[ecrea] ICA-Preconference "Articulating Voice. The Expressivity and Performativity of Media Practices"

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ICA-Preconference “ARTICULATING VOICE. THE EXPRESSIVITY AND 
PERFORMATIVITY OF MEDIA PRACTICES”

Sponsored by the Philosophy, Theory and Critique (PTC) Division of the 
International Communication Association

Event date: 24 May 2018, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Prague, Czech Republic

Location: Main Conference Hotel (Hilton Prague)

Organizers: Christian Pentzold (University of Bremen), Kenzie Burchell 
(University of Toronto), Olivier Driessens (University of Cambridge), 
Alice Mattoni (Scuola Normale Superiore), John Postill (RMIT 
University), Cara Wallis (Texas A&M University)

“Media matter most when they seem not to matter at all.” (Wendy Chun)
But how can we understand the practices through which innovations in 
media and digital data move from being unexpected, novel, and impactful 
to the negotiated, embedded, and habitual?

The pre-conference takes issue with the mundane yet pervasive nature of 
media habits, rituals, and customs. It assesses the purchase of 
practice-based approaches in order to see under what conditions and with 
what consequences they enter studies in communication and media. In 
particular, we invite participants to consider the expressive and 
performative dimension of what people actually do and say in relation to 
media and to the wider communication ecologies in which these 
articulations take place. We are especially interested in contributions 
that examine how voices are expressed, represented, or muted and that 
study the ways practices of voice combine, overlap, or collide with 
other mediated activities in contemporary societies. With this, we 
strive for an explanation and critical appreciation of media practices 
whose accomplishment is a perennial exercise in which we find ourselves 
immersed.

The Book of Abstracts can be downloaded at: 
http://www.zemki.uni-bremen.de/fileadmin/redak_zemki/dateien/Tagungen/various/ICA-Precon-2018-BoA.pdf

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

8:30
Opening by the Convenors: A Practice Turn in Studies of Communication 
and Media?

8:45
Panel I: Off the Ground: Maintaining the Media-Suffused Everyday
Jesper Pagh, Fiona Huijie Zeng & Signe Sophus Lai, U of Copenhagen, 
Denmark: "Show and Tell – Mapping communicative patterns in everyday life"

9:00
Richard Davis, U of Essex: "Internet use as 'just something I do, rather 
than something I thought about doing': a study into the domestic 
practices of UK households, and the significance of habit and routine in 
online behaviour"

9:15
Claus Toft-Nielsen, Aarhus U, Denmark & Stinne Gunder Strøm Krogager, 
Aalborg U, Denmark: "Voices of inclusion and exclusion – the 
intersection of practice theory and media studies"
9:30
Paul Frosh, U of Jerusalem, Israel: "Objects as Practice: The Case of 
the Screenshot"

9:45
Peter Gentzel, U of Augsburg, Germany: "The Forgotten Subject? Why 
subjectivity matters after practice and material turns"

10:00
Response: Elisenda Ardèvol, U Oberta de Catalunya, Spain

10:15
Q+A

10:30
Tea & Coffee Break

10:45
Panel II: In the Air: Speaking Practice – Practice Speaking
Paddy Scannell, U of Michigan, USA: "Voice(s) on air"

11:00
Mark R Johnson, U of Alberta, Canada & Jamie Woodcock, U of Oxford, UK: 
"Conversation, Discourse and Play: Interaction and Moderation in 
Twitch.tv Video Game Live Streaming"

11:15
Margreth Lünenborg, Freie U Berlin, Germany & Christoph Raetzsch, Aarhus 
U, Denmark: "From Public Sphere to Performative Publics: Developing 
Media Practice as an Analytic Model"

11:30
Sahana Udupa, U of Munich, Germany: "Enterprise as practice: Fun and 
aggression in online political discourse"

11:45
Hanna Klien-Thomas, Oxford Brooks U, UK: "Navigating cultural 
citizenship – Voice and address in transcultural media practices of 
young Trinidadian women"

12:00
Response: Elizabeth Bird, U of Southern Florida, USA

12:15 Q+A

12:30
Lunch Break

13:00
Panel III: On the Move: Advancing activism
Alice Mattoni, Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy: "The mutual anchoring of 
mundane-oriented and politics-oriented media practices in the 
construction of voice. The case of anti-corruption movement 
organizations in Southern Europe"

13:15
Hilde C. Stephansen, U of Westminster, UK & Emiliano Treré, U of 
Cardiff: "Theorizing citizen media practices: agency, power, and social 
change"

13:30
Yoav Halperin, NYU, USA: "We Will Not Be Silenced: 
Algorithmically-Informed Activism and the Amplification of Political 
Voices on Social Media"
13:45
Philipp Budka, U of Vienna, Austria: "Indigenous Articulations in the 
Digital Age: Reflections on Historical Developments, Activist 
Engagements and Mundane Practices"

14:00
Yang Wang, National U of Singapore & Sun Sun Lim, Singapore U of 
Technology and Design: "Transnational positionality in mediated 
communication: Digital asymmetries, contextual constraints and strategic 
negotiation"

14:15
Response: Nick Couldry, LSE, UK

14:30
Q+A

14:45
Tea & Coffee Break

15:00
Panel IV: At a Distance: Reporting and Representing Media Life
Steffen Moestrup, U of Copenhagen, Denmark: "The journalist as 
performance in a crossmedia landscape"

15:15
Kenzie Burchell, U of Toronto, Canada: "Mapping Strategic Interference 
in Global Reporting Practices"

15:30
Chaim Noy, U of Southern Florida, USA: "Paper voices and performativity 
in the digital age"

15:45

Nina Grønlykke Mollerup & Mette Mortensen, U of Copenhagen, Denmark: 
"The Contested Visibility of War: Actors on the Ground Taking and 
Distributing Images from the War in Syria"

16:00
Christian Pentzold, U of Bremen, Germany & Manuel Menke, U of Augsburg, 
Germany: "Social practices, communicative practices, discursive 
practices: Formulating an analytical distinction"

16:15
Response: Maria Bakardjieva, U of Calgary, Canada

16:30
Q+A

16:45
Final Discussion by the Convenors: "What are the future perspectives for 
a practice-based study of communication and media?“

CONFERENCE WEBSITE:
http://www.zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/events/conferences/articulating-voice-the-expressivity-and-performativity-of-media-practices.html



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