Citizen Media: New Mediations of Civic Engagement
A two-day colloqium organised by the Division of Languages and Intercultural
Studies
School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, University of Manchester
13-14 June 2013, Manchester Conference Centre
http://citizenmediacolloquium.wordpress.com
The rapid shift from a mass media to a digital media culture in the past couple
of decades has been the subject of considerable research. One important facet
of this shift has been the process of media convergence and the concomitant
blurring of boundaries between production and consumption practices in a wide
range of contexts, including citizen journalism (news reporting, community
radio and television, documentary filmmaking), individual or participatory
co-creational work (self-broadcasting, crowdsourcing, fansubbing, scanlation,
gaming), networked platforms of public deliberation (blogging, wikis) and other
performative expressions of publicness (graffiti and citizen photography).
Focusing on the involvement of citizens in this emergent digital culture, this
two-day colloquium organised by the Division of Languages and Intercultural
Studies aims to bring together researchers and citizen media practitioners from
different disciplinary and professional backgrounds with a view to sharing
experiences and debating a number of recurrent themes in the field. These
include:
• interrogating the ‘citizen’ in ‘citizen media’: what senses of ‘citizenship’
are activated in citizen media practices, and with what implications;
• the dialectic between citizen media and new technologies: empowering synergy
or regulative tension;
• strategic vs therapeutic forms of self-mediation: activism, hacktivism,
alter-globalism, altruistic humanitarianism and narcisstic exhibitionism;
• citizen media and protest movements;
• the ethics of witnessing and solidarity;
• playful forms of self-mediation (parody, satire);
• the threat of co-optation: containing the subversive within existing
structures of political and corporate power;
• citizen media and the discursive constitution of public selves;
• citizen media and the construction of communities;
• citizen media and ‘the democratic deficit’;
• citizen media practices and piracy.
The programme is designed to ensure maximum participation by all attendees, and
to allow sufficient time for discussion and exchange of views. There will be no
parallel panels, andpresentation slots are therefore limited.
Plenary speakers
Stuart Allan is Professor of Journalism and Director of the Centre for
Journalism and Communication Research at Bournemouth University, UK. He has
published widely on the emergence and development of news on the Internet, the
online reporting of war, conflict and crisis, science journalism, and citizen
journalism. His most recent book, Citizen Witnessing: Revisioning Journalism in
Times of Crisis, was published by Polity in January 2013.
Bolette Blaagaard is Assistant Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark and
former Research Fellow at City University, London, where she was involved in
setting up an international network to debate issues of citizenship and
journalism, as well as carrying out research on citizen journalism and its
implications for journalistic practices and education. She is co-editor of
After Cosmopolitanism (Routlege 2012) and Deconstructing Europe (Routledge
2011).
Simon Lindgren is Professor of Sociology at Umeå University, Sweden. He
researches digital culture with a focus on social connections, social
organization and social movements. He is actively taking part in developing
theoretical as well as methodological tools for analysing discursive and social
network aspects of the evolving new media landscape. His publications cover
themes like hacktivism, digital piracy, citizen journalism, subcultural
creativity and learning, popular culture and visual politics. Simon is the
author of New Noise: A Cultural Sociology of Digital Disruption (2013).
Ivan Sigal is Executive Director and co-founder of Global Voices, a community
of more than 700 authors and 600 translators around the world who collect and
make available reports from blogs and citizen media everywhere,with emphasis on
voices that are not ordinarily heard in international mainstream media. He is
author of White Road (Steidl Verlag 2012) and has extensive experience in
supporting and training journalists and working on media co-productions in the
Soviet Union and Asia.
Participating as Presenter
If you are interested in presenting a paper, please send an abstract of 300
words by 15 April 2013 to Mona Baker ([email protected]) or Luis
Pérez-González ([email protected]). Notifications of
acceptance will be sent out by 25 April 2013.
Registration Fees (to include lunch and refreshments on 13 & 14 June)
Full registration: £50
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Mona Baker
Professor of Translation Studies
Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies, Division of
Languages and Intercultural Studies School of Arts, Languages and
Cultures University of Manchester Oxford Road Manchester, M13 9PL,
UK Tel. (direct) +44 (0)161-275-8125
Email: [email protected]
http://staffprofiles.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/Profile.aspx?Id=Mona.Baker
http://manchester.academia.edu/MonaBaker
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