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Good Afternoon All,
We would like to warmly invite you to attend
this year's New Directions in Media and Sociology Research 2018 Conference which will be held
at the University of Leicester, The School of Media, Communications, and Sociology on Wednesday, September 19th 2018.
The topic for this year's
conference is “Digital Lives and Alternative Politics”. Confirmed keynote speakers are
Professor Natalie Fenton from Goldsmiths, University of London and Dr. Lina Dencik from Cardiff University.
Please
find below the conference outline and the registration link.
shop.le.ac.uk
Theme: Digital Lives and Alternative PoliticsDate: Wednesday 19th September
2018 Venue: School of Media, Bankfield House, New Walk, University of Leicester
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We are looking forward
to welcoming you to the conference!
Kind Regards,
Nerina Boursinou - On
behalf of the organizing committee
PROGRAM OUTLINE
New Directions
in Media and Sociology Research 2018
Conference “Digital
Lives and Alternative Politics”
NDiMS 2018 Programme
Outline
Twitter: @Ms2018N
9.00 am - 9.45
am Registration
9.45 am – 10.00
am Opening Ceremony and Welcome Speech by Dr. Athina Karatzogianni, University of Leicester
10.00 am – 11.00
am Keynote lecture by Dr. Lina Dencik, Cardiff University
11.00 am – 11.15
am Break, tea and coffee
Session I: Offline/Online
surveillance and counter/alternative politics
11.15 am – 11.30
am “Reflections on the WeMakeThe.City festival: a discursive- material perspective”Daphne Mangalousi, University of Leicester
11.30 am – 11.45 am “Unit: hacktivism resistance to surveillance realism” Silvia Semenzin, University of Milan
11.45 am – 12.00 pm “Indigeneity Discourse within Kurdish Political Movement and Its Significance for the Indigenous Peoples of the Middle East’ Aynur Unal, University of Leicester 12.00 pm – 12.15 pm “The
Battle against ISIS/Daaesh and Beyond (?): A Case Study of British Muslims and the #NotInMyName Movement” Kartini Kamaruzzaman, University of Leicester 12.15 pm – 12.35 pm
Q & A and Discussion (20 minutes)
12.35 pm – 13.35 pm Break and Lunch
Session II: Minority populations in the web and representation and fighting back
13.35 pm – 13.50 pm “Intersectional Feminist Collective” INTRSKTR, Leicester
13.50 pm – 14.05 pm “Coping with Media Suppression: A critical discussion of online-circulation utilization by filmmakers in Malaysia” Amin Affendi, University of Glasgow
14.05 pm – 14.20 pm “Post-gay, Pre-gay, or Non-gay? The Negotiation and Self-Presentation of Non-normative and Non-binary Women on the mainland Chinese Internet” Eva cheuk –Yin Li, King’s College London
14.20 pm – 14.35 pm “Social media, charities and people with rare health conditions” Iain Riddel, University of Leicester
14.35 pm – 14.55 pm
Q & A and Discussion (20 minutes)
Session III: Independent/ investigative journalism and
commercialization of information
14.55 pm – 15.10 pm “Investigative journalists in Beijing and Online Information” Nairui Xu, Lancaster University
15.10 pm – 15.25 pm “Selecting the news in the UK, Sweden and Greece” Andreas Anastasiou, University of Leicester
15.25 pm – 15.40 pm “Is the Chinese Online Public Opinion Valuable for Policy Reference? A study of online
news comments from Sina and Sohu on the Tianjin Explosion Case” Zipeng Li, University of Edinburgh
15.40 pm – 15.55 pm “Video content reception in the land of telenovelas: a case study of Brazilian connected
youth” Flavio Garcia da Rocha, University of Leicester
15.55 pm – 16.15 pm
Q & A and Discussion (20 minutes)
16.15 pm – 16.25 pm Break, tea and coffee
16.25 pm – 17.20 pm Keynote lecture by Professor Natalie Fenton, Goldsmiths, University of London
17.20 pm – 17.40 pm Closing remarks by Dr. Maria Rovisco, University of Leicester
17.40 pm Social event