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Program of Events
Thursday, October 10, 2002
2:00-8:00pm: Registration (Days Inn Town Square Atrium)
6:00-8:00pm: Welcoming Reception (Linden/Grove)
Reception Host: Douglas Anderson * Dean, College of Communications * Penn State University
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Friday, October 11, 2002
7:30am-5:30pm: Registration (Days Inn Town Square Atrium)
7:30-8:30am: Breakfast (Days Inn Restaurant)
8:30-10:15am : Session A (concurrent panels)
A1. News Media Criticism
Room: Sylvan
Chair: Russell Frank * Penn State University
William S. Solomon * Rutgers University * "A Profound Silence: The News Media’s Lack of Self Criticism"
Jing Yin * Penn State University * "Forever Mobs: News Coverage of the 2002 World Economic Forum"
Feng Wu * Penn State University * "Please, Never Ever Negative: The Media and China’s Accession to the WTO"
Francis Ward * Syracuse University * "U.S. Media’s Help in the Planned Attack on Iraq"
A2. The False Promise of the Internet
Room: Holmes/Foster
Chair: David Sholle * Miami University
Chen-Ling Hung * Penn State University * "The Internet and the Public Sphere: A Hope of Democracy or an Illusion?"
George Gladney * University of Wyoming * James D. Ivory * University of North Carolina * "Attitudes of Relational Engagement in Cyberspace: Uncovering Monologic Potential and Growth"
Chang-de Liu * Temple University * "Practicing the Public Sphere through the Internet and Traditional Media: Political Discussions on Taiwanese Bulletin Board System and the Newspapers"
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A3. Media Literacy and Pedagogy
Room: Logan/Harris
Chair: Patrick Trimble * Penn State University
Siho Nam * Penn State University * "Critical Media Literacy as a Liberating Pedagogy: A Possibility of Alternative and Oppositional Media Education and Practices"
A.J. Baltes * Bowling Green State University * "Commercial Technology in the Classroom"
Julie Frechette * Worcester State College * "Cyber-Democracy or Cyber-Hegemony? Exploring the Political and Economic Structure(s ) of the Internet as an Alternative Source of Information"
Chuck Kleinhans * Northwestern University * "Integrating Economic and Aesthetic Analysis in Teaching Hollywood: Lessons from Experience"
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10:15-10:30am: Break
10:30am-12:15pm: Session B (concurrent panels)
B1. Communicating for Social Justice: A New Curriculum at Niagara University
Room: Holmes/Foster
Chair: Jim Wittebols
Jim Wittebols * Niagara University
Mark Barner * Niagara University
Brian Murphy * Niagara University
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B2. Radio/Public Media
Room: Sylvan
Chair: Rob Frieden * Penn State University
Deborah L. Jaramillo * University of Texas at Austin * "The Unsettling Case of National Public Radio and Low Power Radio"
Holly Ann Custard * University of Texas at Austin * "Community Radio: Diversity, Representation and KOOP, Austin"
Luz Estella Porras * University of Oregon * "Chatting at the Park: From ‘Real’ Sites to Local Waves: A Columbian Experience of Interpersonal and Radio Community Communication for Promotion of Public Conversation on Children’s Issues"
Gabriela Martinez * University of Oregon * "Cable in Peru: Canal N and Democracy
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B3. Media, Technology and Community
Room: Logan/Harris
Chair: Jennifer Proffitt * Penn State University
Timothy A. Gibson * George Mason University * "The Myth of the Organic City: How the Downtown Establishment Killed Seattle’s Most Important Civic Square"
Christine Quail * University of Oregon * "The American Multi-Utility Industry: Electric Power Utilities as Communications Providers"
Osek Eke * Penn State University * "The Million Man March: Public Opinion and the Mass Media"
Carrie A. Rentschler * University of Pittsburgh * "Crime News and the Trauma Curriculum"
B4. Pennsylvania Media Activists
Room: Willow
Chair: Matt Jackson * Penn State University
Pete Tridish * Radio Prometheus
Inja Coates * Media Tank
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12:15-1:30pm: Lunch (Days Inn)
1:30-3:15pm: Session C (Concurrent panels)
C1. Trans-located Media: A Post-Kleinhansian Ideological
Buffet
Room: Logan/Harris
Chair: Chris List * Chicago State University
Kate Kane * Rogue Scholar * "Traveling the Frontiers of
Ignorance: Confessions of a Gypsy Scholar"
Chris List * Chicago State University
Jinny Keller * Loyola University
Ramona Curry * University of Illinois * "From Bruce to Eddie and Butch: The U.S Marketing of Jackie Chan"
Deborah Tudor * DePaul University * "Cultural Intersections in Australian Film of the 1930s; Rangle River"
C2. Social Movements/Activism
Room: Willow
Chair: Christine Quail * University of Oregon
David Whiteman * University of South Carolina * "Out of the
Theaters and Into the Streets: Assessing the Political Impact of
Documentary Film"
Joseph C. Harry * Slippery Rock University * "Citizen-Based
Struggle Against Environmental Injustice"
Scott Wible * Penn State University * "‘Resurrecting’
Mainstream Media: Communications Deregulation,
Narrowcasting, and Latino Media Activism"
Andy Opel * Florida State University * "Media and the
Student Anti-Sweatshop Movement"
C3. The Political Economy of the Information Society
Room: Sylvan
Chair: Eileen Meehan * University of Arizona
David Sholle * Miami University * "The Vacant Concept of
the Information Society"
Randy Nichols * University of Oregon * "The New
Productivity: Revisiting the Problematic of Information Labor"
Chris Shumway * New School University * "Freedom Without
Opportunity: A Critical Assessment of the First Amendment
and the Mass Media"
C4. Regulation, Deregulation and Media Diversity
Room: Holmes/Foster
Chair: Krishna Jayakar * Penn State University
Jennifer M. Proffitt * Penn State University * "’Arbitrary,
Capricious, and Contrary to the Law'? An Analysis of Fox
Television Stations, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission"
Mercedes Lynn de Uriarte * University of Texas * "Intellectual Diversity: The Newsroom’s Most Critical Challenge"
Seung Kwan Ryu * Southern Illinois University * "Minority Ownership in Broadcast and Cable after Telecommunications Deregulation"
JZ Long * George Mason University * "Broad Bands:
Government Regulation, Media Synergy, and the Federal
Communications Commission (FCC)"
3:15-3:30pm: Break
3:30-5:15pm: Session D (concurrent panels)
D1. The Political Economy of Hollywood
Room: Sylvan
Chair: Janet Wasko * University of Oregon
Eileen R. Meehan * University of Arizona * "Po Mo Media Co: Style and Structure as Insulation"
Judd Ruggill * University of Arizona * "Licensed to Shill: How Martial Arts Video Games Tarnished the Silver Screen"
Aimee-Marie Dorsten * University of Pittsburgh * "‘Dirty Deeds Done Dirty Cheap’ in the Global Film Industry"
Ron Bettig and Jeanne Hall * Penn State University * "Big Movies, Big Money"
Chris Jordan * Penn State Univesity * "Banning the World: The Hard Body Hero, Post-Fordism, and Western Cultural Hegemony"
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D2. Indy Media
Room: Holmes/Foster
Chair: John M. Dickison * Penn State University
Jennifer Rauch * Indiana University * "‘Radical, Accurate and Passionate Tellings of the Truth’ on the Web: The Post-Seattle Independent Media Center Phenomenon"
Carlos Fontes * Worcester State College * "Beyond the Local at Last: The Independent Media Movement and the Rise of a Radically Democratic System of Global Communication"
Valerie Scatamburlo-D’Annibale * University of Windsor * "Networking for Social Justice: Democratic Communications and ‘Internetworked’ Social Movements"
Rodolfo Fernandez * Universidad de Monterrey * "‘The Globalifobicos are Coming to Monterrey’: Local Media and Transnational Capital Protests"
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D3. Women’s Liberation Revisited
Room: Logan/Harris
Chair: Lisa McLaughlin * Miami University
Michael Tumolo * Indiana University * "Our Bitches Are Liberated…Pull the Trigger. Liberated Woman as Trope of Justification and Containment"
Kathalene Razzano * George Mason University * "Admissible in a Court of Law!: DNA Tests, Paternity and the Talkshow"
Wendy Barger * University of Oregon * "Voice for America? A Feminist Analysis of Thomas Friedman’s Pulitzer-Winning Commentary"
Patrick Osei Hwere * Ohio University * "Framing of Female Genital Cutting by the Sub-Saharan African Press, 1995-2001"
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D4. U.S. Media and Culture in Light of September 11
Room: Willow
Chair: Kevin Hagopian * Penn State University
Michael P. McCauley * University of Maine * "Finding Common Ground: Community Media and Community Organizations Respond to the Tragedies of 9/11"
Chris Demaske * University of Washington * "Freedom of
Information? An Analysis of the FOIA post 9/11"
Lee Artz * Loyola University* "The Hegemonic Push and Pull
of American Patriotism"
Helena Vanhala * University of Oregon * "September 11: When Reality Imitated Hollywood Fiction"
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5:30-7:30pm: Dinner (on your own)
**7:30-9:00pm: Independent Filmmaker Tony Buba** (Carnegie Cinema, 113 Carnegie Building)
9:00-10:30pm: Reception (TBA)
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Saturday, October 12, 2002
7:30am-1:30pm: Registration (Days Inn Town Square Atrium)
8:00-9:00am: Breakfast (Days Inn)
**9:00-9:30am: Dallas Smythe Award Ceremony**
Room: Sylvan/Centre
Conference Host: Ron Bettig
Video Address: Robert McChesney
Award Presenter: Janet Wasko
**9:30-10:30am: Keynote Address: Edward S. Herman**
Room: Sylvan/Centre
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10:30-10:45am: Break
10:45am-12:30pm: Session E (concurrent panels)
E1. News and Information in the New Media Regime: A Critical
Appraisal
Room: Arbor
Chair: Ian Steinberg
James Compton * University of Western Ontario * "Commodification of Online News: 24/7 News and the Push for Media Events"
Mike Gasher * Concordia University * "News and Views: What’s Technology Got to Do With It?"
David Skinner * York University * "Reform or Alternatives? Limits and Pressures on Changing the Mediascape"
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E2. Commercialized Kid Culture
Room: Willow
Chair: TBA
Mike Budd * Florida Atlantic University * "Disney: Control, Synergy, Commodification"
David Monje * University of Illinois * and Kumi Silva * University of Oregon * "Commercial Free Consumption: Cyberchase and PBSKIDS.org"
Matthew P. McAllister * Virginia Tech * "Is Commercial Culture Popular Culture?"
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E3. Media Activists
Room: Sylvan
Chair: TBA
Eric Larson * Brown University * "Transnational Resistance in the Americas: Andean Workers, International Migration, and Radicalism, 1980-1995"
Margo Menconi * "Exploiting Media and Defining Communicative Norms: Electronic Media and the April 2000 Anti-IMF/World Bank Protests"
Margit Hawelleck and Roger Good * Ohio University * "‘I See By Your Outfit That You Are a Cowboy’: Authorship and Craftspersonship in Community-Based Productions"
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E4. Feminism and Anti-Globalization
Room: Centre
Chair: TBA
Ashley Overbeck * University of Oregon * "(En)Gendering Resistance: Feminist Theory and Activism in the Anti-Globalization Movement"
Carolyn M. Byerly * University of Maryland * "Invisible Dimensions: Gender, Neoliberalism and the Global Media"
Lisa McLaughlin * Miami University * "Global Subsistence Citizenship: Questions of Access and Institutionalization Before the World Summit on the Information Society"
Alison Beale * Simon Fraser University * "Culture and Security"
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12:30-1:45pm: Lunch (Days Inn)
1:45-3:30pm: Session F (concurrent panels)
F1. A New Chapter in an Old Book?: Global Media and Its
Paradoxes
Room: Sylvan
Chair: Walter Jaehnig * Southern Illinois University
Jyotsna Kapur and Manjunath Pendakur * Southern Illinois University * "Who is Writing the Scripts for Sunil Malhotra?: The Dialectics of Global Hollywood"
R. Harindranath * The Open University, UK * "Opening Up and Closing Down: The Apparent Paradox of Economic ‘Liberalization’ and Cultural Protectionism in Contemporary India"
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F2. FDA: Food, Drugs and Big Media
Room: Centre
Chair: Ann Marie Major * Penn State University
James F. Tracy * Florida Atlantic University * "The Quest for Hearts, Minds, and Maladies: ‘Big Pharma,’ Prescription Drug Advertising, and Modern Medical Practice in the Belly of the Beast"
Ian Steinberg * "Coffee Pimp: Working at Starbucks"
Linda K. Fuller * Worcester State * "Global Medical Injustice: HIV/AIDs in Developing Countries"
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F3. Critical Theory and Democratic Communication: Tensions between Theories
of Justice and Cultural Relativism
Room: Willow
Chair and Respondent: Nancy Love * Penn State University
George Davis * Penn State University * "Genealogy and Enlightenment: Critical Affinities Between Foucault and the Frankfurt School"
Chris Russill * Penn State University * "Habermas and Pluralism: Pragmatism in the Theory of Communicative Action"
John Christman * Penn State University * "Public Communication and the Relation Between Theories of Justice and Deliberation"
F4. Workshop: Community Journalism
Room: Arbor
Chair: John M. Dickison *Penn State University * Voices of
Central Pennsylvnia
John M. Dickison * Penn State, Voices * "How the Dog with Credit Cards Became President: From Satirist to Bureaucrat in a Volunteer Organization"
Justin Leto * Voices of Central Pennsylvania * "Partisan Participants: Activist Journalists Need Not Check Ideology at the Door"
Michael Maneval * Voices of Central Pennsylvania * Walking Hand in Hand: Media/Information Reform and Community Journalism"
Erica Belser * Voices of Central Pennsylvania * Kerry Kilmer * Voices of Central Pennsylvania * "Ten Years is a Long Time: The History of a Volunteer Paper"
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3:30-3:45pm: Break
3:45-5:30pm: Session G (concurrent panels)
G1. Making the Labor Movement Visible and Viable to the Next Generation of Journalists
Room: Willow
Co-Chairs: Sue Kaufman and Pamela Wilson
Sue Kaufman * Local 4100, Illinois Federation of Teachers,
American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO* Eastern Illinois
University
Pamela Wilson * Department for Professional Employees,
AFL-CIO
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G2. Journalistic Practice
Room: Arbor
Chair:
Martha A. Starr * Georgetown University and Mary Washington College * "Reading The Economist on Globalisation: Knowledge, Identity and Power"
Sean Johnson Andrews * George Mason University * "Is There No Alternative?: Hegemony and the Challenge (?) of the Expose"
Jefferson Pooley * Columbia University * "The ‘Infotainment Critique’ and the Left: The Uses and Abuses of Press Mythology"
Michael I. Niman * Buffalo State College * "The Struggle for a Free Press in Post 9-11 America"
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G3. Texts and Frames
Room: Sylvan
Chair: Ocek Eke * Penn State University
Jon R. Pike * Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville * "Martyrdom in Cyberspace: A Case Study of Carlo Giuliani and Contemporary Propaganda"
Steve Macek * Wilson College * "Framing Ralph: Mainstream Media Coverage of Nader’s 2000 Presidential Campaign"
Kevin Hagopian * Penn State University * "The Heirs of the Greatest Generation: The World War II Analogy as a Source of Ideological Power for Modern Conservatism"
Emmanuel C. Alozie * Governors State University * "Pre-War Reactions to the Persian Gulf Crisis: A Study of The New York Times Editorial Treatment of Events and Policies Leading to the 1991 Persian Gulf War"
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G4. Media on and in Korea
Room: Centre
Chair: Siho Nam * Penn State University
Jinbong Choi * University of Minnesota * "Public Journalism
Through the Internet Media: A Korean Case"
Jae Young * "AP Coverage of US Armed Forces’ Massacre of Civilians During the Korean War"
Jeon Gyuchan * Kangwon National University * "From the Popular to the Political: Post-World Cup Cultural Politics in Korea"
Euichul Jung * Rutgers * "Global News Media and the Reconfiguration of Cultural Identity in Korea"
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5:30-6:30pm: Screening: Power From the People *Jon Schmit * Grand Valley State University *
7:00-9:00pm: Dinner: Mad Mex (Days Inn)
***9:00pm-??: Dance: Cliff Turner & the Afterburners***
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Sunday, October 13, 2002
8:00-9:00am: Breakfast (Days Inn)
9:00-11:00am: UDC Business Meeting (TBA)
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