Tag: UEL

Two Seminars at UEL in Dec

Please note a change of room for Dec 1st and note that the 15th Dec event coincides with a gap in between RMT rail strike action.

Thinking Decolonialisation/Decolonialising Thinking: A Collaborative Seminar Series for Academics and Postgraduate Students

First session 1st Dec 4-6pm PLEASE NOTE ROOM CHANGE: SD103/4

Click to access Docklands-campus.pdf

This first session in a series is pitched at arts and humanities academics/PGRs, but open to all, including external visitors. The idea is to collaboratively present some ideas on decolonialisation, freely and openly discuss how they might be critiqued, adapted, adopted etc. in our research and teaching practices. Charmaine Dambuza will be leading on the series in 2023.

Free Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/…/thinking…

Emotion, Feeling, Affect, Work: A one-off ‘leaving’ seminar with Darren Ellis, Tony Sampson and Special Guests

Thurs 15th Dec at 4pm.

Please also join us at UEL Docklands campus on Dec 15th (a gap in RMT strike) at 4pm in SD103/SD104 for a special ‘leaving’ seminar themed on Emotion, Feeling. Affect, Work.

Click to access Docklands-campus.pdf

Free registration and full programme here: Please check for room updates: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/emotion-feeling-affect-work-tickets-456912907807

Best wishes all,

Tony

Two Public Seminars at UEL in Dec

UEL have suggested we can make these two in-person events open to the public. The 2nd is our leaving seminar, so yes, please do please do come along if you’re near the Docklands campus in east London on 15th Dec.

Link to regsiter as a guest for 15th Dec below.

Both seminars are in the East Building: EB.1.07 (Docklands Campus, toward Beckton at DLR Cyprus Station)

1. Thinking Decolonialisation/Decolonialising Thinking

Thurs December 1st at 4pm.

“… aims to provide a safe space for academics and postgraduate researchers to think through decolonialisation and consider possible ways to decolonise our research and teaching.” Co-organised by Charmaine Dambuza and Tony Sampson.

2. Emotion, Feeling, Affect

Thurs 15th Dec at 4pm

A one-off seminar including Darren Ellis and Tony Sampson with special guests (tbc), The event will be followed by drinks at a yet to be confirmed venue.

Join here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/emotion-feeling-affect-tickets-456912907807

UBEL DTP (ESRC) doctoral studentship in film, media and cultural studies in the School of Arts and Creative Industries, UEL

Good afternoon,

Please note, we are currently considering proposals for UBEL DTP (ESRC) doctoral studentship in film, media and cultural studies in the School of Arts and Creative Industries, UEL for 2023/24 entry. If you are interested, you are advised to make initial contact with Dr Tony Sampson (t.d.sampson@uel.ac.uk) to discuss details of proposed research that fits well with UBEL (sociology pathway) no later than Oct 3rd.   

There are two kinds of studentship – 1 +3 (MA Media and Communication Industries plus 3 years PhD) and +3 (direct entry to PhD).

More information about these options at UEL can be found here: https://ubel-dtp.ac.uk/esrc-studentships2/pathways/sociology/ 

About UBEL 

UBEL Website: https://ubel-dtp.ac.uk/ 

What is on offer: https://ubel-dtp.ac.uk/esrc-studentships/

UEL’s MA Media and Communications Industries: https://www.uel.ac.uk/postgraduate/courses/ma-media-communication-industries

Best wishes,

Tony

Invite to the next In the City seminar at UEL’s USS building on Weds November 6th

The next In the City seminar is at UEL’s USS building on Weds November 6th

The Municipal Commons: Urban governance and the idea of community

After nearly a decade of austerity-led neglect, many local urban communities are struggling to cope with the erosion of important services that help to bring them together. Amid all the gloom, however, there are a few encouraging signs on the horizon. Local authorities like Preston and Newham have engaged with the concept of community wealth building and its aim to produce inclusive and seemingly democratic local economies [1]. Similarly, while under economic pressure to grow student numbers and become global players, universities are also being asked to consider how their research can engage with, and impact on, the places in which they are located [2]. Certainly, in contrast to the metrics intended to gauge the global reach of academic work, these institutions need to further consider their connection to the local community.

This seminar in the CCSR series, In the City, sets out to explore how various ideas of urban community might relate to, or can become realized in, initiatives like community wealth building and the truly civic university. It also asks what kind of role so-called anchor institutions, like the university, might play in revitalizing post-austerity local communities.

Programme

Carys Hughes (UEL) on left governmentality and participatory governance (tbc)

Julian Manley (UCLan) on community and co-operative wealth building: from top-down to rhizomatic-up!

Paul Watt (Birkbeck) on urban community

Keir Milburn (Leicester) on ‘Public-Commons Partnerships’

Tony Sampson (UEL, CERG) introduction and chair

Followed by Q&A and discussion

All seminars 18:00-20:00. Venue: University Square Stratford, 1 Salway Road, Stratford, London E15 1NF. Room US.1.01. All free, all welcome, no advance booking required. Directions and Map:

For further information please email t.d.sampson@uel.ac.uk

[1] See CLES on community wealth building. https://cles.org.uk/tag/community-wealth-building/

[2] See UPP Foundation report Truly Civic: Strengthening the connection between universities and their places. https://upp-foundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Civic-University-Commission-Final-Report.pdf

Affect and Social Media 3.0: Final Programme and Registration Deadline

Here’s the final programme for Affect and Social Media 3.0 (Thurs 25th May at UEL’s Dockland’s campus in East London). Please note registration closes on May 18th.

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Register before 18th May: https://www.uel.ac.uk/Events/2017/05/Affect-and-Social-Media-3

UEL’s Docklands campus is on the DLR (Cyprus Station 25mins from Tower Gateway, Tower Hill)

 

Affect and Social Media 3.0 – Registration Open!

Affect and Social Media 3.0: Experience, Entanglement, Engagement (including The Sensorium Art Show)

Registration Now Open

When: Thurs May 25th 2017, 10am – 8.30pm

Where: The University of East London, Dockland’s campus (via Cyprus Station on the DLR)

Keynotes: Jessica Ringrose (UCL) and Emma Renold (Cardiff)

In its third year now, the A&SM one day conference at UEL Docklands continues to get to grips with social media culture.

In the first two events (captured in a forthcoming edited collection*) the call focused mainly on the manipulation of feelings, emotions and affect by social media marketing, but now, following recent events like Brexit and Trump, it is imperative to broaden the discussion to include felt experiences, affective entanglements and emotional engagements in these unnerving times.

The 2017 conference brings together an intriguing international programme discussing:

  • The affective politics of social media entanglements with e.g. Brexit, post-truth and strategic cyberbullying.
  • The spreading of refugee and “Punch a Nazi” memes, the affective politics of Iranian sanctions and Trump’s tweets.
  • Public affects and emotional consumption on Ebay, Twitter and Vine.
  • Experiencing digital affect as grasped through the ideas of Simondon, Whitehead and Lévinas.
  • The intersections between digital, art and affect
  • Affective pedagogies and resistances to social media events and affective overspills following the Orlando shooting and Trump’s election victory

Through our keynote speakers we also ask what can be learnt from these recent events and how we can effectively communicate to others whose lives are profoundly affected by (and made vulnerable to) the recent acceleration of socially mediated molecular fascism.

The 2017 Sensorium includes artworks tackling digital memory, social media addiction, emotional recognition, inspirational memes quotes and a collaborative “zine” response to Trump.

The full programme of speakers and art exhibit will be released soon.

Tickets are £3 for non-UEL students and £5 for people working outside of UEL. Price includes entry to the conference and art show with free drinks and nibbles.

*The first two A&SM events are now part of an edited book, Affect and Social Media (eds. Sampson, Ellis and Maddison), to be published as part of the Radical Cultural Studies Series with Rowman and Littlefield International in 2018. The book includes a foreword by Greg Seigworth and over 20 cutting edge contributions.

Jessica Ringrose & Emma Renold keynotes at A&SM3 at UEL, 25th May

We are very pleased to announce that Prof Emma Renold (Cardiff) will join Prof Jessica Ringrose (UCL) as our second keynote speaker at this year’s Affect and Social Media 3.00. Hosted by UEL on 25th May 2017.

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Jessica Ringrose is Professor of Sociology of Gender and Education, at the UCL Institute of Education. Her work develops innovative feminist approaches to understanding subjectivity, affectivity and assembled power relations. Recent research projects explore digitial feminist activism, teen feminism in schools, and young people’s networked sexual cultures and uses of social media. Her books include: Post-Feminist Education? (Routledge, 2013); Deleuze and Research Methodologies (EUP, 2013); Children, Sexuality and Sexualisation (Palgrave, 2015); and she is currently working on two new books Gender, Activism and #FeministGirl (Routledge) with Professor Emma Renold, and Digital Feminist Activism: Girls and Women Fight back against Rape Culture (Oxford University Press) with Dr Kaitlynn Mendes and Dr Jessalynn Keller).

Professor Jessica Ringrose

Program Leader Social Justice and Education MA

Co-Chair Gender and Education Association

Series Editor Routledge Critical Studies in Gender and Sexuality in Education

 

Emma Renold is Professor in Childhood Studies at the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University. She is the author of ‘Girls, Boys and Junior Sexualities’ (2005), Children, Sexuality and Sexualisation’ (with Ringrose and Egan, 2015) and ‘Agenda: A Young People’s Guide to Making Positive Relationships Matter’ (2016). She is currently working on a book project, ‘Gender Activisms and #FeministGirl’ with Professor Jessica Ringrose (Routledge forthcoming 2018).

Inspired by new feminist materialist and queer posthumanist theory, her research investigates how gender and sexuality intra-act and come to matter in children and young people’s everyday lives across diverse sites, spaces and locales. Recent projects (see www.productivemargins.ac.uk) explore the affordances of co-productive, creative and affective methodologies to engage social and political change on young people’s experiences of gendered and sexual violence.

 

A&SM3 Final Call for Papers and Art Works: https://www.uel.ac.uk/Events/2017/05/Affect-and-Social-Media-3

A&SM3 Registration: http://estore.uel.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/schools/arts-and-digital-industries/affect-social-media3?_ga=1.148390705.72409227.1486384530

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Affect and Social Media Symposium #2 – cfp

Affect and Social Media Symposium #2 – cfp

Wednesday 23rd March 2016

1-8pm

University of East London, Docklands Campus, Room EB. G.06

Call for 15min Presentations/Position Papers

Following on from the success of last year’s Affect and Social Media research symposium, the emotionUX lab in the School of Arts and Digital Industries at UEL, and in collaboration this year with Cass School of Education and Communities at UEL, will be hosting a second event continuing to explore the relation between social media, affect, feelings and emotions.

Numerous studies from various fields have described interactions with social media in terms of emotional, affective and feely experiences. It is claimed that habitual access to Facebook can have a negative impact on mood and subjective well-being (Kross et al, 2013). Likewise, emotional states experienced on social media can be transferred to others through emotional contagion, ‘leading people to experience the same emotions without their awareness’ (Kramer, 2014). Similarly, positive emotions, like joy, are regarded as more likely to spread than negative ones (Berger and Milkman, 2010).

This year’s call for 15min presentations/position papers asks contributors to explore emotional, affective and feely experiences with social media. More specifically, we ask contributors to investigate how social media ‘work[s] in concert with bodies in the production of emotional and affective activity’ (Ellis and Tucker, 2015: 177).

We welcome proposals on a wide variety of themes that cross disciplinary boundaries. For example…

Addiction and social media

Affective contagion

Affect theory relating to social media

Care, emotions and social media

Methodologies relating to emotion, affect and social media

Consumption, emotions and affect on social media

Education, emotions and social media

Emotional and affective contagions

Emotional social media design (theory and practice)

Ethical considerations

Felt experiences on social media

Social gaming and emotions

HCI and emotion

Learning, emotion and social media

Marketing, emotion and social media

Networked emotions

Online emotional ethnographies

Pervasive computing and emotion

Emotions and privacy

Emotions and security

Sharing emotions

Emotions and trust

The politics of emotional user experiences

Please send a title, brief outline (100words) and institutional affiliation to t.d.sampson@uel.ac.uk and E.Theodotou@uel.ac.uk

Activities Deadlines
Abstract Submission 15th December 2015
Acceptance notification 15th January 2016
Registration for presenters Details to follow
Registration for all participants Details to follow

 

Fees and registration

(Refreshments, after symposium drinks and nibbles and attendance certificate included in all registration types)

Type Fee
Presenters Free
UEL students/academics Free
External students £3
External academics/participants £5

Please keep an eye out for follow up emails regarding registration

Updates will also appear on the Virality blog and EmotionUX news page

https://viralcontagion.wordpress.com/

http://emotionuxlab.co.uk/news/

 

 

 

Affect and Social Media Symposium #2

We are planning another Affect and Social Media Symposium earmarked for Fri 25th March 2016. This will be hosted by the EmotionUX lab at UEL again. The draft call is as follows – to be officially sent out later this month.

If anyone is interested in presenting please keep an eye out for the call…

Affect and Social Media Symposium #2 (2016)

Fri 25th March, University of East London, Docklands

Call for 15min Presentations/Position Papers

Following on from the success of last year’s Affect and Social Media research symposium, the emotionUX lab in the School of Arts and Digital Industries at UEL, and in collaboration this year with Cass School of Education and Communities at UEL, will be hosting a second event continuing to explore the relation between social media, affect, feelings and emotions.

Numerous well publicised studies from various fields have claimed that our interaction with social media produce emotional experiences. For example, regular access to Facebook is supposed to have a negative impact on mood and subjective well-being (Kross et al, 2013). Likewise, emotional states can be transferred to others via emotional contagion, ‘leading people to experience the same emotions without their awareness’ (Kramer, 2014), while positive emotions, like joy, are regarded as more likely to spread than negative ones (Berger and Milkman, 2010).

This year’s call for presentations asks potential contributors to question how emotional experiences can be shaped through connecting with social media. That is to say, how can we grasp social media as ‘working in concert with bodies in the production of emotional and affective activity’ (Ellis and Tucker, 2015: 177)?

We welcome proposals for 15min presentations/position papers on a wide variety of themes that might include…

Addiction to social media
Affect theory relating to social media
Care, emotions and social media
Methodologies relating to emotion, affect and social media
Consumption, emotions and affect
Emotional and affective contagions
Emotional social media design (theory and practice)
Ethical considerations
Felt experiences on social media
Social gaming and emotions
HCI and emotion
Learning, emotion and social media
Marketing, emotion and social media
Networked emotions
Online emotional ethnographies
Pervasive computing and emotion
Emotions and privacy
Emotions and security
Sharing emotions
Emotions and trust
The politics of emotional user experiences

Please send a title and brief outline (100words) to t.d.sampson@uel.ac.uk and E.Theodotou@uel.ac.uk by tbc.