1-3 November 2007: Digital Culture & Communication Section Workshop

The workshop of the Digital Culture & Communication Section will take place on 1-3 November 2007 @ University of Sussex. The workshop is supported by the Centre for Material Digital Culture, University of Sussex (http://www.sussex.ac.uk/rcmdc/). All are welcome to attend. Please register with Vanessa Sammut: V.A.Sammut@sussex.ac.uk for full programme. The charges are £35 to cover refreshments, coffee and reception. £10 for one day.

DCC

ECREA Digital Culture & Communication (DCC) Section Workshop

Programme

Thursday, 1st of November

Introduction: Caroline Bassett, University of Sussex, UK
After Convergence?: What Connects?

Session 1: Methodologies (Chair/discussant Irmi Karl, University of Brighton, UK)

16:30-18:30 Maren Hartmann, University of the Arts Berlin, Germany
Ethnographies as dangerous tools

Adolfo Estalella, Elisenda Ardèvol, Edgar Gómez, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain
Media as practice: Introducing symmetry in Internet ethnographies

Friday, 2nd of November

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 (Title TBC)

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

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.

http://www.sussex.ac.uk/rcmdc/1-1.php?output=html&refer=16836&oftype=event&fromdept=1&id=22404

for further information on the programme please email
Hartmann Maren
Bassett Caroline
O'Riordan Kate