Call for Papers for 2010 SCMS conference panel Panel title - Gear: Media-Making Technologies The goal of this panel is to explore one of the least analyzed topics in media studies: the equipment used to produce and project/broadcast film, video, radio, television, and games. Possible paper topics include: - professional movie cameras and projectors - professional TV cameras - image editing equipment - sound recording and editing equipment - amateur movie and video cameras - consumer film projection (from Super 8 to YouTube) - consumer radios (from analog to satellite) - television sets (from analog to digital) - gaming technologies - media technology use and issues of identity (gender, class, race, age, etc.) - manufacturing and marketing media-making gear - consumer electronics shops - archiving media-making gear Since the 2010 SCMS conference theme is "Archiving the Future/Mobilizing the Past," papers that take a historical approach and explore the ways in which previous technologies inform current media-making equipment and practices are especially appreciated. Please send a 250-400-word abstract with at least 5 references and a brief biographical note to Mary Celeste Kearney <[log in to unmask]> by August 17, 2009. (Text pasted into the body of an email, rather than an attached Word doc, is preferred.) Selections for the panel will be made by August 19, 2009. -- Mary Celeste Kearney Associate Professor Department of Radio-Television-Film The University of Texas at Austin 1 University Station A0800 Austin, TX 78712-0108 Office: 512-475-8648 Fax: 512-471-4077 [log in to unmask] http://rtf.utexas.edu/faculty/mckearney.html ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu