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Sunday, June 15, 2014
Preliminary Program Schedule
8:00-8:30 Registration/Sign-in
8:30-9:00 Opening Remarks
9:00-10:00 Keynote Address
Clayton Childress (University of Toronto – Scarborough)10:00-10:20 BREAK
10:20-11:30 Parallel Panel Sessions 1
1.1 Work and Careers in MediaModerator: Casey Brienza
- Digital Vocations: Race, Capital, and Creativity in the Information Economy, Alex Cho(University of Texas at Austin) and Vivian Shaw (University of Texas at Austin)
- Becoming Jaded: Aging Out and Short Careers in the Music Business, Alexandre Frenette(John Jay College, City University of New York)
- Creatives: Initial Findings on the Early Careers of Commercial Artists, Matthew Rowe(University of California, Los Angeles)
- “All Hits Have Fans”: Small Group Decision Making and the Rhetoric of Reality Television Program Development, Junhow Wei (University of Pennsylvania)
1.2 New Theoretical Interventions
Moderator: Matthias Revers
- Gated Publics, Walled Gardens and the Dilemma of Privacy in the Digital Age, Payal Arora (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
- Is the Toronto School of Communication Too Old for the New Media?, Thomas Crosbie (Yale University) and Jonathan Roberge (Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique)
- Social Movements and Popular Culture, Jesse Klein (Florida State University)
- Building a Theoretical Framework for a Cultural Sociology of Journalism, Stephen F. Ostertag(Tulane University)
1.3 Race and Media
Moderator:
- Controlling Race in the Public Sphere: A Collaboration between the State and Media Capitalists, Nathalie Byfield (St. John’s University)
- Does Popular Network and Cable Television Programming Simultaneously Promote Colorblindness and Stereotypes of Nonwhites and If So, How?, Aaryn L. Green (University of Cincinnati)
- A Darker Horizon: Demographic Narratives, Racial Affects, and the Cultural Politics of the Future, Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz (Brown University)
- Hollywood’s Colorblind Racism, Nancy Wang Yuen (Biola University)
1.4 Information Dissemination
Moderator:
- Beltway Bubble: How Political Ideas Fail to Spread From Elite News Organizations to Other Websites, Noah Grand (University of California, Los Angeles)
- Social Media and Disasters: The Case of Hurricane Sandy and Twitter, Dhiraj Murthy(Goldsmiths, University of London) and Alexander J. Gross
- Fear, Empathy, and Government Intervention: Television News Coverage of September 11th and the 2008 Financial Crisis, Timothy Recuber (Princeton University)
- Newspaper Images of Protest: The Pictorial Framing of Occupy Wall Street, Michael Neuber (Humboldt University of Berlin), Beth Gharrity Gardner (University of California, Irvine), and David A. Snow (University of California, Irvine
11:30-11:50 BREAK
11:50-1:00 Parallel Panel Sessions 2
2.1 Gender and MediaModerator: Andrea Press
- Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Looking for Women in Late-Night TV: An Examination of Comedy, Gender, and Late-Night Television, Katie Cooper (University of South Florida)
- Women, Work and Family through the Generations: Mothers and Daughters in Four National Contexts View Televisual Representations of Motherhood and Work, Andrea Press (University of Virginia)
- From Stigma to Acceptance: Contemporary Teen Mothers in Popular Media, Tara M. Stamm (Florida State University)
- Invisible Feminism: BDSM Relationships and Fifty Shades of Grey Portrayals, Francesca Tripodi (University of Virginia)
2.2 Legitimation and Self-Presentation
Moderator:
- Ambiguity and Dissent in Cinema Classification, Elif Alp (Columbia University)
- The Field of Online Journalism: A Study of the Legitimizing Practices of Online News Organizations, Gillian Brooks (University of Cambridge)
- Omnivorous Gentrification: Restaurant Reviewing and Neighborhood Change on the Downtown Eastside, Zachary Hyde (University of British Columbia)
- Lawyers’ Self-Presentation on Sina Weibo, Huangpei Zhangzhen (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunication)
2.3 Media Framing and Public Opinion
Moderator:
- Newspapers and Social Perception: The Representation of Organized Crime in Italy, Giovanni Frazzica (Università degli Studi di Palermo)
- What the Frack Are We Talking About? Defining the Fracking Debate in North Carolina, Kylah Hedding (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
- China’s “Airpocalypse” Gives Rise to the Civil Sphere, Haoyue Li (State University of New York at Albany)
- Exploring the Context between the Urban Local Print Media, the Pensioners, Pensions, Healthcare Benefits, and Detroit’s municipal bankruptcy, Robin West Smith (Wayne State University)
2.4 Interactive Workshop
- Promoting Scholarship with Social Media, Dustin Kidd (Temple University)
1:00-2:30 LUNCH
2:30-3:40 Parallel Panel Sessions 3
3.1 Social Media and OrganizationsModerator: Matthias Revers
- Social Media Marketing of Russian Regional Mass Media in Facebook, Aleksandr Berezkin(Far Eastern Federal University)
- Digital Media Diversity and Convergence: How the Nonprofit Organizations Choose and Use Digital Media, Boyang Fan (Peking University)
- Becoming Data: The Making of Web Analytics for Journalists, Caitlin Petre (New York University)
- Drones, Balloons, and Villages: An Analysis of Tech Corporations’ Digital Divide Initiatives, Cynthia Yee (New York University)
3.2 Media and Identity
Moderator: Andrea Press
- Just Move to Michigan and Start a Revolution: Girls, the Midwest and the Creative Class, Simone Becque (Southern Illinois University)
- The Modern Working Woman in African American Romance Films, Maryann Erigha(University of Pennsylvania)
- Who is Nicki Minaj? Queer-Making & Gender Reconstruction in Hip Hop, Sonita Moss(University of Pennsylvania)
- The Middle Class as a Media Creation: A Comparative Study of Japan and China in a High Economic Development Period, Abigail Qian Zhou (University of Tokyo)
3.3 Web-based Methods and Social Action
Moderator:
- Sampling Methods in Studying Same-Sex Couples: The Importance of Web-based Techniques, Eli Alston-Stepnitz (San Francisco State University), David M. Frost (Columbia University), and Allen J. LeBlanc (San Francisco State University)
- Connecting with College Students: A Literature Review on Internet Communication Methods Used to Inform College Students, Valarie Burke (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
- Use Your Skills to Solve This Challenge: Discourses of Micro-Action Online, Carla Ilten(University of Illinois at Chicago)
- From Solitude to Solidarity: The Internet as Face-to-Face Intermediary, Robyn Keith(University of Texas at Austin)
3:40-4:00 BREAK
4:00-5:10 Parallel Panel Sessions 4
4.1 Chinese Media SociologyModerator:
- Can Public Intellectuals Expand Social Influence by Using Social Media? The Case of China, Zhou Dai (University of Warwick)
- Research on Regional Differences of Public Opinions’ Communication Characteristics, Dan Ji (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) and Yungeng Xie (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
- Talking Politics in China: A Comparison of Microblog and Official Media’s Report on Public Policy, Muyang Li (State University of New York, Albany)
- Behind the Great Firewall of China, Fan Mai (University of Virginia)
4.2 Alternative/Niche Media
Moderator:
- Jamming Culture: Webs of Meaning and Cultural Entropy in Adbusters Magazine, Matthew J. Chandler (University of Notre Dame) and Terence E. McDonnell (University of Notre Dame)
- Title TBA (Museums as Media), Helge Johannes Marahrens (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukie)
- Shoot ‘em in the Head: On the Transgressive Potency of Modern Horror Cinema, Andrew Owen (Cabrini College)
- In Defense of Selfies: The Conspicuous Prosumption of Experience on Social Media, Apryl Williams (Texas A&M University)
4.3 Media and Social Movements
Moderator:
- Contemporary Forms of Democracy, Social Actors and New Media, Leocadia Díaz Romero (Murcia State University)
- When the Internet Becomes Marginal: Digital Divide and Political Participation in Putin’s Russia, Polina Kolozaridi (National Research University Higher School of Economics) andTatiana Tatarchevskiy
- Are They Not Worthy?: Social Movements, Legitimacy, and Partisan Media, Eulalie Jean Laschever (University of California, Irvine)
- From Street Protests to Facebook Campaigns: Political Cynicism, Efficacy and Online Political Engagement of Sri Lankan Students, Chamil Rathnayake (University of Hawai’i at Manoa)
5:10-5:30 BREAK
5:30-7:00 Plenary Discussion Panel
Media Sociology as VocationModerator: Casey Brienza
Laura Grindstaff (University of California, Davis) Paul Hirsch (Northwestern University) Ronald Jacobs (University at Albany, SUNY) Paul Lopes (Colgate University) Guobin Yang (University of Pennsylvania)