Media Mutations 15 – The Matter of Intellectual Property: Studying the Economic, Political and Cultural Nodes of the Contemporary Media Industries.

Bologna, Dipartimento delle Arti – Salone Marescotti, May 23th-24th, 2024

Organized by Paola Brembilla and Marco Cucco (Università di Bologna),
Christopher Meir (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid).

The Conference is promoted by the Media Mutations Association and financially supported by
DAMSLab, Dipartimento delle Arti, Università di Bologna, and the Master in Management del Cinema e
dell’Audiovisivo (Università di Bologna), in collaboration with Centro Dipartimentale La Soffitta.
The Conference is sponsored by the Film Studies Section and the Television Studies Section of ECREA.

Media Mutations 14 – Investigating Medical Drama TV series: approaches and perspectives.

Bologna, Dipartimento delle Arti – DAMSLab, May 18th-19th, 2023

Organized by Stefania Antonioni (Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo) and Marta Rocchi (Università di Bologna).

In collaboration with the research project “Narrative Ecosystem Analysis and Development framework (NEAD framework). A systemic approach to contemporary serial product. The medical drama case”.

Media Mutations 13 – Audiovisual Data: Data-Driven Perspectives for Media Studies

Bologna, Dipartimento delle Arti – DAMSLab, October 6th-7th, 2022

Organized by Giorgio Avezzù (Università degli Studi di Bergamo) and Marta Rocchi (Università di Bologna)
In collaboration with Mirko Degli Esposti (Università di Bologna) and Guglielmo Pescatore (Università di Bologna)

Media Mutations 14 – Broadcasting, Reloaded. Resurgences, Resistances, and Rearrangements of Mainstream Television and Media in the Digital Arena.

Bologna, Dipartimento delle Arti – DAMSLab, October 14th-15th, 2021

Organized by Luca Barra, Paola Brembilla and Veronica Innocenti (Università di Bologna)
In collaboration with the ECREA Television Studies section.

Media Mutations 11 – Media, Diplomacy and Soft Power: Exploring the Relations Between Emerging Markets and Western Countries

Bologna, Dipartimento delle Arti, May 20th-21st, 2019

Organized by Marco Cucco (Università di Bologna), Gertjan Willems (University of Antwerp) and Zhan Zhang (Università della Svizzera italiana)

Media Mutations 10 – The “-tainment” Effect. Cultures and Logics of Entertainment Across Audiovisual and Digital Media

Bologna, Dipartimento delle Arti, May 21-22, 2018

Organized by Luca Barra and Paola Brembilla (Università di Bologna), in collaboration with Liz Evans (University of Nottingham)

Media Mutations 09 – The Format Factor: Television, Brands and Properties in the Global Television Scenatrio

Bologna, Dipartimento delle Arti – May 23rd-24th, 2017

Organized by Luca Barra and Paola Brembilla, in collaboration with Andrea Esser, the Media Across Borders network and the ECREA Television Studies section

Media Mutations 08 – A Cognitive Approach to TV Series

Bologna, Dipartimento delle Arti, Via Barberia 4 – May 25th-26th, 2016

Organized by the University of Bologna, in collaboration with the Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image and the research project Theoretical Innovation Strategies in the Analysis of Narration in Television Series.
Programme committee: Margrethe Bruun Vaage (University of Kent), Michele Guerra (Università di Parma), Veronica Innocenti (Università di Bologna), and Héctor J. Pérez (Universitat Politècnica de València).

Media Mutations 07 – Space Invaders. The Impact of Digital Games in Contemporary Media Ecosystems

Bologna, Dipartimento delle Arti – May, 26th-27th, 2015

Organized by Riccardo Fassone, Paolo Noto, and Claudio Pires Franco.

Media Mutations 06 – Modes of Production and Narrative Forms in Contemporary TV Series

Bologna, Dipartimento delle Arti – Salone Marescotti, Via Barberia 4, May 27th-28th, 2014

Organized by Luca Barra, Leora Hadas, Veronica Innocenti, and Paolo Noto.