Luca Antoniazzi | Eco-food documentaries in Northwestern Italy: Culture, Food, and Identities |
Cara Bamford | Team Green: Seeking Sustainability in Collaborative Filmmaking |
Christopher Chadwick, Daniel Turner, Lau Jamero and Miguel Esteban | Racing the King Tide |
Nazife Ebru Güney | Identity and Belonging in Cli-fi Cinema |
Victoria Esteves | Identities of denial in the age of climate crisis |
Claire Evans | Not always perfect but wearable: embracing wonky clothing to reduce fashion waste |
Evripidis Karydis | Trash Walk |
Jelena Krivosic | Attenborough: hero, environmental advocate, climate action influencer? |
Ivan Magrin-Chagnolleau | How Art Can Help Us Save the Planet |
Hafiz Muhammad Tahir Idrees | The Need for Advocacy Frames in Decolonizing Global Climate Communication: A Case Study of Climate Journalism in Pakistan |
Doug Specht | Media, Risk, and Resilience: Examining the INFORM Risk Index in Climate Crisis Communication |
Kirsty Styles and Elsie Roderiques | Workshop (60 minutes): Values in the media: Understanding our cultural values and exploring how these may appear in our work |
Tara Thomson | Animal Intelligence and Ecological Belonging in Jerzy Skolimowski’s EO |
Photini Vrikki | Digital Sovereignty vs. Climate Responsibility: The EU’s Data Center Dilemma |
Nicole Brown | “You’re the one that plays with LEGO®”: The piths and perils of activist practice research |
Lynda Clark | The Sound of My (?) Voice: Identity and AI Vocal Synthesis |
Harriet Fuest | How people with ME/CFS use cyberspace to mediate their suffering |
Sih-Ying Hsieh | Reimagining Dementia Care: Art Practices, Citizenship, and Literacies in Taiwan |
Ngozi Marion Emmanuel | Examining the Role of Documentary Films in Facilitating Positive Disability Identity and Belonging. |
Iona Murphy | Creating community through Yorkshire’s Heritage: a holistic humanities approach to working with service users with learning disabilities |
Pratibha Ram | Healthcare and Identity: Addressing Systemic Inequities for Vulnerable Individuals |
Laura Bower | Breaking the victim-survivor binary wide open: exploring how ethnicity, gender and disability can fall through the cracks in identity research of people with lived experiences of violence and abuse. |
Lin Cheng and Lin Cheng | Exploring the subjectivity of Chinese female art in the practice of self-expression: taking ancient Chinese female painters and my artistic practice as a comparative case |
Yiran Cheng | A Critical Discourse Analysis of Yellow Rumors: A Case Study of the Pink-haired girl event |
Sarah Lahm | Women Replace Themselves: Parallel Realities and Fragmented Identities on Contemporary TV |
Eleanor Milne | Bedroom Culture and Shakespeare: Scrapbooks, Social Media, and Identity Aesthetics |
Michele Paule, Nathalie Weidhase, Maike Dinger and Isabel Sykes | Panel proposal: ‘I girlbossed too hard’: Gender, Labour, Visibility and Identity |
Davinia Thornley | Learning to Float: Trauma, Auto-Ethnography, and Standpoint Theory via “Days of Happiness” (dir. Chloe Robichaud, 2023) |
Christa Van Raalte, Frances Pheasant-Kelly, Jenny Alexander and Helena Bassil-Morozow | Action Heroines in the 21st Century: Sisters in Arms (Panel Proposal) |
Lily Wu | Far from Slacktivism: Risks and Strategies of Participating in Chinese MeToo in China and from Abroad |
Hanqi Yang | Cultural Identity and Memory in Media Representation: Comfort Women in Chinese Cinema |
Altman Yuzhu Peng and Nicole Talmacs | A discourse-historical approach to the co-construction of a gender-state entanglement in canonical Three Kingdoms fandom |
Ant Adkins, Ant Adkins and Ant Adkins | Sonic Aliveness: The Brilliance of Planetary Being |
Ilhem Allagui | Building Identity and Belonging in Populist Nations |
Carol Arnold | Constructing identity one story at a time: community building local media initiatives |
Fotios Begklis | The ‘Strangers’ home – If you don’t tell your story, someone else will tell it for you. |
William Burton | Queen Elizabeth’s passing, balance and identity in Northern Ireland |
Yiran Cheng | Purify or Pollute the Opinion Field? -A Critical Discourse Analysis of Individual and State Media Accounts on Weibo about the “20 New Guidelines” |
Hatana El-Jarn | The Veiled Selfie: Performing Identity in Digital Spaces |
Hasmik Gasparyan | Documentary: My Voice Journey |
Mariana Gomes | Beyond news production: Citizen journalism as civic infrastructure in marginalized communities |
Agnes Gulyas, Dave Toomer, Francesca Tampone, Giovanni Ramos and Dave Harte | Local journalism in transition: community, gaps, and challenges |
Dave Harte, Brian Martin, Richard Jones and Tabassum Islam | Panel: Narratives of place, identity and representation in local media |
Jernej Kaluža | Peripheral Identities and Local Creators at Risk? Media Regulation and the Future of Small Linguistic Communities |
Aleksandar Kocic | Is there still a role for local radio in community building? |
Rachel Matthews | Using the local newspaper archive to articulate our place in the world |
Hollie Price | Four Corners Film Workshop: Experimenting with Social Realist Traditions and Community Cinema in London’s East End |
Jalal Rahim and Muhammad Sharif | Political Dynamics of Balochistan, Demographic Changes, and Forced Migration of Native Baloch in District Gwadar: A Case Study of CPEC |
Paul Rekret and Henry Ivry | Small-Scale Online Radio Stations: Developing a Conceptual Framework |
Vladimir Rosas-Salazar | Reframing Home: Family Archives, Migration, and Transnational Identity |
Mac Wang | Bittersweet Optimism in Deafening Silence: Chinese Student LGBTQ+ Activism’s Polymedia Strategies to Address Online Censorship |
Myrtle Ziwei Zeng | “TikTok Refugees” and the Search for Digital Belonging: Identity, Ideology, and Platform Migration |
Anke Fiedler and James Morrison | How do different models of media regulation influence approaches to social inequality: A comparative qualitative analysis of key legal texts from Germany and the UK |
Tiago Lapa | The Language of Populism: Discursive Strategies and Agenda-Setting on Chega and VOX’s Facebook accounts |
Maria O’Brien | Engaged research and ethics: an incommensurable position |
Vincent Obia | A Continent on the Margins: Analysing Approach(es) to AI Policy and Regulation in Africa |
Meccsa Policy Network | MeCCSA Policy Network Roundtable |
Alison Preston | Mitigating Misinformation: understanding people’s habits and attitudes |
Giulia Astesani | The Dissent Tactics of Brigate Saffo: Polyvocal Lesbian and Feminist Histories as Sites for Contemporary Resiliance. |
Karen Dickinson | Investigating the Blythe Duff archive: Representations of women, the LGBTQ+ community and the city of Glasgow in the popular TV series Taggart (STV 1983-2010) |
Vegas Dyce | Living life through the lens: How ‘foodstagramming’ shapes digital identity and belonging |
Matthew Floyd | Barriers and belonging in British television: Discourses on diversity at the Edinburgh International Television Festival |
Avril Gray and Christoph Bläsi | “Young Professionals in Publishing – Expectations, Challenges, Chances”. An international collaboration between two universities and Springer Nature to publish the first AI-generated book on the publishing industry. |
Wei Jhen Liang | Youths’ Digital Literacy Practices and Identity: Exploring the Intersections |
Alžběta Kovandová-Bartoníčková | A Dying Fox Turns its Head to Home – multidisciplinary exploration of the meaning of home in London |
Yixiang Li | Citywording: Haunting Characters in the Urban Spaces of Hong Kong and Dung Kai-Cheung’s Hong Kong Type |
William Muir-Kirk | Who are The Masters of the Universe? He-Man’s Negotiation of Masculinity within a Transforming Society. |
Gil Sharon | TikTok and the reactionary right around the 2024 US election |
Jayne Stynes, Rebecca Wallace and Ashley Stein | Barriers in Music: Change-making through pedagogical practices, institutional accountability and creative expression |
Ioan Suhov | New Dimensions of Identity and Belonging in Romanian Politics and Media |
Qiang Zhang | The Nomenclature of the ‘Islamic State’ in Chinese News: Media Representations and Politics of Naming |
Yifan Zhao | When the Dead Speak Back: Digital Resurrection, Algorithmic phantasm and the Ontological Crisis of Digital Identities |
Yifan Zhao | Ephemeral Epitaphs: Memory, Loss and the Recomposition of identity in Device Formatting Practices |
Yifan Zhao | Why Do They Choose To Be Tomgirls? An Ethnographic Study of China’s Tomgirl Communities |
Yifan Zhao | Memory production, forgetting malfunction, and the patchwork identity of memorial pages: An ethnographic study |
Shivangi Asthana and Shivangi Asthana | Faith, Politics, and Resistance – The Quest for Religious Freedom in India |
Ana Rutter | how to ‘share’ the praxis….. |
Sana Bilgrami | Diasporic Identity and Scottish Land/Cityscapes in Documentary Film |
Chris Birchall and Simon Popple | AI-imagined Spaces and Community-led Redevelopment of Heritage Assets |
Lee Cadieux | No Waves of Low Fi: Punk Experimentation in Video Art and Super 8 |
Nelson Correia | Building a National Screen Workforce: Scottish Filmmakers and the Late-20th-Century Drive for Self-Representation of the ‘Film Bang’ Movement |
Jill Daniels | Place, Identity and the Imagined Witness |
Seána Dubh | The Other Edis: Exploring audiovisual concrète and the environmental uncanny within non-narrative work |
Hakan Ergül and Nicole Brown | Writing the unwritten: Exploring GenAI, crises of identity, and emotional burden in higher education through Social Fiction |
Martinez-Pastor Esther, Miguel Nicolás-Ojeda and Marian Blanco-Ruiz | Digital Identity in Young People on Social Networks and Health Risks |
Magz Hall | Expanded Radio Research and Immersive Practice.Wastelands: Walleys Quarry. An Immersive radiophonic documentary |
Roy Hanney | Rethinking Peer Review for Non-Screen and Non-Text-Based Creative Practice Research |
Sharon Hooper | Creative Practice as Community Building: Feminist Social Activism and Resistance |
Zoë Irvine | Conversations on Belonging: conversation recording and nonlinear, polyphonic composition as methodologies for encounter in the 900 Voices project |
Garrabost Jayalakshmi | Who am I?: The Experiences of a Diasporic Filmmaker |
Sarah Kennedy-Parr | Can animating cultural artefacts reposition historical events within in a tradtional historical research framework. |
Yanqi Liang | Intercultural Women Representation Through Animated Short Film Practice as Sensory Autoethnography |
Yutong Lin | Youth Engagement in Opera: Key Challenges |
Kirsten MacLeod and Lesley Ingram-Sills | How can media and arts practice support and promote greater sports participation for women and girls? |
Kainaat Maqbool | Creative Method(s) of Resistance: Racial (Cyber)Bullying, Identity Politics, and Belonging for AfroGreek Youth |
Kainaat Maqbool | Mapping Youth Narratives: An Interactive Workshop On Art and Creative Methods for Decolonial Research |
Nariman Massoumi | Short film screening: POURING WATER ON TROUBLED OIL (2023, 26 minutes) |
Scott McLaughlin, Agata Lulkowska and Jenny Evans | [Round table] Future Paths for UK Practice Research: A Repository? |
Holger Mohaupt and Tracey Fearnehough | Behind The Horizon |
Regina Mosch | Opaque Bodies, Opaque Methods: Queerness, Trauma and Video Art |
Regina Mosch, Jess Orense and Rowan Quinn | Trust in Arts-Based Research |
H. Natural Langdon | Surviving Whiteness: A documentary-practice led exploration of a Black PhD Student Experience in a Predominantly White University |
Alexander Nevill | Landscapes of belonging and exclusion: a practice-research journey around the UK’s borders. |
Shreepali Patel | Preserving and Re-framing Identity and Belonging: surfacing encoded memory in inherited media archives and objects. |
Lynne Rosenberg | Screening with Presentation & Talkback: Famous Cast Words |
Alistair Scott | Un-hidden from history: examining how the re-discovery of the forgotten feminist photography of Franki Raffles and the creation of archival access unlocked multiple areas for new research |
Pavel Slutskiy | Virtual Team Collaboration: Lessons from GlobCom and Global PR Campaigns |
Walter Stabb, Hadi Bastani and Natasha Bird | Exploring situated cultural heritage and belonging through child-centred sound/image and immersive storytelling. |
Daniel Turner | Precious – Reclaiming Value From Personal Data |
Brandon Walker | Flamenco, cultural identity and perception |
Jillian Wallis and Walter Stabb | AMBITIOUS PANIC PROJECT: SCREENING OF 35 MINS. FOLLOWED BY Q and A. |
Michael Wamposzyc, Leo Philp and Michael Wamposzyc | From pen to pixels. Your handwriting in transition from paper to screen. |
Jing Wang | From Self-Video to People’s Cinema: Mediating Identity through User-Generated Documentary |
Annie Watson | Bonjour Tristesse Reimagined |
Jane Wilkinson, Sibylle Ratz, Linden Rennie Taylor and Yuliia Vasylieva | Intercultural explorations of identity and belonging in the work of hospitality and integration |
Michael Austin | “New Romantics” or Old Discrimination: Race and Romance in Taylor Swift’s Music Videos |
Veysel Bozan, Francesca Belotti, Simone Mulargia, Francesca Comunello and Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol | Tell me what you search for and I’ll tell you who you are. Stereotypical identities encoded in and reproduced by generative AI chatbots. |
Alia Carter | Colonial Archives in the UK and South Asian diaspora identity and heritage |
Lina Fadel, Katerina Strani and Jo Drugan | Work and the Nuanced Production of Migrant Identity: Highly Skilled Syrians in the UK |
Ruth Garland | Racism, political branding and Rishi Sunak – how an anglicised online persona and biased storytelling were punctured by a complex reality |
Dr Idil Osman | Digital Technologies, African Diaspora Youth and Culture-Centred Development |
Mita Lad | Gujarati-speaking British Indian Hindu Diasporic women’s pleasure through the narrative and characters of Prime-time Hindi language serials. |
Max Mauro | Race, nation and sport in Italian media: The representation of Paola Egonu and Mario Balotelli. |
Chiara Minestrelli | Indigenous Digital Futures: Disrupting Algorithmic Power in the AI Era |
Laura Mora | Transnational mediated solidarity with Palestine based on situated interpretation |
Muhammad Nabil | Mediatised digital memory of humanitarian crisis: A case of Rohingya refugees |
Muhammad Sharif | Exploring Baloch Music and Art as Medium for Resistance and Activism In Balochistan, Pakistan |
Naomi Smith | Constructing and (re)constructing indigenous American identities in broadcast news media |
Annalisa Toccara-Jones | Colonial Legacies and Digital Identity Narratives Among UK Adult Adoptees |
Stefanie Van de Peer | Global Women’s Film Movements: from Legacies to Heritage |
Sinuo Wang | Redefining Asian Masculinity: Tensions, Resistance, and Negotiations on Reddit |
Utsha Roy and Utsha Roy | Listening Through the Static- 1946 |
Tareq Zeyad Mohammed | The poem Artificial Intelligence is a critical vision |
Isidoropaolo Casteltrione | Tweeting for Solidarity: Social Media as a Catalyst for Union Activism during the UCU Marking and Assessment Boycott |
Hal Conte | NFTs as an Art Movement— A retrospective look at a phase of online art |
Julie Feng | Belonging, Solidarities, and Worldbuilding in Student Movements for Palestinian Liberation |
Dom Holdaway | Populist Screens. Political Structures of Feeling in and around Fictional Film and TV |
Chiadikaobi Ihuoma | Nigerian Social Media Influencer’s Feminist Content Strategies for Effective Engagement with Audiences |
Pablo Nabarrete Bastos | Impacts of the techno-aesthetic pattern of social media platforms on the communication of ALBA Movimentos and Via Campesina and possible alternatives to platformization |
Pratibha Ram | Navigating Consumer Activism: Identity, Belonging, and the Duality of Impact |
Paula Serafini | Claiming audiovisual sovereignty: work, memory and identity in Argentina’s film sector under Milei |
Maire Tracey | Documenting belonging and ownership in urban space |
Felicity Wilcox | Reclaiming opera for women and gender minorities through process and practice. |
Anna Zsubori | Famous and Foe: Social media activism and resistance among LGBTQ+ influencers in an illiberal regime |
Melissa Avdeeff | Humanizing the Algorithm: Community and Belonging in AI Popular Music |
Jacob Danson Faraday | Labour, Mobility, and Value on Large-Scale Music Tours |
Colin Alexander | It’s not “just a pop song”: A Critical Analysis of the Band Aid at 40 media debate |
Amanda Allen | Transmedia and the Forgotten Generation. Can transmedia techniques be used to engage the older generation, as part of a family audience? |
Stephen Andriano-Moore | Messages of Fatherhood in the Complex Identities of Fathers of Sons versus Fathers of Daughters in New-Era Chinese Sci-Fi Cinema |
Victoria Antonio | Outsourcing Digital Intimate Labour |
Angelica Barajas | “This Will Make a Man Out of You”: Testosterone Boosters and its Cultural Ties to Raced Masculinity |
Helena Bassil-Morozow | Semiotic Shaping of Brand Identity on Social Media: Charlotte Tilbury on Facebook |
Darren Berkland | The Invaluable Place of Mirrors within Media Studies |
Susan Berridge | Collective Action: Community responses to reforming production practices in the UK screen industries |
Richard Bramwell | Victim behaviour and trauma recovery: Representing black British femininity in Michaela Coel’s I May Destroy You |
Eva Cheuk-Yin Li | Deepfakes for Fun? Navigating Play, Ethics, and Creativity in Fan Interactions with AI |
Mark Collington, Carla Abbott, Penelope Allen, Matt Petoe and David Nayagam | Constellations of Aesthetics – Developing Aesthetic Visual Scenes with Retinal Prosthesis Patients |
Burcu Dabak Özdemir | Migration and Cultural Memory: Audience Study of Turkish Immigrant Film Festival in Germany |
Sara Davies | Dreaming the Between: an arts-based exploration into the effects of migration on our memory and imagination |
Maike Dinger, Darren Lilleker, James Morrison and Antje Glueck | Marginalisation and belonging in deindustrialised communities in England’s North |
Natalie Fenton, Des Freedman, Marcela Pizarro, Gholam Khiabany and Marcos Ortiz | Panel Title: Journalism in ruins: Dependency, power and resistance |
Matthew Franks | Media, Theatre, Citizenship: Performing Identity with Official Messaging |
Noam Gal and Ido Ramati | Post-digital memetics: The case of commemorative bumper stickers |
Hiroko Hara | Cellphilming with digital youth: A participatory visual method for advancing diversity and belongingness |
Matthew Hilborn | High Price Toupee: The Cost of Baldness in Contemporary Screen Media |
Margaret Hughes | Should we be acknowledging activism in journalism education: is it the way for journalism to challenge growing authoritarianism? |
Helen James | In memoir writing how can photographs and words creatively fit together to offer insight into the experience of being adopted? |
Max Kandhola | The Embodiment of The Aging Make Body |
Katarzyna Kosmala, Gareth Rice and Eleni Koumpouzi | Cultivating Belonging with Heritage: (Re)Activating Waterways through Crafts |
Audrey Laing | Identity, belonging and place: An exploration of remote Scottish book festivals |
Yunyi Liao | Engaging with User-Generated Nation Branding: Audience, Positionality, and Orientalist Gaze |
Shuhan Lin | The ‘Postmemory Generation’ filmmakers in Chinese cinema and their films’ representation of the historical trauma during the Maoist past (1949-1976) |
Susan Luckman, Michelle Phillipov and Alexander Beare | Artisanal Identity, the ‘theatrics of craft’ and peak online storytelling |
Anastasiya Maksymchuk | REENACTING TRAUMA: Working with Documentary Characters through Fiction Film |
Mandy Troeger and Dan Schiller | A brief NATO communications history |
Sophie McCooey, Greg Nixon and Thomas McCooey | Developing AI literacy in journalism students |
Haftor Medboe | Hvor En Var Baen – Places of Childhood |
Tamires Oliveira | Frames of Belonging: Everyday Expressions of Brazilian Identity on Instagram |
Funke Osae-Brown | Through the Lens: Documentary Film as a Tool for Exploring Identity and Belonging Among Nigerian Migrants in Scotland |
Neil Percival | A career in TV: love affair, or abusive relationship? |
Nahiyan Rashid | Embodied Masculinities: Masculine Identity in Contemporary Fitness Culture |
Paul Reilly | The Blame Game? Social media and affective ritualised responses to civil disorder in divided societies |
Paul Reilly, Catherine Happer, Cairsti Russell and Gavin Hawkton | Bad News on the Cost of Living Crisis: a Glasgow University Media Group panel |
Matthew Robinson | ‘We Need to Hear Your Voice!’ Silence, Rhetoric and Female Agency in the British Biopic |
Giovanna Santaera | The National Science and Media Museum and the Challenges of Glocal Media Museums’ Histories |
Corey Schultz | Auteurial Identity, Auteurial Sites: The Pingyao International Film Festival |
Saheed Ibrahim and Rukayat Taiwo | “Our lecturers don’t know how”: Examining Fact-Checking Competence among Journalism Students in Nigeria |
Sana Bilgrami | Test Abstract |
Dafydd Sills-Jones | Where does Virtual Production belong in Higher Education?: Balancing Technology-Enhanced Learning with Pedagogical Freedom and Institutional Challenges |
Tamara Spitzer Hobeika | How campaign software mediates citizen identity |
Ruth Stoker and Beth Parkes | Designing learning programmes for journalists and media workers in dispersed and diverse spaces: an Impress case study |
Kirsty Styles and Elsie Roderiques | Presentation: Values in the media: How cultural values shape media content – and how media content shapes cultural values |
Liza Tsaliki, Despina Chronaki and Olga Derzioti | Selfie Pedagogies: Audience Reception of Sexual/Sensual Selfies |
Rosana Vivar | Assembling Festival Memories: Narratives of Belonging and Survival in Rural Galicia |
Nathaniel Weiner | Imaginative Geographies of Britishness, Historicised Subcultures and the National Past: British Heritage Menswear’s Branded Content on Instagram |
Shirley Xue Yang | “The Chinese Daughter with a Westernized Life”: Navigating Queer Invisibility and Feminist Resistance Online |
Hantian Zhang | When things go wrong: Exploring YouTube influencers’ crisis management practices for their branded products |