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to let you know about this event next week. Three preview videos
for each talk are also now available on the Eventbrite page. See
link below.</span> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black;letter-spacing:.55pt">Visual
Ethics, Networked Selves</span></b></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black;letter-spacing:.55pt">June
29<sup>th</sup>, 3pm – 5pm BST online</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black;letter-spacing:.55pt">Part
of the AHRC Postdigital Intimacies series: <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black;letter-spacing:.55pt">postdigitalintimacies.net</span><b><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt">Postdigital
intimacies are ephemeral, often visual, sometimes implicated
in vulnerabilities, tensions and risks. Research on spaces
between public and private raise ethical issues, creating
fresh challenges for researchers.</span></b><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt">In
this symposium, the ethics and use of ethical methodologies for
studying networked selves will be explored. Our speakers borrow
from posthumanist, feminist, social justice, queer theory and
critical race theory approaches to research. Their contributions
will explore how we create knowledge in the context of
postdigital intimacies above and beyond traditional ethics.
Their methodological perspectives touch on issues connected to
selfies, the everyday and intimate visual social media images,
participatory human-technology methods, and visualising affect. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt">Speakers</span><b><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt">Doing
ethics when studying social media: the three Cs - context,
care, critique </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt">Katrin
Tiidenberg, Professor of Participatory Culture, Tallinn
University</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt">All
research involves making choices, and most of us try to make the
best possible choices we can. Yet, as research situations
involve people and groups with varying goals and motivations,
and we often have a limited understanding of others’ goals and
motivations, a good choice is neither self-evident nor
universal. I think that is the crux of research ethics. It’s
complicated. Perfect solutions rarely exist, and when they do,
they are rarely workable off paper. Based on a decade of trying
to research multimodal and visual, often sexually explicit,
often at least somewhat vulnerable social media practices well,
in a way that creates valuable insights, but does not abuse
people, situations or trust, I’ve come up with three Cs for
doing research ethics. In this talk, I will share the three Cs,
discuss how I arrived at them, what’s difficult about each of
them alone, and what combining them contributes. I think
research ethics should be approached as an interative, pragmatic
process, trying to avoid both the limitations of procedural
ethics that cast ethics as an annoying hurdle on the way towards
what is actually meaningful, and the dogmatism of the idealist
approaches that dreams up ethics procedures unsustainable in
most lived, empirical fieldsites. I hope the three Cs do that
and am looking forward to a discussion.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt"></span></b><b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt">An
Ethics of the Ordinary: Reflections on Boredom and Networked
Media</span></b> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt">Tina
Kendall, Associate Professor, Film and Media, Anglia Ruskin
University</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt">Reflecting
on my research into boredom and networked media, this paper
rehearses some of the ethical problems that accrue in a
postdigital culture around the promise that our media
technologies can visualise, classify, sense and even predict our
emotions. By looking at boredom-themed content on short-form
video platforms Vine and TikTok, I ask what is at stake in the
framing of boredom as legible, eventful, and entertaining. Like
reaction GIFs, these short videos display a particular
fascination with facial expression, actions, gestures, and
movements, and a drive to classify, pattern, and synchronise
human moods and behaviours. At play is a process of abstraction
and reduction, in which lived emotions are tamed and classified,
made available for use in networked exchanges, and transformed
into a source of profit for social media corporations. I argue
that boredom-themed media is particularly interesting because of
its fundamental ambiguity, which gives it the potential to work
within appropriative structures, or to resist them. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt">In
this talk, I want to reflect on the ethical questions involved
in this process of extraction and re-appropriation of human
emotions. What does it mean to “feel through” other bodies in
networked exchanges? What kind of ethical relations might be
established through the naming and sharing of emotions online?
What role do the technical affordances of social media platforms
play in permitting or limiting ethical responses to the visual
display of human gestures, expressions, and movements? The talk
goes on to ask how media scholars can attend to such questions
in their own research in a way that resists the drive to
classify, name and fix their meanings. Here I reflect on what it
means as a researcher to speak on behalf of the bored body,
given boredom’s constitutive opacity. How can researchers
restore the thickness and ambivalence of boredom without
re-inscribing the violent logics of classification and
surveillance that we are analysing? I conclude that what is
needed is an ethics of the ordinary, which might attend to the
vulnerabilities, ambiguities and desires that flow through the
textures of networked life.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt">“I’m
gonna put a computational hex on you?”</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt">Shaka
McGlotten,</span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt"> Professor
of Media Studies and Anthropology at Purchase College-SUNY</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt">An
algorithm can function like a computational hex, a love potion
(or something) for the digital age. While digital sexual labors
have become commonplace over the last twenty years, algorithms
are increasingly important to workers and the desiring alike.
One magick leads to another--performers perform in videos
released online. Those videos serve to expose performers to
broad audiences, and that exposure leads in turn to the
production of new, more independent media, including, among much
else, NSFW Twitter and OnlyFans accounts. The algorithm is an
instrument, or ingredient, for lusty seduction. During COVD-19,
performers have had to extend their creative witching, as key
income streams, tied to mainstream productions, as well as the
escorting many workers engage in, have dried up. These are not
the first plague years queers have faced, nor the first instance
in which collective sexual inventiveness meets the moment.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt">Speaker
Bios</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt">Katrin Tiidenberg</span></b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt"> (Professor
of Participatory Culture at Tallinn University) is a social
media, sexualities and visual cultures researcher from Estonia.
Her recent books include "Selfies, why we love (and hate) them"
(2018), “Sex and Social Media” (2020, with Emily van der Nagel)
and the curated collection “Metaphors of the internet” (2020,
with Annette Markham). Kat serves on the Executive Board of the
Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) and is currently
working on two research projects - Rethinking sexuality with
Jenny Sunden and Susanna Paasonen and DigiGen. More info
at katrin-tiidenberg.com.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt"></span></b><b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt">Tina
Kendall</span></b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt"> is
Associate Professor of Film & Media at Anglia Ruskin
University. She has published in a range of journals, including
New Formations: A Journal of Culture, Theory and Politics,
Necsus: European Journal of Media Studies, and Journal of Film
& Media Studies. Her current project, Entertained-or-Else:
Boredom and the Affective Technologies of #LockdownLife analyses
boredom and networked media, particularly as the relationship
between the two have come to be intensified during the
Coronavirus crisis.</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt"></span></b><b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt">Shaka
McGlotten</span></b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt"> is
Professor of Media Studies and Anthropology at Purchase
College-SUNY, where they also serve as Chair of the Gender
Studies and Global Black Studies Programs. Their work stages
encounters between black study, queer theory, media, and art.
They have written and lectured widely on networked intimacies
and messy computational entanglements as they interface with
qtpoc lifeworlds. They are the author of Virtual Intimacies:
Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality, published by SUNY Press in
2013. They are also the co-editor of two edited collections,
Black Genders and Sexualities (with Dana-ain Davis) and Zombies
and Sexuality (with Steve Jones). Their book Dragging: In the
Drag of a Queer Life, forthcoming from Routledge, and their
current project, Black Data, have been supported by the
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Akademie Schloss Solitude,
and Creative Capital | The Andy Warhol Foundation.</span> </p>
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Gary Hall
Professor of Media
Director of the Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Faculty of Arts & Humanities, Coventry University:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/areas-of-research/postdigital-cultures">http://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/areas-of-research/postdigital-cultures</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.garyhall.info">http://www.garyhall.info</a>
Latest:
Book (open access): A Stubborn Fury: How Writing Works in Elitist Britain:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/a-stubborn-fury/">http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/a-stubborn-fury/</a>
Chapter (open access): ‘Postdigital Politics’, in Cornelia Sollfrank, Shuhsa Niederberger and Felix Stalder, eds, Aesthetics of the Commons:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.diaphanes.com/titel/aesthetics-of-the-commons-6419">https://www.diaphanes.com/titel/aesthetics-of-the-commons-6419</a>
Video: 'Can We Unlearn Liberal Individualism: Gary Hall in Conversation with Carolina Rito About A Stubborn Fury: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CQiRCib_AU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CQiRCib_AU</a>
Blog post: 'Combinatorial Books - Gathering Flowers', with Janneke Adema and Gabriela Méndez Cota: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/combinatorial-books-gathering-flowers-part-i/release/1">https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/combinatorial-books-gathering-flowers-part-i/release/1</a>
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