This is from a call for papers for a conference in Switzerland later this year:
The field of audiovisual media has changed dramatically over the last two decades. Until recently, the amount of audiovisual technologies was manageable; channels of distribution were few; media and film schools taught their students a broadly accepted canon of crafts and skills. Graduates would work as self-employed filmmakers or photographers and as technicians, as representatives and media developers for TV-Stations or other media-companies. Those days are over. Digitization and distribution via the Internet and social media have proved a massive disruption to traditional structures. Young directors and media producers are defining new positions in an ever-shifting media ecology, constantly facing the pressure to adapt to a wide array of technological, economical as well as social changes. These shifts in tools, professional status, networks, and aesthetics have had a huge impact on authorial agendas.
Reading the whole post is worth while….
