[Commlist] ICA Preconference “History of Digital Metaphors”

*Subject: ICA Preconference “History of Digital Metaphors”, May 25^th , 
2023, Centre for Culture and Technology (Coach House)*

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We are happy to announce the final program of the ICA Preconference 
“History of Digital Metaphors”. The conference is held at the Centre for 
Culture and Technology (Coach House), on May 25^th , 2023.

You can find the program below and if you plan to attend it, please 
register here: 
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/ica-preconference-history-of-digital-metaphors-tickets-631933288477 
<https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/ica-preconference-history-of-digital-metaphors-tickets-631933288477>. 
For more info: https://digitalmetaphors.wordpress.com/ 
<https://digitalmetaphors.wordpress.com/>

*PROGRAM *

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*9.00-9.15 AM: Registration and Coffee *

*9.15-9.30 AM: Kick off*

Gabriele Balbi 
<https://search.usi.ch/en/people/9fca22404467d1801cfd4213b9fb7e7e/Balbi-Gabriele> (USI 
Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland)

Carlos A. Scolari <https://modernclicks.wordpress.com/> (Universitat 
Pompeu Fabra – Barcelona)

*9.30-11.00 AM: Parallel Session 1*

/Session 1 – Metaphors of Space, Place, and Time/

  * /When Platforms are Gatekeepers: Exploring Metaphors of Gates and
    their Guardians – /Yung Au, Josh Cowls, and Cindy Ma (Oxford
    Internet Institute, University of Oxford, England)
  * /Theoretical implications of the metaphor of landscape/ – Göran
    Bolin

<https://www.sh.se/english/sodertorn-university/contact/researchers/goran-bolin> (Södertörn
    University, Sweden)
  * /The Blog as Bedroom: Internet Subcultures as Bedroom Culture –
    /Margaret E. Foster
    <https://cals.cornell.edu/maggie-foster> (Cornell University, US)
  * /The Internet as a Historical Era – /Nakho Kim (Penn State Univ
    Harrisburg, US)
  * /Neighborhood/Neighbors as a digital metaphor – /Josh Lauer
    <https://mypages.unh.edu/jlauer/home> (University of New Hampshire, US)

/Session 2 – Metaphors of algorithms and data/

  * /Un-BlackBoxing Digital Technologies: Metaphor as method – / Margie
    Borschke (University of Sydney, Australia)
  * /Historicising the Parallel Evolution of Conceptualisations and
    Promises in Artificial Intelligence: Media Archaeology, Meet the
    Sociology of Expectations – /Vassilis Galanos
    <https://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/vassilis-galanos> (University of
    Edinburgh, Scotland)
  * /Tracing Big Data Imaginaries in China: A Critical Metaphor Analysis
    of Editorials in /People’s Daily /(2013-2022) – /Liangqi Ding (Fudan
    University, China) and Xueying Jiang (Peking University, China)
  * /The historical impact of data metaphors for data governance – /Joan
    Ramon Rodriguez-Amat

<https://www.shu.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-profiles/joan-rodriguez-amat> (Sheffield
    Hallam University, England)
  * /Vernacular Metaphors of Artificial Intelligence/ – Christian Schulz

<https://kw.uni-paderborn.de/institut-fuer-medienwissenschaften/personal-a-z/personen/72684>and
    Annedore Wilmes

<https://kw.uni-paderborn.de/fach-psychologie/personen-a-z/personen/92749> (Paderborn
    University <https://trr318.uni-paderborn.de/en/>, Germany)
  * /Through (and Beyond) Metaphors of Containment: Using Cephalopods to
    De-Anthropocentrise Digital Metaphors – /Liam Voice (University of
    Leeds, England)

*11.00-11.30 AM: Coffee break *

*11.30 AM-1 PM: Parallel Session 2*

/Session 3 – Inter-action and communication metaphors/

  * /Metaphors of Scrolling in the Context of Everyday Life – / Antonija
    Čuvalo, Zlatan Krajina and Paula Čatipović (University of Zagreb,
    Croatia)
  * /Draw me encryption: visualizing metaphors of digital (in)security –
    /Ksenia Ermoshina <https://cis.cnrs.fr/ksenia-ermoshina/> (Center
    for Internet and Society, CNRS, France and The Citizen Lab,
    University of Toronto, Canada) and Francesca Musiani
    <https://cis.cnrs.fr/francesca-musiani/> (Center for Internet and
    Society, CNRS, France)
  * /Back to the future. The evolution of the conversational metaphor
    around the digital: from Turing to ChatGPT – /Mar Guerrero-Pico,
    Martina Piña

<https://www.upf.edu/en/web/medium/equip/-/asset_publisher/RL1WQ1Wum14C/content/pi%C3%B1a-pellegrin-martina/maximized> and
    Carlos A. Scolari (Universitat Pompeu-Fabra, Spain)
  * /Memes and the Metaphor of the Editorial Cartoon/ – Joe Musicco

<https://www.sheridancollege.ca/about/faculties/pilon-school-business/profiles/joe-musicco> (Sheridan
    College, Canada)
  * /Metaphors of anonymous communication on the Internet – /Rita Zajacz
    <https://communicationstudies.uiowa.edu/people/rita-zajacz> (University
    of Iowa, US)

/Session 4 – Macro Metaphors/

  * /Back to nature? Tracing the evolution of “media ecology” and “media
    ecosystems” in media studies – /Henrik Bødker (Aarhus University,
    Denmark) and Anat Ben-David (Open University, Israel)
  * /Tool: Figuring computation as craft and skill – /Frédérik Lesage

<https://www.sfu.ca/communication/people/faculty/frederik-lesage.html> (Simon
    Fraser University, Canada) and Michael Terren (Edith Cowan
    University and University of Western Australia, Australia)
  * /Following the invisible hand: How the invisible hand metaphor moved
    from economics to the smart city – /George Martin (York University,
    Canada)
  * /Reversing the Metaphor: When Digital Media become a Metaphor of the
    Human Body – /Michele Martini <https://usi.to/begr> (USI Università
    della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland)
  * /Smart: Tracing Protodigital Histories and Ordinary Beginnings of
    A.I. – /Sarah Murray

<https://lsa.umich.edu/ftvm/people/faculty/sarah-murray.html> (University
    of Michigan, US)

*1 PM – 2 PM: Lunch break *

*2PM-4PM: Rethinking and Reimagining Metaphors*

  * Wrap up of the 4 sessions by chairs
  * Discussion and gaming on the already existing and presented metaphors
  * Generation of new metaphors
  * Prizes
  * Conclusion


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