Screenwriting in a Global and Digital World6th Screenwriting Research Network International ConferenceAugust 20 22, 2013University of Wisconsin-Madison, USAThis is a call for papers for the annual international conference on screenwriting research, this year organized by the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. The Screenwriting Research Network is a research group that commenced in 2006 within the Louis Le Prince Research Centre, at the Institute of Communication Studies (ICS), University of Leeds. The Screenwriting Research Network now consists of academics as well as practitioners interested in research centered on screenwriting studies. The network has achieved a critical mass in recent years with conferences taking place in Leeds (2008), Helsinki (2009), Copenhagen (2010), Brussels (2011), and Sydney, Australia (2012). The sixth conference widens the geographic spread of the network to North America, taking place in Madison, Wisconsin, USA (2013).The Screenwriting Research Network is comprised of scholars, writers, and practice-based researchers devoted to rethinking the screenplay in relation to its histories, theories, values and creative practices. The aim of the conference is to continue, and expand, discussions around the screenplay and to strengthen a rapidly emerging, and global, research network. The Journal of Screenwriting, first published in 2009, stands as testament to the vitality of the screenwriting network across traditional and practice-based research. This is in addition to growth in the publication of screenwriting monographs by scholars in the network, including books on screenwriting by Steven Price, Steven Maras, J.J. Murphy, and Jill Nelmes, among others. The new Palgrave Studies in Screenwriting series grew out of this organization. The SRN is also building an online forum for scholars and practitioners interested in this subject.The key theme of this next conference is Screenwriting in a Digital and Global World. This speaks to the complex and changing nature of screenwriting as a result of both digital technology and globalization. The conference hopes to raise questions about past, current, and future creative practices in scripting in various forms of media, both old and new.Keynote speakers will be confirmed early in 2013.The conference is interested in all types of research related to screenwriting in its many forms. We would like to invite abstracts for research presentations on (but not limited to) the following topics:Cross-cultural collaboration in screenwritingScreenwriting traditions in different national contextsScreenwriting and transnationalismScreenwriting and the pressures of globalizationIndustry changes in the digital age and what it means for writers of film and televisionTransmedia storytelling world building and constructing narratives that reach across multiple platformsWriting for online video as a new genre and professionThe history of screenwriting around the globe, including HollywoodQuestions of authorship in highly collaborative digital media projectsDatabase narratives and interactive, non-linear storytellingWriting for games (including video games and ARGs)Theorizing and analyzing screenwriting softwareScreenwriting archival researchTheorizing screenwriting and the screenplayReflections on narrative theory and dramaturgyPractice-based researchCase studies on individual writers or textsGenre-orientated considerations of screenwriting and the screenplayAdaptation in moving image screen worksThe role of writing in non-fiction film, television, and other forms of mediaScreenwriting for animationWriting for episodic televisionScreenwriting in independent cinemaAlternative forms of scriptingCall for PapersTime allotted to each paper is