- Datum: 29. July 2021 – 30. July 2021
- Uhrzeit: 08:45
- Ort: Online
Welcome !
We are pleased to welcome you to our website for the International conference at the Centre for Media, Communication & Information Research (ZeMKI)/University of bremen in cooperation with the Communicative Figurations research network, the Mediated Communication, Public Opinion & Society Section of the International Association of media and Communication Research (IAMCR) and the Media Sociology Division of the German Communication Association (DGPuK).
The conference on the topic „Agency in a Datafied Society: Communication between and across humans, platforms and machines“ will take place from July 29-30, 2021 via wonder.me.
Link for registration
Program
Thursday, 29th July 2021
8.45-9.00 Welcome adress
9.00-10.30 Session 1: Automation and Agency (Chair: Peter Gentzel)
Lisa Waldenburger (U of Augsburg) & Hannes Teutoburg-Weiss (independant scholar)
Machine agency ? Arguing against a dangerous conflation
David Waldecker, Tim Hector & Dagmer Hofmann (U of Siegen)
Intelligent personal assistants, human agency and the multiple forms of cooperation without consensus
Chrisitan Pentzold (U of Leipzig) & Andreas Bischoff (Chemnitz U of Technology)
Achieving agency within imperfect automation: Working customers and self-service checkout
10.45-12.45 Session 2: Inequality and Agency (Chair: Christian Pentzold)
Elizabeth Prommer (U of Rostock), Christine Linke (University of Applied Sciences Wismar) & Claudia Wegener (Film University Babelsberg)
The participatory culture myth: Gender equality on/of YouTube and the pressure of commercial logic
Olga Usachova (U of Padua)
Apps for the social inclusion: to the question of the agency of mobile application
Franziska Thiele (U of Rostock)
Agency of communication scholars in career related communication
Sascha Dickel & Miriam Schmidt-Jüngst (U of Mainz)
Equality and servitude. How advertismements stage the agency of humans and artificial companions
12.45-14.15 Coffee Break
14.15-15.45 Session 3: Everyday Practices and Agency (Chair: Franziska Thiele)
Jeffrey Wimmer (U of Augsburg) & Peter Gentzel (U of Erlangen-Nürnberg)
The construction of space through Google Maps – (in)visible economics and the agency of users
Jessica Kunert, Carl-Jannis Frech, Michael Brüggemann, Volker Lilienthal (U of Hamburg) & Wiebke Loosen (Leibniz Institute for Media Research/HBI)
An (im)perfect match: How digital technologies impact the working routines of investigative journalists
Andreas Schellewald (Goldsmiths, U of London)
Scrolling through TikTok: Notes on the pleasure of ‚passive‘ consumption
15:45-16.00 Coffee Break
16.00-17.30 Keynote: Andrea Guzman (Northern Illinois U, Chicago)(Chair: Andreas Hepp)
Reimagining communication in the age of artificial intelligence
19.00-20.30 Dinner & Social Online Event
Friday, 30th July 2021
9.00-10.30 Session 4: User Autonomy and Agency (Chair: Guiliana Sorce)
Katharina Leyrer (U of Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Incapacitated users or powerful gated ? Agency of information intermediary users
Johanna Möller (TU Dresden), Judith Möller & Felicia Locherbach (U of Amsterdam)
Civic agency or apathy ? Self determination in news recommendation systems
10.30-11.00 Coffee Break
11.00-12.30 Keynote: Nick Couldry (London School of Economics) (Chair: Stephan O.Görland)
Datafied media and the silent derangement of ethics
12.30-13.30 Lunch Break
Business Meeting ‚Soziologie der Medienkommunikation’/Award ceremony
13.30-15.30 Session 5: Entanglements and Agency (Chair: Johanna Möller)
Thomas Christian Bächle (Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society)
How to interact with robots in Japan – A comparative perspective on the Europcentric concept of agency
Leif Hemming Pedersen (Roskilde U)
The Struggle for Recognition in Times of Deep Mediatization
Kestas Kirtkilis (Vilnius U) & Lukas Wojtkowski (Nicolaus Copernicus U)
Is mediazation theory a challenge for methodical individualism ?
Andreas Hepp (U of Bremen) & Wiebke Loosen (Leibniz Institute for Media Research/HBI)
Communicative robots, hybrid figurations and new forms of agency
15.30-16.00 Coffee Break
16.00-17.15 Session 6: Data and Agency (Chair: Jeffrey Wimmer)
Göran Bolin (Södertörn U)
Value, meaning and agency in a datafied world
Irina Zakharova (U of Bremen) & Ann-Kathrin Bock (Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research)
Research implications of (in)visible data agency
Giuliana Sorce (U of Tübingen) & Delia Dumitrica (Erasmus U Rotterdam)
Maintaining activist agency during the pandemic: Fridays for Future’s new digital repertoire
17.15-17.30 Concluding remarks and greetings
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For further questions please contact:
ZeMKI/University of Bremen: Stephan O. Görland, goerland@uni-bremen.de
IAMCR Section Mediated Communication, Public Opinion & Society: Susanne Eichner, seichner@cc.au.dk
Media Sociology Division of the DGPuK: Johanna E.Möller,
johanna.moeller@uni-mainz.de
Organizing Committee
Dr. Stephan Görland (ZeMKI, University of Bremen), goeland@uni-bremen.de
Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp (ZeMKI, University of Bremen), andreas.hepp@uni-bremen.de
Dr. Cindy Roitsch (ZeMKI, University of Bremen), cindy.roitsch@uni-bremen.de