International Conference April 24-26, 2009 MIT

note to speakers and moderators; register early on Friday, April 24 in E51

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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