THE FIFTH ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE MEDIA ECOLOGY ASSOCIATION June 10-13, 2004 Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, New York MEDIA ENVIRONMENTS AND THE LIBERAL ARTS Sponsored by The Department of Communication and The William A. Kern Professor in Communications College of Liberal Arts Rochester Institute of Technology <http://www.media-ecology.org> =================================== PROGRAM SCHEDULE (as of 6/2/04) =================================== THURSDAY, June 10, 2004 2:00-5:30 p.m. Registration (Faculty Commons) 3:00-3:15 SESSIONS Session 1-A The Challenges of Audience as Author: Multiplayer Online Games and Virtual Worlds (Room 06-3201) Moderator: Stephen Jacobs - Rochester Institute of Technology Panelists: Stuart Butterfield - Ludicorp Mary Demarle - Freelance Game Writer Lee Pearson - There.com Session 1-B Music, Poetry and Mediated Expressions (Room 06-3225) Chair: Carl Atkins - Rochester Institute of Technology Composing Music for Electroacoustic Environments Ann Warde - Independent Composer What About the Poetic? Notes on the Relationship between the Musical and the Linguistic in Contemporary Music Culture Jelle Dierickx - University of Ghent Vocal Media Environments Rick Scott - F’loom/ Rochester Institute of Technology Session 1-C Media Environments and Cultural Messages (Room 06-3214) Chair: Keith Jenkins - Rochester Institute of Technology Exhibiting Optimism: The Visual Culture of Early Twentieth-Century Health Exhibits Christine Keiner - Rochester Institute of Technology “Eating the Other”: Simulation, Orientalism, and the Act of Dining Out Carlnita P. Greene - University of Texas, Austin Romance of the Unreal: Three Critical Approaches to Women’s Online Erotica Abigail Derecho - Northwestern University 4:30-5:45 SESSIONS Session 2-A Digital Poetries and Poetics (Room 06-3201) Moderator: John Roche - Rochester Institute of Technology Panelists: Brandon Barr - University of Rochester Stephen Jacobs - Rochester Institute of Technology Linda Reinfeld - Rochester Institute of Technology Session 2-B Globalization and the Media (Room 06-3214) Chair: Dave Newman - Rochester Institute of Technology Critique or Consent? Transgressive Animation and American Power: Re-Viewing The Simpsons and South Park Amit Ray - Rochester Institute of Technology Globalization, Fandom, and “Cyber-Solidarity” Ed Wiltse - Nazareth College Communication/Media as a Leading Component of “DNA” of the “Super-Organism” of Global Human Culture Felix Rizvanov - Rochester Institute of Technology Session 2-C Thickening the Word and the Return of the Trickster (Room 06-3225) Chair: Paul Guzzardo - Humanities Instructional Television Educational Center Participants: Sung Ho Kim - Washington University Brett Murphy - Washington University/Electrolift Productions 5:45-6:15 Welcoming Reception (Faculty Commons) 6:15-6:45 Welcoming Remarks (Room 06-A 205) Glenn Kist - Rochester Institute of Technology Lance Strate - Fordham University 6:45-7:45 Plenary Session: The Computational Mind and the Digitized Society (Room 06-A 205) David R. Olson - University of Toronto =================================== FRIDAY, June 11, 2004 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Registration (Faculty Commons) 9:00-10:15 SESSIONS Session 3-A My Media Ecology Includes Linguistics, Cultural Anthropology, Knowledge Management and Collaboration Studies (Room 06-A 205) Chair: James C. Morrison - Emerson College Presenter: Robert K. Logan - University of Toronto Respondent: James C. Morrison - Emerson College Session 3-B Community Building and Media Environments (Room 06-3201) Chair: Cheryl Casey - New York University Gecyberschaft: Trusting Our Symbols with Our Lives Mary Ann Allison - New York University Community Media Empowerment Margot Hardenbergh - Fordham University The Bhangra Wave Anjali Gera - Indian Institute of Technology Managing the MEA Online Community Janet Sternberg - Fordham University 10:30-11:45 SESSIONS Session 4-A Media Environments and Literacy Issues (Room 06-A205) Chair: Mark Lipton - University of Toronto Media Literacy: Integrating Technological and Communication Competencies in K-12 Education Ann Giralico Pearlman - Empire State College Virtual Language: Altered Functions of Language in Transforming Space and Shaping Information Chris Burnett - Visual Studies Workshop Nationwide Technological Illiteracy and What the Tech! Can One Radio Show Save the Country? Stephen Jacobs - Rochester Institute of Technology When is Now? Twenty First Century High School Mark Lipton - University of Toronto Session 4-B New Approaches to Media Ecology (Room 06-3201) Chair: Thomas F. Gencarelli - Montclair State University Ambient Video: The Transformation of the Domestic Cinematic Experience Jim Bizzocchi - Simon Fraser University Formula for a Fuhrer: Idolatry Made Easy in a Culture of Irrationality and Spectacle Arthur W. Hunt, III - Geneva College From Secondary Orality to Secondary Literacy James C. Morrison - Emerson College Rhetoric and Orality in a Mass-Technological Society Stephen Weinstock - Independent Scholar Session 4-C Social Issues and Technology (Room 06-3252) Chair: Grant Cos - Rochester Institute of Technology General Guidelines for the Investigation of Technology Boris Hellmann - SUNY Buffalo Sticks and Carrots: Global Rules, Local Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights in Eastern Asian Nations Jack Rosenberry - St. John Fisher College Recreational Surveillance and Social Interaction Stacy Rosenberg - New York University Destruction of Communication Skills Due to Overabundance of Information on the Internet Jordan P. Curtis - SUNY Postsdam 12:00-1:15 Lunch Break (On Your Own) 12:00-2:45 MEA Board Meeting 1:30- 2:45 ACTIVITIES Tour of Cary Collection (please sign up) (2nd Floor, Wallace Library) Nature Walk (along RIT’s Nature Trail) Music Presentation: Catastrophe and Cooperation: Interactive Music Systems that Shape Communication Networks Among Performers (Room 06-A 205) Ann Warde - Independent Composer 3:00-4:15 Plenary Session: The Future of Literature in Digital Environments (Room 06-A 205) Moderator: John Roche - Rochester Institute of Technology Panelists: Twyla Gibson - University of Toronto Marjorie C. Luesebrink - Electronic Literature Organization Marla Schweppe - Rochester Institute of Technology 4:30-5:45 SESSIONS Session 5-A Weblogs and Cross-Disciplinary Communication (Room 06-A 205) Moderator: Elizabeth Lane Lawley - Rochester Institute of Technology Panelists: Alexander Halavais - SUNY Buffalo Sébastien Paquet - National Research Council of Canada Clay Shirky - New York University Jill Walker - University of Bergen Session 5-B Media Ecology and Education in a Technological Society (Room 06-3201) Moderator: Casey Man Kong Lum - William Paterson University Panelists: Joyce Hanks - University of Scranton Mary Alice Shaver - University of Central Florida Lance Strate - Fordham University Session 5-C Images and Visual Media Environments (Room 06-3225) Chair: Susan Jasko - California University of Pennsylvania The Rhetoric of Material Information, or the Digitized Body Lisa Hermsen - Rochester Institute of Technology Buffy, the Vampire Slayer: Strong, Brave, Resourceful--What’s a Girl to Do? Female Identity and the New Mythos Susan Jasko - California University of Pennsylvania Filming the Catastrophe: Representing Trauma in Film Marie Lovrod - Five Colleges Women’s Studies Research Center Traumatic Pedagogy: Images and Metaphor Jessica Lieberman - Rochester Institute of Technology 5:45-6:45 Reception (Faculty Commons) 7:00-8:15 Keynote Address: The Gamers’ Renaissance: Co-Authoring Reality for the Fun of It (Ingle Auditorium, Student Alumni Union) Douglas Rushkoff - New York University 8:15 Multimedia Event: String and Brush Mediated Sentinel (Outdoors) W. Michelle Harris - Rochester Institute of Technology =================================== SATURDAY, June 12, 2004 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Registration (Faculty Commons) 9:00-10:15 SESSIONS Session 6-A Media Ecology: Theoretical Directions (Room 06-3201) Chair: Thomas F. Gencarelli - Montclair State University The Cellphone as a Cultural Disturbance Elizabeth Fitzgerald - Fordham University Tao of Media Ecology Paul Grosswiler - University of Maine Taoism, Media Ecology, and the Reason Why the West Just Can’t ‘Dig It’ Megan Rogers - Fordham University King Spoil-Sport: The Death and Resurrection of the Global Shaman Kyle Outlaw - New York University Session 6-B Cultural Messages and Media Environments (Room 06-A205) Chair: Corey Anton - Grand Valley State University Visual “Re-Enactments” and the Role of Spectatorship in Telling the News John Huxford - Villanova University Louis E. Lomax and Coverage of the Black Muslims: How a Documentary on a Separatist Movement Opened the Broadcast News Arena to African Americans Clarence Cotton, Jr. - Hampton University Theme Parks as Sacred Places and Commercial Sanctuaries Kip Redick - Christopher Newport University Edmund Carpenter: Maverick Anthropologist and Media Ecology Pioneer Harald E. L. Prins - Kansas State University Cultural Identities and Digital Environments María de la Luz Casas Pérez - Instituto Tecnológico, Campus Morelos, México Session 6-C Media Ecology at the Movies (Room 06-3225) Chair: Edward A. Wachtel - Fordham University Beneath the Surface of American Beauty Eirini Konstantinidou - Fordham University Thus Spake the Prophet: The Drama of Systems in Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America” Jessica Knapp - Fordham University Orson Welles as Medium Theorist Paul Heyer - Wilfrid Laurier University Cinesthetic Memory: Towards a Phenomenological Ethnography of Film Viewing Kevin Taylor Anderson - University of Massachusetts, Amherst 10:30-11:45 SESSIONS Session 7-A Natural and Visual Ecologies (Room 06-3201) Moderator: Raymond Gozzi, Jr. - Ithaca College Panelists: Susan B. Barnes - Rochester Institute of Technology Chad Okrusch - University of Oregon Wendy Snetsinger - Pennsylvania State University Session 7-B New Media Environments (Room 06-3225) Chair: Davis Foulger - Evolutionary Media Transient Reformations: Transforming Place Through Projection W. Michelle Harris - Rochester Institute of Technology Improvisational Comedy and the Internet Susan Jacobson - Marymount Manhattan College Blogs: A First Person Narrative in Real Time Elouise Oyzon - Rochester Institute of Technology The Creation of a Performance Medium: But Is It a Video Game or a Role-Playing Game? Chad Tew - University of Southern Indiana Session 7-C “Toronto School of Communication”: Canadian Contributions to Media Ecology (Room 06-A205) Moderator: Mark Lipton - University of Toronto Panelists: Donald J. Gillies - Ryerson University Liss Jeffrey - University of Toronto Alexander Kuskis - Royal Roads University Robert K. Logan - University of Toronto 12:00-1:00 Buffet Luncheon (Outside Building 6) Sponsored by the Kern Professor in Communications, Rochester Institute of Technology 1:15-2:45 Tribute to Neil Postman (Room 06-A205) Moderator: Janet Sternberg - Fordham University Panelists: Susan B. Barnes - Rochester Institute of Technology Thomas F. Gencarelli - Montclair State University Casey Man Kong Lum - William Paterson University Edward A. Wachtel - Fordham University 3:00-4:15 SESSIONS Session 8-A Workshop: Paradise Lost (and Found) in Translation: Drawing from the Liberal Arts and Using Skits in Re-Mapping Our Media Environment (Room 06-3214) Fred Cheyunski - Rohm and Haas Company Session 8-B Reevaluating Goffman in the Context of New Technologies (Room 06- 3225) Chair: Brian Cogan - Molloy College Framing the Future: A Frame Analysis of the Discourse of the “Electronic Frontier” Luiz Carlos Baptista - Catholic University, Lisbon Misbehavior in Public Places: Goffman’s Analysis of Situational Improprieties Janet Sternberg - Fordham University Erving Goffman as Media Ecologist: Re-Framing the Interdiscipline Liss Jeffrey - University of Toronto Framing the Useful: A Frame Analysis of the Introduction of the Personal Computer Brian Cogan - Molloy College Session 8-C Tribute to Walter Ong (Room 06-A205) Moderator: Lance Strate - Fordham University Panelists: Twyla Gibson - University of Toronto Vincent Hevern, SJ - Le Moyne College Anthony Palmeri - University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh Lori Ramos - William Paterson University Thomas D. Zlatic - Saint Louis College of Pharmacy 4:30-5:15 Plenary Session: Renegotiating the Social Contract: The Rise of the Technology of Distrust (Room 06-A205) Gary Gumpert - Communication Landscapers Susan Drucker - Hofstra University 5:30-6:15 Presidential Address: The Persistence of the Word (Room 06-A205) Lance Strate - Fordham University 6:15-7:00 Presentation of the MEA Awards (Room 06-A205) 7:00-8:15 Plenary Session: The Interface between Writing and Art (Room 06-A205) Denise Schmandt-Besserat - University of Texas, Austin 8:15-9:30 Reception (Faculty Commons) =================================== SUNDAY, June 13, 2004 10:00-11:30 MEA Business Meeting (1824 Room, Student Alumni Union) Moderator: Casey Man Kong Lum - William Paterson University All are welcome to attend 11:45-1:00 Plenary Session: The Future of the Internet and Digital Media (1824 Room, Student Alumni Union) Moderator: Susan B. Barnes - Rochester Institute of Technology Panelists: Ronald J. Deibert - University of Toronto Gary Gumpert - Communication Landscapers Liss Jeffrey - University of Toronto Mary Madden - Pew Internet & American Life Project 1:00 Closing Remarks 1:15 Convention Adjourns =================================== REGISTRATION INFORMATION Convention Fees for MEA Members US $40 Member Registration (on-site) US $20 Student Registration (full-time student ID required) Convention Fees for Non-Members US $60 Convention Registration Only US $25 Student Convention Registration Only MEA Membership Fees (January 1, 2004 through December 31, 2004) US $40 Membership US $20 Student Membership (full-time student ID required) Sessions will be held on the RIT Campus. Directions to the RIT Campus are available at <http://www.rit.edu/~960www/information/directions.shtml>. The conference hotel, located on the RIT Campus, is the Radisson Hotel Rochester Airport. Free shuttle service is available between the Rochester airport and the hotel. Please mention MEA when making hotel reservations to receive the convention rate. Radisson Hotel Rochester Airport 175 Jefferson Rd. Rochester, NY 14623 800-333-3333 toll free 585-475-1910 | 585-475-9633 fax <RHI_RONY {at} Radisson.com> Questions? Contact the Convention Coordinator: Sue Barnes Communication Dept. Rochester Institute of Technology 92 Lomb Memorial Dr. Rochester, NY 14623-5604 585-475-4695 voice | 585-475-7732 fax <sbbgpt {at} rit.edu> News and information about the event is also available at the Convention Blog <http://www.rit.edu/~sbbgpt/mea-rit> and at the MEA Web site <<http://www.media-ecology.org>. ===================================