September 2024 - nuse_smit - listserv.vub.be

Fwd: ECHO Research Seminar with Koen Leurs
by Ike PICONE 30 Sep '24

30 Sep '24

Hello all, Sorry for taking a while to share this. Ike From: Yazan.Badran(a)vub.be<mailto:Yazan.Badran@vub.be> When: 15:00 - 17:00 4 October 2024 Subject: ECHO Research Seminar with Koen Leurs Location: Raadzaal - PL 5.4.21 Dear all – we are glad to communicate that the research seminar with Prof. Koen Leurs (originally planned for 31 May and rescheduled due to unforeseen circumstances) is now confirmed for Friday 4 October 2024. See details about the talk below. Koen Leurs is an Associate Professor in Gender, Media and Migration Studies at the Graduate Gender Program, Department of Media and Culture, Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Doing digital migration studies: pluralizing understandings In contemporary discussions on migration, digital technology is often considered as a ‘smart’ disruptive tool used by governments to surveil and protect borders while monitoring the movement of people in more efficient ways. However, the story about is more complex. Migration and technology can be said to co-shape one another: migration is a site of technological innovation, and migration is deeply digitally mediated. Koen Leurs, in his recent book Digital Migration<https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/digital-migration/book269996> (Sage, 2023), and open access volume Doing digital migration studies<https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.11895524> (co-edited with Sandra Ponzanesi, Amsterdam University Press, 2024) draws out the complex, multilayered relationship between migration and digital technologies. Using an inter-disciplinary approach and covering case studies from the Global North as well as the Global South, Koen Leurs seeks to draw out the contradictions, tensions and hopes that characterize digital migration dynamics. From the critical role that digital infrastructures play in migration management to migrants’ use of devices, platforms and networks to connect and thrive, from the power of digital representations of migrants (and how these can be contested), pre-digital histories to the emotional realities of transnational families, Leurs invites scholars to pluralize understandings of migration and mobility in our contemporary world. In his talk, Koen Leurs will address commitments and challenges of doing digital migration studies. He will draw on examples from a recent Team science study on the screening of smartphones of asylum seekers at the Dutch borders<https://fairdigitalasylum.sites.uu.nl/> as well as a comparison of the state-led propaganda operation ‘Filmstichting West Indië’ and migrant-led community media productions of ‘Vereniging Ons Suriname’ in 1940s and 1950s Netherlands to alert us to pre-digital interrelationships between regimes of mobility and representation<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13678779231198124?icid=int.sj-abst…>.

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Paper Giordano for NUSE unit meeting
by Giordano Zambelli 30 Sep '24

30 Sep '24

Dear all, Find here my paper for the next NUSE meeting! This is a rather advanced draft, so I don’t expect, at this stage, to make enormous changes, but I obviously welcome very much your suggestions around: * Internal coherence: how do the different sections of the lit rev stick together and how does the lit rev relates to the empirical analysis and the theoretical contribution? * Clarity of the concepts used and usefulness for explaining the empirical material. Am I missing some concepts/theories/literature that I could consider for such reflections? * Depth and originality of the theoretical reflections? Anything else I should work on? Thank you very much in advance for taking the time to read this! See you soon :) Giordano Giordano Zambelli PhD fundamental research fellow - FWO Pleinlaan 9 - 1050 Brussel [cid683445FD-045E-4102-862E-DD52901C9C0A@home] Recent Publications Innovation through collaboration in the Flemish news sector: ambitious start, mixed results (2024)<https://smit.research.vub.be/en/policy-brief-75-innovation-through-collabor…> Breaking Away From Hectic Daily Media Production: Unleashing Explorative Innovation Through Inter-Firm Collaborations (2023)<https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/7414> The Media of Tomorrow: Recommendations for a European Media Policy Framework Supporting Media Innovations<https://polis180.org/polisblog/2023/05/19/polis-paper-n-20-the-media-of-tom…> (2023) Establishing, Consolidating and Maintaining Online Revenues for Legacy Media<https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-95073-6_2#Sec2> (2022) Current projects Stars4Media<https://stars4media.eu/call-for-projects/>

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Unit meeting
by Ike PICONE 16 Sep '24

16 Sep '24

Dear all, After an hopefully pleasant and refreshing summer break for all of you, we now find ourselves on the verge of a new academic year. For our first getting together, I would like to propose the following: - some updates form SMIT - a short update from each of you: what are you up to in the coming months, what will you be working on, where are you at with your research or teaching? - a short presentation of Antonis on a potential research proposal - a first in a series we would like to share with the whole unit - discussing who's papers we will read in the next meetings - drinks Have a nice weekend! Ike

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