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international conference  april 27-29, 2007 mit
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Center for Social Media
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List Visual Arts Center
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Featured Public Events
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Plenary Conversation 1
Folk Cultures and Digital Cultures
Lewis Hyde, Kenyon College
Thomas Pettitt, University of Southern Denmark
S. Craig Watkins, University of Texas
Moderator: David Thorburn, MIT
Friday, April 27
12:30-2:00
E25-111
Plenary Conversation 2
Collaboration and Collective Intelligence
Mimi Ito, Annenberg Center for Communication
Cory Ondrejka, Linden Lab
Trebor Scholz, SUNY Buffalo
Moderator: Thomas Malone, MIT
Friday, April 27
5:45-7:15
Bartos Theater
Media Lab (E15)
Plenary Conversation 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
Saturday, April 28
3:15-4:45
Bartos Theater
Media Lab (E15)
Plenary Conversation 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
Saturday, April 28
7:30-9:30
Bartos Theater
Media Lab (E15)
Plenary Conversation 5
Reproduction, Mimicry, Critique and Distribution Systems in Visual Art
Tony Cokes, Brown University
Andres Laracuente, artist
Michael Mittelman, ASPECT
Moderator: Bill Arning,
List Visual Arts Center, MIT
Sunday, April 29
10:45 am-12:15 pm
Bartos Theater
Media Lab (E15)
Plenary Conversation 6
Summary Perspectives
Suzanne de Castell, Simon Fraser University
Fred Turner, Stanford
Siva Vaidhyanathan, NYU
Jose van Dijck, University of Amsterdam
Moderator: Nick Montfort, University of Pennsylvania
Sunday, April 29
12:30-2
Bartos Theater
Media Lab (E15) |
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Friday, April 27 |
Saturday, April 28 |
Sunday, April 29 |
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11am-12pm
E25-111 |
Registration |
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12-12:30
E25-111 |
Welcome and Introductions |
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12:30-2
E25-111 |
Plenary 1: Folk Cultures and Digital Cultures
Lewis Hyde,
Kenyon College
Thomas Pettitt, University of Southern Denmark
S. Craig Watkins,
University of Texas
Moderator: David Thorburn, MIT |
2-2:15 |
Break |
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2:15-3:45 |
Call Session 1 |
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| 2-105 |
Authorship and Network Culture
Lanfranco Aceti, Displaced Commentaries, Multiple Artifices and Many Authors?
Jessica Hammer, Traditional, Collaborative and Mixed Forms of Authorship
Alok Nandi, From Hyperfiction to Extrafiction
Jon Saklofske, The Necessity of Collaboration, Conversation, Complexty and Conflict in the Constitution of Digital Culture(s)
Moderator: Lanfranco Aceti |
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| 4-144 |
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 |
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| 4-146 |
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 |
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| 4-149 |
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 |
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| 4-253 |
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 |
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| 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 |
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| E25-117 |
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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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3:45-4 |
Break |
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4-5:30 |
Call Session 2 |
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| 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 |
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| 4-144 |
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 |
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| 4-146 |
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 |
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| 4-149 |
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 |
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| 4-163 |
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 |
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| 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 |
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| 4-253 |
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 |
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| E25-117 |
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
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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
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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 |
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Saturday, April 28 |
Friday, April 27 |
Sunday, April 29 |
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8:30-9
Bartos Atrium |
Coffee and rolls |
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9-10:30 |
Call Session 3 |
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| 4-144 |
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 |
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| 4-146 |
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 |
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| 4-149 |
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 |
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| 4-153 |
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 |
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| 4-159 |
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 |
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| 4-163 |
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 |
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| 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 |
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| 4-253 |
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 |
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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 |
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| 4-270 |
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 |
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10:30-10:45 |
Break |
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10:45-12:15 |
Call Session 4 |
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| 4-144 |
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 |
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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
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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