Agency in a Datafied Society: Coimmunication between and across humans, platforms and machines

• 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.

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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

Downloads

Program

Book of abstracts

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