9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Participant Registration
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Opening Keynote Address, Book Signing & Reception:
Amy Goodman
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM: Session One
REMOTE CONTROLS
Faculty Respondent: Jaeho Kang, Media Studies/Sociology
The Google filter: the Propaganda Model and the Global Digital Media Industry, Tyler Baber, The New School for General Studies
Technological Imperialism? Satellite Imaging and New Configurations of Knowledge/Power, Monica Brannon, The New School for Social Research
Revitalizing Propaganda Analysis, Tim Novak, The New School for Social Research
CONNECTIVITIES
Faculty Respondent: Deirdre Boyle, Media Studies
Crash! Rollerderby Makes A Come-Back, Anezka Sebek, The New School for Social Research
How the Virtual Gemeinde Affects the Actual: internet social networking sites and their role in shaping the German-Jewish community, Elizabeth E. Greenfield, New York University
How to Grow a Community from the Ground, The New Campus, Eugene Lang College
GLOBAL FLOWS
Faculty Respondent: Mike Edwards, Art, Media + Technology, Parsons
Digital Media, Morality and the Himalaya: The Changing Political Economy of Global Visibility, Alexander Wentland, The New School for Social Research
Fashion Coverage in a Dubai newspaper: When Globalization Frames Reportage, Sananda Sahoo, University of Missouri–Columbia
Chilean Media Discourse on Ethnic Minorities: Constructing the Mapuche Subject, Trinidad Valle, Fordham University
POLITICS AND PERFORMANCE
Faculty Respondent: Jeffrey Goldfarb, Sociology
Monstrating Visibility: Barack Obama’s Dramaturgical Approach to the 2008 Presidential Election, Sujata Gadkar-Wilcox, The New School for Social Research
The Other-Others: Analysis of Press Coverage of Nonvoters and Undecided Voters, Helena Chmielewska-Szlajfer, The New School for Social Research
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM: Afternoon Break
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM: Session Two
NETWORKED PUBLICS
Faculty Respondent: Paolo Carpignano, Media Studies/Sociology
Moving the Net Neutrality Debate Forward by Changing the Conversation, Pam Brown, The New School for General Studies
Technologies of the Cell: Prison Media and the Collision of Communication and Enclosure, Jason Rockwood, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Impact of Consuming Mobile Phones on the Social Constructions of Public and Private Spaces, Amen Jaffer, The New School for Social Research
EMBODIMENTS
Faculty Respondents: Barry Salmon, Media Studies and Jane Pirone, Art, Media + Technology, Parsons
Self-Commodification: Controlling the Body, Russet Lederman, The New School for General Studies
Corpo-in-Libertà: Radiobodies and the Physicality of Transmission, Cambra Moniz-Edwards, The New School for General Studies
Personal Audio Manipulation Technology: Control, Interiority, and Cross-modal Interaction, Nathan Taylor, Villanova University
MEDIATED ECOLOGIES
Faculty Respondent: Paul Ryan, Media Studies
Kilowatts and Kilobytes: How expected advances in energy management require progress in communications technologies, Santiago Dellepiane, The New School for General Studies
The Nature of Media and the Media of Nature, Aleksandra Przegalinska, The New School for Social Research
The Romance of Wall-E: Disney's Animated Ideology, Aleksandra Solak, The New School for General Studies
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM: Short Break
4:15 PM - 5:45 PM: Session Three
VISUAL CONSTRUCTS
Faculty Respondent: Shannon Mattern, Media Studies
From Folksonomies to Collective Intelligence: A Study of Collaborative Tagging on Social Bookmarking Sites, Erica Shusas, The New School for General Studies
Envisioning the Economic Imaginary, Szu-Han Ho, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Art & Technology: The role of "the hand" in the digital age, Veronica. Lawlor, The New School for General Studies
RE/PRESENTATIONS
Faculty Respondent: Sumita Chakravarty, Media Studies/Culture and Media
Warriors and Hunters: The Violent Shaping of First Nations Identity in Canadian Media: 1974-1998, Caroline Evans, University of Missouri
Proper Names and Privacy: Respecting Rape Victims in the Media, Kristina Sherry, University of Missouri–Columbia
Lupe Fiasco and IslamiCity.com: Situating the ‘I’ in Islam, Radia Amari, University of Colorado at Boulder
(IM)MATERIALITIES
Faculty Respondent: Deborah Levitt, Culture and Media
The Shift Realized: The Financial Crisis As The First Postmodern Event, Andrew Hare, The New School for General Studies
Virtually Dead: Networked Absence and the Ethics of Blogospheric Reading, Scott Kushner, Duke University
6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Closing Keynote Address and Reception:
Dominic Pettman
* Please note that this schedule is subject to slight changes.