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www. media-ecology.org President’s Message We Meet Again! Looking Forward to Convention 2005 Lance Strate taking on a life of their own as they are being This year’s annual meeting of the MEA is held. All have had an element of the unexpect- almost upon us, and as co-coordinator (with ed and the serendipitous, an unanticipated pat- Janet Sternberg) of the convention, I look for- tern emerging out of a maelstrom of MEA activ- ward to the culmination of over a year’s work. ity. Bring together a large number of media We will meet again, as an association, on June ecologists, and who knows what will happen? 22nd to 26th, at Fordham University’s Lincoln One thing we do know is that the greatest Center campus, the site of our first convention in strength of our annual meetings is the opportu- 2000. That first meeting was an intimate affair, nity they afford our members to interact with lasting only two days, and with only plenary ses- one another in a relatively intimate setting, and sions, no breakouts or parallel programming. that has not changed and will not change in the Our association has grown considerably over the foreseeable future. past six years, and this year’s convention prom- One late addition to our schedule is a ises to be the biggest ever, as we are expecting featured presentation by the anthropologist over 200 participants (and many more atten- Edmund Carpenter, one of the founding scholars dees), and over 60 programs. There were so of modern media ecology. This is a great thrill many paper and program submissions of such for us, and I know that many of our members are good quality that we have been forced to sched- looking forward to this with great anticipation. ule several parallel programs for each breakout Carpenter is also the topic of a separate plenary time period—this means more variety, more roundtable session on which Donald Theall, choice, and hopefully more interesting possibil- Paul Heyer, Harold Prins, Janine Marchessault, ities for those attending the convention. Also, and Michael Wesch are participating. having begun our convention on a Thursday This year’s Keynote Address will be afternoon last year, we have added an extra day delivered by Paul Levinson, who will speak on this year because of the unique rhythm of the First Amendment. Paul was the coordinator of Manhattan, in which weekday events are gener- our first convention, and is presently Chair of ally very well attended (providing an excellent Fordham’s Department of Communication and opportunity to increase the MEA’s visibility). Media Studies. Communication policy is also the Hosting and coordinating a convention topic of another plenary speaker from Fordham, of this complexity has not been easy, but we the famous media activist, Rev. Everett C. Parker. hope that the result will be an exciting, ground- And there is a plenary session devoted to infotain- breaking, and memorable MEA meeting. Of ment featuring Bruce A. Williams (Director of the course, all of our conventions have been unique Institute of Communications Research at the in their own way, taking on the special charac- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), ter of the host institution. And all of our conven- Michael Delli Carpini (Dean of the Annenberg tions have been works in progress, evolving in School for Communication at the University of their own way through the planning period and Pennsylvania), and Clifford G. Christians.
In Medias Res Volume 6, No. 2 1 Sara van den Berg, Director of the new IN MEDIAS RES Walter J. Ong Center for Media, Conscious- Volume 6, No. 2 Spring 2005 ness, and Culture at Saint Louis University (as well as the Chair of their Department of In Medias Res, the newsletter of the Media Ecology English) is another of our featured speakers, as Association, appears twice a year (spring and fall). All members of the Association receive a subscription is Robert A. White, S.J., from the Gregorian along with their annual membership. For membership University in Italy. Paul A. Soukup, S.J., will details, please see www.media-ecology.org. also talk about Walter Ong as a plenary speak- Editor: Paul A. Soukup, S.J. er, and there will be a special session on the Communication Department Jesuit intellectual tradition as it relates to media Santa Clara Univerity ecology that will include Soukup, White, and MEA Board of Directors van den Berg, as well as Vincent Hevern, S.J., (term expiration) and Randolph Lumpp. Susan B. Barnes (2006), Rochester Institute of James W. Carey, Frank Dance, and Eric Technology McLuhan are the other featured speakers at our Susan Drucker (2005), Hofstra University convention. Two plenary sessions round out the Thomas F. Gencarelli (2007), Montclair State University program. The first, a roundtable entitled A Raymond Gozzi, Jr. (2007), Ithaca College World of Authors: Creating Media for People Robert K. Logan (2005), University of Toronto Casey Man Kong Lum (2005), William Paterson with Keyboards features Douglas Rushkoff, University David Shenk, Michael Joyce, Katie Salen, James C. Morrison (2006), Emerson College Marina Zurkow, and Andrew Postman. The sec- Douglas Rushkoff (2006), New York University ond, a roundtable entitled Writing as a Creative Paul Soukup, S.J. (2007), Santa Clara University Activity: Writers Discuss Their Medium fea- Janet Sternberg (2007), Fordham University Lance Strate (2006), Fordham University tures Rushkoff, Levinson, John McDaid, Bill Laura Tropp (2005). Marymount Manhattan College Bly, Marleen Barr, Leslie Carroll, and Meir Z. Ribalow. There will also be a Media Ecology Executive Committee Unplugged performance by Bly and McDaid, President: Lance Strate and two screenings, one of the documentary, A Vice President: Casey Man Kong Lum Conversation with Neil Postman by Toni Treasurer: Thomas F. Gencarelli Urbano; another of a rare recording of Marshall Executive Secretary: Janet Sternberg Historian: James C. Morrison McLuhan at the 1965 Buffalo Spring Festival of the Arts, courtesy of Frank Zingrone. Appointed Officers As always, one of the highlights of the Director of Communications: Stephanie Bennett, convention will be the Presentation of the 2005 President, ES Creative and Consulting, LLC MEA Awards, which will take place on Friday Convention Coordinators (2005): Janet Sternberg and evening, June 24th. Following the awards cere- Lance Strate Editors, Explorations in Media Ecology mony, I will be delivering my president’s Editor: Lance Strate; Review Editor: Thomas F. Gen- address. And most importantly of all, we will be carelli; Pedagogy Editor: Mary S. Alexander, Marist holding our open business meeting on the College; Managing Editor: Elizabeth Fitzgerald, Ford- morning of Sunday June 26th, and I urge you all ham University; Business Manager: Janet Sternberg to attend. Editor, In Medias Res: Paul Soukup, S.J. Please look at the full program, which Editors, Proceedings: Arthur Hunt III (2004); Anthony Kelso, Iona College (2005); Web Editor and Online follows in this newsletter. You can take a look Archivist: James C. Morrison for yourself for more details on our website, Electronic Mailing List Manager: Janet Sternberg www.mediaecology.org. Even if you are not Web Officer: James C. Morrison planning on attending, it is worth a look, to see Webmaster: Paul Kelly, Canadian Broadcasting what you are missing, and because it is still not Corporation Michael Grabowski, ECA Program Coordinator too late to change your mind and join us in New M. J. Robinson, ICA Program Coordinator York City as we meet again!
2 In Medias Res Volume 6, No. 2 The 2005 MEA Awards The Marshall McLuhan Award for Changing Media Environment of American Outstanding Book in the Field of Media Classrooms. Ecology to Donald N. Wood for The Unraveling The Harold A. Innis Award for Out- of the West: The Rise of Postmodernism and the standing Thesis or Dissertation in the Field of Decline of Democracy. Media Ecology to Mary Ann Allison for The Walter Benjamin Award for Out- Gecyberschaft: A Theoretical Model for the standing Article in the Field of Media Ecology Analysis of Emerging Electronic Communities. to Sheila J. Nayar for “Invisible Representation: The Mary Shelley Award for Outstand- The Oral Contours of a National Popular ing Fictional Work to John G. McDaid for Cinema.” “Keyboard Practice, consisting of an Aria with The Erving Goffman Award for Out- diverse Variations for the Harpsichord with two standing Scholarship in the Ecology of Social manuals.” Interaction to Aaron Ben Ze’ev for Love The John Culkin Award for Outstand- Online: Emotions on the Internet. ing Praxis in the Field of Media Ecology to Toni The Susanne K. Langer Award for Out- Urbano for A Conversation with Neil Postman standing Scholarship in the Ecology of (video documentary). Symbolic Form to Heike Wiese for Numbers, The Louis Forsdale Award for Out- Language, and the Human Mind. standing Educator in the Field of Media The Dorothy Lee Award for Outstand- Ecology to Frank E. X. Dance. ing Scholarship in the Ecology of Culture to The Jacques Ellul Award for Outstand- Robert Albrecht for Mediating the Muse: A ing Media Ecology Activism to Jerry Brown. Communications Approach to Music, Media The Walter J. Ong Award for Career and Culture Change. Achievement in Scholarship to James W. Carey. The Lewis Mumford Award for Out- The Neil Postman Award for Career standing Scholarship in the Ecology of Technics Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity to to Margaret Cassidy for Bookends: The Paul Levinson.
The Sixth Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association Fordham University Lincoln Center Campus New York, New York (Directions to campus
Wednesday, June 22, 2005 People with Keyboards. Moderator: Douglas Rushkoff (New York University). 2:00-3:00 pm Pope Auditorium Panelists: Michael Joyce (Vassar College), Welcoming Remarks Andrew Postman (Writer), Katie Salen 3:15-4:30 pm Pope Auditorium (Parsons School of Design), David Shenk Between Cultural Studies and Media (Author), Marina Zurkow (Artist) Ecology. James W. Carey (Columbia University) Thursday, June 23, 2005 4:45-6:00 pm Pope Auditorium The Jesuit Intellectual Tradition and Media 9:30-10:30 am Pope Auditorium Ecology. Moderator: Vincent Hevern, S.J. Media, Religion, and Culture. Robert A. (Le Moyne College). Panelists: Randolph White, S.J. (Gregorian University) Lumpp (Regis University), Paul A. Soukup, 10:30-11:30 am Pope Auditorium S.J. (Santa Clara University), Sara van den Ong’s Living Legacy at Saint Louis Berg (Saint Louis University), Robert A. University. Sara van den Berg (Saint Louis White, S.J. (Gregorian University) University) 6:00-7:30 pm Atrium Reception 11:45 am-12:15 pm Pope Auditorium 7:30-9:00 pm Pope Auditorium Communication Policy—No Gift to the A World of Authors: Creating Media for Nation. Everett C. Parker (Fordham University)
In Medias Res Volume 6, No. 2 3 2:00-3:15 pm Breakout Sessions 2.4A-2.4E ciling Esprit De Corps and Individuality? 2.4A. Interfaces of the Media Ecology Perspective. Blogs as an Escape from Military Confor- Joost van Dreunen (Columbia University): mity for American Soldiers in Iraq; Robert Haussmann’s Media Environment; Marc MacDougall (Emerson College): Identity Leverette (Rutgers University): A as In-Formation: Blogging, Electronic Progressive Preface to Media Ecology; Ethos, and the New Groupthink; Liza Potts Mark Shanahan (Fordham University): (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute): Cele- Nostalgia and Displaced Media; Michael T. brity Bloggers and Blogging Celebrities: Zimmer (New York University): Media Identity and Community through Interac- Ecology and Value Sensitive Design: A tive Conversation Combined Approach to Understanding the 2.5C. Media Ethnography. John Carey (Fordham Biases of Media Technology University) 2.4B. Virtual Realities and Networked Ontologies: 2.5D. Film Sense and the Reel World. Kevin Taylor Mapping Minds and Spaces. Panelists: Eric Anderson (University of Massachusetts, J. Gordon (Emerson College), Robert Amherst): Welcome to the Aquarium of the MacDougall (Emerson College), James C. Real: Film Reviews as Hegemonic Prac- Morrison (Emerson College), Tracey Stark tice, Reading Open Water as Post-9/11 (Emerson College) Allegory; Brendon Ellington (Fordham 2.4C. The McGannon Center Enterprise—Twenty University): Race, Gender and Class Years Later. Panelists: John Carey, Nancy Observed through The Matrix; Carlnita P. Gillis, Margot Hardenbergh, Tom McCourt, Greene (University of Texas, Austin): John M. Phelan, Sheea Sybblis (all from Social, Economic, Political, and Cinematic Fordham University) Disaster: A Burkean Analysis of Airport, 2.4D. Bringing General Semantics-Based Media The Poseidon Adventure, and The Towering Literacy to Younger People. Gregg Inferno as Formally Dysfunctional Hoffman (Institute of General Semantics) “Equipment for Living”; Siobahn Stiles 2.4E. Television and its Discontents. Cynthia W. (Fordham University): Mame is Not to Walker (Rutgers University): Fan Cultures Blame: The Femme Fatale in 1940s Film and Television; Nadine Smith (Fordham Noir and Her Effect on Female Viewers University): Rewriting the Narrative—A 2.5E. Explorations of the Electronic Media Case for Fanfiction; O. Hugo Benavides Environment. Jordan Beckerman (Hamilton (Fordham University): The Politics of College): Television and the Individual; Telenovelas and Narco-Dramas in Latin Monica Aversa (Fordham University): America; Chin-Yunn Yang (New York Taking Control of My Internet Addiction; University): Don’t Believe Everything You Joshua Huling (Hamilton College): Brid- Watch on Television: China’s New Stance ging the Digital Divide: Cell Phones and the of Political Propaganda Information Realm; Jacob McCall (Fordham 3:30-4:45 pm Breakout Sessions 2.5A-2.5E University): The Institution of Race as 2.5A. Around the World with Media Ecology. Robert Represented in Fighting Video Games Albrecht (New Jersey City University): 5:00-6:15 pm Breakout Sessions 2.6A-2.6E Adeus Meu Sertão: Music, Technology and 2.6A. Appearances of Childhood. Margaret Cassidy Cultural Change in a Small Brazilian Town; (Adelphi University): Bookends: The Ellen Rose (University of New Brunswick): Changing Media Environment of American The Wiring of Bhutan: A Test Case for Classrooms; Laura Tropp (Marymount Media Ecology in the Non-Western World; Manhattan College): Degrassi Goes Dig- Fernando Gutiérrez Cortés (Tecnológico de ital: The Centrality of Technology in De- Monterrey, Campus Estado de México): grassi: The Next Generation; Minah Harun Understanding the New Media Ecology in (Ohio University): “What Can Rugrats Be Mexico; Paul Grosswiler (University of to You?”: A Rhetorical Analysis of Ethnic Maine): Media Ecology (McLuhan) in Diversity and Representation in Children’s China Animated Series; Stephen Weinstock 2.5B. Media Bias and the Emerging Online (Independent Scholar): Children, Health, Communities. Gabriele Bechtel (Rensselaer Science and Technology in Relation to Polytechnic Institute): www.auswanderer- Orality in the Electronic Era forum.com: How an Online Forum Turns 2.6B. The Bias of Digital Communication. Pablo J. into a Site of Struggle over National Boczkowski (Massachusetts Institute of Identity; Sandrine Dincki-MacDougall Technology): News Worlds; Erik P. Bucy (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute): Recon- (Indiana University): When Transparency
4 In Medias Res Volume 6, No. 2 Fails: The Internet Candidacy of Howard Blechman (St. George’s University): The Dean; Yana S. Terukhova (Rochester Insti- Heart of the Matter: An Exploration of the tute of Technology): Digital Divide as a Persistence of Core Beliefs; Faye Ran Reversal Consequence of the Internet: (Metropolitan College of New York): Assessing Power and Bias of Media Media Ecology and the Arts Convergence on the Access to Global News 3.4B. Gecyberschaft: Understanding Virtual 2.6C. Eco Metropolis: Why Doesn’t Ecology Become Community as a Complete Shift in Society. a Part of the Mainstream Media? Pamela Mary Ann Allison (New York University) Peeters (Our-Planet.org) 3.4C. Mediating Biology, Managing Environments. 2.6D. Grave Ecologies: Exhuming the Living Dead. Pedro Bessa (Universidade de Aveiro) & Brian Cogan (Molloy College): Reading Conceição Lopes (Universidade de Aveiro): the Undead: Zombies and Comic Book Men, Women and Neuters: The Represen- Culture; Shawn McIntosh (Rutgers tation of Gender in Signage Pictograms; University): Stumbling Into the Future: The Elizabeth K. Fitzgerald (Fordham Univer- Zombie from Folklore to Film to Video- sity): Identity Crisis: The Impact and Effect games; Marc Leverette (Rutgers Univer- of Alias’s Sydney Bristow; Thomas Veltre sity): The Horror of Indeterminacy (Wildlife Conservation Society): Songs of 2.6E. Media Research: Technology, Art, Communic- the Humpback Whale—A Case Study in ation. Peter Karl Jonason (New Mexico Unintended Consequences; J.R. Estes State University): Evolutionary-Minded (Portland State University): News Cover- View of Television Genre Preferences; age on Environmental Policy Issues Saman Talib (Rutgers University): The 3.4D. Reassessing the Gender Biases in Menstrual Biases of Media: Infotainment’s Impact on Product Advertising Or, What’s with the Issue Cognition and Engagement; Heather Men in Menstruation? David Linton Crandall (Washington State University, (Marymount Manhattan College) Pullman): Narratives of Poverty and the 3.4E. The Political Illusion. Albert Auster (Fordham Working Poor in Prime-Time Television University): Josiah Bartlett, Forgive Us for Crime Dramas; Alex Wang (University of Our Sins!; Saman Talib (Rutgers Univer- Connecticut): Advertising and Product sity) & Montague Kern (Rutgers Univer- Publicity Comparison Revisited sity): Deliberative Democracy and Framing 6:30-7:00 pm Pope Auditorium Biases of Media; Deirdre Mueller (Ford- Screening: A Conversation with Neil ham University): Decision 2004: The Role Postman. Video documentary by Toni of the Media in the 2004 Presidential Urbano and NYU-TV Productions (New Election; Jessica Knapp (Fordham Univer- York University) sity): Howard Dean and the Internet: A 7:00-8:30 pm Pope Auditorium Study of the Medium as a Political Tool Keynote Address: The Flouting of the First 3:30-4:45 pm Breakout Sessions 3.5A-3.5E Amendment. Paul Levinson (Fordham 3.5A. The Bias of Media. Thomas de Zengotita University) (New York University): Mediated: How the Friday, June 24, 2005 Media Shapes Your World and the Way You 9:30-10:00 am Pope Auditorium Live in It; David Sobelman (Rosefire Film Reflections on Walter Ong. Paul A. Soukup, Inc.): The Bias of Biases; James Maroosis S.J. (Santa Clara University) (Fordham University): The Medium is the 10:00-11:00 a Pope Auditorium Message, the Bias is You; Barry Vacker Teaching Speech. Frank E. X. Dance (Temple University): Being and Nothing- (University of Denver) ness in the Information Age 11:15 am-12:15 pm Pope Auditorium 3.5B. Break, Blog, Burn. Danah M. Boyd On Media Ecology. Eric McLuhan (University of California, Berkeley): (University of Toronto) Broken Metaphors: Blogging as Liminal Practice; Adriana Braga (Universidade do 2:00-3:15 pm Breakout Sessions 3.4A-3.4E Vale do Rio dos Sinos): From Simmel to 3.4A. The New Languages. Frank Zingrone (York Weblogs: Women and Internet; Jesper University): Addiction to Illusion: Media Tække (IT University of Copenhagen): and the Evolution of Reality; Eva Kolbusz- Media Sociography on Weblogs; Joellen Kijne (Borough of Manhattan Community Easton (Massachusetts Institute of Tech- College): Hollywood and Bollywood nology): Constructing Liberal Community: Storytelling in Romantic Box Office Hits: The Bloggers of The Majority Report Similarities and Differences; Robert K. 3.5C. Neil Postman in Perspective and
In Medias Res Volume 6, No. 2 5 Retrospective. Arthur W. Hunt, III (Geneva Difference?; Emil Coman (Eastern College): Neil Postman and the Evangeli- Connecticut State University): Do U.S. cals; Janet Sternberg (Fordham University): Mass Media Really “Massify” Our Neil Postman’s Rules of Public Speaking; Society? What is “Mass” in Mass Media? Terence P. Moran (New York University): 6:30-8:30 pm Pope Auditorium Media Ecology as an Instrument of Presentation of the 2005 MEA Awards. Exploration Janet Sternberg (Fordham University) & 3.5D. Mirrors in the Infosphere: An Integral Look at Lance Strate (Fordham University) Telecommunications Technology, the Chak- President’s Address: Media Ecology in a ra System, and the Evolution of Planetary New Key. Lance Strate Consciousness. Steven Vedro (SRVedro Performance: Media Ecology Unplugged. Consulting) Bill Bly (Fordham University) John 3.5E. From Hidden Connections to Hidden Agendas: McDaid (New York University) Truth and Consequences of the Anti- Saturday, June 25, 2005 Narrative Bias in Organizational and 9:30-10:45 am Pope Auditorium Professional Communication. Jean S. Infotainment: The Blurring of the Lines Mason (Ryerson University) Between News and Entertainment. Modera- 5:00-6:15 pm Breakout Sessions 3.6A-3.6E tor: Clifford G. Christians (University of 3.6A. Media Bias Towards “Tomorrow”? Rebecca Illinois, Urbana-Champaign). Panelists: Hains (Temple University): Feminism in Michael Delli Carpini (Annenberg School the New Tomorrowland; Elisa Durrette for Communication Bruce A. Williams (Internet Entrepreneur): Full Streets, Empty (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Meanings, and the Protests of Tomorrow; 11:00 am-12:15 pm Pope Auditorium Barry Vacker (Temple University): The Oh What a Blow that Carpenter Gave Me! “Zero” Tomorrow Moderator: Donald F. Theall (Trent 3.6B. Understanding New Media. María de la Luz University). Panelists: Paul Heyer (Wilfrid Casas Pérez (Tecnológico de Monterrey, Laurier University), Janine Marchessault Campus Cuernavaca): The “Cyberflesh” (York University), Harald E. L. Prins Dimension as the Newest Extension of (Kansas State University), Michael Wesch Man; Aaron Ben Ze’ev (University of (Kansas State University) Haifa): Love Online; Robert K. Logan 2:00-3:15 pm Breakout Sessions 4.3A-4.3E (University of Toronto): Understanding 4.3A. The Technological Society. Catherine Waite New Media: Extending McLuhan Phelan (Hamilton College): Notions of 3.6C. Games People Play. Édison Gastaldo Progress; Barry Vacker (Temple Univer- (Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos): sity): The Sky Above the Port Was the The Electronic Pitch: Fieldnotes on Tele- Color of Television, Tuned to a Dead vision Soccer and its Collective Reception Channel; Stephanie Bennett (Palm Beach in Brazil; Aaron Honoré (Fordham Univer- Atlantic University): Man as the Machine: sity): Golf as a Medium of Communication; Rhetorical Dimensions of The Terminator Ira Nayman: Games Artists Play: Trilogy; Barry D. Liss (University of Interactive Narrativity and the Ludological Wisconsin, Marathon): Technology’s Impulse; Conceição Lopes (Universidade Broken Promise: Reflections on Social de Aveiro): Spontaneous Social Play and Disintegration and Civic Renewal Ludicity Design as a Strategy for 4.3B. Digital Imaging: Transformations in Visual Promoting and Defending Human Rights Communication. Julianne H. Newton 3.6D. The Sexual Grotesque: Pomosexuality and (University of Oregon): Dancing Electrons Robopathologies on the Web. Mark Dery vs. Engrained Silver: Technological (New York University) Influences on Concepts of Visual Truth; 3.6E. Revolt of the Mass Media. Ping Shaw Lee Humphreys (University of Pennsylva- (National Sun Yat-Sen University): Women nia): Presenting Oneself through Images: as Target: Internationalization of the An Analysis of Online Dating Photos; Paul Women’s Magazine Industry in Taiwan; Messaris (University of Pennsylvania) & Marisa Torres da Silva (Universidade Nova Jason Tocci (University of Pennsylvania): de Lisboa): Bias in Selecting Letters to the Digital FX in Movies; Stephen R. Prince Editor? A Case Study; Arthur H. Hayes (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State (Fordham University): Am I Black Enough University): Digital Imagery and the Eye of for You Baby: Can Black Management of a Cinema; Jennifer Stromer-Galley (SUNY White-Owned Media Outlet Make a Albany): The Presentation and Alteration of
6 In Medias Res Volume 6, No. 2 the Digital Self in Video Game Life; Girard as Media Ecologist?; Read Mercer Jeremy Bailenson (Stanford University): Schuchardt (Marymount Manhattan Transformed Social Interaction in Immer- College): Conditions of Attendance: The sive Virtual Reality Idle Hand as the Father of Modern Warfare 4.3C. Iterations of Interface—A Surveillance Case 4.4E. Culture as Communication. Virgil Moberg Study. Paul Guzzardo (MediaARTS (Black Hills State University): Media Bias Alliance) and the Postmodern Sublime; Jordan P. 4.3D. The Presentation of Self and Other. Natalia Curtis (SUNY Potsdam): Semiotic Analysis Chaban (University of Canterbury): of “The Golden Arches”; Katrina Flener “Frenemies?”: Images of the U.S.-E.U. (Brooklyn College, CUNY): How Relations in Asia-Pacific Media; Cuthbert Television Represents America’s “Drug Alexander (Fordham University): Com- Problem” (and Why); Gregory Christie munity Journalism: Hope for a Society (New School University): Idleness as an Without Heroes; Eda Derhemi (University Act of Resistance of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign): The 5:00-6:15 pm Breakout Sessions 4.5A-4.5E Impact of a Small Newspaper in the 4.5A. Media, Consciousness, and Culture. Fred Maintenance of Language and Culture in Cheyunski (IBM Business Consulting Piana Degli Albanesi; Tara Southwell Services): McLuhan, Ong, and Muller- (Fordham University): From Supporting Thym; Sheila J. Nayar (Greensboro Roles to Leading Ladies College): Ecriture Aeshetics: The Literate 4.3E. Visual Representations of HIV and AIDS in Contours of Art-Cinema Narration; Pamela Africa: Culture, Metaphor and Society. Miele (Fordham University): Signed Phyllis Dannhauser (University of Johan- Orality; Marc Leverette (Rutgers nesburg) University): The Eighteenth Brumaire of 3:30-4:45 pm Breakout Sessions 4.4A-4.4E Marshall McLuhan 4.4A. Ancient Quarrels and Modern Rhetoric. 4.5B. The Pragmatics of Media Ecology. Gretchen Steven Reagles (Bethany Lutheran Norling (University of West Florida): College): Doctus Orator of a Five-Sense or Physician-Patient Communication and Three-Sense Sensorium?: Marshall Technology: The Changing Face of McLuhan’s Media Ecology Bias and “Big Medicine; Susan Jacobson (Temple Rhetoric”; Twyla Gibson (University of University): Media Ecology as a Possible Toronto): Epilogue to Plato: Eric Havelock Theoretical Framework for Production and the Literate Bias; Corey Anton (Grand Research; Hui-mei Justina Hsu (University Valley State University): Logos: Ambigui- of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) & Karen ties of Merger and Division; Stephen Ann Ferneding (University of Illinois, Weinstock (Independent Scholar): Kenneth Urbana-Champaign): The Problem with Burke’s Dramatism and Media Ecology Mediation in Educational Computing; Rex 4.4B. Media and Mind. Luiz Carlos Baptista Miller (University of Illinois, Urbana- (Universidade Nova de Lisboa): The Mind Champaign): Digital Technology and Outside the Head: Media Ecology and Social Change Cognitive Science; Heike Wiese (Yale Uni- 4.5C. Labyrinth as Medium. Patricia O. Keeler versity & Humboldt-Universität Berlin): (Brigham and Women’s Hospital) Symbolic Foundations of Language and 4.5D. Rights and Copyrights. Lysanne Louter Number; Chin-Yunn Yang (New York (Brock University): Free Speech and Re- University): ICQ as a Tool of Thought; porting on Rights: Canadian Newspaper Marc Leverette (Rutgers University): The Treatment of Hate Propaganda Legislation; Third Space: A Phenomenology of Clay Guinn (University of Houston): Embodied Mediation Appropriation Art, Fair Use, and Struc- 4.4C. Mime and Media via a Tetrad of Tetrads. turalist Notions of Authorship; Frederick Wayne Constantineau (Habitat For Wasser (Brooklyn College, CUNY): What Humanity Canada) Edelman’s Image Ownership Argument 4.4D. Faith and Contexts. Kip Redick (Christopher Can Teach Media Ecology Newport University): Interpreting the 4.5E. News After 9/11. Michelle Pulaski Behling Eucharist in Light of Media Ratios; Cheryl (Pace University): War as Entertainment: Anne Casey (New York University): Television News Coverage of the War in Connecting to Non-Present Presence: Iraq; Toni O’Dell (University of Houston): Cyberspace and the Enactment of Religious Framing, Network News, and the War on Ritual; Phil Rose (York University): René Terrorism; Ronald Bishop (Drexel Univer-
In Medias Res Volume 6, No. 2 7 sity): The Whole World is Watching, But So Personals What? A Frame Analysis of Newspaper Peter Fallon’s book, Print, Literacy, and Coverage of Antiwar Protest; Jack Education in Eighteenth-Century Ireland: Why Rosenberry (St. John Fisher College): Core the Irish Speak English, is in production with the Concern: Structural Imperialism and the Impact of September 11 on U.S. Coverage Edwin Mellen press for Fall 2005. He has also of International News added four Roosevelt University graduate jour- 6:30-7:30 pm Pope Auditorium nalism students (Matt Schury, Vanessa Screening: A rare recording of Marshall Villarreal, Scott Kanter, and Mary Rose McLuhan at the 1965 Buffalo Spring Roberts) as regulars on his blog, “IN THE Festival of the Arts. Moderator: Frank DARK: Mass Ignorance in an Age of Infor- Zingrone (York University) mation.” (http://rujournalism.blogspot.com). All 7:30-8:30 pm Pope Auditorium ad revenues on IN THE DARK go to the Big Explorations with McLuhan. Edmund S. Laurel Learning Center in Naugatuck, West Carpenter Virginia, so visitors are invited to click on ad links. Big Laurel is run by a group of Sisters of Sunday, June 25, 2005 9:30-11:30 am Pope Auditorium St Joseph, Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, and MEA Business Meeting Dominicans who live in the mountains there, 11:15 am-1:00 pm and run year-round programs for some of the Writing as a Creative Activity: Writers poorest kids in the U.S. ([email protected]) Discuss Their Medium. Moderator: Meir Z. Jonathan R. Slater has been in residence Ribalow (Fordham University). Panelists: this spring semester as a Fellow in the Institute Marleen Barr (Fordham University), Bill for Ethics in Public Life at Plattsburgh State. Bly (Fordham University), Leslie Carroll During this time, he has examined the dissocia- (Author Paul Levinson, (Fordham tion of the public relations postures of major University), John McDaid (New York American corporations from their true corporate University), Douglas Rushkoff (New York behaviors. ([email protected]) University)
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