Data and the Digital in Platform Societies: Launching 'Digital Societies' at Surrey

Lecture Theatre F

The Department of Sociology and the Digital Societies Research Group at the University of Surrey is delighted to present Data and the Digital in Platform Societies - on 14th December 2018, at the University of Surrey, Guildford UK. The event features a keynote address by Prof Andreas Hepp from the University of Bremen, Germany, who will be speaking about "Datafication and Deep Mediatization: Rethinking Social Construction". The event showcases a range of internal and external speakers, all engaging with datafication and its implications in contemporary mediated societies. These themes bring together the work of Surrey Sociology's new Digital Societies research group. Bringing together expertise across the Department, we engage with the role of emerging technologies, data and platforms in contemporary mediated societies. Our work is aligned with connecting societies and culture, one of our grand challenges in research, the living and working in the digital age research priority and the University of Surrey's digital innovation research theme.

Tickets: Entry including lunch and refreshements is free, but on a ticketed, first-come, first-served basis.

Programme

12-1: Lunch

13:00-1345: Keynote Address

Andreas Hepp, ZEMKI, Bremen: Datafication and Deep Mediatization: Rethinking Social Construction

Chair: Ranjana Das

1345-1500: Panel 1 - Wellbeing in Platform Societies

Chair: Tom Roberts

Chris Hine: Exploring the online landscapes of sleep on social media

Rob Meadows: Self-tracking cultures and the relationship between sleep and well-being

Paul Hodkinson and Ranjana Das: Tapestries of intimacy: Networked media and the liminal emotion-work of paternal mental health disclosure

Aristea Fotopoulou: Data practices, social justice and feminist care ethics

1500-1525: Tea and Coffee

1525-1600: Panel 2: Datafication and intimacy

Chair: Paul Hodkinson

Sander de Ridder: Datafication and Intimacy:The Power and Potential of Data-Driven Media in Everyday Life

With a response from Andy King, University of Surrey

1600-1730: Panel 3: Life in Platform Societies

Chair: Chris Hine

Tom Roberts: The digitalisation of domestic practices and the implications for energy demand

Kristrun Gunnarsdottir: Resourcing the data ecosystem in observational research: what are the assumptions and what to expect?

Mike McGuire: Into the Web of Profit: Evaluating the Dark Digital Economy

Brita Ytre-Arne & Ranjana Das – Conceptualising audiences' communicative agency in a datafied age

1730- Closing Comments and Launch of 'Digital Societies'