Conference Location

We are looking forward to the start of the conference, 

with Dr.Gabriella Coleman's keynote Thursday evening,
at the National Arts Centre.

Hope to see you there!

NAC Directions 

Thursday March 1^st

Paul Attallah Keynote Lecture – 7:00-8:30 pm (Le Salon) Dr. Gabriella Coleman Profiling Anonymous Agents of activism and naughty mischief, Anonymous has been a constant fixture in the news due to their blizzard of interventions from taking down half a dozen websites in a single day to protest web censorship to assisting the historic revolutions in the Middle East and Africa. Drawing on three years of ethnographic research, this talk will examine Anonymous's profile in the media and the speaker's role in mediating between an anonymous collective and a media enterprise unable, so far, to fully unveil the mystery behind the mask. Reception to follow

Friday March 2^nd

8:00 – 8:45 am            Registration & Breakfast (Le Salon)

8:45 – 9:00 am            Opening Remarks (Le Salon)

Panel Session 1 – 9:00 – 10:00 am

Le Salon

Topic: Profiles of The Other Chair: Dr. Dwayne Winseck, Carleton University, School of Journalism and Communication Claire Morrison - Profiling the “Other” Nuclear Threat: Modern Imperialism, Iran, and the “Axis of Evil” Loveleen Kang - Not in my Canada: The recurring image of the 'Sikh Extremist' in Canada

Break – 10:00 – 10:05 am

Panel Session 2 – 10:05 – 11:05

Le Salon

The Fountain Room

Topic: Profiling Sexual Identity Chair: Dr. Mary Francoli, Carleton University, School of Journalism and Communication Jaigris Hodson - What, a Drag? Avatar ‘gender swapping’ in World of Warcraft Kelly DeBono - Surveilling the Gay Body through MTV’s 1 girl 5 gays Katrin Tiidenberg- NSFW micro-bloggers and reflexive self-narratives

Topic: Profiling Popular Culture Chair: Dr. Ira Wagman, Carleton University, School of Journalism and Communication Yaqi Zhu – Celebrity Culture: From Celebrity to the Public Shuang Ma – Function  of Social Media: How Social Media Mobilize Political Activism Samantha van Hooydonk – Good, Clean, Nuclear-Family Fun: An Analysis of Ivory Soap Advertisements within a Cultural Studies Framework Lianrui Jia – Exporting Technologies of Control: the contemporary role of network technology companies and intermediaries David Logie – Hyperlinks: Social Media and Online News Dissemination

Break – 11:05-11:15

Panel Session 3 – 11:15 – 12:15

Le Salon

The Fountain Room

Topic: Generating Profiles Chair: Dr. Chris Russill, Carleton University, School of Journalism and Communication Denise Bedford- Profiling Self as a Source of Intellectual Capital Andreas Weich- "Plus Your World”: Profiling the Self between Analytics and Self-expression Adeel Khamisa – Algorithims as Aestheticizing Agents: Embedding Meaning in Cultural Objects through Circulation

Topic: Profiling Gender Chair: Dr. Eileen Saunders, Carleton University, School of Journalism and Communication Laura Carlson - Feminist filmmaking: An analysis of American suffrage films screened in Canada during the 1910s Rebecca Elliott - Gendered Profiles: Mediated Prescriptions of Ideal Female Identities in Advertising Danielle Deveau - Navigating the Boys Club: Female stand-up comedians and the negotiation of gendered spaces in the Canadian comedy industry

Lunch – 12:15 – 1:15

Panel Session 4 – 1:15 – 2:15

Le Salon	The Fountain Room
Topic: Surveillance and Metrics Chair: Derek Noon, Carleton University, School of Journalism and Communication Jennifer Whitson - You've Been Played: The Gamification of Governance Marco Giardina- Social Search: Leveraging Digital Profiles? Dara Byrne- Digilante Culture: The Rhetoric of Justice and Punishment Online	Topic: The Aesthetic in Profile Chair: Dr. Miranda Brady, Carleton University, School of Journalism and Communication Ghadah Alrasheed- Beauty Katarina Kuruc- Fashioning the Self – Identity Construction Through Fashion in Communist Czechoslovakia Krista Hatfield – Voluntary Simplicity: Profiling the Lifestyle Activist

Refreshment Break – 2:15 – 2:30

Panel Session 5 – 2:30 – 4:00

The Fountain Room

Topic: Profiles for Politics and Protest Chair: Dr. Ira Wagman, Carleton University, School of Journalism and Communication Vladlena Mitskaniouk - UStream: The Potential of Citizen Reporting to Challenge Activist and Hacktivist Relations and Profiles Andrew Patrick - Profiling the BC Carbon Tax: Different Discursive Angles on Climate Action Derek Antoine - Just watch me: A utilitarian use of Facebook profiles in Canadian political marketing

7th Annual CGC Conference Call For Papers

The Communication Graduate Caucus (CGC), in conjunction with the Paul Attallah lecture series, is pleased to announce its 7^th Annual Conference: Profiles

Conference Date/Location:                  March 1-2, 2012 - Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Affiliation:                                             Carleton University, School of Journalism and Communication

Paul Attallah Keynote Lecture: Gabriella Coleman, Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, NYU Steinhardt and 2012 Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy

Many media outlets, from Entertainment Tonight to Gawker and Perez Hilton spend a lot of time profiling the day-to-day life of celebrities. Players of online gaming create profiles which help them navigate their way through a given space. Setting up a profile —willingly or unwillingly— is fundamental to various online activities, from social networking to tracking Google searches. Developments in security and surveillance technologies, such as biometrics, create ideal body types and act as a way for determining whether one is or is not a security risk. Media coverage of recent events like the "Occupy" movement produce a new profile of protesters. The profile in photography represents an early example of a "media format" and draws attention to the ways profiling refers to various acts of representation and the kinds of political, aesthetic, and cultural dynamics that go into the creating, maintaining and disseminating of a profile in mediated environments. Historical profiles create a past we can interact with, demographic profiles conceptualize our current identity, while genetic and behavioural profiles try to predict our future. This conference examines these different meanings of profile and their intersections.

Among other related topics, we seek papers that consider topics such as:
The politics of profiling in journalism
Visualizing profiles
Profiling the body: biometrics and biopolitics
Profiling the self: identity creation and performance
Profiling and social theory
Marginalized Profiles
Following and grouping profiles
Design and defaults of digital profiles
Profiles of play

We seek proposals for individual paper presentations as well as pre-formed panels that interpret and explore the theme of Profiles. Submissions from faculty and graduate students and from those who study in departments outside of communication are welcomed and encouraged. Please submit an abstract of up to 200 words (preferably in Word format) outlining your proposed paper topic along with your name, affiliation, contact information (e-mail address), and audio/visual needs.  

Abstract deadline: Friday, Feb 3, 2012
 

Please e-mail submissions (or questions) to: cgc.conference@gmail.com

To register to attend please send an e-mail with your full name, contact info and affiliation to : cgc.conference@gmail.com

GSA Elections 2011 Update

GSA Elections 2011

March 22^nd and 23^rd

It’s time for the 2011 Graduate Students’ Association (GSA) election, so please make the effort to check out the GSA website (http://www.gsacarleton.ca/) for information on the positions and candidates and be sure to drop by one of the four polling stations to cast your ballot.

It is extremely important to vote this year since, on each ballot, voters will have the opportunity to confidentially let their voices be heard on an extremely worthy referendum question involving your own student fees.

As authorized by GSA Council, graduate students will be asked to answer the following referendum question with a yes or no answer:

Do you support a levy of $1 per semester for full-time students, pro-rated for part-time students and indexed to the Consumer Price Index (CPI), to support the creation and operation of a Carleton University Sexual Assault Support Centre on the Carleton University campus?

The four polling stations can be found at:

• 2nd floor Loeb (by the tunnels)
• Library tunnel
• Outside Mike's Place (2nd floor UC)
• Atrium/Galleria (4th floor UC)

The polls are open between 10am and 8pm this Tuesday (March 22^nd) and 10am and 6pm this Wednesday (March 23^rd).

Thanks from the CGC Executive Committee

The CGC Executive Committee would like to thank our conference co-chairs, Katie Kennedy and Derek Noon, for their months of hard work and meticulous planning which not only made the sixth annual CGC Conference and Paul Attallah Lecture a reality but also a tremendous success. Without their leadership, knowledge, patience and organizational skills, it would have been impossible to have hosted last week’s conference with its many presenters from numerous universities who discussed a diverse range of subjects on the worthy topic of neglected media. We would also like to thank Emily Truman and Irina D. Mihalache for their important input and generous support. Our greatest thanks.

Sincerely,

The entire 2010- 2011 CGC Executive Committee

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)