Programme for Digital Technologies Revisited
Please contact Julian Gebhart to register: julian.gebhardt@uni-erfurt.de
ECREA / DGPuK ‘Digital Media Technologies Revisited’ Conference
Place
University of the Arts (Universität der Künste – UdK), Hardenbergstraße 33, 10623 Berlin
Room 101 (Alte Bibliothek – Old Library)
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Programme
Thursday, 19.11.2009
19:00 Reception for all conference participants
(in parallel: registration)
Friday, 20.11.2009
9:00 – Welcome
9:10 Maren Hartmann (University of the Arts Berlin, D)
9:10- Introduction to the conference theme
9:30 Caroline Bassett (Sussex University, GB)
9:30 – Panel I: Bodies (Chair: Kate O’Riordan)
10:30
Biodigital Matter and the Modulations of the Body
Eleni Ikoniadou (University of East London, UK)
Serious games and organisations’ communication
Ghislaine Chabert & Jacques Ibanez Bueno (University of Savoie, F)
10:30 – Coffee break
11:00
11:00 – TWO PARALLEL SESSIONS
13:00
Panel II: HCI REVISITED
(Chair: Martin Emmer) Panel III: IDENTITIES 4.0 ?- 1
(Chair: Elisenda Ardevol)
WEB 2.0 affordances: theorizing interaction and communication in a CMC setting
Peter Mechant (Ghent University, BE) Revisiting obsolete media use qualities - Connecting now and then over social network activities
Jörgen Skageby (Linköping University, SE)
Online cooperation as commonsbased peer production – Social dilemmas and institutions
Christian Pentzold (Technical University Chemnitz, D) The Communicative Construction of Identities in Overlapping Structures of Everyday Life
Matthias Berg (University of Bremen, D)
Supplanting or Supplementing? Chat Communication and Social Capital
Werner Wirth & Matthias Hofer (University of Zürich, CH)
Hybrid identities 4.0? The role of digital media in the articulation process of young Russians’ identity in the German Diaspora: A typology.
Caroline Düvel (University of Bremen, D)
A socio-cultural approach to internet policy and regulation. Findings and implications of an ethnographic study
Panayiota Tsatsou (Swansea University, UK) Sexualized youth – promiscuous youth? Does sexually explicit internet-content deteriorate sexual attitudes?
Mathias Weber, Gregor Daschmann, Oliver Quiring (University of Mainz, D)
13:00 – Lunch
14:00
14:00 – Panel IV: NETWORKS & COMMUNITIES (Chair: Maren Hartmann)
15:30
Networks and culture: possibiilities for contextualised net culture research
Andreas Hepp (University of Bremen, D)
Invisible networks and location-based projects suggesting the return of the “place”
Gemma San Cornelio Esquerdo (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, ES)
“What constitutes an online community”? Presenting a heuristic model for understanding community-construction on the Internet
Katerina Diamantaki (University of Athens, GR)
15:30 – Coffee break
16:00
16:00 – COST 298 Panel (Chair: Julian Gebhardt)
18:00
Digital Media Technologies, Bodies and Emotions: Reconfiguring Subjectivities
Amparo Lasen (UCM, Spain)
Body–to–body Interaction in Broadband Society
Jane Vincent (Digital World Research Centre, UK)
A new way to see the future of print newspapers: Newspapers as “good masters” in spite of themselves
Leopoldina Fortunati (University of Udine, Italy)
Getting access to website information: Does age really matter?
Using eye-tracking data from a social semiotic perspective
Eugène Loos and Enid Mante Meijer (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
Social movements and ICTs: a review of applied methodologies and some reflections for further research
Emiliano Trere (University of Udine, Italy)
19:30 Dinner (at participants’ own cost)
Saturday, 21.11.2009
09:30 – Parallel meetings of the sections (DGPuK-FG ‚Soziologie der Medienkommunikation’;
10:30 DGPuK-FG ‚Computer-Vermittelte Kommunikation’ ; ECREA section ‚Digital Culture and Communication’)
10:30 – Coffee break
11:00
11:00 – TWO PARALLEL SESSIONS
13:00
Panel V: DIGITALISATION & VIRTUALITY RE-THOUGHT
(Chair: Jeffrey WImmer) Panel VI: IDENTITIES 4.0? – 2
(Chair: Caroline Bassett)
Digitalization, identity and the net of social, parasocial and pseudosocial relations of the People
Friedrich Krotz (University of Erfurt, D) Identity dispositive Internet
Florian Hartling (University of Halle, D)
Theorising social relations, interactions and communication
Bridgette Wessels (University of Sheffield, UK) Identity Development in Scientific Online Communities
Frauke Zeller (Ilmenau University of Technology, D)
The Viability of the Concept “Virtuality” for Researching Network Media Development
Catherina Dürrenberg & Carsten Winter (Hannover University of Music and Drama, D)
Hybrid identities 4.0? The role of Virtual research teams – theorising on cultures, scientific domains, and the choice of digital media technologies
Marco Bräuer, Frauke Zeller (both Ilmenau University of Technology, D) & Ingmar Steinicke (University of Kassel, D)
Cyborgs and Learning Bots in Virtual Worlds
Sisse Siggard Jensen (University of Roskilde, DK) Virtually Trash: Revenge Tragedy and the Tube
Catherine Gomersall (Edith Cowan University, Australia)
13:00 – Lunch
14:00
14:00 – Panel VI: Mass media, journalism and public Communication (Part 1) (Chair: Jan
15:30 Schmidt)
Do you want to play? How making-sense of entertainment innovations relates to engaging with media products
Carrie Lynn D. Reinhard (Roskilde University, DK)
Where mass media and social production meet: change and continuity in self-produced audiovisual projects
Roig Telo (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, ES)
The fractures of photography: following the relationship between technology practices, sociality and identity formation in digital culture
Edgar Gómez Cruz & Elisenda Ardévol (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, ES)
15:30 – Coffee break
16:00
16:00 – Panel VI: Mass media, journalism and public Communication (Part 2) (Chair: Jan Schmidt)
17:00
Total Recall vs the End of Memory: Digital Media and Social Memory Studies Revisited
Martin Zierold (Justus-Liebig University Gießen, D)
flow is now viral is agency: re-working the site(s) of new television
Phil Ellis (University of Plymouth, UK)
17:15 – Final discussion
18:30 Introduced through short statements by:
Martin Emmer (Ilmenau University of Technology, D), Kate O’Riordan (Sussex University, UK), Jan Schmidt (Hans-Bredow-Institute Hamburg) & Jeffrey Wimmer (Ilmenau University of Technology, D)
Discussion led by Elisenda Ardévol (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, ES) & Maren Hartmann (University of the Arts Berlin, D)
19:00 Dinner (at participants’ own cost)
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Conference Registration
The Registration fee is 40 € (for presenters and participants alike).
Students can register for 20 € (or 10 € for one day).
Please register to the conference by emailing Julian Gebhardt (julian.gebhardt@uni-erfurt.de) BEFORE THE 8th OF NOVEMBER.
You will be able to pay the fee on site.
Please let us know at the same time whether you will be attending the reception on the first evening.
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Hotels close to the conference site
(There is no special conference rate – this is a small selection of hostels and hotels in the area – there are plenty more around).
The very cheap (it's a hostel, not a hotel!):
- AO Hostel am Zoo: http://www.aohostels.com/en/berlin/hostel-am-zoo/hostel/info/
The cheapest hotel:
- Motel One (Kantstraße): http://www.motel-one.com/
The closest hotel (but only by a few metres):
- Grand City Excelsior Hotel: http://www.grandcity-hotel-berlin-excelsior.de/
Others in a similar price range, probably a bit nicer:
- Hotel Astoria: http://www.hotelastoria.de/
- Hotel Carmer 16: http://www.hotel-carmer16.de/
For those who can afford more:
- Savoy Berlin: http://www.hotel-savoy.com/
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Information
For any questions, please contact Julian Gebhardt (julian.gebhardt@uni-erfurt.de).
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
Friday, January 23, 2009
CFP: Digital Media Technologies Revisited: Theorising social relations
Call for Papers:
Digital Media Technologies Revisited: Theorising social relations,
interactions and communication
A two-day conference co-organised by the
ECREA Digital Culture & Communication (DCC) section,
the DGPuK Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) section and
the DGPuK Media Sociology (MS) section
with support from the Centre for Material Digital Culture (DMDC),
University of Sussex, UK
and the COST 298: Participation in the Broadband Society network
Place: University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany
Dates: Nov. 20-21, 2009
Topic:
This two-day conference on ’Digital Technologies Revisited’ aims to
understand contemporary developments in digital media and digital media
theory by looking backwards as well as forwards. We set out to explore
an in-between time: a time, when much of the hype concerning digital
media has died down, much research material has been gathered and
analyzed and quite a bit about the possibilities and limitations of
digital media (especially in comparison to older media forms) has been
understood.
Far from a communication revolution, the media landscape has nonetheless
changed substantially in recent years. In fact, we have undergone a
process of diffusion and appropriation: digital media have become an
important and ever-increasing part of our everyday lives. They suffuse
our communication, information and entertainment spheres. Not
surprisingly, the perceived connection between the internet and many
areas of social life, from work to play, has steadily increased in
recent years. However, even as digital media become pervasive,
ubiquitous, common and mundane, innovation continues to become an
integral characteristic of digital media forms, the proliferation of
which is challenging to map.
We would therefore like to return to earlier models and theories that
attempted to explain new (digital) media in its ’first wave’ forms.
Additionally, we would like to address the question of what kind of
alterations and additions can be used to adapt existing models and
theories for current purposes (e.g. mediated person-to-person
communication; para-social interactions with virtual agents;
pseudo-social interactions with intelligent machines, etc.).
The range of models and theories that can be used, re-visited, or
adapted is wide (i.e. traditional communication studies models, cultural
studies theories, anthropology, sociology and others). We want to encourage papers
that explore tensions between older and new approaches and older and
newer ?new media’ formations. Where has there been movement, where not,
and are there in fact new theories emerging?
The social world sits at the heart of these diverse concerns. Social
relations, interactions and communication are at the heart of our
questions. Within this focus, the possible range of theories and methods
used, is wide. The following provides the range of angles that we propose:
- HCI revisited:
Human-computer-interaction was an early forerunner concerning questions
of the relation between humans and computers (as well as, eventually,
humans via computers). What do we know of these relationships by now?
How do they differ from other human-object relationships? And how do
developments in these fields continue to inform, intersect and diverge
from the social life of digital media forms?
- Virtual reality and AI re-thought:
Virtual reality and AI frameworks are another reference point that
dominated earlier cybercultural theory, and design. What was specific
about these moments and intersections? Why have these frameworks become
less used by technocultural theory (at least for more popular
theorizations)? What has survived in terms of virtual reality and AI
concepts in contemporary formations such as Web 2.0, Facebook and Second
Life?
- Disappearance of the machine ? ubiquity, ambience and similar
approaches
A more recent development has been around the merging of machines, and
computational architecture with our environments. Thinking about
pervasive computing, sense perception and intimate technologies are
increasingly being used as frameworks for analysis. Where are they at in
terms of the current state of development? And what consequences would
these have for existing theoretical approaches (e.g. of appropriation of
media technologies) and questions of power? What happens to ethical and
political issues, such as privacy, monitoring, etc.? What does pervasive
computing mean for our relationships with machines?
- Identities 4.0?
Identity was a much discussed topic in early web discourses. It is one
that keeps returning in new disguises. Identity, it seems, has survived
the ’post’ in identity politics. However, the valences of identity are
now much more negative than the more utopic versions that proliferated
in early digital media cultures. Identity categories have proliferated,
and the intersections of race, nation, class, gender, sexuality and
belief play a part in generating insecurity and a lack of trust between
citizens, denizens and racialized others, the adult world and ‘youth’,
or children and potential ‘paedophiles’. Can early theorizations of
identity and digital media be brought to bear on contemporary
experiences and what would these look like?
- Bodies
Community, identity and the body were the tripartite features of digital
media theory in the 1990s. Whist community has been reformulated as SL
and social networking, and identity continues to return, the body has
also become an increasingly urgent site of enquiry as convergences of
informational and biotechnological practices of body knowledge become
materialized through digital media practices. These intersections offer
up questions about the precise contours of current biodigital identity
in the form of intersecting DNA databases, personal genomes, and
biometrics. What approaches and questions can address these informatic
corporealisations and their intersection with everyday life worlds?
- Mass media, journalism and public communication
Since the mid-1990s, a broad corpus of theories on the production,
dissemination, reception, and the public and/or personal impact of
online mass media has evolved in the social sciences. How do
journalists’ routines change in online media? Does the public relevance
of journalistic mass media decrease or increase in present and future
times? How can the (societal) diffusion or (individual) appropriation of
new media developments described or analyzed? What do mass media mean to
the audience, and what are the present and future economic perspectives
of online mass media?
- COST 298
Additionally, COST 298 members are invited to send separate abstracts
for a COST panel. COST 298 is an Action within the intergovernmental
framework for European Co-operation in the field of Scientific and
Technical Research. In COST 298 European scientists from
telecommunication research departments, universities and operators
together with independent consultants collaborate in cross-disciplinary
groups to analyze the social dimensions of people’s relationships to
information and communication technologies. In the COST 298 panel, the
same questions of older models and newer developments that guide the
overall conference are asked more specifically concerning the broadband
society. What have we learned in the last four years of the COST 298
network? Only COST 298 members will be eligible to apply for this panel.
Please submit an extended abstract (700 words max.) by the 31st of
May 2009 (and clearly stating which topic section you would like to
submit this to) to:
Prof. Dr. Maren Hartmann - University of the Arts (UdK), GWK -
Mierendorffstraße 30 - 10589 Berlin - Germany - Phone: +49 30 3185 2943
Email: hartmann@udk-berlin.de
Digital Media Technologies Revisited: Theorising social relations,
interactions and communication
A two-day conference co-organised by the
ECREA Digital Culture & Communication (DCC) section,
the DGPuK Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) section and
the DGPuK Media Sociology (MS) section
with support from the Centre for Material Digital Culture (DMDC),
University of Sussex, UK
and the COST 298: Participation in the Broadband Society network
Place: University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany
Dates: Nov. 20-21, 2009
Topic:
This two-day conference on ’Digital Technologies Revisited’ aims to
understand contemporary developments in digital media and digital media
theory by looking backwards as well as forwards. We set out to explore
an in-between time: a time, when much of the hype concerning digital
media has died down, much research material has been gathered and
analyzed and quite a bit about the possibilities and limitations of
digital media (especially in comparison to older media forms) has been
understood.
Far from a communication revolution, the media landscape has nonetheless
changed substantially in recent years. In fact, we have undergone a
process of diffusion and appropriation: digital media have become an
important and ever-increasing part of our everyday lives. They suffuse
our communication, information and entertainment spheres. Not
surprisingly, the perceived connection between the internet and many
areas of social life, from work to play, has steadily increased in
recent years. However, even as digital media become pervasive,
ubiquitous, common and mundane, innovation continues to become an
integral characteristic of digital media forms, the proliferation of
which is challenging to map.
We would therefore like to return to earlier models and theories that
attempted to explain new (digital) media in its ’first wave’ forms.
Additionally, we would like to address the question of what kind of
alterations and additions can be used to adapt existing models and
theories for current purposes (e.g. mediated person-to-person
communication; para-social interactions with virtual agents;
pseudo-social interactions with intelligent machines, etc.).
The range of models and theories that can be used, re-visited, or
adapted is wide (i.e. traditional communication studies models, cultural
studies theories, anthropology, sociology and others). We want to encourage papers
that explore tensions between older and new approaches and older and
newer ?new media’ formations. Where has there been movement, where not,
and are there in fact new theories emerging?
The social world sits at the heart of these diverse concerns. Social
relations, interactions and communication are at the heart of our
questions. Within this focus, the possible range of theories and methods
used, is wide. The following provides the range of angles that we propose:
- HCI revisited:
Human-computer-interaction was an early forerunner concerning questions
of the relation between humans and computers (as well as, eventually,
humans via computers). What do we know of these relationships by now?
How do they differ from other human-object relationships? And how do
developments in these fields continue to inform, intersect and diverge
from the social life of digital media forms?
- Virtual reality and AI re-thought:
Virtual reality and AI frameworks are another reference point that
dominated earlier cybercultural theory, and design. What was specific
about these moments and intersections? Why have these frameworks become
less used by technocultural theory (at least for more popular
theorizations)? What has survived in terms of virtual reality and AI
concepts in contemporary formations such as Web 2.0, Facebook and Second
Life?
- Disappearance of the machine ? ubiquity, ambience and similar
approaches
A more recent development has been around the merging of machines, and
computational architecture with our environments. Thinking about
pervasive computing, sense perception and intimate technologies are
increasingly being used as frameworks for analysis. Where are they at in
terms of the current state of development? And what consequences would
these have for existing theoretical approaches (e.g. of appropriation of
media technologies) and questions of power? What happens to ethical and
political issues, such as privacy, monitoring, etc.? What does pervasive
computing mean for our relationships with machines?
- Identities 4.0?
Identity was a much discussed topic in early web discourses. It is one
that keeps returning in new disguises. Identity, it seems, has survived
the ’post’ in identity politics. However, the valences of identity are
now much more negative than the more utopic versions that proliferated
in early digital media cultures. Identity categories have proliferated,
and the intersections of race, nation, class, gender, sexuality and
belief play a part in generating insecurity and a lack of trust between
citizens, denizens and racialized others, the adult world and ‘youth’,
or children and potential ‘paedophiles’. Can early theorizations of
identity and digital media be brought to bear on contemporary
experiences and what would these look like?
- Bodies
Community, identity and the body were the tripartite features of digital
media theory in the 1990s. Whist community has been reformulated as SL
and social networking, and identity continues to return, the body has
also become an increasingly urgent site of enquiry as convergences of
informational and biotechnological practices of body knowledge become
materialized through digital media practices. These intersections offer
up questions about the precise contours of current biodigital identity
in the form of intersecting DNA databases, personal genomes, and
biometrics. What approaches and questions can address these informatic
corporealisations and their intersection with everyday life worlds?
- Mass media, journalism and public communication
Since the mid-1990s, a broad corpus of theories on the production,
dissemination, reception, and the public and/or personal impact of
online mass media has evolved in the social sciences. How do
journalists’ routines change in online media? Does the public relevance
of journalistic mass media decrease or increase in present and future
times? How can the (societal) diffusion or (individual) appropriation of
new media developments described or analyzed? What do mass media mean to
the audience, and what are the present and future economic perspectives
of online mass media?
- COST 298
Additionally, COST 298 members are invited to send separate abstracts
for a COST panel. COST 298 is an Action within the intergovernmental
framework for European Co-operation in the field of Scientific and
Technical Research. In COST 298 European scientists from
telecommunication research departments, universities and operators
together with independent consultants collaborate in cross-disciplinary
groups to analyze the social dimensions of people’s relationships to
information and communication technologies. In the COST 298 panel, the
same questions of older models and newer developments that guide the
overall conference are asked more specifically concerning the broadband
society. What have we learned in the last four years of the COST 298
network? Only COST 298 members will be eligible to apply for this panel.
Please submit an extended abstract (700 words max.) by the 31st of
May 2009 (and clearly stating which topic section you would like to
submit this to) to:
Prof. Dr. Maren Hartmann - University of the Arts (UdK), GWK -
Mierendorffstraße 30 - 10589 Berlin - Germany - Phone: +49 30 3185 2943
Email: hartmann@udk-berlin.de
Friday, September 26, 2008
ECREA Elections
Dear colleagues,
as many other sections, the Digital Culture and Communication section is also approaching the end of its first official term in office.
We are therefore planning an election during the ECREA conference in Barcelona.
We would like to invite all members to consider a more active role in the section at this point and to consider standing for election for the chair and vice chair positions.
There are two possibilities to put yourselves forward for election: first of all as an individual (for the post of Vice-Chair) or second as a whole section team (i.e. three people).
The first stems from the fact that I, Maren Hartmann, will step down as chair of the section. I have other commitments that do unfortunately not allow me to continue this post at present. Caroline Bassett and Kate O'Riordan, however, have declared their willingness to stand for re-election. I fully endorse their candidacy (I could not have wished for better co-chairs) and hope that interested individuals will step forward to join them in these efforts.
Please send any nominations (individual or team) to me (hartmann@udk- berlin.de) on or before October 15th, 2008. We currently assume that the election/s of nominated candidates will take place during our business meeting during the conference in November.
Let me also take this chance to thank everyone for having made this work so rewarding and fun (especially my two co-chairs, but also everyone who has attended our events and everyone from ECREA who has supported us thus far.
With having had a very interesting stream of papers during the first ECREA conference (where we had a separate call) and a great workshop in Sussex last autumn plus yet another wonderful set of abstracts for this autumn (many of which we unfortunately had to turn down), I feel the section is beginning to have both a content identity and an organisational structure (see http:// www.digitalcultureandcommunication.blogspot.com/). Surely this work will be the continued focus of the section until the next election.
Together with my German colleagues (from the media sociology and computer-mediated communications sections of the German communication association), I will still host the section conference planned for November 2010 in Berlin.
My involvement with the section, I hope, will therefore not cease.
I am very much looking forward to your nominations as well as to the conference in November.
Regards,
Maren Hartmann
as many other sections, the Digital Culture and Communication section is also approaching the end of its first official term in office.
We are therefore planning an election during the ECREA conference in Barcelona.
We would like to invite all members to consider a more active role in the section at this point and to consider standing for election for the chair and vice chair positions.
There are two possibilities to put yourselves forward for election: first of all as an individual (for the post of Vice-Chair) or second as a whole section team (i.e. three people).
The first stems from the fact that I, Maren Hartmann, will step down as chair of the section. I have other commitments that do unfortunately not allow me to continue this post at present. Caroline Bassett and Kate O'Riordan, however, have declared their willingness to stand for re-election. I fully endorse their candidacy (I could not have wished for better co-chairs) and hope that interested individuals will step forward to join them in these efforts.
Please send any nominations (individual or team) to me (hartmann@udk- berlin.de) on or before October 15th, 2008. We currently assume that the election/s of nominated candidates will take place during our business meeting during the conference in November.
Let me also take this chance to thank everyone for having made this work so rewarding and fun (especially my two co-chairs, but also everyone who has attended our events and everyone from ECREA who has supported us thus far.
With having had a very interesting stream of papers during the first ECREA conference (where we had a separate call) and a great workshop in Sussex last autumn plus yet another wonderful set of abstracts for this autumn (many of which we unfortunately had to turn down), I feel the section is beginning to have both a content identity and an organisational structure (see http:// www.digitalcultureandcommunication.blogspot.com/). Surely this work will be the continued focus of the section until the next election.
Together with my German colleagues (from the media sociology and computer-mediated communications sections of the German communication association), I will still host the section conference planned for November 2010 in Berlin.
My involvement with the section, I hope, will therefore not cease.
I am very much looking forward to your nominations as well as to the conference in November.
Regards,
Maren Hartmann
Friday, April 11, 2008
ECREA conference abstracts
We received a very high number of abstracts for our section for the ECREA conference in November.
We are currently reviewing and selecting them.
Unfortunately, we have to reject quite a few.
Fortunately, we except a great programme and good debates in Barcelona!
We are currently reviewing and selecting them.
Unfortunately, we have to reject quite a few.
Fortunately, we except a great programme and good debates in Barcelona!
Thursday, January 17, 2008
DIGITAL CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION (DCC) SECTION - CALL FOR PANELS AND PAPERS
European Communication Research and Education Association - ECREA
2nd ECREA CONFERENCE, Barcelona, 25-28 November 2008
Hosted by Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) http:// www.ecrea2008barcelona.org
PROPOSAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 15th February 2008
The 'Digital Culture and Communication' section invites everyone who works on these issues, within the broad theme of ECREA's 2nd international conference, 'Communication policies and culture in Europe' to submit proposals.
The section 'Digital Culture and Communication' aims to further exchange and develop research at the European level in the field of digital media and informational culture as this is broadly defined. We welcome work that crosses disciplines and that operates at the boundaries of what might generally be allowed to constitute media/ communication systems. The section actively seeks both empirical and theoretical/critical work.
Digital media technologies allow us to rethink existing media and communication theories and approaches (as well as research methods). They also force us to redefine traditional boundaries and to explore new forms of interaction. We therefore encourage work based on interdisciplinary approaches that address the broad theme of the conference call, and the section's interests. We welcome proposals which reflect both theoretical and methodological challenges in digital culture and communication research as well as those exploring new boundaries within the field.
For further information about the section please visit our (relative stable) blog at: www.digitalcultureandcommunication.blogspot.com/
or email Maren Hartmann: hartmann@udk-berlin.de and/or Caroline Bassett: C.Bassett@sussex.ac.uk, Kate O’Riordan: K.ORiordan@sussex.ac.uk
This invitation is for proposals of pre-organized panels, posters, and individual papers from established academics, young scholars, practitioners and postgraduate research students.
Individual paper proposals, individual poster proposals and panel
proposals can be submitted at the official conference website: www.ecrea2008barcelona.org
PAPER PROPOSALS: http://www.ecrea2008barcelona.org/eng/callfor_pa.asp
POSTER PROPOSALS: http://www.ecrea2008barcelona.org/eng/callfor_po.asp
PANEL PROPOSALS: http://www.ecrea2008barcelona.org/eng/callfor_pn.asp
Notifications of acceptance will be sent out in mid-April 2008,
Paper-presenters and panellists will be asked to confirm their intention to attend by registering before October 24, 2008.
Please note that, as a policy, ECREA Candidates can submit "one proposal as first author, and more as co-author (second, ...), chair or respondent of a panel - but a participant will be allowed only one paper presentation. The length of the individual abstracts is preferably 400 and maximum 500 words. A panel proposal combines a panel abstract with the individual abstracts, of each 400-500 words. Participants will indicate their preference for a specific section (where they want to present their paper / poster / panel)".
European Communication Research and Education Association - ECREA
2nd ECREA CONFERENCE, Barcelona, 25-28 November 2008
Hosted by Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) http:// www.ecrea2008barcelona.org
PROPOSAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 15th February 2008
The 'Digital Culture and Communication' section invites everyone who works on these issues, within the broad theme of ECREA's 2nd international conference, 'Communication policies and culture in Europe' to submit proposals.
The section 'Digital Culture and Communication' aims to further exchange and develop research at the European level in the field of digital media and informational culture as this is broadly defined. We welcome work that crosses disciplines and that operates at the boundaries of what might generally be allowed to constitute media/ communication systems. The section actively seeks both empirical and theoretical/critical work.
Digital media technologies allow us to rethink existing media and communication theories and approaches (as well as research methods). They also force us to redefine traditional boundaries and to explore new forms of interaction. We therefore encourage work based on interdisciplinary approaches that address the broad theme of the conference call, and the section's interests. We welcome proposals which reflect both theoretical and methodological challenges in digital culture and communication research as well as those exploring new boundaries within the field.
For further information about the section please visit our (relative stable) blog at: www.digitalcultureandcommunication.blogspot.com/
or email Maren Hartmann: hartmann@udk-berlin.de and/or Caroline Bassett: C.Bassett@sussex.ac.uk, Kate O’Riordan: K.ORiordan@sussex.ac.uk
This invitation is for proposals of pre-organized panels, posters, and individual papers from established academics, young scholars, practitioners and postgraduate research students.
Individual paper proposals, individual poster proposals and panel
proposals can be submitted at the official conference website: www.ecrea2008barcelona.org
PAPER PROPOSALS: http://www.ecrea2008barcelona.org/eng/callfor_pa.asp
POSTER PROPOSALS: http://www.ecrea2008barcelona.org/eng/callfor_po.asp
PANEL PROPOSALS: http://www.ecrea2008barcelona.org/eng/callfor_pn.asp
Notifications of acceptance will be sent out in mid-April 2008,
Paper-presenters and panellists will be asked to confirm their intention to attend by registering before October 24, 2008.
Please note that, as a policy, ECREA Candidates can submit "one proposal as first author, and more as co-author (second, ...), chair or respondent of a panel - but a participant will be allowed only one paper presentation. The length of the individual abstracts is preferably 400 and maximum 500 words. A panel proposal combines a panel abstract with the individual abstracts, of each 400-500 words. Participants will indicate their preference for a specific section (where they want to present their paper / poster / panel)".
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Digital Media: European Perspectives - UPDATE
Digital Culture and Communication , ECREA Section event
Thursday 1st of November, 2007 - Saturday 3rd of November, 2007
Flickr photos (tag: Sussex, ECREA)
Thursday 1st November, 1600-1900, in Russell 10,
Friday 2nd of November, 0900-1600, in Arts C233, followed by reception location tbc
Saturday 3rd of November, 0900-1300, in Russell 10
This workshop, organized by the Digital Culture and Communication section of ECREA,the European Communication Research and Education Association, supported and hosted by this Research Centre, will bring together researchers from all over Europe. The aim of the day is to explore different traditions of new media investigation/theorization within Europe – and to explore ways in which they may usefully be placed in dialogue with each other. In addition workshop attendees will explore possible future activities that may be organized through the ECREA structure – including potential collaboration via European funding (FP7).
ABSTRACTS
FULL PROGRAMME:
Thursday, 1st of November
Room: EDB 341
15:30-16:00 Registration, Welcome & Coffee
Room: Russell 10
16:00–16:30 Welcome: Themes and Dialogues
Caroline Bassett, University of Sussex, UK
After Convergence?: What Connects?
Session 1: Media and methods (Chair: Irmi Karl, University of Brighton, UK)
16:30-18:30
Maren Hartmann, University of the Arts Berlin, Germany
Ethnographies as dangerous tools
Adolfo Estalella, Elisenda Ardèvol, Edgar Gómez, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain
Media as practice: Introducing symmetry in Internet ethnographies
Friday, 2nd of November
Room: Arts C233
Session 2: Sounds & Senses (Chair: Kate Lacey, University of Sussex, UK)
09:00-11:00
Frauke Behrendt, University of Sussex, UK
Mobile Sonic Experience: Methodological Concerns
Holger Schulze, University of the Arts Berlin, Germany
Experiencing Medialised Senses: On the Tectonics of Media
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
Session 3: Policy Issues (Chair: Bridgette Wessels)
11:30-12:30
Maria Sourbati, University of Brighton, UK
Europe’s digital media policy discourses and the problem of the user
12:30-14:00 Lunch & Coffee
Session 4: Theoretical frameworks and cyberculture (Chair: David Berry, University of Wales Swansea, UK)
14:00-16:00
Panagiota Alevizou, LSE, UK
Collective intelligence and the cult of open production: critical reflections on theory and methodology
Bridgette Wessels, University of Sheffield, UK
On digital cultures as cultural forms: participation, narrative and infrastructures in achieving digital cultural engagement
17:00 Reception
Saturday 3rd of November
Room: Russell 10
Session 5: Theorizing (digital) television (Chair: Holger Schulze - TBC)
09:00-11:00
Fonta Group, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
The theory of swarms in the models of organization of the audio-visual companies of digital television
Emma Hemmingway, Nottingham Trent University, UK
Actor Network Theory and Media: A new approach to theorising media practice
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-13:00 Panel: The Disappearance of the Digital Distinction?
Research Challenges, New media scholarship in Europe, Collaborative Funding?
Panelists: Holger Schulze, and TBA.
Led by: Kate O’Riordan, University of Sussex, UK
REGISTRATION:
Fee £35, this includes lunch, coffee and a drinks reception. It does not include accommodation and travel costs. To register email: V.A.Sammut@sussex.ac.uk
TRAVEL
How to find us
University of Sussex Campus Map
ACCOMODATION
University approved hotels.
Further hotels in the Brighton area:
http://tourism.brighton.co.uk/accommodation/
Rooms on Campus – please contact Vanessa Sammut V.A.Sammut@sussex.ac.uk to organise this option (subject to availability)
http://www.ids.ac.uk/ids/aboutids/accom.html
FURTHER INFORMATION
For more information please contact Maren Hartmann at hartmann@udk-berlin.de
For information about Digital Culture streams of ECREA see http://www.ecrea.eu/divisions/section/id/5.
CALL FOR PAPERS (CLOSED)
Call for Papers
Thursday 1st of November, 2007 - Saturday 3rd of November, 2007
Flickr photos (tag: Sussex, ECREA)
Thursday 1st November, 1600-1900, in Russell 10,
Friday 2nd of November, 0900-1600, in Arts C233, followed by reception location tbc
Saturday 3rd of November, 0900-1300, in Russell 10
This workshop, organized by the Digital Culture and Communication section of ECREA,the European Communication Research and Education Association, supported and hosted by this Research Centre, will bring together researchers from all over Europe. The aim of the day is to explore different traditions of new media investigation/theorization within Europe – and to explore ways in which they may usefully be placed in dialogue with each other. In addition workshop attendees will explore possible future activities that may be organized through the ECREA structure – including potential collaboration via European funding (FP7).
ABSTRACTS
FULL PROGRAMME:
Thursday, 1st of November
Room: EDB 341
15:30-16:00 Registration, Welcome & Coffee
Room: Russell 10
16:00–16:30 Welcome: Themes and Dialogues
Caroline Bassett, University of Sussex, UK
After Convergence?: What Connects?
Session 1: Media and methods (Chair: Irmi Karl, University of Brighton, UK)
16:30-18:30
Maren Hartmann, University of the Arts Berlin, Germany
Ethnographies as dangerous tools
Adolfo Estalella, Elisenda Ardèvol, Edgar Gómez, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain
Media as practice: Introducing symmetry in Internet ethnographies
Friday, 2nd of November
Room: Arts C233
Session 2: Sounds & Senses (Chair: Kate Lacey, University of Sussex, UK)
09:00-11:00
Frauke Behrendt, University of Sussex, UK
Mobile Sonic Experience: Methodological Concerns
Holger Schulze, University of the Arts Berlin, Germany
Experiencing Medialised Senses: On the Tectonics of Media
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
Session 3: Policy Issues (Chair: Bridgette Wessels)
11:30-12:30
Maria Sourbati, University of Brighton, UK
Europe’s digital media policy discourses and the problem of the user
12:30-14:00 Lunch & Coffee
Session 4: Theoretical frameworks and cyberculture (Chair: David Berry, University of Wales Swansea, UK)
14:00-16:00
Panagiota Alevizou, LSE, UK
Collective intelligence and the cult of open production: critical reflections on theory and methodology
Bridgette Wessels, University of Sheffield, UK
On digital cultures as cultural forms: participation, narrative and infrastructures in achieving digital cultural engagement
17:00 Reception
Saturday 3rd of November
Room: Russell 10
Session 5: Theorizing (digital) television (Chair: Holger Schulze - TBC)
09:00-11:00
Fonta Group, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
The theory of swarms in the models of organization of the audio-visual companies of digital television
Emma Hemmingway, Nottingham Trent University, UK
Actor Network Theory and Media: A new approach to theorising media practice
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-13:00 Panel: The Disappearance of the Digital Distinction?
Research Challenges, New media scholarship in Europe, Collaborative Funding?
Panelists: Holger Schulze, and TBA.
Led by: Kate O’Riordan, University of Sussex, UK
REGISTRATION:
Fee £35, this includes lunch, coffee and a drinks reception. It does not include accommodation and travel costs. To register email: V.A.Sammut@sussex.ac.uk
TRAVEL
How to find us
University of Sussex Campus Map
ACCOMODATION
University approved hotels.
Further hotels in the Brighton area:
http://tourism.brighton.co.uk/accommodation/
Rooms on Campus – please contact Vanessa Sammut V.A.Sammut@sussex.ac.uk to organise this option (subject to availability)
http://www.ids.ac.uk/ids/aboutids/accom.html
FURTHER INFORMATION
For more information please contact Maren Hartmann at hartmann@udk-berlin.de
For information about Digital Culture streams of ECREA see http://www.ecrea.eu/divisions/section/id/5.
CALL FOR PAPERS (CLOSED)
Call for Papers
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Digital Culture and Communication Section Meeting
The Digital Communication and Culture (DCC) section is organising a workshop in November 2007.
Title: Digital Media - European Perspectives
Date: 2 and 3 November 2007
University of Sussex, Centre for Material Digital CultureUK
The aim is to explore distinctive critical, theoretical and methodological perspectives around networked and pervasive media emerging in European research.
More detailed plans to follow.
Title: Digital Media - European Perspectives
Date: 2 and 3 November 2007
University of Sussex, Centre for Material Digital CultureUK
The aim is to explore distinctive critical, theoretical and methodological perspectives around networked and pervasive media emerging in European research.
More detailed plans to follow.
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