MECCSA2023: MECCSA 2023 (GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY)
PROGRAM

Days: Monday, September 4th Tuesday, September 5th Wednesday, September 6th

Monday, September 4th

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12:00-13:00 Session 4B: FILM SCREENING: RACING THE KING TIDE – An immersive documentary

Directed by Chris Chadwick

http://racingthekingtide.com/

In October 2013, a 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck the province of Bohol, Philippines, inducing land subsidence to some of its small island communities. Now, the islands of Batasan, Pangapasan, Ubay and Bilangbilangan of the Municipality of Tubigon experience partial or complete flooding even during normal spring tides.

This immersive documentary, viewable on an Oculus headset, places the audience on these islands and face-to-face with these island communities, confronted with a hundred years’ worth of sea level rise.

Duration: 5 minutes 30 seconds

Location: W008
13:00-14:30 Session 5A: Industry Voices and Equalities
Location: W001
13:00
Connecting Policies and Problems: A Framework for Gender Equity Analysis in the Screen Industry (abstract)
13:15
Obstacles and Opportunities for Women in Journalism: A Scottish case study (abstract)
13:30
'A better future': People power and collective action spaces in global pioneer journalism (abstract)
13:45
Industry Voices (abstract)
13:00-14:30 Session 5B: Digital Activism and Political Agency
Location: W002
13:00
Chinese young people and a ‘structure of feeling’: an exploration of the internet meme of ‘lying flat’ (abstract)
13:15
Overcoming neoliberal postfeminist sensibilities: An untapped potential for gender activism in a feminised public relations occupation in Slovenia (abstract)
13:30
MEDIA AND MORALITY IN AN ERA OF PARTICIPATION: FROM WITNESSING TO COMPLICITY (abstract)
13:00-14:30 Session 5C: The Pandemic: Before and After
Location: W004
13:00
Cosy Games, Agency, and Pandemic Play (abstract)
13:15
The Impact of Digital Messaging on Waste Management and Plastic Pollution in Low-income Coastal Communities in Indonesia (abstract)
13:00-14:30 Session 5D: Industry Challenges
Location: W009
13:00
Self-shooting and Multiskilling: Challenges of occupational convergence in factual television production (abstract)
13:15
Gaps and mismatches: Understanding the creative skills challenge in UK regions (abstract)
13:30
The great divide between acts of journalistic discovery and acts of metric confirmation in digital news production. (abstract)
13:00-14:30 Session 5E: Privacy and the Big Data
Location: W003
13:00
Contending with media safety and privacy in tackling global terrorism in Africa (abstract)
13:15
Investigating the Impact of Online Harms Experienced by Sports Journalists in the UK and Ireland. (abstract)
13:30
Data Ecologies: Connectivity and the Moral Limits of Open Data as Commons (abstract)
PRESENTER: Greg Singh
13:00-14:30 Session 5F: Art, Transgression, and the Avant-Garde
Location: W010A
13:00
Neuro-Avantgarde (abstract)
13:15
"Is Female-oriented just a lie?": Analysis of slash/yaoi/danmei reading preferences (abstract)
13:00-14:30 Session 5G: Media and the Environment
Location: W010B
13:00
The Climate Emergency and Future Content on UK Television: Carrot or Stick Time? (abstract)
13:15
How to interview a river: Transcending anthropocentricity in environmental journalism (abstract)
PRESENTER: Bridget Backhaus
13:30
Making (micro)plastics news: Reflections on media storytelling, policy, and publics (abstract)
15:00-16:30 Session 7A: Representing Lived Experience
Location: W001
15:00
Public Discourses and Children’s Voices: from Liushou Children’s Perspective to understand Labelling and Pathological Discourses (abstract)
15:15
Racing the King tide: A case study, examining the potential for immersive documentary to connect audiences with people’s lived experience to generate empathy. (abstract)
15:30
Narrative Content and Social Concerns: Representations of Gender, Sexuality, Mental Disability and Social Class in Korean Films and Televisions based on Social Events (abstract)
15:00-16:30 Session 7B: Violence, Conflict, and Disaster
Location: W002
15:00
Repatriationscapes: margins of difficult deaths in the UK death politics (abstract)
15:15
Cellphilming the hidden: A digital counter-narrative of natural disasters (abstract)
15:00-16:30 Session 7C: Political Communication
Location: W009
15:00
An illiberal turn? Media, Terrorism, and “Imagined Audiences” in British Parliamentary Debates (1988-2018) (abstract)
15:15
Participatory Politics and Place: Talking Teesside & Ben Houchen (abstract)
15:30
Abusing the ‘unprotected poor’: Anti-welfare hate speech in online news debates about the UK 'cost of living crisis' (abstract)
15:45
Towards a banal populism: the long-term normalisation of political populism in media (abstract)
15:00-16:30 Session 7D: European and Transnational Connections
Location: W003
15:00
The Microsoft/Activision Blizzard case: Antitrust policy in the European Union and the significance for media regulation (abstract)
15:15
Transnationalising viewing communities: British screen culture and Danish youth (abstract)
15:30
‘Going global’ or ‘exiled?’ The success of Chinese SVODs’ boy’s love serials in Southeast Asia (abstract)
15:45
Our Fish, Our Sea and 'Us': Fish, Europe and Populism in the British Press (1960-2020) (abstract)
15:00-16:30 Session 7E: The Future of Television
Chair:
Location: W010A
15:00
The BBC at 100: Three Modes of Discourse (abstract)
15:15
Cultural Proximity in a world of transnational television content. (abstract)
15:30
The Future of TV Development (abstract)
15:00-16:30 Session 7F: Media Feminisms
Location: W010B
15:00
Individuality versus collectivism: The urban-rural divide in intersectional Chinese digital feminist activism (abstract)
15:15
Shaming Women: Gender, Digital Media and the Production of Online Othering & Divisive Culture (abstract)
15:30
Neoliberal feminism and workplace mentorship: connecting policy and media discourses (abstract)
15:45
Feminist DIY in a digital age: Semiotic connections in feminist activism (abstract)
15:00-16:30 Session 7G: Film, Affect, and Storytelling

4851 - screening, 26 minutes

Location: W008
15:00
Nothing Echoes Here (Hay, 2022): Grief as Lived Experience in Fiction Film (abstract)
15:15
Much Naatu about nothing? Deciphering the success of Indian film RRR in the West (abstract)
15:30
Articulating Ecological Imaginaries: The case of Avatar: The Way of Water (abstract)
15:45
Class and Storytelling in Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir (2019, 2021) (abstract)
17:00-18:00 Session 9G: PANEL: The Future - and Limits - of "Diversity" in the Cultural Industries.
Location: W002
17:00
Panel: The Future - and Limits - of "Diversity" in the Cultural Industries (abstract)
Tuesday, September 5th

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09:00-10:30 Session 12A: Community Media and Imagined Collectives
Location: W009
09:00
Digital storytelling and grassroots communities: building hope for the future (abstract)
09:15
Digital connections: Australian ethnic community broadcasting in the post-terrestrial and post-pandemic mediascape (abstract)
09:30
Public political communication in Oman, The Role of online Forums (abstract)
09:00-10:30 Session 12B: Digital Equalities
Location: W005
09:00
Exploring digital access and inclusion for adults with lived experience of modern slavery (abstract)
09:15
How Only Some Citizens Are Socialised into Filter bubbles and Echo Chambers, and the Implications for Democracy (abstract)
09:30
Towards a Minimum Digital Living Standard (abstract)
09:45
The Digital Privacy Gap as an Urban Media Policy Challenge (abstract)
09:00-10:30 Session 12C: War Reporting and Representation
Location: W004
09:00
Disappearing into the map: The hiding of tragedy through war cartography (abstract)
09:15
Television in Conflict – Analysing the Media Coverage of the War in Ukraine (abstract)
09:30
Why ethnographic research by participant observation into the work of war reporters is a good idea, and some strategies for doing more of it (abstract)
09:00-10:30 Session 12D: Media in the COVID Pandemic
Location: W003
09:00
Imagined public engagement: a comparative analysis of governmental communication during the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK and China (abstract)
09:15
‘Real Heroes Wear Masks’: An Exploratory Study of Telefantasy COVID-19 Videos (abstract)
09:30
Panic about epidemic or control measures? Changes in using Weibo in public health event from 2020-2022 (abstract)
09:45
A containment zone or a place of surveillance? Liminal spaces on Mumsnet during COVID-19 (abstract)
09:00-10:30 Session 12E: Fashion, Beauty, and the Media
Location: W010A
09:00
Climate change, fashion media and influencers (abstract)
09:15
Magazines vs Influencers: A generational comparison of early introductions to makeup (abstract)
09:30
The Lifecycle of a Social Media Beauty Trend: A Case Study of the Instagram body (abstract)
09:45
How communications surrounding Charismatic Actions can benefit sustainability in the Fashion Industry (abstract)
09:00-10:30 Session 12F: Scottish Media and Culture
Chair:
Location: W010B
09:00
The Effects of Covid on the Scottish Traditional Arts (abstract)
09:15
#ScotlandsShame: Twitter, affective publics and football-related sectarianism in Scotland (abstract)
09:30
Liveness, Space and Reframing Connectedness: Pandemic Lessons from Scottish Film Festivals (abstract)
09:45
Media futures of political mobilisation – the 2014 Scottish independence referendum and beyond (abstract)
09:00-10:30 Session 12G: Women's Media Narratives
Chair:
Location: W001
09:00
The Connected Writer: Exploring the Digital Experience of Women Writers from Brazil (abstract)
09:15
Past, present and future of women's anger: towards transforming the frame of recognition in media narratives (abstract)
09:30
‘Dangerous women’ and their algorithmic powers: contemporary representations of datafied femininity in film and tv. (abstract)
09:45
The perfect birth: A content analysis of midwives’ posts about birth on Instagram (abstract)
PRESENTER: Anna Marsh
09:00-10:30 Session 12H: Open Access Roundtable

Open Access Roundtable Session

The advent of open access publishing promises a revolution in terms of the dissemination of academic research. From 2024, all UKRI-funded research must be disseminated through open access (monographs, book chapters and edited collections, as well as peer-reviewed journal articles) and the next REF is set to go the same way. What are both the opportunities and challenges which open access brings and what does it mean for you? Join our distinguished panel in a debate about the future of academic publishing as we look ahead to the age of open access.

Panellists:

John Connolly (Chief Editorial Adviser, Routledge Open Research; Professor of Social Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University)

Gillian Daly (Executive Officer, SCURL: Scottish Confederation of University and Research Libraries)

Murray Leith (Editorial Board Member, Scottish Universities Press; Professor of Politics, University of West of Scotland)

Dominique Walker (Publishing Officer, Scottish Universities Press)

Chair:
Location: W010A
13:00-14:30 Session 16A: Distribution: Change and Challenges
Location: W002
13:00
Global distribution from your living room: Exhibiting a short film during the pandemic (abstract)
13:15
Cultural Politics of Legitimising Licence Fee in the Era of Streaming (abstract)
13:00-14:30 Session 16B: Social Media: Protest and Political Change
Location: W003
13:00
Exploring the EndSARS Movement: Police Brutality in Nigeria through the lens Memory Studies (abstract)
13:15
Game of Shipyard: Role of social media and lens-based arts and in making political change (abstract)
13:30
Countering Islamophobic hate speech on Twitter: Activist strategies (abstract)
PRESENTER: Elizabeth Poole
13:45
Online Political campaigns as a form of social media movement protest– case study of the #OBIdient movement. (abstract)
13:00-14:30 Session 16C: The Future of Technology
Location: W004
13:00
Immersive technology, media literacy and the future (abstract)
13:15
Nested Cinematic Reality: cinema as a connected multi-media immersive experience for the living room of the future (abstract)
13:30
Connected Futures: the role of Virtual Reality in engaging the contemporary consumer with brand messages (abstract)
13:00-14:30 Session 16D: Radio: Past, Present, and Future
Location: W009
13:00
Networks built for life: social cohesion connections through the practice of community media (abstract)
13:15
Speaking my Mind: Governing the Present, Imagining the Future on All India Radio (abstract)
13:30
Digging Around In Public Service Radio. BBC Archaeology Broadcasts – Looking From The Past To The Future (abstract)
13:00-14:30 Session 16E: Gender and Genre
Location: W010B
13:00
The Evolution of Tim Burton’s Female Protagonist in Film and TV: Alice in Wonderland (2010), Big Eyes (2014) and Wednesday (2022-). (abstract)
13:15
“I Feel Like I’m Stuck in a Weird Loop”: Rotoscoping, Time Travel and Female Subjectivity in Undone (Amazon Prime, 2019—) (abstract)
13:30
DETAILS: Mining stories, meaning and emotion in film - A woman's perspective (abstract)
13:00-14:30 Session 16F: Identities and Representations
Chair:
Location: W001
13:00
The Outsider (abstract)
13:15
Authenticity, habitus, and classed visibility in Chinese rural-to-urban migrant workers’ online identity performance (abstract)
13:00-14:30 Session 16G: Digital Journalism and Dilemmas
Location: W010A
13:00
Safety and Privacy in the Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs) (abstract)
13:15
The News People of Silence: Digital Prodnewsers and Non-Professional WhatsApp News Groups in the Era of News Mobility (abstract)
13:30
Media Education and The Devolved Post-Covid Scottish Newsroom (abstract)
17:00-18:00 Session 20: Film Screenings

1. Catriona MacInnes

Women and Social Realism: (Documentary 25 mins)) written, directed and edited by Catriona MacInnes

Featuring Actress Kate Dickie, and filmmakers Morag Mackinnon and Tina Gharavi

Made in partnership with Teeside University, looking at the contribution of female filmmakers to social realist filmmaking in the United Kingdom. In 2020 the film was nominated for a Research in Film award by the AHRC.

 

2. Jimmy Hay

Location: W005
Wednesday, September 6th

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09:00-10:30 Session 22A: Found in Translation: Language, News, and Diversity
Location: W001
09:00
Digital Futures for Language Learning: a digital education project to streamline and diversify foreign-language media resources and to tackle inequalities in language provision (abstract)
09:15
Gaelic Language News: Grassroots journalism and the democratic deficit for Gaelic speakers. Naidheachd anns a Ghàidhlig: Naidheachd bhon choimhearsnachd agus a h-easbhaidh deamocratach airson luchd na Ghàidhlig (abstract)
09:30
Dallas comes to the Isle of Harris? The changing face of Gaelic language soaps (abstract)
09:45
“I always keep my grandma in mind” and “The ordinary person in a faraway country”: Insights into News Agency Foreign Correspondents’ Imagined Audiences and their Impact on the News Product(ion Process) (abstract)
09:00-10:30 Session 22B: Music and Audio Cultures in the Digital Age
Location: W009
09:00
Minority Radio in the United Kingdom: The case of Muslim radio Stations in West Yorkshire (abstract)
09:15
Digital malaise and scenic allure: music-making and mediation in the 'new London jazz scene' (abstract)
09:30
TikTok, social media and changes in music promotion and consumption: A critical analysis of self-promoting new music through social media (abstract)
09:45
Cultural meaning and later life: practices and infrastructures for ageing together (abstract)
09:00-10:30 Session 22C: Media Research and Ethics
Location: W005
09:00
Talking to teen girls in lockdown: the researcher as imagined audience in an ethics of online data collection (abstract)
09:15
Rebellious Research - legitimising creative freedom (and chaos) within academic research and broadening dissemination practices for wider impact (abstract)
09:30
The Big Content Machine: A Tool and Accompanying Research Method for the Analysis of Large Scale Digital Media Discussion Data (abstract)
09:00-10:30 Session 22D: Narrative and Genre
Location: W010B
09:00
The Future of Soap Operas: What is Next for Serial Narratives (abstract)
09:15
Close Encounters: Korean Romantic Comedy, Digital Aesthetics, and the Future of the Urban Meet Cute (abstract)
09:30
Back to the Future: Reversive Chronology in Pinter’s Adapted Screenplays (abstract)
09:45
Multiverse Narration: Hyper-Denarrativization in Post-Millennial Hollywood Cinema (abstract)
09:00-10:30 Session 22E: Representational Inequalities

Hybrid session

Location: W004
09:00
Citizenship of disability in the mediapolis: evolution of media representations following an ecological perspective (abstract)
09:15
Screenwriters on Writing the Body: the Challenges of Representation in Contemporary British Drama (abstract)
09:30
Identifying and Analysing Stereotypes in the Representation of Physical Disabilities in Nollywood Films (abstract)
09:00-10:30 Session 22F: Social Media, Community, and Identity
Location: W003
09:00
The Expropriation of Privacy and Vanishing of the Avant-Garde-Self with Self-Editing on Social Media Through the Problems of Connected Anxieties, Authenticity, and Surveillance: ‘The Envied’, ‘The Object’, and ‘The Envier’ (abstract)
09:15
An exploration into users’ engagement with nostalgia accounts on Instagram (abstract)
09:30
Who’s ‘That Girl’?: Self-monitoring and self-optimisation trends on TikTok (abstract)
09:00-10:30 Session 22G: Podcasting and Audiences
Location: W010A
09:00
Understanding Stand-Up Comedian Podcast Users’ Relationships with Their Favourite Hosts (abstract)
09:15
Focused listening? Evaluating practices and routines of podcast listening in everyday life: Highlighting the importance of qualitative audience studies in the future of podcast studies. (abstract)
09:30
Filtering women identity through podcast storytelling: the case of Desert Island Discs (abstract)
09:45
Immersion, remediation, and the experiential: establishing a distinct podcast identity (abstract)
11:00-12:30 Session 24A: Industry Reflections
Chair:
Location: W002
11:00
Reflections 2023: Developing A TV Foundation Review Between Industry and Academy (abstract)
11:15
Inside the Sausage Factory: Authorship and edit producing in factual entertainment TV (abstract)
11:30
Where is and isn’t digital journalism studies: A meta-analysis of an emerging field (abstract)
11:00-12:30 Session 24B: Music Events, Business and PR
Chair:
Location: W010A
11:00
The Rise of Country Music Festivals in the United Kingdom (abstract)
11:15
How the music industries killed ‘selling out’: autopsy of a concept (abstract)
11:00-12:30 Session 24C: Media and Journalism Education and Dilemmas

3716 - film screening

Location: W008
11:00
Platform schooling: GNI and FJP online trainings as the new journalism educators (abstract)
11:15
The Discursive Construction of ‘News’: An Analysis of Journalism Educators’ Discourse (abstract)
11:30
'Trigger warnings' in teaching in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (abstract)
11:00-12:30 Session 24D: Social Media Topics and Trends
Location: W004
11:00
Public Interest and Engagement: An exploration of the depiction of local food in Scotland by Influencers on Instagram (abstract)
11:15
Connections between social media and eating disorders: A qualitative Exploration of Participants on an Eating Disorder Recovery Programme (tastelifeUK) (abstract)
PRESENTER: Barbara Mitra
11:30
Satirical storytelling; The Nigerian Feminist Tool on Social Media (abstract)
11:45
‘I like to cheer people on’: Instagram sustainability influencers and the affective communication of climate crisis (abstract)
11:00-12:30 Session 24E: Migration, Diasporas, and the Media
Location: W009
11:00
Forced Migrations Across Space and Time: Connecting the Highland Clearances to Syrian Forced Migration (abstract)
11:15
Diasporic Worldmaking: Transatlantic Muslim Production Networks, Streaming Video and Algorithms (abstract)
11:00-12:30 Session 24F: Digital Ubiquity and Surveillance
Location: W010B
11:00
Just Checking on the Kids: Exploring the complex issue of surveillance parenting in the digital age. (abstract)
11:15
Participatory Culture in the Scoring Society: the implications of the Chinese Social Credit System for online participation on social media in China (abstract)
12:00-13:00 Session 25B: FILM SCREENING: RACING THE KING TIDE – An immersive documentary

Directed by Chris Chadwick

http://racingthekingtide.com/

In October 2013, a 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck the province of Bohol, Philippines, inducing land subsidence to some of its small island communities. Now, the islands of Batasan, Pangapasan, Ubay and Bilangbilangan of the Municipality of Tubigon experience partial or complete flooding even during normal spring tides.

This immersive documentary, viewable on an Oculus headset, places the audience on these islands and face-to-face with these island communities, confronted with a hundred years’ worth of sea level rise.

Duration: 5 minutes 30 seconds

Location: W008
13:30-15:00 Session 26A: Media, Politics, and Power
Location: W001
13:30
Public political deliberation in Oman, The role of the Basic Law (abstract)
13:45
Ode to the Chinese Communist Party: The New Wave of “Red Songs” on Chinese Media and Social Media in 2021 (abstract)
14:00
Discourses of Monarchy, Media and Power in the Spare Media Event (abstract)
14:15
To persuade or to instigate: An appraisal of party use of political adverts during the 2019 elections in Nigeria. (abstract)
13:30-15:00 Session 26B: Technology and Imagination
Chair:
Location: W005
13:30
Tech on the edge: how marginalised news providers leverage advancements in technology (abstract)
13:45
When the virtual will become only an Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response: on immersive Neosomnambulism, avatar without legs, and user experience temporalities. (abstract)
14:00
Challenges to Immersive Journalism after the VR Hype from the Professionals’ Perspective (abstract)
14:15
Patterns in Practice: the cultural dynamics of machine learning within arts practice (abstract)
13:30-15:00 Session 26C: Practice as Research, Technology, and Skills Acquisition
Location: W004
13:30
Game Engines: New Rules for New Tools? (abstract)
13:45
Filmmaking practice-as-research: a case study in pursuit of subtext through AI generated dialogue. (abstract)
14:00
Challenging Photorealism: Provoking Reality Capture through Artistic Research Practice (abstract)
13:30-15:00 Session 26D: Public and Domestic Labour and Communication
Location: W010B
13:30
“The Joy of Clean”: Housework and the Rise of Digital Consumer-Citizens (abstract)
13:45
Co-operatives in the Creative Industries: A Collective and Connected Future for Cultural Work? (abstract)
14:00
A Day in the Life of a single mum’ (abstract)
13:30-15:00 Session 26E: Desire and Censorship
Location: W003
13:30
Desires of Disconnection: Anti-Masturbation Communities and Reclamations of “Realness” (abstract)
13:45
Losing Touch: (De)Materialising Eros in Contemporary Popular Fiction (abstract)
14:00
Same culture, different platform: Reflecting on the limitations of social media for changing futures with sex edutainment. (abstract)
13:30-15:00 Session 26F: Cultures and Identities
Location: W010A
13:30
Discursive polarization and the rise of nationalist on Facebook: A case study of Portuguese party "Ergue-te!" (abstract)
13:45
Emotions and Trauma in the 'Murder Capital of Europe': A New History of Glasgow's Neds and Ned Culture (circa 1995-2008) (abstract)
14:00
“Carnism” and the culture wars: digital vegan activism under communicative capitalism (abstract)