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Media, Comms, Global Change (MCGC)

Projet de Journée d'étude en communication, médias et culture

Université Sorbonne Nouvelle & American University of Paris
Monday, April 28, 2025 - 09:00

Organisateur·ices : Jayson Harsin (AUP) et Camila Moreira Cesar (USN)

AUP’s Center for Media, Communication & Global Change will host a research exchange (journée d’étude) with Sorbonne Nouvelle University’s Institut de Recherche Médias, Cultures, Communication et Numérique (IRMÉCCEN). The event is oriented towards enriching intellectual exchange about research in progress, between institutional traditions and histories.  

In particular the event’s objectives are:

  • to stimulate bilingual dialogue and reciprocal feedback on individual research projects (professors, Ph.D students, Ph.D graduates, postdoctoral researchers),
  • to stimulate the exchange of ideas among researchers of different research orientations,
  • to strengthen applications of method and analyses; and build theories.
  • To build future collective research projects

The event is bilingual; presentations and conversations in French or English are welcome.

Program

9h-9h15: coffee

9h15: Welcome: AUP Provost + Camila, Jayson

  • 9h30-11h Panel 1 - Attention, Distraction, Technology and Media 
    • Panel Moderator : Jayson Harsin
    • Chirine Ben Abdallah : Entre distraction et engagement : reconfigurations des usages numériques et de la réception audiovisuelle à l'ère de la plateformisation.
    • Fanny Georges : La peur amusante comme modalité de captation attentionnelle
    • Waddick Doyle: Capturing and commodifying attention. Brands as semiotic shifters
    • Nick Rees Roberts : The Fashion Entertainment Complex : Designer Branding and Platform Capitalism
  • 11h30-13h Panel 2 - Cultural Studies, Theory, Methods
    • Panel Moderator: Robert Payne
    • Eric Maigret : Cultural Studies and/or semiotics : unknown territories
    • Aurélie Aubert : Strategies for differentiating news media on platforms via the video format
    • Julien Mésangeau : cultural studies / mixed methods. Patching modules, identities and market : analyzing the culture of the modular music scene.
    • Dubec Sophie : L’intersectionnalité saisie par les Feminist Cultural studies en France

LUNCH 13h-14h15 @ AUP

  • 14h15-15h45 News Media, Political Communication, and Public Debates
    • Panel Moderator: Waddick Doyle
    • Marion Brachet & Iulia Dima : Political interpretations of music: the case of neofolk and industrial bands’ live shows
    • Camila Moreira Cesar: Youth Informative Practices and Engagement in Politics
    • Jayson Harsin: A Critical Comparative Review of Anglophone and Francophone Mis/disinformation Research: Implications for Communication and Media Theory
    • Zed Gao: The Transnational Metamorphosis of Falun Gong: Persecuted Chinese Religion or Champion of US Right-Wing Politics?

COFFEE BREAK

  • 16h-17h15 Screen Media, Representation, History
    1. Panel Moderator Lého Galibert-Lainé
    2. Robert Payne : Queer Encounters with Media Materiality in All of us Strangers and Aftersun
    3. Noémie Oxley, Soldiers’ Visualizations of Conflict in Iraq on YouTube : investigating the transformation of visual culture of war in the social media era. )
    4. Noah Teichner: Slapstick Speculation: A Videographic Essay on the Comedy of the 1929 Stock Market Crash

17h15-17h30: Closing Remarks: Camila et Jayson

17h30: Reception