This year鈥檚 international Geomedia conference is held 20鈥22聽September in Tampere, Finland, under the theme 鈥淒igital Geographies of Hope鈥. Eleven people from 果冻传媒 will take part in the conference, which is organised in collaboration with Tampere University.
Andr茅 Jansson, Professor of Media and Communication Studies and Director of the Center for Geomedia Studies (Geomedia) at 果冻传媒s University, tell us more about the theme 鈥淒igital Geographies of Hope鈥
- With that title, we wanted to invite contributions that try to identify hopeful lines of development in our digitalised world. The conference provides an interdisciplinary forum for presentations and discussions at the intersection of geography, communication, media and cultural studies, as well as creating bridges to other fields of research, such as urban studies, rural studies, regional planning, tourism studies, media anthropology, critical data studies, STS, gender studies, and ethnicity research.
- In total, we are eleven people from 果冻传媒 who will attend the Geomedia conference 2023 in Tampere, says Andr茅 Jansson.
果冻传媒鈥檚 participation at the conference includes presentations by:
Lena Grip
Socio-spatial relations in digital times: performance of ethnicity in immigrant entrepreneurship (Socio-spatiala relationer i digitala tider: etnicitetens betydelse f枚r invandrares entrepren枚rskap).
Christian Ritter och Georgia Aitaki
Broadcasting tourist experiences: Travel videos in the global streaming economy (S盲ndning av turistupplevelser: Resevideor i den globala streamingekonomin).
Fredrik Hoppstadius, Lotta Braunerhielm, Lena Grip, Linda Ryan Bengtsson and Ulrika 脜kerlund
Local, place-specific actors in crisis communication 鈥 the example of second home tourism crisis communication in Sweden (Lokala, platsspecifika akt枚rer i kriskommunikation - ett exempel p氓 kriskommunikation kring second home-turism i Sverige).
Doris Posch
Collective ways of thinking, being and seeing: Imagining possible futures in the arts (Kollektiva s盲tt att t盲nka, vara och se: F枚rest盲llningar om m枚jliga framtider inom konsten).
Linda Ryan Bengtsson
Constructive resistance: The rural popular culture scene as a counteract to the rural norm (Konstruktivt motst氓nd: Den popul盲rkulturella scenen p氓 landsbygden som en motvikt till den rurala normen).
- Our current guest professor, Pablo Abend, will also be directly involved in several panels and events during the conference, says Andr茅 Jansson. For example, the thematic panel 鈥淔utures of Geomedia鈥, which is organised by Geomedia. The panel is directly tied to an upcoming thematic issue, 鈥淕eomedia Futures鈥, in the journal 鈥淢edia and Communication鈥 and is based on participation by people who have contributed to the thematic issue. Editors of the thematic issue are Karin Fast, Cornelia Brantner and Pablo Abend.
The conference 鈥淒igital Geographies of Hope鈥 also includes PhD students Henrik Bergius and Svetlana Chuikina who will be hosting a PhD workshop, 鈥淢edia Geographies and Geomedia - Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives on Media, Space and Locality鈥.
- We think that we have created a very exciting and interesting programme together with professor Kaarina Nikunen and her team and hope that this will be the starting point for further research in the subject as well as interdisciplinary and international collaborations, says Andr茅 Jansson, who participates as centre director, organiser and moderator.
