Online book launch: “Deceitful Media: Artificial Intelligence and Social Life after the Turing Test”

Posted on September 30, 2021 by commhistorysection

Simone Natale is happy to invite you to the online launch of his latest book, Deceitful Media: Artificial Intelligence and Social Life after the Turing Test (Oxford University Press, 2021). The event, organized for the book’s release in Europe and the UK, brings the author in conversation with three leading scholars of AI and algorithmic culture:

Veronica Barassi, St. Gallen University, Switzerland
N. Katherine Hayles, University of California, USA
Christian Katzenbach, University of Bremen, Germany
Moderator: Paolo Bory, Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy

This online event takes place on Tuesday, 19 October 2021 at 5-6:30 BST on Zoom; registered participants will receive the link to join the Zoom session before the event. Participation is free upon registration, places are limited. A livestream will be provided for those who were not able to complete the registration.

Please register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/176367599237

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ECREA Communication History Section: our Panels at the ECREA 2021 Virtual conference

Posted on September 6, 2021 by commhistorysection

7 September 2021

Panel 1 (room 12): COH01 – Memories, narratives, and preservation in the media

09:00 – 10:30 CEST

In order to follow the panel, please log in the conference website, find the panel and get the Zoom link.

Panel 2 (room 12): COH02 – Contemporary (and apparently) digital effects in the analogue world

11:00 – 12:30 CEST

In order to follow the panel, please log in the conference website, find the panel and get the Zoom link.

Panel 3 (room 12): COH03 – Mass media historiography: theory and case studies in journalism and radio

17:00 – 18:30 CEST

In order to follow the panel, please log in the conference website, find the panel and get the Zoom link.

8 September 2021

Panel 4 (room 12): COH04 – The (un)coverage of the 25 November 1975 military coup in Portugal. Constrained Media narratives on a polarized political environment

09:00 – 10:30 CEST

In order to follow the panel, please log in the conference website, find the panel and get the Zoom link.

Business meeting (room 9)

13:15-14:45 CEST

In order to follow the business meeting, please log in the conference website, find the COH business meeting at this website and get the Zoom link.

9 September 2021

Panel 5 (room 26): COH05 – Trust, spread, and re-use of information after WWII

09:00 – 10:30 CEST

In order to follow the panel, please log in the conference website, find the panel and get the Zoom link.

Panel 6 (room 26): COH06 – Historicizing media and communication concepts of the digital age

11:00 – 12:30 CEST

In order to follow the panel, please log in the conference website, find the panel and get the Zoom link.

10 September 2021

Post Conference “Old Media Persistence”

9:00 – 16.30 CEST

To access the program: https://oldnewspersistence.com/program/

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

Digital Roots. Historicizing Media and Communication Concepts of the Digital Age

Posted on September 6, 2021 by commhistorysection

Edited by: Gabriele Balbi, Nelson Ribeiro, Valérie Schafer and Christian Schwarzenegger (De Gruyter, 2021)

As media environments and communication practices evolve over time, so do theoretical concepts. This book analyzes some of the most well-known and fiercely discussed concepts of the digital age from a historical perspective, showing how many of them have pre-digital roots and how they have changed and still are constantly changing in the digital era. Written by leading authors in media and communication studies, the chapters historicize 16 concepts that have become central in the digital media literature, focusing on three main areas. The first part, Technologies and Connections, historicises concepts like network, media convergence, multimedia, interactivity and artificial intelligence. The second one is related to Agency and Politics and explores global governance, datafication, fake news, echo chambers, digital media activism. The last one, Users and Practices, is finally devoted to telepresence, digital loneliness, amateurism, user generated content, fandom and authenticity. The book aims to shed light on how concepts emerge and are co-shaped, circulated, used and reappropriated in different contexts. It argues for the need for a conceptual media and communication history that will reveal new developments without concealing continuities and it demonstrates how the analogue/digital dichotomy is often a misleading one.

The book is available in open access

Frontmatter	I
Contents	V
Digging into Digital Roots. Towards a Conceptual Media and Communication History Gabriele Balbi, Nelson Ribeiro, Valérie Schafer and Christian Schwarzenegger	1
TECHNOLOGIES AND CONNECTIONS
Networks Massimo Rospocher and Gabriele Balbi	19
Media Convergence John O’Sullivan and Leopoldina Fortunati	41
Multimedia Katie Day Good	59
Interactivity Benjamin Thierry	77
Artificial Intelligence Paolo Bory, Simone Natale and Dominique Trudel	95
AGENCY AND POLITICS
Global Governance Francesca Musiani and Valérie Schafer	117
Data(fication) Erik Koenen, Christian Schwarzenegger and Juraj Kittler	137
Fake News Monika Hanley and Allen Munoriyarwa	157
Echo Chambers Maria Löblich and Niklas Venema	177
Digital Media Activism Emiliano Treré and Anne Kaun	193
USERS AND PRACTICES
Telepresence Jérôme Bourdon	211
Digital Loneliness Edward Brennan	229
Amateurism Susan Aasman, Tim van der Heijden and Tom Slootweg	245
User-Generated Content (UGC) Göran Bolin	267
Fandom Eleonora Benecchi and Erika Wang	281
Authenticity Andreas Fickers	299
Authors	313

Balbi, Gabriele, Ribeiro, Nelson, Schafer, Valérie and Schwarzenegger, Christian (ed.). Digital Roots: Historicizing Media and Communication Concepts of the Digital Age, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110740202

Old Media Persistence. Post-conference program. September 10, 2021

Posted on August 27, 2021 by commhistorysection

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/