Very excited to present my paper on 'virtual museums of digital protest art' at PhD workshop & panel during the #Geomedia2023 conference organized by Informaatioteknologian ja viestinnän tiedekunta Karlstads universitet here in #Tampere !
Soma Basu🐾 Kaarina Nikunen🇺🇦🇫🇮🇪🇺

Great first conference experience!
Looking forward to #Geomedia2023 at Tampere University to start tomorrow. Happy to be also part of the Pre-Conference Workshop for doctoral students.
Universität Innsbruck @[email protected] Transient_ Spaces & Societies (Research Group)

Enjoyed presenting my work-in-progress paper today on everyday forms of hope, smartphone practices and the UK asylum system at #geomedia2023 📱👾

Thanks to Geomedia for opening up such interesting spaces for discussion across disciplinary boundaries 🙌🏼

NINE DTP Geography at Durham

Quo Vadis Media Geographies? Taking stock of research field & discussing future utopias panel are to address future of Media Geographies on the basis of Kant 's 3 questions on existing media geography knowledge, what the field can do & what it can hope for.
#Geomedia2023

A very inspiring talk by Payal Arora on the digital media practices of youth in the Global South & how we (media scholars in the west) need to break the binary that is always critical of markets and ignores digital leisure for the marginalised #Geomedia2023

Lovely morning at #Geomedia2023

Sukhmani Khorana keynote is brilliant! She uses films and storytelling through multi-platform media to document and analyse migrant agency and shows how emotions and affect are keyes for understanding both solidarities and belonging.

Coming up - the Geomedia International conference at Tampere University where I will keynote on aspirational geographies & AI futures in the Global South on 21 sept. Check out the full program here: rb.gy/8fi2b #Geomedia2023 Soma Basu🐾 Kaarina Nikunen🇺🇦🇫🇮🇪🇺

Sanna Valtonen Kaarina Nikunen🇺🇦🇫🇮🇪🇺 Sarah Elwood Sukhmani Khorana Thank you for inviting Refugee Film Festival to #geomedia2023 ! Documentarist and photographer Reza Adib opened his Moria-exhibition Tampere University. We showed his documentary A Letter From Kabul and a long documentary Midnight Traveller (2019) by Hassan Fazili in Telakka.

Sanna Valtonen Kaarina Nikunen🇺🇦🇫🇮🇪🇺 Sarah Elwood Sukhmani Khorana Reza Adib Tampere University Hassan Fazili Refugee Film Festival vieraili kansainvälisessä #geomedia2023 tutkijakonferenssissa Tampereella 20.-22.9.23.
Dokumentaristi Reza Adib avasi Moria-valokuvanäyttelynsä ja näimme hänen dokumenttinsa A Letter From Kabul sekä Hassan Fazilin Midnight Traveller. Kiitos järjestäjille!

So great to deliver my keynote on belonging and refugee-led digital films in person (though with a rather sore throat) at #Geomedia2023 . I have been super impressed with the provocations and range of projects presented here & hoping for future collaborations with Tampere 🤞🏼

I must add, that Dr. Rodriguez-Amats talk was specially enlightening to a new master's student in Informaatioteknologian ja viestinnän tiedekunta still looking my own path in Media study field. A great presentation! #Geomedia2023

My abstract submission 'Digitalising Bourdieu: digital capital as resistance in post-pandemic Sri Lanka' has been accepted for presentation at the #GeoMedia2023 in Sept. Will be happy to return to Finland. Helsinki Institute of Social Sciences & Humanities can I swing by for a coffee?

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Midnight Traveler - Official Trailer youtu.be/BTT-duEoRdc?si… - so glad I got to see this refugee doco that combines the quotidian & the political (with the funny) as part of Refugee Film Festival at #Geomedia2023 . Let’s find a way to screen it in Australia!

Refugee Film Festival is visiting Tampere in #geomedia2023 conference ♥️ Hope, activism, collective utopianism sketched by Kaarina Nikunen🇺🇦🇫🇮🇪🇺 and Sarah Elwood, waiting for notions of belonging that arises from reciprocality with Sukhmani Khorana on friday. What a conference at hands ♥️

Payal Arora asks who can afford pessimism and sparks the academic debate towards spaces of hope. Creating moments of joy with digital media feeds into hope for the future and helps us find solidarities. Inspiring. #geomedia2023

Suman Ghosh tells us about his #Convergence project at Informaatioteknologian ja viestinnän tiedekunta. He presented on potential of immersive technologies & VR environments in providing a true first-person perspective on human rights events.
#Geomedia2023
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Dr. Elizabeth Poole (Keele University 🐿️) talks about her project with @evahaifa_ Prof. Ed de Quincey and the data that reveals how #HateSpeech #Islamophobia ebbs & flows on Twitter/X depending on trigger & viral events, as well as context. #Geomedia2023 bit.ly/3Frjyrg

Thanks to the #Geomedia2023 organisers -
Kaarina Nikunen🇺🇦🇫🇮🇪🇺 Asko Lehmuskallio Anne soronen #Saara_Särmä Sanna Valtonen Kaisa Tiusanen (in Informaatioteknologian ja viestinnän tiedekunta) & #André_Jansson @CorBrantne (in Geomedia, Karlstads universitet)! Special thanks to all the student volunteers of @TAUComet & COMS TampereUni 🌻