Events Agency in a Datafied Society: Coimmunication between and across humans, platforms and machines Tagungen Datum: 29. July 2021 – 30. July 2021Uhrzeit: 08:45Ort: OnlineWelcome ! 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 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 Labs Lab Datafizierung und Mediatisierung