Reception

• Welcome, Susan Reilly, Director, School of Communication and Multimedia Studies Florida Atlantic University

• Welcome, William A. Covino, Dean, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Florida Atlantic University
• Manjunath Pendakur, “Re-reading Lenin and Marx”
• Presentation of the Dallas Smythe Award to Manjunath Pendakur. Introduction by Kate Kane

Media and Social Empowerment
Chairs: Ronald V. Bettig and Jeanne Lynn Hall

• Ronald V. Bettig and Jeanne Lynn Hall, The Pennsylvania State University
  “Outfoxing the Myth of the Liberal Media”
• Svetlana Kulikova , Louisiana State University, “Power of Television or Power with Television? A Case Study of NTV in Post-Soviet Russia”
• Patricia Berg and Benjamin Jipson, University of Wisconsin-River Falls. “From Soap Box to Soap Opera: Young Audiences Search for a Truly Public Forum in Today’s Media”

Constructing Enemies and Victims: Media in Global Perspective
Chair: John D. H. Downing

• John D. H. Downing, Southern Illinois University, “Terrorism, Torture and Media Before and Since 9/11: 24”
• Paul D. Boin, University of Windsor, “Misrepresenting Haiti: An Analysis of North American Media Coverage of Haiti's 2004 Bicentennial and Subsequent Coup”
• Chongdae Park, Penn State University and Siho Nam, University of North Florida, “Claiming Global Responsibility in the Mediated Discourse”

Historical Approaches to Media Policy and Practice
Chair: Elizabeth Fones-Wolf

• Elizabeth Fones-Wolf, University of West Virginia, “Defending Listeners' Rights:  Radio Reform in Postwar America”
• Clay Steinman, Macalester College, “Part of Their Time: Hollywood Communists and the New Anti-Communist Revisionism”
• Victor Pickard, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Media Democracy Deferred: The Rise and Fall of Progressive Communications Policy, 1945-1948”
• Stephen Macek, North Central College, Illinois,“ The Chicago Journalism Review and the Radical Movements of the ‘60s”

Race, News, and Television
Chair: Walter B. Jaehnig

• Karie Hollerbach and Walter B. Jaehnig, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, “Advertising's Hegemonic Influence: Conflicting Images of African Americans on Television”
• Ian Steinberg, Columbia University, “Hey, Hey, Hey! It’s a Culture of Poverty: Bill Cosby and the Discourses of Black Agency and Pathology in the News”
• Donise Johnson and W. Russell Robinson, Howard University, “Frame By Frame: News at 11 : A News Frame Analysis”

Video and Local Activism

• Barbara Wolf, Independent Videographer
  Cincinnati , Ohio

Barbara Wolf will show videos she produced to help various communities organize. Often they worked. Sometimes they didn’t. She’ll say how, why, and talk methodology too. Two of the titles are AK Come Clean and MSD’s Hidden Secret.

1:30 - 2:45 pm
Salon A

Media Activism, Social Movements, and New Technologies
Chair: Bob Hackett

• Bob Hackett, Simon Fraser University, “Remaking Media: Challenges and Springboards for Media Activism”
• Simon J. Kiss, Queen’s University, “States, Social Movements, and the Influence of Information Technologies: A Case Study of Wireless”
• Carolyn M. Byerly, Howard University, “Neoliberalism’s Impact on Women and Minority Media Ownership”
• Seeta Peña Gangadharan, Stanford University, “Creating the Case for Community: Broadband Activism and Public Service Commitments”

Corporate Synergies and the Neo-Liberal cultural Front
Chair: John McMurria

• John McMurria, DePaul University
  “It’s a Modern Day Barn-Raising: Neo-Liberalism and Reality TV’s Extreme Makeovers”
• Janet Wasko, University of Oregon
  “Neopets and Neopia: A Neophyte Entertainment Franchise”
• Eileen R. Meehan, Louisiana State University
  “Corporate Synergy as Economic Centralization: Internal Circuits and External Alliances among Transindustrial Media Conglomerates”
• Randy Nichols, Niagara University
  “Bringing Out the Big Guns: Military Use of Video Games”

Corporate News: Work, Crime, and Plugola
Chair: Gerald Sussman

• Gerald Sussman, Portland State University
  “Plugola: News for Entertainment and Corporate Profit”
• Deepa Kumar, Rutgers University
  “Corporate Criminals & Crony Capitalism: Class & the Representation of Crime in the News”
• Christopher R. Martin, Miami University of Ohio, “Raising the Finger to the Corporate News Media: A Crisis in Coverage of Worker Injuries”

Screening: The Miami Model

Break

Consumer Culture: Advertising, Branding, Marketing
Chair: Jim Tracy

• Liz Edgecomb, University of South Florida
  “Inducements of Consumer Culture: The Poor Need Not Apply”
• Bill Lawson, Florida State University
  “Reappropriation Baby”
• Frank Walsh
  “Advocacy Advertising: Stronger Legal Protections, Broader Use”
• Jack Banks, University of Hartford
  “GLAAD to be a Good Consumer: A Critique of the Commercialization of Gay Activism”

Media and Politics in Latin America and the Caribbean
Chair: Luis Duno-Gottberg, Florida Atlantic University

• Gregory Wilpert, Venezuela
  “On Subverting Media Subversion: The Venezuelan Case”
• Claudia Espinoza, Bolivia
  “From Achacachi to Nayaf: The Myths of the Lying Media”
• Bruce Paddington, University of the West Indies
  “Hegemonic Representation and Identity Formation in Caribbean Film and Television”

The Work of Art Against The Neo-Liberal Tide
Chair: Manjunath Pendakur, Southern Illinois University

• Mike Covell, Southern Illinois University
  “Borderline Films”
• Sarah Kanouse, Southern Illinois University
  “Tactical Irrelevance: Art and Politics at Play”
• Shannon Petrello, Independent Artist
  “Crush: The Commodification of Love in a Time of War”

Intellectual property
Chair: Chris Jordan

• Chris Jordan, St. Cloud State University
  “Private Asset or Collective Resource?: Intellectual Property and Free Speech in the Digital Age”
• Bingchun Meng , Pennsylvania State University
  “A Gramscian Approach to Interpreting International Copyright Regime”
• Kelly A. Gates, Queens College, CUNY
  “Will Work for Copyright: The Cultural Policy of Anti-Piracy Campaigns”

Screening: Take it Back? Evangelical Christianity & Popular Music

• Introduction and Q&A with Co-director Silvia Giagnoni

Break

Communications Policy: Contemporary Developments
Chair: Jennifer M. Proffitt

• Jennifer M. Proffitt, Florida State University
  “Juggling Justifications: Modifications to the National Television Station Ownership Rule”
• William M. Kunz, University of Washington, Tacoma
  “Diversity or Multiplicity: The Control of Cable Television in an Era of Deregulation”
• Yanjun Zhao , Southern Illinois University Carbondale
  “Connection between Information Policy Debate and Communication Academic Debate on Transnational Media Firms”
• Craig Stark, The Pennsylvania State University
  “HD Radio: A Tool for Diversity or the Commercial Imperative?”

The Laboring of Communication and Culture I
Chair: Catherine McKercher, Carleton University

• Chris Bodnar, Carleton University
  “Taking it to the Streets: Location Shooting, Labor and Resistance in the Vancouver and Paris Film Industries ”
• Vincent Mosco, Queen’s University
  “Knowledge Workers in the Global Economy: The Struggle over Outsourcing”
• Kirsten Kozolanka, Carleton University
  “Taming Labor in Neo-liberal Ontario: Oppositional Political Communication in a Time of ‘Crisis’”

Bottom Up or Top Down? Journalism, Public Relations, New Technologies
Chair: Jody Berland

• Bob Hanke and Jody Berland, York University
  “Against Profile Fetishization: University Media Relations and the Representation of Canadian Higher Education”
• Shawn McIntosh, Columbia University
  “Learning the Lowdown by Getting High: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and the Citizen-Journalist”

Framing an Execution: The Media and Mumia Abu-Jamal - A Media Literacy Response to Propaganda Posing as Journalism
Chair: Tom Gardner

• Tom Gardner, Westfield State College
• Bill Yousman, Media Education Foundation

Race, Class, and News Coverage of Natural Disaster: Visions From New Orleans

• Dee Dee Halleck
  Paper Tiger Television

• Deborah James
  “ US Policy from the Middle East to Latin America: Framing Democracy and Economics ”
• Norman Solomon
  “The Military-Industrial-Media Complex”

10:30 – 10:45 am
2nd Floor Lobby

Rethinking Identity and Subjectivity in the Neoliberal Tide
Chair: Michelle Rodino-Colocino

• Michelle Rodino-Colocino, University of Cincinnati
  “War Mothering: The Fight for ‘Security Moms’”
• Kyle Reinson, Florida Atlantic University
  “The Politics of Silence: Power, Celebrity, and the Private Matter of Terri Schiavo”
• Matthew A. Killmeier, University of Southern Maine
  “The Ugly American Monologue: Media Construction of the Unilateralist National Self and the Rendition of Others”
• Jane Caputi, Florida Atlantic University
  “’The Pornographic Mind’”: Sexual Torture, Abu Ghraib, and Popular Culture”

Indymedia and The Miami Model: Seattle Plus Seven
Chair: Greg Elmer

• Andy Opel, Florida State University & Greg Elmer, Ryerson University
  “The Miami Model: Reconfiguring the Space of Dialogue, Dissent, and Democracy"
• Brandon Jourdan, Deep Dish Television
  Jeffrey Keating, Miami Independent Media Center
  Rob Ross, National Lawyers Guild

Neoliberalism in Global Perspective
Chair: Victor Pickard

• Victor Pickard, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  “The Neoliberal Imperative in Global Communication Systems from NWICO to WSIS”
• Chris Demaske, University of Washington
  “Free Press in Russia: Dismantling the Neoliberal Rhetoric”

Telecommunications Policy: International Perspectives
Chair: Siddhartha Raja

• Siddhartha Raja, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  “Globalization and the Indian Space Program 1975-2000”
• Philip Savage, York University
  “The Audience Massage: Audience Research and Canadian Broadcasting Policy”
• Nancy Paterson, York University
  “Bandwidth Is Political”

Spheres of Influence: Constructing New Spaces for News and Information

• James R. Compton, University of Western Ontario
  “Memogate and the Mythology of an Autonomous Blogsphere”
• Mike Gasher, Concordia University
  “Spheres of Influence: Constructing New Spaces for News and Information”
• David Skinner, York University
  “Independent Media Centres in Canada: Three Case Studies”

The Laboring of Communication and Culture II
Chair: Vincent Mosco, Queen’s University

• Enda Brophy, Queen's University
  “The Unbearable Precarity of Immaterial Labor: WashTech and the Organization of High-Tech Workers in the U.S.”
• Patricia Mazepa, York University
  “Making Canadian Unions for a Canadian Culture: Workers' Organization in the Communication and Cultural Industries 1900-1950”
• Jim Tracy, Florida Atlantic University
  “Policing Fractures in the Laboring of Communication”
• Catherine McKercher, Carleton University
  “Home/Work: Toward a Feminist Political Economy of Labor and Communication”

Community Radio
Chair: Michael Niman

• Michael I. Niman, Buffalo State College
  “Retaking the Radio Waves: The Buffalo Coalition for Progressive Media”
• Diana Agosta, City University of New York
  “Media for Local Development: Community Radio as a Medium for Civil Society”
• Stacy Warren, Eastern Washington University
  “Appropriating the Air above Us: Pirate Radio in the Age of Corporate Media”

The Politics of Culture: Rhetoric, Religion, and Media
Chair: Becky Mulvaney, Florida Atlantic University

• Rebecca Kuhn, Florida Atlantic University
  “The Passion of the Evangelical: The Political Advantages of the Culture War”
• Ian Nagy, Carleton University
  “Conspiracy Theory and the Politics of Carnival”
• Trudy M. Edwards, Florida Atlantic University
  “Free Trade Rhetoric and the Exporting of America: The Narrative Paradigm as a Method of Criticism”
• Shenid Bhayroo , Louisiana State University
  “Divine Calling and Messianic Ideology in the Religious Rhetoric of George W. Bush”

Journalism: Theory, Practice, and Social Change
Chair: Fred Fejes, Florida Atlantic University

• Stephen Landry, University of New Brunswick
  “The Enlightenment, the Frankfurt Institute and Objective News Media: Towards an Empowering Journalistic Model and Societal Transcendence for the 21st Century”
• Maija Saari, Wilfrid Laurier University
  “Critical Gatekeepers or Cardboard Soldiers: The Impact to Canadian Science Reporters of an Increasingly-Converged Canadian Daily Press”
• Walter B. Jaehnig & Daekyung Kim, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
  “OhmyNews: A Participatory Model for Journalism’s Future?”
• Mark Kmetzko, Florida Media Project
  “Going to Bed Hungry: A Content Analysis of Late-Night Local TV News in Southwest Florida”

Screening: Fallujah

• Introduction and Q&A with Co-director Brandon Jourdan, Deep Dish TV

The Mysteries of Commodification: Sex, Hypercommercialism, and Authenticity
Chair: Jim Wittebols

• Jim Wittebols, University of Windsor
  “Commodifying Authenticity: From George Bush’s Sow’s Ear to Karl Rove’s Silk Purse”
• Lori Bindig, University of Massachusetts-Amherst & Bill Yousman, Media Education Foundation
  “It’s Not Really a Secret: Victoria’s Secret and the Commodification of Sexuality”
• Jeff Young, Florida Atlantic University
  “The Difference between Using Sex to Sell a Commodity and Selling Sex as a Commodity”
• Matthew Soar, Concordia University
  “The Brand Hype Web Project: Exploring Product Placement as a Symptom of Hypercommercialism”

Screening: Is This What Media Democracy Looks Like?

• Bob Hanke, York University
• Geoff Bowie, Documentary Filmmaker

Who Counts? Who’s Counting?
Chair: Deborah Tudor

• Deborah Tudor, DePaul University
  “Tapping into the Textual Vein: Audience Involvement and Fragmentation”
• Kate Kane, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
  “Have You Seen This Beauty Pageant? Miss America Goes Missing”
• Christine List, Chicago State University
  “Political Economy of Minority Participation in the Chicago Film Industry”
• Emily Erickson and Anne C. Osborne, Louisiana State University
  “Brand Appearance Typology: A Viewer’s Perspective on Brands in Primetime Television”

Screening: Media As Our Mirror: Indigenous Media of Burma

• Introduction and Q&A with Lisa Brooten, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Media As Our Mirror: Indigenous Media of Burma ( Myanmar)

Presentation includes video by indigenous media groups Burma Issues and Kawlah Films, which have provided local peoples with a new sense of their power to create social change.

Break

Militarization, Media, and Empire
Chair: Robin Andersen

• Robin Andersen, Fordham University
  “The Military Media Complex: Marketing Entertainment and Permanent War through the New Digital Spectacular”
• Lisa Brooten, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
  “Militarization and Globalizing Media”
• John Martirano, University of Illinois
  “Military Industrial Pluralism and the Marginalization of Public Dedication in Patents: Communications and R&D Policy Development 1920-1950”
• Brian Martin Murphy, Niagara University
  “The Search for Panoptical Hegemony in the Era of Preemption: A Critical Catalog of Imperial Communication Intelligence Systems”

Screening: Race, Class, and News Coverage of Natural Disaster: Visions From New Orleans

• Dee Dee Halleck
  Paper Tiger Television

Screening: Stormy Weather: Paper Tiger and UDC Look at Hurricane Season

This will be a presentation of a whiz-bang quick edit of UDC's participants' analysis of TV storm reports, shown on Friday evening .

The Political Economy of Culture: Music, Indies, and Product Placement
Chair: Janet Wasko, University of Oregon

• Robert Peaslee, University of Colorado, Boulder
  “Demystifying the ‘Indie’: Transaction and Transnational Imagination in United States Cinema”
• Joseph L. Terry, University of Colorado at Boulder
  “Netting an Indie Niche: ‘Not Lame’ Powers Pop to the People”
• Emily Erickson and Anne C. Osborne, Louisiana State University
  “Becoming the Entertainment: Product Placement and the Well-Worn Grooves of Commercial Speech Regulation”

Class in Art: Teaching & Making Art Against the Neoliberal Tide
Chair: Shannon Petrello, independent artist

•  Jan Roddy and Cade Bursell, Southern Illinois University
  “Engaged Pedagogy and Arts Practice”
• Jyotsna Kapur , Southern Illinois University
  “What is Left of Art?: The Artist in Late Capitalism”

Cash Bar/Dinner

Dance
(Reggae Band: The Fourth Dimension)

Continental Breakfast

Registration

UDC Business Meeting