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fourth media in transition conference

may 6-8, 2005 at mit, cambridge, ma

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Roundtable 1: Migratory Narratives: Why Some Stories Replicate Across Media, Cultures, Historical Eras
Richard Howells, University of Leeds
Thomas Pettitt, University of Southern Denmark
Janet Staiger, University of Texas, Austin
Moderator: William Uricchio
Friday, May 6, 2005
1:30-3:00

Wong Auditorium
Building E51

Roundtable 2: Why Are Stories Violent?
Kevin Sandler, University of Arizona
Maria Tatar, Harvard University
Moderator; David Thorburn

Saturday, May 7, 2005
10:45-12:15

Bartos Theater
Media Lab

Roundtable 3: Narratives of Science
Robert Kanigel, MIT
Thomas Levenson, MIT
Alan Lightman, MIT
Saturday, May 7, 2005
3:15-4:45

Bartos Theater
Media Lab

New Media Projects: Demos from the Media Lab and Comparative Media Studies
Walter Bender, Media Lab
Beth Coleman, CMS
Chris Csikszentmihalyi, Media Lab
Thomas DeFrantz, CMS
Hiroshi Ishii, Media Lab
Eric Klopfer, CMS
Kimiko Ryokai, Media Lab
Moderator: Henry Jenkins, CMS
Saturday, May 7, 2005
7:30-9:30

Bartos Theater
Media Lab

Roundtable 4: Summary Perspectives
Mary Beth Haralovich, University of Arizona
Joe Lambert,
Center for Digital Storytelling
Thomas M. McLaughlin, Appalachian State University
Jason Mittell, Middlebury College
Sunday, May 8, 2005
12:30-2

Bartos Theater
Media Lab



mit4 conference agenda

Friday, May 6

Saturday, May 7 Sunday, May 8
   
12-1
Wong Aud. Foyer
Building E51
registration
   
1-1:30
Wong Aud.
Building E51
welcome and introduction
   
1:30-3
Wong Aud.
Building E51
Roundtable 1: Migratory Narratives: Why Some Stories Replicate Across Media, Cultures, Historical Eras
Richard Howells, University of Leeds
Thomas Pettitt, University of Southern Denmark
Janet Staiger, University of Texas, Austin
Moderator: William Uricchio, CMS
   
3-3:15 break
   
3:15-4:45 Call Session 1 (room assignments to be posted)
   
56-167 Applying Oral History to Media Research (workshop)
Steven Classen
Devorah Heitner
Mark Williams
   
56-180 Journalism 1
Claudia Schwarz, The Ethics of Faking in Photojournalism
Stephen Sobol, The Journalist in the Machine
Peter Walsh, The Truth, The News and the Presumptive Narrative
   
E51-315 Narrative Theory 1
David Herman, Cognitive Approaches to Stories and Storytelling
Pieter Verstraete, Vocal Distress on Stage: Voice and Diegetic Space in Contemporary Music Theatre
Sarah Worth, Knowing through Storytelling
   
E51-376 Bombay Cinema
Kalyani Chadha, The Muslim as Other in Hindi Cinema
Vamsee Juluri, Exploring the Emotional and Relationship Matrix of Terrorist Cinema
Aswin Punathambekar, Notes on Film Music and Fan Collectives in an Age of Convergence
Moderator: Jyotika Virdi
   
E51-390 Migratory Stories 1
Pavlos Baltas, Nikos Barbopoulos, Theodoros Chiotis, The Archetypal Road Myth
Madeleine Kleberg and Esther Pollock, Murder, Motives and Morality
Amanda Klein, The Persistence of the American Dream in the Gangster Film
Moderator: Brian Jacobson
   
E51-325 Stories and Identities 1
Brigitte Hipfl, Memory Work: Narrating Media Experiences
Sue Thomas, Voices from Everywhere
Nancy Thumim, Mediating Ordinary Peoples' Stories
   
56-191 Transmedia Narrative 1
Lanfranco Aceti, Intermedia Narratives: European Cinema Militans
Kimberly Owczarski, Fostering the Hyperconscious Narrative
Simone Seym, Aesthetics and Practices of Transmedia Storytelling
Moderator: Chris Boulton
   
E51-085 Activism 1
Sara Koopman, The Power of Stories to Build Solidarity Across Difference
Julie M.A. LeBlanc, Pierre Falardeau, His Works, and the Independence Movement in Quebec
Shoshana Madmoni-Gerber, Storytelling and the Politics of Representation
   
E51-063 Fiction / Non-Fiction
Sharon Ross, Where Supernatural and Television Meet
Janet Staiger, Conspiracy Formulas in Contemporary Fiction and Non-Fiction Films
   
4:45-5 break
   
5-6:30 Call Session 2 (room assignments to be posted)
   

E51-315


Friday, May 6 continued 

Children, Homes, Families
Julie Benjamin, The Family Slide Evening
Ellen Menefee, The Stories Embedded in Today's Model Homes
Sarah Nilsen, Mickey Mouse Mediocrity
Moderator: Orit Kuritsky
   
E51-376 Alternative Cinemas 1
Kurt Lancaster, David Lynch and Robert Wilson: Contemporary Surrealist Storytellers
Ayana McNair, Spike Lee: Avant-Garde Filmmaker
Sheila Nayar, The Literate Contours of Art-Cinema Narration
Alisa Perren, What About the Genre FIlm?
   
56-191 Transmedia Narrative 2
Siobahn O'Flynn, Narrativity Across Media
Rolf Sindoe, Exploit Yourself: Just Meta-Communicate it! A Reading of the Danish Writer Claus Beck-Nielsen
Jenny Sunden, From Storyspace to Storied Places: Producing and Consuming the Machinic Feminine
   
E51-085 Games 1
Robert Buerkle, Test-Driving Avatars: Max Payne, Ergodic Texts, and the Character-Vehicle
Ken Newman, Online Role Playing and Perceptions of Fun
Samuel Willcocks, Why FRPGs?
   
E51-390 Stories of Latin America
Dora and James Fitzgerald, From "El Corrido de Gregorio Cortez" to Come and Take it Day
Gary Keller, One Hundred Years of Cisco, Zorro, and Other Latina/o Good Bandits
Roberto Avant-Mier, Testimonio, Indigenous Agents and the Rigoberta Menchu Controversy
   

56-180

5-6:30
Friday, May 6 continued

Reinventing Radio
Martin Boyden, Fiction's Work in the Story of Radical Radio
Walter Bender, Carla Gomez-Monroy, Stephen Schultze, Familiarity and Concern in the Radio Voice of a Networked Diaspora Community
Moderator: Joellen Easton
   
E51-325 Stories and Identities 2
Melissa Bostrom, Story into Short Story: Cultural Roots and Cultural Work
Erica Magris, Storytelling, Technologies and Traditions in Italy: Storie Mandaliche
Caren Neile, Storytelling, Subversion and the U.S. Culture Industry 
   
56-167 Scraps, Chunks, Fragments
Barbara Audet, Visualizing the Story through Reinvention of the American Scrapbook
J. R. Carpenter, Partial Responses to Scattered Letters
Bruno Lessard, QuickTime Technology and the CD-ROM: The (Retro)Future of Storytelling?
   
   
   
Saturday, May 7  
   
Friday, May 6 Sunday, May 8
   
9-10:30 Call Session 3 (room assignments to be posted)
   
56-180

Indigenous Voices
Anna Brigido-Corachan, Reconfiguring Zapotec Stories
Joanna Hearne, Old Images and New Stories in Indigenous Cinemas
David Tafler, Changing Storytelling Practices on the Pitjantjatjara Lands in Central Australia
Moderator: Elfriede Fursich

   
56-191 Migratory Stories 2
Peter Aronsson, "Moberglands" in Media and on Both Sides of the Atlantic Ocean
Thomas Pettitt, The Murdered Sweetheart: Child of Print and Panic?
Rikke Schubart, Spielberg, Memory and the Narration of War
Zoe Trodd, American Stories and the John Brown Cycle
   
2-142 'Stories that Aren't There'
Paul Benzon, Narratives of Missing Film in Novels of the Seventies
Justin Hayes, The Alien Logic of White Noise
Tim Wright, In Search of Oldton
   
2-105 Fairy Tales, Old and New
Margaret Bush, Contemporary Tellings of Old Tales for the Very Young
Stefan Ericson, Transformative Television: On Song Contests, Fairy Tales, and Visions of Europe
Bette Kiernan, The Uses of Fairy Tales in Psychotherapy
Henrik Lassen, Hans Christian Andersen and the Topos of the Dying Child
Moderator: Amulya Gopalakrishnan
   
2-132

Games 2
Douglas Grant, Jim Bizzocchi, Narrative and Micronarrative as Components of Game Experience
Drew Davidson, Plotting the Story and Interactivity in Prince of Persia: Sands of Time
Jon Saklofske, Authorial Decentralization and the Questionable Invitation to Play within Contemporary Narratives

   
2-135 Digital Storytelling 1
Atteqa Malik, Memories through Multimedia: Documenting our Lives
Lukasz Stanek, The Production of Urban Spaces by Mass Media Storytelling Practices: Nowa Huta as a Case Study
Lalitha Vasudevan, Youth De/ Re/ Construct Stock Stories through Media
Moderator: Rekha Murthy
   
2-139 Journalism 2
Joe Cutbirth, The Making of Jon Stewart
Christopher Harper, Blogging and Journalistic Standards
Travers Scott, Presidential Campaign Stories that Failed to Ignite Mainstream Media
Moderator: Cristobal Garcia
   
56-169



9-10:30
Saturday, May 7
continued 
Asian Warrior Women
Marie-Eve Blanc, Revitalizing the Hai Ba Trung Heroes' Legend
Fan Pen Chen, Women Warriors in the Shadow Play, Reunion of the Five Swords
Poh Cheng Khoo, War, Patriotism and Family Loyalty in Lady Warriors of the Yang Family
Moderator: Lan Dong
   
2-136 Defining New Media
Roderick Coover, Nonfiction in New Media and the Concept of Emergence
Bernard Geoghegan, There Is no New Media
David Golumbia, Stories About Computers
Moderator: Mary Hopper
   
2-131 Celebrity Stories
Elizabeth Fakazis, Janet Malcolm: Constructing a Journalist's Identity
Marwan Kraidy, Arab Reality Telelvision
Neepa Majumdar, Dead Stars and Film Form
Ann Werner, A Media Event for Multistars
   
10:30-10:45
lower atrium
Bartos Theater
break
coffee, tea, rolls
   
10:45-12:15
Bartos Theater
MIT Media Lab

Roundtable 2: Why Are Stories Violent?
Kevin Sandler, University of Arizona
Maria Tatar, Harvard University
Moderator: David Thorburn

   
12:15-1:30 lunch break
   
1:30-3 Call Session 4 (room assignments to be posted)
   
2-139 Music and Voices
Torey Liepa, Representations of Speech in Silent Films
Amy Lynn Wlodarski, The Languages and Limitations of the Musical Voice in Alain Resnais's Night and Fog
   
2-132


Saturday, May 7
continued 
Making Stories
Sean Galvin, Using Folkloric Conventions to Construct Student Narratives
Kirsten Cater, Constance Fleuriot, Clodagh Miskelly, Morris Williams, Lucy Wood, Locating Story
Ruth Page, Reader Response, Gender and Hypertext Narratives
   
2-105 Narrative Theory 2
Babette Grabner, Old Stories in New Dresses?
Marc Leverette, The Postmodern Disintegration of Narrative
Ana Pano, Duel Effects of Digital Texts
   
56-191 Stories and Identities 3
Jean Mason, Tuberculosis Narratives
Laura Tropp, Constructing Narratives in Pregnancy Chat Rooms
Shaunda Wood, Doctoral Women's Learning and Identity in the Culture of Engineering
   
56-180 Performance and Narrative
Heather Carver, Elaine Lawless, The Troubling Violence Performance Project
Kianga Ford, Conditions of Narrativity
   
2-135 TV Authorship
Jonathan Gray, Resurrecting the TV Author
Maire Messenger-Davies, Television: A Creative Industry?
Jason Mittell, Narrative Complexity in Contemporary American Television, Part 2
   
56-169 National Narratives 1
Kim DeVries, Once Upon a Time in Chinese FIlm: Meta Narratives of Authenticity
Janani Subramanian, From Immigration to Assimilation: The Ragged Seams Between East and West
Moderator: Parmesh Shahani
   
2-142 Activism 2
Sarah Heidt, Contemporary Narratives of Social Suffering
Anthony Lioi, Narratives of Environmental Apocalypse in Contemporary Literature and Other Media
Nick Sharman, The Narrative Construction of Leadership: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Appeal to White America
   
2-136 Historical Testimony / Nietzsche
Melinda Rosenberg, Eternal Recurrence: How to Will a Stylish Narrative of Suffering
Frank van Vree, The Changing Role of Testimonies in Historical Documentaries
Moderator: Elfriede Fursich
   
2-131 NBC, the Network as Storyteller
Vincent Rocchio, The West Wing: Television, New Media Culture, and the Polyvalent Narrative
Kevin Sandler, Shifting Advertising Paradigms of Broadcast Television
Bilge Yesil, Las Vegas and the Interplay Between Society of Surveillance and Society of Spectacle
   
3-3:15 break 
   
 3:15-4:45 Roundtable 3: Narratives of Science
Robert Kanigel, MIT
Thomas Levenson, MIT
Alan Lightman, MIT
   
4:45-5 break
   
5-6:30 Call Session 5 (room assignments to be posted)
   
2-131


Saturday, May 7
continued
Reality Television
Goran Bolan, Television Stories in the Making
June Deery, Reality TV and the American Dream: A Cautionary Tale
Nathan Scott Epley, Performativity, Cultural Capital, and Total-Makeover Television
   
56-191 Collaborative Communities
Mark Deuze, Storytelling Between Content and Connectivity
Barbara Ganley, Hector Vila, Socrates Meets Borges: Telling Digital Stories Around the Virtual Liberal Arts Campfire
Adrienne Russell, Online Narratives and Network Resistance
Moderator: Andrea McCarty
   
2-105 Fans and Fan Fiction
Bertha Chin, Telling Stories through LiveJournal
Inkyu Kang, Changing Relationship Between Media Consumers and Producers
Louisa Stein, Seriality in Online Media-Based Role Playing Games
Moderator: Alicia Verlager
   
2-139 Narratives of Advertising and Consumption
Mats Bjorkin, Visualization and Storytelling in Management Consulting
Dawn Gilpin, Parmalat: A Study in Fractured Narrative
Michael Maynard, Nostalgic American Images in Japanese Print Advertisements
Shawn Shimpach, The Role of Storytelling in Teaching Cultural Consumption Before World War I
Moderator: Ilya Vedrashko
   
2-136 Alternative Cinemas 2
Cristiani Bilhalva, Human Nature and Kafka: Issues of Commercial Cinema and its Relation to Political Agendas and the Avant-Garde
Jim Bizzocchi, Run, Lola, Run: Film as Narrative Database
Jan Jagodzinski, The Use of Unconscious Reflexivity in Contemporary Film Narratives
Jan Simons, Treading the Borderline Between Realism and Virtual Reality: The Films of Lars von Trier
   
2-142 Bible Stories
Laura Copier, Apocalypse and Self-Sacrifice in The Seventh Seal
Frederick Wasser, Indexical Languages and the Historical Film
Alison Griffiths, Transmedia Versions of the Crucifixion
   
56-180 Racial Identities
Suzette Ebanks, From Jungle Book to Jungle Fever: Unchanging Stories of Racial Interaction
Sujata Moorti, Gender, Race and War Stories
Rakefat Sela-Sheffy, Israelis Tell How (Other) Israelis Behave Abroad
Moderator: Tracy Daniels
   
2-132 Mobile Narratives
Jeremy Hight, Reading Cities
Paula Levine, Shadows from Another Place: Transposed Spaces
Scott Ruston, Jen Stein, Narrative and Mobile Media
Moderator: Karen Lori Schrier
   
2-135 Digital Storytelling 2
Jean Burgess, Digital Storytelling: New Literacy, New Audiences
Joe Lambert, Julie Springer, Digital Storytelling at the National Gallery of Art
Heli Rantavuo, Digital Photographic Storytelling
Moderator: Veronica Bollow
   
56-169


Saturday, May 7
continued  
Epic Heroes
Lily Alexander, The Hero's Journey Paradigm
James Russell, Gladiator and the Revival of the Historical Epic Film
Priya Virmani, Indian Epic Narratives in Contemporary Soaps
   
6:30-7:30
lower atrium
Bartos Theater
MIT Media Lab
reception
   
7:30-9:30
Bartos Theater
MIT Media Lab
New Media Projects: Demos from the Media Lab and Comparative Media Studies
Walter Bender, Media Lab
Beth Coleman, CMS
Chris Csikszentmihalyi, Media Lab
Thomas DeFrantz, CMS
Hiroshi Ishii, Media Lab
Eric Klopfer, CMS
Kimiko Ryokai, Media Lab
Moderator: Henry Jenkins, CMS
   
    
   
Sunday, May 8  
   
Friday, May 6 Saturday, May 7 
   
9-10:30 Call Session 6 (room assignments to be posted)
   
2-139 Public Amusements
Andy Dehnart, The Transformation of Disney Theme Park Narratives
Mary Beth Haralovich, Fireworks in Film and TV
Deborah Philips, Mickey Mouse Chivalry: The Chivalric Romance Narrative of the Theme Park
   
2-136 War and Narrative
Jacob Agatucci, The Impact of Video Games on the Narrative Structure of the Contemporary War Story
Gerry Beegan, Narratives of War, Narratives of the Individual
Sebastian Koehler, Narrativity and Narrativism as Important Factors in Journalism
   
56-191 Legal Stories
Anthony Chase, Property Stories
Martin Fredriksson, Copyright Law and the Story of the Author
   
56-169 Performance Traditions
Jacqueline Reid-Walsh, Late 18th- / Early 19th-Century Harlequinades: A Migration from Stage to Book
Marina Turco, The Sudwestern Saga: Live Media Between Commedia dell'Arte and Digital Hypetexts
Donald Sunnen, The Tradition of the Vermittler from Oral to Print to Cyberspace
Moderator: Vanessa Bertozzi
   
56-180 Death, Mortality, Temporality
Jonathan Greenberg, Death, Meaning and Accident in Achebe and Benjamin
Robert "Ouimette" Martinez, Cyberaesthetics, Bioethics, Digital Autopsies: Involution, Extramodernity, Compressionism
   
2-131 Transmedia Narrative 3
Claudia Breger, Tales of Globalization in Rene Pollesch's Tent Sagas
Michael Grabowski, Storytelling Across the Media
Julie Keefer, Four Narrative Styles in Transmedia Storytelling
   
2-132 Stories in the Classroom 1
Bonnie Bracey, Storytelling and the Visual Arts
Trudy Mercadel-Sabbagh, Using Hip Hop Pedagogy in Language Arts
Michael Nitsche and Paul Richens, Combining Linear Content and Spatial Design for Mindstage
Moderator: Mary Hopper
   
2-105 Stories and Identities 4
Burcu Bakioglu, Construction of Spatial Narratives in M.D. Coverley's Califia
Ian Beeson, Clodagh Miskelly, Digital Stories of Community: Mobilization, Coherence and Continuity
Tes Thraves, A Native American Youth Group Documentary Project on "Homecoming"
Alicia Verlager, Archetypes of Blindness in Media
   
2-135 Travel and New Media
Andrea McCarty, Rekha Murthy, Flâneurs Savants: A Stroll Through the Marais Neighborhood in Paris
Vicente Rodriguez-Ortega, The Illegal, the Real and the Digital in Michale Winterbotton's In this World
Nanna Verhoeff, Virtual Travel in Emerging Media (1900-2000)
   
10:30-10:45
lower atrium
Bartos Theater
break
coffee, tea, rolls
   
10:45-12:15 Call Session 7 (room assignments to be posted)
   
2-136




Sunday, May 8
continued 

Catastrophe Narratives
Angel Castanos, Amor Munoz, 9/11 vs. 3/11 in American and Spanish Newspaper Front Pages
Peter Csigo, Two Political Scandals in Hungary

Ruth Miller, Pornography, Political Corruption, and the Colonial Narrative
Usha Zacharias, Tsunami vs. Tsunami: A Tale of the Neoliberal World Information Order?

   
2-132 Stories in the Classroom 2
Theo Hug, Microlearning and Narration
Stella Thompson, Writing Theory Versus Narrative Theory
Moderator: Mary Hopper
   
56-169 Music and Subcultures
Benjamin Aslinger, Queer as Folk, Music and Sonic Definitions of Sexuality
Marnie Binfield, Wild Style/ Style Wars: Same Story, Different Style
Kelly Kessler, Cultural Conflict and the Hollywood Musical
Moderator: James Nadeau
   
2-139 Homeland Security
Jaap Kooijman, Retelling 9/11: The West Wing and Ally McBeal
Alan Nadel, Continuity Editing, Televisual Forum, and the Cogency of the Stories We Tell Ourselves
Yong Jin Park, Media Framing of Policy in Ambiguous ars: A Case of Privacy Policies
Kyle Weise, Contemporary Hollywood "Surveillance Films"
   
56-191 Sports Stories
Thomas McLaughlin, Basketball Stories
Markus Stauff, Visual Hermeneutics in Television Sports
   
56-180 Comedy and Parody
Alison Hearn, Hoaxing the "Real": On the Meta-Narratives of Reality Television
Leah Lowe, Hollywood's Romantic Comedy: Formula and Gender Dynamics
Joanne Morreale, The Politics of Parody on the Contemporary Television Sitcom
Jean-Paul Spiro, A Case Study in Popular Comedies of Elizabethan England and the Clinton-Era United States
   
2-105 National Narratives 2
Andreas Fickers, Frank Kessler, Writing the History of Inventions in Early Film and Television
Marja Roholl, United States Information Agency's Efforts to Reframe U.S. Racial Relations to the Dutch Public in the 1950s
Kristin Sorensen, Mediated Discourses of Chilean National Hi(Stories)
Moderator: Kate Delaney
   
2-131 Improvisation and Interactivity
Jessica Hammer, Strategies of Improvisational Storytelling
Jonathan Nichols-Pethick, Network Television and the Limits of Interactivity
Jeff Rush, Doom and the Tension Between Discursive Form and User's Choice in Interactive Media
   
2-135



Sunday, May 8
continued
Understanding Comics
Joellen Easton, Truth and Subjectivity in the Work of Joe Sacco
Henry Jenkins, Just Men in Tights?: What Genre Theory Can Teach Us About the Persistence of Superhero Comics
Richard Walsh, The Narrative Imagination Across Media: Dreaming and Neil Gaiman's Sandman
   
12:15-12:30 break
   
12:30-2
Bartos Theater
MIT Media Lab
Roundtable 4: Summary Perspectives
Mary Beth Haralovich, University of Arizona
Joe Lambert, Center for Digital Storytelling
Thomas M. McLaughlin, Appalachian State University
Jason Mittell, Middlebury College
Moderator: William Uricchio, CMS
   
   
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