Researching Citizen Media Workshop

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Researching Citizen Media Workshop

An interdisciplinary workshop held at the University of Manchester, UK, on the 15th-16th September 2016.

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Introduction

Heightened distrust in traditional forms of governance and mainstream media industries  has given rise to alternative repertoires of action that now occupy a prominent place in  public consciousness across the globe. In this context, unaffiliated individuals and collectives have come to play an important role in articulating various forms of political  and aesthetic expression, whether in physical sites (as in the case of street art and  parkour), on virtual platforms (blogging, mockumentaries, fansubbing), or across hybrid  environments that combine embodied and digital practices, as in the case of documentary  film-making. In producing and disseminating such citizen media content, engaged  individuals and collectives seek to reclaim public and digital spaces in pursuit of  noninstitutionalized agendas, effect aesthetic or socio-political change, and express personal desires and aspirations.

Conducting research in this fluid, fast changing and sometimes high risk environment poses numerous methodological and ethical challenges that are yet to be adequately explored. This event offered a platform for discussing these challenges and sharing research experiences that involve different forms and platforms of citizen media.

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Speakers

Keynote speakers:

The event featured presentations by established and doctoral/early career researchers from a range of disciplinary areas. Click here to access a full list of speakers and abstracts.

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Venue

Conference Room (C1.18), Graduate School (Arts, Languages and Cultures) | Ellen Wilkinson Building, The University of Manchester | Oxford Road | Manchester M13 9PL.

  • The Ellen Wilkinson Building is number 77 on the Campus Map.
  • Travel directions can be found here.

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Workshop Organizers

The workshop was organized by the editors of a new Routledge series, Critical Perspectives on Citizen Media.

Send your queries to: Mona Baker (mona.baker@manchester.ac.uk) or Luis Pérez-González (Luis.Perez-Gonzalez@manchester.ac.uk).

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Programme

 

15 September 2016
9.00-9.30 Registration
9.30-9.40 Welcome Luis Pérez-González (University of Manchester)
9.45-11.00 Keynote I Lilie Chouliaraki (London School of Economics)
Witnessing Conflict Today
Chair: Bolette Blaagaard (Aalborg University, Copenhagen)
11.00-11.30 Coffee
11.30-13.00 Panel I CITIZEN MEDIA AND PERFORMANCE
Chair: Tanya Notley (Western Sydney University)
11.30-12.00 Jess Allen (University of Manchester)
Troubling Tracktivism: Reflections on the successes and failures of a rural, relational eco-activist performance practice
12.00-12.30 Rebecca Johnson (University of Manchester)
Renarrating Occupation: The Parkour Guide to Gaza
12.30-13.00 Gemma Sou (University of Manchester)
Humanitarian Video Games: Navigating their Procedural Rhetoric
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.00 Bolette Blaagaard (Aalborg University, Copenhagen)
Archives, Genealogies and the Politics of Location
Chair: Luis Pérez-González (University of Manchester)
15.00-15.30 Coffee
15.30-17.00 Panel II TRANSLATION AND DIGITAL MEDIA
Chair: Kostas Arvanitis (University of Manchester)
15.30-16.00 Henry Jones (University of Manchester)
Researching Wikipedia’s Translators: Challenges and Possibilities
16.00-16.30 Chuan Yu (Hong Kong Baptist University)
The Ethics of Cyber-ethnography: Researching Citizen Media in China
16.30-17.00 Neil Sadler (University of Manchester)
Researching Twitter: Challenges and Opportunities

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16 September 2016
9.00-10.15 Keynote II Cristina Flesher Fominaya (University of Aberdeen)
Methodological and Ethical Dilemmas in Researching Activist Communication Strategies
Chair: Andreja Zevnik (University of Manchester)
10.15-10.45 Coffee
10.45-11.45 Chair: Mona Baker (University of Manchester)
Nadine El-Enany (Birkbeck School of Law, University of London)
Guerrilla Art at Australia House: Closing the Camps and Exposing the Violence of the Settler Colonial State
11.55-12.55 Andreja Zevnik (University of Manchester)
The Subject of Resistance: Between Black Lives Matter and the Civil Rights Movement
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.30 Panel III ETHICS IN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND ACTIVISM RESEARCH
Chair: Cristina Flesher Fominaya (University of Aberdeen)
14.00-14.45 Kevin Gillan (University of Manchester)
Politics, Ethics and Research in Contentious Environments
14.45-15.30 Tanya Notley (Western Sydney University)
Media Ethics as Activism
15.30-16.15 Derya Yuksek (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Community Media as a Participatory Contact Zone and their Role in Conflict Transformation
16.15-16.25 Closing remarks Mona Baker (University of Manchester)

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