International Conference April 24-26, 2009 MIT

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Communications Forum
Global Media (panel questions)
C arolina Acosta-Alzuru, University of Georgia
Jonathan Gray, Fordham University
Aswin Punathambekar, University of Michigan
Abderrahmane Sissako, African filmmaker
Moderator: Henry Jenkins, MIT
Thursday, April 23
5:00-7:00 pm
E25-111

(a sign-in period for MiT6 registrants will be held 4-5 pm outside E25-111)

Special MiT6 Event: Whatever Happened to Loneliness? Social Thought about Communication, 1959/2009 , a discussion with John Durham Peters, University of Iowa
Friday, April 24
9:30-11:30 am
E51-315

Plenary Conversation 1
Archives and History (panel questions)
John Miles Foley, University of Missouri
Lisa Gitelman, Harvard University
Rick Prelinger, The Prelinger Archives
Ann Wolpert, MIT Libraries
Moderator: Peter Walsh, Andover Newton Theological School
Friday, April 24
12:30-2 pm
Wong Auditorium
E51

Plenary Conversation 2
New Media, Civic Media (panel questions)
Jessica Clark, Center for Social Media (American University)
Ellen Hume, Center for Future Civic Media (MIT)
Persephone Miel, Media Re:public and Internews Network
Respondents: Dean Jansen, Participatory Culture Foundation
Jake Shapiro, Public Radio Exchange (PRX)
Moderator: Pat Aufderheide, American University
Friday, April 24
6:30-8 pm
Wong Auditorium
E51

Plenary Conversation 3
Institutional Perspectives on Storage (panel questions)
Claude Mussou, INA France
Pelle Snickars, Swedish National Archive
Richard Wright, BBC Research and Information
Moderator: William Uricchio, MIT and Utrecht University
Saturday, April 25
10:45 am-12:15 pm
Wong Auditorium
E51

Plenary Conversation 4
The Future of Publishing (panel questions)
Gavin Grant, Small Bear Press
Jennifer Jackson, Donald Maass Literary Agency
Robert Miller, HarperCollins
Bob Stein, Institute for the Future of the Book
Moderator: Geoff Long, MIT
Saturday, April 25
6:45-8:15 pm
Wong Auditorium
E51

Plenary Conversation 5
Summary Perspectives
Mary Bryson, University of British Columbia
Marlene Manoff, MIT Libraries
John Durham Peters, University of Iowa
Thomas Pettitt, University of Southern Denmark
Moderator: James Paradis, MIT Writing and Humanistic Studies
Sunday, April 26
12:30-2 pm
Wong Auditorium
E51

Thursday, April 23 5-7 pm E25-111	Communications Forum Global Media (panel questions) Carolina Acosta-Alzuru, University of Georgia Jonathan Gray, Fordham University Aswin Punathambekar, University of Michigan Abderrahmane Sissako, African filmmaker Moderator: Henry Jenkins, MIT

MiT6 Conference Agenda
Friday, April 24	Saturday, April 25	Sunday, April 26
10:30 am-12pm Ting Foyer E51	Registration
12-12:30 Wong Aud. E51	Welcome and Introductions David Thorburn, MIT William Uricchio, MIT and Utrecht Univ.
12:30-2 Wong Aud. E51	Plenary Conversation 1 Archives and History John Miles Foley, Univ. of Missouri Lisa Gitelman, Harvard Univ. Rick Prelinger, The Prelinger Archives Ann Wolpert, MIT Libraries Moderator: Peter Walsh, Andover Newton Theological School
2-2:30	Break
2:30-4	Call Session 1
E51-145	Future of Performance Sarah Florini, The Impact of Convergence Culture on Live Performance Cortney Lohnes, Kimberly McLeod, Ngen Celebrity Vlogs: The Virtual and Virginal Performances of the Disney Triumverate on YouTube Sangita Shresthova, Investigating the Migrating Dimensions of Bollywood Dance Moderator: Ananya Ghoshal, English and Foreign Languages University (India)
E51-315	The Digital Library and Archive Del R. Hornbuckle, Afro-Folksonomy: Visualization Journeys though Multiple Publics, Art, Public Space and Narrative Mapping Amalia Levi, Archiving Women, Minorities, and Indigenous Peoples in the Digital Era Marlene Manoff, The Digital Record and the Future of Libraries Moderator: James Paradis, MIT Writing and Humanistic Studies
E51-385	Database Logics Pat Brereton, Database Logics and New Media Convergences in Science Fiction Film Yongsuk Shim, Margins of Digital Databases Moderator: Mary Hopper, Northeastern University
66-144	Online Communities Andrew Feldstein, Analyzing Online Communities: A Narrative Approach Karl J. Mendonca, How to Grow a Community from the Ground Moderator: Greg Peverill-Conti, Weber Shandwick
66-156	Youth Narratives Mary Bryson, Can We Play ‘Fun Gay’?: Disjuncture and Difference in Millennial Queer Youth Narratives Magda Rodrigues da Cunha, Youth and Media Consumption: A New Reader Arises Jennifer Jenson, Education@Play: Untangling Simulation and Imitation Kevin Leander, Tracing Youth Mobilities Across Social Spaces Moderator: Mark Kelsey, Cambridge Public School District
66-160	Learning from Maps Jason Farman, Information Cartography: Visualizations of Internet Spatiality and Information Flows Andrew Wong, Maps for the Fourth Wave: Revealing the Future of Mobile Financial Services in Bangladesh from the Ground Up Moderator:
66-168	Transmedia Stories J.R. Carpenter, A Bookish Novel: Transmediation in Words the Dog Knows Martin Foys, Weaponized Media and the “Book” of Beowulf Lin Zhang, Carnival and Cybserspace: Egao as a Chinese Internet Subculture
56-154	Media Past, Present, Future Carolyn Lee Kane, Early Digital Color Systems at Bell Labs Alison Kozberg, Judy Fiskin and The End of Photography Anastasia Logotheti, Kindling Great Expectations Andrea McCarty, Burkino Faso Newsreels Moderator: Richard Wright, BBC Archives
4-4:30	Break
4:30-6	Call Session 2
E51-145	Cult Media and Global Fandom Dennis Downey, TextFlows: A New Kind of Reading Petra Kwong, Remapping the Relationship between Authors, Readers and Texts among Chinese Fan Communities in the Cyber Age Derek Kompare, Time Vortext: Versioning and the Fluid Text Shawn Shimpach, The International Circulation and Afterlife of Doctor Who Moderator: Chris Gerben, University of Michigan
E51-149	Archiving the Arts and Humanities Pieranna Cavalchini, Isabel Meirelles, Art Micro-Sites: A Manifesto! Madeleine Clare Elish, Whitney Trettien, Acts of Translations: Digital Humanities and the Archive Interface Moderator: Kurt Fendt, MIT HyperStudio for Digital Humanities
E51-315	Digital Archives: Case Studies 1 Gail Bayliss, On the Digitisation of Historical Photographic Archives Hanno Biber, Evelyn Breiteneder, Anne Burdick, Karlheinz Moerth, Digital Editions of Literary Journals in the Austrian Academy Corpus Kirsten Kozolanka, Micheal Lithgow, The Digital Archive and Alternative Media in Canada David Mimno, Hanna Wallach, Computational Papyrology Moderator: James Paradis, MIT Writing and Humanistic Studies
66-144	Copies and Fakes Kevin Kearney, Virtuality, Immateriality, Homosexuality: Network Theory and the “Bad Copy” Lana Swartz, Figuring out Fakery Moderator: Jason Rockwood, MIT CMS
66-156	Online Activism Bill Herman, Using Web Graph Analysis to Study Online Policy Advocacy Lisa Lynch, A Toxic Archive of Digital “Sunshine”: Wikileaks and the Archiving of Secrets Hector Postigo, Web 2.0, Social Networking Technologies and Human Rights Organizations Moderator: Audobon Dougherty, MIT CMS
66-160	The Aural / The Oral Ieuan Franklin, Secondary Orality and Wireless Technology Robert MacDougall, Our New Aural Ecologies: Podcasting, Publicity and Secondary Orality Moderator: Nick Seaver, MIT CMS
66-168	Learning Stories Sean Galvin, Personal Experience Narratives and ePortfolios Lori Landay, Virtual KinoEye: Mutability, Kinetic Camera, Machinima and Virtual Subjectivity in SecondLife Young Imm Song, Media, Art, Culture and Digital Storytelling Jason Zalinger, StoryFox: A Design Proposal for Self-Reflective Storytelling Moderator: Hillary Kolos, MIT CMS
56-154	Reconsiderng Media History Fiona McQuarrie, Leighann Neilson, A Cultural Analysis of Musical Theater Recordings and Professional Wrestling David Parisi, Cybernetics and the Design of Cutaneaous Communictions Systems, 1892-1960 Laura Tropp, Pregnancy in New Media Environments Moderator: Nancy Mauro-Flude, University of Tasmania
6-6:30	Break
6:30-8 Wong Aud. E51	Plenary conversation 2 New Media, Civic Media Jessica Clark, Center for Social Media (American Univ.) Ellen Hume, Center for Future Civic Media (MIT) Persephone Miel, Media Re:public and Internews Network Respondents: Dean Jansen, Participatory Culture Foundation Jake Shapiro, Public Radio Exchange (PRX) Moderator: Pat Aufderheide, American Univ.
Saturday, April 25	Friday, April 24	Sunday, April 26
8:30-9 Ting Foyer E51	Coffee and Rolls
9-10:30	Call Session 3
E51-145	Paying Attention to Mobile Media David Bogen, Eric Gordon, Designing Choreographies for the “New Economy of Attention” Liu Jun, Mobilized by Mobile Media: China’s Transitional Communications Order, Societal Changes and Citizenship Eduardo Campos Pellanda, Mobile Communication as a Bridge Between Virtual and Actual Spaces: Brazilian Context Sam Tobin, Map, Hourglass, Ship – Saving, Pausing and Playing with the Nintendo DS Moderator: Sarah Wolozin, MIT CMS
E51-149	Cartography 4D: The Archive, the Map, and the Handheld Interface Imar de Vries, Mobile Mementos: Expanded Archives, Fragmented Access Adeola Enigbokan, Archiving the City Sybille Lammes, Transmitting Location: Digital Cartographical Interfaces as Transformative Material Practice Nanna Verhoeff, Screens, Maps, and Fingertips: Of Handheld Timespace in Screenspace Moderator: Elliot Pinkus, MIT CMS
E51-151	Sound/ Noise/ Signal Dominic Pettman, After the Beep: Answering Machines and Creaturely Life Tara Rodgers, An Uneasy Ocean of Air: Sound Waves as Media and Metaphors of Storage and Transmission Julius Schaffer, Contact Audio: Evolved Modes of Listening in Dynamic Media Nick Seaver, Physical Practice: The Artifacts of Noise Art Moderator: Nancy Mauro-Flude, University of Tasmania
E51-315	Digital Archives: Case Studies 2 Akrivi Katifori, Eirini Savaidou, Aristotle Tympas, Automation of Historical Research in Digitized Media Archives Meral Ekincioglu, Terrorizing Istanbul.s Memories: Architectural Media Stories between Storage and Transmission Tilottama Karlekar, Digital Media Archives and the Case of Pad.ma Jon Saklofske, Interfacelift: Modding the Doors of Perception to the William Blake Archive Moderator:
E51-325	Locative Media Robert Biddle, Brian Greenspan, Linking Narrative and Locative Media Chris Eaket, Performativity of Language in Real and Imaginary Spaces Michael Epstein, Narrative Techniques for Mobile Devices Astrid Vicas, Why Divided Attention in Pervasive Gaming Can Be a Good Thing Moderator: Sarah Brouillette, MIT Literature
E51-335	Digital Classroom / Digital Curricula Jami Carlacio, Lance Heidig, Teaching Digital Literacy Digitally Julio Gonzalez-Appling, Technology as a Bridge in the 21st-Century Classroom Bernadette Longo, Using Social Networks and Mobile Technologies to Enhance the Classroom Space Alice Robison, New Media Literacies by Design: The Game School Moderator: Sean Galvin, LaGuardia Community College
E51-345	Archiving Television Max Dawson, The Ephemerality of the Apparatus: Preserving Television’s Material Culture in an Age of Convergence Maire Messenger-Davies, Archiving Television: Two Case Studies Bob Rehak, The Perishable Paratext: Emerging Forms of Ephemera in Transmedia Networks Moderator: Bjorn Ingvoldstad, Bridgewater State
E51-361	What Motivates Participation? Mats Bjorkin, Will Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing Systems Change Media Production? Philip Napoli, Transitioning from Access to the Media to Access to Audiences D.E, Wittkower, The Digital and the Cute Moderator: Mike Ananny, Stanford University
E51-372	Innis / McLuhan / Ong Francis D. Coffey, The Durability of Scripture in the Time of Portable Media: Innis, Scripture and Semiotic Michael Darroch, Interdisciplinary Vocabularies at the University of Toronto’s Culture and Communication Seminar, 1953-1955 Rory Litwin, Exploring the Ethical Implications of Technological Change through the Thought of Walter Ong and Other Media Theorists Robert Logan, The Innis-McLuhan Communications Revolution Moderator: Les Perleman, MIT Writing and Humanistic Studies
E15-376	Media and Authority Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Peer-to-Peer Review: Authority in Digital Scholarly Networks Stuart Geiger, Evolving Governance and Media Use in Wikipedia: A Historical Account Alexander Halavais, Knowledge Everywhere: The Distributed Memory of Social Media Claudia Schwarz, In Words We Trust: The Changing Medium of “Truth” Moderator: Bob Cullen, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials
10:30-10:45	Break
10:45-12:15 Wong Aud. E51	Plenary conversation 3 Institutional Perspectives on Storage Claude Mussou, INA France Pelle Snickars, Swedish National Archive Richard Wright, BBC Research and Information Moderator: William Uricchio, MIT and Utrecht Univ.
12:15-1:30	Break
1:30-3	Call Session 4
E51-145	New Media Business Models Goran Bolin, Mass Media, 'Me Media' and the New Business Models for the Digital Media Economy Leif Dahlberg, Digital Screens in Public Space: Advertising, Actors, and the Remaking of Place Moderator: Daniel Pereira, MIT CMS
E51-149	Publishing Raizel Liebler, Nell Taylor, The Chicago Underground Library: Ranganathan’s Library Rules Applied to the Digital Age John W. Maxwell, Unix Culture and the Coach House Karen Petruska, A Contemporary History of TV Guide Moderator:
E51-151	Digital Girlhood Burcu Bakioglu, Poaching Lonelygirl15, ARG-Style Stella Marrs, Online Video and Feminist Content Moderator: Margaret Weigel, Project Zero, Harvard
E51-315	Archival Limits? What to Digitize Gabriele Balbi, Doing Media History in 2050 Johan Bossewitch, Aram Sinnreich, Strategic Agency in an Age of Limitless Information Alison Byerly, What Not to Save: The Future of Ephemera Andre Donk, The Digitization of Memory: Blessing or Curse? Moderator: Diana E. Henderson, MIT Literature
E51-325	Streaming Information and Stories Michelle Gardner, Katie Del Giudice, The Message of the ‘Pensieve’: Realizing Memories through the World Wide Web and Virtual Reality Elisabeth Jones, Network Television Streaming Technologies and the Shifting Television Social Sphere, Moderator: Sheila Murphy Seles, MIT CMS
E51-335	Ways of Knowing Suzanne de Castell, Jennifer Jenson, Nicholas Taylor, One Code to Rule them All? Re-Constructing Knowledge through the Digital Theo Hug, On Knowledge Media, Mediality, and the Mediatization of Knowledge Andrew Piper, Next to the Book: Towards a Theory of Translational Humanism Michael Szurawitzki, Digital Germantic Philology? Questions, Challenges and Obstacles for Scholars of German Moderator: Astrid Vicas, Saint Leo University
E51-345	Television as a Participatory Medium Mark Bresnan, Sports Fans, Media Technology and Participatory Texts Robert Gehl, Building a Blog Cabin During a Housing Crisis Eggo Muller, Spaces of Participation: Interfaces, Conventions, Routines Moderator: Derek Kompare, SMU
E51-361	Asian Media in Transition Wu Mei, Mapping the Information Flow in Chinese Discussion Forums Joonseong Lee, Neo Liberalism, Media, and New Korean Funeral Culture Ramesh Srinivasan, Considering Diaspora and Social Networks: ICT Design Possibilities Muhammad Waseem, E-Media Evolution in Pakistan: Emergence of Visual Democracy – Building Concepts, Discourses and Frameworks Moderator:
E51-372	Time and Space Michael Grabowski, Biases of Digital Communication: Obscured Realities and the End of Frontier Till A. Heilmann, The Durable, the Portable and the Processible Aysha Mawani, Time and Space in the Global Economy: Financial Derivatives and the Technologies Embedded Within John Durham Peters, Calendar, Clock, Tower Moderator: Carolyn Lee Kane, NYU
E51-376	Why Remix Culture Is More Copyright Friendly Than You Think, or, The Perfectly Legal Mashup Workshop with Pat Aufderheide, Center for Social Media, American University
E51-395	Race, Nationality and Digital Technologies John Edward Campbell, From Barbershop to BlackPlanet: The Construction of Hush Harbors in Cyberspace Kate Hennessy, Repatriation, Digital Cultural Heritage, and the (Re)Production of Meaning in a Canadian Aboriginal Community Adam Klein, A Space for Hate: The White Power Movement’s Adaptation in Cyberspace Nancy van Leuven, The New Mediated Environment of American Indians Moderator: James Paradis, MIT Writing and Humanistic Studies
3-3:15	Break
3:15-4:45	Call Session 5
E51-145	Privacy Control in E-Communications Jesse Drew, Surveillance as Mass Media Paul Ham, It’s as if You’ve Known Me Better than I Ever Knew Myself, or Meta-Privacy and our Personal Electronic Communications Under Judicial Scrutiny Sarah Salter, Legal Distinctions of Communications Jennifer R. Whitson, Surveillance and Democracy in the Digital Enclosure Moderator: Kevin Driscoll, MIT CMS
E51-149	Hypertext & Interactive Fiction Roderick Coover, Unknown Territories Ananya Ghoshal, Hypertext and the New Book: (Re)Reading as (Re)Writing Natalie King, Hypertext and the Postmodern Frankenstein Moderator: Nick Montfort, MIT Writing and Humanistic Studies
E51-151	Second Lives Mary E. Hopper, COSMA, Constructing a Kingdom of Knowledge Flourish Klink, Religions of the Book, Religions of the Screen Mary Leigh Morbey, Carolyn Steele, Beyond the Remix: Clarifying Mastery in Virtual Environments Moderator: Burcu Bakioglu, Indiana University
E51-315	Databases, Encyclopedias, Archives Paul Arthur, History in Motion: Digital Approaches to the Past Erinc Salor, Encyclopedic Endeavor and the Internet Peter Walsh, The Uses of Catastrophe: Ninveh, Layard, and the Future of Knowledge Moderator: Josh Diaz, MIT CMS
E51-325	Reimagining the Public Sphere Tim J. Anderson, Blogging and Distribution and the Experiential Products in the Age of Social Networking Chris Gerben, The Future of Democracy, Economy, and Identity in 21st-Century Texts Mark Leccese, Political Bloggers’ Lack of Linking to Primary Source Material Moderator: Tarleton Gillespie, Cornell
E51-335	Gutenberg, Authority, and the Ordering of Experience (organized by the Gutenberg Parenthesis Research Forum) Marianne Borch, Voice and Epistemological Crisis in Seventeenth-Century Publications Tom Pettitt, Reformulating the Gutenberg Parenthesis: Containment and Articulation in Media Technology, Cultural Production, and the Perception of the Material World Lars Sauerberg, The Encyclopedia and the Gutenberg Parenthesis Moderator: Whitney Trettien, MIT CMS
E51-345	Television in a Post-Network Era Miranda Banks, The Next Big Thing: Hollywood Labor and Digital Technology Joshua Green, Imagining the Contemporary Television Network Jennifer Holt, The Other Digital Transition: Telelvision's Great Content Migration Moderator: Ben Aslinger, Bridewater State
E51-372	Digiteachers: Media Culture in the Education Classroom John Pascarella, Blogging as a Liberatory Practice Aumnat Tongkaw, Trevor Woods-Harper, Integrating Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) at Adang Island School, Southwest Thailand Dina Tsoulos, Student-Centered Instruction
E51-376	Transnational Migration of Texts Koen Leurs, Postcolonializing the Internet: Digital Media, Migration and Glocalized Youth Cultures Xiaochang Li, Dis/locating Audience: The Online Circulation of East Asian Television Drama Moderator: Lan Le, MIT CMS
E51-395	Spectacular Multimedia and Archivization: Case Studies from Expo ‘67 Monika Gagnon, Reconstructing Two Immersive Multimedia Pavillions from Expo '67: The Christian Pavillion and the Telephone Pavillion Janine Marchessault, Living Space: The New Media City of Expo '67 Moderator: Madeleine Clare Elish, MIT CMS
4:45-5	Break
5-6:30	Call Session 6
E51-145	Transforming the Textbook Gary Keller, Arizona State University, College Board and Google Offer Math Through APWorlds Virginia Kuhn, Documentary Is the New Black: Filmic Textbooks Catalina Laserna, Can One-to-One Computing Interrupt the Textbook-Based Tradition of Rote Memorization? Moderator: Les Perleman, MIT Writing and Humanistic Studies
E51-149	Old Books and New Media Jun Mizukawa, Rethinking the Love and Labor of Reading Jacqueline Reid-Walsh, Playing with the Text: An Interactive Digital Archive of Early Moveable Books for Children Whitney Trettien,Poetry Machines in Early Modern Books Moderator:
E51-151	The Sacred and Canonical Brian S. Bantugan, Integration of Actual, Virtual and Augmenting Realities of the Optical Mediascape of Quiapo Rahilya Geybullayeva, Canonical Text and its Modification: From New Forms of Distribution to New Forms of Literature Bette U. Kiernan, Examining Sacred Texts Anna Olszewska, Scott Simpson, Are Wooden Pixels More Pagan than Plastic Pixels? The Slavic Idol of Swiatowid in Old Materials and New Media Moderator: Vincent Rocchio, Northeastern University
E51-315	Applied Archives: Looking Beyond Institutional Limits Mateusz Halawa, Doing Visual Sociology as Going to the Archive Thoko Mnisi, Using a Digital Archive to Save Lives in a Rural Area in the Age of HIV and AIDS Mirko Tobias Schaefer, Explicit and Implicit User Participation in Online Data Collections Moderator:
E51-325	The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Multiplicity Juri Joensuu, Literal Aurality: Digital Poetry and Temporal Poetics Raivo Kelomees, Aura of Multilocal Artworks Raine Koskimaa, The Experience of the Unique in Reading Digital Literature Virve Sarapik, Digital Author: Author’s Desire, Pseudonym and Virtual "Self" Jaak Tomberg, On the Status of Science Fiction and Realism in the Age of Dissolved Technological Aura Piret Viires, In Search of the Lost Aura Moderator: Raine Koskimaa, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
E51-335	Virtual Worlds / Education Erik Champion, Experientially Pollinating Virtuality and the Living Transcripts of Escape Space Jody Clarke, Chris Dede, Shari J. Metcalf, Virtual Worlds for Education: River City and EcoMUVE Hector del Castillo, Pilar Lacasa, Laura Mendez, Rut Martinez, Notebooks, Videogames and Blogs as Evocative Objects: Building Digital Schools Moderator: Russell Francis, MIT CMS
E51-345	Innovation and Distinction: New Challenges and Interventions in Games Studies and Design Andreas Jahn-Sudmann, Do Mainstream Games Exist? - Reflections on Independent Game Culture Geoffrey Long, Video Games and Transmedia Storytelling Doris C. Rusch, Metaphorical Game Design: A Chance for Independent Game Developers to Create Unique Experiences Philipp Schweighauser, Game Studies, Literary Anthropology, and Strategies of Distinction; or, Why It Pays to Take Another Look at the Work of Wolfgang Iser Moderator: Dimma Davidoff
E51-361	Fiction and Media Change Jonathan Butler, Novel Obligations: The Future of Fiction in the Digital Age Staffan Ericson, Death at Broadcasting House Joanne McNeil, New Media in Fiction: Why the Novel’s Protagonist Never Plays with his iPhone Annika Olsson, Narratives of Literature in Print and Cyberspace Moderator: Mark Kelsey, Cambridge Public School District
E51-372	Media Temporalities: Genre, Queer Space, and Digital Archives in Transition Melanie E.S. Kohnen, Outside of Space and Time: Screening Queerness in Boys Don't Cry and Brokeback Mountain Anne Kustritz, Surveillance and Self-Presentation: Foucault’s Arts of Existence in the Digital Archive Louisa Stein, Transmedia Noir: Genre Continuity and Transformation Across Media Sarah Toten, Bury the Archive: A Look into Analog and Digital Time Capsules Moderator: Julie Levin Russo, Brown University
E51-376	The Politics of Platforms Kevin Driscoll, YouTube in Decay Tarleton Gillespie, The Politics of “Platforms" Steven James May, Weekend Pictures: Privacy and User-Generated Content Moderator: Jean Burgess, Queensland University of Technology
E51-390	Media in the Developing World Diane Varner, Searching for Better Measurements of Press Freedom in Conflict States Like the Democratic Republic of Congo Gilbert Wilkes, What Canada Can Learn from a Communications Revolution Taking Place in the Developing World Moderator: Mary Leigh Morbey, York University
6:30-6:45	Break
6:45-8:15 Wong Aud. E51	Plenary conversation 4 The Future of Publishing Gavin Grant, Small Bear Press Jennifer Jackson, Donald Maass Literary Agency Bob Miller, HarperStudio Bob Stein, Institute for the Future of the Book Moderator: Geoff Long, MIT
8:15 Ting Foyer E51	Reception
Sunday, April 26	Friday, April 24	Saturday, April 25
8:30-9 Ting Foyer E51	Coffee and Rolls
9-10:30	Call Session 7
E51-145	Reinventing Journalism Ilan Tamir, Yair Galily, Sports Journalism in Israel as a Case Study Kurt Lancaster, Documentary Journalism Kyle Magee, Marilyn Yaquinto, 2008 Election Coverage by 40 College Reporters in Missouri Using Fresh Eyes and New Media Tools Ryan M. Rish, User-Generated Content of an Online Newspaper: A Contested Form of Civic Engagement Moderator: Florence Gallez, MIT CMS
E51-149	The Future of Books Maria Anikina, Reading in Russia: Is it out of Fashion? Elizabeth Lenaghan, How Book Collectors Demonstrate the Contemporary Significance of Books Joanne McNeish, The Resilience of Paper Moderator: Andrew Whitacre, MIT CMS
E51-151	New Media and National Identity Bjorn Ingvoldstad, The Lithuanian Mediascape in the Post-Accession Era Benjamin Peters, Why the Soviet Internet Failed Didgem Sezen, Tonguc Sezen, The Confusion Behind the Internet Bans in Turkey Moderator: Colleen Kaman, MIT CMS
E51-315	Media and the Museum Mark Nimkoff, The Newseum and its Digital Modes of News Storage, Exhibition and Transmission Joana Pimenta, A Path through the Virtual Museum: On Chris Marker’s Pictures at an Exhibition Maggie Stogner, The Media-Enhanced Museum Experience – Debating the Use of Media Technology in Cultural Exhibitions Moderator:
E51-325	Locating Art in Time and Space Lanfranco Aceti, When Art Creation Is Ephemeral: Digital Migrations of Contemporary Time-Based Media and Obsolete Space-Based Media Paula Levine, The Wall McKenzie Wark, The Shape of Space in the Second Industrial Revolution: Constant’s New Babylon Moderator: Michelle Moon Lee, MIT CMS
E51-335	The Digital Classroom Nicola Cavalli, Elisabetta Costa, Paolo Ferri, Andrea Mangiatordi, Stefano Mizzella, Andrea Pozzali, Francesca Scenini, University Students and New Digital Media: Some Results from Field Research Vincent F. Rocchio, Video Education for the Netcasting Era; Towards a Critical Practice Pedagogy Andrea Sciacca, Paperless Classrooms and Kitchens Moderator: Derek Kompare, SMU
E51-345	YouTube: Online Video and Participatory Culture (supported by Polity) Jean Burgess, YouTube: A Short History of Competing Futures Joshua Green, Mapping YouTube's Common Culture Henry Jenkins, What Happened before YouTube? Moderator: Pelle Snickars, Swedish National Archive
E51-372	Digital Geographies Jacob Gaboury, “Where 2.0” and Virtual Geography Ksenia Prasolovo, Irina V. Yegorova, I’m Not Here Right Now: Virtual Tourism in Fictional Worlds Lalitha Vasudevan, Education Remixed; Digital Geographies of Youth Peter Durant, Marjoriikka Ylisiurua, Virtual Tourism in Habbo US Moderator: Chris Gerben, University of Michigan
E51-376	Music and Participation Ben Aslinger, Work that Bootie: Mashups and Musical Politics Heidi Gautschi, Emilie Moreau, Vinyl and MP3 Storage formats in the Sharing and Creation of Music Al Larsen, Showing and Sharing on Saturday Night: Participatory Dynamics in Real-Space Event Series Moderator:
10:30-10:45	Break
10:45-12:15	Call Session 8
E51-145	News: Traditional and Online Pablo Boczkowski, The Consumption of Online News at Work Joshua Braun, Gatekeeping in New Media Contexts Christopher Harper, Media Criticism Moves Online Susan Jacobson, The End of Journalism Education: The Great Good Place Moderator: Ellen Hume, MIT Center for Future
E51-149	New Literacies / New Texts Justin Hayes, Iconic Literacy Katie Hornstein, “Original” Copies and the Re-Reproduction of the Crimean War in France Marc Kosciejew, Crossing the Print to Digital Rubicon: A Documentary Analysis of Media Migrations James McFarland, Prognosis of the Unpredictable: Walter Benjamin’s Persistent Political Relevance for Media Studies Moderator:
E51-151	New Forms of Documentary Ingrid Erickson, Flickr Documentarians: Presenting the Physical in the Virtual Jamie O’Neil, Mashing-Up as Video Essay Writing: A Distinct Form of Literacy Jan Simon, Mobile Phone Movies: A New Format or Old Hat? Shari Y. Tamashiro,The Hawaii Nisei Story: Creating a Living Digital Memory Moderator: Kurt Lancaster, Northern Arizona University
E51-315	Archiving Cyberspace Paul Benzon, Typosquatting, Transmission, and the Globalization of Error Meghan Dougherty, Charles van den Heuvel, Historical Infrastructures for Web Archiving: Animation of Ephemeral Collections for Research Orit Halpern, Histories of Representation, Perception and Archiving in New Media Peter Jakobsson, Fredrik Stiernstedt, The Long History of Google Moderator: Alex Halavais, Quinnipiac University
E51-325	Digital Art Aleksandra Kaminska, Paint, Sketches, Tools and Notes: Analogies of Code in Digital Arts Nancy Mauro-Flude a.k.a. sister0, Tactical Media for Artists and Activists Courtney Lee Weida, Material Culture and Artists’ Codices; Museum Education through Artists’ Books Moderator: Lanfranco Aceti, Sabanci University (Turkey)
E51-335	Media Pre-History / Archeologies Bob Cullen, Early US Postal Routes and the Communications Infrastructure Craig Robertson, Storing and Transmitting Identity: The Emergence of the Modern US Passport Rebecca Ross, The British Postcode at Large sam smiley, Tin-Can Telecommunication: Performances and Interventions Moderator:
E51-345	Cinema Today and Tomorrow Jim Bizzocchi, The Fragmented Frame: The Poetics of the Split-Screen Kristen Daly, Radical Potential: Social Aspects of Cinema 3.0 Sharron Greaves,The Promise of Nigeria’s Digital Movie Empire and the Blemish of 4-1-9 Geoff Way, Using Battle and War in The Lord of the Rings to Understand Adaptation Moderator: Ana Domb, MIT CMS
E51-372	Intellectual Property Keidra Chaney, Raizel Liebler, The Intellectual Property of User-Generated Content Artur Matuck, Ewriting Prospective: Rescripting Authors’ Rights in the Electronic Domain Mark Willis, Shape-Shifters in the Fair Use Lab Eva Hemmungs Wirten, Translation and Copyright: The Transmission of the Law Moderator:
E51-376	The Scholarship of Sound and Image: Producing Media Criticism in the Digital Age a presentation of media criticism by Christian Keathley, Andrew Miller, Eric Faden and Craig Cielikowski, with response by Jason Mittell
12:15-12:30	Break
12:30-2 Wong Aud. E51	Plenary Conversation 5 Summary Perspectives Mary Bryson, University of British Columbia Marlene Manoff, MIT Libraries John Durham Peters, University of Iowa Thomas Pettitt, University of Southern Denmark Moderator: James Paradis, MIT Writing and Humanistic Studies Sunday, April 26, 12:20-2 pm, Wong Aud., E51

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