Webinar Series: Struggling with Technology

In autumn 2021, Nordicom will organise a series of webinars addressing the complex ways in which people engage with and make use of different media types and technologies in everyday life.

We live in a mediatized society, that is to say, we live in a society that is deeply permeated with media technologies, not only in social and leisure times but also in work life and with regards to our health. During the global Covid-19 crises, for example, many of us have received their test results digitally. While these digital technologies have helped connecting people globally and across time-zones, they also and just as often are “getting in the way”, in other words they cause “struggles” as they disrupt, restrain and frame users’ everyday experiences. These ”experiences of struggles” require scholarly attention in order to make sense of the different encounters and relations people make with and through technology.

In this webinar series of two 45-minute webinars, we will take a look at how people struggle with technology in various well-known everyday situations: in medical settings, in family contexts and in vulnerable and intimate life circumstances. 

The webinar series is based on a special issue of the scientific journal Nordicom Review, entitled Struggling with Technology: Perspectives on Everyday Life. Available to download as Open Access.

Dates: October 7 and October 27, 2021
Registration: closed.
Venue: Zoom, a link will be sent to registered participants

Programme

Struggling with Technology – Examining the Case of eHealth

October 7th, 2021
12:00-12:45, CET

Speakers: Martina S Mahnke, Associate Professor at Roskilde University, Anette Grønning, Associate Professor at Southern University of Denmark.

Host: Karin H. Zelano, editor at Nordicom.

Registration: registration closed.

Got any questions about the registration? E-mail mia.jonsson.lindell@nordicom.gu.se!

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Struggling with Technology in Vulnerable and Intimate Life Circumstances

Cancelled
Date: October 27, 2021
14:00-14:45, CET

Speakers:

Helle Breth Klausen, – “The ambiguity of technology in ASMR experiences: Four types of intimacies and struggles in the user comments on YouTube”

Kristina Stenström and Teresa Cerratto Pargman – “Existential vulnerability and transition: Struggling with involuntary childlessness on Instagram”

Hosts: Maja Sonne Damkjær, Assistant Professor at Aarhus University and Ane Kathrine Gammelby, postdoctoral researcher at Aarhus University

Registration: closed.

Got any questions about the registration? E-mail mia.jonsson.lindell@nordicom.gu.se!