[ecrea] Studies in Evil Media: October 7th at UEL

> University of East London School of Humanities and Social Sciences 
> and Centre for Cultural Studies Research present
>
> Studies in Evil Media
>
> October 7th 2009
>
>
> 14:00-17:00
> University of East London
> Docklands Campus
> (Cyprus DLR - the station is literally at the campus)
> Room EB.3.19 (third floor, main building, turn left on entering main 
> square from station)
> All Welcome
>
>
> Matthew Fuller (Goldsmiths: Author of Media Ecologies)
> & Andrew Goffey (Middlesex University: Translator of Isabelle 
> Stengers' Capitalist Sorcery)
>
> Evil Media
>
> Evil Media updates Machiavelli's 'The Prince' for the era of 
> networked digital media and corporate governance. Addressing a range 
> of objects, practices, techniques and knowledges traditionally 
> excluded from the purview of media studies, it explores the 
> sophistry that is quite literally embodied by the sophisticated 
> technologies of the knowledge economy. 'Evil' explicitly references 
> the antagonistic ethical and moral quality that an epoch gorging 
> itself on progress has sought unsuccessfully to banish; and so Evil 
> Media offers a useful prospectus of the ruses, subterfuges, 
> deception, manipulation and trickery which media technics make 
> possible and effective.  By adopting a perspective which counters 
> the idealistic, liberal, assumptions encoded within the notion of 
> representation or facilitation and enabling, it aims to re-situate 
> the study of media within a framework which includes forms of media 
> that are 'below the radar' of most contemporary theory and actively 
> occluded by the framework of representation.  Here, media do not so 
> much tell us about things, but are themselves things that exhibit behaviours.
>
>
> Tony Sampson (University of East London: Author of 
> Virality:Contagion Theory in the Age of Networks)
>
> New Media Hypnosis
>
> Drawing on the microsociology of Gabriel Tarde (1843-1904), and a 
> number of other "Tardean scholars", this presentation approaches the 
> idea that new media landscapes function increasingly as a mode of 
> hypnotic mass persuasion. Significantly, this is not a sociological 
> perspective that concerns itself with rational, self-contained 
> individuals, or indeed society as a whole, but rather responds to 
> what one viral marketer (following a decidedly similar trajectory to 
> Tarde) recently referred to as 'the invisible currents that run
> between and among consumers'. These 'invisible currents', affective 
> contagions (Thrift, 2007), or the radiation of 
> imitation-suggestibility, as Tarde termed it, work at the 
> intersections between attention inattention, cognition/noncognition, 
> social/biological domains and consciousness/unconsciousness.
> The talk focuses on examples taken from the new science of 
> networks,epidemiology, HCI, emotional design, affective computing, 
> eye tracking technology, neuromarketing and evil media studies.
>
>
> Respondent: Paul Gormley
> (University of East London: Author of The New Brutality Film: Race 
> and Affect in Contemporary American Cinema)

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