FINAL PROGRAMME
7.45 – 8.15: Arrival, Registration and Breakfast (coffee, tea and pastries)
8.15 – 8.30: Welcome and Introduction (Room B01)
Led by Scott Rodgers
8.30 – 10.10: Keynote Symposium 1 (Room B01) [See abstracts]
Chair: Scott Rodgers
To the things themselves: thoughts on the phenomenology of media
Paddy Scannell, University of Michigan
McLuhan and phenomenology
Graham Harman, American University of Cairo
Signal territories: broadcast infrastructure, Google Earth, and phenomenology
Lisa Parks, University of California Santa Barbara
10.10 – 10.30: Morning Tea Break (Room B01 reception)
10.30 – 12.10: Keynote Symposium 2 (Room B01) [See abstracts]
Chair: Tim Markham
Digital orientations: reconceptualising everyday media use, beginning with movements of the hands and fingers?
Shaun Moores, University of Sunderland
Phenomenological approaches to the computal: some reflections on computation
David Berry, Swansea University
Phenomenology and critique: why we need a phenomenology of the digital world
Nick Couldry, Goldsmiths, University of London
12.10 – 12.50: Lunch (Room B01 reception)
12.50 – 14.30 (Parallel Paper Sessions)
Paper Session 1: foundations, embodiment, exteriority (Room B01) [See abstracts]
Chair: Eleanor Sandry
Through a Prism darkly. What does software see?
Paul Caplan, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton
Stiegler’s post-phenomenological account of mediated experience
Patrick Crogan, University of the West of England
It’s alive: experiencing social media as vivified
Tim Markham, Birkbeck, University of London
The Internet and the Habitus of the new in the culture of Internet policymaking
Thomas Streeter, University of Vermont
Corporeal mediations: towards a phenomenology of the corpse, and beyond
Margaret Schwartz, Fordham University
Paper Session 2: sound, music, method (Room 102) [See abstracts]
Chair: Peter J. Roccia
Chickens that like Pink Floyd: media physicalism in early 20th and 21st Century America
Brenton J. Malin, University of Pittsburgh
Discourse as phenomenological event: theorising the intersubjective creativity of everyday conversation
Sun-ha Hong, University of Pennsylvania
Music, morality and phenomenology
Vernita Pearl Fort, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
Becoming quiet: on mediation and noise cancellation
Matt Jordan, Penn State University
Participant observation as a phenomenological conundrum
Mark Pedelty, University of Minnesota
Paper Session 3: technics, interface, infrastructure (Room G01) [See abstracts]
Chair: Scott Rodgers
Techno-phenomenology, medium as interface, and the metaphysics of change
Shane Denson, Leibniz Universität Hannover
Resolutions of sense: interfaces, mediation and phenomenology
James Ash, Northumbria University
Interface and intervention: The limits of agency in algorithmic infrastructure
Daniel Knapp and Sebastian Kubitschko, Goldsmiths, University of London
Piracy, medial wills to power, and intellectual property’s (im)possibilities
Daniel Sutko, North Carolina State University
Memory programmes: the retention of mediated life
Sam Kinsley, University of Exeter
14.30 – 14.50: Afternoon Tea Break (Room B01 reception)
14.50 – 16.30 (Parallel Paper Sessions)
Paper Session 4: intermediaries, intentionality, address (Room 102) [See abstracts]
Chair: Tim Markham
The panels of perception: A phenomenological archaeology of the comic book medium
Peter J. Roccia, MacEwan University
Enunciation vs. destination: how a phenomenological point of view on media audiences is a political one
Christine Servais, University of Liège
(Re)imagining the author’s role in interpretation: A perspective from philosophical hermeneutics
Tereza Pavlíčková, Charles University in Prague
In the mood for Oscar: the first televised broadcast of the Academy Awards and the management of liveness
Dimitrios Pavlounis, University of Michigan
Digital technologies as conditions of mediation: the everyday making of individuals’ ‘digital habitus’ in the context of Santiago’s indie music scene
Arturo Arriagada, London School of Economics and Political Science
Paper Session 5: space, city, architecture (Room G01) [See abstracts]
Chair: James Ash
Surplus experience: phenomenologies of architecture and media
Joel McKim, Birkbeck, University of London
On the phenomenology of mediated stranger (sex and) sociality: materiality and the varying pathways of GPS-based dating/sex apps
Bryce J. Renninger, Rutgers University
From digital mapping to tracking with others. “Internet of Things” as a practice of ecological thought
Mirko Nikolić, University of Westminster
Cosmopolitanism, embodied expressivity and morality of proximity
Miyase Christensen, Stockholm University
The lived spaces of journalism and the city
Scott Rodgers, Birkbeck, University of London
Paper Session 6: mood, orientation, experience (Room B01) [See abstracts]
Chair: Brenton J. Malin
Internet as an extension of the lifeworld? Phenomenology as a tool for describing Internet-mediated experience
Maren Wehrle, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Mediated orientation: a phenomenology of everyday diasporic space
Eyal Lavi, Goldsmiths, University of London
Mediation and the revelation of a ‘face’ in encounters between selves and others online
Eleanor Sandry, Curtin University
Buffering . . . . . . Subjectivities of temporal control on the Internet
Fenwick McKelvey, University of Washington
The importance of being-towards social: mood and orientation to things and applications in social media
Leighton Evans, Swansea University
16.30 – 17.00: Closing discussion (Room B01)
Led by Tim Markham
Conditions of Mediation 