Event overview
A panel with early career scholars and PhDs who share their various publishing experiences.
This event is designed for postgraduates and early career scholars who want to hear and share experiences with peers on publishing, editing, and collaborating in publishing projects.
Organised by Mihaela Brebenel and Elinor Carmi.
Speakers:
Dr. Gabriel Menotti and Dr. Virginia Crisp - will be speaking about the process of editing the ‘Besides the Screen; book from the series of international conferences they have been putting together since the time they were PhD students.
Paolo Ruffino - Ruffino has been author and editor of numerous publications, including the book ‘Rethinking Gamification’ (2014, meson press) and a special issue of the peer-reviewed journal GAME on the topic of ‘Video game subcultures’ (2014).
Elinor Carmi - Elinor has published a book TranceMission: The Psytrance Culture in Israel 1989-1999. The book was made possible by a crowd-funding project carried out in December 2012. Thanks to the 142 backers, the project raised all the funds needed to publish the book. A year later, in December 2013, the book – TranceMission – was published on Resling.
Biographies:
Gabriel Menotti works as an independent curator engaged with different forms of cinema. He is a lecturer in Multimedia at the Federal University of Espírito Santo (Brazil). He holds a PhD in Media & Communications from Goldsmiths, University of London, and another from the Catholic University of São Paulo. He is the author of 'Através da Sala Escura' (Intermeios, 2012), a history of movie theatres from the perspective of audiovisual performances, and the co-editor with Virginia Crisp of 'Besides the Screen: Moving Images through Distribution, Promotion and Curation' (Palgrave, 2015).
Virginia Crisp is a Senior Lecturer at Coventry University and author of the book Film Distribution in the Digital Age: Pirates and Professionals (forthcoming) and co-editor (with Dr Gabriel Menotti Gonring) of Besides the Screen: Moving Images through Distribution, Promotion and Curation. Virginia is the principal investigator on the AHRC funded International Network Grant Besides the Screen and the co-founder of the Besides the Screen series of conferences, symposia and events. Virginia received her PhD from Goldsmiths College, University of London and has published a range of papers on film distribution, filesharing and piracy.
In 2010 Gabriel Menotti Gonring and Virginia Crisp collaborated to produce the first Besides the Screen Conference at Goldsmiths, London, UK. After the success of the event, the two PhD candidates at Goldsmiths decided to use the conference as a springboard for an edited collection. Neither editor having undertaking such a project before, what followed was a rewarding and educational journey through the vagaries of academic publishing. This paper will reflect upon that process, explaining: what both editors learnt about book publishing, how they collaborated between the UK and Brazil and what advice they would give to others embarking on such a journey.
Paolo Ruffino is about to complete a Ph.D. at Goldsmiths, University of London. Since 2010 he has been teaching at Goldsmiths as Associate Lecturer at the ‘Introduction to Media and Technologies’ and ‘Media Arts’ modules. Since 2011 he is also a Lecturer at London South Bank University, where he teaches at the ‘Game Cultures’ BA (Hons) and the 'Digital Media Arts' BA. At LSBU he also supervises students’ dissertations in game studies and digital media production. Since 2012 Ruffino collaborates as Research Associate at the Gamification Lab, Centre for Digital Cultures (Leuphana University). The Gamification Lab investigates the aesthetic, ethical and political implications of gamification and works on innovative formats of gamified apps, civic technology, and socially aware intervention with ludic methods. In May 2015 the Gamification Lab will be organising the yearly DiGRA conference, the major international conference on game studies.
Elinor Carmi is a PhD candidate at the Media and Communications department at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Her research topic is “Why spam? Challenging categorization of information in media technologies”. Carmi is a journalist who writes on technology and gender, spam, sound and electronic dance music cultures. In addition, she was a radio broadcaster, an editor of Trance channels on Israeli television, and has been working for various electronic music labels. In 2013 she published a book based on her M.A. thesis titled TranceMission: The Psytrance Culture in Israel 1989-1999 (Resling Publishing), thanks to a successful crowd-funding project. Currently, Elinor is an associate lecturer at the Media and Communications department at Goldsmiths College, as well as the co-founder of the Radical Media Forum, where she organizes events on digital anomalies, sound and digital rights. She also blogs at http://www.pinkeee.com.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 8 Apr 2015 | 7:00pm - 9:00pm |
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