CFP: Television Interfaces 2007 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference Chicago, IL March 8-11, 2007 As television's long anticipated convergence with digital, networked, and portable media technologies has accelerated in recent years, the practice of engaging with graphical user interfaces has come to occupy an ever-greater portion of our time spent with television. The interfaces of the iPod, Electronic Program Guides, digital video recorders, and a host of other distribution systems impact the very experience and meaning of convergent media technologies and forms. This panel will consider the emergence and proliferation of television interfaces from a number of perspectives. What are the aesthetic characteristics of the new TV interfaces? How are television producers, distributors, advertisers, and others modifying or creating new forms of television content which react to or interact with TV interfaces? How have these interfaces changed our experiences of watching television, and the metaphors analysts of the media use to describe the viewing experience? How do such interfaces challenge or reinforce gendered connotations of television technologies and spectatorship? What can these interfaces tell us about the nature of media convergence? And finally, do these new ways of engaging with television undermine established notions of television's ontology and ideology? Please submit proposals by August 14 to [log in to unmask] For more on SCMS 2007, see http://www.cmstudies.org (Apologies for x-posting) ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.ScreenSite.org