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The CHANSE ERA-NET project DIGISCREENS:听"Identities and democratic听values on European digital screens:听Distribution, reception, and representation鈥� is coming to an end in December 2025, and we would like to invite you to attend our final conference in听Vilnius, Lithuania, on the 23rd and 24th of听October.

Confirmed keynotes:

Cathrin Bengesser (Aarhus University)

Ramon Lobato (Swinburne University of Technology)

The rise of streaming platforms has changed the production, distribution and consumption of films and TV series. On the one hand,听streaming platforms such as Netflix, Amazon Prime, Apple TV, or Max have increased the possibilities for viewers to watch content produced in a wide variety of national contexts.听On the other hand,听some policies, such as the European Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVSMD), have sought to level the market between domestic and transnational platform suppliers and protect the production of film and television in Europe (Lobato 2019; Kostovska et al. 2020).听This competition to preserve the European audiovisual sector raises a number of questions about programming, content, and viewing habits as well as how audiences negotiate their identities in relation to what they watch.听

The DIGISCREENS鈥� team invites participants to focus on how digital audiovisual platforms contribute to transform social and cultural dynamics in Europe in the era of streaming. This conference, concluding our project, aims to connect researchers working with films and TV series on streaming platforms from the perspective of policy, production and distribution, social and cultural values on screen or audience reception. We hope to bring together industry actors and academics to assess how the current audiovisual media landscape affects (a) the construction of identity and understanding of the other through global, yet culturally specific, mediations of gender, race, class, sexuality, and other social aspects, and (b) the negotiation of democratic values such as equality, inclusion, and solidarity.

We are especially interested in researchers combining research methods and approaches, involving industry practices (interviews), representation (textual analysis), and audience research. We welcome submissions on (but not limited to):听

• (trans)national audiovisual media policy;
• impact of audiovisual policy on global and national streaming platforms;
• audiovisual policy and negotiation of democratic values (equality, inclusion and solidarity) or identity (gender, race, class, sexuality, etc.) and diversity;
• impact of global streaming platforms on national film or TV industries, and on public service media (PSM)
• representation of diversity and identity (gender, race, class, sexuality, etc.) in films and TV series distributed on streaming platforms (including PSM online platforms);
• audiences鈥� streaming viewing habits;
• audiences鈥� reception of diversity and democratic values in films and TV series;
• audiences鈥� feelings of belonging through streaming content;
• streaming and research methods.

The project DIGISCREENS is supported by The Research Council of Norway, Research Council of Lithuania, FORTE: Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare, la Agencia Nacional de Investigaci贸n del Ministerio de Ciencia e Investigaci贸n, under CHANSE ERA-NET Co-fund programme, which has received听funding from the European Union鈥檚 Horizon 2020听Research and Innovation Programme, under听Grant Agreement no 101004509.

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For more info about the听DIGISCREENS project:听/en/digiscreens

Send your an abstract (max 300 words) and a short bio to听digiscreens.conference@gmail.com

Deadline extended to the听30th of April

Participants will be notified by the 25th听of May

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