Events“Articulating Voice. The Expressivity and Performativity of Media Practices”ConferencesDatum: 24. May 2018 – 24. May 2018Location: Main Conference Hotel (Hilton, Prague, Czech Republic)24. Mai 2018, Prag, Tschechische RepublikSponsored by the Philosophy, Theory and Critique (PTC) Division of the International Communication AssociationEvent date: 24 May 2018, 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM, Prague, Czech RepublicLocation: Main Conference Hotel (Hilton, Prague, Czech Republic)Organizers: Christian Pentzold (University of Bremen), Kenzie Burchell (University of Toronto), Olivier Driessens (University of Copenhagen), Alice Mattoni (Scuola Normale Superiore), Cara Wallis (Texas A&M University)“Media matter most when they seem not to matter at all.” (Wendy Chun)But how can we understand the practices through which innovations in media and digital data move from being unexpected, novel, and impactful to the negotiated, embedded, and habitual?The pre-conference takes issue with the mundane yet pervasive nature of media habits, rituals, and customs. It assesses the purchase of practice-based approaches in order to see under what conditions and with what consequences they enter studies in communication and media. In particular, we invite participants to consider the expressive and performative dimension of what people actually do and say in relation to media and to the wider communication ecologies in which these articulations take place. We are especially interested in contributions that examine how voices are expressed, represented, or muted and that study the ways practices of voice combine, overlap, or collide with other mediated activities in contemporary societies. With this, we strive for an explanation and critical appreciation of media practices whose accomplishment is a perennial exercise in which we find ourselves immersed.The Book of Abstracts can be downloaded here.Please register for the event here.Conference programme 8:30Opening by the Convenors: A Practice Turn in Studies of Communication and Media?8:45Panel I: Off the Ground: Maintaining the Media-Suffused EverydayJesper Pagh, Fiona Huijie Zeng & Signe Sophus Lai, U of Copenhagen, Denmark: “Show and Tell – Mapping communicative patterns in everyday life”9:00Richard Davis, U of Essex: “Internet use as ‘just something I do, rather than something I thought about doing’: a study into the domestic practices of UK households, and the significance of habit and routine in online behaviour”9:15Claus Toft-Nielsen, Aarhus U, Denmark & Stinne Gunder Strøm Krogager, Aalborg U, Denmark: “Voices of inclusion and exclusion – the intersection of practice theory and media studies”9:30Paul Frosh, Hebrew U of Jerusalem, Israel: “Objects as Practice: The Case of the Screenshot”9:45Peter Gentzel, U of Augsburg, Germany: “The Forgotten Subject? Why subjectivity matters after practice and material turns”10:00Response: Peter Lunt, U Leicester, UK10:15Q+A10:30Tea & Coffee Break10:45Panel II: In the Air: Speaking Practice – Practice SpeakingPaddy Scannell, U of Michigan, USA: “Voice(s) on air”11:00Mark R Johnson, U of Alberta, Canada & Jamie Woodcock, U of Oxford, UK: “Conversation, Discourse and Play: Interaction and Moderation in Twitch.tv Video Game Live Streaming”11:15Margreth Lünenborg, Freie U Berlin, Germany & Christoph Raetzsch, Aarhus U, Denmark: “From Public Sphere to Performative Publics: Developing Media Practice as an Analytic Model”11:30Sahana Udupa, U of Munich, Germany: “Enterprise as practice: Fun and aggression in online political discourse”11:45Hanna Klien-Thomas, Oxford Brooks U, UK: “Navigating cultural citizenship – Voice and address in transcultural media practices of young Trinidadian women”12:00Response: Elizabeth Bird, U of Southern Florida, USA12:15Q+A12:30Lunch Break13:00Panel III: On the Move: Advancing activismAlice Mattoni, Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy: “The mutual anchoring of mundane-oriented and politics-oriented media practices in the construction of voice. The case of anti-corruption movement organizations in Southern Europe”13:15Hilde C. Stephansen, U of Westminster, UK & Emiliano Treré, U of Cardiff: “Theorizing citizen media practices: agency, power, and social change”13:30Yoav Halperin, NYU, USA: “We Will Not Be Silenced: Algorithmically-Informed Activism and the Amplification of Political Voices on Social Media”13:45Philipp Budka, U of Vienna, Austria: “Indigenous Articulations in the Digital Age: Reflections on Historical Developments, Activist Engagements and Mundane Practices”14:00Yang Wang, National U of Singapore & Sun Sun Lim, Singapore U of Technology and Design: “Transnational positionality in mediated communication: Digital asymmetries, contextual constraints and strategic negotiation”14:15Response: Maria Bakardjieva, U of Calgary, Canada14:30Q+A14:45Tea & Coffee Break15:00Panel IV: At a Distance: Reporting and Representing Media LifeSteffen Moestrup, U of Copenhagen, Denmark: “The journalist as performance in a crossmedia landscape”15:15Kenzie Burchell, U of Toronto, Canada: “Mapping Strategic Interference in Global Reporting Practices”15:30Chaim Noy, U of Southern Florida, USA: “Paper voices and performativity in the digital age”15:45Nina Grønlykke Mollerup & Mette Mortensen, U of Copenhagen, Denmark: “The Contested Visibility of War: Actors on the Ground Taking and Distributing Images from the War in Syria”16:00Christian Pentzold, U of Bremen, Germany & Manuel Menke, U of Augsburg, Germany: “Social practices, communicative practices, discursive practices: Formulating an analytical distinction”16:15Response: Nick Couldry, LSE, UK16:30Q+A16:45Final Discussion by the Convenors: “What are the future perspectives for a practice-based study of communication and media?”
