ICA Preconference “History of Digital Metaphors”, May 25th, 2023, Centre for Culture and Technology (Coach House)
We are happy to announce the final program of the ICA Preconference “History of Digital Metaphors”. The conference is held at the Centre for Culture and Technology (Coach House), on May 25th, 2023.
You can find the program below and if you plan to attend it, please register here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/ica-preconference-history-of-digital-metaphors-tickets-631933288477. For more info: https://digitalmetaphors.wordpress.com/
PROGRAM
9.00-9.15 AM: Registration and Coffee
9.15-9.30 AM: Kick off
Gabriele Balbi (USI Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland)
Carlos A. Scolari (Universitat Pompeu Fabra – Barcelona)
9.30-11.00 AM: Parallel Session 1
Session 1 – Metaphors of Space, Place, and Time
- When Platforms are Gatekeepers: Exploring Metaphors of Gates and their Guardians – Yung Au, Josh Cowls, and Cindy Ma (Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, England)
- Theoretical implications of the metaphor of landscape – Göran Bolin (Södertörn University, Sweden)
- The Blog as Bedroom: Internet Subcultures as Bedroom Culture – Margaret E. Foster (Cornell University, US)
- The Internet as a Historical Era – Nakho Kim (Penn State Univ Harrisburg, US)
- Neighborhood/Neighbors as a digital metaphor – Josh Lauer (University of New Hampshire, US)
Session 2 – Metaphors of algorithms and data
- Un-BlackBoxing Digital Technologies: Metaphor as method – Margie Borschke (University of Sydney, Australia)
- Historicising the Parallel Evolution of Conceptualisations and Promises in Artificial Intelligence: Media Archaeology, Meet the Sociology of Expectations – Vassilis Galanos (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)
- Tracing Big Data Imaginaries in China: A Critical Metaphor Analysis of Editorials in _People’s Daily(2013-2022)_ – Liangqi Ding (Fudan University, China) and Xueying Jiang (Peking University, China)
- The historical impact of data metaphors for data governance – Joan Ramon Rodriguez-Amat (Sheffield Hallam University, England)
- Vernacular Metaphors of Artificial Intelligence – Christian Schulz and Annedore Wilmes (Paderborn University, Germany)
- Through (and Beyond) Metaphors of Containment: Using Cephalopods to De-Anthropocentrise Digital Metaphors – Liam Voice (University of Leeds, England)
11.00-11.30 AM: Coffee break
11.30 AM-1 PM: Parallel Session 2
Session 3 – Inter-action and communication metaphors
- Metaphors of Scrolling in the Context of Everyday Life – Antonija Čuvalo, Zlatan Krajina and Paula Čatipović (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
- Draw me encryption: visualizing metaphors of digital (in)security – Ksenia Ermoshina (Center for Internet and Society, CNRS, France and The Citizen Lab, University of Toronto, Canada) and Francesca Musiani (Center for Internet and Society, CNRS, France)
- Back to the future. The evolution of the conversational metaphor around the digital: from Turing to ChatGPT – Mar Guerrero-Pico, Martina Piña and Carlos A. Scolari (Universitat Pompeu-Fabra, Spain)
- Memes and the Metaphor of the Editorial Cartoon – Joe Musicco (Sheridan College, Canada)
- Metaphors of anonymous communication on the Internet – Rita Zajacz (University of Iowa, US)
Session 4 – Macro Metaphors
- Back to nature? Tracing the evolution of “media ecology” and “media ecosystems” in media studies –Henrik Bødker (Aarhus University, Denmark) and Anat Ben-David (Open University, Israel)
- Tool: Figuring computation as craft and skill – Frédérik Lesage (Simon Fraser University, Canada) and Michael Terren (Edith Cowan University and University of Western Australia, Australia)
- Following the invisible hand: How the invisible hand metaphor moved from economics to the smart city – George Martin (York University, Canada)
- Reversing the Metaphor: When Digital Media become a Metaphor of the Human Body – Michele Martini (USI Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland)
- Smart: Tracing Protodigital Histories and Ordinary Beginnings of A.I. – Sarah Murray (University of Michigan, US)
1 PM – 2 PM: Lunch break
2PM-4PM: Rethinking and Reimagining Metaphors
- Wrap up of the 4 sessions by chairs
- Discussion and gaming on the already existing and presented metaphors
- Generation of new metaphors
- Prizes
- Conclusion
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