Convention - Media Ecology Association, Rochester NY June 5-8, 2003
THE FIFTH ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE MEDIA ECOLOGY ASSOCIATION June 10-13, 2004 Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, New York 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> MEDIA ENVIRONMENTS AND THE LIBERAL ARTS Media Environments and the Liberal Arts How do changing media environments influence the ways in which people express themselves, communicate with each other, and pass on knowledge to future generations? From cities to cyberspace, and ancient writing systems to digital communication technologies, media help shape human interaction, understanding and organization. This conference explores the various ways in which past, present and emerging media environments influence human life in general, and its self-examination via the liberal arts disciplines. These include the subjects of inquiry and the way research is conducted, changes in human and mass communication, policy-making and evaluation, individual expression and representation, formation and change in cultural attitudes, media representations of natural environments, emerging digital expression, hyperfiction, digital poetry, and the social impact of media. Featured speakers include Susan Drucker, Gary Gumpert, Douglas Rushkoff, and Denise Schmandt-Besserat. PRE-REGISTRATION INFORMATION Convention Fees for MEA Members US $30 Member Pre-Registration (before May 1, 2004) US $40 Member Registration (after May 1, 2004 or 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) A printable version of the pre-registration form is available online at <http://www.media-ecology.org>, where the Convention schedule will be posted and updated periodically. News about the event is also available at the Convention Blog <http://www.rit.edu/~sbbgpt/mea-rit>. Mail completed pre-registration form and check or money order payable to Media Ecology Association to: Janet Sternberg, MEA Executive Secretary Dept. of Communication & Media Studies Fordham University Bronx, NY 10458-9993 718-817-4855 voice | 718-817-4868 fax <netberg {at} compuserve.com> Payment from outside the United States can be made through PayPal® at <http://www.media-ecology.org/joinmea/intlpay.html> Sessions will be held on the RIT Campus. 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> DEADLINE FOR PRE-REGISTRATION: May 1, 2004
Apologies for my previous post with the wrong dates in the message subject line (but correct in the message itself). J Sternberg wrote:
THE FIFTH ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE MEDIA ECOLOGY ASSOCIATION June 10-13, 2004 Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, New York 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>
MEDIA ENVIRONMENTS AND THE LIBERAL ARTS
A graduate student I know is looking for resources on how to analyze (nonlinear) information on the WWW. Can anyone recommend any resources (books, articles, sites) I could pass on to him that might be helpful? Thank you. Susannah
for Susannah Stern and student: Web analytical models that are nonlinear - Models: I searched on this a while back. I came up with a series of mathematical models that were grouped under the term "webmetrics". However searching webmetrics via google today I didn't get good results. As you say the area is mostly quantitative. Steve Lawrence has pioneered some of this work. It was mathematical, but put me towards some good material. I don't know if these links are still working. http://www.neci.nec/com/~lawrence/papers.html bibliography filed under Lawrence, Steve If you are referring to analyzing the discourse on the web analytically, of course that's another thing altogether. My favorite folks working on internet discourse analysis (besides Foot & Schneider, of AoIR fame) are Nick Jankowski and Martine Van Selm, although there are many others. Cheers - Denise ===== Denise N. Rall, PhD student, School of Env. Science, Southern Cross Uni, Marker for Protected/Natural Area Management, BIO00244 Lismore, NSW, 2480 Australia Phone +61-2-6624-8627 Fax +61-2-6624-8637 Office (Thursdays) (02) 6620 3577 Mob 0438 233 344 http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/rsm/staff/pages/drall/index.html __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam http://mail.yahoo.com
Hi Susannah (and Everyone), The field of hypertext and hypermedia studies the non-linear nature of information. The nodes (documents) and links result in a non-linear network of information. (A shameless self-reference to a definition of hypertext in the Encyclopedia of CS: http://web.njit.edu/~bieber/pub/cs-encyclopedia/csencyclopedia00.pdf) There's been a lot of work done in the hypertext community on analyzing hypertext networks, and the best thing to do would be to look through the ACM Hypertext conference proceedings. Some work has focused on analyzing link depth. Over the last years the hypertext community has been analyzing networks in terms of structural and navigation "patterns". A lot of this work has been carried on further by the burgeoning field of Web Engineering: e.g., http://www.webengineering.org/ which has its own set of conferences and journals now. Web Engineering applies software engineering approaches to the Web. Cheers, Michael
A graduate student I know is looking for resources on how to analyze (nonlinear) information on the WWW. Can anyone recommend any resources (books, articles, sites) I could pass on to him that might be helpful?
Thank you.
Susannah
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For the "Virtual" part of this event all are invited to participate - participation is free. There are several ways to participate virtually at the moment. 1] Via the blogs - in which case you will need to email me and "register" 2] By writing about a 300 to 500 word (or more) response papers (in which case you still need to email me the response papers) - see http://www.cyberdiva.org/PTT/responses/stevie.html for a sample of a longer response . Other options such as video streaming and MOO conference times are being arranged for early summer. ______ Cultures of Technology Virtual Conference Kicks Off March 24 Keynotes And Reception March 24, 2004 315 Bowen-Thompson Student Union 2pm-5pm Refreshments will be served. Dr. Marcy Chvasta from the University of South Florida will speak at 2pm on "Screening Bodies: Performance and Technology" followed by Dr. Jillana Enteen from Northwestern University at 3:30pm, whose talk is entitled "Queering Digital Space." More information about the Conference: Cultures of Technology, an interdisciplinary research cluster at the Institute for Culture and Society at BGSU, led by Prof. Radhika Gajjala, will hold its first annual Virtual Conference starting March 24, 2004, 2pm-5pm. An innovative integration of activities on-line and on-campus, the conference explores cultural studies, pedagogy, and performance in relation to technology. Conference participation is free and all are welcome to participate. Invited keynote speakers appearing on-campus include Marcy Rose Chvasta (U. of South Florida) on "Screening Bodies: Performance and Technology," Jillana Enteen (Northwestern), on "Queering Digital Space," and Craig Saper on "Epistemologies of Doing." For text of these presentations, please see http://www.cyberdiva.org/PTT/issue1toc.html. For information on the live visits, streaming videos, position papers, and the virtual conference, check the Cultures of Technology Research Cluster website: http://www.bgsu.edu/offices/ics/techcluster or email Dr. Gajjala at radhik@bgnet.bgsu.edu
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Denise N. Rall -
J Sternberg -
Michael Bieber -
Radhika Gajjala -
Susannah Stern