European Network Workshop:
Digital Media: European Perspectives
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, brought together researchers from all over Europe. The aim of the day was 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 were able to explore possible future activities that may be organized through the ECREA structure - including potential collaboration via European funding (FP7).
FULL PROGRAMME
ECREA Digital Culture & Communication (DCC) Section Workshop
Thursday, 1st of November 2007
Introduction:
Caroline Bassett, University of Sussex, UK
After Convergence?: What Connects?
Session 1: Methodologies (Chair/discussant Irmi Karl, University of Brighton, UK)
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 2007
Session 2: Sounds & Senses (Chair: Kate Lacey, University of Sussex, UK)
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
Session 3: Policy Issues (Chair: Bridgette Wessels)
Maria Sourbati, University of Brighton, UK
Europe's digital media policy discourses and the problem of the user
Session 4: Theoretical frameworks (Chair/discussant: David Berry, University of Wales Swansea, UK)
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
Saturday 3rd of November 2007
Theorizing (digital) TV (Chair: Frauke Berendt)
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
Panel: The Disappearance of the Digital Distinction?
Panelists: Holger Schulze, Kate O'Riordan, University of Sussex, UK, TBA.
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