Media in Transition 7 agenda

Citizenship Platforms
Giuliana Cucinelli, Social Media for Social Justice: Awareness and Activism by and for Young People
Megan Fulwiler, Kim Middleton, Making Selves/Making Citizens in the Age of YouTube
Marina Levina, Citizen Bioscience in the Age of New Media
Joanne Teoh, Video Sites as Alternative Forms of Citizenship
moderator: Andrew Whitacre

Disruption, Distribution and Legacy Media
Jennifer Holt, Platforms and Pipelines in Transition: Anatomy of a Policy Crisis
Andre Pase, Inbound and Outbound, when Applications Invade TV and Change our Rooms
Chuck Tryon, Streaming Cinephilia: Movie Distribution in the Age of Platform Mobility
moderator: Sandra Braman

Precursor Transitions
Cira Brown, Big Science/ Big Media: The Space Race and Mass Communication
Heidi Gautschi, From Dots and Dashes to Bits and Bytes: What the Telegraph Can Teach us About 21st Century Change and Transition
Flourish Klink, The Amateur Press Association and the Growth of American Participatory Culture
Kelley Kreitz, Nineteenth-Century Media in Transition: Rewiring New York’s New Journalism and the U.S. Realist Novel
moderator: John Picker

Friday, May 13 continued

Reference 2.0
Stuart Geiger, User-Generated Platforms in Wikipedian Governance; or Users Are Developers, Too!
Anastasia Logotheti, Transitioning to E-Shakespeare: Textual Instability and the Digital Age
Olivier Nyirubugara, Everything About the Past: Wikipedia and History Education
Darrell Penta, The Wiki-fication of the Dictionary: Defining Lexicography in the Digital Age
moderator: Kevin Driscoll

Media Interventions in the Age of Biopower
Norm Friesen, Shannon Lowe, Body Politics in an Age of Ubiquitous Media: Resistance in the Face(book) of Relentless Conviviality
Theo Hug, Claudia Schwarz, Media Activism in Search of ‘Truth’? Questioning the Mission to Restore Sanity
Winifred Poster, The World’s First Virtual Strike: Indian Infoworkers and the Transformation of Labor Activism Through ICTs
Wolfgang Sutzl, Banquets, Blasphemy and Grotesque Bodies: Carnivalesque Forms in Biopolitical Media Activism
moderator: Theo Hug

Theoretical Instability
Mats Bjorkin, How Shakespeare, Hollywood, and Napoleon Shaped Cold-War Corporate Communication
Goran Bolin, The Duality of Platforms: The Two Active Audiences in Media Theory
Janet Sternberg, Unstable Users: Displacement and Distraction as Perils of the Transition to Digital Media
Peter Walsh, The "Expert Paradigm" Revisited: Media Change and the Consensus Narrative
moderator: Katharina Niemeyer

5:15-5:30

Break

5:30-7
Fri., May 13

Call Session 2

E51-145

Feeling Connected
Liu Jun, Zhao Hui, Guanxi and Social Mobile Networks in China
Amalia Levi, A Retrospective on Collaborative Sense-Making
Amber Watts, From Photoplay to Twitter: Celebrity in the First Person
moderator: Darrell Penta

Digital Film Production
Aymar Jean Christian, Promise and Problems: Independent Production in Periods of Change
Daniel Faltesek, Film, Video, Metadata: Time-Axis Manipulation After the Linear Medium
Kim Knowles, Analog Obsolescence and the ‘Death of Cinema’ Debate: The Case of Experimental Film
moderator:

Computer Histories
Sandra Braman, Designing for Instability: Internet Architecture and Constant Change
Kevin Driscoll, Revisiting Bill Gates’ "Open Letter to Hobbyists”
Ryan Ehmke, The Influence of Hacking: Hacking Under the Influence
Colleen Kaman, “Interop,” Internet Commercialization, and the Early Politics of Global Computer Networks
moderator: Nick Montfort

Friday, May 13 continued

Museum 2.0
Gary Keller, Disruptive Technologies and Transforming Policies: Fair Use of Visual Images
Paul Kortenaar, Mary Leigh Morbey, Maureen Senoga, Lourdes Villamor, Problematics of the Uganda National Museum Engaging Web 2.0
Debora Lui, From the Theater to the Gallery: Harry Potter Engagements within the Museum
Francis Marchese, Conserving Digital Art for the Ages
moderator: sam smiley

Violence and Bitterness
Leandro Gejfinbein, Rejane Spitz, Lessons from the Front: Rio’s War against Drug Trafficking, Participatory Culture and New Media Paradigms for Brazilian Soap Operas
Katharina Niemeyer, A Story about Random Memories and Fragmented History on Screens
Robert Samet, Bitter Speech: The Press and Popular Mobilization in Caracas, Venezuela
moderator: Eugenie Brinkema

Digital Nations
Morgan Charles, The Digitization of Memory at the National Film Board of Canada
Anne Ciecko, Contemporary Film and Media Cultures in Bahrain: Emergence/ Convergence in a State of Emergency
Digdem Sezen, Tonguc Sezen, Transmedia a la Turk
moderator: Anastasia Logotheti

Saturday, May 14 [Friday, May 13] [Sunday, May 15]

8-9
Ting Foyer

Coffee, Rolls, Fruit

9-10:30
Sat., May 14

Call Session 3

Social Media, Commercial Media
Keidra Chaney, Raizel Liebler, Be the Brand: Required Involvement in Social Media
Alex Leavitt, Digital Culture in Transition: “Open-Source Culture” and the Cult of Hatsune Miku
Fiona McQuarrie, Leighann Neilson, Can Social Media Mobilize Audiences and Consumers for Non-Commercial Purposes?
moderator: Raizel Liebler

Reading and Writing
Wendy Austin, Kindles and Nooks and Droids, Oh My!: Analog Reading Habits Help Us Adapt Better to Digital Contexts
Andrew Feldstein, Digital Delivery of Course Content: Is Johnny Reading?
Chris Gerben, Getting What You Pay For: Piloting a Free e-Textbook Program in an Advanced Writing Course
moderator: Jeffrey Gutierrez

Playing with Instability in the Game Industry
Ben Aslinger, Consoles and Culture
Mia Consalvo, Antipathy and Social Games
Nina Huntemann, Unstable Play/ Unstable Labor: Play Testers and the Production of Fun
Randall Nichols, Contextualizing Consoles: Problematizing Video Game Hardware
moderator: Darius Kazemi

Women and Media Change
Katarzyna Chmielewska, Citizen Housewife: Female Bloggers and Constructions of Domesticity as a Political Act
Alex Jenkins, A Guild Storyworld
Marcienne Martin, A Pseudonym on the Internet, an Anthroponym with a Multidimensional Status
moderator: Andrea Walsh

Saturday, May 14 continued

Digital Methods Amsterdam I
Anat Ben-David, The Emergence of the Palestinian Web-Space: A Digital History of a Digital Landscape
Liliana Bounegru, Mapping the Abortion Debate on the Romanian Web: Top Google Rankings as Measure of Popularity or Marginality?
Richard Rogers, After Cyberspace: Data-rich Media Online
Marc Tuters, Forget Psychogeography: The Object-Turn in Locative Media
moderator: Sabine Niederer

Commerce and Economics
Pat Brereton, Teaching Smart Cinema: DVD Add-ons and New Audience Pleasures
Michael Goldberg, A Sort of Umbilical Relation: Capital Flows and the Scopic Portal of the Computer Screen
Justin Mack, Who Told You You Were Special Edition? The Commercialization of the Aura
Lana Swartz, Time Banking, the Business of Sharing, and Ghoulish ATMs: Personal Economics and Social Change
moderator: Audubon Dougherty

E51-372

Workshop: Transmedia Production at the Crossroads
Jennifer Brayton, Global Transitions in the Framing of Fan Activities: Exploring the Cross-Border Practices of a Canadian Fan
Jennifer Gillan, Sync in Progress: Disney/ABC Transmedia Marketing and Audience Address
Melanie Kohnen, Consuming Queer Stories: Transmedia Authorship and Branding in the It Gets Better Project
Anne Kustritz, Queer Interpolations and Identification’s Excesses: Faux Intimacies of the Fan Twitterscape
Louisa Stein, @mishacollins: Twitter and Fan/Celebrity Authorship
moderator: Melanie Kohnen

10:30-11

Break

11-12:30
Wong Aud.

Forum 2: Archives and Cultural Memory (panel questions)
Frank Marchese, Pace Digital Gallery
Julia Noordegraaf, University of Amsterdam
Jason Rhody, Office of Digital Humanities, NEH
Moderator: Nick Monfort, MIT
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12:30-1:30
Ting Foyer

Bag Lunch

1:30-3
Sat., May 14

Call Session 4

Legal and Social Links
Margaret Heller, Nell Taylor, The Library Catalog as Social Glue: Using Local Data to Establish Relevance, Visibility and Transparency in Communities
Mark Leccese, Shallow Netroots: Hypertext Links to Advocacy Organizations in Political Blogs
Paul van den Hoven, The Rubber Bands Are Broken
moderator: Colleen Kaman

New Platforms for Education
Andrea Mangiatordi et al, Facebook Influence on University Students' Media Habits
Mary Leigh Morbey, Metamedia Immersive Environments: Transitions in Digital Learning
Andi Sciacca, The Digital Kitchen
Young Song, Lisa Donovan, Kristina Sansone, Multiple Layers of Learning through Digital Transition: VoiceThread
moderator: Chris Gerben

Game Contexts and Discourses
Robert Furze, Virtual Bliss, Analog Horrors: Reading the Imperfect Digital Image in Film and the Video Game
Pilar Lacasa, Oral, Digital and Analogical Cultures Around Videogames
Jeremy Sarachan, Facebook Games: A Content Analysis of Users' Comments
moderator:

Journalism in Transition
Matt Bernius, Dreaming of Cronkite 2.0: How Twitter’s Encoded Media Ideologies Are Changing Reportage Around Breaking Events
Shakuntala Rao, “Chindia” and Global Communication: Two Media and Journalisms in Transition and What it Means for the Rest of Us
Cecilia Teljas, The Uses of Social Media in the Swedish Online Newspaper Aftonbladet
moderator: James Paradis

Saturday, May 14 continued

Digital Methods Amsterdam II
Erik Borra, Thomas Poell, The Social Media Protest Environment: Constructing the Collective Now
Anne Helmond, Esther Weltevrede, Where Do Bloggers Blog? Studying Platform Transitions within the Dutch Blogosphere
Sabine Niederer, Wikipedia as Platform for the Study of Controversy: The Case of Climate Change Skepticism
moderator: Richard Rogers

Innovative Business Practices
Joanne Morreale, RealAnnoyingOrange: A YouTube Success Story?
Jamie O'Neil, A General Theory of Skipping
Stefan Werning, Studying Media Usage by Studying Micro Business Models
moderator: Audubon Dougherty

E51-372

TV Readings, TV Transitions
June Deery, Texts and Texting: TV and the Internet
Alberto Frigo, Understanding Television as a Social Experience
Klaus Peter Muller, New Platforms: More Choice – Less Freedom?: Mediated Narratives of Human History
Michael Z. Newman, The Television Image and the Image of the Television
moderator: Michael Newman

3-3:30

Break

3:30-5
Sat., May 14

Call Session 5

Unstable Online Forums
Yair Galily, Ilan Tamir, The Sport-Blogging Community and the Public Sphere: An Israeli Perspective
Guillaume Latzko-Toth, Unstable by Design: IRC as an Ongoing Project
Jon Saklofske, Inb4 404: Using 4chan.org to Challenge the Stasis Quo Illusion of Media Stability
moderator: Janet Sternberg

Classrooms and Libraries in Transition
Sean Galvin, Making the Transition from Lay to Expert Knowledge in an Urban Community College
Bob Hanke, The Network University in Transition
Paulina Mickiewicz, Knowledge Experiments: Technology and the Library
moderator: Margaret Weigel

Emulating, Preserving and Reading Games
Clara Fernandez-Vara, Emulation as a Tool to Study Videogame History
Ian Peters, The Life Cycle of the MMORPG: Champions Online and Theoretical Discourses on Preservation
Jaroslav Svelch, Indiana Jones Fights the Communist Police: Text Adventures as a Transitional Media Form in the 1980’s Czechoslovakia
moderator: Ben Aslinger

Urban Media
Alex Braidwood, Negotiating Noise as a Condition of Urbanization
Kurt Fendt, Audubon Dougherty, Melissa Edoh, Engaging Neighborhoods with a Sense of History – Civic Media in Evolving Urban Settings
Dianne M. Garyantes, Christopher Harper, Philadelphia Neighborhoods: Journalism Street by Street
moderator: Jeffrey S. Ravel

Saturday, May 14 continued

Digital Methods Amsterdam III
Carolin Gerlitz, Anne Helmond, The Like Economy: The Social Web in Transition
Catalina Iorga, Facebook and Publicness: The News Sphere
Simeona Petkova, Dynamics of Remembering and Forgetting on the Social Web Platforms
Lonneke van der Velden, Facebook Speak Up!
moderator: Esther Weltevrede

Pirates
Burcu Bakioglu, Operation Payback (…is a Bitch): Hacktivism at the dawn of Copyright Controversies
Bodo Balasz, Informal Media Economies – What Can We Learn from the Pirates of Yesteryear?
Martin Fredriksson, The Ideology of Piracy and the Public Spheres of Modernity
Jinying Li, Piracy, Circulation, and Cultural Control in Cyber-Age China
moderator: Marcienne Martin

5-5:30

Break

5:30-7
Wong Aud.

7-9
Ting Foyer

Reception

Sunday, May 15 [Friday, May 13] [Saturday, May 14]

8-9
Ting Foyer

Coffee, Rolls, Fruit

9-10:30

Call Session 6

Narratives and Digital Lives
Raivo Kelomees, Stories with Choices: Artist´s Multimedia Narratives
Stacey Koosel, Digital Identity Narratives
Raine Koskimaa, Changing the Past: Time-Reversal as Game Mechanic
Virve Sarapik, Haptic Narrative
Piret Viires, Narratives across Media: From Blogs to Paper
moderator: Raine Koskimaa

Media Across Generations
Verena Fuchsberger, Generational Divides in Terms of the Actor-Network-Theory: Potential Crises and the Potential of Crises
Tamara Shepherd, Politics of Gender and Generation in the Labour of User-Generated Content (UGC)
Margaret Weigel, How the Digital is Impacting Perceptions of Quality in Aesthetic Domains
moderator: Nell Taylor

Youth, Power and Media
Sanjay Asthana, Tradition, Power, and Dialogue: A Study of Youth Media in Palestine/ Israel
Donna DeGennaro, Youth Media Productions: Deconstructing “Difference” or Reifying Norms?
Koen Leurs, Sandra Ponzanesi, Mind the Gap! Migrant Youth Online and the ‘Internetworked’ Experiences of Transition
Samuel Sieber, Strategies of Instability: Police and Politics of Media Dispositifs
moderator: Olivier Nyirubugara

Sunday, May 15 continued

Memories and Gaps
Brian Johnsrud, Putting the Pieces Together Again: Digital Photography and the Compulsion to Order Violence at Abu Ghraib
Julia Noordegraaf, Remembering the Past in the Dynarchive: The State of Knowledge in Digital Archives
Sarah Sweeney, Memory Objects
moderator: Jeffrey Gutierrez

Art and Community
Ricardo Amaral, The Curious Case of The Radia Community
Lori Landay, Virtual Transitions: A Report from a Shifting Field
Lorraine Lezama, Crowdfunding and its Social and Legal Implications for the Artworld

Capital, Time and Media Bias
Atle Kjosen, Gifts and Commodities: Temporal Contradictions of the Internet Economy and their Forms of Appearance
Vincent Manzerolle, Personalizing Social Media: The Bias of Ubiquitous Connectivity
Kamilla Pietrzyk, Preserving Digital Narratives in an Age of Present-Mindedness: the View from Toronto
moderator: Lana Swartz

10:30-10:45

Break

10:45-12:15
Sun., May 15

Call Session 7

Emerging Forms of Narrative
Teun Dubbelman, How New Media Change Our Experience of Stories
Heike Ortner, (Un)Stable Emotions: Media-related Transitions and Consolidation of Emotional Communication
April Wei, Spatial Navigation and Narrative Construction Across Media
moderator: Clara Fernandez-Vara

Archives and Objects
Paul Benzon, Archive, Cache, Database: Digital Literature in Transition
Gayle Gatchalian, Hoarding the Ethereal: How We Have more Things (and more Problems) but with Less Clutter
Aaron Smith, Beyond the Brick: Narrativizing LEGO in the Digital Age
Courtney Lee Weida, Counterculture, Craftsmanship, and Cyberspace: Considerations of Contemporary Feminist Zines in/ as/ of Education
moderator: Amaranth Borsuk

Location and Media
Magda Rodrigues da Cunha, “Walking” Narrative: The Possibilities of the Locast Platform
Eduardo Pellanda, Talking Places: How Conversations Are Made from the Locations
Tristan Thielmann, Mappings by Ourselves: Towards a Media History of Geomobility
moderator: Xiaochang Li

Sunday, May 15 continued

Interface and Touch
Konrad Budziszewski, Something Wii-cked This Way Comes: Casual Gaming, Technological “Inadequacy,” and the Politics of Exclusion
Till A. Heilmann, Buttons and Fingers: Our Digital Condition
Xinghua Li, The In(-frared)visible Hand: Kinect, Interactive Pornography, and the Quest for “Action at a Distance”
moderator: Noel Jackson

Publishing in Transition
Kristin Anderson-Terpstra, Casey Brienza, A Case Study of Manga Distribution in the United States
Hanno Biber, Evelyn Breiteneder, Transformation Matters: The Processes of Transforming Print into Digital in Text Corpora
Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Publishing: It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
Karen Hellekson, Academic Journals Online
moderator: Kim Knowles