Preliminary programme symposium

Monday 2019-06-17
Arrivals at Volda University College, Volda, Norway
11:00 – 11:15 Registration Volda University College
11:15 – 12:00 Lunch 
12:00 – 12:15 Welcome address by Volda University College + Scientific chair (Oscar Westlund)
12:15 – 13:15 Keynote 1: What does it take to "Make It Work" in the media industries?
Mark Deuze (University of Amsterdam)
13:30 – 15:30 Panel 1
Transmedia Production: Skills, Competences and Challenges, Ana Serrano Tellería
The Press Council`s latest challenge: Commercial content in news media, Svein Brurås
The New Advertisers: How Foundation Funding Impacts Journalism, Patrick Ferrucci & Jakob Nelson (eco-friendly video-Conference)
Chairs: Mark Deuze & Paul Bjerke
15:45 – 19:30 Bus relocation: Volda- Hellesylt- Geirangerfjorden (ferry) – Strynefjellet – Loen
20:00 – Dinner Hotel Alexandra Loen
 
Tuesday 2019-06-18
Breakfast buffet
09:15 – 10:15 Invited inspirational talk thematic issue: The Old Regime and the Rise of the Peripheral Actor: Journalism’s New Horizons, Valerie-Belair Gagnon
10:15 – 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 – 12:00 Panel 2          
Extract. Inject. Repeat. Civic data journalism and its reciprocal influence on journalism practice (Research-in-progress), Raul Ferrer-Conill, Stefan Baack & David Cheruiyot 
Friend, foe or frenemy? Journalists’ shifting attitudes towards incursive, innovative, non-traditional actors"?, Sherwin Chua & Andrew Duffy
From peripheral to integral: Negotiated gatekeeping in not-for-profit journalism, Alfred Hermida & Mary Lynn Young
Known strangers: Interrogating ideological intra- and interlopers in journalistic interpretive communities, Robert Gutsche JR (eco-friendly video-Conference)
"Peripheral" news workers in mainstream journalism expelled to the periphery: Cameramen of Czech Television’s Studio Brno, Lenka Waschková Císařová & Monika Metykova
Chairs: Laura Ahva & Rich Ling
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:00 Keynote 2: The gates are now open: How the changing relationship between journalists and their audiences have created spaces for fake news, Edson Tandoc Jr (Nanyang Technological University):
15:00 – 16:00 Gondola to top
16:30 – 18:00 Thematic group discussions
19:00 –           Dinner
 
Wednesday 2019-06-19
Breakfast buffet
09:15 – 10:15 Keynote 3: Five things we should learn from the messiness of participation: Participatory journalism through the eyes of the participants, Laura Ahva (University of Tampere)
10:15 – 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 – 13:15 Panel 3
Managing audience relations in hybrid terrorism news events, Niina Uusitalo
 Mobile Journalists and Participatory Journalism in Spanish and Portuguese digital native newspapers, Alba Silva-Rodríguez
Working on the Margins: Comparative Perspectives on the Roles and Motivations of Peripheral Actors in Journalism, Dr Aljosha Karim Schapals & Folker Hanusch
The Comment Gap, Clara Juarez Miro
Chairs: Valerie Belair-Gagnon & Oscar Westlund
13:15 – 14:45 Lunch
14:45 – 16:30 Panel 4
Software providers of news automation as peripheral actors in journalism, Stefanie Sirén-Heikel, Carl-Gustav Lindén and Martin Kjellman
Can robots really report? Automated news as a newsroom boundary object, Gunhild Ring Olsen
Molo.news: Constructing an innovative platform for local news, Andreas Hepp and Wiebke Loosen
Code-Sharing Platforms as Trading Zones: Participation, Interaction, and Objectives, Mario Haim & Rodrigo Zamith
Chairs: Edson Tandoc Jr (with remote support from Avery Holton)
16:30 – 19:30 Group discussions (during voluntary hike, divided in 2 levels of ambition)
20:00 –           Dinner
 
Thursday 2017-06-20
Breakfast buffet
09:15 – 10:15 Keynote 4: Rich Ling – Concluding remarks: Peripheral actors and deskilling in a broader context
10:15 – 10:45 Coffee break and checking out
10:45 – 12:00 Closing panel/workshop: evaluation and the future
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 –           Homewards travel // excursion