PROGRAM
All events at the University of Oregon in Portland, unless otherwise noted.
THURSDAY, APRIL 19
3:30p REGISTRATION OPENS
5:30-5:35p WELCOME Room 144
Regina Lawrence, George S. Turnbull Portland Center/Agora Journalism Center, University of Oregon
5:35-7:00p 2018 LEONARDO DA VINCI LECTURE Room 144
Introduction: Leslie Steeves, Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs/Media Studies, University of Oregon
• Robert T. Craig, Communication/Culture, Language, and Social Practice, University of Colorado Boulder
“Communicating A Pluralistic Universe”
7:00-8:30p MULTIVERSE EXHIBITION GRAND OPENING AND RECEPTION Light Court Commons
• Contributors: BioVisions at Harvard, Howard Hughes Medical Institution, NAOJ / 4D2U, NASA / JPL, The Vaccine Makers Project / Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and XVIVO Scientific Animation; Curator: Jeremy Swartz
FRIDAY, APRIL 20
8:00a REGISTRATION OPENS
9:15-9:30a PROVOST WELCOME Room 144
Jayanth Banavar, Provost and Senior Vice President/Professor, Physics Department, University of Oregon
9:30-10:30a PLENARY #1: Science, Narrative, and Posthumanism Room 144
Introduction: Janet Wasko, Philip H. Knight Chair in Communication Research/Media Studies, University of Oregon
• Bruce Clarke, Literature & Science, Texas Tech Univ./European Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, Switzerland
“The New Earth and Its Universe”
10:45a-12:00p PANELS
Ecologies Room 144
Chair: Mark Blaine, Interim Director, Media Center for Science & Technology, UO
Brook Muller, Portland Architecture Program/Certificate Program in Ecological Design, University of Oregon
“Architecture as Universe: Symbolic or Prosthetic?”
Jared Macary and Julianne Newton, Media Studies and Journalism, UO
“Intentional Communities of Ecological Practice as Utopian Universes of Human Agency”
Derek Moscato, Department of Journalism, Western Washington University
“The Wildlife Cosmos Versus Predator Dystopia in Ecological Discourse: Restoring the Grizzly Bear’s Reputation Alongside Habitat in the North Cascades”
Donnalyn Pompper, Endowed Chair in Public Relations, University of Oregon
“Remember ‘Ecology’ and ‘Environmental Justice’?: Rescuing the Universe One Community at a Time then and Now”
Systems Room 150
Chair: Thomas H. Bivins, John L. Hulteng Chair in Media Ethics & Responsibility / Media Studies, University of Oregon
Michael T. Smith, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts, Purdue Univ.
“De Certeau’s The Practice of Everyday Life, the Concept of “Ordinary Language,” and Systems Theory”
Coleman Jackson Gariety, Reed College, Portland
“Heidegger in the Night Kitchen: An Ontological Investigation into the Worlds of Maurice Sendak”
Rachel Lara van der Merwe, Media Studies, College of Media, Communication and Information, Univ. of Colorado Boulder
“Whose Universe Is It Anyway?: The Imperialistic Rhetoric of Space Exploration & Planetary Colonization”
Politics Room 152
Chair: Kyu Ho Youm, Marshall First Amendment Chair/Media Studies/Law, UO
Antonio López, Communications and Media Studies, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy
“Cosmology of the Global Brain: What Future Will Our Networks Dream?”
Peter Laufer, Journalism/UNESCO Crossings Institute for Intercultural Dialogue and Conflict-Sensitive Reporting, University of Oregon
“Keep Calm and Slow Down aka Dreaming in Turtle: Why Slow News also Beats the Rabbit”
Kevin Fashimi, Media Studies, University of Colorado
“What is a Universal Politics? Marx’s Way of Life and Some Thoughts on Foundations for a Universal Political Orientation”
Carl Bybee, Media Studies/Folklore, University of Oregon
“Good Journalism and the Future of Democracy”
Virtual Embodiment Turnbull Classroom 346, Floor 3R
Facilitator: Donna Davis, Strategic Communication, University of Oregon in Portland
Donna Davis, Strategic Communication, University of Oregon in Portland
Bernard Drax, Award-winning Producer, Draxtor Despres, Germany
“Our Digital Selves” (NSF Project and Documentary in Second Life
Africa Shirley Papé Forum Room 350, Floor 3R
Chair: Rachel Quick, Media Studies, University of Oregon
Layire Diop, Media Studies, University of Oregon
“Senegalese Journalists’ Perception of Economic Pressures on News Content”
Endalk Chala, Media Studies, University of Oregon
“Authoritarian Regimes and Doubled-Edge Security Risks of Journalists in the Digital Age”
Eric K. Adae, Media Studies, University of Oregon
“Internal Communication and Organizational Change: A Study of Cal Bank Ghana Limited”
12:15-1:30p LUNCH & PLENARY #2: Mediaverse Room 144
Introduction: Michael Aronson, English & Cinema Studies, University of Oregon
• Eileen Meehan, Mass Communication and Media Arts, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
“Cosmos: A Galaxy Quest”
• Sheldon Renan, Founding Director, Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley
“How Avant-Garde Cinema Escaped the Screen to the Post-Network Age: An Eyewitness Account”
1:45-3:00p PANELS
Emerging Room 144
Chair: Sangita Gopal, English/Cinema Studies, Comparative Literature, UO
Jonathan Pace, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
“The Universe of Things on the Internet”
Scott Kushner, Assistant Professor, Communication Studies, University of Rhode Island
“The Ticketed Universe: Regulating Access to Culture”
Vince Meserko, Communication Studies Department, College of Liberal Arts, California Polytechnic State University
“Is This the Love Crowd? 1960s Counterculture, Otis Redding, and Racial Acceptance at Monterey Pop”
Meredith L. Morgoch, Media Studies, University of Oregon
“A Total Eclipse of the Heartland: An Analysis of Print News Risk Communication Prior to the 2017 Solar Eclipse”
Making Room 150
Chair: Robert T. Craig, Culture, Language, and Social Practice, University of Colorado Boulder
Dean Walton, Lorry I. Lokey Science & Technology Outreach Librarian, Price Science Library/Biology, UO
“Making it, in the Universe”
Andrew Calabrese, Media Studies, College of Media, Communication & Information, University of Colorado, Boulder
“Food and the Class Politics of Pleasure”
Douglas Blandy, Director, Folklore/School of Planning, Public Policy and Management, University of Oregon
“The Hand-made Books of Dennis Bye: Visionary Art and the Experience of Universe”
James Campbell, International Marketing Manager, Intellect Books
“Mini-Publishing Workshop”
Disney Room 152
Chair: Zak Roman, Media Studies, University of Oregon
Téwodros Workneh, Global Communication/Communication Studies, Kent State University, Ohio
“Disney’s Footprints in Africa: Reflections of the Unaccounted Fan”
Kirk Peterson, Folklore Program/Department of English, University of Oregon
“Once Upon A Time in the Disneyverse: A Case Study in Folk Narrative Commodification and the Construction of an Imaginary Cosmopolitanism”
Sean Griffin, Division of Film and Media Arts, Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University
“Brozens: Straight Men and Disney’s Frozen”
Brent Cowley, Media Studies, University of Oregon
“Franchising the Disneyverse: The Canonization of Disney Animation”
Prosumption Turnbull Classroom 346, Floor 3R
Chair: Donnalyn Pompper, Endowed Chair in Public Relations, UO
Gabriela da Silva Zago, Visiting Researcher, School of Journalism and Communication, University of Oregon in Portland
“News Recirculation on Twitter: Identifying Journalism Boundaries”
Phil Oppenheim, Former Senior Vice President of Programming & Scheduling, TNT and TBS
“When Universes Collide: Life in the Incredible Shrinking/Growing Media Industry”
Christopher St. Louis, Media Studies, University of Oregon
“‘Junkyard Computing’ and Alternative Life Cycles of Computing Technologies through Electronic Recycling Programs”
Effects Shirley Papé Forum Room 350, Floor 3R
Chair: Christopher Chávez, Media Studies/Advertising, University of Oregon
Heather Shoenberger, Advertising, University of Oregon, and Sri Kalyanaraman, Journalism, Online Learning Institute/Media Effects and Technology Lab, University of Florida
“Exploring Authenticity: A Concept Explication”
Sumita Louis, Media Studies, University of Oregon
“Brand and Co-Creative Value: A Case Study of Lurkers on a Global Sports Brand Facebook Community”
Neliza Cayaban Casela, Adamson University/Center for Intercultural Philosophy, Manila, Philippines
“Affective and Interactive Responses of the 21st Century Learners to Nonlinear Digital Narratives
3:15-4:45p PLENARY #3: Digital Identity and Embodied Practice Room 144
Introduction: Janet Wasko, Communication Research/Media Studies, University of Oregon
• Kaliya Young aka Identity Woman, Identity Management and Security, University of Texas at Austin
“Identiverse: The Evolution of Digital Identity and Openness”
• Mark Unno, East Asian Religions, Religious Studies and Philosophy, University of Oregon
“Boundless Compassion: Buddhism and the Webs of Interdependence”
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EXPERIENCE
UNIVERSE • COMPLEXITY • COHERENCE
5:00-7:00p Communication Universes
* Dining on-your-own with colleagues at a variety of recommended local restaurants.
7:15p Complexity and Coherence
* Please sign-up for one of three experiences at the conference registration table. VERY LIMITED availability — first-come, first-served.
• AND SO WE WALKED
Portland Center Stage at The Armory / Ellyn Bye Studio • 128 NW Eleventh Avenue, Portland, 97209
• MAN/WOMAN
Newmark Theatre / Antoinette Hatfield Hall • 1111 SW Broadway, Portland, 97205
• AFRICAN STRINGS PROJECT
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall • 1037 SW Broadway Avenue, Portland, 97205
SATURDAY, APRIL 21
8:30am REGISTRATION OPENS
9:00-10:15a PLENARY #4: Media Archaeology | Political Economy Room 144
Chair: Antonio López, Communications and Media Studies, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy
• Julianne H. Newton, Visual Communication/Media Studies/Journalism, University of Oregon
“On Fractals, Cyborgs and Multiple Universes: Explorations in the Ecologies of Media”
• Téwodros Workneh, Global Communication/Communication Studies, Kent State University, Ohio
“Mapping the African Telecommunications Universe: Actors, Networks, and Policies”
10:30-11:45a PANELS
Social Worlds/Universe Room 144
Chair: Bruce Clarke, Literature and Science, Texas Tech University / ESLSA
Florence Le Cam, Journalisme/Information and Communication Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)
“Social Worlds, Visual Sociology and Journalism”
Fabio Pereira, Communication/Journalism, University of Brasilia (Brazil)
“Social Worlds and Changes on Journalism Identity”
Jonathan Gray, Critical Infrastructure Studies, Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London (UK)
“Three Aspects of Data Worlds”
Seth Lewis, Emerging Media/Journalism/Media Studies, University of Oregon
“Ambient, Data, and Algorithmic Worlds of Journalism”
Publics Room 150
Chair: Bish Sen, Media Studies/New Media and Culture, University of Oregon
Philip Gordon, Utah Valley University
“The Other Is Us, and We Are Not Ourselves”
Patrick Jones, Media Studies, University of Oregon
“Election as Media Technologies: Unbounding the Democratic Universe”
Gretchen Soderland, Media Studies, University of Oregon
“The Routinization of Scandal in Political Life”
Bish Sen, Media Studies/New Media and Culture, University of Oregon
“Anti-Publics and the Reality Television Universe”
New Materialisms Wayne Morse Suite Room 302, Floor 3
Chair: Rebecca Force, Multimedia Journalism, University of Oregon
Aleah Kiley, Film and Media Studies Department, University of California at Santa Barbara
“Escaping the Digital Universe: Escape Rooms and Real Life Simulations”
Kate Mondloch, Professor/Department Head, History of Art and Architecture, UO
“The Beginning of the End”
Marcienne Martin, Observatoire Réunionnais des Arts, des Civilisations et des Littératures dans leur Environnement, Université de La Réunion, France
“Of the Decryption of the Reticular Substrate of the Universe and of the Intuitive Imaginary”
News Shirley Papé Forum Room 350, Floor 3R
Chair: Brent Walth, Journalism, University of Oregon
Nicole Strobel, Film & Media Studies Dept., Univ. of California, Santa Barbara
“‘The World Through Our Eyes’: Vice Media and the Politics of the Stare”
Ed Madison and Ben DeJarnette, Journalism, University of Oregon
“Journalism in a World of Alternative Facts and Fluid ‘Truths’”
Roger Desmond, School of Communication, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Hartford
“The Universe of Fake News”
Theodore Harrison III, Media Studies, University of Oregon
“Fake News and the Crisis of Journalism
12:00-1:15p LUNCH & PLENARY #5: Native Pragmatism Room 144
Introduction: Tana Atchley (Modoc/Paiute/Karuk), Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board
• Scott L. Pratt, Philosophy/Native American Studies/Environmental Studies/Education Studies, Univ. of Oregon
“Indigenous Ontologies and the Moral Universe”
1:30-2:45p PANELS
Comics & Games Room 144
Chair: Eileen Meehan, Mass Communication & Media Arts, Southern Illinois Univ.
Maxwell Foxman, Communications, Columbia Journalism School, Columbia Univ.
“A Universe of Play: Gamification and How it Punctuates Everyday Life”
Thomas H. Bivins, Media Ethics & Responsibility/Media Studies, UO
“Cheap Thrills: The Misogynistic, Racist, Violent Universe of ‘60s Underground Comix”
Srikanth Mallavarapu, English and Communication Studies, Roanoke College
“On Worldbuilding, Strangeness, and the Shock of Recognition in Science Fiction”
Zak Roman, Media Studies, University of Oregon
“Crossover Issues: The Widening Influence of Comic Book Continuity, Lore, and Form in Film and Television”
Solutions Journalism Room 150
Chair: Nicole Dahmen, Journalism, University of Oregon
Nicole Dahmen, Journalism, University of Oregon
“Solutions Journalism: A Rigorous and Fact-Driven Approach to Reporting Credible Solutions to Societal Problems”
John Schrag, Executive Editor, Pamplin Media Group (incl. Portland Tribune)
“Solutions Journalism in Practice”
Brent Walth, Journalism, University of Oregon
“Bringing Together Investigative and Solutions Reporting”
Documentary Wayne Morse Suite Room 302, Floor 3
Chair: Sung Park, Co-Director, Journalism Master’s Program, Univ. of Oregon
Daniel Miller, Media Studies/Journalism/Oregon Documentary Project, UO
“A Brief History of Documentary Universe: From Actuality to Life, Art, Evidence, and Impact”
Gabriela Martinez, Media Studies/Journalism and Director, Center for Latino/a & Latin American Studies, UO
“Documentary as Evidence, Impact and Intersectionality Between Indigenous Peoples and the World: The Case of Guatemala and Keep Your Eyes on Guatemala”
Ed Madison, Journalism/Media Partnership Coordinator, University of Oregon
“Documentary as a Universal Cross-Cultural and Transnational Education, Art, & Experience: The Cuban, Sir-Lanka, and Vietnam Multi-Media Student Projects”
Suzanne Clark, English/Comparative Literature, University of Oregon
“The Other Half of the Universe” on the Women of Documentary (Behind and In Front of the Camera) Today”
Series/Memes Room 152
Chair: Douglas Blandy, Director, Folklore/School of Planning, Public Policy and Management, Univ. of Oregon
Mary P. Erickson, Communication Studies, Western Washington University
“Control and the Web Series Universe”
Brandon Harris, Media Studies, University of Oregon
“The Super Bowl, Goose Island, and Dilly Dilly: A Political Economic Analysis of Super Bowl Commercials”
Ben Pettis, Media Studies, University of Oregon
“Pepe the Frog: A Case Study of the Internet Meme”
Advertising Shirley Papé Forum Room 350, Floor 3R
Chair: Troy Elias, Advertising, University of Oregon
Christopher Chavez and Ricardo Valencia, Advertising and Media Studies, UO
“Branding the Revolution: Havana Club and Fight for Cuban Authenticity”
Deepti Khedekar, Senior Market Research Project Manager, ClearVoice Research®, Colorado
“The Universe of App-Based Make-Up and Dress-Up Games”
Majd Mariam, Media Studies, University of Oregon
“The Virtual Universe of Environmentally Friendly Labels”
Harsha Gangadharbatla, Advertising, Public Relations & Media Design, University of Colorado Boulder
“Imagining a Universe Without Advertising”
3:00-4:00p CLOSING PLENARY #6: Vortexes Room 144
Introduction: Jeremy Swartz, Communication/Media Studies, University of Oregon
• Klaus Krippendorff, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
“Escaping Entrapments in Uni-verses”
4:00-4:45p EMERGING CONVERSATION Room 144
Plenary participants may include Krippendorff with Craig, Meehan, Pratt, Newton, Clarke, and Unno
5:00-8:00p CLOSING RECEPTION Light Court Commons