DCC Preliminary Program 27

Saturday 27 October
DCC 8a, 8.30 - 10.00, Room A416
Sustainability and social innovation
Chair: Caja Thimm (University of Bonn)

Anne Mette Thorhauge, Stine Lomborg (University of Copenhagen)
‘Going green’: Communicating sustainability in everyday life
Niamh Ní Bhroin (University of Oslo)
Understanding Motives in Social Innovation: Users of Sámi and Irish in Web 2.0 Media
Sisse Siggaard, Mette Wichmand, Anne Holmfred (Roskilde University)
Motivation, Participation and Engagement – a Critical Discussion of the Concept of Participatory Culture in
Social Media
Maarit Mäkinen (University of Tampere)
Sustainable Innovations in Communities and their Peer-to-peer Networks
Rita Järventie-Thesleff, Johanna Moisander (Aalto University), Axel Thesleff (University of Helsinki)
Looking for co-success online: practices of collaboration in online music communities

Saturday 27 October
DCC 8b, 8.30 - 10.00, Room B426
Privacy and intimacy limits and extensions
Chair: Aristea Fotopoulou (Sussex University)

Mikko Hautakangas, Elina Noppari (University of Tampere)
Managing The Personal as a Resource:Lifestyle Blogs on the Boundaries of Private and Professional
Alexander Sängerlaub (Free University of Berlin), Kirsten Gollatz (Humboldt University)
Facebook at the tipping point - Is there a need for a new valorisation of privacy?
Carolina Martinez (Lund University)
Interopticon - Where the Many Watch the Many
Michel Walrave, Ini Vanwesenbeeck,
Wannes Heirman (University of Antwerp)
Connecting and protecting? Comparing Predictors of Adolescents’ and Adults’
Self-disclosure and Privacy Settings Use in Social Network Sites
Sander De Ridder, Sofie Van Bauwel (Ghent University)
(Re)Producing Sexual Subjects. Youthful complexities in producing intimacy,
sexuality and desire in social network sites

Saturday 27 October
DCC 9a, 10.30 - 12.00, Room A416
Journalism forms and challenges
Chair: Katerina Serafeim (Technological
Educational Institute of Western Macedonia)

Heidi Hirsto, Yrjö Tuunanen (Aalto University)
(Re-)signifying economy in multisemiotic media
Paola Peretti, Tiziana Cavallo (IULM University, Milan)
Social media news release and bloggers relations: key characteristics, potential
and effectiveness as a digital PR tool
Hanne Detel (Tübingen University)
The new visibility in the digital age: a study on changing patterns of scandals
Axel Maireder (University of Vienna), Julian Ausserhofer (Joanneum University of Applied Sciences)
Sharing, to make a difference: Practices of sharing news on Twitter and Facebook
Veronika Karnowski, Till Keyling (Ludwig Maximilians University Munich)
News diffusion via social media platforms: challenging classical DOI theory?

Saturday 27 October
DCC 9b, 10.30 - 12.00, Room B426
Crisis and conflicts in media use
Chair: Jakob Svensson (Karlstad University)

Nayla Fawzi, Bernhard Goodwin (Ludwig Maximilian University Munich)
Reciprocal effects of cyberbullying – How do victims experience and perceive cyberbullying?
Mariek Vandenabeele, Rozane De Cock (Catholic University of Leuven)
Cyberbullying by Mobile Phone among Adolescents: the Role of Gender and Peer Group Status
Olessia Koltsova, Kirill Maslinsky, Sergei Koltcov (St.Petersburg University)
“Anti-elections” protests, Islam etc.: dominant topics and discussion communities in the Russian-language
blogosphere
Michel Walrave, Ini Vanwesenbeeck,
Wannes Heirman (University of Gothenburg)
Views of new problems and opportunities in crisis communication
Efe Ozan Karasoy (Marmara University), Elif Ozkaya (Michigan State University)
Uses of Twitter in the 2011 Van earthquake, Turkey

Saturday 27 October
DCC 10a, 15.00 - 16.30, Room A416
Contemporary Analyses of Internetbased
communication spaces and digital (sub-)cultures
Chair: Natalie Fenton (Goldsmiths, University of London)

Christian Stegbauer (Goethe University Frankfurt)
Emergence and Importance of Structure in Internet-based Social Spaces
Dagmar Hoffmann (University of Siegen), Cecil Karges
"Digital Creative Cultures – Case studies of different types of users from popular
Social Commerce and the Bookmarking Service Pinterest
Sabina Misosch (University of Mannheim)
Are inequalities going online? Communication and self-presentation of
borderline patients on the internet
Wolfgang Reissmann (University of Siegen)
Celebrity (youth) culture and new forms of societal inequality
Alexander Mehler (Goethe University Frankfurt)
New Measurements of online collaboration structures in Wikis
Respondent: Jeffrey Wimmer (Technical University Ilmenau)

Saturday 27 October
DCC 10b, 15.00 - 16.30, Room B426
Consumption and market transformations
Chair: Niamh Ní Bhroin (University of Oslo)

Rosa Franquet, Xavi Ribes, Maria Isabel Villa (Autonomous University of Barcelona)
Cross-Media Content in Expansion: The Case of RTVE.
Deqiang Ji (Communication University of China)
Technological Transition and the Reconfiguration of Power: the Case Study of Digitizing China’s Cable TV System
Gitte Stald (IT University of Copenhagen)
Evolution or revolution? Diffusion and adaptation of mobile communication among young Danes
Sofia Johansson, Patrik Åker (Södertörn University), Grigory Goldenzwaig (University of Moscow)
Elderly online: the Russian PerspectiveMusic use in the online media age: Preliminary insights from
qualitative study of music cultures among young people in Moscow and Stockholm
Inês Botelho, Manuel José Damásio, Sara Henriques (Lusofona University)
Mobile internet: perspectives from the stakeholders

DCC Preliminary Program Istanbul 26 October

Friday 26 October
DCC 4, 9.15 - 10.45, Room A416
Digital crowds, communities and divides
Chair: Veronica Barassi (Goldsmiths,
University of London)

Antoni Roig Telo, Jordi Sanchez Navarro,
Talia Leivobitz (Open University of Catalonia)
In the crowd: articulating participation in
complex media production
Caroline Basset (Sussex University)
‘Like children in the arms of
automation’: Two Cultures and Everyday Life
Ilse Mariën, Leo Van Audenhove (Free University of Brussels)
The digital divide revisited: Towards a
multifaceted measurement instrument
for digital inequality
Florian Hadler (University of the Arts, Berlin/European Graduate School, Saas-
Fee), Daniela Kuka (University of the Arts, Berlin)
The Apparatus of Social Media
Elisabetta Locatelli (Catholic University
of Sacred Heart, Milan)
Collective blogging and Twitter hashtagging between gatekeeping and
social memory: the case of an Italian
“digital storyteller”

Friday 26 October
DCC 5a, 14.30 - 16.00, Room A416
Collective actions
Chair: Elisenda Ardèvol (Open University of Catalonia)

Maria Bakardjieva (University of Calgary)
From Networked Individualism to
Collective Action: New Media and Civic
Engagement for the Rest of Us
Thomas Poell, Jeroen de Kloet, Guohua
Zeng (University of Amsterdam)
Microblogging and activism: comparing
Sina Weibo and Twitter
Jakob Svensson (Karlstad University)
Social Networking Capital: A Study of
Participation and Power within an
Activist Community in Digital Late
Modernity
Veronica Barassi (Goldsmiths, University
of London)
Conflicting Temporalities: Digital
Culture, Social Media Activism and the
Problem of Internet Time
Mark Dang-Anh, Jessica Einspaenner,
Caja Thimm (University of Bonn)
The Global Digital Citoyen: Social Media
and the changing Role of the Citizens

Friday 26 October
DCC 5b, 14.30 - 16.00, Room B426
Commons and property in media production
Chair: Antoni Roig Telo (Open University
of Catalonia)
Yiannis Mylonas (Lund University)
Free culture' in EU contexts: a critical
empirical study of informal uses of ICT
and new media
Behlül Çalışkan (Marmara University)
Towards the decommodification of
information: Why do we share
information in new media?
Simon Berghofer, Saskia Sell (Free
University of Berlin)
Two Subjects, one Argument?
Comparing Argumentation Patterns of
the SOPA Debate in the USA with the
German “Zensursula” Case
Adnan Hadzi (Goldsmiths, University of London)
FLOSSTV: Critical Video Editing
Jim Rogers, Paschal Preston (Dublin
City University)
Crisis, creative destruction and the
digital media realm

Friday 26 October
DCC 6a, 16.30 - 18.00, Room A416
Media use, literacy and competency
among young people
Chair: Barbara Scifo (Catholic University
of Milan)

Hadewijch Vanwynsberghe, Pieter
Verdegem, Elke Boudry (Ghent
University)
The ‘internet generation’ and social
media skills: an update on survey
measures to assess young people’s
social media literacy
Snezhanka Kazakova, Verolien
Cauberghe, Mario Pandelaere (Ghent
University), Patrick De Pelsmacker
(University of Antwerp)
How the need for competence shapes
video game enoyment, replay intention
and contingent self-esteem in expert
versus novice players
Jane Fleischer (University of Augsburg)
The online information seeking behavior
of young people
Pilar Lacasa, Sara Cortes (University of
Alcalá), Patricia Nuñez (Complutense
University of Madrid), Pilar Herranz-
Ybarra (UNED)
Video games, machinima and classical
cinema in children lives
Hipolito Vivar Zurita, Natalia Abuin
Vences, Raquel Vinader Segura, Alberto
Garcia Garcia (Complutense University
of Madrid)
Permanent Digital Communicators.
Paradigm shift: from communication to
connection

Friday 26 October
DCC 6b, 16.30 - 18.00, Room B426
Virtuality, aesthetics and design
Chair: Gemma San Cornelio (Open
University of Catalonia)
Eduardo Zilles Borba, Francisco
Mesquita, Luís Pinto de Faria (University
Fernando Pessoa)
Urban space design in virtual worlds. An
analyses to the aesthetic-spatial and
narrative-functional communication of
out-of-home advertising in cybercities,
metaverses and videogames (urban)
landscape.
Gokcen Ertugrul (Mugla University)
New Media Art and the Changing Modes
of Engaging and Interfering to
Technology
Mary Leigh Morbey, Maureen Senoga
(York University), Lourdes Villamor
(George Brown College), Jane A. Griffith
(York University)
Social Media Engages Oral Culture in the
Uganda National Museum
Christian Kobbernagel (Roskilde
University)
Communication and young people's
digital content creations in art
museums: a structural equation model
of perceived media production process
and potential for learning
Frederik Van den Bosch (Ghent
University)
The silent pilgrimage: An ethnographic
study into the interaction patterns of
Journey players

Friday 26 October
DCC 7a, 18.30 - 20.00, Room A416
Youth, Age and Social Media Practices
Chair: Natalia Abuín (Complutense
University of Madrid)
Marjolijn Antheunis, Alexander
Schouten, Emiel Krahmer (Tilburg
University)
The role of social network sites in early
adolescents’ social life
Troels Fibæk Bertel (IT University of
Copenhagen)
The Domestication of the Smartphone
among Danish Youth
Jose Simoes (New University of Lisbon),
Ricardo Campos (Open University of
Brazil)
Digital media and youth subcultural
activity: the cases of underground rap
and illegal graffiti in Portugal
Olga Sergeyeva (Volgograd State
University)
Elderly online: the Russian Perspective
Maria Francesca Murru, Giovanna
Mascheroni, Barbara Scifo (Catholic
University of Milan)
The use of social networking sites
among Italian teens, from pc to mobile
phones: practices, identities and
relationships

Friday 26 October
DCC 7b, 18.30 - 20.00, Room B426
Methods and research practices
Chair: Caroline Basset (Sussex
University)
Lisbeth Frølunde (Roskilde University)
Digital Video in Research: The challenges
of designing academic video
Nele Heise (Hans-Bredow-Institute)
Online-Based Research as Computer-
Mediated Communication. Insights and
Guiding Principles from Online
Communication Ethics
Carlos Arcila (Northern University of
Colombia), Ignacio Aguaded (Huelva
University), José Luis Piñuel
(Complutense University of Madrid),
César Bolaño (Federal University of
Sergipe) , Marta Barrios (Northern
University of Colombia)
e-Research in Media and
Communications
Oliver Quiring, Marc Ziegele (University
of Mainz)
The discussion value of mediastimulated
interpersonal
communication: A content analysis of
feedback-provoking factors in online
user comments
Florian Wiencek (Jacobs University
Bremen), Mary Leigh Morbey (York
University), Julian Lombardi (Duke
University)
Virtual Collaboration Spaces for
Transdisciplinary Research and
Pedagogy: A Conceptualization.

DCC Preliminary program Istanbul 25 october

BUSINESS MEETINGS
Thursday 25 October- 13.30 - 14.30

Room A116
Digital Culture and Communication

DIGITAL CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION (DCC)
Thursday 25 October
DCC 1, 11.15 - 12.45, Room A416
Social relationships, cosmopolitism and home life with media
Chair: Maria Bakardjieva (University of Calgary)

Theresa Hofmann, Julian Unkel, Andreas Fahr (Ludwig Maximilians University
Munich)
Romantic relationship management on Facebook: implications for digital
jealousy, social compensation, and social enhancement
Corinna Peil (University of Salzburg),
Jutta Röser (University of Münster)
Managing Everyday Digital Life in the Mediatized Home: On the Interplay of Old and New Media within the Domestic Sphere
Aristea Fotopoulou (Sussex University)
Network media and queer communities: local and cosmopolitan
Manuela Farinosi (University of Udine),
Sara Zanatta (Queen Mary University of London)
Digital Everyday Outfits: Rethinking Fashion Communication Through New Media
M. Gokhan Aslan (Dogus University)
Reconsidering Surveillance: “The Facebook” Model

Thursday 25 October
DCC 2, 14.30 - 16.00, Room A416
Misunderstanding the Internet
Chair: Dagmar Hoffmann (University of Siegen)
Natalie Fenton (Goldsmiths, University of London)
Internet logic: Doing democracy differently?
Des Freedman (Goldsmiths, University of London)
Profits of the New Media Economy
Milly Williamson (Brunel University)
Democratising Celebrity Online
Gavan Titley (National University of
Ireland, Maynooth)
From rage to ‘the facts’: reflexive racism and the limits of ‘digital extremism’
Gholam Khiabany (Sussex University)
Beyond Technology: Arab Revolutions
and the Iranian Upraising


Thursday 25 October
Poster Exhibition, Main Foyer - Ground
Floor, 16.30 - 17.30

Joana Motta (ISLA Campus Lisbon),
Maria Barbosa (Cigest - Research Center
in Management)
You will look at me and me alone –
Undressing the virtual world of cosplaying
Bilge Gürsoy (Marmara University)
The Ideology of Aesthetics And The
Globalization of Consumption in
Women's Fashion Blogs
Lewis Johnson (Bahcesehir University)
Aporias of tactility in digital photographic
visuality
Esen Kara, D. Melike Taner Uluçay (Yaşar
University)
The Role of Social Media on the
Transformation of Public Acts: A Turkish
Censorship Demonstration Case
Dilek Özhan Koçak (Marmara University)
The lack of social memıory and identityseeking
in the digital world
Klaus Bredl, Julia Hünniger (Augsburg
University)
Immersive Communication in the Grid.
Results of Cases on Knowledge
Communication with Avatars in
OpenSim
Aydin Cam (Marmara University), Ahmet
Sarp Yilmaz (Dogus University)
Papergirl Project: A Global Art Network,
as an Instance of Convergence Culture
Translation of TV Series as User
Generated Content and Social Practice:
The Case of Czech Amateur Subtitles for
HBO's 'Game of Thrones'
Georgeta Drula (University of Bucharest)
Social media as phenomenon and tool in
media research
Sónia Lamy (Fernando Pessoa
University)
Portuguese NGO on Social Media – The
Facebook as a communication tool

Thursday 25 October
DCC 3, 17.30 - 19.00, Room A416
Digital and physical spaces and scales
Chair: Caroline Basset (Sussex University)

Tim Highfield, Axel Bruns, Stephen
Harrington (Queensland University of
Technology)
Tweeting le Tour: Connecting the Tour
de France’s global audience through
Twitter
Frauke Behrendt (University of
Brighton)
Sharing cycle rides on smartphones and
city streets: towards understanding the
intersection of mobile media and
electrically-assisted cycling
Didem Ozkul (University of Westminster)
Mobile Communication and Spatial
Perception: Mapping London
Sonia González (Jaume I University)
Social media and press offices: strategies
of use from the view of convergence.
The case of the Catalan Road Service
(Servei Català de Trànsit, SCT)
Elisenda Ardèvol, Débora Lanzeni,
Gemma San Cornelio (Open University
of Catalonia)
"Mapping": collaborative creation
practices and media sociability

Istanbul next steps

This is to inform that we have had a great success in our call for papers. A lot of abstracts have been presented at our section and that the reviewers process is finished although it had been very hard. From 157 abstracts submitted, we can afford to accept at last  the 57% of them due to the limitations of slots -and although the organization gave us the maximum of slots that was available. Please, if you are coming to Istanbul, send your confirmation, and if not coming, let the organization know it as soon as possible, so we can allocate abstracts from the waiting list.  Thanks a lot for your participation!

CFP: Istanbul 2012

The call for proposals is open from 1st of December 2011 to 28 February 2012.

The ECC 2012 in İstanbul will offer a platform for plenary panels addressing the conference theme: SOCIAL MEDIA & GLOBAL VOICES. Proposals for panels and for individual papers and posters are encouraged but not restricted with this theme.

Digital Culture and Communication call for papers:

The Digital Culture and Communication section aims at exchanging and developing research at the European level in the developing 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. It therefore welcomes work that questions the general specificity of 'the digital' and/or uses 'the digital' to rethink existing media and communication theories and approaches (as well as research methods).

The paper proposals have to be send via ecrea conference general website:

http://www.ecrea2012istanbul.eu/

after-workshop insights

Four categories of collaborative documentary

by Mandy Rose posted on COLLAB DOCS November 30, 2011

I’ve just been in Barcelona, at the ECREA (European Communication Research & Education Association) Digital Culture Workshop which looked at innovative practices and critical theories. It was a terrific gathering – small enough to get to know people, focussed enough to be productive – a great mix of conviviality and critical dialogue. (Thanks to the convenors, Caroline Basset and Elisenda Ardevol.)

I presented in the Creative Practices strand which was concerned with, “concepts of participation, co-creativity, co-design or co-innovation in creative processes involving audiences and independent creators in a wide spectrum of activities including art, photography, video, and videogames.” My paper offered a draft categorisation of the projects I write about here, according to the type of contribution made by the participants. I’ll give a brief summary of the four categories.

In “The Creative Crowd” model which covers work including Mad V’s The Message, and perry bard’s Man with a Movie Camera; the Global Remix, multiple participants contribute fragments to a highly templated whole, analogous to the separate panels within a quilt. The units of content may not make much sense on their own but value and meaning accrue as they come together producing a distinctive aesthetic that’s about energy and repetition. (Though not a documentary, The Johnny Cash Project is a prime example of this mode.)

(more at: COLLAB DOCS)

Thanks to all the participants of the dccecreabcn workshop!

A Sensory Approach to Digital Media

Digital Culture: Innovative practices and critical theories.
ECREA Digital Culture & Communication 3rd workshop
Barcelona, Spain, November 24-25

Abstract plenary session
Sarah Pink, Loughborough University

In recent years there has been a ‘sensory turn’ in scholarship across the social sciences and humanities. This focus on the senses has had some influence in media and communication studies and visual studies. However, the existing literature in this area remains emergent rather than proposing a wider re-thinking, and the ways the senses are understood in these fields have sometimes been rooted in approaches that focus on culture and representation. In this lecture I examine the consequences of engaging such theoretical and methodological tools for thinking about media and the senses. In doing I so argue that we need to go beyond representational approaches that simply add other senses to the audio-visuality of media, or engage with the senses as a series of separate faculties. Instead I suggest how a strand in scholarship that attends to anthropology, philosophy, and the neurosciences might offer alternative routes to understanding how digital media become implicated as part of our practical activity in perceptual and material environments.

co-organised by the
ECREA Digital Culture & Communication (DCC) section,
Humanities Department and Information and Communication Sciences Department, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya,
with support from the
Centre for Material Digital Culture (DMDC),
University of Sussex, UK

Digital Culture: Precarity, (self)exploitation and unspeakable inequalities in the cultural and creative industries

Digital Culture: Innovative practices and critical theories.
ECREA Digital Culture & Communication 3rd workshop
Barcelona, Spain, November 24-25

Abstract keynote speaker Rosalind Gill, King’s college, London

This talk has three aims. Firstly, it will review “what we know” about the features of cultural and creative work, discussing issues such as precariousness, bulimic patterns of working, and the intensification and extensification of work over time and space . It will consider how these now ‘well-established’ ‘facts’ about creative work may be being challenged by co-creation. Is this the ‘ultimate’ in exploitation of ‘free labour’ or a harbinger of a different set of participatory ethical practices in the cultural sphere, a democratization of who gets to ‘make culture’?
Secondly, it will explore the notion of “self exploitation” that has emerged as a key term for theorizing the labouring conditions and subjectivities of workers involved in the cultural and creative industries. Whilst this originated as a critical term from a Foucaultian tradition concerned with theorizing new modalities of power and discipline, its usefulness both as an analytical and political tool will be interrogated. Has it become another neoliberal term of abuse–blaming workers for their own exploitation and rendering invisible the structural conditions in which work is carried out? Why has the word exploitation only become speakable when it prefixed by the notion that we are somehow doing it to ourselves? What would it take for us to start talking about exploitation again? Do we need a new vocabulary to think about labour – especially in the context of co-creation? And what kind of resistance is possible without recourse to this vocabulary?
Finally, the talk will raise questions about what still remains a largely silenced issue in debates about the conditions of cultural workers–inequalities between workers. I will develop from the notion of “unmanageable inequalities” to explore how gender, race and class inequalities have become not simply unmanageable but unspeakable in cultural work–even by those most adversely affected by them. How do we begin to challenge the toxic myths of egalitarianism and meritocracy that circulate in the cultural and creative industries–and in much writing about them? And how can we make sure that questions about inequality are on the agenda of a politics that seeks to challenge and resist contemporary labouring conditions – whether this is the labour of freelancers of employees or of hobbyists who give their time ‘freely’.

Full Abstracts and Programme ECREA DCC Workshop

Getting ready for the workshop!

Please, you can find the programme and abstracts for the workshop at:

PROGRAME AND FULL ABSTRACTS

http://www.uoc.edu/symposia/workshop_ecrea2011/programa_eng.html

updates of the ECREA Digital Culture and Communication 3rd Workshop

Dear participants of the ECREA Digital Culture and Communication 3rd Workshop,

Finally we got almost 80 contributions! That's quite a lot considering that we would like to accept around 36 papers...

We are glad to announce that registration application is now available in the workshop website:

http://www.uoc.edu/symposia/workshop_ecrea2011/inscripcio_eng.html

The fee includes coffee breaks, lunch (the two days) and programme materials.

We are getting ready with the schedule arrangements and other details that we will inform you soon.

Looking forward to seeing you in Barcelona,

The organizing team

review process

Digital Culture and Communication Workshop:

The review process will end by July, 12. Acceptation notification during July, 12-14.
Thanks for the patience,
the convenors

Digital Culture: Innovative practices and critical theories

LAST NEWS:

For incoming information you can also consult:
http://www.uoc.edu/symposia/workshop_ecrea2011

The workshop fee is 80 Euro, it includes participants documentations and coffee breaks.

On of the workshop aims is to publish a selection of presented papers, but final details depends on the outputs of the participants.

The workshop papers are submitted to a peer-review process.

The reviewing process will finish the 7 of July.

CFP: Digital Culture: Innovative practices and critical theories

Digital Culture: Innovative practices and critical theories.
ECREA Digital Culture & Communication 3rd workshop
Barcelona, Spain, November 24-25

co-organised by the
ECREA Digital Culture & Communication (DCC) section,
Humanities Department and Information and Communication Sciences Department
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya,
with support from the
Centre for Material Digital Culture (DMDC), University of Sussex, UK

CALL FOR PAPERS:

This workshop seeks to explore innovative perspectives on digital
culture and the study of digital culture. Our concern is to focus on
developing forms of theorizing, critiquing, understanding and
researching digital culture, forms and practice. Our intention is to
contribute to emerging work responding (1) to ‘new’ new media
technologies of all kinds, and (2) to respond to developments in media
research on technology and innovation.

We invite contributions of all kinds, but suggest proposals for papers
may fall into three main areas. Each relates to theories, practices
and methodologies of innovation. They are:

1) Digital Media and the senses. This may include work on or related
to enhanced reality, locative media and virtual worlds.
2) Creative practices and participation in new media. Here we are
particularly concerned with discussing concepts of participation,
co-creativity, co-design or co-innovation in creative processes
involving audiences and independent creators in a wide spectrum of
activities including art, photography, video, videogames.
3) Digital research and education in digital culture.This would seek
to explore innovative theoretical and methodological approaches in
digital media studies as well as innovative teaching tools.

The workshop develops concepts and ideas developed at the previous
Digital stream workshop ‘Revisiting Digital Theories’ – our goal in
exploring innovative forms of media culture is to do so within
frameworks that are capable of thinking through technological and
critical innovation whilst also recognizing the connection of both
with earlier forms.

Please submit an extended abstract (500 words max.) by the 6th of June
2011 (and clearly stating which topic section you would like to submit
this to) to: ecreadigitalculture@gmail.com

Venue: Centre d'Estudis i Recursos Culturals, Barcelona (Spain)

Keynote speakers:

Rosalind Gill, Centre for Culture, Media and Creative Industries
King’s College London

Sarah Pink, Department of Social Sciences
Loughborough University, Visiting Scholar IN·3 Institute, UOC.


Coordinators:

Elisenda Ardèvol - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Caroline Basset - University of Sussex
Gemma San Cornelio - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Digital Culture and Communication ECREA section

Scientific Committee:

Katlheen O’Riordan - University of Sussex
Smiljana Antonijevic - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Bridget Wessels – Sheffield University
Alberto García - Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Antoni Roig - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Natalia Abuin - Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Micheal Bull - University of Sussex
David Berry – Swansea University
Caja Thimm - Universität Bonn
Aristea Fotopoulou - University of Sussex
Sisse Siggaard Jensen -Roskilde University
Gemma San Cornelio - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Caroline Bassett - University of Sussex
Elisenda Ardévol - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya


email
ecreadigitalculture[@]gmail.com

Mid term Section event: Barcelona 2011

Digital Culture: Innovative practices and critical theories.

After the ECREA main meeting in Hamburg, we are now working on next section event to be held in Barcelona, late November, 2011.

This workshop seeks to explore innovative perspectives on digital culture and the study of digital culture. Our concern is to focus on developing forms of theorizing, critiquing, understanding and researching digital culture, forms and practice. Our intention is to contribute to emerging work responding (1) to ‘new’ new media technologies of all kinds –from videogames or locative media to social networks related to creative and participatory practices, and (2) to respond to developments in media research and education on technology and innovation.

forthcoming...

ECREA 2010 CFP

CFP Digital Culture and Communication ECREA 2010

The Digital Culture and Communication section of ECREA welcomes submissions to ECREA 2010 on all aspects of the digital. However, we also aim to programme a focused stream of papers that are clustered around key themes. We particularly welcome pre-constituted panels and papers on the following thematics:

Bodies [human and non-human]
Critical digital media theory
Critical digital methods
Digital arts
Digital practice
Gender
Class
Identity
Memory
Relationality
Social media
Virtuality

Submission procedures, conference information and key dates are here:
http://www.ecrea2010hamburg.eu

Minutes ECREADCC meeting 2009

Minutes of the business meeting of the Digital Culture and Communication section of ECREA, Saturday 21 November, 2009, Old Library, Berlin University of the Arts [Universitat der Kundste – Udk]

Present: Kate O’Riordan [vice-chair], Elini Ikoniadou, Martin Zierold, Oliver Quiring, Bridgette Wessels, Gemma San Cornelio, Caja Thimm, Elisenda Ardevol [Vice-chair], Caroline Bassett [Chair], Sisse Siggaard Jensen

Agenda Items

1] People present [as above]

2] Report on past section events and meetings – Amsterdam, Sussex, Barcelona, Berlin

3] Current activity

– organising the conference stream for Hamburg 12-15 October 2010

– Kate O’Riordan is the contact for this - and we asked for volunteers to help review and stream papers

– Need for an on the ground chair at Hamburg – Elisenda assisted by Bridgette

– Need for future chairs and vice chairs for the section - and also the need to delegate roles so that more people can be involved – suggested we recruit volunteers to help with publicity and other secretarial and admin roles including managing the blog and website content

– Agenda items for Hamburg

o web presence,

o creating roles within the section,

o nominating and voting for chairs/vice chairs

o Barcelona 2011

4] Future events – as above the next mid term section workshop will be in Barcelona – lead on organising: Elisenda and Gemma – either joint like the Berlin event or particular to the section like the Sussex event – depending on local interest etc

5] Any other business – feedback on the Berlin event, positive overall - but would be helpful to frame the themes more clearly at the start

KOR/26/11/09

Programme Details for Digital Technologies Revisited

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).

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

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