Schedule
Friday, September 16
6:00 PM – Keynote Address, Dr. Timothy Lenoir, Duke University – “Neurofutures: Brain-Machine Interfaces and the New New Media” (Eccles Auditorium, CTIHB 109)
Saturday, September 17
9:00 AM – Keynote Address – Dr. Richard White, Stanford University – “The Exaggerated Death of Time and Space” (Eccles Auditorium, CTIHB 109)
10:15 AM – Break
(All panels will be held in the Tanner Humanities Center Conference Room, CTIHB.)
10:45 AM – Archiving & Curating
- Dr. Matt Cohen – English, University of Texas Austin – “When Others Passing By Behold: Archives between Cultures”
- Dr. Kelly Gates – Communication, University of California San Diego – “Digital Credibility: Photographic Truth in Video Forensics”
- Dr. Robert W. Gehl – Communication, University of Utah – “Mass Producing Social Media: Technical Standards, The Interactive Advertising Bureau, and the Rise of Template-Driven Social Media”
12:15 PM – Lunch Break
1:30 PM – Re-mediations
- Dr. Mara Mills – Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University Steinhardt – “Electrifying the Book: Reading Machines and Print Disability, 1912-1980″
- Dr. Fan Yang – Media and Communication Studies, University of Maryland Baltimore County – “Branding the Counterfeit in post-WTO China: Shanzhai, New Media and Globalization”
- Dr. J. Clare Woods – Classical Studies, Duke – “Books, Libraries and Literary Culture in World of Warcraft”
3:00 PM – Break
3:30 PM – Politics and/of Place
- Dr. John Peters – Communication, University of Iowa – “Frontiers of New Media: The Mormon Case”
- Dr. Bill Kirkpatrick – Communication, Denison University – “Localizing Media Policy: Pessimistic Histories, Optimistic Futures”
- Dr. Scott Laderman – History, University of Minnesota Duluth – “Surfing History as Western History: Hawai’i, Indonesia, and the Transpacific Frontier”
5:00 PM – Closing Remarks – Drs. John Peters & Rob MacDougall