[ecrea] Two-Day Colloqium - Citizen Media: New Mediations of Civic Engagement

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 ((mona.baker /at/ manchester.ac.uk)) 
or Luis Pérez-González ((Luis.Perez-Gonzalez /at/ manchester.ac.uk)). 
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: (mona.baker /at/ manchester.ac.uk)
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