one specific theme of the conference (see below) and which are organized so that discussions with the audience are encouraged. Panels should have high scientific and academic quality, and panel organizers will present a suggested theme and draft programme for the panel. If the panel is accepted, panel organizers will also pre-screen the abstracts for each participant in the panel. Panel participants will be encouraged to submit speaking points rather than a paper. Each panel will have a duration of sixty minutes.
Deadline for submitting a workshop or panel proposal is May 30, 2018.
Call for presentation proposals
The individual oral presentation of papers is the backbone of this conference. We welcome abstracts on, or related to, all the themes listed below. We encourage speakers to speak freely when presenting, rather than reading aloud from a pre-prepared paper. Spots for presentations will be 30 minutes long, including a ten-minute session for questions. Even though the organizers are preparing many slots for presentations, we will only accept high-quality contributions, which will be judged in a double-blinded peer review process. Depending on the content and the format of the paper presented in the abstract, the organizers may suggest resubmission in a different format.
Call for poster proposals
The conference will include a poster exhibition and time will be set aside for a poster presentation slot. We therefore hope to see many high-quality applications for posters. We consider the poster format very valuable for presenting projects, whether they be completed studies or as work-in-progress. We would like to stress the importance of the visual element of posters, and thus encourage those researchers attending with a poster to prioritize the visual benefits of the poster, thus downsizing the written presentation, in order to ensure discussion and interaction with fellow scholars. There will be an award for the best poster.
Deadline for submitting a presentation or poster proposal is September 20, 2018.
Conference themes
- Mediating understanding on screen: subtitling, dubbing, voice-over, interpreting, narration, opera and theatre surtitling, localization;
- Media access: subtitling for the deaf and the hard-of-hearing, live subtitling, respeaking, audio description, audio subtitling, sign language interpreting, speech-to-text interpreting;
- Fan translation: fansubbing, fandubbing, scanlation etc.;
- Research methodology and interdisciplinary approaches;
- Innovation and new technologies: formats and platforms; AVT and social media;
- AVT in the global market: production and distribution, new trends, tools, needs, project management;
- Professional practice and ethics: labour market, working conditions, standardization and harmonization, productivity, costs, professional organizations, intellectual property rights, crowdsourcing;
- Quality standards and quality assurance;
- Reception research and audience needs, broadcasting for minority audiences;
- Censorship, manipulation and history of AVT;
- AVT training: curricula, new needs, standards, didactics and skills.