This ECREA Post-Conference is sponsored by the ECREA Communication History Section & the International and Intercultural Communication Section and organised online on November 18, 2022.

It is organised by the China Media Observatory, Università della Svizzera italiana (Lugano, Switzerland) with the Journal of Transcultural Communication (De Gruyer). Co-organizers are the School of International Journalism and Communication, Beijing Foreign Studies University and the Institute for a Community with Shared Future, Communication University of China.

Time: Nov 18, 2022 10:00 Beijing, Shanghai
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A remote postconference co-organized by three ECREA Thematic Sections: Communication History, Radio and Sound, Television Studies

Time Zone is CEST (Central European Summer Time).

9.00-9.15: Introduction (Belén Monclús, Juan Francisco Gutiérrez Lozano, Valérie Schafer)

9.15-10.30: Panel 1 

Old and New: persistence and co-existence

Chair: Berber Hagedoorn

• Gabriele Balbi, Old media persistence in the digital era. A theory
• Anne F. MacLennan, Radio old and new: Persistence of Canadian radio broadcasting in a digital world
• Jutta Roeser & Jo Marie Dominiak, How old and new music media coexist in everyday life: Media consumption between dynamics and persistence

10.30-10.45: Virtual coffee break 

10.45-12.00: Panel 2 

Audiovisual transformations: Continuities and inspirations  

Chair: Christian Schwarzenegger

• Josep Maria Martí, Belén Monclús, Maria Gutiérrez, Xavier Ribes & Pau Lluis, The Spanish radio industry at the digital crossroad
• Paloma López Villafranca & Silvia Olmedo Salar, The transformation of radio drama into sound fiction on radio stations and audio platforms in Spain  
• Andreas Schellewald, Locating the popular pleasures of TikTok historically

12.00-13.00: Virtual Lunch break

13.00-14.30: Panel 3 

Live and let die: Survival, re-emergence and nostalgia  

Chair: Salvatore Scifo

• Jacob Ørmen, Rasmus Helles, & Klaus Bruhn Jensen, Mass media are dying – Long live mass communication!
• Jonas Harvard & Ingela Wadbring, Let print die! Radical digital innovation in a Swedish local newspaper conglomerate and the idea of outdated “old media”
• João Pereira de Matos, Beyond nostalgia and emulation: Teletext as an ontotechnology of resistance
• Shellie McMurdo & Laura Mee, Haunted tape: Video, horror and nostalgia

14.30-14.45: Virtual Coffee break 

14.45-16.15: Panel 4 

Persisting Practices

Chair: Nazan Haydari 

• Philipp Seuferling, Persisting media practices: An approach to historicize media in contexts of refugee governance
• Sergio Minniti, A “biographical” approach to retromedia practices: The case of Polaroidism
• Juliette de Maeyer & Will Mari, Acoustic phone couplers: An enduring analog-to-digital “bridge” technology for news workers
• Alexia Cappuccio, Can the radio still produce quality journalistic information? Work, roles, and news production of the French public radio journalists

16.15: Concluding remarks (Gabriele Balbi, Berber Hagedoorn, Nazan Haydari)

To register and join the virtual program through Webex, please send an email to valerie.schafer@uni.lu until September 8, 2021. 

For more information, please visit the post-conference website: https://oldnewspersistence.com/