Digital Americas | 2021 Conference of the Austrian Association for American Studies

OPENING

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21

4–5pm CEST | 10–11am EDT | 7–8am PDT | midnight–1am AEST

South of the Test Tube I

Approaches to Violence, Viruses, and Digital Culture

in Latin American Science Fiction Cinema

Chair:

Alfredo Suppia

(University of Campinas)

Jorge Prudencio Lozano Botache (Universidad del Quindío)
Digital Cinema for Self-Representation and Decolonization

Anna Marta Marini (Instituto Franklin, Universidad de Alcalá)
Virtual Reality, Cyborg Migrants, and Cross-Border Dehumanization on the US-Mexico Boundary

Alfredo Suppia (University of Campinas)
Digystopias in Brazilian Cinema: Authoritarianism Beyond Zeroes and Ones

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Platform Capitalism and Digital Practices of Commemoration

Chair:

Tomasz Łysak

(University of Warsaw)

Tomasz Łysak (University of Warsaw)
Platform Capitalism and Digital Practices of Commemoration

Ilya Sulzhytski (University of Greifswald | European Humanities University)
TripAdvisor Reviews of Holocaust Museums in Belarus and Poland: A Data-Driven Cultural Sociology Approach

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5.15–6.15pm CEST | 11.15am–12.15 EDT | 8.15–9.15am PDT | 1.15–2.15am AEST

South of the Test Tube II

Approaches to Violence, Viruses, and Digital Culture

in Latin American Science Fiction Cinema

Chair:

Alfredo Suppia

(University of Campinas)

Ariela Parisi (Rutgers University)
Decolonizing Cinema through the Intersection between Science Fiction and Disability: The Case of Branca sai, Preto fica by Adirley Queirós

Igor Carastan Noboa
The Similars and Mexican History in The Twilight Zone

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Transnational Digitalitites

Chair:

Patrick Brock (University of Oslo)

Lea Zengraf & Karina Sávio (Freie Universität Berlin)
The Brazilian Backlash: Social Movements, Digital and Mass Media, and the Public Sphere

Agnieszka Urbanczyk (Jagiellonian University)
The Americanization of Semi-Peripheral Fandoms: The Case of Fandom in Poland

Zafiris Nikitas (Aristotle Univeristy of Thessaloniki)
Digital Theater in America: Tendencies and Evolutions

Jaime Harrison (Queen's University Belfast)
"Believe in the net, god is in the cables": Depictions of Japanese and American Digital Cultures in Suda51's "Kill the Past" Series

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6.30–7.30pm CEST | 12.30–1.30pm EDT | 9.30–10.30am PDT | 2.30–3.30am AEST

What Happens ...

... When Social Media and Self-Publishing Platforms

Replace Traditional Models of Knowledge Production?

Chair:

Patrick Brock

(University of Oslo)

Patrick Brock (University of Oslo)
Digital Culture in Brazilian SF Fandom: The Case of Sertãopunk

Gabriele Gomes Diniz (Federal University of Ceará)
Creating a Movement from Scratch: A Testimony about the Birth and Growth of Sertãopunk

Vítor Castelões Gama (University of Brasília)
Amazofuturism: A Consensus within the Brazilian Science Fiction Community?

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Digital Games and Theater in America

Theatricalizing Games, Gamifying Theater,

Playing into Social Change

Chairs:

Aikaterini Delikonstantinidou

(National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)

&

Dimitra Nikolaidou

(Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)

Dimitra Nikolaidou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Digital Games as Theater

Aikaterini Delikonstantinidou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Theater and/as Digital Game(s)

Dan Barnard (London South Bank University)
The Sociocultural Implications of the Theater-Game Alliance

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8–8.45pm CEST | 2–2.45pm EDT

11–11.45am PDT | 4–4.45am AEST

Featured Speaker

Ignacio Siles

(University of Costa Rica)

Datafication as Culture:

Living with Algorithms

in Central America

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22

4–5pm CEST | 10–11am EDT | 7–8am PDT | midnight–1am AEST

New Rules in Digital Spaces

"Recalibrating" Humanity

Chair:

Williams Rothvoss-Buchheimer

(University of Heidelberg)

Lukas Schutzbach (University of Heidelberg)
New Rules in Digital Spaces: "Recalibrating" Humanity

David Schutzbach (University of Frankfurt)
New Ways of Looking at Digital Ethnography: Methological Rule-Breaking in the Digital Age

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5.15–6.15pm CEST | 11.15am–12.15 EDT | 8.15–9.15am PDT | 1.15–2.15am AEST

Digital Feminism

Chair:

Georgia Panteli

(University of Vienna)

Lea Loretta Zentgraf (FU Berlin)
Women Disputing the Brazilian Public Sphere: #elenão vs. #elesim

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Print Fiction and the Digit-al

Chair:

Burak Sezer (University of Cologne)

Lovorka Gruic Grmusa (University of Rijeka)
Digitality and the Print Novel

Maria Virginia Tsikopoulou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
April May(be), or @AprilMaybeNot? Negotiating Identity and (Digital) Space(s) in Hank Green's Novel An Absolutely Remarkable Thing (2018)

Burak Sezer (University of Cologne)
The Digits of Terrorism; Or, The Essential Difference Between 9/11 and 11 September

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6.30–7.30pm CEST | 12.30–1.30pm EDT | 9.30–10.30am PDT | 2.30–3.30am AEST

Becoming and Individuation ...

... in the Encounter between Technical Apparati

and Natural Systems in Latin America

Chair:

Renzo Filinich Orozco

(University of Valparaíso)

Javier Blanco & María Luz Ruffini (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba)
The Past, Present, and Future of Cybernetic Thinking in Latin America

Samuel Toro Contreras (Universidad de Valparaíso)
Science Fiction in the Individuation from the Use of Blockchain in the Neurobiological Identity

Diego Gomez-Venegas (Humboldt University Berlin)
Towards a "Rhetoric of Dreams": A Media-Theoretical Discussion on Some Cybernetic Prospects of Project Cybersyn

Paola Torres Núñez del Prado
The "Neoquipucamayoc Manifesto": Reformulating Ontologies Related to Technology, Nature and the Human Experience from an Andean Perspective

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8–9.30pm CEST | 2–3.30pm EDT

11am–12.30 PDT | 4–5.30am AEST

Featured Speaker

Sharon Block

(University of California, Irvine)

Reflections on the Digital Turn:

Ethics, Algorithms, and Archives

(live presentation)

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27

3–4.30pm CEST | 9–10.30am EDT | 6–7.30am PDT | 11pm (Oct 26)–0.30am AEST

Digital Touch

(live roundtable)

Chair:

Sascha Pöhlmann

(University of Innsbruck)

Patrick Brown (Dortmund University of Technology / University of Iowa)
Escaping the Digital Dragon: The Resurgence of the Table-Top Role-Playing Game in the Era of the "Haptic" Digital Image

Thomas Moser (Vienna University of Technology)
Biting Birds to Digital Digits: Presentation and Representation of Haptic Experiences in the Visual Arts

Shirin Weigelt (University of Weimar)
Into the Universe of Digital Media: From Klick to Swipe

From Remote Learning to Virtual Exchange

Digital Pedagogies as Cross-Cultural

and Cross-Disciplinary Opportunities

(live roundtable)

Chair:

Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand

(Appalachian State University)

Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand (Appalachian State University)
The Cloud as Catalyst: Making Virtual Exchanges Real through Online Course Collaboration

Kristan Cockerill (Appalachian State University)
American Studies US Meets American Studies Austria

Cornelia Klecker (University of Innsbruck)
"Turning Necessity into a Virtue": The Online Classroom as Chance for Intercultural Exchange

Marie Dücker (University of Graz)
Public Feelings with/in the Online Seminar Room during the Pandemic: Affective Blending of the Digital and Real to Teach American Poetry

4.45–6.15pm CEST | 10.45am–12.15 EDT | 7.45–9.15am PDT | 0.45–2.15am AEST

Beyond Digital and/or Physical Environments

Building a Research Metaverse (live workshop)

Chair:

Stephany Peterson

(University of New Brunswick)

Stephany Peterson (University of New Brunswick)
Beyond Physical and/or Digital Environments

Julia Zarb (University of Toronto)
Seeking a Digital Rosetta Stone for the Research Metaverse

Stephany Peterson (University of Brunswick)
Click Your Own Adventure

6.30–8pm CEST | 12.30–2pm EDT

9.30–11am PDT | 2.30–4am AEST

Featured Speaker

Martin Paul Eve

(Birkbeck, University of London)

The Horror! The Horror!

Digital Measures of

Literariness Anxiety

in the Novels of Stephen King

(live)

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28

4–5pm CEST | 10–11am EDT | 7–8am PDT | midnight–1am AEST

Aging in Data I

Chair:

Roberta Maierhofer

&

Barbara Ratzenböck

(University of Graz)

Ros Jennings (University of Gloucestershire) & Hannah Grist (University of Bristol)
Theorizing the Aging Self as Data Using Autoethnography

Loredana Ivan (National University of Political Studies and Public Administration)
Technology Generations: Empirical Evidence from a Seven-Country Comparison on Older Media Audiences

Nicole Haring & Dagmar Wallenstorfer (University of Graz)
Digital Storytelling: A Narrative Didactic Tool to Negotiate Intersectional Identities and Forster Intergenerational Knowledge Transfer

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5.15–6.15pm CEST | 11.15am–12.15 EDT | 8.15–9.15am PDT | 1.15–2.15am AEST

Aging in Data II

Chairs:

Roberta Maierhofer

&

Barbara Ratzenböck

(University of Graz)

Line Grenier (Université de Montréal)
Digital Imagination in the Making: Digital Music Workshops with Older Montrealers

Rachel Gauthier (University of Reading)
A Strid, A Grave: Old Age, National Identity, and (Un)Conventional Gaming in Passage and The Graveyard

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6.30pm CEST | 12.30 EDT

9.30am PDT | 2.30am AEST

Fulbright Award

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29

2–3pm CEST | 8–9am EDT | 5–6am PDT | 10–11pm AEST

Americanized Futures in Video Games

Chair:

Avery Delany

(Goldsmiths, University of London)

Regina Seiwald (Birmingham City University)
Dystopian Futures and Alternative Histories: American Exceptionalism in Cold War-Themed Video Games

Stefan Schubert (Leipzig University)
Imagining a Working-Class Future: Victimizing the "Forgotten Man" in Death Stranding

Valentina Romanzi (University of Bergamo)
Human Machines, Mechanical Humans: Posthuman Subjectivities in Detroit: Become Human

Eric Freedman (Columbia College Chicago)
Cheating Death: Artificial Intelligence and the Logic of Pandemic Culture in The Last of Us

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3.15–4.15pm CEST | 9.15–10.15am EDT | 6.15–7.15am PDT | 11.15pm–0.15 AEST

Aging in Data III

Chairs:

Roberta Maierhofer

&

Barbara Ratzenböck

(University of Graz)

May Chazan & Melissa Baldwin (Trent University)
Storying Aging Futures: Critical Reflections from an Intergenerational Storytelling Project

Roberta Maierhofer & Barbara Ratzenböck (University of Graz)
Construction and Representation of Age/ing in Data and How to Empirically Measure the Experiences of Gender and Generations

Alina Gales (Technical University of Munich)
Perceptions of the Self Versus One's Own Social Group: (Mis)Conceptions of Older Women's Interest in, and Competence with, Technology

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