Thursday, March 3, 2011

Neglected Media, The 6th Annual Conference of the CGC, Ottawa Marriott Hotel, March 10 & 11, 2011


 
 

Conference Schedule • Thursday, March 10, 2011

8:00 – 9:00 am           Registration & Coffee/Tea (Cartier Salon III)

9:00 – 9:15 am            Opening Remarks (Cartier Salon I)

Panel Session 1 – 9:15 – 10:45 am

Cartier Salon 1
Cartier Salon 2
Panel 1: Aesthetics, Art, and Social Legitimacy

Chair: Miranda Brady, Carleton University, School of Journalism and Communication

Michael Lithgow, Carleton University, School of Journalism and Communication
The beauty of common sense: The aesthetic dimensions of truth in new popular cultures in Canada

Martin Leduc, Carleton University,
School of Journalism and Communication
Jonathan MacIntosh: A close reading of a neglected video remixer

Morgan Charles, McGill University, Art History and Communication
Trash on Wheels: Obscure films and obsolete media in the wake of the ‘Digital Revolution’
Panel 1: Technologization of Public Spaces

Chair: Eileen Saunders, Carleton University, School of Journalism and Communication

Rogerio Santos, Catholic University of Portugal, Communication Sciences
Media transport and society: Reflections on their transformations

Paulina Mickiewicz, McGill University, Communication Studies
Knowledge experiments: Technology and the library

Jaigris Hodson, York University, Communication and Culture
A ‘World that is no World’: Networked publics and neglected communities in an internet age

Break – 10:45 – 11:00 am

Panel Session 2 – 11:00 am – 12:30 pm

Panel 2: Neglected Theorists

Chair: Michael Lithgow, Carleton University, School of Journalism and Communication

Juraj Kittler, St. Lawrence University, Performance & Communication Arts & English
Michel Chevalier and communication in Jacksonian America: An attempt to rehabilitate a neglected scholarship

Michael Urbanski, Carleton University, School of Journalism and Communication
What is postmodern philosophy?

Michael MacDonald, University of Waterloo, Rhetoric and Communication Design
Battle of the icons: The media wars of Marshall McLuhan
Panel 2: Consumption and Self

Chair: Irina Mihalache, Carleton University, School of Journalism and Communication

Emily Raine, McGill University, Art History and Communication
Communication as service: On the politics of communicative labour

Chelsea Fahey, Carleton University, School of Journalism and Communication
Dispossession and the socially constructed self

Laura Carlson, Carleton University, School of Journalism and Communication
Mattel’s ‘I Can Be’ campaign and the consumption of identity: A feminist media and cultural studies approach to understanding Barbie’s construction of girlhood

Lunch – 12:30 – 1:30 pm (Cartier Salon III)

 
Panel Session 3 – 1:30 – 3:00 pm
Cartier Salon 1
Cartier Salon 2
Panel 3: Considering Marginality in Canadian Representations

Chair: Gina Grosenick, Carleton University, School of Journalism and Communication

Robin Noel, Carleton University, School of Journalism and Communication
The resistance vernaculars of rap music: Identity, memory, culture

Heather Laursen, Carleton University, School of Journalism and Communication
Developing identity: Representing the Third World in Canadian media discourses

Danielle Deveau, Simon Fraser University, School of Communication
The laughable nation: Ambivalence, identity, and the Canadian comedy industry”
Panel 3: Neglected Periods and Periodicals

Chair: Michèle Martin, Carleton University, School of Journalism and Communication

Claude Fortin, Carleton University, School of Journalism and Communication
Mapping the boundaries of imagined nationhood: Images published in daily newspapers at the outbreak of the Klondike Gold Rush”

Simon Vodrey, Carleton University, School of Journalism and Communication
The place of the electric telegraph in communications history

Todd Goehle, SUNY Binghamton, History
Constructing conservative discourse: The neglected importance of Bild-Zeitung’s layouts, 1965-1970

Refreshment Break – 3:00 – 3:15 pm (Cartier Salon III)

Panel Session 4 – 3:15 – 4:45 pm

Panel 4: Reclaiming the material object: The bag and its contents as neglected media

Chair: Chris Russill, Carleton University, School of Journalism and Communication

Emily Truman, Carleton University, School of Journalism and Communication
Cultural baggage of the everyday: The symbolism of the shopping bag as container

Irina D. Mihalache, Carleton University, School of Journalism and Communication
Collecting memories: The migrant, the bag and the museum

Katarina Kuruc, Carleton University, School of Journalism and Communication
What’s in a bag: Purses as producers and keepers of the self
Panel 4: Sense and Cents: Perception and Capital in Digital Media

Chair: Howard Fremeth, Carleton University, School of Journalism and Communication

Kamilla Pietryczyk, York University, Political Science
Preserving digital narratives in an age of present-mindedness: The view from Toronto

Cynthia Wang, University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication
Slices of time: An exploration of temporally-bound media in the age of the internet

Jamie Rennie, University of Toronto, Sociology and Equity Studies
Losing my touch: Media studies and the internet sensorium

Break – 4:45 – 5:00 pm

Paul Attallah Keynote Lecture – 5:00 – 6:30 pm (Cartier Salon I)

Dr. Lisa Nakamura
'Flag as Inappropriate': Neglected Discourses
of Racism, Sexism, and Homophobia in Online Games

Reception to follow (Cartier Salon III)
 
 
 








 



Conference Schedule • Friday, March 11, 2011
8:00 – 9:00 am            Registration & Coffee/Tea (Cartier Salon III)

Panel Session 1 – 9:00 – 10:30 am
Cartier Salon 1
Cartier Salon 2
Panel 1: Unwanted Communication

Chair: John Shiga, Carleton University, School of Journalism and Communication

Doug Tewksbury, Niagara University, Communication Studies
The cultural history of junk mail


Patrick Scott, Carleton University, School of Journalism and Communication
Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, baked beans, Spam, Spam, Spam, and Spam: Spam and the excesses of communication
Panel 1: Rethinking Radio and Public Broadcasting Across Media Landscapes

Chair: Sheryl Hamilton, Carleton University, School of Journalism and Communication

Gretchen King, McGill University, Communication Studies
Al-Balad Radio: Community media challenges in the Arab media landscape

Tina Kawooya, University of Ottawa, Communication
The FM radio a vital necessity in Uganda and a neglected media in Canada

Corinna Wenzel, University of Salzburg, Communication Research
Public value and the public interest – Should civil society be involved in public service broadcasting governance?

Break – 10:30 – 10:45 am

Panel Session 2 – 10:45 – 12:15

Panel 2: Overlooked Catalysts in Film

Chair: Melissa Aronczyk, Carleton University, School of Journalism and Communication

Vera Grbic, Carleton University, School of Journalism and Communication
Serbia’s cinema of normalization: Shifting cinematic style reflects a shifting cultural imaginary

Patrick Faubert, Wilfried Laurier University, English and Film Studies
Forgotten film, overlooked theory: Anthony Adverse and adaptation studies

James Hrivnak, Wilfred Laurier University, English and Film Studies
One episode at a time: The secret origins of the comic book film

Panel 2: Constructions and Consequences of Marketing and Public Relations Practices

Chair: Katarina Kuruc, Carleton University, School of Journalism and Communication

Lisa Rideout, University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies
Representations of the Third World in NGO advertising: Practicalities, colonial discourse and Western understandings of development

Sunnie Yang, University of Ottawa, Communication
Viral Marketing: A new branding strategy to influence consumers

Jonathan Slater, SUNY Plattsburgh, Center for Communication and Journalism
Deborah Silverman, Buffalo State College, Communication
Realist vs. constructivist sensemaking in crisis public relations: The case of BP

   
 
Lunch – 12:15 – 1:15 pm (The Summit Restaurant) 

Panel Session 3 – 1:15 – 2:45 pm

            Cartier Salon 1
Cartier Salon 2
Panel 3: The Disregarded Materiality of Communication

Chair: Andre Turcotte, Carleton University, School of Journalism and Communication

Sabine Lebel, York University, Communication and Culture
Technology and the environment: Rethinking the immateriality of cyberspace

Elyse Amend, Concordia University, Journalism
Bridging the gap: Using theoretical models of science communication as practical tools in the production of science journalism

Sandra Robinson, Queen’s University, Sociology
A little matter of networks
Panel 3: Blind Spots in Media and Communication Theory

Chair: Ross Eaman, Carleton University, School of Journalism and Communication

Atle Mikkola Kjosen, University of Western Ontario, Communication
Marxism’s neglect of media

Patricia Elliot, University of Regina, School of Journalism
From above we look like ants, from below ants move mountains: Relocating media theory

Reisa Klein, Carleton University, School of Journalism and Communication
From models to grounded practices of democracy and communication: The role of the mass media in popular sovereignty, equality and liberty?

Refreshment Break – 2:45 – 3:00 pm (Cartier Salon III)
Panel Session 4 – 3:00 – 4:50 pm
Panel 4: Tensions of Publics and Power

Chair: Tokunbo Ojo, Carleton University, School of Journalism and Communication

Zak Paget, Carleton University, School of Journalism and Communication
A ‘turning of the tables’: WikiLeaks as counter-surveillance

Jennifer Dumoulin, University of Ottawa, Communication
Representation, structure, and interaction: A study of the public sphere and Canada’s House of Commons

Karen Schindel, Carleton University, School of Journalism and Communication
Contrary propensities: Global citizenship and the architecture of Moshe Safdie

Ebere Ahanihu, Carleton University, School of Journalism and Communication
Panel 4: Neglected Voices in News and Culture

Chair: Ira Wagman, Carleton University, School of Journalism and Communication

Paula Bath, University of Ottawa, Communication
De-centering popular media and the representation of Deaf identity

Chelsea Temple Jones, York University, Critical Disability Studies
Pitching the backstory: Five accounts of journalism and disability from Toronto

Jennifer Boland, Carleton University, School of Journalism and Communication
Disciplining reproduction: Health news and representations of women

Gemma Richardson, University of Western Ontario, Communication
(Un)covering suicide in Canadian print media

Closing remarks – 5:00 – 5:15 (Cartier Salon I)

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