25. – 28.03.2024 | University of Vienna
#YML24 Conference Programme

Monday, March 25th

Registration 12:00 (Main Building)
Guided Tours 13:00 (Main Building)
Opening Ceremony 16:00 (Main Building)
Main Building Welcome address and opening by the organisers Susanne Reichl & Ute Smit
Welcome address by Vice-Rector Manuela Baccarini
Welcome address by Chair of the Senate (and #YML member) Stefan Krammer
"Ich höre Wien zu, meine Augen sind geschlossen" Poetry performance by Elif Duygu, two-times Austrian Slam Poetry Champion 2022
Keynote 17:00 (Main Building)
Main Building "Substituting the digital archive for memory: New media practices shaping youths' understandings of the Holocaust."
Karen Krasny & Sonya Sachar
Reception 18:15 (Main Building)

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Tuesday, March 26th

Keynote & Q&A 9:30 (C1)
C1 "Digital presentation practices - Embodiment, Participation, Storytelling"
Matthias Leichtfried, Florian Mayrhofer & Georg Wendt
Coffee Break 10:45 (Hallway Area/HR)
Slot 1 11:15 (Department)
HRS Thematic Symposium: "New Horizons in Informal Second Language Learning: Insights from European Contexts"
"Setting the scene: A systematic review of Informal Second Language Learning as an emerging research field (2000 to 2020)" Marlene Schwarz
"Exploring Second Language Engagement and Enjoyment: The Influence of English on the Lives of Young Adults in Austria" Lisza-Sophie Neumeier
"Extramural English and academic vocabulary depth: A longitudinal study with Viennese English major students" Katharina Ghamarian
"Informal second language learning and EMEMUS: Bachelor students' reasons for and experiences on an Austrian English-medium program" Verena Grau
Room 3 Thematic Symposium: "Performative, Transmedial, (Post-) Digital: Contemporary Poetry Off the Page by and for Young People"
"Of Safe Spaces and Moments of Solidarity. Digital Poetry Performance in the Times of Pandemic" Shefali Banerji
"Poetry on Social Media & Its Multimodal Paratextualities” Magdalena Korecka
Room 2 Interactive Workshop: "Pose und Spektakel. Aktivistische Posen und gesellschaftliches Positioniertsein auf und mit Social Media"
Viktoria Flasche & Anna Carnap
Room 4 Individual papers: ""That’s how they do it nowadays": Media ideologies of and about young media actors"
"don’t really care to share. A corpus analysis of students’ metadiscourse on social media and identity." Eva Triebl
"Youthful Tastes: The Role of Digital Media and Taste in Young Danish People’s Construction of ‘Youth Culture’" Johanne Kirkeby & Vinicio Ntouvlis
Snack Break 12:45 (Hallway Area/HR)
Poster Session 13:45 (Department)
HRS "The Media Lives of Young People and ChatGPT Creativity" Christian Gilde
"Die Figur ‚Influencer‘ auf TikTok: Spielen ist arbeiten ist spielen." Meike Hein
"KI gestützte Traumapädagogik durch individualisierte Geschichten zum vorlesen" Jochen Hotstegs
"The Extent of Cultural Interaction among Young Foreign Language Learners through Digital Games" Ezgi Inal, Murat Topal & Esin Inal
"Inside the INCELs: Antifeminist ideologies, sentiments, and memes in the digital realm." Julius Keinath
"Navigating digital disparities: Exploring new media usage in Slovak children, youth, and young adults from vulnerable groups" Magdaléna Petrjánošová
"BookTok als literarische Praxis junger Lesender und ihr lesedidaktisches Potenzial" Christina Sam
"Wie und was erleben Jugendliche auf Social Media? - Fallbasierte Mikroanalyse zum Interaktionsverhalten der Gen Z auf Social Media" Mira Schienagel
"How media repertoires change with age: a study with Portuguese children and young people" Margarida Toscano
Slot 2 15:00 (Department)
HRS Thematic Symposium: "New Horizons in Informal Second Language Learning: Insights from European Contexts"
"Extramural English and techno-linguistic biographies of pre-service teachers as drivers for revisiting teaching English and digital competencies at university level" Marlene Miglbauer
"Out-of-school digital practices for disciplinary literacies in CLIL: Opportunities and challenges of conducting a European-wide quantitative teacher survey through COST Actions." Craig Neville & Merita Hoxha
"Extramural digital practices and their relevance for disciplinary literacies in CLIL: Piloting a European student survey" Ute Smit, Ekaterina Strati & Katharina Ghamarian
"Bringing learners’ extramural English into the classroom: Activities suggested by teachers from four countries" Alexandra Schurz & Pia Sundqvist
Room 3 Thematic Symposium: "Performative, Transmedial, (Post-) Digital: Contemporary Poetry Off the Page by and for Young People"
"Moving Memory across Media. Digital Paratexts, Hashtags and the Archive in Precious Nnebedum’s Transmedia Movement “i had other plans for 2020”" Julia Lückl
"Transcriptive (Net)Works. Exploring the Intra- and Intertextual Significance of Transcriptivity in Spoken Word" Claudia Sackl
Room 2 Interactive Workshop: "Approaches to Implementing Computational Empowerment"
Mirjam Duvivié & Fares Kayali
Project presentations: “ELEMeNT” Selina Gartner & Elisabeth Günther, “Working Sober” Mirjam Duvivié & Fares Kayali,  "Serious Game Changers" Barbara Göbl & Petra-Francesca Weixelbraun, "Teaching Digital Thinking" Pelin Yüksel Arslan 
Room 4 Individual papers: "Media repertoires and media biographies: Connections, convergences and discrepancies in young people’s lifeworlds"
"Plädoyer für die schulische Berücksichtigung einer postdigitalen Mehrsprachigkeit" Elke Höfler
""Ist mir eigentlich egal, was da passiert" – Nutzungspraktiken und Einstellungen gering informationsorientierter junger Menschen" Leonie Wunderlich & Sascha Hölig
"Plurality of trust: A qualitative analysis of young people’s media use and media literacy in Austria and Finland" Minna Horowitz, Gisela Reiter & Janne Matikainen
Room 5 Individual papers: "We design: Young media actors as media designers and developers"
"Reading-as-design: Young children as co-designers of the texts" Nermin Karademir
"‘Young Game Developers and Their Net Worth.’ The imaginaire of bedroom programmers as neoliberal subjects" Patryk Wasiak
"“Thank God for Tags”: Fanfiction on AO3 as a Reading Paradigm" Fabienne Silberstein-Bamford
Coffee Break 16:30 (Hallway Area/HR)
Slot 3 17:00 (Hallway Area/HR)
HRS Thematic Symposium: "New Horizons in Informal Second Language Learning: Insights from European Contexts"
"Escapism and Extramural English: The Psychology behind English Language Acquisition" Nasrin Ulfat
"First-graders know L2 English vocabulary – viewing, gaming, YouTube" Pia Sundqvist, Henrik Gyllstad, Elke Peters, Ulrikke Rindal, Gustaf B. Skar & Nasrin Ulfat
"Comparing quantitative instruments for mapping extramural English: Young learners’ exposure, writing skills and grammaticality judgements" Elke Peters, Elien Prophète & Pia Sundqvist
Joint discussion & conclusion
Room 2 Interactive Workshop: "Approaches to Implementing Computational Empowerment"
Mirjam Duvivié & Fares Kayali
"Interactive Discussion and Workshop" Selina Gartner, Elisabeth Günther, Mirjam Duvivié, Fares Kayali, Barbara Göbl, Petra-Francesca Weixelbraun & Pelin Yüksel Arsla
Room 3 Interactive Workshop: "Let’s examine how women are represented/erased on Wikipedia"
Gabrielle Smith-Dluha
Room 4 Individual papers: "We design: Young media actors as media designers and developers"
"TikTok and Algospeak: a new frontier for deliberate linguistic innovation" Erynn Young
""Shout out, speak out, do something, express yourself!": a campaign and an online platform to promote children and young people's expression about the media" Daniel Brandão & Sara Pereira
"Slavic and other loanwords in multilingual identity construction among young people in German rap as a corpus and contact linguistics' approach for YouTube comments" Aleksej Tikhonov
Conference Dinner 19:00 (Zum Leupold)

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Wednesday, March 27th

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Keynote & Q&A 9:30 (C1)
C1 "Agency and youth revisited: mediating social action in material environments"
Suzana Jovicic & Julia Sonnleitner
Coffee Break 10:45 (Hallway Area/HR)
Slot 4 11:15 (Department)
HRS Interactive Workshop: “The BeReal App as Dispositive: Walkthroughs and Joint Interpretation
Moritz Meister, Thomas Slunecko, Marian Fetka, Ida Leibetseder, Lisa Zach, Lenka Kovarikova & Robin Hietz
Room 3 Individual papers: "Just playing: Games and their role in young people's lives"
"Banking on Time: Game-Credit, Coins and Crypto. On the Role of Virtual Currencies in Gamic Fiction and in Young People's Lives Today" Dorothea Rebecca Schönsee
"Geschichte spielen. Digitale Spiele aus geschichtsdidaktischer Perspektive" Lorenz Prager
"Breaking Frames - Digitale Bildarchive als Handlungsfelder zur Vermittlung von Kunst(geschichte) am Puls der Zeit" Eva-Maria Schitter & Petra Weixelbraun
Room 2 Individual papers: "Paper to screen: post-digital reading practices"
"Künstliche Intelligenz und Kommunikation: Wie kommunizieren junge Menschen im Alter von 18-30 Jahren mit der KI?" Petra Herczeg
"#booktube #bookstagram #booktok - Zur Beeinflussung von Lesepraktiken durch die Präsentation und Rezension von Literatur in Social Media" Christian Müller & Anna Bauer
"Sprachliche Bildung in einer Kultur der Digitalität – Implikationen für Unterricht und Lehrpersonenfortbildung" Alexandra Kemmerer, Annika Janßen, Jan-Erik Leonhardt, Johannes Mayer & Britta Viebrock
Room 4 Individual papers: "On the rollercoaster: Emotions and the media"
"The Language of Short-Form Self-help on Social Media" Barbara Katharina Reschenhofer
""Content, der sich in meinem Herzen gut anfühlt": Visuelle Vertrauenspraktiken in den sozialen Medien" Maria Schreiber, Andrea Schaffar & Marius Liedtke
"Fluide Identitätsaushandlungen in verschränkten Online-Offline-Räumen: Das Smartphone als Forschungsinstrument" Belinda Mahlknecht, Andrea Markl & Tabea Bork-Hüffer
Snack Break 12:45 (Department)
Slot 5 14:15 (Department)
HRS Interactive Workshop: "Partizipieren lernen? Digital-mediales Empowerment im Schulunterricht."
Robert König
Room 3 Interactive Workshop: "The Ethical (Fan) Researcher's Toolkit"
Ariane Manutscheri & Christina Schuster
Room 2 Individual papers: "No place like home: places, spaces and media lifeworlds"
"Countering the ‘parallel society’ – narrative: Homemaking and citizenship practices of young adults living in stigmatized neighbourhoods in Denmark" Hannah Sattlecker
"Young Learners' Encounters with English in Germany" Pina Schmidt & Aleyna Melis Ermek
"Reconstructing Identities, Home, and Belonging: Online Spaces, Youth Organisations, and Representations of South Asian Diasporic Youth" Anindita Shome
Room 4 Individual papers: "Just playing: Games and their role in young people's lives"
"“Video Games Do Exclude Us”: Female Gamers in Young Adult Fiction" Carla Plieth
"‘English as a means of connection’: An exploration into the effects of online video games on Japanese secondary students' English language ideology" Koichi Saito
"Bridging educational paradigms: Should we make space for digital play in schools?" Elizabeth Nelson & Rachel Lees
Coffee Break 15:45 (Hallway Area/HR)
Slot 6 16:15 (Department)
HRS Interactive Workshop: "Partizipieren lernen? Digital-mediales Empowerment im Schulunterricht."
Robert König
Room 3 Interactive Workshop: "The Ethical (Fan) Researcher's Toolkit"
Ariane Manutscheri & Christina Schuster
Room 2 Individual papers: "On the rollercoaster: Emotions and the media"
"Beyond Fairy Tales: Diversity Representation in The Bachelor Franchise" Oleksandra Romaniuk
"Zwischen Regression und Entwicklung: Essstörungen und #Recovery auf TikTok" Susanne Benzel & Jacob Johanssen
Room 4 Individual papers: "Participatory, Creative, Digital: Computational Empowerment in formal education"
"Vocabulary Learning from Audiovisual Input at First Exposure to a Foreign Language" Paulina Olender & Imma Miralpeix
"Big Data Literacy: An Educational Manual for Adolescents" Ana Kubrusly
"Integrating Disciplinary Literacy and Nonfiction Digital Storytelling" Tiziana Mascia & Alessandra Mazzini
Open Mic Poetry Night 19:30 (HRS)
Disco (Room 3)

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Thursday, March 28th

Slot 7 9:30 (Department)
HRS Interactive Workshop: "Bullying prevention on TikTok: How can the popular social media platform be used to convey topics on mental health?"
Marlene Mitterer, Julia Bartosch & Elias Wenighofer
Room 3 Individual papers: "Human rights, young people and media"
"From idol casting shows to online censorship: social media, youth and the construction of national(ist) identities in the P.R. China" Michaela Schober
"More media, more access, more participation? Perceptions and practices of Portuguese young people on media and participation" Sara Pereira & Daniel Brandão
Room 2 Individual papers: "English spoken: The role of English in the lives of young people"
"Social media and its impact on the role of English in the life-worlds of Germany’s Gen Z: Autoethnographic explorations" Susanne Ehrenreich, Nina Pleuger, Lea Klaas & Marie Wiesmann
"English Words Everywhere: Exploring English in the Linguistic Landscape within a Montessori Pedagogy Framework" Petra Kletzenbauer & Ulla Fürstenberg
"Instagram as a paradoxical space for sociolinguistic discourses of English as a lingua franca and a foreign language" Aina Tanaka
Room 4 Individual papers: "In or outside. Conscious or unconscious exclusion from digital media"
"Digital Geographies of Mundane Violence in Young People’s Lives" Tabea Bork-Hüffer, Belinda Mahlknecht & Andrea Markl
"Virtuelle Realitäten im erfahrungsorientierten Lernen von Jugendlichen" Jochen Hotstegs, Fabian Heyer & Thomas Sablotny
"Erzwungene Follower. Über die Taktiken von Kinder- und Jugendzeitschriften zwischen 1933 und 1945" Susanne Blumesberger
Coffee Break 11:00 (Hallway Area/HR)
Slot 8 11:30 (Department)
HRS Interactive Workshop: "Interaktiver Game-Based Learning Workshop"
Matthias Steinböck, Niku Dorostkar & Alexander Preisinger
Room 3 Individual papers: "Human rights, young people and media"
"Social Media Ephemeral Stories: Human Rights, Young Nigerians and their Struggle Against Police Brutality" Silas Udenze
"Belonging and social mobility among young online content producers from low-income families in Brazil" Carla Barros
Room 2 Individual papers: "Media repertoires and media biographies: Connections, convergences and discrepancies in young people’s lifeworlds"
"The dietary world of TikToK as can be experienced by children" Michal Yaron & Nelly Elias
"Metapragmatic Analyses of the Young and old divide on Netizens' comments over Salmon Chaos" Jennifer Wei
"Attitudes of Germany’s Gen Z toward the Use of English" Nina Falter
Room 4 Individual papers: "Paper to screen: post-digital reading practices"
"Folk culture in the digital age: Fairy tales and computer games" Rosy-Triantafyllia Angelaki
"Literary Reading in Increasingly Digitised Times: New Materialist Practices with Chilean Tweens" Macarena Garcia-González, Janos Kovacs & Ignacia Saona
"Millennials Knowledge of the Internet Vocabulary" Michaela Hrotekova
Lunch Break 13:00 (Hallway Area/HR)
Final Keynote 14:00 (C1)
C1 "Teaching Media Literacy in the Age of Algorithmic Platforms"
Philippe Wampfler
Closing Ceremony 15:00 (C1)