Have media fans actively participated in the universal natcon committees and submitted ideas and panelists for programme that were rejected?
The history of the Natcon post A3 has been dominated by Swancon, and Swancon has always had a fairly mixed media/lit approach, especially post a certain degree of changing of the guard around swancon 16-18. High profile, primarily media, fans like angriest and robinpen (who are also avid readers) made quite a bit of difference there.
But I don't think the media fans have been as consistently well served by Natcons other than Swancons -- and to some extent this isn't just because of the historical issues that dalekboy refers to, but also a natural bias because several East Coast con-running organisations grew out of writers groups/writer focussed organisations, and so had a big books and writing bias. I'm very happy that those organisations exist and run cons, bias and all, because seeing the resurgence of strong natcon bids from a variety of states has been terrific, but they do have a natural bias, and it does sometimes show.
And I'm pretty sure that this point of view isn't just my Swancon bias showing here, just that Swancon does have a very strong mixed media/lit culture that isn't shared by all Australian con-running organisations - it is notably shared by the Continuum Foundation, but the Continuum Foundation has not so far in its existence been in a position to run a Natcon.
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Date: 2009-06-02 09:06 am (UTC)The history of the Natcon post A3 has been dominated by Swancon, and Swancon has always had a fairly mixed media/lit approach, especially post a certain degree of changing of the guard around swancon 16-18. High profile, primarily media, fans like
But I don't think the media fans have been as consistently well served by Natcons other than Swancons -- and to some extent this isn't just because of the historical issues that
And I'm pretty sure that this point of view isn't just my Swancon bias showing here, just that Swancon does have a very strong mixed media/lit culture that isn't shared by all Australian con-running organisations - it is notably shared by the Continuum Foundation, but the Continuum Foundation has not so far in its existence been in a position to run a Natcon.