Programme Friday 27 November
Printable overview parallel sessions on Friday
Parallel Session 5 - 9.30 - 11.00 hrs
The Political Economy of the Spectacle
Qualifying the impact of 'commercialization' on the cultural coverage of Dutch, French, German and U.S. Newspapers, 1955-2005. | |
Heavy cultural industries. | |
Culture or commerce: the TV concept-developer at work. | |
Planning the spectacle: test-screenings as the entertainment industries safety net. |
Scandalous Spectacles
The tyranny of intimacy in Romanian mass-media- Bolero case. | |
Tears, tantrums, and truthiness: the rise of the American cable news magazine. | |
Any news from Rotterdam? | |
Paparazzi and new media: The evolving production and consumption of celebrity news and gossip websites. | |
Reconfiguring Identities in the Media Milieu : Paris Periheries’ Cultural Productions |
Parallel Session 6 - 11.15 - 12.45 hrs
Participation in Spectacles
Why openness matters: the Deptford TV Project. | |
40 years of alternative television: activism, art and independent media. | |
Spectacular participation: the case fof mediated global poker. | |
New media participation and conventional participations: the role of efficacy among young people. | |
Jesus is my homeboy: young evangelicals and popular culture. |
Digital Reconfigurations
Promoting resistance in popular online spaces. The case of the World Development Movement. | |
Tweeting about Earth Day 2009: new media as spectacle. | |
“I want to make a confession”; confessional storytelling in YouTube. | |
The spectacle of urban consumption and the role of new media in the reconfiguration of the public sphere. | |
The use of Internet as a new and participatory medium by political parties in Turkey: the case of 2007 general elections. |
The Spectacular Film and Genre
Popular cinema in Turkey and its spectacular alterity. | |
Spectacle takes precedence. | |
100% pure adrenaline: cultural surface in Point Break | |
Fragmenting the spectacle: postmodernist hyperlink films. | |
The ends of road movies, the critique of the spectacle. |
Lunch/Business Meetings - 12.45 - 13.45 hrs
Parallel Session 7 - 13.45 - 15.15 hrs
Spectacular Journalism
Photography, citizenship and the Israeli occupation. | |
Building political audiences through spectacle during censorship times. A study about Portugal (1968-1974). | |
A spectacle of journalism history of Korea: career change of dismissed journalists in democratized Korea. | |
The ascent of man: BBC documentary and the rise of global telepresence. | |
The political interview as media spectacle: Great Britain and the Netherlands. |
Musical Spectacles
Ephemeral utopias and spectacular citizenship: summer music festivals. | |
Constituting spectacle through popular music – The win of Lordi in Eurovision Song Contest as an example of late modern representation. | |
Listening behavior of young adults on last.fm. | |
Revelations. Music spectacles between mainstream and popfeminism. |
Art, Games and Sport
Men's football world cup as (media) spectacle. | |
Theatre, spectalce, game: the political importance of a model. | |
A catastrophe came to rescue. | |
The spectacle of digital games. An analysis of the emancipatory potential of digital game culture(s). | |
Art, humor, and advertising as a tool for political dialogue. |
Parallel Session 8 - 15.30 - 17.00 hrs
Politics, Ideology and Cinematic Text
Between spectacle and ideology. Tensions and negotiation between spectacle and ideological message in early Czechoslovak widescreen movies. | |
Looking into the 1980 military coup from the aspect of democracy in Turkish cinema. | |
The camp trilogy: Michaël’s Winterbottom’s In this world, Code 46 and The road to Guantanamo. | |
The spectacle in Andrea Arnold’s Red Road (2006). | |
Hollywood's Iraq War - understanding the 2007-9 cycle of film failures. |
Modernity and Visual Culture
The image regime’s: from spectacle to art. | |
The spectacle: a paradigm of modernity? | |
Visual to virtual, spectacle to spectral: “framed sights” in the new ubiquitous media spacetime. |
Gazing the Spectacle
Public gaze, private wound: the rhetoric of defending virginity in viral video sites. | |
Exploring gendered media consumption among migrant teenagers. | |
Claiming the real and the feminine. The construction of authenticity. |
Closing Plenary Session - 17.00 - 17.30 hrs
Denise Bielby gives a short impression on 2 days Media, Communication and the Spectacle. |
Chaired by Tonny Krijnen |
