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fjmthe 3rd Genre Studies Network (GSN) workshop ‘Genre and New Technologies’ is approaching fast. The workshop is open to everyone, please register on it if you wish to attend by emailing Natasha Rulyova at n.e.rulyova@bham.ac.uk and spread the word. Feel free to distribute the attached poster to anyone who is interested in genre and new media. If you wish to learn more about the project please see our website at http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/lcahm/departments/russian/research/genre-studies-network.aspx . Here are the details of the upcoming workshop:
Date: 10 December 2012
Venue: University of Birmingham
Keynote: Prof. Gunther Kress, Institute of Education, University of London,UK, ‘Generating genre’
Panel One: Perspectives on Genre in Light of New Technologies
Prof. Janet Giltrow, University of British Columbia, Canada, ‘Perspectives on Genre:
Motive, Form, and Medial Change’
Dr Simone Schroth, Newcastle University/Aston University, UK, ‘More than a Modern Novel in Letters – The Email Novel as a New Genre‘
Dr Vlad Strukov, University of Leeds, UK‚ ‘Configurations of Space in Computer
Games: Towards a Genre Typology’
Panel Two: Genre and the Agency in the New Media Age
Prof. Gary Hall, Coventry University, UK, ‘#MySubjectivation: How our Agency and
Consciousness is Subordinated to the Calculable, Standardised, Ready-made
Forms and Genres of the Cultural Industries’
Dr Ranjana Das, University of Leicester, UK, ‘Prospecting, in Retrospect: Three
Concepts from Wolfgang Iser’s Reception Aesthetics in the Networked Age’
Dr Natasha Rulyova, University of Birmingham, UK, ‘Online Identities and Genre
in the Russian-Language Social Media‘
Roundtable facilitated by Dr Joanne Sayner, University of Birmingham, UK: Do new technologies lead to the advent of new genres? What are the differences between the medium and genre?
Date: 10 December 2012
Venue: University of Birmingham
Keynote: Prof. Gunther Kress, Institute of Education, University of London,UK, ‘Generating genre’
Panel One: Perspectives on Genre in Light of New Technologies
Prof. Janet Giltrow, University of British Columbia, Canada, ‘Perspectives on Genre:
Motive, Form, and Medial Change’
Dr Simone Schroth, Newcastle University/Aston University, UK, ‘More than a Modern Novel in Letters – The Email Novel as a New Genre‘
Dr Vlad Strukov, University of Leeds, UK‚ ‘Configurations of Space in Computer
Games: Towards a Genre Typology’
Panel Two: Genre and the Agency in the New Media Age
Prof. Gary Hall, Coventry University, UK, ‘#MySubjectivation: How our Agency and
Consciousness is Subordinated to the Calculable, Standardised, Ready-made
Forms and Genres of the Cultural Industries’
Dr Ranjana Das, University of Leicester, UK, ‘Prospecting, in Retrospect: Three
Concepts from Wolfgang Iser’s Reception Aesthetics in the Networked Age’
Dr Natasha Rulyova, University of Birmingham, UK, ‘Online Identities and Genre
in the Russian-Language Social Media‘
Roundtable facilitated by Dr Joanne Sayner, University of Birmingham, UK: Do new technologies lead to the advent of new genres? What are the differences between the medium and genre?
