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The Second Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association
Sponsored by the Department of Culture and Communication
New York University
June 15-16, 2001
Lipton Hall at the D'Agostino Residence
NYU Law School Campus in Greenwich Village
108 West Third Street (between Sullivan & MacDougal Streets)
New York, New York 10012
If you're interested in:
- the nature, history, and impact of technology, media, and symbol systems;
- the study of communication, consciousness, and culture;
- technological determinism, media evolution, information theory and
cybernetics;
- the study of media codes, media literacy, and media education;
- orality, literacy, secondary orality, and post-literacy;
- oral, scribal, typographic, and electronic cultures;
- the graphic revolution and image culture;
- scholars such as Marshall McLuhan, Harold Innis, Walter Ong, Neil
Postman, Lewis Mumford, Edmund Carpenter, Jacques Ellul, and Erving
Goffman,
then you won't want to miss this summer's hottest convention in the coolest
part of New York City.
Keynote speaker: Joshua Meyrowitz, author of the award-winning NO SENSE OF
PLACE: THE IMPACT OF ELECTRONIC MEDIA ON SOCIAL BEHAVIOR (Oxford
University Press, 1985), as well as dozens of articles about media and
culture. Professor of Communication at the University of New Hampshire and
a graduate of NYU's doctoral program in Media Ecology, Dr. Meyrowitz will
speak about promises and challenges of media ecology research.
Featured presentations by Camille Paglia and Douglas Rushkoff.
Additional participants include Richard Barbrook, James Carey, Mark Dery,
Susan Drucker, Ray Gozzi, Gary Gumpert, Robert Logan, John Pavlik, and Jay
Rosen, among others.
PRE-REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Convention Fees
The Convention is open to MEA members only.
Non-members add membership fee to convention fee.
$20 2001 Membership
$30 Pre-Registration (before June 1, 2001*)
$10 Student 2001 Membership
(please include a photocopy
of your full-time student identification card)
$20 Student Pre-Registration (before June 1, 2001*)
*Registration after June 1, 2001 and on-site will be $40 for members and
$30 for student members.
A printable version of the pre-registration form is available online at
<http://www.media-ecology.org/events_conference2_.html#forms>, where you
can also find the Convention schedule (updated periodically), as well as a
list of hotels and hostels in Manhattan. Directions to the NYU campus are
available at <http://www.nyu.edu/maps.nyu>.
Mail completed pre-registration form and check or money order
payable to Media Ecology Association to:
Janet Sternberg, MEA Convention Coordinator
Department of Culture and Communication
New York University
239 Greene Street, 7th Floor
New York, NY 10003-6674
Questions? Email Janet Sternberg at:
netberg@compuserve.com (preferred)
janet.sternberg@nyu.edu (alternate)
DEADLINE FOR PRE-REGISTRATION: Friday, June 1, 2001
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The Second Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association
Sponsored by the Department of Culture and Communication
New York University
June 15-16, 2001
SCHEDULE AS OF 5/14/01
updates & details at <http://www.media-ecology.org>
All sessions except Friday evening reception take place at:
Lipton Hall at the D'Agostino Residence
NYU Law School Campus in Greenwich Village
108 West Third Street (between Sullivan & MacDougal Streets)
New York, NY 10012
FRIDAY MORNING
8:30
Registration Opens
9:00 - 9:30
Introduction and Greetings
Janet Sternberg - New York University
Terence P. Moran - New York University
Lance Strate - Fordham University
9:30 - 10:45
Session 1 - Panel
Perspectives on Our Age
Moderator - [TBA]
The National Information Infrastructure
and the Shape of the Script in the Next Millenium
Edmond Chibeau - Eastern Connecticut State University
The Form of News: U.S. Political History and the Media Environment
Kevin G. Barnhurst - University of Illinois-Chicago
John C. Nerone - University of Illinois-Chicago
Beyond Linguistic Apocalypse:
The Political Theory of Marshall McLuhan
David P. Parisi - University of Albany
Cybercommunism and Cybersociety
Richard Barbrook - University of Westminster
11:00 - 12:15
Session 2 - Panel
Communication and Urban Forms: From Mumford to Wired Cities
Moderator - Thomas F. Gencarelli - Montclair State University
Cities without Lines: Demassification in the Age of Informatics
James C. Morrison - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Is the Wired City Really So SMART?
Gary Gumpert - Communication Landscapers
Susan Drucker - Hofstra University
Taking Private Matters to Public Space
Jack Barwind - Syracuse University
12:30 - 1:00
Featured Presentation
Moderator - [TBA]
Gender and Media: A Report on Revising the Curriculum
Camille Paglia - University of the Arts
1:00 - 2:30
Lunch
FRIDAY AFTERNOON/EVENING
2:30 - 3:45
Session 3 - Panel
Art and Technics
Moderator - Saul Ostrow -University of Connecticut
Internet Artwork, Artists and Computer Analysts:
Sharing the Creative Process
Jean-Paul Fourmentraux - Université Toulouse
Sense, Memory and Media
Scott Weiland - [TBA]
VISCOM: A Message and a Medium
Robert M. Hall - Flagler College
Cinema: The New Cathedral of HollyWorld
Read Mercer Schuchardt - New York University
4:00 - 5:15
Session 4 - Roundtable Discussion
The Future of News
Moderator - Edward Wachtel - Fordham University
Panelists
James W. Carey - Columbia University
Mark Dery - New York University
Hal Himmelstein - Brooklyn College
John Pavlik - Columbia University
Jay Rosen - New York University
Paul Thaler - Mercy College
5:30 - 6:00
President's Address
Moderator - Janet Sternberg - New York University
The Flight of MinErvA's Owl
Lance Strate - Fordham University
6:00 - 6:30
Presentation of MEA Awards
Mark Lipton - Vassar College
[TBA]
6:30 - 7:00
Keynote Address
Moderator - Lance Strate - Fordham University
Morphing McLuhan: Medium Theory for a New Millennium
Joshua Meyrowitz - University of New Hampshire
7:30 - 9:00
Reception
Kimball Hall, 246 Greene Street, first floor lounge
SATURDAY MORNING
8:30
Registration Opens
9:00 - 10:00
Business Meeting
All are welcome to attend
Moderator - Casey Man Kong Lum, William Paterson University
10:00 - 11:15
Session 5 - Panel
Demeaning of Meaning
Moderator - Neil Postman - New York University
>From Cry to Speech: The Paradigm Shift from Signalic
to Symbolic Functions of Signs in Human Evolution
Christine Nystrom - New York University
The Extended Mind and the Origin of Language
Robert K. Logan - University of Toronto
Some Unexplored Relationships Between Biology and Media Ecology:
Why We Crave the Visual in Technological Extensions
of Communication
Donna Flayhan - Goucher College
Re-Writing Literacy: How Contemporary Media Influence
Young Adult Interest in Reading And Writing
Lori Ramos - William Paterson University
11:30 - 12:45
Session 6 - Panel
In the Human Grain
Moderator - Salvatore J. Fallica - New York University
Renaissance Authors: A Media Ecology Perspective
David Linton - Marymount Manhattan College
A Printer's Devil in the Age of Telegraphy:
Samuel Clemens and the Nineteenth-Century Revolutions
in Media Technology
Richard Bucci - Mark Twain Project,
University of California at Berkeley
Using Anthropology to Rethink the Library
or The Library as a Consumer Marketplace
Neil Kleinman - University of Baltimore
Using Media Ecology to Rethink History
Stephanie B. Gibson - University of Baltimore
1:00 - 2:30
Lunch
SATURDAY AFTERNOON/EVENING
2:30 - 3:45
Session 7 - Panel
The Machine in the Garden
Moderator - [TBA]
Peoples of the Word, the Book, and the Laptop:
Communication Technologies and Religious Identity
Raymond R. Smith - Iona College
The Post-Materialist and the Real World
Hugh Curnutt - Georgetown University
Praxis and the Social/Technological Divide
Ken Yee Yip - State University of New York at Stony Brook
De/Constructing Linguistic Metaphysics: Nietzsche as Media Ecologist
Zhenbin Sun - Fairleigh Dickinson University
4:00 - 5:15
Session 8 - Panel
Understanding the Media
Moderator - Jerry Komia Domatob - Southampton College
When the Medium Becomes the Message:
"Reality" TV and What's Really Real
Tibor Baukal - Drew University
Drew Giorgi - Independent Scholar
The Inflation of Cheerfulness: Some Cultural Effects of Advertising
Christina Kotchemidova - New York University
Paradoxes of Electric Media
Raymond Gozzi, Jr. - Ithaca College
The Interactions of Contextual and Abstract Media:
A Foundation of Media and Mind Co-Evolution
Norman Steinhart - University of Toronto
5:30 - 6:45
Session 9 - Panel
Communication and Cyberspace
Moderator ? Carol Wilder, New School University
Coming Back on the Whirlwind: The Student Use of Student Beings
Ralph J. Beliveau - University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
Psychotherapy on the Web: Old Wine in New Bottles?
Stephen Biggs - York University
Gathering the Scattered in Cyber-Sacredspace:
The Internet, Spiritual Identity, and Religious Community
Cheryl Anne Casey - New York University
Medium Specificity in the Age of Media Convergence
Frederick Wasser - Central Connecticut State University
7:00 - 7:30
Featured Presentation
Moderator - [TBA]
Open Source Reality: Transcending Life in the Matrix
Douglas Rushkoff - New York University
7:30 - 8:00
Performance
Moderator - [TBA]
Media Ecology Unplugged
John McDaid - New York University
William Bly - Fordham University
8:00
Convention Adjourns
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Media Ecology Association
<http://www.media-ecology.org>
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