Conference Program

Culture of Remix

13-14 October 2011

Program
Day 1: Thursday, October 13th, 2011

08.30 - 09.15        Registration


09.15 - 09.30       Opening Session
Jorge Fazenda Lourenço, Director of the Research Centre of Communication and Culture – CECC-UCP.
Room: Exposições


09.30 - 11:00        Plenary Session: Gianpietro Mazzoleni, University of Milan, Pop Politics: Remixed Political Communication.
Chair: Isabel Capeloa Gil, Dean of the Faculty of Human Sciences and coordinator of PhD in Culture Studies - CECC-UCP.
Room: Exposições


11:00 - 11.15      Coffee Break


11.15 - 13.00      Paper Sessions 1: Technology and Organizations
Chair: Verónica Policarpo, CECC-UCP.
Respondent: Fernando Ilharco, CECC-UCP.
Room: 423

Participants:
-    Natércia Carona, Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Organizations, Narrative Paradigm and Ethics.
-    Mariana Victorino, CECC-UCP, Corporate Crisis Communication Management in a Global and Remixed Context.
-    Miguel Afonso Caetano/ Gustavo Cardoso, CIES, ISCTE-IUL, The Democratization of Film Financing: a comparative analysis of crowd funding sites Kickstarter and IndieGoGo for movie projects.

                           Paper Sessions 2 : Reframing Concepts and Practices
Chair: Mónica Dias,  CECC-UCP.
Respondent: Peter Hanenberg,  CECC-UCP.
Room : 427

Participants:
-    Russell Francis, University of Gothenburg, Machinema Remix Culture meets Paulo Freire.
-    Alexandra Lopes, CECC-UCP, The geography of difference: translation as an age-old remixing practice.
-    Cátia Ferreira, CECC-UCP, Co-creating Second Life: Participatory culture and the remix of cultural narratives.
-    Catarina Duff Burnay, CECC-UCP / Pedro Lopes, ESCS, Fiction, Genres and Formats: a televisual remix.

13.00 - 14.0      Lunch


14.00 - 15.30    Paper Sessions 3: Identity and Participatory Culture
Chair: Carla Ganito, CECC-UCP.
Respondent: Eduardo Cintra Torres,  CECC-UCP.

Participants:
-    Sónia Pereira, CECC-UCP, The Power of cover songs at the crossroads of national identidy.
-    Ana Jorge, CIMJ-UNL/FCT, Young fans of celebrities and cultural citizenship.
-    Maria Clotilde Almeida / Teresa Cardoso, FLUL, Glocalized Rap Framings in Urban Landscapes.
-    José Gabriel Andrade, CECC-UCP, Remix with Cultural Relationships, Media and Migrations.
Room: 423

                          Paper Sessions 4: Music, Culture and Identity
Chair: Nelson Ribeiro,  CECC-UCP.
Respondent: Paula Cordeiro, ISCSP.

Participants:
-    Laura Speers, King’s College, Remixed Cultures: The Case of UK Hip Hop.
-    Darrell Baksh, University of the West Indies, Communicating a ‘Sound’ Identity: Trinidadian Chutney Music as a Cross-Culture of Remix.
-    Nelson Nunes, CECC-UCP, Musicians: The remixed intellectuals?
Room: 427


15.30 - 15.45        Coffee Break


15.45 - 17.15        Plenary Session: Marwan Kraidy, Annenberg School of Communication,  Mimicry and Authenticity in Music Videos from the Gulf War to the Arab Uprisings | Nelson Zagalo, University of Minho, Creativity in the Remix 
Chair: Carla Ganito, CECC-UCP.
Room: Sony


20.00        Conference Dinner


Day 2: Friday, October 14th, 2011

09.30 -11.00    Paper Sessions 5: Arts and Convergence Culture
Chair: Catarina Duff Burnay, CECC-UCP.
Respondent: Jorge Vaz de Carvalho, CECC-UCP.

Participants:
-    Joana Ozorio Meroz, VU University, Re-mixing Criticality: Materiality as the New Medium of Social Critique.
-    Tyson Mitman, Drexel University, The Writing on the Wall: Constructing the “Graffiti Problem”.
-    Ana Cachola, CECC-UCP, Freedom and entropy: the (de)composition of meanings in João Pedro Vale’s artworks.
Room: Exposições
   

11.00 - 11.15    Coffee Break


11.15 - 13.00    Plenary Session: Gustavo Cardoso, ISCTE, Networked Cultures of Belonging | Fernando Ilharco, CECC-UCP, The Screen as a Technology of Remix: From Applications to Implications.
Chair: Rita Figueiras, CECC-UCP.
Room: Exposições


13.00 - 14.00    Lunch


14.00 - 15.30    Paper Sessions 6: Media Politics
Chair: Rita Figueiras, CECC-UCP.
Respondent: Gianpietro Mazzoleni, University of Milan.

Participants
-    Patrícia Silva, ICS, Juvenal 2.0: It is Difficult not to Remix Satire.
-    Inês Rebelo, CECC-UCP, From the brand new to the remixed world of the online Political Communication: an analysis of the Portuguese Presidency website.
Room: 427

                        Paper Sessions 7: Reshaping Authorship
Chair: Alexandra Lopes, CECC-UCP.
Respondent: Charles Ess, Drury University.

Participants
-    Roberto Braga / Marta Martina, University of Bologna, The author mashed up.
-    Janneke Adema, Conventry University, Remix practices and the perseverance of authorship within Humanities scholarship.
-    Giovanni Caruso, University of Udine, Play, create…and share? Cultural rewriting and intellectual property in video games.
Room: Sony

15.30 - 15.45    Coffee Break


15.45 - 17.15    Plenary Session: Rui Cádima, New University of Lisbon, WikiLeaks, OpenLeaks and Journalism.| Paula Cordeiro, ISCSP, Mix it Up: Is there anything really new?       
Chair: Cátia Ferreira, CECC-UCP.
Room: Exposições


17.15 - 17.30    Coffee Break


17.30 - 18.15    Plenary Session: Charles Ess, Drury University, Remix Cultures - Remixed Selves?
Chair: Rogério Santos, CECC-UCP.
Room: Exposições


18.15 - 18.30    Closing Session: Isabel Capeloa Gil, CECC-UCP.
Room: Exposições



Full programme:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6167252/Full%20Program_The%20Culture%20of%20Remix.pdf