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22nd Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association PUC-Rio 2021 July, 8-11 DRAFT PROGRAM 1 PROGRAM AT A GLANCE EDT (Eastern Daylight Time) UTC/GMT − 4 hours THU, JULY 8 FRI, JULY 9 SAT, JULY 10 SUN, JULY 11 9:00 am 8:30 am Greetings 8:30 am Greetings Opening Ceremony 9:30 am 9:15 am 9:00 am 9:00 am Opening Plenary Session The Medium is the Light Plenary Session (2.1) Parallel Sessions (3.1) (1.1) Award Presentation (4.1) 11:00 am 10:30 am 10:30 am 10:00 am Parallel Sessions (1.2) Parallel Sessions (2.2) Plenary Session (3.2) Parallel Sessions (4.2) 12:00 pm 12:00 pm 11:30 pm 12:15 pm Lunch Parallel Sessions (2.3) Parallel Sessions (3.3) Business Meeting 2nd Womxn, Language, 1:15 pm Technology 1:15 pm Lunch Book Salon Virtual Exhibit A Short Glossary to 1:00 pm 2:30 pm Explain a Strange Parallel Sessions (1.3) Parallel Sessions (2.4) Phenomenon Photographic Essay 2:30 pm 4:00 pm 2:00 pm Parallel Sessions (1.4) Parallel Sessions (2.5) Parallel Sessions (3.4) 3:30 pm 3:45 pm Coffee Break 5:15 pm Coffee Break Parallel Sessions (3.5) 4:15 pm 5:30 pm 4:45 pm Coffee Break Parallel Sessions (1.5) Plenary Session (2.6) 5:45 pm 7:00 pm Social Event 2.7a 5:15 pm Plenary Session (1.6) Howie & The Outsiders Plenary Session (3.6) 6:45 pm 7:00 pm 7:00 pm Social Event 2.7b MEA Awards Ceremony Welcome Reception Trust Me President’s Address OPEN COFFEE BREAK ROOM OPEN BOOKS AREA 2 Thursday July, 8 8:30 a.m. Greetings SESSION USA (EDT) BRAZIL Opening 9:00 a.m. 10:00 1.1 9:30 a.m. 10:30 9 a.m. Opening Ceremony 1.2 11:00 a.m. 12:00 1.3 1:00 p.m. 14:00 1.4 2:30 p.m. 15:30 1.5 4:15 p.m. 17:15 1.1 1.6 5:45 p.m. 18:45 9:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. Opening Plenary Session 1.7 7:00 p.m. 20:00 Dystopic Futures: Media Ecology in an algorithm society Chair: Peggy Cassidy (Adelphi University, USA) Joshua Meyrowitz (University of New Hampshire, USA) Lance Strate (Fordham University, USA) Nora Bateson (The Bateson Institute, USA) Susan Drucker (Hofstra University, USA) 1.2 11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Parallel Sessions 1.2.1 The Media Ecology of Sports Chair: Édison Gastaldo (Centro de Estudos de Pessoal e Forte Duque de Caxias, Brazil) Sports Journalism, politics and discourses of neutrality Leonardo Turchi Pacheco (Universidade Federal de Alfenas, Brazil) ‘Soccer Analysis’ TV shows: a case study of Fútbol Picante (ESPN-México) José Samuel Martínez López (Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico) Neil Postman’s ideas to the so-called Modern Soccer Filipe Mostaro (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Soccer, national identity and advertisements in Brazil Édison Gastaldo (Centro de Estudos de Pessoal e Forte Duque de Caxias, Brazil) 3 1.2.2 Opinion, Conspiracy and Fake News Chair: Sheila Nayar (Greensboro College, USA) Conspiracies, Ideological Entrepreneurs and Popular Culture from a Media Ecology Perspective Hildegarde Van Den Bulck (Univ. Antwerp, Belgium) and Aaron Hyzen (Drexel University, USA) Why do we believe in fake news? A Media Ecology perspective on the post-truth Fernando Figueiredo Strongren (UnB, Brazil) When A Conspiracy Theory Uses a Post-Truth World to Persuade Mainstream Society: Qanon's Transformation from the Corners of the Internet to Capitol Hill Jessica Neu (Duquesne University, USA) Infotainment and legitimation of opinion: the study of the Greg News program TV Julia F. J. Cruz and Leonel Aguiar (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) 1.2.3 Arts and Survival Chair: Thom Gencarelli (Manhattan College, USA) Can the artist still save us? Erik Gustafson (North Dakota State University, USA) How (Not) to Exhibit Art in Pandemic Times? An Ecological Approach to Artistic Images Icaro Ferraz Vidal Junior (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Brazil) COVID-19, Sonification, and Systems Failure: Infecting the Function-al Boundaries of Art and Science - Steven Hicks (University of Toronto, Canada) Rio de Janeiro Carnival masquerades: observations on the preservation and dissemination of their cultural legacy - Camilla Serrão Pinto and Nilton Gonçalves Gamba Júnior (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) 1.2.4 Renaming Myself: Performance and Identity in Media Environments Flattening: The Reduction of the Person to a Performance Russ White (MSIT Capella University, USA) Voluntarily childless networking: dynamics of an understudied population through social media - Ana Luiza de Figueiredo Souza (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil) “Birds of a Feather Flock Together”: Username as performance in fandom environments Nathália Villane Rippel (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Crypto and the Global Village: A Cypherpunk Perspective on Privacy, Virtual Communities, and the Preservation of “Western Man” in the Electronic Age Patrick D. Anderson (Grand Valley State University, USA) 4 1.2.5 Pandemic Pedagogy: Technology and the Human Experience Chair: Cathy Adams (University of Alberta, Canada) Teaching Large, Live and Online: Notes from the Pandemic Cathy Adams (University of Alberta, Canada) Terms of Our Times: Exploring Classroom “Connectivity” During the Pandemic Dennis D. Cali (University of Texas at Tyler, USA) Analyzing the Effects of Microsoft Teams on Teacher Pedagogy During the Coronavirus Pandemic Matt McGuire (University of New Brunswick, Canada) Post-Pandemic Higher Education Ellen Rose (University of New Brunswick, Canada) Virtual Art Exhibit Second Annual MEA Womxn, Language, & Technology Bernadette Bowen (Bowling Green State University, USA) Carolin Aronis (Colorado State University, USA) Sara Falco (Independent artist, USA) Adeena Karasick (Pratt Institute, USA) 12:15 p.m. LUNCH 1.3 1:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. Parallel Sessions 1.3.1 Roundtable – Communicational sustainability, intervention-research and popular culture. Chair: Miguel Santos de Carvalho (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Humberto Barros da Silva (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Paula Oliveira de Alcantara Cruz (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Eliane Carla da Silva Viana (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Camilla Serrão Pinto (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Marcely Soares Rodrigues (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) 5 1.3.2 - Dystopic Writings: Literature and Pandemics Chair: Matt Thomas (Kirkwood Community College, USA) “The Machine Stops: What E. M. Forster’s 1909 Short Story Tells Us About Facebook, Zoom, Twitter, and a Worldwide Pandemic” Arthur W. Hunt III (University of Tennessee at Martin, USA) Saramagos’s Kafkanian Pandemic: An Analysis on Death-Denying Behaviour In Contemporary Society - José Luiz Balestrini Junior and Leonardo Torres (Universidade Paulista, Brazil) From the Renaissance Book of Utopia to the End of the Gutenberg Galaxy Dystopia Jean-François Vallée (Collège de Maisonneuve, Canada) 1.3.3 Robots and Gadgets An Anthropology of Robots Laura Trujillo Liñán (Universidad Panamericana, México) More than just broken: life among exfunctional objects Pedro Pereira Drumond (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil) Media uses: the cell phone without letters Cynthia Maciel Duarte (Independent Scholar, Brazil) An ecology of sense-making: enacting McLuhan’s extensions Camila De Paoli Leporace (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) 1.3.4 McLuhan in Verse and Reverse McLuhan in Reverse Robert Logan (University of Toronto, Canada) Efficient Cause is Non-Linear! – Heterodox Media Ecology Matthew S. Lindia (Duquesne University, USA) Obsolescing Instrumental Reasoning: The Place of Analogy in McLuhan’s Poetic Consciousness Anthony M. Wachs (Duquesne University, USA) Campus as medium: A media ecology approach Christopher James Dahlie (State University of New York at Fredonia, USA) 6 1.3.5 UCF Student Research Grant session Chair: James Morrison (Babson College, USA) Austin Hestdalen (Duquesne University, USA) Erik Garrett (Duquesne University, USA) Susan Drucker (Hostra University, USA) Gary Gumpert (Urban Communication Foundation, USA) 1.4 2:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. Parallel Sessions 1.4.1 Algorithm Society: Desires and Dilemmas (Digital) Presence—of Choice or Necessity. Algorithmic Desire in a Society Of Anticipation Marek Wojtaszek (University of Lodz, Poland) Categorization of the propositional positions to deal with the dilemmas imposed by disruptive technologies - Renata Marinho (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) SEOcracy: solipsistic society David Leal (INNOVACIEN, Chile) The industry of traces: Bernard Stiegler on algorithmic media Beatriz Neves Nolasco (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) 1.4.2 The (Dis)Connectivity of Cyberspace Chair: Anthony Wachs (Duquesne University, USA) Democracy and Public Discourse in Cyberspace: Rhetorics of the Potential for Public Discourse in Cyberspace - David Errera (Duquesne University, USA) Re+Membering Christ in the Eucharist: The Media Ecology of Digital Memory and Eucharistic Theology – Rachel Armamentos (Fordham University, USA) Merging onto the Information Superhighway: From Interstates to the Internet Michael Kearney (Duquesne University, USA) Lord(s) of the Cyberspace: Dystopian Consequences of Ubiquitous Connectivity Natalia Wohar (Duquesne University, USA) 7 1.4.3 Digital Communication, Culture and Experience Decolonize Communication: Communication of Indigenous Peoples as a key to conceive other communicational practices – Adilson Vaz Cabral Filho and Emanuela Amaral (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil) Design, Digital Technologies and Cross-Cultural Experiences Daniel Castro and Luiza Novaes (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Flusser and the I Ching Peter Zhang (Grand Valley State University, USA) 1.4.4 Feminisms: Censorship, Expression and Performance ‘Magical Visions of an Impossibly Hospitable World’: Implications of Censorship, Dissent and Content Moderation in Networked Feminist Communities - Amy Mowle (Victoria University, Australia) How artists are reacting in this pandemic moment.