September 10, 2021
Online conference
We are happy to announce the program of the ECREA 2021 remote post conference entitled “Old Media Persistence” (Webex platform, Septembre 10, 2021), co-organized by three ECREA Thematic Sections: Communication History, Radio and Sound, Television Studies.
To register and join the virtual program through Webex, please send an email to valerie.schafer@uni.lu until September 8, 2021.
Look at the program on the conference website (https://oldnewspersistence.com/program/) or check it below:
9.00-9.15: Introduction (Tiziano Bonini, Juan Francisco Gutiérrez Lozano, Valérie Schafer)
9.15-10.30: Panel 1
Old and New: persistence and co-existence
Chair: Berber Hagedoorn
- Gabriele Balbi, Old media persistence in the digital era. A theory
- Anne F. MacLennan, Radio old and new: Persistence of Canadian radio broadcasting in a digital world
- Jutta Roeser & Jo Marie Dominiak, How old and new music media coexist in everyday life: Media consumption between dynamics and persistence
10.30-10.45: Virtual coffee break
10.45-12.00: Panel 2
Audiovisual transformations: Continuities and inspirations
Chair: Christian Schwarzenegger
- Josep Maria Martí, Belén Monclús, Maria Gutiérrez, Xavier Ribes & Pau Lluis, The Spanish radio industry at the digital crossroad
- Paloma López Villafranca & Silvia Olmedo Salar, The transformation of radio drama into sound fiction on radio stations and audio platforms in Spain
- Andreas Schellewald, Locating the popular pleasures of TikTok historically
12.00-13.00: Virtual Lunch break
13.00-14.30: Panel 3
Live and let die: Survival, re-emergence and nostalgia
Chair: Salvatore Scifo
- Jacob Ørmen, Rasmus Helles, & Klaus Bruhn Jensen, Mass media are dying – Long live mass communication!
- Jonas Harvard & Ingela Wadbring, Let print die! Radical digital innovation in a Swedish local newspaper conglomerate and the idea of outdated “old media”
- João Pereira de Matos, Beyond nostalgia and emulation: Teletext as an ontotechnology of resistance
- Shellie McMurdo & Laura Mee, Haunted tape: Video, horror and nostalgia
14.30-14.45: Virtual Coffee break
14.45-16.15: Panel 4
Persisting Practices
Chair: Nazan Haydari
- Philipp Seuferling, Persisting media practices: An approach to historicize media in contexts of refugee governance
- Sergio Minniti, A “biographical” approach to retromedia practices: The case of Polaroidism
- Juliette de Maeyer & Will Mari, Acoustic phone couplers: An enduring analog-to-digital “bridge” technology for news workers
- Alexia Cappuccio, Can the radio still produce quality journalistic information? Work, roles, and news production of the French public radio journalists
16.15: Concluding remarks (Gabriele Balbi, Berber Hagedoorn, Belén Monclús Blanco)