Schedule
9.30 - 9.45 am: Welcome and Introduction
9.45 - 10.35 am: Dr Owen Barden (Liverpool Hope University), “Disability, Technology and Emotional Communities”
5-min break
10.40 - 11.30 am: Dr Fred Cooper (University of Bristol), “Pandemic loneliness on Microsoft Teams: technology, affect, and epistemic care”
25-min break
11.55 - 12.45 pm: Dr Leighton Evans (Swansea University), “Virtual Escapes: Homely Affect and Procedural Relief in Animal Crossing: New Horizons during COVID-19 lockdowns”
Lunch Break
1.50 - 2.40 pm: Dr Lucy Osler (Cardiff University), “Digitally-Enabled Envy”
5-min break
2.45 - 3.35 pm: Dr Yan Wu (Swansea University), “Trajectory, restructuring and exclusion: A life-course approach in understanding ageing population's digital in/exclusion and wellbeing in China”
20-min break
3.55 - 4.45 pm: Dr Kimberly Dienes (Swansea University), “Public Views on the Coronavirus Pandemic (PVCOVID): Individual experiences of the pandemic and the concepts of loss, connection, and alert fatigue”
5-min break
4.50 - 5.40 pm: Dr Anna Bortolan (Swansea University), “Emotions, Self-Identity, and Wellbeing at Work: Can Technology Help Us?”