Wednesday Panel Session 2
15:30 - 17:00 Panel Session 2
ROOM |
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 |