[Air-L] Call for submissions for the annual Screening Scholarship Media Festival now open! #SSMF2015

[Corrina Laughlin]

Hello internet researchers!


Submissions are open for the 3rd annual Screening Scholarship Media Festival (#SSMF2015) from now until November 10th.  SSMF brings together mediamakers, artists, activists and scholars for two days of screenings and discussions at the University of Pennsylvania.  We hope to gather a wide range of films, soundscapes and recordings, e-books, animation, installations and other media forms for a stimulating festival.


This year’s theme is “performing the digital”.  See the call for submissions attached and below.

Please circulate widely!

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THE THIRD ANNUAL SCREENING SCHOLARSHIP MEDIA FESTIVAL

#SSMF2015

March 27 - 28, 2015

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA


This year at the Screening Scholarship Media Festival we invite submissions from scholars, activists, artists, filmmakers, and educators that creatively explore how the social world is performed in and through digital media. Over the last few years, there has been a proliferation of scholarship that looks at media as a vehicle for performing and constituting reality, not merely representing it. With this in mind we ask: What are the ethics and politics of (re)presenting our work on screen?  How do multiple lives -- digital, analog, physical -- connect and disconnect through on and offline pathways? What does it mean to be a scholar, artist, and/or educator in the digital age?  What are the affordances and tensions of digital media for scholarship, activism, and pedagogy?

SSMF will highlight multimodal projects during two days of screenings and discussions showcasing film, soundscapes and recordings, blogs, websites, eBooks, animation, photographs, installations, and other media forms.


Online Submissions Open September 22, 2014

Deadline for Submissions is November 10 , 2014


Please visit our website <http://www.camrapenn.org> for the submission guidelines and more information about the festival. camra is also recruiting graduate students and scholars to serve as reviewers for SSMF 2015. If you are interested in serving as a peer reviewer for SSMF, please contact SSMF at camrapenn.org.

camra asks questions about the affordances, challenges, and possibilities of multimodal scholarship in teaching, learning, mediamaking, and knowledge production. Our aim is to support media-based research and pedagogies, with an explicit focus on: (1) establishing responsive and practical guidelines for the evaluation of multimodal research and scholarship; (2) utilizing participatory, digital, and ethnographic methodologies; (3) creating supportive spaces (both digital and physical) for multimodal work to be showcased; (4) critically examining how technology is changing the processes, relationships and products related to teaching and learning.