Research seminar: Critical Perspectives on Everyday Media Uses and Socio-Cultural Change in Contemporary Africa
Organizers: The Department of Media and Journalism Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark in collaboration with the Department of Communication Studies, Moi University, Kenya.
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Research seminar: Critical Perspectives on Everyday Media Uses and Socio-Cultural Change in Contemporary Africa, Dec, 5-6, 2019
Organizers: The Department of Media and Journalism Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark in collaboration with the Department of Communication Studies, Moi University, Kenya.
Seminar venue: Aarhus University, Helsingforsgade 8 and 14, 8200 Aarhus N
Participation is free, but it is mandatory to register by signing up on https://events.au.dk/criticalperspectives/the-event.html before the 30th of November. Lunch will be provided.
Program
Thursday, December 5, 2019
Venue: Helsingforsgade 8, building 5008 room 128H
Noon – 1 PM Registration and sandwich
1 – 1.15 PM Welcome; Poul Erik Nielsen. Aarhus University
SESSION I Chair Teke Ngomba, Aarhus University
1.15 – 2 PM Jessica Gustafssson, Södertörn University: Mobile phones - empowering women in Kenya?
2 – 2.45 PM Poul Erik Nielsen, Aarhus University: Critical reflections on everyday media use and socio-cultural changes
2.45 - 3.00 PM Tea and coffee
3.00 - 3.45. PM Stella Chebii, Moi University and Poul Erik Nielsen, Aarhus University: New media and the bargaining of patriarchy in Kenyan families
3.45 – 4.30 PM Masibo Lumala, Moi University: Gender and changing technologies: emerging socio-cultural spaces and communication dynamics in Kenyan families
4.30 PM Reception for Special issue of Journal of African Media Studies Venue: Nygaard Building 5335 room 229
7 PM Dinner for presenters at Pondus
Friday, December 6, 2019
Venue: Helsingforsgade 14, building 5335 room 091
SESSION II Chair Jessica Gustafsson, Södertörn University
8.30 – 9.00 AM Tea and coffee
9.00 – 9.45 AM Ylva Ekström, Uppsala University and Hilde Arntsen, Oslo Metropolitan University: Digital Mobilities: Representation and Self-‐Representation Online
9.45 – 10.30 AM Michael Skey, Loughborough University: A non-media centric approach to mediatization: Digital Orientations in the lives of football fans in East Africa
10.30– 11.00 AM Tea and coffee
SESSION III Chair Masibo Lumala
11.00 – 11.45 AM Nicholas S. Iwokwagh, Minna University: Managing Hate Conversation and Fake News in the Nigerian Media Ecosystem: Anatomy of Current Practices, Proposals for Effective Interventions
11.45 – 12.30 PM Robert Madu, Enugu University: African Migratory Audience: Could Mediated Technologies Reshape the Democratic Ecology in Nigeria?
12.30 – 1.30 PM Lunch
SESSION IV Chair Teke Ngomba
1.30 – 2.00 PM Florencia Enghel, Malmö University: South and North: position-taking beyond stereotypes, or the challenge of doing reflexivity and walking the talk as researchers in the XXI century
2.00 – 3.00 PM Panel on South-North Research Collaborations: Florencia Enghel, Masibo Lumala, Hilde Arntsen and Poul Erik Nielsen
3.00 - 4.00 PM Discussion and closing of seminar