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Webinar: Struggling with Technology in Vulnerable and Intimate Life Circumstances

In this webinar we will address the issue of “struggling with technology” by looking at how people use technology to deal with different struggles during vulnerable and intimate life circumstances, and how media technology itself may become a subject of struggle as part of these practices. Specifically, we will examine these issues by focusing on the use of ASMR videos on Youtube and how Instagram is used to cope with involuntary childlessness.

Webinar: Struggling with Technology in Vulnerable and Intimate Life Circumstances

Cancelled
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!

    • Webinar: Struggling with Technology in Vulnerable and Intimate Life Circumstances

    Speakers

    Kristina Stenström is lecturer in Media and Communication Studies at the University of Gävle. Her research interests revolve around transmedia environments, corporeality and the bridges in between. The research presented in the article “Existential vulnerability and transition: Struggling with involuntary childlessness on Instagram” was conducted during her post-doctoral stay at the Department of Computer and System Sciences at Stockholm University. 

    Teresa Cerratto Pargman is a professor of human-computer interaction at the Dept. of Computer and Systems Sciences at Stockholm University and a member of the executive committee at Digital Futures. Teresa is interested in issues revolving around the increasing digitalization of everyday practices from critical perspectives of computing. Currently, she is working with Ethical and Legal Challenges in Relationship to AI-driven Practices in Higher Education, a project funded by the WASP-HS (Wallenberg Foundations).

    Helle Breth Klausen is a PhD Fellow at the Department of Media and Journalism Studies at Aarhus University. Her dissertation project explores and conceptualizes the technologically-mediated phenomenon of ASMR from a body/media/aesthetics perspective. She holds a M.A. degree in Media Studies from Aarhus University and is also an editor of MedieKultur: Journal of media and communication research. On Twitter, you can find her @HelleBreth.

    Photo: Helene Bagger

    Further reading

    Materials

  • Struggling with Technology: Perspectives on Everyday Life. Nordicom Review 42 (Special Issue 4), 2021
  • A featured article at NordMedia Network: Media Technology in Everyday Life: A Struggle and a Comfort, September 21, 2021
  • A short web publication on In Medias Res: “I really love how Gibi always asks for consent before face touching” – direct addressing in ASMR role-play videos, March 4, 2021.
  • An article about ASMR published in First Monday: ASMR explained – role play videos as a form of touching with the eyes and the ears, August 19, 2021.
  • An article about ASMR published in SoundEffects: ‘Safe and sound’: What technologically-mediated ASMR is capable of through sound, November 7, 2019.
  • Stenström, K. (2020). Involuntary childlessness online: Digital lifelines through blogs and Instagram. New Media & Society, October 26, 2020.
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