THE THIRD ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE MEDIA ECOLOGY ASSOCIATION

June 21-23, 2002

Hosted by the Communication Arts Department

Marymount Manhattan College

221 East 71st Street (between 2nd & 3rd Avenues)

New York, NY 10021

media-ecology



--Would you like to spend a coffee break debating the ideas of
Marshall McLuhan, Walter Ong, Lewis Mumford, Susanne Langer, George
Herbert Mead, or Neil Postman?

--Is the history of technology and the culture of those who use it as
important to you as how it is currently being used?

--Are you interested in exploring orality and literacy; print media,
television, and the Internet; language, culture, and consciousness, or
media ecology education and policy; technology and information
systems?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, consider joining us for
the Third Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association at
Marymount Manhattan College.

Keynote speaker Elizabeth Eisenstein, author of The Printing Press as
an Agent of Change, will address "Old Media in the New Millennium."

Featured presentations by Leonard Shlain, author of The Alphabet
Versus the Goddess, and Donald Theall, author of The Virtual Marshall
McLuhan.

Special film screening: McLuhan's Wake, by Kevin McMahon.

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

The Convention is open to 2002 MEA members only.
2002 membership dues may be paid when registering.

Convention Fees:

US $40 On-Site Registration

US $30 On-Site Student Registration

Membership Dues:

US $40 2002 Membership (through December 31, 2002)

US $20 2002 Student Membership (through December 31, 2002)

(Membership dues include annual subscription to our print journal,
Explorations in Media Ecology (EME), and our newsletter, In Medias
Res, both published biannually.)

The Convention schedule, directions to the Marymount Manhattan campus,
and a list of hotels in Manhattan are available online at

Questions? Contact the Convention Coordinators:

David Linton & Laura Tropp

Communication Arts Department

Marymount Manhattan College

221 East 71st Street

New York, NY 10021-4597

, (alternate)
212-774-4868

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SCHEDULE AS OF 6/16/02


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FRIDAY JUNE 21

8:30 Main Lobby

Registration Opens

9:00-9:30 Theatre

Introduction and Greetings

David Linton - Marymount Manhattan College

Laura Tropp - Marymount Manhattan College

Lance Strate - Fordham University

9:30-10:45 Great Hall A

Session 1 - Panel

Interactivity

Moderator - Celeste Fisher - Marymount Manhattan College

There is No Easy Way to Say This: The Mao Era as Hypertext

Susan Jacobson - Marymount Manhattan College

The Internet Discourse on the Other: Remembering Japanese Colonialism
in Korea

Dong-Hoo Lee - Incheon University

The "Majestic" Game: Interactive Media Environments and a New Turing
Test

Damian Ward Hey - Hofstra University

Technology and Contingent Conditions in Community Formation on the
Internet

Joyce Y.M. Nip - Hong Kong Baptist University

11:00-12:15 Great Hall A

Session 2A - Panel

Technology

Moderator - Peter Fallon - Molloy College

Information Technology and the Technology of Information

Irene Berkowitz - Temple University

The Devil in Dr. Frankenstein: Pornographic Technological Evolution

Marc Leverette - New York University

Communication by Theft: The Acquisition and Use of Intimate Capital

John L. Locke - New York University

A.N.S.W.E.R.: Community Video and Media Ecology

Kevin Howley - Northeastern University

11:00-12:15 Great Hall B

Session 2B - Panel

Changing Media Environments After 9/11

Moderator - Raymond Gozzi, Jr. - Ithaca College

Reversals

Raymond Gozzi, Jr. - Ithaca College

9/11 and My Favorite Market in the UAE

James Piecowye - Zayed University

Media Portrayals of Muslims: Positive and Negative Aspects

Raymond Smith - Iona College

War and Peace in the Global Village: Updating McLuhan

James C. Morrison - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

12:30-1:00 Theatre

Featured Presentation

Moderator - Cliff Jernigan - Hofstra University

>From the Cyberglobal Chaosmos to the Gutenberg Galaxy:

The Prehistory of Cyberelectronic Language(s)

Donald Theall - Trent University

1:00-2:30 Great Hall A

Screening

The Tube - a film directed by Peter Entell

1:00-2:30 Lunch

2:30-3:45 Great Hall A

Session 3A - Roundtable Discussion

Education/Teaching

Moderator - Salvatore J. Fallica - New York University

Panelists

Peter Haratonik - New School University

Michael Lacy - Regis University

James Maroosis - Fordham University

Christine L. Nystrom - New York University

Alister Sanderson - Marymount Manhattan College

2:30-3:45 Great Hall B

Session 3B - Panel

Widening Perspectives on Media Ecology

Moderator - Lewis Freeman - Fordham University

Psychological and Philosophical Perspectives on Media Ecology

Steve Bailey - York University

Language: In Defense of a Method

Catherine W. Kaha - Hamilton College

Science and Technology Studies and Media Ecology:

How They Might Talk to Each Other More (and Why They Should)

Joshua Greenberg - Cornell University

The Hallucination of Electric Life: Symplexity and Hyperreality

Frank Zingrone - York University

4:00-5:15 Great Hall A

Session 4A - Panel

Media Reconfigurations

Moderator - Laura Tropp - Marymount Manhattan College

The Form of News: U.S. Political History and the Media Environment

Kevin G. Barnhurst - University of Illinois, Chicago

John Nerone - University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Interpersonal Networks and the Making of a Magazine:

The Case of the Early New Yorker

Judith Yaross Lee - Ohio University

Western Views of Chinese Language and Culture: Critical Interrogations

Zhenbin Sun - Fairleigh Dickinson University

The Disappearance of Advertising

Read Mercer Schuchardt - Marymount Manhattan College

4:00-5:15 Great Hall B

Session 4B - Panel

Psychology

Moderator - Barbara M. Kelly - Hofstra University

Explaining Evil? Popular Belief and the Psychology of Brainwashing and
Persuasion

Stephen Biggs - York University

It Don't Mean a Thing, If It Ain't Got Those Strings or

Bringing Media Ecology and Applied Behavioral Science Together

for Enhanced Awareness and Improved Action

Fred Cheyunski - Rohm and Haas Company

Psychotherapy on Videotape: A Chapter in the Epistemology of Media

Peter Costello - Adelphi University

The Impact of Mass Media on the Cognitive Processes of Individuals

William Phillips - New York University

5:30-7:30 Theatre

Preview Screening

Moderator - BethAnn Bark - Marymount Manhattan College

McLuhan's Wake - a film directed by Kevin McMahon

Kevin McMahon - Primitive Entertainment Inc.

7:30-8:30 Black & White Lobby

Reception

SATURDAY JUNE 22

8:30 Main Lobby

Registration Opens

9:00-10:15 Great Hall A

Session 5 - Panel

Neglected Intellectual Roots of Media Ecology

Moderator - Kathleen LeBesco - Marymount Manhattan College

Respondent - Jeanne Posner - Western Connecticut State University

Media Ecology and Symbolic Interactionism

Susan B. Barnes - Rochester Institute of Technology

Hidden Dimensions of Hall in Media Ecology

Donna Flayhan - Goucher College

The Yin and Yang of Media Ecology

Janet Sternberg - Fordham University

10:30-11:30 Theatre

Featured Presentation

Moderator - Christine L. Nystrom - New York University

Respondent - Robert K. Logan - University of Toronto

Alphabet Versus the Goddess

Leonard Shlain - University of California, San Francisco

11:45-1:00 Great Hall A

Session 6A - Panel

Orality

Moderator - Terence P. Moran - New York University

Respondent - Paul Lippert - East Stroudsburg University

The Princess and the Virgin: A Preliminary Report and Some Early
Thoughts on an Ethnography of a Religious Celebration in Northern
Chile

Robert Albrecht - New Jersey City University

Toward a Media Ecology of Music

Thomas F. Gencarelli - Montclair State University

Oral Memory: Ong and the Story of Jesus

Shane Hipps - Fuller Theological Seminary

11:45-1:00 Great Hall B

Session 6B - Panel

Television and Media Ecology

Moderator - Janice Kelly - Marymount Manhattan College

HBO: The Network as Auteur

Al Auster - Fordham University

TV Genius: Four Arguments for the Imagination of Television

David Lavery - Middle Tennessee State University

Sesame Street: How Season 33 Was Re-Designed to Meet the Educational
Needs of Today's Preschoolers

Rosemarie Truglio - Sesame Workshop

Celebrity Structures: Implications for Activism and Ideology

Sue Collins - New York University

1:00-2:30 Great Hall A

Screening

Moderator - Terri Dewhirst - Marymount Manhattan College

The Tube - a film directed by Peter Entell

1:00-2:30 Lunch

2:30-3:45 Theatre

Keynote Address

Moderator - James W. Carey - Columbia University

Old Media in the New Millennium

Elizabeth Eisenstein - University of Michigan

4:00-5:15 Great Hall A/B

Session 7 - Roundtable Discussion

Policy Matters

Moderator - Margot Hardenbergh - Fordham University

Panelists

Susan Drucker - Hofstra University

Neil Kleinman - University of the Arts

Parry Aftab - WiredPatrol

James W. Carey - Columbia University

Jerry Komia Domatob - Southampton College, Long Island University

5:30-6:00 Great Hall A/B

President's Address

Moderator - David Linton - Marymount Manhattan College

Media Ecology as a Scholarly Activity

Lance Strate - Fordham University

6:00-6:30 Great Hall A/B

Presentation of the MEA Awards

William Petkanas - Western Connecticut State University

Missy Alexander - Marist College

6:30-7:00 Great Hall A/B

Performance

Moderator - Douglas Rushkoff - New York University

Media Ecology Unplugged

William Bly - Fordham University

John McDaid - New York University

7:00-8:00 Black & White Lobby

Reception

SUNDAY JUNE 23

8:30 Main Lobby

Registration Opens

9:00-10:00 Great Hall A/B

Business Meeting

All are welcome to attend

Moderator - Casey Man Kong Lum - William Paterson University

10:00-11:15 Great Hall A/B

Session 8 - Roundtable Discussion

The Day the World Changed: 9/11 and its Aftermath

Moderator - Peter Euler - Nassau Community College, SUNY

Panelists

Katherine Fry - Brooklyn College, CUNY

Gary Gumpert - Communication Landscapers

Paul Levinson - Fordham University

Marcia Rock - New York University

Paul Thaler - Mercy College

11:30-1:00 Great Hall A/B

Session 9 - Panel

Information Systems

Moderator - Michael Grabowski - College of New Rochelle

Respondent - Brian Cogan - New York University

Communication and Mass Media in a Differentiated Society

Mikkel Eskjaer - University of Copenhagen/New York University

The Call Plan: Cell Phones and the Redistribution of Business

Jason M. Schmitt - Eastern Michigan University

Mining Margins for the Mainstream: Recycling Trash into Information

Joseph Slade - Ohio University

A European View of Redefining Global Communication

Pamela Peeters - Our-Planet.Org

1:00 Convention Adjourns

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