PROGRAM
Days: Wednesday, September 4th Thursday, September 5th Friday, September 6th
Wednesday, September 4th
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11:45-12:30 Session 3: Keynote: Sarah Atkinson - Feminist Futurism: transcending technocratic mediocrity
Chair:
Location: Business School G.27
| 11:45 | Feminist Futurism: transcending technocratic mediocrity (abstract) |
12:00-19:00 Lines of Flight, Modal Gallery SODA
Lines of Flight, a MeCCSA Practice Network exhibition of new creative practice research
Location: MODAL Gallery, SODA
13:30-15:00 Session 5A: Activist communications
Chair:
Location: Business School 3.14
| 13:30 | Fulfilling the Blind Spots: Motives and Strategies behind Local Appropriation of Global Decolonial Agenda (abstract) |
| 13:45 | Greenpeace International’s Alternative Futures Campaign: From Capitalism to Pluriverse. (abstract) |
| 14:00 | Critical Research and The Media: the Case of Mr Bates v Post Office and Others. (abstract) |
13:30-15:00 Session 5B: Digital Narratives: Bridging Environmental and Cultural Memory
Chair:
Location: Business School 3.15
| 13:30 | Remembering Canada's Indian Residential Schools: The Commemorative Turn (abstract) |
| 13:45 | Stories of the Storytellers: An exploration of Journalism and Oral History methods and intersections (abstract) |
13:30-15:00 Session 5C: Solidarity and resistance
Chair:
Location: Business School 3.16
| 13:30 | Resisting the normalisation of everyday racism: Digital solidarity and resilience among Chinese migrants in the United Kingdom and Germany (abstract) |
| 13:45 | Renegotiating diasporic friendships and solidarities: An examination of British Asian identity through the analysis of the Asian Times and 1980s Britain (abstract) |
| 14:00 | The film, its audience, and everyone in between: Social justice and human rights film festivals as sites of decentralised mutual learning and knowledge production (abstract) |
13:30-15:00 Session 5D: Gender and identity
Chair:
Location: Business School 3.17
| 13:30 | The Veiled Selfie (abstract) |
| 13:45 | Mediated Military Women: Making Sense of Online Self-Representation, (Military) Identity Construction and Gender in the Thai Military Context (abstract) |
| 14:00 | Beyond the Narrative of Crisis: Integration, Adaptation and Resilience in Migrant Women’s Cinema (abstract) |
13:30-15:00 Session 5E: Media production and climate change
Location: Business School 3.23
| 13:30 | Towards Sustainable Filmmaking: Exploring Environmental Initiatives in the Turkish Film Industry (abstract) |
| 13:45 | Developing Sector-wide Demand for Eco-Sustainability in Film Production through Strategic Awareness and Collaboration (abstract) |
13:30-15:00 Session 5F: Creative industries
Chair:
Location: Business School 3.20
| 13:30 | Sustainability of Independent Indian Musicians in the Age of Platformisation (abstract) |
| 13:45 | The Role of Art & Culture in Enabling Hope in Times of Crisis: Two Recent Examples from UK Television (abstract) |
| 14:00 | The Roadmap for the Digital Creative Industries: Ireland's new strategy (abstract) |
13:30-15:00 Session 5G: Practice network panel 1: Social identity, heritage and community
Chair:
Location: Business School 3.21
| 13:30 | Nordisk Panorama: balancing competition and collaboration in creative documentary ecologies (abstract) |
| 13:45 | Oral History and the (Em)powering of Community Heritage (abstract) |
| 14:00 | What’s Our Name? Migrant Communities, Identity and Football in Latin America. Decolonising the British informal Empire in Chile and beyond. (abstract) |
| 14:15 | I’m Still Here – Participatory Production during the Covid Pandemic (abstract) |
13:30-15:00 Session 5H: Practice network panel 2: Documenting and impacting social change
Chair:
Location: Business School 3.22
| 13:30 | Creative Climate Communications through Walking to Zero (abstract) |
| 13:45 | Empowering Voices; Exploring Women’s Rights through Animation in the Age of Social Media (abstract) |
| 14:00 | Racing the King Tide (abstract) |
| 14:15 | “I Want to Live” – a Multimedia Activist-Community Oriented Documentary Project (abstract) |
13:30-15:00 Session 5I: Race, Media, Culture and Resistance in Times of Crisis
Chair:
Location: Business School 3.24
| 13:30 | Race, Media, Culture and Resistance in Times of Crisis (abstract) |
15:20-16:50 Session 7A: Crises of Feminism in Contemporary Television and Film
Chair:
Location: Business School 3.14
| 15:20 | Crises of Feminism in Contemporary Television and Film (abstract) |
15:20-16:50 Session 7B: Climate change network panel
Chair:
Location: Business School 3.19
| 15:20 | Panel – Meccsa Climate Change Network Panel (abstract) |
| 15:35 | The sustainability department in screen production: Working the green transition (abstract) |
15:20-16:50 Session 7C: Practice network workshop 1: Narrative alchemy - a workshop on crafting your 300 word REF output statements
Chair:
Location: Business School 3.20
| 15:20 | Narrative Alchemy: A Workshop on Crafting Your 300 word REF Output Statements (abstract) |
15:20-16:50 Session 7D: Digital content creation
Chair:
Location: Business School 3.21
| 15:20 | Welcome to the Eating Show: The Intersection of Mukbang Videos with Fast Food Brand Identity and Consumer Engagement (abstract) |
| 15:35 | Emotional resilience by healing podcasts: A case study of Vietnam in the post-pandemic (abstract) |
| 15:50 | Embodying A Good Food Nation: How Scottish Influencers reproduce political narratives about good food practices in Scotland through content creation on Instagram (abstract) |
15:20-16:50 Session 7E: Education in crisis
Chair:
Location: Business School 3.22
| 15:20 | The war on woke goes to school: deconstructing a modern media panic (abstract) |
| 15:35 | Censorship in the Name of Freedom of Expression (abstract) |
| 15:50 | Tales of Temptation: Social Fiction Reflections on Academic Dishonesty (abstract) |
15:20-16:50 Session 7F: Video games and crisis
Chair:
Location: Business School 3.23
| 15:20 | Illegible Bodies, or What Portal and Portal 2 Can Teach Us About Resisting Epistemic Foreclosure (abstract) |
| 15:35 | Ecological Crisis and Misanthropy in Video Games: Beyond Extractivism and Extinction (abstract) |
15:20-16:50 Session 7G: Trauma narratives
Chair:
Location: Business School 3.24
| 15:20 | Darkness on the Edge of Town: environmental trauma, landscape scars, aesthetics of pollution and ecocriticism in contemporary American Cinema (abstract) |
| 15:35 | Black Sails, Historicising the Intersecting Traumas of Imperialist Capitalism through the Gothic Mode (abstract) |
15:20-16:50 Session 7H: Practice network panel 3: Technological and creative approaches to social engagement
Chair:
Location: Business School 3.17
| 15:20 | Precious: Reclaiming Value from Personal Data (abstract) |
| 15:35 | South Liverpool Herbarium (abstract) |
| 15:50 | EST-ETHICA! In conversation with digital puppets on how to break the anthropos’ permacrisis through ethical collaboration with the ‘other-than-human’. (abstract) |
| 16:05 | Occupying the Yard Space for Critical Creativity (abstract) |
17:00-18:00 Session 9A: Practice network workshop 2: Photovoice reimagined - principles and scope of photovoice research
Chair:
Location: Business School 3.14
| 17:00 | Photovoice Reimagined: principles and scope of photovoice research (abstract) |
17:00-18:00 Session 9B: Academic Engagement with Ofcom
Chair:
Location: Business School 3.15
| 17:00 | Ofcom and academic engagement (abstract) |
18:00-19:00 Session 10: Practice Network event: New Horizons: Relaunch of the International Journal of Creative Media Research and reception for 'Lines of Flight', a MeCCSA Practice Network exhibition
Relaunch of the International Journal of Creative Media Research and introduction to the journal by its new editors, alongside a drinks reception for Lines of Flight, a MeCCSA Practice Network exhibiton in the Modal Gallery, SODA. Events take place in the SODA Cinema and adjacent Modal Gallery, ground floor of the SODA building and next door to the Salutation pub.
Chair:
Location: MODAL Gallery, SODA
| 18:00 | New Horizons: Relaunch of the International Journal of Creative Media Research (abstract) |
19:00-20:00 MeCCSA quiz
Location: The Salutation
Thursday, September 5th
View this program: with abstractssession overviewtalk overview
09:00-17:00 Lines of Flight, Modal Gallery SODA
Lines of Flight, a MeCCSA Practice Network exhibition of new creative practice research
GLOW: Spotlight on VR - 30-minute slots 10.30-3pm bookable from the sign-up sheet in the Modal Gallery
Location: MODAL Gallery, SODA
09:00-10:30 Session 12A: Media employment
Chair:
Location: Business School 3.14
| 09:00 | A Common Wealth of Experience? (abstract) |
| 09:15 | Countering the TV skills crises and problems of retention (abstract) |
| 09:30 | A two-year longitudinal study of experiences of entry level UK film and TV workers: pay, place, passion and precarity (abstract) |
| 09:45 | Class, Television and the Permacrisis of Inequalities (abstract) |
09:00-10:30 Session 12B: Mis- and disinformation
Chair:
Location: Business School 3.15
| 09:00 | Right-wing Influencers, Islamophobia, and the British Asian Diaspora: Understanding the Leicester Riots, August-September 2022 (abstract) |
| 09:15 | The potential of interactivity and gamification within Immersive Journalism & Interactive Documentary (I-Docs) to explore Climate Change Literacy & inoculate against misinformation (abstract) |
| 09:30 | Uncovering the Uncoverers: Identity, Performativity and Representation in Counter-Disinformation Discourse (abstract) |
| 09:45 | Understanding experiences of minority beliefs on online platforms (abstract) |
09:00-10:30 Session 12C: Fandoms
Chair:
Location: Business School 3.17
| 09:00 | Resilience on Reddit: Doctor Who Fans and the Mediation of the Pandemic (abstract) |
| 09:15 | Fan empowerment: the rise of nisu fan culture in Chinese fandom (abstract) |
| 09:30 | Platform participatory cultures in climate crisis: Reddit reception of NYC wildfire smoke (abstract) |
09:00-10:30 Session 12D: Local media, crisis and resilience
Chair:
Location: Business School 3.19
| 09:00 | Solutions journalism in the community: fighting the permacrisis at grassroots level (abstract) |
| 09:15 | After Hyperlocal: community communications in a post citizen media era. (abstract) |
| 09:30 | Journalism Ethics and Local News Organisations (abstract) PRESENTER: Beth Parkes |
09:00-10:30 Session 12E: Platform governance
Chair:
Location: Business School 3.21
| 09:00 | Communicating with social media platforms towards change in times of crisis: a researcher-activist's perspective (abstract) |
| 09:15 | Tackling crises in media-marketing convergence: a 32-country study of branded content governance (abstract) |
| 09:30 | Governing Internet Platforms in the EU in a time of Polycrisis (abstract) |
| 09:45 | Towards Media Environment Capture: A Theoretical Contribution on the Influence of Big Tech on News Media (abstract) |
09:00-10:30 Session 12F: Radio studies network panel: the rise and role of podcasting in the permacrisis
09.00 Tzlil Sharon, Inverse parasocial relationships with (imagined) podcast listeners
09.15 Josephine Coleman, Matters of the heart – communicating the global environmental crisis on local community radio
09.30 Magz Hall, Radio Air Gardens
09.45 Phil Ramsey and Andrew White, The News Agents Podcast: From Public Service Media to Public Interest Media
Chair:
Location: Business School 3.16
| 09:00 | Radio Studies network panel: Podcasting for Public Interest and Purposeful Connections (abstract) |
09:00-10:30 Session 12G: Identity and representation
Chair:
Location: Business School 3.20
| 09:00 | Data Journalism, COVID-19 and the representation of ethnic minorities in the UK news. (abstract) |
| 09:15 | Identity Crisis? Decolonisation, memory, and the vernacular troubling of historical stabilities (abstract) |
| 09:30 | BBC Radio 4’s Today programme and its representation of non-human animals (abstract) |
09:00-10:30 Session 12H: Practice Network Screening 1: Film shorts and filmmaker Q+A
A screening programme of three short films and Q+A with the attending filmmakers, Chris Paul Daniels, Catherine Gough-Brady and Graham Jeffery.
Chair:
Location: SODA Cinema
| 09:00 | Is there anybody there? (abstract) |
| 09:18 | Interview with a Sand Dune (abstract) |
| 09:26 | Unseen women: hidden livelihoods of waste work (abstract) |
11:00-11:45 Session 14: Keynote: Francesca Sobande - Nu-Metal, Old Politics: The Soundtracks and Stylings of a Subculture in Crisis
Chair:
Location: Business School G.27
| 11:00 | Nu-Metal, Old Politics: The Soundtracks and Stylings of a Subculture in Crisis hosted by Francesca Sobande (abstract) |
11:45-12:45 Session 15E: MeCCSA local and community media network meeting
Location: Business School 3.17
12:45-14:15 Session 16: MeCCSA annual general meeting
Guest speaker: James Coe (Associate Editor for Research and Innovation, WonkHE)
Location: Business School G.27
14:15-15:00 Session 17: Keynote: Graham Murdock - Confronting Catastrophe: Digitalised Capitalism and the Battle for a Common Future
Chair:
Location: Business School G.27
| 14:15 | Confronting Catastrophe: Digitalised Capitalism and the Battle for a Common Future (abstract) |
15:20-16:50 Session 19A: Gender and media
Chair:
Location: Business School 3.20
| 15:20 | Performing the Perfect on Instagram: Using Theatre to Re-world the Mediated Lives of Girls (abstract) |
| 15:35 | Girls in crisis: mental health advice in popular girls’ magazines, 1970-2000 (abstract) |
| 15:50 | A deep dive into the lived experiences of older Black African Women in the UK, their information sources, and its impact on their attitudes towards COVID-19 vaccination in a post-pandemic landscape. (abstract) |
15:20-16:50 Session 19B: Censorship, cancel culture and "war on woke"
Chair:
Location: Business School 3.14
| 15:20 | Affective contagions of ‘cancel culture’, vulnerability and surveillance (abstract) |
| 15:35 | Student censorship in Mexican universities (abstract) |
| 15:50 | “Anti- woke comedy” and reactionary politics. (abstract) |
15:20-16:50 Session 19C: Visual disruptions: drones in crisis, creativity and change
Chair:
Location: Business School 3.15
| 15:20 | “Visual Disruptions: Drones in Crisis, Creativity, and Change" (abstract) |
15:20-16:50 Session 19D: Manosphere
Chair:
Location: Business School 3.19
| 15:20 | Recommender Algorithms and Extreme Online Content: Algorithmic promotion of manosphere content to boys and young men on YouTube and TikTok (abstract) |
| 15:35 | “Society failed men”: Self-help influencers, toxic masculinity and online radicalisation (abstract) |
| 15:50 | Laughing at the manosphere – Critiques of popular misogyny in contemporary US narrative comedy (abstract) |
| 16:05 | “Andrew Tate for girls”: dark feminine influencers and anti-hope structures of feeling (abstract) |
15:20-16:50 Session 19E: Practice network panel 5: Reflections on artistic practice and its social impact
Chair:
Location: Business School 3.20
| 15:20 | Empowering Young People Through Open-Access Performance (abstract) |
| 15:35 | The Newspaper Dance: A Methodological Intervention (abstract) |
| 15:50 | Beyond Horizons: The Therapeutic Potential of Arts-Based Interventions for Long-Term Hospitalised Children (abstract) |
| 16:05 | Embracing Chance and Risk: A Filmmaker's Exploration of Collaborative Storytelling in Fiction Production (abstract) |
15:20-16:50 Session 19F: Practice network workshop 3: Peer-reviewing screen media practice research - the how-to guide with the Screenworks editorial team
Chair:
Location: Business School 3.21
| 15:20 | Peer-reviewing Screen Media Practice Research: The How-to Guide with the Screenworks Editorial Team (abstract) |
15:20-16:50 Session 19G: Prix Jeunesse Suitcase screening and discussion
Chair:
Location: Business School 3.22
| 15:20 | Prix Jeunesse Suitcase screening and discussion (abstract) |
15:20-16:50 Session 19H: Questions of identity and environment in cinematic storytelling
Chair:
Location: Business School 3.23
| 15:20 | A Cinematographer and their role in the environmental permacrisis. (abstract) |
| 15:35 | The Climate Crisis and Counter Documentary (abstract) |
| 15:50 | When your body resists: ethnonationalism and affective dis/connections (abstract) |
| 16:05 | Reading A FATHER A SON AND SANKARA through a Politics of Love (abstract) |
17:00-19:00 Session 20A: Practice Network Screening 2: 'A Father a Son and Sankara' and 'The Bell Rings'
A screening of the films A Father a Son and Sankara and The Bell Rings followed by a Q+A with the attending filmmakers, Andreas Landeck and Katalin Halasz.
Chair:
Location: SODA Cinema
| 17:00 | The bell rings (abstract) |
| 17:18 | A Father, A Son and Sankara (abstract) |
17:00-18:00 Session 20B: MeCCSA Policy Network Roundtable: Recent developments in media policy: a global perspective
Chair:
Location: Business School 3.14
| 17:00 | MeCCSA Policy Network Roundtable: "Recent developments in media policy: a global perspective" (abstract) |
17:00-18:00 Session 20C: MeCCSA women's network roundtable
Chairs:
Location: Business School 3.15
| 17:00 | Feminist Responses to the Permacrisis (abstract) |
17:00-18:00 Session 20D: Digital inclusion
Chair:
Location: Business School 3.17
| 17:00 | Digital Inclusion Roundtable (abstract) |
17:00-18:00 Session 20E: Practice Network Roundtable: The in-betweeners. Reflections on the positionality of creative ‘scholar-activists’
Chair:
Location: Business School 3.19
| 17:00 | The in-betweeners. Reflections on the positionality of creative ‘scholar-activists’ (abstract) |
Friday, September 6th
View this program: with abstractssession overviewtalk overview
09:00-16:00 Lines of Flight, Modal Gallery SODA
Lines of Flight, a MeCCSA Practice Network exhibition of new creative practice research
GLOW: Spotlight on VR - 30-minute slots 10.30-12.30pm bookable from the sign-up sheet in the Modal Gallery
09:00-10:30 Session 22A: Embodiment and media
Chair:
Location: Business School 3.14
| 09:00 | The Digital Embodiment of Gender in Contestation: The Rise of the Escape the Corset Movement and Transgender-Exclusionary Radical Feminism in South Korea (abstract) |
| 09:15 | Breaking Taboos and Rejecting Shame: An Analysis of Menstrual Shame Discourse in Chinese Social Media (abstract) |
| 09:30 | ‘‘Buckle Up. Things are about to get weird’: Making sense of contemporary menopause in the Oprah Daily ‘The Life You Want’ curriculum’ (abstract) |
09:00-10:30 Session 22B: Practice network panel 6: Cultural and environmental narratives
Chair:
Location: Business School 3.15
| 09:00 | Labour, landscape and arts of noticing: forest ecologies and industries of rewilding the Caledonian forest (abstract) |
| 09:15 | Questioning Creative Practice Human Research Ethics (abstract) |
| 09:30 | Soundwalking the Machair (abstract) |
| 09:45 | Losing a Landscape: Havant Thicket Reservoir (abstract) |
09:00-10:30 Session 22C: Climate representations
Chair:
Location: Business School 3.19
| 09:00 | The Cultural Positioning of Climate Action (abstract) |
| 09:15 | Inner Strengths from Outer Spaces: televisual discourses of Scotland’s islands as sites of sustainability and sustenance. (abstract) |
| 09:30 | Ocean media: civil society’s representational struggles in subsea environments (abstract) |
09:00-10:30 Session 22D: Journalism in crisis
Chair:
Location: Business School 3.20
| 09:00 | ADAPT OR DIE! Can Digitalisation Solve Football Journalism’s Permacrisis? (abstract) |
| 09:15 | Managing Uncertainty among China’s Newspaper Organizations: A 'Lying-Flat' Approach to Avoid Change and Risks (abstract) |
| 09:30 | Public Deliberation and Justifications of Public Service Media (abstract) |
| 09:45 | Decoding the Israel-Hamas conflict: a multimodal discourse analysis of Al Jazeera (English) (abstract) |
09:00-10:30 Session 22E: State communications
Chair:
Location: Business School 3.21
| 09:00 | Title tbc (abstract) |
| 09:15 | Performative Effects and the Permacrisis: The Influence of Credit Rating Agencies as Communication Organisations and Discursive Actors on Governments’ Responses to Current and Emerging Crises (abstract) |
| 09:30 | ‘Islamic State’ in Chinese State News Media: Reporting Terrorism within a Communist Regime (abstract) |
09:00-10:30 Session 22F: Practice Network Workshop 3: Veiled Transmissions: Shaping Narratives Workshop on Absence, Crisis, and Unconscious Storytelling
Chair:
Location: Business School 3.23
09:00-10:30 Session 22G: Practice Network Panel 9: Technology, Innovation, and Ethical Considerations in Media and Communication
Chair:
Location: Business School 3.22
| 09:00 | Generative AI as permacrisis? Youth perspectives on co-creating with GenAI (abstract) |
| 09:15 | Title: Enhancing Resilience in the Face of Permacrisis: A Virtual Reality Documentary Approach to Mental Health (suicide prevention) (abstract) |
| 09:30 | pAIdia: Approaching Responsible, Ethical and Creative Uses of AI through Play (abstract) |
| 09:45 | Potential informants: the incommunicative and other miscommunications (abstract) |
11:00-12:30 Session 24A: Practice network panel 7 : Environmental and societal crises through art and media
Chair:
Location: Business School 3.16
| 11:00 | Dark nostalgia and Folk Gothic: re-enchanting the ecocrisis (abstract) |
| 11:15 | Software Storytelling Tactics: Exploring Alternatives to the Permacrisis through Artistic Computation (abstract) |
| 11:30 | Narratives for Climate Action: reconfiguring the socio-environmental subject through immersive art experiences (abstract) |
| 11:45 | New stories about air pollution: Addressing justice, inclusion and complexity in environmental storytelling (abstract) |
11:00-12:30 Session 24B: Gender, work and labour
Chair:
Location: Business School 3.14
| 11:00 | From #GirlBoss to #StayAtHomeGirlfriend: Labour and Feminism on Social Media (abstract) |
| 11:15 | Monetisation and consumption as a response to crisis? Feminist subscription memberships, alternative funding models, and Patreon (abstract) |
| 11:30 | Partnering with a Social Enterprise to develop impact work with girls (abstract) |
11:00-12:30 Session 24C: Practice Network Panel 8: Critical Reflections on Practice and Methodology in Art and Media Studies
Chair:
Location: Business School 3.15
| 11:00 | A Lens for Continuity (abstract) |
| 11:15 | ViewfindR, the Camerawork Simulator: Exploring XR Tools for Teaching Creative Decision-Making in Visual Journalism (abstract) |
| 11:30 | Environmental Field Recording, the Immediacy of Nature and the Silence of Mediation (abstract) |
11:00-12:30 Session 24D: Researching reality television: policy, working practices and the structured landscape of care.
Chair:
Location: Business School 3.16
| 11:00 | Researching reality television: policy, working practices and the structured landscape of care. (abstract) |
11:00-12:30 Session 24E: Digital content production
Chair:
Location: Business School 3.17
| 11:00 | Ambivalent Affective Labor: The Datafication of Qing and Danmei Writers in the Cultural Industry (abstract) |
| 11:15 | The continuous interpretation of rural short video culture in China: From the cultural production experience of rural youth producers to the power relationship under the digital intermediation process on Douyin (abstract) |
| 11:30 | Navigating Uncertainty: Media Practices of Turkish Youth Confronting Permacrisis Problems (abstract) |
11:00-12:30 Session 24F: Disability and resistance
Chair:
Location: Business School 3.19
| 11:00 | Between disability and coloniality: problematising online narratives of the mental health crisis in South Africa (abstract) |
| 11:15 | Magic and Mysticism in Women’s Televisual Narratives (abstract) |
| 11:30 | Ludic Autoethnography, Disability, and Games of Truth (abstract) |
11:00-12:30 Session 24G: Sexuality in television and film
Chair:
Location: Business School 3.20
| 11:00 | Authorship and homosexuality in Egyptian cinema (abstract) |
| 11:15 | TV’s response to its own crises: covering presenter sex scandals in documentary and drama (abstract) |
11:00-12:30 Session 24H: Political media
Chair:
Location: Business School 3.21
| 11:00 | Transcending the Permacrisis through Communication of Dietary Change: How Adoption of Plant-Based Treaty in Edinburgh (Scotland) was Reported in the UK Press and What Can We Learn From It (abstract) |
| 11:15 | Anti-/utopias and democratic futures? Negotiations of uncertainty in the Scottish independence and Brexit referendum (abstract) |
| 11:30 | Exploring the weaponisation of tribe on social media in the 2021 elections in Zambia (abstract) |
11:00-12:30 Session 24I: Digital inequalities
Chair:
Location: Business School 3.22
| 11:00 | Unstable inclusion and the persistence of a digital divide (abstract) |
| 11:15 | Participatory Action Research, AI and Data Justice from a South-North Approach (abstract) |
| 11:30 | Permacrisis and injustice: can charity help? (abstract) |
| 11:45 | What is ‘Digital’? A systematic literature review on the concept of digital-born media in transitional democracies (abstract) |
13:30-15:00 Session 26A: Emerging technologies
Chair:
Location: Business School 3.24
| 13:30 | Public health in the permacrisis: Piloting XR interventions in public spaces (abstract) |
| 13:45 | Media Coverage VS User Experience of Extended Reality Technologies (abstract) |
| 14:00 | XR Workshop: “Forget the doom and gloom: mobile techs for Climate Change” (abstract) |
13:30-15:00 Session 26B: Conflict in the media
Chair:
Location: Business School 3.14
| 13:30 | Student Publications, Professors and the Spanish Civil War - ‘May the Lord save us from our universities and protect us from our professors.’ (abstract) |
| 13:45 | From American ‘Paper Tiger’ to Chinese ‘Mulan’: Chinese Performing Arts during the Korean War (abstract) |
| 14:00 | Domesticating conflict: China's and America's media coverage of the Israel-hamas war (abstract) |
13:30-15:00 Session 26C: Film and representation
Chair:
Location: Business School 3.15
| 13:30 | Beauty in crisis in the South Korean drama True Beauty (abstract) |
| 13:45 | Zombie Chaos and Culture Wars in One Cut of the Dead (Ueda, 2017) and Final Cut (Hazanavicius, 2022) (abstract) |
| 14:00 | Ivan the Fool, Masculinity, and National Identity Crisis in Aleksei Balabanov’s Brother (1997) (abstract) |
| 14:15 | Renegotiating romance imperatives (abstract) |
13:30-15:00 Session 26D: Citizenship, belonging and resistance
Chair:
Location: Business School 3.16
| 13:30 | Citizenship in times of crisis: the case of working-class white men in post-World War II New York (abstract) |
| 13:45 | Professing Gratefulness: Narratives of Gratitude, and the Navigation of Migration Precarity (abstract) |
| 14:00 | Second generation media professionals in Italy: Multiplicities of belonging against the odds. (abstract) |
| 14:15 | An affective-discursive approach to distant witnessing: Countering the party-state on Twitter (X) (abstract) |
13:30-15:00 Session 26E: Crisis reporting
Chair:
Location: Business School 3.17
| 13:30 | Bad News for the BBC? How British-Muslims perceive media coverage of Israel-Palestine (abstract) |
| 13:45 | Crisis-related suicides and the media (abstract) |
13:30-15:00 Session 26F: Borders and transnationalism
Chair:
Location: Business School 3.19
| 13:30 | Entertaining against odds: Borders, platformisation and practices of going on in the crossfire of nationalisms (abstract) |
| 13:45 | ‘Framing the Gap’: Oceanic Aesthetics in Forensic Architecture’s ‘Shipwreck at the Threshold of Europe (abstract) |
| 14:00 | Exit Isles: Reportage, Empathy and Practice Research in the Global Migration of Filipinos (abstract) |
| 14:15 | Navigating Ever-Changing Landscapes and (Re)defining Global Narratives Beyond Borders: Insights into News Agency Foreign Correspondents’ Cultural Identities, Citizenship(s), and Cosmopolitan Stances (abstract) |
13:30-15:00 Session 26G: Algorithms
Chair:
Location: Business School 3.20
| 13:30 | Algorithmic biases, social listening tools and the implications on the promotional industries (abstract) |
| 13:45 | From Traditional Video Production to Algorithmic Content: Exploring the Evolutionary Journey of Professional Media Production on Chinese Online Video-Sharing Platforms (abstract) |
13:30-15:00 Session 26H: Practice Network Q&A: Alchemists Gold - Addressing the Challenges of Publishing, Disseminating, and Peer-Reviewing Non-Traditional Creative Practice Research.
Chair:
Location: Business School 3.22
| 13:30 | Alchemists Gold: Addressing the Challenges of Publishing, Disseminating, and Peer-Reviewing Non-Traditional Creative Practice Research (abstract) |
15:30-16:00
Perpetual Karaoke: VHS Archive - Special Guest Raz Ullah (part of the Perpetual Karaoke 12 hour performance, all welcome! 10am-10pm)
Refreshments provided.
Location: SODA Village Green 2.19