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--------------- Forwarded Message --------------- From: Viveca S. Greene, INTERNET:vgreene@igc.org To: John C. Stauber, 74250,735 Date: Mon, May 5, 1997, 8:27 PM RE: Counter-C--o Award Ceremony Sender: owner-iaj-futuremedia@igc.org Received: from igc7.igc.org (igc7.igc.apc.org [192.82.108.35]) by arl-img-7.compuserve.com (8.6.10/5.950515) id TAA08112; Mon, 5 May 1997 19:11:43 -0400 Received: from igc3.igc.apc.org (igc3.igc.apc.org [192.82.108.33]) by igc7.igc.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA10980; Mon, 5 May 1997 14:35:31 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: igc7.igc.org: Processed from queue /var/spool/mqueue-maj Received: from [207.88.115.226] (iaj.xo.com [207.88.115.226]) by igc3.igc.apc.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA07692 for <iaj-futuremedia@igc.org>; Mon, 5 May 1997 14:31:52 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 13:39:16 -0800 From: vgreene@igc.org (Viveca S. Greene) Message-Id: <v01530502af93dec9c334@[207.88.115.226]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Precedence: bulk Sender: owner-iaj-futuremedia@igc.apc.org Subject: Counter-C--o Award Ceremony To: iaj-futuremedia@igc.org X-Sender: vgreene@pop.igc.org We invite you to join us for a very special event on the evening of Tuesday, May 13 in New York City. The Media & Democracy Congress, in conjunction with California Newsreel, is hosting the first annual Counter-C--o Awards Ceremony. (The Clios are the "Oscars of commercials," and we just received a letter from a Chicago law firm stating that the use of the mark "Clio" as part of our event's name "indicates or somehow infers" that their client -- the Clio organizers -- are somehow involved in the Counter-C--o event. They aren't.) The Counter-C--o Award Ceremony will begin promptly at 7:30 PM at New York University's Cantor Center. The Center is located at 36 E. 8th Street. We will kick-off the evening with the NYC premiere screening of "The Ad and the Ego" -- an outstanding film which highlights the links between advertising, consumer culture and larger social issues. A magnificent cast of advertising critics and scholars will then bestow the 1997 C.C. awards. All awards will be created and presented by the individual speakers. A reception will precede the event. Please join us at Time Cafe's "Fez Lounge" (380 Lafayette @ Great Jones) from 5-7:15 PM. Tickets to the Counter-C--os are $10 ($5 for students and seniors) and can be reserved by calling 212-580-3417. We are receiving a significant amount of press in New York for the event, and strongly urge you to reserve tickets immediately if you would like to attend. A list of presenters and awards follows. More information on the event can be found on our website: www.igc.org/an/congress/clio Hope to see you later this month. Best wishes, Viveca Greene Media & Democracy Congress Coordinator PRESENTERS AND AWARDS Neil Postman -- Master of Ceremonies Neil Postman - critic, writer, educator and communications theorist - is Chair of New York University's Department of Culture and Communications. He is the author of 20 books, including Amusing Ourselves to Death, Technopoly, and The End of Education. Marcia Ann Gillespie: "The More Things Change the More You Ensure Things Stay the Same Award" (Special Presentation: The 10 Worst of Ms. magazine's "No Comment!") Marcia Ann Gillespie is Editor in Chief of Ms. magazine. Prior to this recent appointment, Gillespie served as Executive Editor of Ms. and as the Editor in Chief of Essence magazine. Leslie Savan: "Excellence in Blaxploitation" Leslie Savan writes a column about advertising called "Op Ad" for The Village Voice. She is a three time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism and is the author of The Sponsored Life: Ads, TV and American Culture. Mark Crispin Miller: "The Aldous Huxley Award" for the most disarming vision of totalitarianism Mark Crispin Miller is a professor of Media Studies at Johns Hopkins University and the author of Boxed In: The Culture of TV. Charles Kernaghan: Special Lifetime Achievement Award (TBA) Charles Kernaghan is the Director of the National Labor Committee, an independent, nonprofit human rights organization fouces on the issue of worker and human rights.Jean Kilbourne: "Finest of Auto-Eroticism" Jean Kilbourne: "The Finest of Auto-Eroticism Award" Jean Kilbourne is an internationally known media critic, lecturer and writer. Her films include: Killing Us Softly, Slim Hopes: Advertising and the Obsession with Thinnesssand Pack of Lies. Jeff Chester & Kathryn Montgomery: "Oh, What a Tangled Web(site) You Weave" for the website that most craftily ensnares children Jeff Chester & Kathryn Montgomery are , respectively, the Executive Director and President of the Washington DC.-based Center for Media Education (CME). Pat Aufderheide: "The Hype-ocrisy Award" Pat Aufderheide is a professor of communications at American University. John Stauber: "The Toxic Sludge is Good for You Award" for the advertising best disguised as journalism John Stauber edits and writes the quarterly publication PR Watch. He is the co-author of Toxic Sludge Is Good For You: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry. Matt Weiland: "The 'We're Down with the Workers' Award" Matt Weiland is Managing Editor at The Baffler. Makani Themba: "The Jimmy the Greek Big Black Buck Award for the Most Demeaning Target-Marketing Campaign" Makani Themba is Co-Director of The Praxis Project: a media and policy center based in Oakland, CA. She is also chair of the Media & Democracy Congress Coordinating Committee. Viveca S. Greene Media & Democracy Congress Coordinator Institute for Alternative Journalism 77 Federal Street, 2nd Floor San Francisco, CA 94107 ph 415.284.1429 fax 415.284.1414 --- # distributed via nettime-l : no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a closed moderated mailinglist for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@icf.de and "info nettime" in the msg body # URL: http://www.desk.nl/~nettime/ contact: nettime-owner@icf.de