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Third Annual Media Ecology Convention, New York City, June 21-23, 2002
June 17, 2002 - 11:54am -- jim
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
----------------------
SCHEDULE AS OF 6/16/02
----------------------
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
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
212-774-4868
----------------------
SCHEDULE AS OF 6/16/02
----------------------
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