Aarhus University, Department of Media and Journalism Studies, Centre for Digital Transformation in Cities and Communities (DITCOM). 

The Infrastructures of Publics Workshops are a series of encounters between disciplines, fields of expertise and practice to redefine and re-envision an urban public sphere for the networked society. Defining new understandings of civic communication as an interdisciplinary interest, the workshops bring together the worlds of journalism, media studies, civic systems design, interaction design, policy, architecture and urban planning.

The series starts with two workshops in May and June 2022 and will continue in Spring 2023. All workshops are held on Zoom and registration is required. The workshops are part of the project "Infrastructures and Interfaces of Publics: Journalism for Civic Communication in Urban Spaces" (INFRAPUBLICS), funded by AUFF (Aarhus University Research Fund, 2021-2023), led by Christoph Raetzsch: https://ditcom.au.dk/projects/infrapublics. 

Download the agenda and abstracts here.

Registration

• 25 May, 10-16 (CEST) Registration: https://events.au.dk/publicsworkshop1/signup
   

Agenda 25 May 2022 (10:00-16:00 CEST)
Registration: https://events.au.dk/publicsworkshop1/signup

• 10:00-11:00 Welcome by Christoph Raetzsch and introduction of workshop and participants
• 11:00-11:15 break
• 11:15-12:15 Journalism of Things
  • Andrea Hamm (Weizenbaum Institute/Freie Universität Berlin): “Increasing complexity of journalism in an increasingly networked world” 
  • Jakob Vicari (Lead Creative Technologist, Tactile News): “Sensors, Cows, and Reporters”
• 12:15-13:00 lunch break
• 13:00-14:30 Digital Twins and Interfaces of the Datafied City
  • Yuya Shibuya (University of Tokyo): “Towards Digital Twins of Japanese Cities”
  • Antje Kunze (Unity Technologies): “Creating smart, sustainable, and safe cities with real-time 3D solutions”
• 14:30-14:45 break
• 14:45-15:15 Transformative Research and Data Practice
  • Francesca Morini (Södertörn University Stockholm, Urban Complexity Lab Potsdam): “The informant: action research and participatory autoethnography as strategies to study data journalism”
• 15:15-15:45 Mediated Encounters
  • Zlatan Krajina (University of Zagreb): “Encounters with screens and others as sources of mediated urban publics”
• 15:45-16:00 Closing Discussion and future research for Interfaces and Infrastructures of Publics - Journalism, Datafication and Civic Designs. Future Workshop editions inputs for Fall 2022/Spring 2023. Sharing of Opportunities