The Problem with Doing Media Research
- Date
- 24 March 2025
- Time
- 15:15 -18:30
- Location
- BG 3
- Room
- VOX-POP - ground floor
Programme
Beginning with a short presentation of the new textbook Doing Media Research, the focus of this event will be an interactive discussion of intrinsic challenges. The audience will be asked to (anonymously or publicly) share their own experiences and perspectives, which will provide input for a panel discussion by experts from different disciplines. The event is open for all, and will be of particular interest to researchers and teachers in media studies and adjacent fields.
Programme Outline
- 15:00 Walk-in
- 15:15 Welcome and introduction
- 15:15 Interactive session / time to get creative
- 16:15 Panel & Q&A session
- 17:30 Borrel
Anne Helmond is Associate Professor of Media, Data & Society at Utrecht University. She is co-director (with Prof. José van Dijck) of the focus area ‘Governing the Digital Society,’ examining the processes of platformization, algorithmization, and datafication from an empirical and historical perspective. Her work emphasizes the material and programmable (data) infrastructures that underpin these processes.
Asli Ozgen is Assistant Professor Media and Culture at the University of Amsterdam. She teaches in the BA program in Media and Culture and the MA program in Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image. Her research lies at the intersections of film historiography, critical archival studies, and memory activism. Rooted in intersectional feminist and decolonial praxis, her current research focuses on the audiovisual memory of contested pasts, as well as archival and activist practices concerning diasporic film heritages. Presently, she is working on a book about the audiovisual heritage of migration from Turkey to the Netherlands, with a particular emphasis on the political uses of film in (international and transnational) solidarity networks, as well as the archival status of this material.
Assistant Professor in Gender, Health and Cross-Media. Faculty of Humanities: Departement Mediastudies
Mark Deuze (Renkum, 19 juni 1969) is een Nederlands communicatiewetenschapper die als hoogleraar Mediastudies (in het bijzonder Journalistiek) verbonden is aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam, daarvoor in deeltijd aan de Universiteit Leiden, en van 2004 tot 2013 werkte bij Indiana University in de Verenigde Staten.
Professor of Cross-Media Culture. Faculty of Humanities: Departement Media Studies
I am an Associate Professor of New Media & Digital Culture. My research interests include internet histories, digital culture and new media work with an emphasis on open source culture and alternative tech. I earned my PhD at the University of Amsterdam in 2013 and previously worked at the University of Groningen from 2013-2017. In 2015 I was awarded a Veni grant for my project 'The web that was,' which takes the programming language Perl as a starting point for understanding the technology, culture and economics of the early web. I'm also a founding member of the Digital Methods Initiative, and creator of the short documentary Geeks In Cyberspace: A Story From The Early Web (2019).
