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PAPERS BY NETWORK

CLIMATE CHANGE NETWORK

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

DISABILITY STUDIES NETWORK

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

GIRLS STUDIES AND WOMENS NETWORK

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

LOCAL AND COMMUNITY NETWORK

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

POLICY NETWORK

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

POST GRADUATE NETWORK

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

PRACTICE NETWORK

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

RACE ETHNICITY AND POST-COLONIAL NETWORK

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

RADIO STUDIES NETWORK

Utsha Roy and Utsha Roy

Listening Through the Static- 1946

Tareq Zeyad Mohammed

The poem Artificial Intelligence is a critical vision

SOCIAL MOVEMENTS NETWORK

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

SOUND STUDIES NETWORK

Melissa Avdeeff

Humanizing the Algorithm: Community and Belonging in AI

Popular Music

Jacob Danson Faraday

Labour, Mobility, and Value on Large-Scale Music Tours

OTHER

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