The draft programme for European Science Foundation Exploratory Workshop on ‘Consuming the Illegal: Situating Digital Piracy in Everyday Experience’ is now available below. The workshop will take place at The Catholic University of Leuven between Sunday 17th April and Tuesday 19th April, 2011.
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Bringing researchers from a range of social science disciplines the workshop aims to develop theoretical and methodological perspectives to examine consumer behaviour, practices and understandings to investigate a phenomenon usually framed as deviant. Presentations will be organised under four themes. Each of these thematic sessions will last for two hours and feature several presentations each of which is followed by time for individual questions. A rapporteur will respond to each session in order to identify key issues and questions raised by the presentations and suggest questions to enable discussion, synthesis and highlight forward-looking research agendas and objectives.
Draft Programme
Sunday 17th April
15:00 Welcome by Prof. Jan Van den Bulck
15:15 Lightning introductions
17:45 Close
19:30 Brief walking tour of Leuven’s Historical Centre
20:00 Dinner
Monday 18th April
9:00 Coffee
9:30 Welcome and Introduction
- Jason Rutter (Convenor)
- Presentation by the European Science Foundation
10:00 Counterfeiting Cultures
- Fiona Macmillan, “Can culture be counterfeited?”
- Saara Taalas, “Fan organization and consumption in the copyrighted economy”
- Stefan Sonvilla-Weiss “Communication techniques and practices of generation web n+1”
- Mathias Klang, “Internet creativity Vs internet regulation”
12:00 Rapporteur’s Response & Discussion [Rob Jewitt]
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Criminalising the Consumer
- Jason Rutter, “Is ethics a red herring in the study of piracy?”
- Peter Zackariasson, “Culture jamming and the internet”
- Majid Yar, “The Symbolic Construction of ‘Piracy’ as a Crime Problem”
15:30 Coffee
16:00 Rapporteur’s Response & Discussion [Eamonn Carrabine]
17:00 Close
19:30 Dinner
Tuesday 19th April
9:00 Coffee
9:30 Communities of Fans/Collections of Pirates
- Simon Lindgren, “Pirates, parasites, participants: Exploring pirate culture as leisure resistance”
- Magnus Eriksson, “Community Online and Offline in the Future Internet beyond Copyright”
- Eva Hemmungs Wirtén, “Pirate Subtitling Scene in Sweden”
11:00 Rapporteur’s Response & Discussion [Jason Rutter]
12:00 Policy and Practice
- Leonhard Dobusch & Sigrid Quack, “Transnational Copyright: Misalignments between Regulation, Business Models and User Practices”
- David Wall, “Cyberspace, Counterfeits and the democratisation of intellectual property”
- Lucky Belder, “Cultural imperative of copyright law and new models of business”
- Rob Jewitt, “Policing piracy: Assessing the impacts of national strategies to combat illegal file-sharing”
14:00 Lunch
14:30 Rapporteur’s Response & Discussion [Majid Yar]
15:00 Coffee
15:30 Next Steps
17:00 Workshop close
Meeting of editors regarding publication of the proceedings
Participation in the workshop is limited and by invitation. If you have any questions about the event, please contact me.
