ESF-LiU Conference
Paying Attention: Digital Media Cultures and Generational Responsibility
6-10 September 2010
PDF Printable Programme (last updated 3 September 2010)
Final Programme
| Monday 6 September | |
| 17:00 - 19:00 | Registration at ESF Desk |
| 19:00 | Welcome Drink |
| 19:30 | Dinner |
| Tuesday 7 September | |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Welcome Address |
| Session 1: Invited Speaker | |
| 09:30 - 10.30 | Tiziana Terranova - University of Naples, IT The Political Economy of Online Media |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| Session 2: Panel: Theories of Attention and Economy (1) | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Tania Bucher - University of Oslo, NO Technicity of Attention: On Immediacy and the Update Sphere |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Francesca Odella - University of Trento, IT A Private or Public Issue: Adolescents Social Communication Practices and Infringement of Norms on the Web |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Elizabeth Van Couvering - London School of Economics, UK The Trade in Traffic: Search Engines and Social Media |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch |
| Session 3: Panel - Community and Social Media | |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Rolien Hoyng - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, US The Net and Emerging Figures of Culture: Informational Politics by Migrants in Istanbul |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Narcisse Mbunzama Lokwa - IPeace Project, SE The Role of Social Media Tools in Peace and Human Rights Promotion in Conflict-affected Countries: Case Study on the Democratic Republic of Congo |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Jörgen Skågeby - University of Stockholm, SE Gifting Technologies |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee Break |
| Session 4: Invited Speakers | |
| 15:30 - 16:15 | Scoping and Review |
| 16:15 - 17:00 | Ruth Catlow - Furtherfield.org, UK Online Artmaking and Community Building |
| 17:00 - 17:45 | Stanza - Independent Artist, UK Making Visual Artworks Informed by Critical Analysis of City Spaces |
| 19:00 | Dinner |
| Wednesday 8 September | |
Session 5: Panel - New Forms and Meanings of Mediation | |
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Gunnar Liestøl - University of Oslo, NO Topos, Topics and Time: Exploring a Potential Genre for Location-Based Media |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Fredrik Stahlénius - Freelance Journalist, SE In Debt for Paying Attention? Cellphone Art in the Attention Economy |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Li Huey-Li - The University of Akron, US Toward Understanding In/attentive Silence in the Virtual Learning Community |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Group Photo |
| 10:45 – 11:15 | Coffee Break |
| Session 6: Invited Speaker | |
| 11:15 - 12:45 | Bernard Stiegler - Institut de Recherche et d’Innovation, FR The Pharmacology of Attention and Relational Ecology (with discussion chaired by Patrick Crogan) |
| 12:45 - 13:45 | Lunch |
| Session 7: Panel - Theories of Attention and Economy (2) | |
| 13:45 - 14:15 | Ben Roberts - University of Bradford, UK Attention-seeking: Technics, Individuation and Distributed Networks |
| 14:15 - 14:45 | Georg Franck - Vienna University of Technology, AT The Knowledge Industry. On Science as a Developed Economy of Attention |
| 14:45 - 15:15 | Martin Thayne - University of Lincoln, UK The Economy of Personal Information |
| 15:15 - 15:45 | Coffee Break |
| Session 8: Invited Speakers | |
| 15:45 - 16:15 | Scoping and Review |
| 16:15 - 17:00 | Aphra Kerr - National University of Ireland, IE Reassembling Trust for the Future Internet |
| 17:00 - 17:45 | Simon Poulter - Independent Artist, UK Google will make us free |
| 19:00 | Dinner |
| 20:30 - 22:00 | Poster Session |
| Thursday 9 September | |
| Session 9: Invited Speaker | |
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Michel Bauwens - Foundation for Peer to Peer Alternatives, Thailand Exodus, Transvaluation, Phase transition: The Role of Peer to Peer Values and Open Infrastructures in Current Social Change |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break |
| Session 10: Panel: Ethics and Activism | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Tim Kindberg - Matter2media, UK |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Marco Fioretti - Freelance Researcher, IT |
| 11;30 - 12:00 | Constance Fleuriot - Digital Cultures Research Centre, UWE, UK |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch |
| Session 11: Panel: Online Sociality and Technicity | |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Nadia Arancio - British Film Institute, UK Webcamming Identities: Adolescents' Performance in the Digital Theatre |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Fatemeh Javaheri - Tarbiat Moallem University, IR Sociocultural Effects of Internet Usage on Iranian Young People |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Dan Dixon - University of the West of England, UK The Art of Surveillance in Pervasive Gaming |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Coffee break |
| Session 12: Conference Chair and Plenary | |
| 15:00 - 15:45 | Jonathan Dovey - Digital Cultures Research Centre, UWE, UK Thinking Cultural Politics in Digital Terms |
| 15:45 - 17:30 | Forward Look Plenary Discussion |
| 19:00 | Conference Dinner |
| Friday 10 September | |
| 08:00 | Breakfast and Departure |
