MiT5 agenda

India and the Digital Diaspora
Sanjay Asthana, Sketching a Theory of New Media: The Case of Cybermohalla from India
Nada Shabout, Bollywood: India's Global Self-Respresentation
Moderator: Nada Shabout

Rethinking Nonfiction
Yair Galily, Talking Back: Sports Media in the Digital Age
Rahilya Geybullayeva, History and Recycling Cultures: Fiction or Nonfiction?
Vinicius Navarro, Personal Narratives, Uncontrolled Events and Nonfictional Representatives in Online Communities
Vincent F. Rocchio, Media Convergence, Masculinity, and Militarism: Analysis and Strategic Planning for Contesting the Hegemony of War
Moderator: Sarah Wolozin

The Origins of "Media"
Shawn Shimpach, Defining Media for a New Era (Again)
Fred Turner, Art, Technology and Collaboration in Cold war America
Peter Walsh, How Morse and Daguerre Created the Idea of Media
Moderator: Peter Walsh

Seriality and Transmedia Storytelling
Derek Johnson, Franchises, Convergence and History: Rethinking Transmedia Theory
Geoffrey Long, Tools for Transmediation and Adaptation: Radial Narrative Maps in Mike Mignola's Hellboy
Martyn Pedler, Memory, Continuity and Trauma in Monthly Superhero Adventures
Moderator: Bob Rehak

E25-111

Second Life
Burcu Bakioglu, Hacking and Griefing as Acts that Create Performative Narratives in Second Life
Jeffrey Bardzell, Creativity, HCI and Fashion Design in Second Life
Brent Britton, Virtual Ownership
Mary Hopper, The Knowledge Gates to Second Life
Moderator: Alice J. Robison

Nations in Transition 1
Meral Ekincioglu, Contemporary Media Practices in Turkish Architecture: From "Arkitekt" to "Arkitera"
Soren Triff, Media Adventures Outside of their Cultural Boxes
Moderator: Douglas Morgenstern

66-144

The Concept of Participation
Brady Curlew, The Emerging Identity Conflicts of Amateur Cultural Production
Lori Landay, Representing the Crowd From Silent Film to Digital Cinema
Yun Sejun, The Psychology of User-Generated Content Ownership
Moderator: Liwen Jin

66-148

Creative Labor
Cristobal Garcia, Innovation and Creativity in the Digital Age: Practices, Iterations and Reflections
Elliot Panek, The Career of the Online Motion Picture Maker
Mirko Tobias Schaefer, Revisiting the Case of Interactive Audiences and the User as Producer
Jose van Dijck, Video Sharing as Cultural Practice and Peer Production
Moderator: Sarah Brouillette

3:45-4

Break

4-5:30

Call Session 2

2-105

Rethinking Authorship
Lily Alexander, Exotopia Revisited: The Author Inside, Outside and Inside Out
Anastasia Logotheti, The Plagiarism Controversy Regarding Graham Swift's Last Orders
Thomas Pettitt, Opening the Gutenberg Parenthesis: Media in Transition in Shakespeare's England
Moderator: Peter Donaldson

Productive and Playful Pedagogies: New Media and Education
Giuliana Cucinelli, Photi Sotiropolous, Tube it Up!
Suzanne de Castell, Jennifer Jenson, Ways of Knowing in a Digital Culture
Michael Hoechsmann, Audience Incorporated
Catalina Laserna, Sandra Indian, Gathering Strength through Teknannajii
Moderator: Margaret Weigel

Shadows and Puppets
J.A. Ball, Matthew Gray, Digital Marionettes: Training and Technology
Rikard Lindell, Oguzhan Ozcan, The Role of Traditional Shadow Play on Creativity in Interaction Design
Adriano Solidoro, The Reconceptualization of the Puppets Theater Performance in the Digital Domain
Moderator: Kristina Drzaic

Defining Web 2.0
Fred Benenson, Peter B. Kaufman, Five Theses about Creative Production in the Digital Age
Christine "xtine" Hanson, The Web 2.0: Response to a Social Crisis
Brian Jacobson, Modernity, Postmodernity, Convergence: What's New?
Astrid Vicas, Web 2.0 Characteristics and the Situationist Legacy
Moderator: Alex Chisholm

Marking Territory
Anne Burke, Visualising Resistance in Brian Friel's The Home Place and Haddon and Brownes' Ethnography of the Aran Islands
J.R. Carpenter, Entre Ville : This City Between Us
Karl Mendonca, Marcus Pingel, Charles Yust Document: An Oral History of Washignton Square Park
Nanna Verhoeff, Panorama NL: Designing the Interface of Highways
Moderator: Amanda Finkelberg

4-231

Making Music
Ben Aslinger, Gaming and Music Industry Negotiations in the 1990s
Alexandre Quessy, The Musical and Audio Creative Process: An Inspiration from the Common Materials
Steve Schultze, So Many DJs: Creative Flourishing on the Fringes of Networked Media
Moderator: Evan Wendel

Mediating Sexuality
Nathan Scott Epley, Feminism, Cynicism and the Return of the Pinup
Adam Fish, An Ethnography of a Queer Culture of Media Production
James Nadeau, Appropriation and Creation in Queer Cinema
Lien Fan Shen, Anime Pleasure as a Playground of Sexuality, Power, and Resistance
Moderator: Thomas F. DeFrantz

Nations in Transition 2
Elena Dyakova, Semantic Guerilla War in Runet
Alina Hogea, Ethics and Romanian Journalism
Anna D. Trakhtenberg, Traditional Russian Political Discourse and Digital Communication
Rongting Zhou, Research on China’s Creative Industry: Based on the Witkey Business Model
Moderator:

66-144

What Gets Shared on YouTube?
Robert Gehl, YouTube as Archive: Who Will Curate this Digital Wunderkammer?
Jonathan Gray, Movie Trailers and the Creation of Meaning
Joshua Green, A Name in Vain? Or, Why Do they Call it TV When it's Not on the Box?
Moderator: Robin Hauck

66-148

The Nature of News
Katherine Aberbach, Analyzing Print News in the Unconventional Form of Creative Non-Fiction Books
Claudia Schwarz, Creativity, Ownership and Collaboration in the News Business
Moderator: Huma Yusef

66-168

Copyright 1: Historical Context
Peter Decherney, The Ben Hur Court Case
Martin Fredriksson, The Expansion of the Copyright Discourse in 19th-Century Europe
Meera Nair, Copyright in Transition
D.E. Wittkower, A Lockean Critique of Our So-Called Lockean Intuitions
Moderator: Virginia Wright Wexman

5:45-7:15
Bartos Theater
Media Lab

Plenary 2: Collaboration and Collective Intelligence
Mimi Ito, Annenberg Center for Communication
Cory Ondrejka, Linden Lab (Second Life)
Trebor Scholz, SUNY Buffalo
Moderator: Thomas Malone, MIT

Saturday, April 28

Friday, April 27

Sunday, April 29

8:30-9
Bartos Atrium

Coffee and rolls

9-10:30

Call Session 3

Communicating Across Communities
Elizabeth Neely, Leadership and Digital Communication in the 21st Century
William Shewbridge, Intergenerational Digital Storytelling as Process and Product
Ramesh Srinivasan, Evisioning Cross-Cutlural Grassroots Digital Spaces
Courtney Lee Weida, Subversively Discursive Digital Communities of Contemporary Craft
Moderator: Kurt Fendt

Modes of Learning
Mike Ananny, Blogs as Relational Spaces for Developing Civic Literacies
Tor Grenness, Storytelling as a Method for Teaching Research Methods
Yu-Ling Lu (Shu-Hua Cheng, Chi-Jui Lien), Transforming Science, Technology and Society Materials into an E-Learning Software
Simone Seym, Educational Simulation: Practiceware, Game, Artificial Intelligence
Moderator: Simone Seym

The Name of the Author
Andy Dehnart, The Death of the Link: Does Attribution Still Matter?
Kim Middleton, Pseudonymous Blogging and New Functions of Authorship
Virve Sarapik, Signification and Naming
Moderator: Andy Dehnart

Produsing Culture: Implications of User-Led Content Creation
Jean Burgess, Flickr, Aesthetics and the Relations of Cultural Production
John Banks, Reconfiguring Labour Relations in Participatory Culture Networks
Axel Bruns, Produsage, Generation C, and Their Effects on the Democratic Process
Moderator: Joshua Green

Copyright 2: Politics and Ethics
Giovanni Boccia Artieri, Fabio Giglietto, Luca Rossi, Ownership in the Digital Age: A Sociological Approach
Dion Dennis, Mapping the Digital Prohibition Movement
John McMurria, Compulsory Licensing and the Collective Ethics of Creative Compensation Adejoke Oyewunmi, Exploitation of Traditional Cultural Knowledge in Contemporary Societies
Moderator: Candis Callison

Disruptive Practices
Jay Critchley, Digital Insurgency
James Cypher, Mash-Ups, Remixes and the Recontextualization of Sound and Images as Political Statements
Benjamin Mako Hill, Elizabeth Stark, Transgressive Reactions to Copyright
Moderator: Greg Peverill-Conti

4-251

Books for and About Youth
Naomi Hamer, The Multimodal Literacy Cultures of 'Tween Girls
Jacqueline Reid-Walsh, A Comparative History of Interactive Narrative Media for Chldren and Youth from 1770 to the Present
Parissa Tadrissi, The Struggle for Self-Definition in Novels by Care Santos
Moderator: Jacqueline Reid-Walsh

Remixing Music
Sean Galvin, Is Hip Hop a Descendant of the Broadside Ballad?
Bjorn Ingvoldstad, Traditional and Contemporary Culture in Lithuania
Josh Jackson, Digitization and Nonprofessional Music Aggregation in the Network Economy
S. Craig Watkins, Exploring the Social and Politcal Aspects of Hip Hop's Digital Underground
Moderator: Andres Lombana

Art and Appropriation 1
Elsa Lankford, Creative Appropriation in Public Spheres
Ann Steuernagel, Motives for Working with Found Footage
Diana Thompson, Collaborating, Mixing and Bartering in the Studio for World Peace
Moderator: Eleanor Baird

Participatory Documentary
Mats Bjorkin, "You Shoot, I Shoot": Artistic Research and Media Production
Alice Marwick, Fan Production and Participatory Culture in Online Reality Shows
Dustin Morrow, The First-Person Approach to Digital Nonfiction Filmmaking
Jennifer Porst, User-Generated Content in Documentary Film
Moderator: Claudia Schwarz

10:30-10:45

Break

10:45-12:15

Call Session 4

Who Owns History? Digital Technology and its Implications for Narrating the Past: An Irish/ Northern Irish Perspective
Helen Jackson, Advancing Critical Pedagogy and New Technologies
Cahal McLaughlin, Archiving Prison Memories
Colm Murphy, Digital Archives and the State
Ned Rossiter, The Informatization of Labor, Networks of Expression and the Legitimation of Culture
Andy White, The Digital Challenge to Traditional Scholarship and Pedagogy
Moderator: Maire Messenger Davies

Knowledge, Information and Expertise
Paul Ham, Adam Seldow, Identifying Online Experts
Ismael Isfandiary, The Internet Search Engines: Centralizers of a Decentralized Me
sam smiley, Claude Shannon Remixed
Moderator:

Authoring the Digital
Nick Knouf, Influences On our Behavior by Electronic Creatures
Artur Matuck, Human-Computer Interfaces and the Emergence of E Authors
Michelle Riel, Helen Thorington, Programmable Media and Open Platforms for Creativity and Collaboration
Moderator: Alec Austin

Fans and Producers
Anthony Fellow, Joan Giglione, Robert Gustafson, Media Exposure and Fans
Sam Ford, The Changing Modes of Discourse Between Fan Communities and Soap Opera Producers
Derek Kompare, Fan/ Producer: Cult Television Authorship
Moderator: Derek Kompare

Copyright 3: Education
Michael Grabowski, Understanding the Cultural and Social Mores Influencing Students' Perceptions of Copyright
Todd Herreman, The Gap Between New Media Delivery and Institutional Licensing
Azuka Nzegwu, Determining the Criteria of Fair Use in Academic Institutions
Moderator: Scot Osterweil

YouTube and Reality
Debora Lui, Huma Yusef, The "You" in YouTube: The Emergence of Collective Identity Formation through Online Video Sharing
Craig Trachtenberg, Producing and Consuming Lonelygirl15: Presence Play in the Multimedia Blogosphere
Joanne Teoh Kheng Yau, YouTube Journalism and Grassroots Storytelling in Asia
Moderator: Tracy Daniels

Distributing Music
Darlene Hampton, Producing, Distributing and Reproducing Music Videos
Eggo Mueller, From Amateur to Pro? Standards for Vodcasting According to Online How-to Sources
Moderator: Martin Marks

Art and Appropriation 2
Hugh Davies, Australian Artists and Appropriation
koosil-ja, All Artists Are Thieves
Francisco Ricardo, Convergence and Transformation of Contemporary Art and New Media
Craig Webb, Heather Tillberg Webb, Appropriation, Fair Use and Creative Commons: Views from an Artist and an Educator
Moderator: Francisco Ricardo

Reproducing Images
Eric Gordon, The Playful Spectator: Kodaking and Mobility
Warwick Mules, The Reproduction of Sense at the Interface Between New and Old Media Technologies
Robert Sweeny, Art Education, Digital Images and an Aesthetics of Cloning
Yannis Zavoleas, The Fountain Remediated
Moderator: Leila W. Kinney

E25-111

SHARE: A Multimedia Collaborative Forum in Emergence 1
(on-site and remote panelists)
Jim Bell
John Hopkins
France Jobin
Adam Kendall
Martin Koplin
Katherine Liberovskaya
Michael Liegl
Anton Marini
Geoff Matters
Marie-Helene Parant
Morgan Sully
Keiko Uenishi, organizer
Elsa Vieira
Dan Winckler
Moderator: Carl Skelton

E25-117

Games and Play
Benjamin J Robertson, Architecture and Control: “Natural” Constraints on Cultural Production in the Networked Society
Dan Roy, Identity and Cross-Platform Gaming
McKenzie Wark, Gamer Theory
Moderator: McKenzie Wark

12:15-1:30

Break

1:30-3

Call Session 5

Popular Culture and Learning Environments
Marja Kankaanranta, Antti Kirjavainen, Tuula Nousiainen, Child-Centered Design of Game-Based Learning Environments
Pilar Lacasa, (Sara Cortes, Rut Martinez), Classrooms as Living Labs: The Role of Digital Games
Doris C. Rusch, Case study: Emotional Design of the Videogame Silent Hill - Restless Dreams
Moderator: Doris Rusch

Accessing Knowledge
Marlene Manoff, Volatility, Instability, Ambiguity: The Evolving Digital Record
Mark Willis, Reimagining Accessibility in Particapatory Culture
Eva Hemmungs Wirten, Libratory Law: Unmaking Knowledge
Moderator: Cabell Gathman

Technological Translations and Digital Dilemmas
Kimberly Christen, The Politics of Search: Archival Accountability in Aboriginal Australia
Kate Hennessy, Repatriation and New Media in Northeastern British Columbia
Nariyo Kono, Online Tool for Heritage Languages Preservation and Learning
Patrick Moore, Beaver Knowledge Systems: Narrative, Place and the Internet
Katerina Martina Teaiwa, Ocean Island: Land from the Sea, Land from the Sky
Moderator: Kimberly Christen

Creative Transformation
Kristina Busse, Intense Intertextuality: Derivative Works in Context
Francesca Coppa, Female Video Editors and the Literary Music Video
Rebecca Tushnet, Fandom, Fair Use, and Technology: The Uneasy Relationship?
Moderator: Karen Hellekson

Copyright 4: Alternatives
Maurizio Borghi, Maria Lilla Montagnani, Positive Copyright and Copyleft Licenses: How to Make a Marriage Work
Anthony Ciolli, Lowering the Stakes: Toward a Model of Effective Copyright Dispute Resolution
Slawomir Grzonkowski, A Digital Rights Management System Based on Social Networks
Keerti Nagappa, Interrogating Copynorms and Copyright Non-Compliance in the Realm of Cyberspace
Moderator: Amanda Ford

Problematizing Piracy
Tarleton Gillespie, Industry-Sponsored Anti-Piracy Campaigns
Aram Sinnreich, Marissa Gluck, Mark Latonero, Remix Goes Mainstream: Emerging Attitudes about the Reappropriation of Media Content
Bill Herman, Dead Traders, Not Dead Traitors: The Online Politics of Trading Grateful Dead Bootlegs
Lucas Hilderbrand, From Tapes to YouTube: Video Bootlegging and the Question of Copyright
Moderator: Lucas Hilderbrand

Brand Strategy and Consumption Practices
Andrew Feldstein, Brand Communities in a World of Knowledge-Based Products and Common Property
Masahiko Kambe, Yuichi Washida, Simulations of Japanese Media Environment Using Artificial Neural Network
Zvezdan Vukanovic, A Strategic Perspective On the Use of Digital and Enhanced ITV Brand Extension
Moderator: Greg Peverill-Conti

Towards a Culture of Collaboration
Wafaa Bilal, Shawn Lawson, A Look at Crudeoils
Ravi Jain, Open-Source Content Creation
Michael Newman, The Community as Artist: The Show with Ze Frank
Production of Meaning
Moderator: Karen Annemie Verschooren

Graphics, Typography, Interface
Jamie Bianco, Modes of Deferral and Movement in Mark Z. Danielewsk's Only Revolutions
Laurie Churchman, Shifting Typographic Conventions: Technology, Perception and Originality
Philipp von Hilgers, Why Is a Minimalist Text-Based Interface a Cutting-Edge Technology of Today?
Moderator: Christopher York

E25-111

SHARE: A Multimedia Collaborative Forum in Emergence 2
(on-site and remote panelists)
Jim Bell
John Hopkins
France Jobin
Adam Kendall
Martin Koplin
Katherine Liberovskaya
Michael Liegl
Anton Marini
Geoff Matters
Marie-Helene Parant
Morgan Sully
Keiko Uenishi, organizer
Elsa Vieira
Dan Winckler
Moderator: Carl Skelton

E25-117

Making and Remaking Games
Alec Austin, Collaboration, Interaction and User-Generated Content in the Games Industry
Casey O'Donnell, Independent and Collaborative Console Videogame Development
Joost van Dreunen, Politics of Game Space: The Video Game Vocabulary and the Production of Meaning
Moderator: Eric Klopfer

3-3:15

Break

3:15-4:45
Bartos Theater
Media Lab

Plenary 3: Copyright, Fair Use and the Cultural Commons
Hal Abelson, MIT
Pat Aufderheide, American University
Wendy Gordon, Boston University
Gordon Quinn, Kartemquin Films
Moderator: William Uricchio, MIT

4:45-5

Break

5-6:30

Call Session 6

Appropriation and Collaboration in Digital Writing
Nick Montfort
Scott Rettberg
Jill Walker
Moderator: Nick Montfort

Going Global
Julia de Roeper, Susan Luckman, 'Digital Natives' and Future Audiences for Professional Film Production: An Australian Perspective
Marina Hassapopoulou, Lost in Translation? Remaking Horror, Remaking Cultural Specificity in Ju-On and The Grudge
Henry Puente, Latino Culture and Ugly Betty
Sarina Khan Reddy, The New Great Game: The New Colonization in Globalization
Moderator:

Reimagining Identity
Anne Petersen, Perez Hilton and the New Star Production
Thomas Riccio, Trickster Reality
Agnieszka Wenninger, Deleuzian Perspectives on Ownership and Identity on the Web
Moderator: Dan Roy

TV 2.0: Remixing Battlestar Galactica (podcasts)
Melanie E. S. Kohnen, Battlestar Galactica and the Reimagination of Contemporary American History
Anne Kustritz, Ownership and Desire: Fans' and Producers' Manipulation of Fictional Love Triangles
Julie Levin Russo, Labors of Love: Capitalizing on Fan Economies
Sarah Toton, Reimagining Fan Culture: The Long Journey of Battlestar Galactica
Moderator: Julie Levin Russo

Copyright 5: DIY Copyright Reform: How to Liberate Fair Use for Tomorrow's Media Literacy
Pat Aufderheide
Renee Hobbs
Moderator: Henry Jenkins

Mousepads, Shoe Leather, and Hope: Lessons from the Dean Campaign for the Future of Internet Politics
Araba Sey (Manuel Castells), From Media Politics to Networked Politics: The Internet and the Political Process
Aldon Hynes, A Coder Becomes a Political Activist
Amanda Michel, The Lessons of Generation Dean
Thomas Streeter (Zephyr Teachout), Theories and Internet Politics: From Echo Chambers to Interpretive Communities
Moderator: Thomas Streeter

4-251

On the Entertainment Technology Center Press
Drew Davidson
Rob Katz
Thinh Nguyen
Charles Palmer
Moderator: Drew Davidson

Branding in the New Media Landscape
Justin Callaway, Customer Feedback 2.0
Michael L. Maynard (Alison C. Carey), Defense of the 30-second Commercial
Anna Notaro, Swoosh Time: Nike's Art of Speed Ad Campaign and the Blogosphere
Moderator:

The New Media Literacies
Paolo Ferri, Media Literacy and the Ethics of Participatory Culture
Theo Hug, The Competence of Framing Media Literacy and media Literacy as Framing Competence
Stewart Mader, A Book about Wiki, Inspired By a Blog and Published on a Wiki
Jamie O'Neil, The Hoax that Leads to Learning
Moderator: Neal Grigsby

Gould and Wagner: What Music Theory Can Teach us About New Media
Michael Century, Glenn Gould's "Prospects of Recording" Revisited
Jeff Porter, Glenn Gould's Electronic Future
Kurt Lancaster, The Wagnerian Website of the Future
Moderator: Kurt Lancaster

Games, New Media, and Democracy
Joseph Delappe, Online Interventionist Projects
Robert Jones, The Politics of Machinima: Video Game-Based Filmmaking as Visual Rhetoric
Kajsa Klein, Democracy Aid '04 as Example of Cross-Border Appropriation and Parasitism
Moderator: Andrea Walsh

6:30-7:30
lower atrium
Bartos Theater

Reception

7:30-9:30
Bartos Theater
Media Lab

Plenary 4: Learning through Remixing
Erik Blankinship, Media Modifications
Juan Devis, KCET/PBS Los Angeles
Renee Hobbs, Temple University
Alice Robison, MIT
Ricardo Pitts-Wiley, Mixed Magic Theater
Moderator: Henry Jenkins, MIT

Sunday, April 29

Friday, April 27

Saturday, April 28

8:30-9
Bartos Atrium

Coffee and rolls

9-10:30

Call Session 7

1-135

Getting Lost: Cult Franchises and Transmedia Narratives
Ivan Askwith, Reading Lost as Transmedia Narrative
Joanne Morreale, Repetition with a Difference: Lost as Makeover of The Prisoner
Moderator: Jason Mittell

1-150

Moving Story: Mobile Narrative Development
Denise DiIanni
Matt Dunleavy
Jan Egleson
Michael Epstein
Chris Hastings
Eric Klopfer
Moderator: Michael Epstein

2-105

The New Media Literacies' Media Exemplar Library
Yi Chen
Paul Kim
Steve Schultze
Maggie Burnette Stogner
Maura Ugarte
Margaret Weigel
Moderator: Anna van Someren