MeCCSA PGN 2016 New Directions in Media Research 43th Annual Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association Postgraduate Network Conference Thursday 7 - Friday 8 July, 2016 Conference Programme ne Venue Leicester Conferences ‘Stamford Court University of Leicester Manor Road Oadby Le22L Giricsra SNhnecess Supported and funded by the Department of Media and Communication at the University of Leicester and the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network 0116 223 1627 www.meccsapgn2016.com e: meccsapgn2016@le.ac.ukTABLE OF CONTENTS: Day One: KEYNOTE SPEAKER: 9:30 ~ 10:30.. ‘The Ecstasy of Labour: cultural work, intensity and ‘being in the zone. Professor Mark Banks, University of Leicester PANEL ONE: CULTURAL INDUSTRIES: 11:00 - 12:30 .. ‘Managers as mediators for ‘emerging’ popular musicians. Olivia Gable, The Open University The use of actor network theory and community of practice to explain the newsroom practice and culture. ‘Abdulsamad Zangana, University of Liverpool Social media labour and cultural work. Karen Patel, Birmingham City University Creative Labour and Public Value: Contextual Specificity and Impact on Colombian Public Broadcasting System, Alejandra Castano - Echeverri, University of Leicester PANEL TWO: MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES: 11:00 ~ 12:30... Anticipation, Transduction, Plasticity: Opening the Philosophical Black Box of Smart Devices. Icaro Ferraz Vical Junior, University of Perpignan Private, Protected, Public: Reading the Source Code of Jason Rohrer's The Castle Doctrine Conor Mckeown, University of Glasgow ‘The future of DAB radio. Jonathan Marsh, Unversity of Bedforeshire Mobile Telephony and Development (Maendeleo) in Marakwet Kenya.. Leah Komen, Daystar University Kenya WORKSHOP PANEL ONE: 13.30 - 15.00. Yupei Zhao and Seema Hussain ‘Workshop two: Coping with Stress in Research... Dr Martin Coffey PANEL THREE: MEDIA AND IDENTITY: 15:15 - 16:45 Identity performances in polymedia environment: mundane expressions of Nationalism and cosmopolitanism ‘among Serbian Londoners Sanja Vico, Goldsmiths, University of London ‘My digital identity goes to the movies’: Interrogating the digital traces of cinema-going Tatiana C. Styliari, University of NettinghamPanel Two: Media Technologies: 11:00 — 12:30 Anticipation, Transduction, Plasticity: Opening the Philosophical Black Box of Smart Devices Icaro Ferraz Vidal Junior, University of Perpignan, vidal.icaro@gmail.com Sadin makes 2 In Lo vie algorithmique: Critique de ia raison numérique (2015), & cartography of a series of subjective, ethical and political implications, associated to what he calls “digital totalization". This phenomenon consists in a progressive and expansive implementation of sensors and algorithms in a network of connected devices that mediate the relations of the subject with the world in real time. One of the most notorious outputs of these systems is their capacity of anticipation. The notion of “real time”, diffused as one of the main qualities of such apparatuses, is not anymore exclusively associated to the “simultaneities” assured by the development of more efficient networks of data transmission. The temporal regimes that operate In these interactions consist in an inedit trial to anticipate behaviours and needs of users, based on complex algorithmic operations fed by the storage of massive amounts of date generated by the interaction between user and machine. Besides the unprecedented capacity for storage of the traces left by users of these devices, the fact that the criteria organizing the outputs of these machines is often unknown by its users makes them extremely controversial. In this paper we propose to tackle this technopolitical landscape taking into consideration its cultural and philosophical implications. In order to face the temporalities raised by what Eli Pariser (2011) sharply described as “the filter bubble”, we propose the use of the concepts of “transduction”, by Gilbert Simondon (1964, 2015) and of “plasticity”, asit appearsin Catherine Malabou'sL‘avenir de Hegel: plasticité, temporalite, dialectique (1996).