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POSTPONED: Visual participation of young Europeans – snapshots from France, Finland and Portugal
The event has been postponed. The new date and venue will be announced later.
The event has been postponed. The new event date will be announced as soon as possible.
Join us for a three-hour seminar discussing how the increasing emphasis on visual forms of communication affects young people’s societal participation and the way in which they construct democracy. The seminar features a keynote lecture by Associate Professor Katrin Tiidenberg (Tallinn University), short presentations of visual participation from three European countries: France, Finland and Portugal, as well as comments by Senior Lecturer Leena-Maija Rossi (University of Helsinki).
Provisional programme:
15.00 Welcome address and ImagiDem presentation: Professor Eeva Luhtakallio (University of Helsinki)
15.30 Keynote: Associate professor Katrin Tiidenberg (Tallinn University): Curation, creation and community – making sense of visual social media
Discussion
16.30 Coffee
16.45 Snapshots from France, Portugal and Finland
Dr. Karine Clément (CNRS, Paris): What do we mean by “visual” and “participation” when we talk about visual participation? Reflections from the case of the Yellow Vests in France.
Dr. Carla Malafaia (University of Porto): The visual dimension of participation among climate activists in Portugal: an ethnography with student strikers and civil disobedience groups
Dr. Taina Meriluoto (University of Helsinki): Selfiesteem – reconstructing oneself on- and offline
17.30 Comments by Leena-Maija Rossi (University of Helsinki) and discussion
The seminar is part of the launching event of professor Eeva Luhtakallio’s ERC-project Imagi(ni)ng Democracy: European youth becoming citizens by visual participation, which studies visual participation both online and offline. The project analyses images and memes posted on social media, and follows young people’s visual ways of participation as part of their everyday actions with the tools of visual ethnography and computational big data mining and analysis.
The seminar is free of charge and no pre-registration is required.
