3Pre Conference & Conference schedule
Pre Conference:
Tuesday 19th
Informal get together with PhD Workshop participants in the evening at Ravintola Telakka
Wednesday 20th
9-12 PhD seminar in Room E222
12-13 Lunch (self-served)
Conference Programme at a glance:
Wednesday 20th
Registration desk open from 10:00-18:00 in Tampere University Main building
13-14:30 Welcome + keynote Sarah Elwood
14:30-15 Coffee
15-16:30 Parallel sessions
19: 00 Restaurant/Theatre Telakka Film Screening/Refugee film festival & drinks
Thursday 21st
Registration desk open from 09:00-14:00 in Tampere University Main building
9:30-11 Parallel sessions
11 -11:30 Coffee
11:30-12:30 Keynote Payal Arora (online)
12:30 -13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:00 Parallel sessions
15:00-15:30 Coffee
15:30-17:00 Parallel sessions
19:00 Conference dinner at Juhlatila Konsu
Friday 22nd
9-10:30 Parallel sessions
10:30-11 Coffee
11-12:30 Keynote Sukhmani Khorana
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15 Parallel sessions
15-15:30 Coffee
15:30-17 Plenary panel & Goodbye
Detailed Conference Schedule
Detailed Schedule for Wednesday 20th September 2023
| Wednesday 20th September 2023 | |||
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| 13:00-14:30 | Welcome – Kaarina Nikunen Lecture Hall A1 Keynote: Sarah Elwood: Practicing Abundance: Hope, Digital Geographies and the City Chair: André Jansson |
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| 14:30-15:00 | Coffee | ||
| 15:00-16:30 | Parallel Sessions | ||
| Room A2a
Digital Infrastructures, Activism and Resistance Chair: Sanna Valtonen Dilara Asardag: Feminist performative digital assemblies as a way of becoming: notions of empowerment and subordination through hashtag activism and online feminist publics in Turkey Tendai Chari: Communication Rights and politics of digital infrastructures in the Global South: The case of #DataMustFall campaign in South Africa Jochem Kootstra: Fighting maps with maps Heidi Kosonen: Counterspeech as Talking back digitally in Finnish online communities |
Room A3
Digital Micro-Geography Christoph Borbach: Sensing proximity: Media historical traces of virtual fences Helena Atteneder: Being a commuter in post-digital “cities of feet and hands”: Max Kanderske: |
Room A4
Visual Geomedia and Tourist Worlds Chair: Christian Ritter Christian Ritter and Georgia Aitaki: Broadcasting tourist experiences: Travel videos in the global streaming Karina Kirsten: Travelogues: New visions of travel? |
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| 19:00 | Refugee Film Festival Presents: Midnight Traveller, Film Screening at Theatre Telakka |
| Thursday 21st September 2023 | ||||
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| 09:30-11:00 | Parallel Sessions | |||
| Room A2a
War, Conflict and Politics Chair: Georgia Aitaki Doug Specht: Soma Basu: Phantoms of the drain: Imaginations of conflict in everyday infrastructures Velayutham Chandrasekharan: Laura Saarenmaa: Chinese television diplomacy: Monkey King’s Nordic tour in 1979 |
Room A3
Affective Landscapes, Hopes and Values: Questioning Algorithmic Systems Chair: Minna Ruckenstein Minna Ruckenstein: The digital geography of fear Santeri Räisänen: The aesthetics and affect of governmental high-tech Laura Savolainen: Hopeful Algorithms: Imagining Recommendation Systems Beyond Algorithmic Markets and Autocracies |
Room A4 Cross-Cultural Encounters and Mobilities Chair: Linda Ryan Bengtsson Reeta Pöyhtäri and Päivi Pirkkalainen: Encounters between asylum seekers and locals in a small rural municipality and media: The hopeful case of Kyyjärvi Tuire Liimatainen: The Finnish diaspora policy and the reimagining of a community in the digital age Hedwig Wagner: Digital cross border regions. A geomedia and border studies approach |
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| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee | |||
| 11:30-12:30 | Lecture Hall A1
Keynote: Payal Arora: Aspirational Geographies and Hopeful AI Futures With The Global South (online) |
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| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch | |||
| 13:30-15:00 | Parallel Session | |||
| Room A2a
Migration and Datafication of Borders Chair: Fredrik Hoppstadius Kirsi Pauliina Kallio, Jouni Häkli, Gintarė Kudžmaitė and Aila Spathopoulou: Gintaré Kudžmaité: Hannah Morgan: An affirmative biopolitics? Everyday smartphone practices and the (re)mediation of hostility Sanna Valtonen: |
Room A3
Disconnect, Refusal and Platform Governance Chair: Anne Soronen Joern Langhorst: Media tactics and mediated resistance: Surveillance, sousveillance and counter-publics Tuukka Lehtiniemi, Vassilis Charitsis and Mikko Laamanen: Karoliina Talvitie-Lamberg, Leena Ripatti-Torniainen and Sanna Valtonen: Mediarefusers and geographies of hope – the participation and agency of social media non-users in the public realm Lucio Mello: Ideas for a genealogy of citizenship and mediatizations |
Room A4
Material Entanglements ofNonanthropo-centric Hope Chairs: Seija Ridell and Tarja Rautiainen-Keskustalo Mirka Muilu: Giving up anthropocentric hope – Arendt’s Earth meets Latour’s Gaia Jaana Parviainen and Seija Ridell: Tarja Rautiainen‐Keskustalo: Aino Kangaspuro Haaparanta: |
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| 15:00-15:30 | Coffee | |||
| 15:30-17:00 | Parallel Session | |||
| Room A2a
Online Hate and Counter-Publics Chair: Tuija Saresma Kaarina Nikunen, Paula Haara, Heidi Kosonen, Aleksi Knuutila, Reeta Pöyhtäri, Tuija Saresma: Affective meanings of hate speech – countering hate with joy. Anirban Mukhopadhyay: WhatsApp mediated publics: Critiquing and resisting alternative realities in India Anumita Goswami: Emotional Atyachar (trauma): The emotional labour of fact checking in India Elizabeth Poole: Countering Islamophobic hate speech on Twitter: Activist strategies |
Room A3
Geomedia Technologies between Surveillance and Survival Chair: Karoliina Talvitie-Lamberg Pablo Abend: (Geo-)Tagging – The utopian hopes and harsh realities of a ubiquitous media practice Yi-Fan Chen: Mapping my family story: Designing user-generated Geomedia for family Craig Ryder: Digitalising Bourdieu: digital capital as resistance in post-pandemic Sri Lanka |
Room A4
The Hope and Hopes of Digitalization in the Post-Pandemic Cultural Productions Chair: Saara-Maija Kallio & Anne Soronen Henri Laukkanen: Making contemporary art with digital representations of contemporary art Anne Mölsä: Audio book production and the developing professional ethos of the publishing workers of Finnish literary fiction Anne Soronen, Saara-Maija Kallio & Eliisa Vainikka: Aspirations and anxieties of knowledge production in the film and television industry Pauliina Penttilä: The curve looks good! Audience metrics, occupational enthusiasm, and professional goals in a tabloid newsroom |
Room A05
Mediated Space and Media Representations of Hope Chair: Helena Atteneder Andrea Markl, Belinda Mahlknecht and Tabea Bork-Hüffer: Understanding young people’s negotiations of difference in entangled online-offline spaces from a subjective-empirical perspective Santosh Kumar Patra: Non-presence and distanced proximity: a study of the mediatization of space and user experience of dating sites Sunitha Don Bosco: Social media narratives, social acceptance and discriminated communities Sara Dahlman: Artificial intelligence in healthcare – the co-constitutive entanglement of hype and hope |
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| 19:00 | Conference Dinner |
| Friday 22nd September 2023 | |||
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| 9:00-10:30 | Parallel Sessions | ||
| Room A2a
Digital Hope and Solidarity Chair: Soma Basu Paola Sartoretto and Ekatarina Kalinina: Communicative solidarity – networked resistance to neoliberalism in urban spaces Hjalte Betak: The digital freelancer as co-owner, employee and freelancer at once? Potentialities of platform cooperative organizing Eliisa Vainikka: Volunteering as an act of care – European volunteers’ place-making, mobilities and digital practices Nadia Nava: ‘YouTube Cuba’: Showcasing hope and despair in the digital revolution era |
Room A3
The Techno-Optimism of Mobile Infrastructures Chair: Adrienne Russell Maren Hartmann: Affective infrastructuring: Unhoused media / media use of the unhoused Deniz Neriman Duru: Hopes and limitations of digital and non-digital media in the exploration of conviviality and Magnus Andersson: Workplace, what workplace? The modern office as a mobile infrastructure Erika Polson: AirBnB(itterness)? The hopes and disappointments of “Live and Work Anywhere” |
Room A4
Games, Geographies and Imaginary Futures Jan Houška: Hope labour vs reality: Experiences of Eastern European expatriates and remote workers in Czech game companies Kirsi Pauliina Kallio, Jouni Häkli and Miki Mäkelä: BiciZen: Advancing sustainable urban mobility through citizen science Zhen Zeng: Planting trees in a FinTech-driven game: exploring the spatial creation and place experience in Ant Forest Jian Xiao and Haoze Wang: Nostalgia in the platform era: A case of card-punching the Chinese old communities |
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| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee | ||
| 11:00-12:30 | Lecture Hall A1
Keynote: Sukhmani Khorana: Belonging as a Reciprocal Affect: Towards Centring Agency in Migrant and Refugee-led Digital Media Artefacts |
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| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch | ||
| 13:30-15:00 | Parallel Sessions | ||
| Room A2a
Technologies of Hope: Woman Life Freedom Chair: Dilara Asardag Victoria Balan: Technologies of hope – The discursive construction of the #WomanLifeFreedom movement in Time and Wired magazine Seyed Mohammadhos Mirhashemi: From space of resistance to public space: A new approach to 2022 Iran protests Azadeh Shamsi: Digital Feminist Activism and Imagining the Future: Case study of the ‘Women, Life, Freedom’ protest in Iran |
Room A3
Art and Imaginations of Change Chair: Laura Saarenmaa Suman Ghosh: Virtual Museum of Protest Art as Empathy Machine: A Literature Review Setenay Gültekin and Ozgu Hazal Ertaş: transformative possibilities of digital experiential encounters in the public space: The case of Audio Choreography Gazhane XL Doris Posch: Collective ways of thinking, being and seeing: Imagining possible futures in the arts Linda Ryan Bengtsson: Constructive resistance: The rural popular culture scene as a counteract to the rural norm |
Room A4
Quo Vadis Media Geographies? Taking Stock of the Research Field and Discussing Future Utopia Chair: Max Kanderske A panel discussion by: Pablo Abend, Helena Atteneder, Hendrik Bender, Christoph |
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| 15:00-15:30 | Coffee | ||
| 15:30-17:00 | Lecture Hall A1 Plenary panel: Futures of Geomedia Joan Ramon Rodriguez-Amat: Thinking the futures of geomedia from outside Followed by commentaries on the future of geomedia Chair: Karin Fast GOODBYE |