Conference Program
Program Grid
Thursday, March 1
| 5:30-6:45 | Communication and Society Annual Lecture: “Digital Depression: The Crisis of Digital Capitalism” | |
| 6:45 | Opening Conference Reception | |
Friday, March 2
Saturday, March 3
THURSDAY, MARCH 1
5:30pm
COMMUNICATION & SOCIETY ANNUAL LECTURE
“Digital Depression: The Crisis of Digital Capitalism”
Dan Schiller, Professor of Communication and of Library & Information Science, University of Illinois
Followed by OPENING CONFERENCE RECEPTION (around 6:45pm)
Featuring an Exhibition and Celebration of Neon Nevada by Sheila Swan and Peter Laufer
FRIDAY, MARCH 2
9-10:15am
PLENARY PANEL #1
Television Today
Room 142/144
Moderator: Al Stavitsky, University of Oregon, USA
- Phil Oppenheim, Senior VP, Programming and Scheduling, Turner Broadcasting
- Graeme Turner, University of Queensland, Australia
- Bryce Zabel, Stellar Productions/former President of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
10:30-11:45am
Panel #1: The Perfect Couple: Sports and Television
Room 142/144
Moderator: Jacob Dittmer, University of Oregon, USA
Michael Real, Royal Roads University, Canada
Theorizing the Sports-Television Dream Marriage: Why Sports Fit Television So Well
John Shrader, California State University, Long Beach, USA
Live Television Sports: Surviving and Thriving in the New Media Landscape
Bill Kunz, University of Washington, Tacoma
The Price is Wrong: Sports Networks in the 21st Century
Joe Becker, KGW Sports Anchor/Reporter
back to grid
Panel #2: Changing Television, Changing News
Room 150
Moderator: Peter Lauder, University of Oregon, USA
Joy Chavez Mapaye, University of Alaska, Kathleen M. Ryan, University of Colorado Boulder, Jenny Dean, University of Oregon, Noah Springer, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
Digital Flow: New Approaches to TV News Research in the Digital Age
Chantal Francoeur, l’Universite du Quebec à Montreal, Canada
Convergence Makes Television the Primary Data Collector in Radio-Web-TV Newsrooms
Carey L. Higgins and Gerald Sussman, Portland State University, USA
Impacts of Conglomeration and New Technology on the Local TV Newsroom
Joe Atkinson, University of Auckland, New Zealand
The Equivocal Politics of Fake News: Dialogue and The Daily Show
back to grid
11:45am-1pm LUNCH
on your own, see list of suggestions in registration material
1-2:15pm
Panel #3: Is it the Box or Is it Me? Audience/Content Interaction
Room 142/144
Moderator: Lauren Bratslavsky, University of Oregon, USA
Brian Gillespie, Darrin Taylor, Mark Mulder, Manja Zidansek, Washington State University, USA
The Interactive Role of Narrative Transportation and Program Familiarity in Television Programming Consumption
Caitlin Ring, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
Watching Your Way to Weight Loss: The Impact of The Biggest Loser Viewership on Perceived Self-Efficacy
Natasha Patterson, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Exploring Women’s Participation in Canadian Reality TV Competition Shows
Charlotte Howell, Georgia State University, USA
The Cultural Forum Writ Literal: Engagement with Religion in Online Telefantasy Forums
Filiz Aydogan Boschele, University of Marmara, Turkey
TurkeyTV’s Wedding Programs and the Changing Cultural Construction of Turkey
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Panel #4: Post-Network Television: To Regulate or Not to Regulate
Room 150
Moderator: Al Stavitsky, University of Oregon, USA
Caryn Murphy, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, USA
Showing a Little Skins: Content Regulation in the Post-Network Era
Jason Zenor, SUNY-Oswego, USA
The S**t has Hit the Fan: The State of FCC’s Indecency Policies in the New Media World Order
David C. Olson, Director, Office of Communication Technology, City of Portland: Mt. Hood Cable Regulatory Commission (MHCRC)
back to grid
2:30-3:45pm
Panel #5: TV Advertising: New Directions or the Same Old Game
Room 142/144
Moderator: Priscilla Peña Ovalle, University of Oregon, USA
Cynthia B. Meyers, College of Saint Vincent, USA
Changing Industry Views of Audience Toleration of Commercials: Hulu v. Netflix
Gennadiy Chernov, University of Regina, Canada, and David Koranda, University of Oregon, USA
Consumer Perception Of Advertising Content Within The Context Of Local Television News.
Allison Nettnin, Allegheny College, USA
Gleeking Out: New Directions in Television Branding
Harsha Gangadharbatla, University of Oregon, USA, Kelty Logan, University of Colorado, USA, and Laura Bright, Texas Christian University, USA
Just How Valuable is Television Advertising compared to Advertising on Social Media in the Minds of Consumers?
Darcey West Morris, Georgia State University, USA
Why “Addressable” Means You’re Too Accessible: The Future of Television Advertising
back to grid
Panel #6: Public Broadcasting: Inspiring Civic Engagement In the Vast Wasteland
Room 150
Moderator: Michael Hunstberger, Linfield College, USA
Ed Madison, University of Oregon
Tweens & Cable Access to Power: Inspiring Civic Engagement in Elementary-age Students Through TV Production
Hun Shik Kim, University of Colorado, Boulder
Can Publicly Funded Broadcast Media Save Failing Journalism?
Golam Rahman, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
Soul-searching of Public Service Broadcasting on Bangladesh Television
back to grid
4:00-5:15pm
Panel #7: Reaching the Market: Distribution in the Digital Age, Part 1
Room 142/144
Moderator: Dustin Morrow, Portland State University, USA
Hye Jin Lee, University of Iowa, USA, and Mark Andrejevic, University of Queensland, New Zealand
An Inconvenient Truth About App TV: Why “Anything, Anytime, Anywhere” Television Remains an Elusive Reality
Melanie E. S. Kohnen, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Everything New is Old Again: Normalizing the Production and Distribution of Web-Based Television
Matt Cohen, University of Iowa, USA
The Difficulty of Endorsing the “Television Anywhere, Anytime” Campaign: The Case of TimeWarner and the TWCableTV App
Michael E. Holmes, Ball State University, USA , Sheree Josephson, Weber State University, USA, and Jacqueline Martinsen, Ball State University, USA
Second Screen TV Applications: Boon or Boondoggle?
back to grid
Panel #8: Inside the Box: Explorations of Television Content
Room 150
Moderator: Toby Miller, University of California, Riverside, USA
Nichole Bogarosh, Washington State University, USA
Where are All the Baby Boomers on Network Television?
Katrina Flener, Temple University, USA
The Commodity Form and Ideology: Drug Discourses Across Varying Economic Models of Television
Melle Starsen, Upper Iowa University, USA
Cool to be Cruel: Mean Spiritedness of Modern Children’s TV Sitcoms
Paul Booth, DePaul University, USA
The Post-Network Social Network: Characters on Television in the 21st Century
back to grid
5:30-6:45pm
PLENARY PANEL #2
Legacies from the Past: The History of Television
Room 142/144
Moderator: Carol Stabile, University of Oregon, USA
- Michele Hilmes, University of Wisconsin, USA
- Horace Newcomb, University of Georgia, USA
- Eileen Meehan, Southern Illinois University, USA
SATURDAY, MARCH 3
9-10:15am
SPECIAL SESSION: Producing for Television: Changes and Challenges
Room 142/144
Moderator: Vince Porter, Executive Producer, Governor’s Office of Film and Television, Portland, Oregon
- Patric M. Verrone, writer, producer, and former President, Writers Guild-West
- David Cress, Producer, Portlandia
- Bill Oakley, writer, The Simpsons, Portlandia
- Nathaniel Applefield, National Representative, Pacific Northwest, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists
back to grid
10:30-11:45am
Panel #9: Retrieving Television’s Past
Room 142/144
Moderator: Michele Hilmes, University of Wisconsin, USA
Carol Stabile, University of Oregon, USA
Red Lassie: What American Television Might Have Been
Erin Copple Smith, Denison University, USA
Everything Old is New Again: Locating the Logics of Contemporary Product Placement in Broadcasting’s Past
Luke Stadel, Northwestern University, USA
HD/TV: Revising the Status of the Televisual Image, 1982-1993
Rod Stoneman, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Early Channel 4 – Utopian Television?
back to grid
Panel #10: Understanding Reality TV
Room 150
Moderator: Michael Aronson, University of Oregon, USA
Jack Bratich, Rutgers University, USA
From Tele-vision to Tele-programming: Reality, Affect, Subjectivation
Chelsea Bullock, University of Oregon, USA
Problematic Pleasures and Affective Moments: Theorizing Jersey Shore
Jon Crane, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA
The Alexis/Krystle Nexus: Gender Performance in Reality Television
Biswarup Sen, University of Oregon, USA
Reality Television and the Question of Global Form
back to grid
Panel #11: The Political Economy of Television
Room 350
Moderator: Ben Birkinbine, University of Oregon, USA
Micky Lee, Suffolk University, USA
Should Political Economists Study Financial Television?
Lee McGuigan, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Consumers: The Commodity Product of Interactive Television or Why Dallas Smythe’s Thesis is More Germane than Ever
Brice Nixon, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
Critical Methods of Theorizing Television: Its Content as Mass Deception, Its Audience as a Commodity
Andre Sirois, University of Oregon, USA
“Your Record Has Been Scratched”: A Political Economic Analysis of Intellectual Property and Authenticity in the Case of BET’s Master of the Mix
back to grid
11:45am-1pm LUNCH
Screenings and Sandwiches, Room 142/144
Early Channel 4: Extracts of Programmes and Films
with Rod Stoneman, former Deputy Commissioning Editor in the Independent Film and Video Department at Channel 4 Television in the UK.
Illustrations and examples of programmes and films from the first ten years of Channel 4 television will be drawn from the following areas:
- Ideas and intellectual debate
- Radical political documentary
- Access / community programme making
- Experimental television
- Personal / poetic short film-making
- Creative programming on the arts
Extracts may include:
Soft and Hard – Jean-Luc Godard; Blue – Derek Jarman; Zanboko – Gaston Kaboré; Hush a Bye Baby – Margo Harkin; Lecture in Louvain – Jacques Lacan; Mother Ireland – Derry Workshop; The Work The Say is Mine – Rosie Gibson
1:00-2:15pm
Panel #12: Television Outside of the Living Room: Memory, Nostalgia, and Museums
Room 150
Moderator: Brant Burkey, University of Oregon, USA
Mabel Rosenheck, Northwestern University, USA
What Television Is, What Television Does: TV (as) History in American National Museums
Dale Moler, Central Michigan University, USA
Discourses about Television in a Transnational and Comparative Context, 1945-1955
Kate Newbold, Northwestern University, USA
Exhibiting Nostalgia: Personality, Authenticity, and “Living” History in Local Museums of Television
back to grid
Panel #13: Issues in Globalization and Television
Room 350
Moderator: Teddy Workneh, University of Oregon, USA
Abdur Razzaque Khan, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong and University of Chittagong, Bangladesh
Power and Politics of Private Television Channels’ Ownership in Bangladesh: A Critical Inquiry
André Dorcé and Rodrigo Gomez, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Cuajimalpa, Mexico
Addressing Continuity and Change in Television Consumption and its Economic Model in Mexico
Harsha Gangadharbatla, University of Oregon, USA
Television, Globalization, and the Crisis of U.S. Cultural Imperialism
Michael Elavsky, Pennsylvania State University, USA
What American Idol Gives Back: The Commercial and Cultural Incentives to Global Charity
back to grid
Panel #14: Tinkering with the Tube: Television and Technologies
Room 142/144
Moderator: Ben Birkinbine, University of Oregon, USA
Raul Reis, Florida International University, USA
Digital Television in Latin America: Challenges and Possibilities
Deborah Tudor, Southern Illinois University, USA
Mobilizing Television
Doris Baltruschat, University of British Columbia, Canada
3D TV: Yet Another Dimension of Viewing Television?
W. Joe Watson, Baker University, USA
Availability of Culture: How Technological Advances are Changing Access to Global Television Networks
Bryce Peake, University of Oregon, USA
Lo-Fi Violations in the Age of Hi-Def streaming; or, a Cultural-Historical Semiotics of Pixilated videos
back to grid
2:30-3:45pm
Panel #15: What’s in an Audience? Audience Labor and Television
Room 142/144
Moderator: Horace Newcomb, University of Georgia, USA
Vanessa Mendes Moreira De Sa, University of Western Sydney , Australia
The Precarious, Voluntary, But Prestigious Work of Amateur Subtitlers for Downloaded TV Shows in Brazil
Michele Rosenthal and Rivka Ribak, University of Haifa, Israel
Unplugged: Media Ambivalence and Avoidance in Everyday Life
Jonas De Meulenaere, Wendy Van den Broeck, Bram Lievens, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
From Era of Plenty to Era of Overflow: “What Shall I Watch?”
Louisa Stein, Middlebury College, USA
Transmedia TV Aesthetics: Do it Yourself Meets Buy it Yourself
Wendy Van den Broeck and Jo Pierson, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Understanding Television Practices in a Digital Home Ecology
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Panel #16: Reaching the Market: Distribution in the Digital Age, Part 2
Room 150
Moderator: Erik Palmer, Portland State University, USA
Aymar Jean Christian, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Can Digital Distribution Recreate Television for Indie Showrunners?
Wesley Jones and Kim Sheehan, University of Oregon, USA
Netflix Became the New Blockbuster: Can it be HBO, Too?
Mary Erickson, University of Oregon, USA
It’s a Movie! It’s TV! It’s On Demand! Distribution Dynamics under Media Convergence
Alisa Perren and Karen Petruska, Georgia State University, USA
Big Hollywood, Small Screens: Corporate Struggles over Distribution in the Digital Realm
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Panel #17: It’s a TV World, After All?: Television, Communities, and Nations
Room 350
Moderator: Priya Kapoor, Portland State University, USA
Senyo Ofori-Parku, University of Oregon, USA
How is Television Constructing the Environmental Sanitation Problem in the South? An Analysis of TV3 Network’s News Coverage in Ghana
Srinivas Panthukala, English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad
The Changing Face of Television as a Means of Communication in India
Graeme Turner, University of Queensland, Australia
The Persistence of Television: Sharedness, Liveness, and the Construction of Communities
Geoff Lealand, University of Waikoto
History as a Gameshow: New Zealand ‘Celebrates’ Fifty Years of Television
back to grid
4-5:15pm
Panel #18: Premium TV: Texts and Audiences
Room 150
Moderator: Sue Brower, Portland State University, USA
Michael L. Wayne, University of Virginia, USA
HBO, Quality Television Audiences and Middle-Class Taste Cultures: An Exploratory Empirical Analysis
K. Brenna Wardell, University of Oregon, USA
“All Hail Rome”: Prestige versus Pulp in HBO’s Rome and Starz’s Spartacus: Blood and Sand
Maria San Filippo, Wellesley College, USA
Bisexuality and Beyond: Confronting Compulsory Monosexuality in Post-L Word Television Drama
back to grid
Panel #19: Divergent/Convergent TV Space: Television and Other Industries
Room 350
Moderator: Eileen Meehan, Southern Illinois University, USA
Randall Nichols, Bentley University, USA
War for Your Screen?: Television as Seen by the Video Game Industry
Max Dawson, Northwestern University, USA
“The Future of Television is Mobile”: Technological Convergence and Industrial Collision
Derek Jones, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA
How Cable Companies Survive in Today’s Television Landscape
Ahmet Atay, The College of Wooster, USA
The Internet Stole My Soap Opera: Explorations on the Future of Television Programming
back to grid
Panel #20: 21st Century Television
Room 142/144
Moderator: Julianne Newton, University of Oregon, USA
MJ Robinson, Marymount Manhattan College, USA
Channeled: Curatorial Culture and the Transformation of Television
Mark Stewart, University of Auckland, New Zealand
A Model for Understanding Shifts in the 21st Century Television Industry
Jher, University of Oregon, USA
Television Control and Curation: The Enaction of Social Media, Wikis, and Metamedia
August Grant, University of South Carolina, USA
Television 2030
back to grid
5:30-6:45pm
PLENARY #3
The Future of Television
Room 142/144
Moderator: Bryce Zabel, Stellar Productions / former president of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
- Toby Miller, University of California, Riverside
- Lloyd Segan, Piller/Segan/Shepherd (independent content production company)
- Tawny Schlieski, Research Scientist, Intel Labs Interaction & Experience Research Group
6:45pm CLOSING CONFERENCE RECEPTION
Atrium
Sponsored by the Cinema Studies Program, University of Oregon
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