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THURSDAY, July 16 THURSDAY, July 16
Session 56: Thursday, July 16, 2015
Slot Code: MPA-W3a
Time: 16:00 - 17:30
Room: DS-M240
Title: Media Production
Chair: Willemien Sanders (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
Presentations:
Jaka Primorac (Institute for Development and International
Relations, Croatia): Run Away, Turn Away.
Runaway Productions and Local Audiovisual Production
César Bárcenas Curtis (Universidad Nacional Autónoma
de México, Mexico): Producción y distribución
cinematográfica en México. El caso de Mantarraya
Producciones
Li Cornfeld (McGill University, Canada): Production
Studies and Media Labor Research: Toward a Shared
Methodological Practice
Dolors Palau-Sampio (Universitat de València, Spain)
& María Bella Palomo Torres (Universidad de Málaga,
Spain): Updating Media: How Consultants and Innovation
Managers face the Future of the Industry
Popular Culture - POC
Session 57: Thursday, July 16, 2015
Slot Code: POC-TH1a
Time: 09:00-10:30
Room: DS-M220
Title: Mobs, Leaders and The Undead
Chair: Lothar Mikos
Presentations:
Allison Levin (Independent scholar and Consultant):
The Leadership Game: A Critical Analysis of the Popularity
of Billy Beane
William Charles Trapani & Laura Winn (Florida Atlantic
University, USA): Zombie U.: Humans vs. Zombies,
Free Speech Restrictions and the Rise of the Uncanny
University
Aaron Shapiro (Annenberg School for Communication,
University of Pennsylvania): The Medium is the Mob
Erica Ka-yan Poon (Hong Kong Baptist University) &
Joseph Peter Ferrerosa (Santa Monica College, USA):
Turning the Lens: Hegemonic Forces at work in The
Hunger Games
Session 58: Thursday, July 16, 2015
Slot Code: POC-TH1b
Time: 09:00-10:30
Room: DS-M260
Chair: Barry King
Presentations:
Ajit S. Gagare (Savitribai Phule Pune University, India):
‘Stylistic Similarities’: Genre Analysis of Contest Reality
Shows on Indian Television
Rotimi Williams Olatunji (Lagos State University, Nigeria):
The Changing Role of Entertainment Media in
Periods of General Elections: The Case of Nigeria’s
Emerging Democracy
Susana Jeanine Mondragon (Independent scholar and
Journalist): Press Red Note: characterization of popular
culture in Mexico
Hans-Peter Degn, Pia Azzolinin (Aarhus University) &
Stinne Gunder Strøm Krogager (Aalborg University,
Denmark): Danish Drama Series: An Export Success
Cradled on the Domestic Market
Session 59: Thursday, July 16, 2015
Slot Code: POC-TH2a
Time: 14:00-15:30
Room: DS-M220
Title: Projecting enthusiasms
Chair: Tonny Krijnen
Presentations:
Tamsin van Tonder (Department of Communication
and Media Studies, University of Johannesburg,
South Africa): ‘Problematic Faves’: K-pop fangirls and
micro-activism
Jin Lee (Southern Illinois University): Why Are They
Fanatical About K-Pop’ : A case study on K-pop fans
in the U.S.
Zhiqiu Zhou (Northwestern University, USA): Unqualified
Communist Citizens: Representations of Intellectuals
and ‘Modernity’ in China’s Cultural Revolution,
1966-1976
Christopher Francis White (Sam Houston State University,
Texas): When Monologues Were Monologues:
Johnny Carson’s American Forum 1984-1992
CLOSING CONFERENCE | CONFÉRENCE DE CLÔTURE |
CONFERENCIA DE CLAUSURA
Time: 16:00-17:30
Place: Auditorium Marie-Gérin-Lajoie
JAMAL EDDINE NAJI
Communication and democracy: local contexts and
cultural identity discourses
The contemporary world map, tragically cracked by
unprecedented terrorism and genocides, seems to be
drawn again before our eyes from many paradoxes and
ambiguities, also unprecedented. Leading these discussions
is a communication-related series whose theories
and usages never predicted, nor anticipated, such a
central and decisive role in the deflagration of the societal,
cultural, identical (non-human), and their role in
the human violence that accompanies or ensues from
them, as we are seeing today. This is particularly relevant
in the far, middle and near east, and in Africa, in
local contexts that have known colonialist violence and,
more or less, a systematic ‘hold-up’ of their memory,
culture and identity, as exemplified by South Africa and
Morocco. The promise brandished by the 21st Century
right before its birth of a ‘civilized jump’ to a humanity
reign—economically globalized, morally and culturally
universalist, in peaceful and inter-cultural and inter-civilized
exchange, thanks to the Copernican revolution of
communication and its tools and usages—is vanishing.
This promise, however, is dangerously fading with the
increasing number of physical, moral, and cultural violence
that invades our daily lives. We have reached a
point where it is tempting to declare ‘the end of communication,’
or at least this is what has been exposed
or sung by the founders of its theories in the past century,
the century of the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights and of ‘never again!’
Communication et démocratie: Contextes locaux et
discours culturo-identitaires.
La mapmonde contemporaine, tragiquement lézardée
par un terrorisme et des génocides sans précédents,
semble se redessiner devant nos yeux à partir de moult
paradoxes et ambigüités, également sans précédents.
A leur tête une série relative à la communication dont
les théories et les usages n’ont jamais prévu, ni même
anticipé, un rôle moteur aussi central et décisif dans les
déflagrations -inhumaines- sociétales, culturelles, identitaires,
et les violences humaines qui les accompagnent
ou en découlent, comme il en est de nos jours. Tout
particulièrement en extrême, moyen et proche orient, en
Afrique. C'est-à-dire dans des contextes locaux ayant
connu la violence du colonialisme et un plus ou moins
systématique hol-up de leur mémoire, de leur culture, de
leur identité, comme dans les exemples de l’Afrique du
Sud ou du Maroc, entre autres… La promesse brandie
par le 21ème siècle dès la veille de sa naissance d’un
« saut civilisationnel » vers le règne d’une humanité, économiquement
globalisée, moralement et, culturellement
universaliste, dans la paix et l’échange inter-culturel et
inter-civilisationnel, grâce à la révolution copernicienne
de la communication et de ses attirails et usages, s’évapore
et s’éloigne dangereusement au fil des chroniques
de violences physiques, morales, culturelles et identitaires
qui assaillent notre événementiel quotidien. Au
point qu’il serait tentant de décréter « la fin de la communication
», au moins telle qu’elle nous a été exposéevoire
chantée- par les pères fondateurs de ses théories
au siècle dernier, siècle de la Déclaration Universelle de
Droits de l’Homme et du « plus jamais ça ! ».
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