Digital Communication and Communication History
Joint annual conference of the sections „Digital Communication“ and „Communication History“ of the German Communication Association (DGPuK) from 16. to 18. January 2019 at the University of Bremen
We are pleased to welcome you to our website for the joint annual conference of the DGPuK's Digital Communication and Communication History Groups.
The conference on "Digital Communication and Communication History: Perspectives, Potentials, Problem Areas" will take place from 17. to 18. January 2018 at the Haus der Wissenschaft in Bremen.
Here you will find all important information on registration, the conference programme and accommodation.
Venue
House of Science
Sand road 4/5
28195 Bremen
www.hausderwissenschaft.de
Registrations are now possible until 19 December 2018.
Conference fee
60 € for holders of professorships and full staff positions
30 € for doctoral students and part-time employees
Registration by e-mail to Ms Denise Tansel denise.tansel@uni-bremen.de
When registering, please leave an invoice address and a note indicating whether you are transferring the full or reduced conference fee. We will then prepare the corresponding invoice vouchers for you. Please also indicate whether you will be attending the Get Together (16 January) and the conference dinner (17 January) as a self-payer.
The deadline for registration and payment is December 19, 2018.
Programme
16.01.2018
Wednesday
10:00 - 17:00 o'clock
Doctoral workshop of the Digital Communication Section (programme is open to participants)
Room 60.700, ZeMKI, Linzer Strasse 4, 28359 Bremen, Germany
Contact: Susann Kohout (s.kohout@tu-braunschweig.de) and Anne Reif (a.reif@tu-braunschweig.de)
13:00 - 18:30 o'clock
Computational Methods for communication historians: Methods of text analysis with R
Workshop of the Communication History Section with Jakob Jünger (Greifswald)
Research Laboratory, ZeMKI, Linzer Strasse 4, 28359 Bremen, Germany
Contact: Thomas Birkner (thomas.birkner@uni-muenster.de)
7:00 p.m.
Get Together
Restaurant Luv - Café. Bar. Lounge.
Battles 15-18
28195 Bremen - Schlachte
www.restaurant-luv.de
17.01.2018
Thursday
House of Science
Sand road 4/5
28195 Bremen
www.hausderwissenschaft.de
8:30 - 9: 00 a.m.
Arrival and registration
9:00 a.m.
Welcome by the professional groups and organizers
9:30 a.m.
Keynote I + Q&A
Anat Ben-David (The Open University of Israel): Web archives as memoryware: Critical reflections on sources and methods for web history
10:30 a.m.
Tea & Coffee
11:00 - 12:30 o'clock
Panel 1: Understanding and Capturing Digital Communication and the History of Communication - Theories, Methodologies and Methods
Erik Koenen (Bremen); Christian Schwarzenegger (Augsburg); Lisa Bolz (Paris); Peter Gentzel (Augsburg); Leif Kramp (Bremen); Christian Pentzold (Bremen) & Christina Sanko (Bremen): Announced revolutions take place? Contours, Problems, and Potentials of Communication and Media History Research in Digital Contexts
Jürgen Wilke (Mainz): Between tradition and innovation. The transfer of user research into the online world and its consequences for the history of communication
Thomas Birkner (Münster); Erik Koenen (Bremen) & Christian Schwarzenegger (Augsburg): Digital Transformations - Derivatives, Deficits and Desiderata from 100 Years of Journalism History
12:30 p.m.
lunches
1:30 p.m.
Special Window Award of the Young Investigators Prize of the Department of Communication History
14:00 - 16:00 o'clock
Panel 2: Analyzing and Shaping Digital Communication and the History of Communication - Institutions and Contexts
André Dechert (Augsburg): From Experiencing the Past to Forecasting the Future: Youth Media Protection and the Gamers' Community in the Federal Republic of Germany
Hendrik Michael (Bamberg); Miriam Czichon (Bamberg) & Sophie Winkler (Bamberg): Netflix and kill? Disruptive Innovation in the Age of Digitalization
Silke Fürst (Fribourg): The diffusion of the Internet as self-fulfilling prophecy: On the role of public discourses in the establishment of new media
Pentzold, Christian (Bremen); Puschmann, Cornelius (Hamburg): What is the "Internet"? On the academic career of a keyword, 1999 to 2018
16:00 o'clock
Tea & Coffee
4:30 p.m.
Keynote II + Q&A
Gabriele Balbi (Università della Svizzera italiana): Why and how to do digital media history?
17:30 hrs
Joint meeting of the sections Communication History and Digital Communication
7:00 p.m.
dinner
Bremen Council Cellar
On the market
28195 Bremen
www.ratskeller-bremen.de
18.01.2018
Friday
House of Science
Sand road 4/5
28195 Bremen
www.hausderwissenschaft.de
8:30 - 10:00 a.m.
Roundtable: Legal Situation - Legal Issues: New Questions of Exploitation Law in the Digital Age
Thomas Birkner (WWU Münster); Johannes Fournier (German Research Foundation); Linda Kuschel (Humboldt University Berlin); Patrick Rössler (U Erfurt) & Anke Schierholz (VG Bild Kunst)
10:00 a.m.
Tea & Coffee
10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Panel 3: Analyzing and Shaping Digital Communication and the History of Communication - Worlds of Meaning and Discourses
Erik Koenen (Bremen); Falko Krause (Berlin) & Simon Sax (Bremen): Big News Data. Practice and Potential of Digital Methods of "Distant Reading" for Historical Press Research
Christian Schwarzenegger (Augsburg); Cornelia Brantner (Augsburg); Anna Wagner (Augsburg) & Katharina Lobinger (Lugano): Gulag, Marx and SED: Historical References in (Humorous) Memes of Left and Right Activists in Social Media
Michael Wild (Bamberg): Continuities and breaks in public communication. On the comparative description of public change
Holger Lund (Ravensburg); Burkard Michel (Stuttgart) & Oliver Zöllner (Stuttgart): Aura of Sound Sculpture: The Vinyl Record as a Sign and Action Carrier of Social Transformations in Digitalization
12:30 p.m.
lunchtime snack
13:00 o'clock - 14:30 o'clock
Panel 4: Analyzing and Shaping Digital Communication and the History of Communication - Techniques and Technologies
Sebastian Jürss (Leipzig) & Nils S. Borchers (Leipzig): Beautiful new digital working world? On the Sharing Economy and the Role of Technology
Doreen Reifegerste (Erfurt) & Heike Sabrina Kessler (Zurich): Digital self-tracking from a historical perspective. Body Performance Measurement in Health Exhibitions
Jakob Jünger (Greifswald): A brief history of APIs - how do online platforms organize data access for third parties?
14:30 pm
Conference conclusion by the specialist groups and organisers
Accommodation
The following hotels have limited room contingents available:
Motel One Bremen
At the Brill 10
28195 Bremen
85,00 Euro per night incl. breakfast
Reservation number 545151348
Contingent available until 3.12.2018
Novum Hotel Bremer Haus
Löning street 16-20
28195 Bremen
64,80 Euro per night incl. breakfast
Keyword "DGPuK 2019"
contingent available until 14.12.2018
Star Inn Hotel Bremen
Bahnhofsplatz 5-7
28159 Bremen, Germany
85 Euro per night
Reservation number 545151348
Keyword "DGPUK2019"
Contingent available until 18.12.2018