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Wednesday Panel Session 2

15:30 - 17:00 Panel Session 2

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Session Title
Edward Street 103
Online Activism and Citizen Journalism 
Alireza Taherifard (University of Kassel, Germany) Instagram and the Formation of Socio-Political Space in Iran

Dr Noha Atef (Independent Researcher, Egypt) The Interaction between Citizen Media and the Mainstream Media in a Changing Political Environment
 
Dr Paul Reilly (University of Sheffield) Peace on Facebook? The (non) contribution of corporate social media to peacebuilding in divided societies
 
Matthew Rogers & Dr Michael Leyshon (University of Exeter) Designing for Inclusivity - Platforms of Protest and Participation ​

Edward Street 104 
Contemporary Radio
Dr Abigail Wincott
(Falmouth University) Moving through sound: towards a grammar of spatial audio journalism
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Dr Andrea Hanáčková (Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic) The Mathematics of Crime and the Crime of Censorship on the Czech Public Radio
 
Jerry Padfield & Joskaudė Pakalkaitė (Falmouth University) Developing a WebRTC Application to Overcome Mental Health Barriers to Participation in Community Radio
 
Chimwemwe Richard Chavinda (University of Leicester) Imvani za kumudzi: The Co-Construction of Knowledge of Climate Change Adaptation through Radio Listening Clubs in Malawi ​
Edward Street 105
VR Documentaries and Journalism
Dr David Green (University of the West of England, Bristol) "A very unsociable device in a very sociable household”: An empirical study exploring wider audiences for virtual reality nonfiction
 
Dr Kirsten Bartels (Northwestern State University, USA) Experiencing the Holocaust: the Narratives of Video Games – their influence and impact
 
Dr Julia Scott-Stevenson (University of the West of England, Bristol) "Virtual Futures: representing and engendering bewilderment in immersive environments"
 
Dr Raphael Schlembach & Nicola Clewer (University of Brighton) “Forced Empathy”? Immersion and manipulation in Virtual Reality advocacy and journalism

Edward Street 207
Mediated City 1 
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Dr Debra Benita Shaw (University of East London) Posthuman Politics, Vitruvian Man & the Mediated City

Larissa Hugentobler (University of Zurich, Switzerland) Mobile Memories: Digital Interactions With Physical Memorials

Miriam Sorrentino (University of Greenwich) Communicative objects in the urban landscape

Garfield Benjamin (Solent University, Southampton) Speculative Media : design, fiction and ethics for The Speculative City
Edward Street 211 
Transnational Identity-Making in East Asian Media Industries
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Dorothy Finan (University of Sheffield) The Produce 101 talent show franchise as a transmedia “inter-Asian wave”

Carolin Becke (University of Sheffield) Japaneseness as aesthetics in popular music videos
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Elaine Chung (SOAS University of London) Hallyu star actors as Chinese romantic heroes: The inter-Asian negotiations of ideal masculinity 

Edward Street 305
Technological Individuation in Contemporary Film and Television
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Professor Nikolaj Lübecker (University of Oxford) Fighting Media Entropy: Kiyoshi Kurosawa and Vilém Flusser

Dr Francesco Sticchi (Oxford Brookes University) Affirmative Ethics: Exploring a Posthuman World Through Cinema and Television
 
Dr Tina Kendall (Anglia Ruskin University) Desktop Horror and the “Invisualities” of Networked Life 
Edward Street 304
Media and Elections
Abi Rhodes (University of Nottingham) Fanning the flames: social movement intervention in electoral communication
 
Dr Susana Sampaio-Dias & James Dennis (University of Portsmouth) Not just swearing and loathing on the internet: Analysing BuzzFeed, VICE, and the Affective Turn in Election Reporting

Huan Guo (Chongqing University, China) Social media use in political elections: From democratic foundation to political manipulation tools

Richa Yadav (University of Salford) Multi-level influencers on social media in personalised political communication
Dorset Place 501
Case Studies in News Reporting 
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Dayei Oh (Loughborough University) Online incivility as participation, mobilisation, and antagonism: Case study of the 2018 Irish abortion referendum and its discussions on Twitter
 
Dr Gary Merrill (University of Roehampton) Reformers versus Wreckers: a critical analysis of the mediated debate surrounding the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) in 2002

Dr Kerry Moore & Alida Payson (Cardiff University) News and the Emotional Social Imaginary: The Morbid Romance of ‘the Good Job’ in Austere Times
Grand Parade G4
Constructed Facts, Contested Truths 2: Science and Environmental Controversies 
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Anna Rantasila (Tampere University, Finland) Constructing trust as affective labor: Analysis of scientific experts in Finnish news coverage of the Fukushima Daiichi disaster
 
Niels G. Mede, Mike S. Schäfer & Tobias Füchslin (University of Zurich, Switzerland) Science-related populism: Introducing a new theoretical concept and a scale to measure it

João Pedro Silva & Justin Toland (AEIDL, Brussels, Belgium) Discovering and deconstructing myths in EU nature conservation: the contribution of EU funding

Dr Anna Maria Jönsson, Dr Ester Appelgren & Dr Michael Forsman (Södertörn University, Sweden) Engaging Russia for Climate Change – Challenges for journalism
Edward Street 309
Between the Live and the Cinematic
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Dani Landau (University of the West of England, Bristol) Place as Multiplicity​

Dr Sarah Atkinson & Professor Helen Kennedy (King's College London & University of Nottingham) Live Cinema?​

Dr Glenda Cooper (City, University of London) Playing with the way we see refugees​

Grand Parade Sallis Benney Theatre
Individual and Collective Identities
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Dr Agata Lulkowska (Staffordshire University) Voice of the voiceless: agency and power struggles of indigenous filmmakers and their intercultural audiences

Dr Greg Bevan (Aberystwyth University) The Back Road to Merthyr – new possibilities for audio-visual collage and the representation of post-industrial communities​

Dr Joanna Callaghan (University of Sussex) The narrating “I”: Exploring identity through autobiographical film​

Grand Parade G62
Creating the Digital Body
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Dr Hannah Ditchfield (University of Sheffield) Behind the Screen of Facebook: Identity Construction in the Rehearsal Stage of Online Interaction 

Dr Marina Dekavalla (University of Sussex) Articulating transparency on You Tube
 
Dr Cécile Chevalier (University of Sussex) Wonder bodies, computational prosthesis, and automated creativity: what is expressing who?

Dr Katherine Farrimond (University of Sussex) Consuming the Femme Fatale: Glamour, Nostalgia and Consumer Culture
Grand Parade 204
Routes to the Film Festival: Japan and the Middle East
Dr Eylem Atakav (University of East Anglia) Riding High: Wadjda and Writing Women’s Film History
 
Duncan Breeze (University of East Anglia) From Festival to Mainstream: Hirokazu Koreeda’s ‘Global’ Cinema
 
Dr Zahra Khosroshahi (University of East Anglia) The Complexities and Paradoxes of Iran’s Festival Films
 
Dr Rayna Denison (University of East Anglia) Routes to Production and Distribution for Contemporary Japanese Female Director
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