[ecrea] Conference "Acting on media: pioneer communities, social movements and civil society organizations"

Invitation to and programme of the conference "Acting on media: pioneer 
communities, social movements and civil society organizations"

venue: University of Bremen, Germany,
date: 13 and 14 October 2016,
registration deadline: 15th September,
for registration, please write an email to: 
(sigrid.kannengiesser /at/ uni-bremen.de) 
<mailto:(sigrid.kannengiesser /at/ uni-bremen.de)>

Organizer: Sociology of Media Communication of the German Communication 
Association (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Publizistik- und 
Kommunikationswissenschaft); Creative Unit Communicative Figurations, 
ZeMKI, University of Bremen

Conference Team: Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp, Dr. Sigrid Kannengießer and Dr. 
Sebastian Kubitschko

Actors like hacker collectives, alternative media organizations or open 
source movements do not only use media to organize, collaborate and to 
mobilize, but explicitly center their activities on media-related 
questions. Pioneer communities like the Quantified Self or Makers 
movement have emerged as new kinds of collectivities at the crossroads 
between social movements and think tanks, in their support of new forms 
of media practice. At the same time, new initiatives critically deal 
with media and point to problems caused by current media appropriation. 
These actors who put media into the centre of their (political) action 
are in the focus of this conference.

We invite everybody who is interested to take part in this workshop. 
Please register by writing an email to 
(sigrid.kannengiesser /at/ uni-bremen.de) 
<mailto:(sigrid.kannengiesser /at/ uni-bremen.de)> until the 15th September.

13 October 2016

13.00 – 14.30**

Data**

Stefania Milan: Data activism: The politics of big data

Julia Velkova: Data that warms: Waste heat, infrastructural convergence 
and the computation traffic commodity

Andreas Hepp: Pioneer Communities: Collective Actors of Deep Mediatization

**

15.00 – 17.00**

Movements**

Bart Cammaerts: A history of activist shaping of media and communication 
technologies

Ana Lúcia Nunes de Sousa: Media activism and social movements: the 
battle for public opinion in the Brazilian riots

Justus L. Uitermark: A figurational analysis of mediatized social movements

Jeffrey Wimmer and Michael Daubs: Occupy and the erasure of history via 
the merging of online and offline practices

**

19.00 – 21.00**

Screening of Preempting Dissent at Kino 46 / Followed by discussion with 
Greg Elmer and Bart Cammaerts (moderated by Winfried Pauleit)

**

14 October 2016**

10.00 – 11.30**

Media**

Débora Medeiros: Disruptive media practices: Understanding the adaption 
of media practices to changes in the sociopolitical context

Hilde Stephansen: Hackers and community radios, together at last? 
Movement-building processes in the World Forum of Free Media

Karl Flender: TRAUMAWIEN ghostwriters: The artistic strategy of 
conceptual writing as acting on media

**

11.30 – 12.00**

Award Presentation Matthias Berg

(PhD award of the DGPuK section “Sociology of Media Communication” and 
Springer VS*)*

**

13.00 – 15.00**

Critique**

Sigrid Kannengießer: Consumption-critical initiatives acting on media 
and societal transformation

Tilo Grenz and Paul Eisewicht: The joy of rebellion. Comparing hardware 
and software hackers in digital spaces

Sebastian Kubitschko: How the Chaos Computer Club acts on surveillance

Jan-Felix Schrape and Ulrich Dolata: Collective action and its 
institutional foundations in the internet age

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15.00**

Final remarks




Contact

Dr. Sigrid Kannengießer

University of Bremen

Center for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI)

Linzer Str. 4, 28359 Bremen, Germany

Email: (sigrid.kannengiesser /at/ uni-bremen.de) 
<mailto:(igrid.kannengiesser /at/ uni-bremen.de)>


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