MiT3: television in transition

Agenda

Friday, May 2

Registration

Plenary Conversation 1: The Future of Television
John Dimling, Nielsen Media Research
Charles Ferris, former chair, FCC
Toby Miller, NYU

Moderator: William Uricchio, MIT

Screening Politics
Sanginjon Jabborov, Television as an Element in the Democratization of a Society in Transition - Uzbekistan: Experience, Problems and Perspectives
Michael Keating, Rage Against the Receiver: How Ulster Loyalists Lost the TV War in Northern Ireland

Moderator: Kurt Lancaster, Fort Lewis College

Communities
Nabil Echchaibi, Untapped Audiences: Zen TV and Redefining Youth Culture in The Arab World
Susan B. Kretchmer and Rod Carveth, De-Constructing Television and Global Media Stereotypes
Jennifer Mandel, The Production of a "Beloved Community": Sesame Street's Effort to Educate Disadvantaged Children

Moderator: Eric Freedman, Florida Atlantic Univ.

Reality TV
Hugh Curnutt, The "Me" Genre: Self-Reflexivity in Reality Television
Mary Beth Haralovich, "Expect the Unexpected": Narrative Pleasure and Uncertainty Due to Chance in Survivor
Derek Kompare, Show and Tell: The Ignominious Bodies of Reality Television

Moderator: Lanfranco Aceti, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design

Religion and Ideology
Michael Leslie, International Televangelism/American Ideology: The Case of The 700 Club
Atteqa Malik, Television for Ritual: The Modern Majlis
Ramez Maluf, Chasing the Inspirational in Arab Television and Film

Moderator: Michael Epstein, MIT

Reception/ Video display by the List Visual Arts Center

9-10:30

The TeleVisions Project
John Downing, The TeleVisions Project: Its Challenge and Goals
Henry Puente, The 1990s - A Decade of TV Diversity Advancements and Stumbling Blocks
Sharon M. Ross, Inside Information: Industry Professionals and Activists Speak About the State of Race and Ethnicity on Television
Mary C. Beltran, Visions of Ethnic Diversity: The Next Steps of the TeleVisions Project

Moderator:

Theory/ Genre
Nick Couldry, Television and the Myth of the Mediated Center: Time for a Paradigm Shift in Television Studies?
Jonathan Gray, The Preview and the Parody: The Yin and Yang of Contemporary Televisual Textuality
Jonathan Nichols-Pethick, This Cop's for you: Genre and Discourse in the Post-Network Era

Moderator: Jason Mittell, Middlebury College

Non-Commercial Television
Elfriede Fürsich and Seema Shrikhande, Developmental Public Broadcasting: Is There Still a Role for it?
Patricia Holland, On the Current Affairs Genre and the Challenge to Public Service Broadcasting in the UK
M.J. Robinson , "The Amazing Thing Is That it Happened at all": WNYC-TV and the Impossibility of Municipal Broadcasting in the United States

Moderator: Michael Keating, MIT

Rites of Consumption
Jiwon Ahn, "Trust Me - I'm a Designer": the Irony of Recent Home Makeover Shows
F. Scott Scribner, TiVo: TV, Imagination, and the Politics of Total Fulfillment

Moderator: Winnie Wong, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Modes of Production
Máire Messenger Davies and Roberta E. Pearson, "No Network!": Star Trek and the American Television Industry's Changing Modes of Organization
Jane Shattuc, Let There Be Light: Who "Creates" American TV Programs?

Moderator: Joan Giglione, California State University, Fullerton

9/11
Elizabeth Ellsworth, The Brief Time of Audience-as-Witness to 9/11: Media and the Un-Representable
Heather E. Fisher, CBS: The Eye on 9/11
Amanda Lotz, "Network" Theory in the Post-Network Era: Using the Cultural Forum Model to Analyze Fictional 9/11 Discourses

Moderator: Lily Alexander, Univ. of Toronto

New Formats
Eric Freedman, Home Video, Inc.: iMovie and the Industry of Memory
Soha Maad, The Potential and Pitfall of Interactive TV Technology: An Empirical Study
Martin Roberts, Decoding D-Dag: Multi-Channel Television at the Millennium

Moderator: Christopher Weaver, Media Technology Ltd.

Plenary Conversation 2: Reality TV
Henry Jenkins, MIT
Stacey Lynn Koerner, Initiative Media
Ghen Maynard, CBS alternative programming

Moderator: David Marshall, Northeastern University

Video Art
Russell Connor, A Personal History of Video Art
Peter Walsh, Muse Tube: Television and the American Avant-Garde

Moderator: Stephanie Davenport, MIT

Television Histories
Lawrence Fouraker, The History of Television in Japan
Sangho Seo, The Historical Evolution of the Korean Television Broadcasting Industry: An Economic Perspective
Jim Welch, The New National Frontier: New Zealand Identity and American Television, 1960-1965

Moderator: Mats Bjorkin, Goteborg University

Reality TV
Anna McCarthy, "Stanley Milgram, Allen Funt and Me": Cold War Social Science and the Roots of Reality TV
Susan Murray, "I Think We Need a New Name for It": The Meeting of Documentary and Reality Television
Laurie Ouellette, Reality Television and Cultural Citizenship

Moderator: Susannah Stern, Boston College

Global vs. National Televisions
Olga Guedes Bailey, The Discontents with Global Television News: Where Is the 'Other'?
Christine Daymon and Robin Foster, Future Possibilities: A Scenario Analysis Study of British Television
Timothy Havens, Windows on the West: Hungarian Television Acquisitions and the Future of Western Dominance in Global Television

Moderator: Elfriede Fursich, Boston College

Race / Ethnicity/ Identity
Giselinde Kuipers, Television and Taste Hierarchy: Social Status and the Appreciation, Dislike, and Knowledge of Television Comedy in the Netherlands
Lars Lundsten, The Unknown Soldier vs. Darth Vader: Conditions for Ethnically Relevant TV
Usha Zacharias, The Audience and the Imagination of Freedom

Moderator: Sajan Saini, MIT

Fan Culture and Mythology
Kurt Lancaster, Babylon 5: Book of Quotations -- How a View of the Universe Shapes our World View
Dan Mackay, Genre Television and the Imaginary Entertainment Environments
Michele Malach, Behind Bars: Guilt, Redemption and Oz Fans

Moderator: Matt Hills, Cardiff Univeristy

Break

Plenary Conversation 3: News During Wartime
James Carey, Columbia Univ.
Bernard Kalb, journalist
Marvin Kalb, Harvard University

Moderator: David Thorburn, MIT

Money Matters
Christine Becker, Fin/Syn Begin Again?
Jose Luis Benitez, Television in El Salvador: Foreign Investment, Loss of Local Control?
Teresa Hoefert de Turégano, European Television Financing for Fiction Film in Africa and Latin America

Moderator: Douglas Morgenstern, MIT

National and Regional Televisions
Kajri Jain, Imagined and Performed Locality: The Televisual Field in a North Indian Industrial Town
Siho Nam, Utopian Promise Fulfilled? Cable Television in Korea
Gebhard Rusch, Television, Cultural Change and Media Dynamics in German

Moderator: Usha Zacharias, Westfield State College

Genre
Lily Alexander, Television as a Global Theater: The Genre of Media Scandals in Semiotic and Anthropological Perspectives
Matt Hills, Horror TV: Genre or Invisible Intertext?
Claudia Schwarz, Life Lies - Live Lies: The Effect and Function of Blurring the Genres in Television

Moderator: Alice O'Driscoll, MIT

Representing Families and Victims
Christine Geraghty, Melodrama, Trust and the Representation of Abuse
Esra Özcan, Conceptions of Marriage and Family in Turkish Television: Settlement or Reorientation?
Courtney Young, Watching Rape on American Television

Moderator: Máire Messenger Davies, Cardiff Univ.

Convergence
Joan Giglione, When Broadcast and Internet Audiences Collide: Internet Users as TV Advocacy Groups
Kieran Kelly, Digital Convergence: Dead, Dying or Delayed?
Jason Mittell, Interfacing Television: TiVo, Technology Convergence, and Everyday Life

Moderator: Eric Freedman, Florida Atlantic Univ.

Comedy and Politics
Joe Cutbirth, Pop Culture or Political Riff: Presidential Narrative on Late-Night TV
Cristobal Garcia, Political Edutainment on American Television
Kathy Sohar, Late Night After 9/11: Examining the Opening Monologues of David Letterman, Jay Leno, Conan O'Brien, and Jon Stewart in Their First Televised Shows After the Terrorist Attacks

Moderator: Giselinde Kuipers, Univ. of Amsterdam

Advertising and Entertainment
June Deery, Reality TV as Advertainment
Michael L. Maynard, Preserving Democracy through the 30-Second Negative Political Ad
Laura Tropp, Extending Television -- Noggin's Degrassi: The Next Generation and the Fine Line Between Education and Advertising

Moderator: Jing Wang, MIT

Aesthetics
Jim Bizzocchi, A Magic Window: The Emergent Aesthetics of High-Resolution, Large-Scale Video Display
Elana Levine, Live!: Defining Television Quality at the Turn of the 21st Century
Magnus Widman, Film and Television in Interaction

Moderator: Simone Seym, Georgetown Univ.

Reality TV
Alison Hearn, Humiliating Images/Humiliating Theory: On the Terrain of Reality TV
P. David Marshall, Celebrity-Real: The Vestigial Cultural Power of Contemporary Television
Joanne Morreale, (Re) Visiting The Osbournes: The Emergence of the Reality Sitcom Genre

Moderator: Murray Forman, Northeastern Univ.

Media Imperialism ?
Bjorn Ingvoldstad, Reality TV, Identity, and Post-Socialist Transition: A Case Study from Lithuania
Sherra Schick, Oprafication, Media, and Culture
Kristin Sorensen, Chilean Media and Discourses of Human Rights: Chilevisión's El Termómetro

Moderator: Timothy J. Havens, Univ. of Iowa

Cyborgs
Shira Chess, Technology, Femininity and Fabulous Accessories: Alias and Cyborg Representation
Mobina Hashmi, Robot Cops and Human Machines: Taming Technology on American Television in the 1970s and 1980s

Moderator: Tina Klein, MIT

Convergence
Lanfranco Aceti, Interactive Integrated Media: In the "Agon" of Convergence
Christian McCrea, Whose Screen Is it, Anyway?: Games, Agency and Television
Bill Mosher and Tom Vreeland, Mycasts: New Genre of Global Television
Michele White, The "Good Box" and the "Idiot Box": Television, Computer Monitors and the Webcam Frame

Moderator: Bob Stepno, Emerson College

Television News
Thom Baggerman, Public Service: Sold! The Commodification of Local Television News
Kahlil Byrd and Theresse Kawarabayashi, Al-Jazeera: Sustaining a Free Press in the Middle East
Marie Curkan-Flanagan, Repurposing News Content: Convergence Experiments that Worked!

Moderator: Ramez Maluf, Lebanese American University