5th Global Conference (2010)

5th Global Conference

Friday 12th March – Sunday 14th March 2010
Salzburg, Austria

The programme for the conference is available below. Delegates are listed according to the session in which they appear. Clicking on the Session Title will take you to the abstracts (where available) for that session. Each delegate is listed according to their affiliation.

Final Conference Programme

Friday 12th March 2010
from 12.30
Registration

13.30
Welcome and Opening Words
Daniel Riha

14.00
Session 1: Concepts of Cyberspace and Cyberculture
Chair:  Daniel Riha

Electronic Kairos
Gary Thompson

Authenticity Online: Using Webnography to Address Phenomenological Concerns
Leighton Evans

Post-Human, All Too Non-Human: Implications of the Cyber-Rhizome
Scott Sundvall

15:30
Coffee

16:00
Session 2: Emerging Practices in Social Networking
Chair: Ejvind Hansen

Striated Space-Examining Changing Dynamics in Digital Social Networks
Len Ball

Election 2.0: How to use Cyber Platforms to win the US presidential Elections
Sabine Baumann

Bodily Aware in Cyber-research
Judith Enriquez

17:30
Notices and Announcements
Wine Reception

Saturday 13^th March
09:00
Session 3: Cyber-Subcultures
Chair: Leighton Evans

Stresses Upon An Emergent Imagined Community: Results and Insights from the Emirates Internet Project
Harris Breslow

The Role of Online Communities in Social Networking among Polish Migrants in the UK
Renata Seredynska-Abou Eid

Migrants Adolescents Self Making through Emerging Communication Practices
Federica de Cordova, Eleonora Riva and Nicoletta Vittadini

10:30
Coffee

11:00
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
Session 4a: Fan Cultures Online
Chair: Judith Enriquez

The Darker Side of Slash Fanfiction on the Internet
Brita Hansen

Virtual Friends: Experiences of an Online Fan Community
Helen Barber

Music Blogs, Music Scenes, Sub-cultural Capital: Emerging Practices in Music Blogs
Beatrice Jetto

Session 4b (Digital Memories Track):
Externalization and Mediation of Memories, Representational Principles for Memory Record, Digital Recording Strategies
Chair: Martin Pogacar

Integration of Digital Memories within Hand Made Objects
Cerys Alonso and Elisabeth Edwards

“Why not become an Author and help us build the Archive?” Mediating Personal and Community Memories in Online Archival Work
Jez Collins and Paul Long

Once Upon a Paradigm Shift: Interactive Storytelling in a New Media Context
Patrick McEntaggart

12:30
Lunch

14:00
CONCURRENT SESSION
Session 5a: Cultures of Online Learning
Chair: Fredrik Gundelsweiler

E-learning 2.0 as Reciprocal Learning
Paolo Lattanzio

New Media Literacies of Future Mother Tongue Teachers
Hana Maresova and Jaroslav Slama

Teenager’s Vision of School Life and ICT: Which Role does Cyberbullyism plays?
Giulia Mura

Session 5b (Digital Memories Track): New Media and Representations of the Past
Chair: Patrick McEntaggart

Recontexualising the Yugoslav Popular Pasts: Blogging Monuments
Martin Pogačar

Democracy in Digital Age: Uses of New Media in Czech Republic after 1989
Jindra Ticha

New Media Use in the Production of National Identity and the Preservation of National History: The Digital Emirates Project
Harris Breslow and Herman Coutinho

15:30
Coffee

16:00
CONCURRENT SESSION
Session 6a: Changing Identities in Cyberspace
Chair: Theodoros Thomas

Cloakroom communities and the cyberspace: Towards a Concept of ‘Pseudo-Environmental’ Niche
Jernej Prodnik

Identity Representations through Machinima Creation
Theodoros Thomas

Artistic Identity within Cyberspace: Issues go Global, Interdisciplinary Projects do Evolve
Bello Benischauer and Elisabeth Eitelberger

Session 6b (Digital Memories Track) Theories and Concepts in Digitizing Individual and Community Memory
Chair: Cerys Alonso

Diverging Strategies of Remembrance in Traditional and Web-2.0 On-Line Projects
Heiko Zimmerman

Algorithmic Memory?  Machinis Vision and Database Culture
Katrina Sluis

Fluid Memory on the Web 2.0
Paolo Lattanzio

17.30
Sessions End

Sunday 14^th March
09:00
Session 7: Web 2.0 and its Impact on Social Mobilization and Free Speech
Chair: Paul Long

“I am who I am”: The Metaphorical Representations of Politicians
Zuraidah Mohd Don

“Click here to protest”: Electronic Civil Disobedience and the Future of Social Mobilization
Fidele Vlavo

Saving the Aporias of Journalism in Cyberspace
Ejvind Hansen

10:30
Coffee

11:00
Session 8: The Future Platforms
Chair: Beatrice Jetto

Machinimation Tools and its Impact on Creativity
Daniel Riha

Crossmedia Web Platform of the Future
Fredrik Gundelsweiler

Gaming Potential of Augmented Reality
Gaspar Pujol Nicolau:

12:30
Lunch

14:00
Session 9: Controversial Issues in Cyberlife
Chair: Elisabeth Eitelberger

Back to the Future: In Search of an Understanding of Crime and Punishment in Second Life
Sara M. Smyth

Social Representations of the Difference in Online Hate Groups and Hate Sites
Adela Fofiu

Cybertrauma and Technocultural Shock in Contemporary Culture
Aris Mousoutzanis

E-mortality: Pathological Narcissism and Death in Cyberspace
Eva Vrtacic and Anamarija Sporcic

10.00
Tea

16:30
Development Meeting and Closing Remarks

17:30
Conference Ends