MAKING the UNIVERSITY MATTER DECEMBER 4-5, 2009 Presented by the Scholars Program in Culture and Communication Speakers

A Symposium Annenberg School for Communication University of Pennsylvania MAKING THE UNIVERSITY MATTER DECEMBER 4-5, 2009 Presented by The Scholars Program in Culture and Communication Speakers

Ien Ang Risto Kunelius Visiting Scholar SummerCulture Sponsor Spring 2006 Finland 2008 S. Elizabeth Bird Don Mitchell MAKING THE Visiting Scholar Visiting Scholar Fall 2007 Spring 2008 UNIVERSITY MATTER Dominic Boyer Mark Anthony Neal Guest Lecturer Visiting Scholar Fall 2007 Fall 2008 Making the University Matter Michael Bromley Kaarle Nordenstreng investigates how academics situate SummerCulture Sponsor SummerCulture Sponsor themselves simultaneously in the Australia 2009 Finland 2008 university and the world, and how Nick Couldry Radhika Parameswaran doing so affects the viability of the Visiting Scholar Visiting Scholar university setting. The university Fall 2008 Spring 2009 stands at the intersection of two sets of interests, needing to be at one Michael X. Delli Carpini Jeff Pooley with the world while aspiring to stand ASC Faculty Panelist Visiting Scholar apart from it. In an era that promises John Nguyet Erni Spring 2009 intensified political instability, growing Visiting Scholar Richard Cullen Rath administrative pressures, dwindling Spring 2008 Visiting Scholar economic returns and questions about economic viability, lower Isabel Capeloa Gil Fall 2009 enrollments and shrinking programs, can the university continue SummerCulture Sponsor Paddy Scannell to matter into the future? And if so, in which way? What will help Portugal 2007 Guest Lecturer it survive as an honest broker? What are the mechanisms for Spring 2009 ensuring its independent voice? This two-day symposium considers Larry Gross a multiplicity of answers from across the curriculum on making the Guest Speaker Michael Schudson university matter, including critical scholarship, interdisciplinarity, Fall 2008 Guest Speaker curricular blends of the humanities and social sciences, practical Larry Grossberg Fall 2006 training and policy work. Guest Lecturer Katherine Sender Spring 2007 ASC Faculty Panelist John Hartley Slavko Splichal Images courtesy of University Archives and Records Center SummerCulture Sponsor Visiting Scholar Australia 2009 Spring 2006 Kathleen Hall Jamieson Paula Treichler ASC Faculty Panelist Guest Lecturer Contents Elizabeth Jelin Fall 2005 SummerCulture Sponsor Robin Wagner-Pacifici Speakers ...... 1 Argentina 2005 Visiting Scholar Spring 2007 Program Elihu Katz ASC Faculty Panelist Barbie Zelizer DAY ONE – DECEMBER 4, 2009 ...... 2 Marwan Kraidy Director of the Scholars Program in Culture and Communication DAY TWO – DECEMBER 5, 2009 ...... 3 Visiting Scholar Spring 2007 Abstracts ...... 4 Biographies...... 10

MAKING THE UNIVERSITY MATTER | 1 Program

DECEMBER 4, 2009 DECEMBER 5, 2009

9:15 a.m...... Coffee and Breakfast 9:00 a.m...... Coffee and Breakfast 9:45 a.m. – 10:00 a.m...... Introduction by Michael X. Delli Carpini 9:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m...... Panel One and Barbie Zelizer Keeping the University Relevant 10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m...... Panel One How can the pedagogical, educational and community-based goals and functions of the university reflect a “real world” focus? Models of Intellectual Engagement How do alternative models of intellectual engagement forefront certain presumptions Moderator: Brittany Griebling, ASC Ph.D. Candidate Panelists: Larry Gross about what matters in the university, in which ways and for whom? Michael Schudson Moderator: Michael Serazio, ASC Ph.D. Candidate Robin Wagner-Pacifici Panelists: S. Elizabeth Bird 10:45 a.m. – 11:00 a.m...... Morning Refreshments Isabel Capeloa Gil Marwan Kraidy 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m...... Panel Two 11:15 a.m. – 11:30 a.m...... Morning Refreshments Technology and Institutionalization 11:30 a.m. – 12:45 p.m...... Panel Two What do institutional and technological parameters look like in the evolving academic environment? Intellectuals and the Public Sphere Moderator: Deborah Lubken, ASC Ph.D. Candidate How do publicity and the positioning of intellectual critique and commentary nourish Panelists: Dominic Boyer public thought? John Hartley Moderators: Susan Berube and Rocio Nunez, ASC Ph.D. Candidates Richard Cullen Rath Panelists: Ien Ang Paula Treichler Michael Bromley 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m...... Lunch Mark Anthony Neal Slavko Splichal 1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m...... Panel Three 12:45 p.m. – 2:00 p.m...... Lunch Communication and the Viability of the University 2:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m...... Panel Three What can communication offer the university and how can its study help us rethink the university’s future viability? Economies of Knowledge Moderator: Adrienne Shaw, ASC Ph.D. Candidate Against current moves toward the marketability of knowledge, how do economic Panelists: Kaarle Nordenstreng landscapes structure, facilitate and undermine the creation, acquisition, sharing and Radhika Parameswaran distribution of knowledge? Jeff Pooley Paddy Scannell Moderator: Mario Rodriguez, ASC Ph.D. Candidate Panelists: Nick Couldry 3:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m...... Afternoon Refreshments Risto Kunelius 3:15 p.m. – 4:45 p.m...... Panel Four Don Mitchell Pondering the University’s Future 3:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m...... Afternoon Refreshments How does our collective knowledge help us move forward? 3:30 p.m. – 4:45 p.m...... Panel Four Moderator: Angela Lee, ASC Ph.D. Candidate Having a Political Voice Panelists: Michael X. Delli Carpini Which roles, functions and meanings emerge from the struggle for academics to have a Kathleen Hall Jamieson political voice? Elihu Katz Katherine Sender Moderator: Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt, ASC Ph.D. Candidate 4:45 p.m. – 5:00 p.m...... Closing by Barbie Zelizer Panelists: John Nguyet Erni Larry Grossberg 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m...... Dinner Elizabeth Jelin 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m...... Reception

2 | MAKING THE UNIVERSITY MATTER MAKING THE UNIVERSITY MATTER | 3 Abstracts

Ien Ang Dominic Boyer Nick Couldry Isabel Capeloa Gil Making Art Matter Universities and the Future of Post-Neoliberal Academic Values: Monks, Managers and Celebrities: Academic Expertise in the Era of Notes from the UK Higher Education Southern Singularities and the Ivory tower scholars are often accused of Digital Information Sector European University disengagement from society. The increasing interest in interdisciplinary collaboration There is scarcely a dimension of academic life This paper draws in part on my recently com- The European ‘fortress university’ is in crisis, and community partnerships is a response that has not been profoundly impacted by pleted book which defends ‘voice’ as a value torn between the traditional enclosed model to this accusation. But what are the implica- digital information technology over the past which might be developed in response to of the monastery-university, the functional- tions of this 'collaborative turn' for the nature quarter century. From research to publish- neoliberalism’s absolute prioritization of mar- ist managerial model and the obsession with of knowledge and the role of academics as ing to advising to teaching to administra- ket functioning over other priorities. While higher education rankings and celebrity knowledge producers? Similar apprehensions tion, digital tools have enabled new ways of neoliberal doctrine is certainly more under academics. Even the signing of the Bologna exist in the world of contemporary art. To generating, communicating and archiving challenge than before the 2008 economic and Declaration in June 1999, aimed at establish- overcome the (alleged) disconnect of art from academic knowledge and disabled old ones. financial crisis, what values might super- ing a “European Higher Education Area” by society artists today are involved in their own Universities thus find themselves in a phase of sede neoliberal values (and constitute what 2010, signals a utopian project, a model for a forms of 'collaborative turn'. This collabora- significant institutional transformation. Some Wendy Brown calls a ‘counter-rationality’ university in-becoming, that threatens to turn tive turn in contemporary art exists in an of the changes are well-known, others more to neoliberal rationality) remains uncertain. into a functionalist quagmire. This presenta- uneasy relationship with the institution of subterranean. Some seem obviously positive, Critical scholarly practice should, I contend, tion discusses the role of these clashing aca- the art museum: the latter is both an obstacle others more ambivalent and even dangerous contribute to the building of such a counter- demic models in the European crisis and the and indispensible for the recognition of this for academic life as we know it. Reviewing rationality. Meanwhile current debates in the part that communication and culture studies new type of socially engaged art. Drawing on contemporary institutional trends, I discuss, UK’s higher education sector are focused on a may play in it. Since the presentation stems collaborative research I am conducting with for example, how digital information technol- new ‘impact’-based model for measuring re- from a semi peripheral, southern perspective, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney ogy has helped facilitate the networking of search ‘excellence’ that is imposed by the New it proposes a dialogical-inclusive academic I will describe some parallels in the contradic- academic communities globally, creating new Labour government and its agencies, whose model, built from a Portuguese case-study, tions inherent to our efforts in making intel- possibilities of academic engagement with and assumptions are analyzed in the paper. The that is European, yet not expansionist; cos- lectual work, artistic or scholarly, matter. influence upon publics outside the university. paper asks: what price are academic contribu- mopolitan, yet unhierarchical; humanist, yet Yet I also explain how digital media have tions to post-neoliberal values in a regulated non-discriminatory. S. Elizabeth Bird helped make universities more susceptible environment that is increasingly dismissive of Surviving Through Engagement: How to administrative surveillance and how they the value of critical academic research? Larry Gross Faculty Can Defend Liberal Education have weakened the distinctiveness of academic Rethinking Doctoral Education John Nguyet Erni forms of expertise. The time is ripe for a re-evaluation of the In these times of budget austerity, the talk Legal Education and the Conflict over about the need for universities to be “relevant” Michael Bromley Rights Consciousness in China focus and mission of communication studies often translates into calls for vocational educa- programs. I propose three distinct but related The University's Role in Promoting a Over the last thirty years, the PRC’s legal tion, rather than study in the traditional liber- Dynamic Public Sphere directions for rethinking the role of the al arts, humanities, and social sciences. In the education reform has rendered the disputed discipline and communications scholarship: state of Florida, for instance, legislators have An information rich, knowledge based cul- meaning of the “rule of law” more visible, the rediscovery of relevance, or the return of publicly disparaged such programs, which do ture, in which closed-loop complex systems leading to an increasingly contested position- the repressed in communication studies; the not contribute to “workforce development.” are resistant to scientistic rationalist analysis, ing of law professionals in the field. This expansion of our definitions of tenure and Yet too often we are trapped by “either/or” needs more critical brokers of information contestation over the ethico-political role of criteria for scholarship to encompass more thinking – with assumptions made that the flows and counter-flows and the debates they the legal professional arose internally within public engagement; the broadening of our vi- liberal arts and social sciences are by defini- generate. Moreover, benefits accrue to these legal education itself, but it has also surfaced sion of career paths for our doctoral students. tion out of touch with the world around us, activities through competition which pro- through the rise of citizen legal consciousness To accomplish any of these goals would and that a student who studies for the love of motes the public good and quality assurance. and civil actions in China and international require articulating new missions and goals learning will pay the price in job opportuni- It is evident that the ecology known as 'the pressure for so-called “law and development” for our discipline, rethinking the values, prac- ties. I interrogate this assumption, discussing media' as currently constituted is incapable of reform. This paper reviews the structural and tices and curricula of our academic programs, ways in which the humanities, arts and social delivering an expanded public sphere, and is ideological reform of legal education in China and engaging with and persuading university sciences are integral to the contemporary generally hostile to it. There is widespread rec- (focusing especially on its clinical legal educa- leaders and administrators of the importance concept of the “engaged university,” whose ognition of this as people at large increasingly tion programs) and discusses how it manages of a more engaged scholarship. In this paper I mission is to reach out to the community, do it themselves, or simply do without. In the schism between seeing the teaching of law hope to lay out the grounds for the arguments initiate social change, and enrich our social these conditions, activities of sense-making in as providing bricks and mortar for building and sketch some of the necessary steps to take fabric and lives. Indeed, as the very nature of contemporary life risk being rejected without a state ideological apparatus and seeing it as as well as the immediate barriers to overcome. the traditional university is challenged by new proper assessment of their roles. A moment a way to meet new challenges arising from models of online and for-profit education, has arisen in which the university can lead, popular citizen- and NGO-based legal actions the survival of universities, especially public rather than follow, in facilitating the develop- and from the burden of the international gaze, institutions, depends on their ability to define ment of this capacity. chiefly from American law schools and legal a vibrant place for non-vocational education bodies. in the public value system. 4 | MAKING THE UNIVERSITY MATTER MAKING THE UNIVERSITY MATTER | 5 Larry Grossberg Elizabeth Jelin Risto Kunelius Mark Anthony Neal Why Should Universities Matter? On Models of Transnational Scholarly Problems of Public Reason (in the Shifting Publics: Redefining the Black the Responsibilities of the Political “Cooperation”: A Site of Geopolitical Post-Welfare Nordic State) Public Intellectual Intellectual Struggles? This presentation looks at the position and Prior to the Civil Rights Movement, there was Does the university matter anymore? Should Transnational scholarly institutions, flows and future challenges of a publicly funded univer- a long established tradition of “Race Man”— it? The research university “matters” be- networks are part of the current world scene. sity system in an age of globalization and an African-American men, who presumed the cause knowledge is intrinsically neutral and The wording may change: world system, increasing ethos of competition. The chang- role of spokespersons for African-American valuable. The “political university” matters center/periphery; West/the rest; North/South; ing ideological landscape of Nordic welfare communities. Though many of these men because knowledge is produced in the service First World/Third World; or some other – states from discourses of “planned economy” were university trained, they did not possess of political allegiances defined elsewhere. But usually spatial—metaphor. Yet the question to “competition economy” redefine the role, formal relationships with mainstream univer- the results of the latter have not been good. remains: What kinds of links have devel- practices, legitimation strategies and organi- sities and colleges. Racial integration at many Increasingly, the modern university no longer oped and could be developed? Who defines zational structures of the university system. of these institutions in the late 1960s created matters as the primary producer and guardian the transnational agenda? To what extent is Drawing from a sample of elite interviews on the context for a critical mass of university of knowledge. So we have to reconsider the “cooperation” shaped by global economic the role of the media in the process of rede- affiliated black scholars, many aligned with place of politics in the university—the respon- and political power relationships? Further- signing the Finnish system during 2008-2010, nascent Black Studies Programs. Twenty years sibility of the political intellectual. This will more, how does the “Center” look through I consider the positioning of journalism and after this development there was a clear shift, require an understanding of useful knowledge the gaze of the “Periphery”? The presentation the academia as fields of public knowledge. with the emergence of a new generation of based on complexity and relationality, one is based on the history of the international Based on claims of autonomy and the critical black public intellectuals—many of whom that assumes neither the questions nor the links, flows and networks in which Latin role of reason, such fields of knowledge are possessed Ivy League pedigrees and affiliations answers. We will have to re-imagine the forms American social scientists and social science becoming increasingly “heteronomous” with with the most prestigious research universities of disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity, of in- institutions have been involved during the last changing cultural capital. Only a reflective in the nation. Given the foundations of Black tellectual labor and of the possible trajectories half century. The dominant form is one that understanding of that change can help institu- Studies as a mechanism of social change and of education. reproduces and strengthens hierarchical power tions and professionals of public knowledge the emergence of the “university” as a linchpin relationships. Are there sites of resistance? Are struggle for genuine, democratic relevance of of the neoliberal State, how has the role of the John Hartley horizontal links possible? Are there counter their work. so-called Black Public Intellectual changed? Outlearning hegemonic forms of collaboration in the mak- Don Mitchell Kaarle Nordenstreng Universities are still organized as if print is the ing? Can there be transnational North-South prime technology of learning: they still tend scholarly alliances to reshape unequal hierar- The Entrepreneurial University and Disciplining the Disciplines? chical flows? Its Discontents: Or, Why the University to cluster buildings around libraries; read- Is No Longer a Public Space Bernard Berelson's ‘obituary’ of communica- ers around “papers” (albeit electronic); entry Marwan Kraidy (If It Ever Was) tion research in 1959 and Wilbur Schramm's and certification around restrictive written response to it in defence of the emerging field Universities and Globalization: Staging In The University in Ruins (1996), Bill examination; and expertise around profes- Regional Modernities carry two messages to our world 50 years sional journals. When confronted by the Readings famously traced the evolution of on. First, communication research, far from emergence of mass media and broadcasting, If the role of the university is to create original the nationalist University of Culture into a being extinct, has gone through a phenom- universities sought as much to minimise as to knowledge about the world and to communi- market-driven University of Excellence. This enal growth that is only matched by fields enhance their impact on the population. Are cate that knowledge broadly beyond academe, evolution has deepened in the past decade as a such as IT and biotechnology. Second, the they making the same mistake in response to be at once embedded in society while cult of entrepreneurialship has come to define field continues to be a crossroads between to digital and networked media? This paper maintaining critical distance, what are we to the work of – and work in – the university. In different disciplines, while it has also consoli- considers the challenge of open complex make of existing institutional models of global the University of Excellence a new (if contra- dated its own identity by building distinctive networks, using the example of the creative engagement at U.S. universities? To explore dictory) space for highly critical scholarship theoretical as well as institutional realms such industries to argue that ‘bottom-up’ renewal, the issue, this paper revolves around the fol- and political activism opened up: anything as the two Annenberg Schools. The story of user-led innovation, and consumer co-created lowing question: What are the implications was tolerated just as long as it could be shown communication and media as an academic content are outpacing institutional structures of the franchising model that leading U.S. to be “excellent.” In the Entrepreneurial field and discipline provides a stimulating in the propagation of knowledge, using the universities have adopted in opening branch University that space is closing down – often case for fundamental questions in academia: affordances of commercial entertainment campuses worldwide (with specific focus on quite literally so. Excellence no longer proves How do disciplines evolve? To what extent rather than public institutions to develop the Persian Gulf states) for relationships (1) itself. Rather only the accumulation of capital do the disciplines shape faculties, schools and digital literacy, distributed expertise, con- between higher education and American soci- can prove excellence. Such a state of affairs has departments? Should the future of academia sumer productivity, and networked learning. ety, (2) between the U.S. and the world, and particular importance as universities, oper- be determined by a disciplinary and inter- In this context, what are the prospects for the (3) between various nations involved in the ating as massive institutions, have become disciplinary order instead of more mundane ‘advancement of knowledge’ and ‘education of globalization of the university? What does this major players in physically remaking urban factors? the public’? mean for how we think about higher educa- space as space primarily for accumulation, as tion? How can a critique of this model lead well as institutions for the production and to a better understanding of the disjunctive dissemination of knowledge. In this paper, I relationship between knowledge and global- trace the rise of the cult of entrepreneurialism ization? This paper explores and critiques in universities, its effects on both urban space the existing model of global engagement and and the space of the campus as a public space, discusses alternative models. and the ways in which the cult of entrepreneurialism is contested by those of us caught in its gaping maw.

6 | MAKING THE UNIVERSITY MATTER MAKING THE UNIVERSITY MATTER | 7 Radhika Parameswaran Richard Cullen Rath Michael Shudson Paula Treichler Producing Cosmopolitan Citizens: How to Read Hypertext: Media General Education in the Research Interdisciplinarity and Metaphor Communication Studies and the U.S. Literacy in Higher Education University Academy Interdisciplinary research as practiced by Most scholarship on the media possibilities General education is an institutional orphan individual faculty members is not new, but How can the field of communication in of the web focus on its design rather than on in the modern research university. Many peo- interdisciplinarity as an interest and priority the U.S. academy respond to author of the how to read it, beyond that reading is some- ple pay lip service to it. Everybody on campus among top campus administrators is recent. Post-American World Fareed Zakaria’s call to how user-directed. Yet reading hypertext is a thinks students should have it. Few faculty My university’s revised tenure and promo- create an America that is deeply globalized? critical skill needed by both students and fac- members want to contribute to it if it means tion guidelines, for instance, explicitly address How can the university help students and ulty in a university. The skill is neither intui- (and it does) taking time away from graduate interdisciplinary research as important to a surrounding communities understand the tively obvious nor technologically complex, so education, research and teaching undergradu- faculty member’s development. But “inter- implications of the de-centering of America it need not remain solely the territory of com- ates in one's own specialized subject areas. disciplinarity” has many meanings, from the in global geopolitics? Although American puter scientists. With the crisis in book pub- What are the social forces that have produced multi-campus and multi-discipline assemblies universities have embraced the “global” as a lishing, faculty need to recognize hypermedia a program that remains defining of the ide- of contemporary physics to the chancellor buzzword and even implemented some initia- as scholarship on par with print publications. als of a college education but is far removed who invites a microbiologist and a Proust tives, this paper argues that there needs to be Students should leave the university prepared from the desires of faculty or the priorities of scholar to the same roundtable luncheon. much deeper contemplation of the program- with the skills necessary to both produce and students? If the ideal of a general education is Whose meanings matter? Which guide matic ways in which we can incorporate critically read hypermedia, skills increasingly still valuable (and I think it is), what institu- policy? A brief survey of metaphors from curricular models of cosmopolitan citizenship. central to many career choices, including that tional mechanisms remain for keeping it alive? recent multi-disciplinary publications suggests The field of communication studies, with its of professor. Thus, hyperliteracy, in both read- To address these questions, this paper takes off the landscape and logistics of the choices we expertise in imaginative forms of cross-cultur- ing and writing, should be a core component from the recent (2007) report of the Univer- face in institutionalizing interdisciplinary real communication, must seize the opportunity of media literacy and indeed any twenty-first sity of California Commission on the Future search, and this paper examines the challenges to make a case for the crucial role it can play century literacy in higher education. of General Education that I co-chaired. of interdisciplinarity in medical research and within the university to ensure that America education, specifically those involving the does not forget to globalize itself at a moment Paddy Scannell Slavko Splichal social sciences and humanities. It suggests when the rise of Asia is presenting challenges The World and the University University in the Period of that only teaching and research simultane- to American global dominance. Transnationalization of the There has always been a tension between the ously embedded in medical and non-medical Public Sphere institutional structures can resist medicine’s Jeff Pooley ‘real world’ and the university. From the point According to Kant’s dimensions of publicness, power to incorporate other disciplines into a Another Plea for the University of view of those on the outside of them, universities are often thought of as out of touch the modern university constitutes a public, homogenized medical model. It concludes by Tradition: The Institutional Roots of addressing the power of metaphor in fostering Intellectual Compromise with ordinary, worldly realities and concerns. since it authenticates and demonstrates the Equally those of us on the inside have tended principle of publicity in public debates, pro- or hindering structural change. In a pair of lectures two decades apart, the motes personal enlightenment and transcends to take a rather lofty view (from our ivory Robin Wagner-Pacifici late James W. Carey twice issued an eloquent towers) of the world out there, below us. In ethnic/national boundaries. Normatively, the defense of what he, following Harold Innis, university may be considered an environment The University (or College) Keeps the field of communication studies this shows Us Honest called “the university tradition.” Carey had in up in the characteristic mistrust between in which “a learned individual […] publicly mind independent scholarly inquiry, which people working in the media and academics voices his thoughts on the impropriety or Through a variety of regularized and episodic he took to be a threatened and fragile ideal. who study the media. In my presentation I even injustice; […] as a member of a com- practices, members of the academy are contin- Carey scolded his colleagues in communica- briefly consider the sources of this tension and plete commonwealth or even of cosmopolitan ually required to speak and act in front of wit- tion studies for permitting partnerships with how it might be overcome. The meaning of society, […] he may indeed argue without nesses. We are summoned to address students, industry and government to get in the way globalization is ‘the name of the game’ for our harming the affairs in which he is employed fellow members of the academy and, on of truth-seeking and real scholarship. In this field and is crucially important for academic for some of the time in a passive capacity.” occasion, the wider public through teaching, talk, I attempt to revive Carey’s plea for the disciplines intent on taking the lead in trying As specific “publics”, universities would also publishing and participating in conferences university tradition, with the claim that his to clarify what in the world we are talking foster the transnationalization of the public and workshops. Commissions, collaborations articulation of the ideal is exactly right. I about. sphere. The question is, however, if such a and pedagogy – all of these are mechanisms suggest, though, that Carey’s account of the university can really flourish in today’s eco- operating to insure that institutions of higher threat and its roots does not go deep enough. nomically driven globalized governance, and learning and their incumbents do not become The problem isn’t the entanglements of fund- what would be the consequences if the univer- irrelevant, solipsistic or meaningless. Creative ing, but instead the field’s institutional history. sity as “a public” dies in a global environment. thinking about sustaining and reconfiguring The sin is original—built, that is, into its the networks of such possible interactions can many-stranded professional school origins. help make sure that the university will still “matter” in the face of economic and other challenges. My presentation will highlight some possible ways of thinking about our individual and collective summonses-to-matter in and with the university.

8 | MAKING THE UNIVERSITY MATTER MAKING THE UNIVERSITY MATTER | 9 Biographies

Ien Ang is Distinguished Professor of Cultural power, ritual dimensions of media, audience research, Larry Gross is Professor and Director, USC Annen- Kathleen Hall Jamieson is the Elizabeth Ware Studies and Australian Research Council Professorial media ethics and the methodology of cultural studies. berg School of Communication. His research focuses Packard Professor of Communication at the An- Fellow at the Centre for Cultural Research, Univer- He is the author or editor of seven books, including on the nature of symbolic communication; art and nenberg School for Communication and Walter and sity of Western Sydney, Australia. Her books include The Place of Media Power: Pilgrims and Witnesses of communication; media and culture; sexual minorities Leonore Annenberg Director of the Annenberg Public Watching Dallas (1985), Desperately Seeking the Audi- the Media Age (Routledge 2000), Media Rituals: A and the media. He is author of Contested Closets: The Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. ence (1991), On Not Speaking Chinese (2001) and The Critical Approach (Routledge 2003), Listening Beyond Politics and Ethics of Outing and Up From Invisibility: Jamieson is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts SBS Story: The Challenge of Cultural Diversity (2008). the Echoes: Media, Ethics and Agency in an Uncertain Lesbians, Gay Men and the Media in America, editor and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the She is a champion of collaborative cultural research World (Paradigm Books, 2006) and (with Sonia or co-editor of Communications Technology and Social American Academy of Political and Social Science and and has worked extensively with cultural and media Livingstone and Tim Markham) Media Consumption Policy; Studying Visual Communication; Image Ethics: the International Communication Association. She is institutions such as the The Art Gallery of New South and Public Engagement: Beyond the Presumption of The Moral Rights of Subjects in Photography, Film and the author or co-author of 15 books including most Wales, The Australian Special Broadcasting Service Attention (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). He is currently Television; Image Ethics in the Digital Age; On The recently: Presidents Creating the Presidency (2008), and and the Museum of Contemporary Art. working on books on mediation and society and a Margins of Art Worlds and The Columbia Reader on Echo Chamber: Rush Limbaugh and the Conservative book on voice. Lesbians and Gay Men in Media, Society, and Politics. Media Establishment (2008). Dr. Jamieson has won S. Elizabeth Bird is Professor of Anthropology, He is Associate Editor of the International Encyclo- university-wide teaching awards at each of the three University of South Florida. Her books include For Michael X. Delli Carpini is Dean of the Annen- pedia of Communications, co-founding editor of the universities at which she has taught and political sci- Enquiring Minds: A Cultural Study of Supermarket berg School for Communication at the University online-only International Journal of Communication ence or communication awards for four of her books. (University of Tennessee Press, 1992), of Pennsylvania. Prior to joining the University of Tabloids and Fellow and 2011-12 President of the Interna- Her forthcoming book, co-authored with Kate Kenski Dressing in Feathers: The Construction of the Indian Pennsylvania faculty in July of 2003, Professor Delli tional Communication Association. and Bruce Hardy, is called The Obama Victory: How in American Popular Culture (Westview, 1996), The Carpini was Director of the Public Policy program of Media, Money, and Messages Shaped the 2008 Election. Audience in Everyday Life (Routledge, 2003), and The the Pew Charitable Trusts (1999-2003), and member Lawrence Grossberg is the Morris Davis Dis- Anthropology of News and Journalism: Global Perspec- of the Political Science Department at Barnard Col- tinguished Professor of Communication Studies and Elizabeth Jelin is a Senior Researcher at CONI- tives (Indiana University Press, 2009). She teaches lege and graduate faculty of Columbia University Cultural Studies, Adjunct Distinguished Professor of CET (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas classes in media, visual anthropology, cultural heritage (1987-2002), serving as chair of the Barnard depart- American Studies, Anthropology, and Geography, at y Técnicas of Argentina), working at IDES (Instituto and folklore, and has published over 60 articles and ment from 1995 to 1999. His research explores the the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Co- de Desarrollo Económico y Social) in Buenos Aires, chapters in these areas. Her latest research focuses on role of the citizen in American politics, with particular editor of the international journal Cultural Studies for Argentina. Her research interests and publications the collective memory and memorialization of a mas- emphasis on the impact of the mass media on public twenty years, his work has been translated into over a are in the fields of human rights, memory of political sacre of civilians that took place in Nigeria in 1967. opinion, political knowledge and political participa- dozen languages. His most recent books include New repression, citizenship, social movements, gender and tion. His most recent book is Talking Together: Public Keywords: A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society the family. She currently teaches at the Doctoral Pro- Dominic Boyer is currently Associate Professor of Deliberation and Political Participation in America with (with Tony Bennett and Meaghan Morris, Black- gram in the Social Sciences at UNGS-IDES, a pro- Anthropology at Rice University and Visiting Profes- Lawrence R. Jacobs and Fay Lomax Cook (2009). wells, 2005), MediaMaking: Mass Media in a Popular gram she directed since its creation in 2003 through sor at the Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany. Culture (with Ellen Wartella, D. Charles Whitney 2007. She was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu He has previously held positions at Cornell University, John Nguyet Erni is Professor of Cultural Studies and MacGregor Wise, Sage, 2005) and Caught in the Berlin (2007-2008) and is currently a member of the the University of Chicago and EHESS-Paris. He is the at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. Over the past few Crossfire: Kids, Politics and America’s Future (Para- Academic Board of that institution. She was a board author of two books, Spirit and System: Media, Intel- years, since completing a Master of Law in Human digm, 2005). His latest book, We All Want To Change member of the SSRC (New York) and UNRISD lectuals and the Dialectic in Modern German Culture Rights at the University of Hong Kong in 2005, he the World: The Intellectual Labor of Cultural Studies (Geneva). Among her books, State Repression and the and Understanding Media: A Popular Philosophy. He is has been focusing his work on the cultural politics of (Duke University Press, 2010), offers a contextual and Labors of Memory (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2003). currently writing a book on how digital information human rights (especially over the questions of gender/ theoretical interrogation of the founding concepts technology has transformed the practice of news jour- sexual rights, as well as environmental rights). His Elihu Katz is Distinguished Trustee Professor of of cultural studies: modernities, economies, politics, nalism and is starting a new research project on the books include Unstable Frontiers: Technomedicine Communication at the University of Pennsylvania’s cultures and the popular. politics of renewable energy development in Mexico. and the Cultural Politics of “Curing” AIDS (1994), Annenberg School for Communication and is Emeri- His long term research interest is the intersection of Internationalizing Cultural Studies: An Anthology (with John Hartley is a Federation Fellow (Australian tus Professor of Sociology and Communication at the media and knowledge in intellectual culture. Ackbar Abbas, 2005), and Asian Media Studies: The Research Council) and Research Director of the ARC Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the co-author Politics of Subjectivities (with Siew Keng Chua, 2005). Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and or co-editor of more than 20 books including Personal Michael Bromley is Professor of Journalism and He has also published widely on critical public health, Innovation at Queensland University of Technology, Influence: The Part Played by People in the Flow of Head of the School of Journalism and Communica- Chinese consumption of transnational culture, queer Australia. He was foundation dean of QUT’s Creative Mass Communications, and most recently The End of tion at The University of Queensland, Australia. media, and youth popular consumption in Hong Industries Faculty and in 2006 he was awarded its Television? Its Impact on the World (So Far) (with Paddy He is a founding board member of the Australian Kong and Asia. first Distinguished Professorship. Previously he was Scannell). In his work at Annenberg, he studies the Foundation for Public Interest Journalism, and an head of the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural functions and effects of mass media in different social honorary professor in the Department of Journalism Isabel Capeloa Gil is Professor of Cultural Theory Studies at Cardiff University in Wales. The author, co- systems; diffusion of ideas and innovations; dynamics at City University, London. A former journalist, he and Comparative Literature at the Catholic University author and editor of 20 books and many articles on of public opinion, the live broadcasting of political has taught at a number of universities in the UK, the of Portugal. She is currently the Dean of the School culture, media, journalism and the creative economy ceremony, the reception of American popular culture USA and Australia. His research interests are in the of Humanities. Her main research areas include – from the classic Reading Television to the most overseas, public opinion in conflict situations and areas of the history, practices and education of jour- intermedia studies, gender studies as well as represen- recent Uses of Digital Literacy – he is the founding pre-election polling. nalists, and he is currently undertaking research into tations of war and conflict. Her most recent publica- editor of the International Journal of Cultural Studies. citizen journalism projects in 33 countries. tions include Landscapes of Memory: Envisaging the Marwan M. Kraidy is Associate Professor of Global Hartley has served on ministerial advisory committees Past/Remembering the Future (2004); Mythographies Communication at the Annenberg School for Com- Nick Couldry is Professor of Media and Commu- for educational renewal (Queensland) and interna- (Lisbon, 2007), and Fleeting, Floating, Flowing: Water munication at the University of Pennsylvania. Recent nications at Goldsmiths, University of London, where tional education (Federal), is an elected Fellow of the Writing and Modernity (Würzburg, Berlin, 2008). She books include Reality Television and Arab Politics: he directs of the Centre for the Study of Global Media Australian Academy of the Humanities, and in 2009 is also the editor of the international peer-reviewed Contention in Public Life (Cambridge University Press, and Democracy (www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/global- was awarded the Order of Australia in the Queen’s journal Comunicação e Cultura (Communication and 2009) and Arab Television Industries (British Film In- media-democracy/). Couldry joined Goldsmiths from Birthday Honours List. Culture) and is working on a book tentatively titled stitute/Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). Previously he pub- the London School of Economics where he taught The Dialectics of Invisiblity and the War Film. lished Global Media Studies: Ethnographic Perspectives from 2001 to 2006. His interests include media (Routledge, 2003, co-edited with Patrick Murphy)

10 | MAKING THE UNIVERSITY MATTER MAKING THE UNIVERSITY MATTER | 11 and Hybridity, or the Cultural Logic of Globalization education, the latest on university degree reform Paddy Scannell is Professor of Communication the International Association for Media and Commu- (Temple University Press, 2005). His articles appeared (2003-07). He has been a member of the UNESCO at the University of Michigan, after establishing in nication Research in Slovenia (1990 in Bled and 1995 in multiple journals such as Critical Studies in Media panel on communication research (1971-76) and con- 1975 the first undergraduate degree program in in Portoroz). He has been a member of the editorial Communication, Communication Theory, and Journal tributor to the MacBride Commission (1977-80). His Media Studies in the UK. He is a founding editor boards of Journal of Communication, Journalism Stud- of Communication. Current book projects focus on publications include over 40 books, (co-)authored or of Media, Culture and Society which began publica- ies, Gazette, New Media & Society, Reseaux--The French global media studies as a theoretical project (with edited, the latest one Normative Theories of the Media: tion in 1979 and is now issued six times yearly. He is Journal of Communication, and Zeszyty Prasoznawcze. Toby Miller) and on the contentious politics of Arab Journalism in Democratic Societies (with Christians, the author of A Social History of British Broadcasting, Paula Treichler is Research Professor of Commu- music videos. Glasser, McQuail and White, 2009). Journal articles 1922-1939 (with David Cardiff), editor of Broadcast nications and the former Director of the Institute of and book chapters include over 400 titles, beginning Talk and author of Radio, Television and Modern Life. Risto Kunelius is Professor of Journalism at Communications Research at University of Illinois, with ‘Communication Research in the United States: He is currently working on a trilogy. The first volume, University of Tampere, Finland, where he has served Urbana-Champagne. She is an authority on the A Critical Perspective’ in Gazette (1968). Media and Communication, was published in (2007) as director of its journalism program since 2001. A cultural dimensions of science and medicine, she and reviews the ways in which the academic study founding member of the Journalism Research Centre Radhika Parameswaran is Associate Profes- has served since 1972 as a teacher and administrator of media developed in North America and Britain and currently the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sci- sor in the School of Journalism, Indiana University, at the University of Illinois’ experimental Unit One in the 20th century. The second volume, Television ences, his research interests focus on the historical Bloomington. Her research areas are feminist cultural program, as Dean of Students in the College of Medi- and the Meaning of 'Live’ (near completion), offers development of journalism as a professional field and studies, gender and media globalization, South Asia, cine, and as Director of the Institute of Communica- a new phenomenological approach to the study of its current challenges as a public profession. He is qualitative methods, and postcolonial studies. Her tions Research. Author of How to Have Theory in an media. The third volume, Love and Communication also working on projects related to journalism's role recent publications include a co-authored monograph Epidemic: Cultural Chronicles of AIDS and co-author (in progress), provides further contextualisation and in transnational public sphere(s), and the media- in Journalism & Communication Monographs on the of A Feminist Dictionary and Language, Gender, and discussion of the themes of the two that precede it. tion of political decision making. His work has been cultural politics of skin color and beauty in India and Professional Writing: Theoretical Essays and Guidelines His research interests include broadcasting history and published in Javnost- The Public, Journalism: Theory, a chapter “Reading the Visual, Tracking the Global” for Nonsexist Usage, Treichler is currently working on historiography, the analysis of talk, the phenomenol- Practice and Criticism, Journalism Studies, Nordicom in the 2008 Sage Handbook of Critical Indigenous a book on the history of condoms in the U.S. since ogy of communication and culture and communica- Review and European Journal of Communication. He Methodologies. Her articles have appeared in Journal 1873. tion in Africa. is the co-author and editor of Transnational Media of Children and Media, Communication, Culture, & Robin Wagner-Pacifici is the Gil and Frank Events: The Mohammed Cartoons and the Imagined Critique, Journal of Communication Inquiry, Critical Michael Schudson is Professor of Journalism at Mustin Professor of Sociology at Swarthmore College, Clash of Civilizations (NORDICOM, 2008) and a Studies in Media Communication, Communication the Columbia Journalism School, New York, NY. Philadelphia, PA. Author of The Art of Surrender: number of books in Finnish. Theory, Qualitative Inquiry, and Communication Re- He is the author of seven books on the history and Decomposing Sovereignty at Conflict's End and Theoriz- view, among others. She is currently working on three sociology of the news media, U.S. political culture, Don Mitchell is Distinguished Professor of Geog- ing the Standoff: Contingency in Action, which won the projects: an edited Blackwell volume on audience and related topics. With Neil Smelser, he co-chaired raphy in the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. 2001 Culture Section of the American Sociological studies, a textual analysis of magazine covers portray- the University of California Commission on General His research focuses on the historical geography of the Association's Best Book Award, her work analyzes ing global India, and a political-economic analysis of Education in the 21st Century and co-wrote its California landscape as refracted through the struggles violent events and the ways in which they are ac- the rise of tabloid journalism in India. report, General Education in the 21st Century of farmworkers and the evolving geography of urban complished, represented and managed. Two earlier (http://cshe.berkeley.edu/research/gec/). Most recently public space in relation to homelessness, protest and Jeff Pooley is Assistant Professor of Media and books Discourse and Destruction: The City of Philadel- he co-authored with Leonard Downie, Jr. a report the making of contemporary citizenship. He is the Communication at Muhlenberg College. His research phia vs MOVE and The Moro Morality Play: Terrorism for the Columbia Journalism School, The Reconstruc- author, most recently, of The People’s Property? Power, centers on the history of communication studies, as Social Drama focused, respectively, on the 1985 tion of American Journalism (www.columbiajournal- Politics, and the Public (2008, with Lynn Staeheli), and as the field's emergence has intersected with the MOVE disaster in Philadelphia and the kidnapping ismreport.org). is currently completing a major project entitled Bra- twentieth century rise of the other social sciences. of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by the cero: Remaking the California Landscape, 1942-1964. He also writes about consumer culture and the self. Katherine Sender is an Associate Professor of Red Brigades in 1978. Recently, Wagner-Pacifici has In 1998, he was named a MacArthur Fellow and his Recent work includes a study of Elihu Katz and Paul Communication at the University of Pennsylvania’s developed an analysis of historical events as funda- work has also been supported by the National Science Lazarsfeld’s Personal Influence (“Fifteen Pages That Annenberg School for Communication. She is the mentally “restless” and an article on this concept is Foundation and the Guggenheim Foundation. Shook the Field”, AAPSS 2006), which won the semi- author of the book Business, Not Politics: The Making forthcoming in The American Journal of Sociology. annual Article Prize from the Forum for the History of the Gay Market (2004) and a new article “Queens Mark Anthony Neal is Professor of Black Popular Barbie Zelizer is the Raymond Williams Profes- of the Human Sciences; a treatment of Edward Shils’ for a Day: Queer Eye for the Straight Guy and the Culture in the Department of African and African- sor of Communication and Director of the Scholars wartime revision of his social thought (“Edward Shils’ Neoliberal Project” in Critical Studies in Media Com- American Studies at Duke University. Neal is the Program in Culture and Communication at the Turn Against Karl Mannheim: The Central European munication (2006), as well as many other articles on author of four books, What the Music Said: Black University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Connection”, American Sociologist 2007); and an GLBT media and marketing. She is currently working Popular Music and Black Public Culture (1998), Communication. A former journalist, Zelizer’s work edited collection, with David W. Park, on the field’s on a new book on audience perceptions of makeover Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul focuses on the cultural dimensions of journalism, with history (The History of Media and Communication reality shows, The Big Reveal: Makeover Television, Aesthetic (2002), Songs in the Keys of Black Life: A a specific interest in journalistic authority, collective Research: Contested Memories, 2008). He is currently Audiences, and the Promise of Transformation. She is Rhythm and Blues Nation (2003) and New Black Man: memory and journalistic images in times of crisis working on two short books, one on the late James W. also the producer, director and editor of a number of Rethinking Black Masculinity (2005). Neal is also the and war. She also works on the impact of disciplin- Carey and another that revisits neglected work on the documentaries, including Off the Straight and Narrow: co-editor (with Murray Forman) of That’s the Joint!: ary knowledge on academic inquiry. Co-editor and twentieth century self. Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, and Television (1998), and The Hip-Hop Studies Reader (2004) and is currently founder of the journal Journalism: Theory, Practice and Further Off the Straight and Narrow: New Gay Vis- completing Looking for Leroy for New York University Richard Cullen Rath is Associate Professor of Criticism (Sage), Zelizer is the author/editor of nine ibility on Television (2006). Press. A frequent commentator for National Public University of Hawai‘i at Ma-noa. He teaches courses books, the most recent of which, About to Die: How Radio’s News and Notes with Farai Chideya and Tell on early America, Native Americans, and the history Slavko Splichal is Professor of Communication at News Images Move the Public, will be out in 2010. Zel- Me More with Michel Martin, Neal also contributes to of media and the senses. He is the author of How the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, izer has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Research Fellow several on-line media outlets, including NewsOne.com. Early America Sounded and is currently working on Slovenia. Founder (1987) and convenor of the annual at the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center, a Fellow Neal’s blog “Critical Noir” appears at VibeMagazine. two books, one an introduction to the history of International Colloquia on Communication and at Harvard University's Joan Shorenstein Center on com and he also maintains a blog at NewBlackMan hearing and the other comparing the rise of print Culture, Director of the European Institute for Com- the Press, Politics, and Public Policy, and a Fulbright (http://newblackman.blogspot.com/). culture in eighteenth-century North America to the munication and Culture, and editor of its journal Senior Scholar. She is currently the President of the rise of internet culture today. He has also written three Javnost-The Public, he was member of the Interna- International Communication Association. Kaarle Nordenstreng is Professor Emeritus at award-winning articles on music, creolization and tional Council (1984-92) and the deputy secretary the University of Tampere, Finland. After working as African American culture. In addition, Rath is a musi- general of the International Association for Mass a radio journalist and head of research in the Finnish cian who has found ways to use music to “do” history Communication Research (1992-1996), Dean of the Broadcasting Company he has worked as Professor whenever possible. Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana of Journalism and Mass Communication since 1971. (1991-93), and the organizer of two conferences of He has served in several Finnish committees on higher 12 | MAKING THE UNIVERSITY MATTER MAKING THE UNIVERSITY MATTER | 13 Scholars Program in Culture & Communication The Annenberg School for Communication University of Pennsylvania 3620 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 www.scholars.asc.upenn.edu

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