ECREA Digital Culture & Communication (DCC) Section Workshop 1.-3. November 2007 @ University of Sussex Supported by the Centre for Material Digital Culture, University of Sussex http://www.sussex.ac.uk/rcmdc/ All welcome to attend. Please register with Vanessa Sammut V.A.Sammut@sussex.ac.uk for full programme. Charges: £35 to cover refreshments, coffee and reception. £10 for one day. Programme Thursday, 1st of November Introduction: Caroline Bassett, University of Sussex, UK After Convergence?: What Connects? Session 1: Methodologies (Chair/discussant Irmi Karl, University of Brighton, UK) 16:30-18:30 Maren Hartmann, University of the Arts Berlin, Germany Ethnographies as dangerous tools Adolfo Estalella, Elisenda Ardèvol, Edgar Gómez, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain Media as practice: Introducing symmetry in Internet ethnographies Friday, 2nd of November Session 2: Sounds & Senses (Chair: Kate Lacey, University of Sussex, UK) Frauke Behrendt, University of Sussex, UK Mobile Sonic Experience: Methodological Concerns Holger Schulze, University of the Arts Berlin, Germany Experiencing Medialised Senses: On the Tectonics of Media (Title TBC) Session 3: Policy Issues (Chair: Bridgette Wessels) Maria Sourbati, University of Brighton, UK Europe's digital media policy discourses and the problem of the user Session 4: Theoretical frameworks (Chair/discussant: David Berry, University of Wales Swansea, UK) Panagiota Alevizou, LSE, UK Collective intelligence and the cult of open production: critical reflections on theory and methodology Bridgette Wessels, University of Sheffield, UK On digital cultures as cultural forms: participation, narrative and infrastructures in achieving digital cultural engagement Saturday 3rd of November Theorizing (digital) TV (Chair: Frauke Berendt) Fonta Group, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain The theory of swarms in the models of organization of the audio-visual companies of digital television Emma Hemmingway, Nottingham Trent University, UK Actor Network Theory and Media: A new approach to theorising media practice Panel: The Disappearance of the Digital Distinction? Panelists: Holger Schulze, Kate O'Riordan, University of Sussex, UK, TBA. http://www.sussex.ac.uk/rcmdc/1-1.php?output=html&refer=16836&oftype=event&f... for further information on the programme please email Hartmann Maren <hartmann@udk-berlin.de> Bassett Caroline <C.Bassett@sussex.ac.uk> O'Riordan Kate <K.S.O-Riordan@sussex.ac.uk>