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Agenda

Friday, October 8, 1999

1 - 2 pm Bldg. 34 Rm. 101		Registration
2 - 2:45 pm Bldg. 34 Rm. 101		Introduction Philip S. Khoury, Welcome Henry Jenkins, Comparative Media: An Emerging Discipline David Thorburn, New Media, Old Purposes
3 - 5 pm Bldg. 34 Rm. 101		PLENARY CONVERSATION 1 Childhood and Adolescence in a Mediated Culture Henry Jenkins, Mitchel Resnick, Maria Tatar, Sherry Turkle Moderator: Steven Lerman
5:15 - 6:30 pm Bldg. E51		Call Session 1
Rm. 151		Rethinking the History of Information Charles Bazerman,Nuclear Information: One Rhetorical Moment in the Construction of the Information Age Oz Frankel, "Potholes on the Information Highway: Congress as a Publisher in the 19th Century Richard Menke, Henry James and Telegraphic Realism: Fiction and/as Technology Moderator: James Buzard
Rm. 149		The Future of Documentary: Case Studies Stephanie Barish, As Many Become One Andrew Jakubowicz, Digital Discourses of the Social Margaret Crane and Jon Winet, Elective Documentary Fictions Moderator: Christine Walley
Rm. 145		Performance and the Body in Cyberspace John Campbell, Guts and Muscles and Bears, Oh My! Constructing the Erotic Body and Queer Space Online Andreas Kitzman, Watching the Web Watch Me: Explorations of the Domestic Web-cam Kurt Lancaster, Cyberspace: Shaping Participatory Performances Through an Interface in the Blair Witch Project Moderator: James Cain
Rm. 335		The Spaces of New Media Constance Balides, Virtual Spaces and Incorporative Logics in Contemporary Films Angela Ndalianis, Neo-Baroque Aesthetics and Contemporary Media Spectacles Kelly Cole, Disney in Times Square Moderator: Michael Leja
Rm. 345		The New Newsroom Elizabeth Rogers, Audience and Online News Delivery: The Impact of Technology on Editorial Gatekeeping Bob Stepno, Happy Valley and Beyond: Establishing Local Identity for Online News Wendy Dibean and Bruce Garrison, Content Types and Daily Newspapers: Use of World Wide Web Technologies Moderator: Douglas Sery
Rm. 372		Changing Perceptions of Media Consumption William Warner, Media Technology Ambivalence: Novel Reading, TV Watching, Web Surfing Alan McKee, Great Moments in Australian Television: Constructing TV as an Object of Study Paul Erickson, Help or Hindrance? The History the Book and Electronic Media Moderator: Suzanne Flynn
5:15 - 6:30 pm Bldg. E51 Rm. 376		Screening Jeffrey Ruoff, The Last Vaudevillian - A Film
6:30 - 7:45 pm Bldg. 13 Bush Lobby		Reception
8 - 10 pm Bldg. 34 Rm. 101		PLENARY CONVERSATION 2 Democracy and New Media Phil Agre, Elaine Kamarck, Adam Powell, Paul Starr Moderator: Hal Abelson

Saturday, October 9, 1999

9:15 - 10:45 am Bldg. E51		Call Session 2
Rm. 372		Childhood in a Mediated World Shari Goldin, "Inventing Citizens of the World": Children and the Radio Era Nicholas Sammond, See You Real Soon: Imagining the Child in Disney's Cold-War Natural Order Moderator: Haydn Kernal
Rm. 149		Aesthetic Consequences of New Media Luis O. Arata, Reflections About Interactivity... Matthew Kirschenbaum, The Other End of Print: David Carson, Graphic Design, and the Aesthetics of Media Maureen Furniss, Motion Capture: Aesthetic Considerations Moderator: Edward Baron Turk
Rm. 335		The Metaphors We Live By Alexander Halavais, Global Brain, Global Metropolis, and Role of Communications Technologies in the Evolution of Social Networks Virginia Eubanks, The Mythography of the "New Frontier" David Sholle, What Is Information? The Flow of Bits and the Control of Chaos Moderator: Hugh Gusterson
Rm. 151		The Value of Books Priscilla Coit Murphy, The Death of Books: A Short History of Predictions Trysh Travis, Ideas and Commodities: The Image of the Book Cathrine Turner, Where Ideal Avenue Meets Practical Street Moderator: Tina Klein
Rm. 145		Breaking Down the Mass Audience David Urban, In Search of Its Foundations: Mass Communication Research in Transition Greg Elmer, Forced Customization Mary Ellen Curtin, The Learning Curve: Hypertext, Fan Fiction, and the Calculus of Human Nature Moderator: Eithne Johnson
9:15 - 10:45 am Bldg. 4		Demonstrations
Rm. 231		Stephanie Barish, Survivers: Testimonies of the Holocaust A Multimedia, Educational CD-ROM Project Andrew Jakubowicz, Multicultural Australia A Multimedia Documentary
Sat 9 Oct 11 am - 12:30 pm Bldg. E51		Call Session 3
Rm. 372		Social Networks Paula Gardner, Constructing "Recovered" Citizens Warren Sack and Joseph Dumit, Very Large Scale Conversations and Illness Based Social Movements Steve Jones, The WELL Run Dry: On the Need for Critical/Historical Study of Commerce and Online Community Moderator: Kurt Fendt
Rm. 149		Playing With New Media Eric Zimmerman, Rules / Play / Culture: A Model for Designing Play Ron Burnett, Digital Technology, Transformation and Aesthetic Invention Tom Kemper, Instant Re-Players: From Sports Fans to Video Game Players: A Cognitive History Moderator: Janet Sonenberg
Rm. 315		Rethinking Intellectual Property Penelope Alfrey, Copyright and Originality in Art and Design Arthur Chandler, Grooving to Their Own Beat: How MP3 Technology Dynamites the Music Biz Dam Liam Harte, Two Notions of Lockean Property Moderator: Marlene Manoff
Rm. 335		Redefining the Screen William Boddy, Technological Convergence as Trauma and Business Plan Anne Friedberg, The Virtual Window Susan Kretchmer and Rod Carveth, Through the Looking Glass: Media Convergence at the Nexus of Television and Hypertext Moderator: Edward Barrett
Rm. 376		New Media and New Voices Daniel Thorburn, Prophetic Peasants and Bourgeois Pamphleteers Tom Cragin, The Importance of Violence to the Mass Press in Nineteenth-Century Europe Peter Walsh, That Withered Paradigm: The Web, the Expert, and the Information Hegemony Moderator: Jim Paradis
Rm. 145		Global Media I Cristina Venegas, Will the Internet Spoil Castro's Cuba? Anandam Kavoori and Christina Joseph, Technoculture, Ethnicity, and Indian Cinema James Castonguay, World Wide Web Wars: The Internet and Democratic Media Culture Moderator: Shankar Raman
11 - 12:30 pm Bldg. 4		Demonstrations
Rm. 231		Andrew Jakubowicz, Multicultural Australia A Multimedia Documentary Margaret Crane and Jon Winet, Democracy - The Last Campaign A Current Art and Technology Project
Rm. 237		Fran Ilich and Dan Arenzon, The Electronic Landscape Roderick Coover, On the Rhetorics and Conventions of Visual Media in the Representation of Cultures
12:30 - 2 pm Bldg. E15 Bartos Theater		Lunch
Sat 9 Oct 2:15 - 3:45 pm Bldg. E51		Call Session 4
Rm. 145		Celebrities and Talk Priscilla Barlow, The Intertextual Tigerskin Angela Dalla Vacche, The Diva, The New Woman, and the Airplane Gene Suarez, From Conversation to Interview: Talk in Transition Moderator: David Lugowski
Rm. 149		Science Fiction as Vernacular Theory Mark Pesce, The Novel as Software Development Mary Flanagan, Reload: Rethinking Women and Cyberculture Respondent: Daniel Bernardi Moderator: Joe Haldeman
Rm. 335		Media Technologies and Museum Spaces Jim Wehmeyer, The Virtual Museum as Wonder Cabinet Alison Griffiths, Media Technology and Museum Display Frederico Windhausen, How To Be Specific: Video Art Before and After Post-Media Moderator: Michael Fischer
Rm. 151		The Changing Face of News John Hartley, Public Address and the Time Frequency of Writing Robert Huesca and Brenda Dervin, Hypertext and Journalism: Audiences Respond to Competing News Narratives Tiffany Fessler, Newer Technologies versus Older Mediums: Can Newspapers Survive? Moderator: Robert Kanigel
Rm. 372		Rethinking Literacy Edith Ackermann, Text Beyond Print: Digital kids and Emerging Literacies Charles Tashiro, The New Literacy Project Phiroze Vasunia, Plato's Phaedrus and New Media: An Historical Perspective Moderator: Irving Singer
2:15 - 3:45 pm Bldg. E51 Rm. 376		Screening Jeffrey Ruoff, The Last Vaudevillian - A Film
2:15 - 3:45 pm Bldg. 4		Demonstrations
Rm. 231		Virginia Nightingale, To Tell My Sisters.... Margaret Crane and Jon Winet, Democracy - The Last Campaign An Art and Technology Project
4 - 6 pm Bldg. 34 Rm. 101		PLENARY CONVERSATION 3 The Aesthetics of Transition: Stories and Audiences Jay Bolter, Robert Darnton, Bob Stein, William Uricchio Moderator: David Thorburn

Sunday, October 10, 1999

9 - 10:30 am Bldg. E15 Bartos Theater		PLENARY DISCUSSION PANEL Digital Books, Digital Teaching Bob Stein, The Electronic Book John Maeda, New Media Design Education at the Media Lab Moderator: Peter Donaldson
11 am - 12:30 pm Bldg. E51		Call Session 5
Rm. 145		Projects and Process Mary Hopper, A Project About Projects: Watching Academic Electronic Media Projects Evolve Jane Shattuc, The Webbing Under the Film: Frontline's Rewriting of the Text of June Cross's Secret Daughter Respondent: Mary Beth Haralovich Moderator: Ellen Crocker
Rm. 149		Fan Cultures Steven Elworth, Lone Gunmen and the Problem of Epistemology: A Place for the Fan in The X-Files Sharon Cumberland, Private Uses of Cyberspace: Women, Desire, and Fan Culture Ursula Ganz-Blaettler, Shareware or Prestigious Privilege? Television Fans as Knowledge Brokers Moderator: Eric Schaefer
Rm. 151		Reproducing Sight and Sound Wendy Bellion, The Mechanization of Likeness in Early American Portraiture Lisa Gitelman, How End Users Define Media: A History of the Amusement Phonograph Moderator: Martin Marks
Rm. 335		Transforming Teaching Anna Everett, Cinema Studies in the Age of Digital Reproductions Julia "Evergreen" Keefer, Cyberperformances as An Academic Ritual Moderator: Gilberte Furstenberg
Rm. 372		The Public Sphere Jon Bekken, New Media and the Prospect for Democratic Communication James Hay, Unaided Virtures: The (Neo-)Liberalization of the Domestic Sphere Ingrid Volkmer, International Communication Theory in Transition: Parameters of the New Global Public Sphere Moderator: Stephen Ansolabehere
Rm. 376		Global Media II Ashley Dawson, The Revolution is Being Televised Christopher Vaughan, Expanded Vistas: New World Orders and Mass Media at the Close of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Moderator: Nicholas Wey-Gomez
11 - 12:30 pm Bldg. 4		Demonstrations
Rm. 237		Fran Ilich and Dan Arenzon, The Electronic Landscape Roderick Coover, On the Rhetorics and Conventions of Visual Media in the Representation of Cultures
Sun 10 Oct 12:45 - 1:30 pm Bldg. E15 Bartos Theater		Summary Perspectives Dialogue with Selected Panelists and Audience
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