Reflecting ourselves through digital media
Seminar November 3, 2016, University of Copenhagen, Southern Campus. Please reserve the day!
Photo: Gijsbert van der Wal
The research group Digi-Comm at Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen, organises the seminar ‘Reflecting ourselves through digital media’. Participation in the seminar is free for everyone interested.
Time and place: November 3, 2016, auditorium 22.0.11, University of Copenhagen Southern Campus.
Theme
Reflecting has a double meaning, mirroring and thinking. The seminar will investigate how these two meanings intervene in each other. As we perceive we are already in pre-refectory state, and thinking involves a lot of not only thoughts, but also of senses and sensing, wherefrom our thoughts starts and where our thoughts ends. How are our reflections in the digital age?
Human experience is based on everything that surrounds us. Not only the physical reality, but also our perception of it. This perception, which consists of presence, intimacy and materiality, is being transformed by digital technology. Separate rooms can now be merged, and the boundaries between our virtual and physical bodies break resistance via technology. There is a close and dynamic relationship between the screen formation and self-formation, the modern individual. The seminar will take a close look, ask questions and give answers to this transformation.
Lecturers
Keynote speaker is Professor in Digital Culture Jill Walker Rettberg, Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies, University of Bergen, Norway. Rettberg has published some very relevant articles and books, lately 'Seeing ourselves through technology' (2014). She also writes a blog, which is a goldmine of ideas and research communication since 2000: http://jilltxt.net/. Recently Jill Walker Rettberg has started using snapchat as a way to communicate about her research!
Besides Rettberg, a number of scholars associated with the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics will lecture at the seminar: Helle Kannik Haastrup, Louise Yung Nielsen, Krista Stinne Greve Rasmussen, Andreas Stæhr and Bent Fausing.
For further information about the seminar please contact Bent Fausing, who is also arranging the seminar: fausing@hum.ku.dk