Schedule
Advanced registration is required for all events.
Conference events are located in the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary & International Studies . View nearby parking options for the John Hope Franklin Center on the Duke University campus map. Apple iCal users may subscribe to the Thinking Through New Media schedule by clicking webcal://ical.mac.com/caseyalt/TTNM.ics.
Tuesday, June 6, 2006
- 8:00-10:00 PM
- Participant Reception
- Chamber A, Millennium Hotel
Wednesday, June 7, 2006
- 9:30 - 9:45
- Coffee & Pastries
- Franklin Center 240
- 9:45 - 10:00
- Welcome
- Franklin Center 240
Casey Alt, Administrative Director, Information Science + Information Studies, Duke University - Pamela Gutlon, Director of Operations, John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary & International Studies, Duke University
- 10:00 - 11:00
- Introduction to the Humanities, Arts, Sciences, & Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC)
- Franklin Center 240
- Cathy Davidson, Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies and Ruth F. DeVarney Professor of English, Duke University
- 11:00 - 11:30
- Introduction to the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI)
- Franklin Center 240
- Stephenie McLean, Director of Education and Outreach, Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI)
- Michael Newton, Humanities Liaison, Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI)
- 11:30 - 12:30
- Lunch
- Franklin Center 230 & 240
- 12:30 - 2:00
- Collaborative Creation
- Franklin Center 230
- This panel will consist of four 20-minute papers followed by a 10-minute discussion period.
- Moderator: Deborah Swain, PhD, School of Library & Information Sciences, North Carolina Central University
- • Jeff Crouse, "Switchboard: A Real-time Art Toolkit" [abstract]
- • Yongwook Jeong, "The Cube Game: An Online Exercise for Multidisciplinary Collaborative Design" [abstract]
- • Molly Moran, "Developing a Digital Poem" [abstract]
- • Bradford Wilson, "Experiences in Building a 3D Virtual Museum of Native American Baskets" [abstract]
- 12:30 - 2:00
- GeoMashing: Remixing Place
- Franklin Center 240
- This panel will consist of four 20-minute papers followed by a 10-minute discussion period.
- Moderator: Rachael Brady, Professor of Computer Science, Research Scientist in Electrical & Computer Engineering, and Director of the Visualization Technology Group, Duke University
- • Eric Kabisch, "Datascape: A Mobile Exploration of Geodemographic Segmentation" [abstract]
- • Colleen Morgan, "Archaeology, New Media, and Feminism: Intersections at Çatalhöyük" [abstract]
- • Lauren Rosenthal, "Political/Hydrological: A Watershed Remapping of the Continental United States" [abstract]
- • Scott Ruston, "Putting Theory and Inquiry into Practice: Mobile Media, Narrative and Tracking Agama" [abstract]
- 2:00 - 2:15
- 15-Minute Break
- 2:15 - 4:15
- Local and Global Variables
- Franklin Center 230
- This panel will consist of five 20-minute papers followed by a 20-minute discussion period.
- Moderator: Michael Newton, PhD, Humanities Liaison, Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI)
- • Legier Biederman, "A Global Art World: Relational Aesthetics, New Media Arts, & Biennialization" [abstract]
- • Montse Feu, "From Magical Realism to Virtual Realism: Alberto Fuguet's The Movies of My Life" [abstract]
- • Erin Fitzhenry, "Mathematics Visualization Project" [abstract]
- • Meltem Yilmaz Sener, "Internet Use in Anti-Globalization Movements: 'Fifty Years Is Enough' Network" [abstract]
- • Tracy Smith, "Discovering Cyberethnography: Considerations of Feminist Approaches to Virtual Anthropology" [abstract]
- 2:15 - 4:15
- Bodies & Bits
- Franklin Center 240
- This panel will consist of five 20-minute papers followed by a 20-minute discussion period.
- Moderator: Robert Mitchell, Professor of Professor of English and faculty member at the Institute of Genome Sciences & Policy and Women's Studies , Duke University
- • Abe Geil, "Beautiful Agony: The Face of New Media" [abstract]
- • Seung Wook Kim, "Perception-Action Loop in Virtual Environments" [abstract]
- • Nima Motamedi, "New Media Technologies for Love, Affection, and Intimacy" [abstract]
- • Jack Sam, "Exploring Unconventional Interfaces for Racecars" [abstract]
- • Doug Wilson, "Look Before You Warp: Teleportation and the Fragmentation of Environmental Presence in Videogame Worlds" [abstract]
- 4:15 - 4:30
- 15-Minute Break
- 4:30 - 6:00
- New News: The Populist Information Explosion
- Franklin Center 230
- This panel will consist of four 20-minute papers followed by a 10-minute discussion period.
- Moderator: Kenneth Rogerson, DeWitt Wallace Center for Media & Democracy, Duke University
- • Scott Kushner, "Meet the Bloggers: Investigating the Cultural Specificity of Political Blogging" [abstract]
- • Colin Lingle, "A Model of Credibility and Agenda Setting in Political Blogs" [abstract]
- • Kevin Wang, "Online Forums as an Arena for Political Discussion: What Politicians and Activists Can Learn From Teachers" [abstract]
- • Brian Wills, "YourHub.com: The Business of Interactive Newsgathering, Consumption, and Distribution" [abstract]
- 4:30 - 6:00
- Difference Engines? Mediating Otherness
- Franklin Center 240
- This panel will consist of four 20-minute papers followed by a 10-minute discussion period.
- Moderator: Guo-Juin Hong, Professor of Chinese Literature and Culture, Department of Asian & African Languages & Literature, Duke University
- • Allison de Fren, excerpt from The Exquisite Corpse: Representations of the Artificial Female [abstract]
- • Emily Ford, "Where are the Women in Podcasting?" [abstract]
- • Brian Jennings, "WTFpwned by Chinese Gold Farmers: Translating 'Otherness' into Synthetic Worlds through Culture and Language Hierarchies" [abstract]
- • Britt Rusert, "Black No More?: Race, Ecology, and the Question of New Media" [abstract]
- 8:00 - 11:00
- Dinner
- Mount Fuji
Thursday, June 8, 2006
- 9:30 - 10:00
- Coffee & Pastries
- Franklin Center 240
- 10:00 - 12:00
- newMedia==newSelves
- Franklin Center 240
- This panel will consist of five 20-minute papers followed by a 20-minute discussion period.
- Moderator: Marilyn Lombardi, ISIS Senior Research Scholar and Office of Information Technology Senior Strategist, Duke University
- • Heidi Cooley, "Mobile-Imaging as Self-Record: Notes Toward a Theory and Practice of 'Autobiometry'" [abstract]
- • Jaimee Creason, "Myspace: Produced and Consumed (Subject)ivity" [abstract]
- • Patrick Jagoda, "The Value of Online Social Networks: Play, Waste, and Other Kinds of Politics" [abstract]
- • Nora Kenney, "Many Versions of Masculine: An Exploration of Boys' Identity Formation through Digital Storytelling in an Afterschool Program" [abstract]
- • Donald Snyder, "Working Harder to Be a Sim than a Real Person: Simulation, Modeling, and the Economy of Sims Online" [abstract]
- 10:00 - 12:00
- Articulating Interface
- Franklin Center 230
- This panel will consist of five 20-minute papers followed by a 20-minute discussion period.
- Moderator: Mark Olson, Director of New Media & Information Technologies, John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary & International Studies, Duke University
- • Daniel Chamberlain, "Media Interfaces and the Logic of Control" [abstract]
- • Heekyung Choi, "Do We Really Need Boolean Operators? Guiding Information Retrieval for Novice Searchers on the Web" [abstract]
- • Tyler Galloway, "iTunes: Music Mediator, Social Facilitator" [abstract]
- • Jamie Gray, "Digital Collecting: Designing Tools for Online Collecting Behaviors" [abstract]
- • Alan Tormey, "Rhizomatic Semiotics: An Approach Towards Intermedia Dialogue in Multimedia Composition" [abstract]
- 12:00 - 1:30
- Lunch Discussion: Disciplinary Opportunities & Challenges in New Media Studies
- Franklin Center 240
- Facilitator: Anne Balsamo, Managing Director, Institute for Multimedia Literacy; Professor of Interactive Media and Gender Studies,University of Southern California
- 1:30 - 1:45
- 15-Minute Break
- 1:45 - 3:45
- The Long Now: Historicizing New Media
- Franklin Center 230
- This panel will consist of five 20-minute papers followed by a 20-minute discussion period.
- Moderator: Tim Lenoir, Jenkins Chair in New Technologies & Society, Duke University
- • Serena Carpenter, "Radio and that Other Machine: How Radio Dealt with the Disruptive Technology of Television" [abstract]
- • Rod Frey, "Return to Duration: An Interdisciplinary Concept?" [abstract]
- • Lance Hayden, "Constructive Paranoia: The Utility of a Discourse of Unease in Information Science" [abstract]
- • Stacy Lavin, "Dramatic Gadgets: How New Media (Dis)Affected the Writing of Samuel Beckett" [abstract]
- • James Nadeau, "Shifting Technologies: Digital Video Art and the Erasure of the Analog" [abstract]
- 1:45 - 3:45
- NextGen Teaching for NextGen Students
- Franklin Center 240
- This panel will consist of four 20-minute papers followed by a 40-minute discussion period.
- Moderator: Cathy Davidson, Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies and Ruth F. DeVarney Professor of English, Duke University
- • Ana Boa-Ventura, "Community digital storytelling: Personal stories, collective memories, and grids" [abstract]
- • Patrick Cooper, "Comparing the Impact of New Media in the Composition and Literature Classrooms" [abstract]
- • Matthew Kam, "Notes Towards a Framework for Designing Electronic Games for Out-of-School Children in the Developing World to Learn English as a Second Language" [abstract]
- • Sarita Yardi, "ClassChat: A Tool for Visualizing Backchannel Discussions" [abstract]
- 3:45 - 4:00
- Closing Remarks
- Franklin Center 240
- Connie M. Yowell, Program Officer, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
- Cathy Davidson, Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies and Ruth F. DeVarney Professor of English, Duke University