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Agenda
Media
in Transition 2: globalization and convergence
May 10-12, 2002
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
All sessions take
place in Building
E51 except the Friday and Saturday evening receptions.
Friday,
May 10, 2002
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12-1:30 pm Ting Foyer
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Registration |
1:30-1:45 pm
Wong Aud.
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Introduction
Henry Jenkins, William Uricchio |
| 1:45-3:15
pm
Wong Aud.
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Plenary
Conversation 1: Globalization
Arundhati Tuli Banerjee, MIT
James Carey, Columbia University
John
Hartley, Queensland University of Technology
Moderator: David
Thorburn
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3:15-4:15
pm
Ting Foyer
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Coffee
and snack break |
4:15-5:45
pm
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Call
Session 1 |
| Rm. 145 |
Television: History, Technology, Influence
James Schwoch, Crypto-Convergence,
Media and the Cold War: the early globalizing of television
in a context of psychological warfare, public opinion polling,
and science policy
Ramez Maluf, Social
Impact of Arab Satellite Television
Mari Castaņeda-Paredes, The
Long Revolution of Digital Television
Moderator: Bo
Reimer
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| Rm. 149 |
Online
Activism
Anita Chan, "Open"
Journalism's Distributed Editors: the construction and exchange
of online news on Slashdot.com
Kim De Vries,
Sequential Tart: thinking about gender and online community
Lisa Lynch, The
Contradictory Negotiation of Global and National Identities
in the Work of New Media Artists
Vladimir Bratic and Don Flournoy, Transnational
Political Activism and Global Fusion: the Independent Media
Centers as a case study
Moderator: Joe Dumit
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| Rm. 315 |
Texts
Laurie Harnick, 9
11 and Domestic/Lifestyle Television Programming
Jane Chi Hyun Park,
Final Fantasy: a case study
Harmony Wu, Matricidal
Cinema: New Zealand cinema, national myth, and border crossing
cultural capital in Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures
Moderator: Christina
Klein
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| Rm. 325 |
Promotion
and Development
Barbara
Abrash and Pat Aufderheide,
NGOs, Funders, and Filmmakers: jointly crafting tools for
social action agendas
Anandam Kavoori,
Net
tarot in New Delhi: reading the future of the internet in
advertising
Nate Greenslit, Antidepressants,
Advertising, and Agency: the internet and new cross-cultural
negotiations in socio-medical identity
Steven Lewis, Consumer
Citizenship, Spiritual Consumerism: privatizing propaganda
and commercial advertising in the People's Republic of China
Moderator: Bob
Stepno
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| Rm. 345 |
In
Search of the Glocal
Sanjay Asthana, Visual
hegemonies: representations of globalization and nation
in print and electronic media in postcolonial India, 1982-2002
Tokunbo Ojo, Post-NWICO
debate: the image of Africa in the Western media
Daniel Huecker,
Moving Images: the campaign to project the Jesus film to
all nations
Sujatha Sosale,
Cultural Convergence of the Global and the Local: pan-capitalism,
empowerment, or a third way?
Moderator: Michael Fischer
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| Rm.
372 |
Nation,
Gender and Race
Hirofumi Katsuno and Christine Yano, Facing
Off: on-line embodiment in contemporary Japan
Sharon Kinsella, Ganguro
(Japanese girls dressed as Africans and aliens): explorations
of the convergence of race and gender
Heung Wah,
Taking People Seriously: Japanese Adult Videos in Hong Kong
Lawrence Fouraker,
Precursors of Convergence in Interwar Japan
Moderator: Shigeru
Miyagawa
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| Rm.
376 |
Trans-Media
Texts
Jan Holmberg, Globalized
Vision
Sheila Nayar, Cinematically Speaking: Exploring Indian Cinema
via the Orality-Literacy Continuum
Roderick Coover, Cultures
in Webs: cultural knowledge-cultural divides
Moderator: David
Goodman
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6-6:45
pm
Wong Aud. |
BollySpace:
An Interactive Dance Technology Project
Conceived and directed by Zhan Li, Aswin Punathambekar,
Sangita Shresthova, CMS graduate students
(funded in part by the Council
for the Arts at MIT)
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7-8:30
pm
MIT
Fac. Club
(Bldg. E52)
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Reception |
Saturday,
May 11, 2002
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8-9
am
Ting Foyer
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Continental breakfast
and registration |
9-10:30
am
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Call Session 2 |
| Rm.
145 |
Media
Memories Across International Generations
(part 1)
Ingrid Volkmer, Andres Hofmann, Theo Hug, Margarita Maass,
Mathew Payne, Gebhard Rusch, Reiko Sekiguchi and Christine
Slade
Moderator: Ingrid
Volkmer
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| Rm.
149 |
Sounds
and Music
Hee-Eun Lee, Popular Music Industry Working for Television:
Neither Global nor Local, but Korean
Jacob Smith and Kurt Squire, 'Sound Screen': Points of Convergence
in Recorded Sound and Digital Gaming
Robert Burnett,
A Look Inside the Global Music Industry: Explaining Swedish
Music Export Success
Moderator: Marty
Marks
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| Rm.
315 |
Globalization,
Technology, Identity
Emma Baulch, 'Post
Imperial' Globalization and Balinese Alternative Music
Kwang-Suk Lee, Toward Subversive Uses of Technology Against
Copyright
Isa Ducke,
Use of the Internet by Political Actors in the Japanese-Korean
Textbook Controversy
Pei-Chi Chung,
Internet, Identity Politics and the Making of Counter Media
Culture in Taiwan: the case study of Yam
Moderator: James
Schwoch
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| Rm.
335 |
Thinking
About the Audience: Fans and Children
Maire Messenger-Davies,
Globalization and Children's Media Products
Anne Allison,
The Cultural Politics of Pokemon Capitalism
Anne Ciecko,
Tracking Asian Stars: from electronic shadows to cyber-astronomy
Matt Hills,
Transcultural Otaku: Japanese representations of fandom
and representations of Japan in anime/manga fan cultures
Moderator: Justine
Cassell
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| Rm.
372 |
Strategies
of Control and Resistance
James Morrison,
The Author is Dead-Long Live the Author!
Dereck Hrynyshyn,
The Commodification of Sovereignty in Domain-Name Space
Victoria Smith Ekstrand,
Controlling the Copyright Bully: the promise of the copyright
misuse doctrine
Monroe
Price, Globalization
and the Remapping of Relationship Between State and Images
Moderator: Jim
Bizzochi
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| Rm.
376 |
Contesting
Identities
Woongjae Ryoo,
Negotiating Globalization: Korean modes of practice in the
age of globalization as exemplified in advertising
Teresa Hoefert de Turegano,
World Cinema as World Music
Brigitte Schulze,
Globalization and Divergence: dynamics of dissent in non-dominant
cinema cultures of south India
Doris Baltruschat,
International Film and Television Co-Productions
Moderator: Odile
Cazenave
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| Rm.
385 |
Diasporic
India
Sujata Moorti,
Imaginary Homes, Transplanted Traditions: Indian television
and diasporic identity
Monika Mehta,
Globalizing Bombay Cinema, the Indian State, and the Indian
Family
Aswin Punathembekar,
Bollywood Bytes: a story of how I found an online Adda
Moderator: Arundhati
Tuli Banerjee
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| Rm.
390 |
Macro
Theory
Marwan Kraidy,
Transnational Media and the Hybrid Fabric of Cultural Globalization
Jan Rek,
Studying How the World Has Been Won: about two sides of
one approach to the process of globalization and media today
R. Harindranath,
Reconfiguring "Cultural Imperialism": global audiences,
local interpretative frames, and the distribution of cultural
resources
Don Flournoy, Innovation
and Obsolescence:The Sword That Cuts Both Ways
Moderator: Stine
Gotved
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11-12:30
pm
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Call
Session 3 |
| Rm.
145 |
Media
Memories Across International Generations continued (part 2)
Ingrid Volkmer, Andres Hofmann, Theo Hug, Margarita Maass,
Mathew Payne, Gebhard Rusch, Reiko Sekiguchi and Christine
Slade
Moderator: Ingrid Volkmer
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| Rm.
149 |
Film
Across Borders
Joseph Garncarz,
Hollywood as an Instrument of European Integration
Peter Kramer,
Hollywood and Germany: notes on a history of cultural exchange
Sabine Haenni,
A Global Nation: the logic of incorporation in early 20th
century Hollywood
Moderator: Edward
Turk
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| Rm.
315 |
Arts
and Aesthetics
Gary Keller-Cardenas,
An Online Community for Latina/o Visual Artists
Tal Halpern,
Towards a New Artistic Context: critical documentary in the
age of global surveillance networks
David Marshall,
The Look of the Web: screen patterns, graphics, and the web
aesthetic
Jim Bizzocchi,
Narrative and Interaction: Ceremony of Innocence and the Subversion
of Interface
Moderator:
Stephanie Davenport
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| Rm.
335 |
Spectacle
Arundhati Banerjee,
The Goddess and the Demon: contested territories in Durga
Puja
Margaret Weigel,
Electronic Bulb Signs in Fin de Siecle New York City: technology,
spectacle and commerce
Berteke Waaldijk,
Colonial Exhibitions and World Fairs as Precursors of Digital
Public Space: the role of historical comparisons in understanding
digital citizenship
Moderator:
Winnie Wong
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| Rm.
372 |
Reality
TV
Anita Biressi and Heather Nunn,
Video Justice: Public Anxiety and Private Trauma
Janet Jones,
Wooing the Promiscuous Viewer Through Interactivity: an
audience study of Big Brother UK 2000 and 2001
Ferenc Hammer,
Reality Television and the Public Sphere - a Hungarian case
study
Moderator: Maire Messenger-Davies
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| Rm.
376 |
Audiences
and Hierarchies of Taste
Roberta Pearson,
A Tale of Three Cities: Spatial, Temporal and Demographical
Co-ordinates of Urban Sites of Consumption
Steven Schneider,
World Horror Cinema and the US: bringing it all back home
Jan Ekecrantz,
Cultural Panics and Other Responses to Media-Driven Modernities
Moderator:
Peter Walsh
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| Rm.
385 |
Flows
Mats Bjorkin,
Re-mapping the Cash Flow: digital media and corporate communication
Eli Dresner,
No Sense of Global Place? Information technologies and globalization
Derek Kompare,
Flows to Files: conceiving 21st century media
Mimi White: Flows and Other Close Encounters With Television
Moderator: Walter
Holland
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| Wong
Aud. |
Negotiating
the Glocal: Globalism Manifested in Specific Times and Spaces
(tele-journeys
artists panel)
Carlos Amorales, Mark Bain, Yael Bartana, Michael Blum, Nabila
Irshaid, Runa Islam, Sebastian Diaz Morales, Tomoko Take and
Fiona Tan
Moderator: Bill
Arning
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12:30-2
pm
Ting Foyer
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Lunch
(provided) |
2-3:30
pm
Wong Aud.
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Plenary
Conversation 2: Convergence
Richard
Miner, OrangeImagineering
Christopher
Pike, SONY
Danny
Schechter, Globalvision
Moderator: William
Uricchio
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| 4:15-5:45
pm |
Call
Session 4
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| Rm.
145 |
Private
and Public Broadcasting: Technological Challenges and Ideological
Implications
Jung Bong Choi,
Public Broadcasting in the Age of Digital Narrow-casting:
a study of NHK's digitalization
Peter Walsh,
Homer at Home: myth, image, and the ideology of television
Silvio Waisbord,
McTelevision: the global poverty of television program
formats
Moderator: Tim Weiskel
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| Rm. 149 |
Press
in Transition
Pierre Guerlain,
Analyzing Change at Le Monde
Jessica Fishman, Digital
News Cultures: an analysis of social class, media convergence
and divergence
Stuart Allan, Towards a New(s) Society: Online Journalism
and Citizenship in an Information Age
Moderator: Anita
Chan
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| Rm.
315 |
Diasopric
Identities
Esra Ozkan,
The Visibility of Information on Turkey
Sheila Petty,
Transforming Spaces: African computer-based narratives
Nabil Echchaibi,
(Be)longing media: minority radio between cultural retention
and renewal
Jyotika Virdi, National
Against the Local: romance, consumption culture, and convergence
- discourses in the nineties' popular Indian cinema
Moderator: Nicolas Wey-Gomez
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| Rm.
335 |
Digital
Divides/Digital Identities
Peter d'Agostino and David Tafler,
Techno/Cultural Consciousness Across the Digital Divides
Nick Couldry,
The Forgotten Digital Divide: researching social exclusion/inclusion
in the great age of personalized media
Arthur Lizie, Global
Pop Discourse: the new cultural imperialism?
Michel Laguerre, The
Digital Identity of the Global City
Moderator: Henry
Jenkins
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| Rm.
372 |
Lessons
and Strategies
Michela
Ardizzoni, North/South,
East/West: Italian television and national identity in a global
context
Bret Benjamin,
"Attach the Electrodes:" on ways of reading the
stories of the Global Information Infrastructure
Laura Kertz,
Morals and Markets: deviance
Jan Bierhoff,
Multimedia Content in the Digital Age
Moderator: Heather
Miller
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| Rm.
376 |
Multiculturalism
and Diversity
Indigo Thuy Williams,
Downloading Heritage: Vietnamese Diaspora Online
Tanja Dreher,
Talk Back: the mediated struggle to define Australian multiculturalism
Shoshana Madmoni-Gerber,
Between the Global Arena and the Israeli Nation-State: the
affects of globalization on cultural diversity in Israel
Moderator: Roberta Pearson
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| Rm.
385 |
The
State, the Individual and Privacy
Michael Svennevig and David Morrison,
The Changing Nature of Privacy and the Changing Media Environment
Orit Halpern,
Bioinformatic Databases: a new mode of global surveillance?
James Donald,Media
Freedom In Transition
Moderator: Julia
Scher
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5:30-7:30
upper atrium
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tele-journeys
exhibit opening reception at List
Visual Arts Center
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Sunday,
May 12, 2002
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8:30-9:30
am
Ting Foyer
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Continental
breakfast |
9:30-11
am
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Call
Session 5 |
| Rm.
145 |
Global
Currents and Media Change in Asia
Adam Knee,Anglophone Currents in Hong Kong Cinema
Seema Shrikhande,
Business News Channels in Asia: strategies and challenges
Lokman Tsui, Internet
Opening Up China: fact or fiction?
Moderator: Jing
Wang
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| Rm.
149 |
Global
Genres
Bo Reimer, Altered
Images: TV sports and cultural change
Aphra Kerr and Roddy Flynn, Revisiting
Globalization and Convergence Through the Movie and Digital
Games Industries
Elfriede Fuersich,
Between Credibility and Commodification: non-fiction entertainment
as a global media genre
John McMurria, Discovering
the World: globalization and television documentary
Moderator:
William Uricchio
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| Rm.
315 |
Education
and Technology
Jon Pettigrew, Generative Futures
Charlie Scheaffer,
Electronic-Age Literacy and the Internal Horizon of the
Critical Thinking Paradigm
Junko Sugimura, Yoshiyori Urano and Tatsuhisa Miyanohara,
The Development of an Educational System: CRONOS System
for Media-mix Curriculum in Learning Environment
Torin Monahan, Global
Matrices of Sensibility: the construction of artistic value
and agency in Los Angeles schools
Moderator: Kurt Fendt
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| Rm.
335 |
Spaces
and Borders
Julia Lesage, Space/Place
as Represented in Travel Media: some theoretical reflections
Scott Laderman, 'They
Set About Revenging Themselves on the Population': The 'Hue
Massacre,' Travel Guidebooks, and the Shaping of Historical
Consciousness in Vietnam
Fran Illich, borderhack
2000
Moderator: Shankar
Raman
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| Rm.
372 |
Designing
Digital Cultures
Ryadi Adityavarman, Digital Media Communication in International
Design Practice: a comparative intercultural perspective
Sarah Berry-Flint, Cognition
and Culture: interaction design and globalization
Drew Davidson, An
Academic Study and a Narrative About Stories and their Medium
Moderator: Edward
Barrett
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| Rm.
376 |
European
Regional Identities
Randall Halle, Enemy
at the Gates: history and commodity in new European film
Peter Ludes, Images
of Europe: 1949 to 1998 and 2001/02
Henri Beunders, The
Failure of the Elite's Ideas for European Television
Moderator: Marja
Roholl
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| Rm.
385 |
Intellectual
Property
Richard Wise, The
Paradoxes of Information Markets
Wendy Dinneen, Intellectual
Property and Mediation
McKenzie Wark, Intellectual
Property and the Rethinking of Culturalist and Economist
Critical Theory
Moderator: Susan
Silbey
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11:15-noon
Wong Aud.
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Summing
Up
Henry
Jenkins, William Uricchio |
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