316 Final Programme

17:00 - 19:00

Registration at ESF Desk

19:00

Welcome Drink

19:30

Dinner

09:00 - 09:30

Welcome Address
Jonathan Dovey - Digital Cultures Research Centre, UWE, UK
Patrick Crogan - Department of Culture, Media and Drama, UWE, UK
Balazs Kiss - European Science Foundation, FR

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

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

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
Facebook Data Provocations

11:00 - 11:30

Marco Fioretti - Freelance Researcher, IT
The Crucial Role of File Formats in Building and Preserving Digital Media Cultures and in the Practical Impact of Such Cultures on Society

11;30 - 12:00

Constance Fleuriot - Digital Cultures Research Centre, UWE, UK
Developing Ethical Design Questions for Pervasive Media

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

08:00

Breakfast and Departure