Return to 1999 UDC Conference home page   UDC Conference 1999 ERB Memorial Union University of Oregon, Eugene Tentative Program NOTE: This preliminary program is based on the proposals we have received. Please let us know about changes in presentation titles, etc. for the final program. Also, video and film presentations have not been included yet. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14 5:00-6:30 pm WELCOME RECEPTION Hosted by the School of Journalism and Communication, University of Oregon 6:30 pm VIDEO SCREENING Darrell Varga, "Working Days" (running time: 50 mins) FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15 9:00-10:15 am OPENING PLENARY PANEL: Mike Budd, George Gerbner, Eileen Meehan 10:15-10:30 am COFFEE 10:30-12 noon PANELS A. RADICAL MEDIA ACTIVISM James Dearing, "A Social Ecology Diffusion Model: Implications for Agenda-Setting and Media Activism" John Downing, "Radical Media Activism and Understanding Media" Chuck Kleinhans, "Radical Media on the Media" John Hess, "The National Labor Committee's Multi-Media Organizing Against Sweatshops" B. WHOSE PRODUCTIVITY? Gene Costain, "Ideological Dissent and Changes in Labor News Coverage: The Canadian" Martin Hirst, "Towards a Theory of Journalism as Work" Cathy Marston, "Learning to be Journalists in an RSI Work Culture" James F. Tracy, "Hiring the 'Unborn Worker'? Newsworkers, Automation and Media Representation of the 1965 New York Newspaper Strike" Matthew Killmeier, "Radio and the Automobile: Class, Mobility and the Decimation of Place in America" C. WAR & PROTEST Paul Reynolds, "Influence of Maori Protesters and the New Zealand Media on Treaty Negotiation Process" Peter McGregor, "Telling My Lais: War Crimes and Reconciliation" Dan Miller, "War Coverage in Fiction and News" Rosalind Bresnahan, "Grass Roots Communication and the Re-creation of the Public Sphere in Chile during the Pinochet Dictatorship" D. CELLULOID POLITICS Jeanne Lynn Hall, "Skin Deep: The Politics of Makeovers in Hollywood Cinema" Carol Krismer, "Filmic Constructions of the Political Environment: Cynicism, Nihilism and the Potential for Change" Kevin Sandler, "The Naked Truth: Scandal and Adrian Lyne's Lolita"   12:00-1:00pm LUNCH

1:00-2:30 PM PANELS

A. POLITICAL ECONOMY IS ALIVE AND WELL IN OTTAWA

Frederick Emrich, "Political Economy in the Academic Environment: Scholarly Publishing and the Role of Labour"

Patricia Mazepa, "The Public is Political: The Constitution of Counter-Publics and Alternative Public Spaces"

Michele Martin, "Political Economy and Feminism"

Catherine McKercher, "Political Economy, Labour and Convergence"

Richard McGrath, "The Political Economy of Ecology: As if People Mattered"

Vincent Mosco, "Political Economy, Myth and Place"

Dwayne Winseck, "The Political Economy of Perfect Information"

B. EXPLORING NEW TECHNOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENTS

Rod Giblett, "Sublime Communication Technologies: Media and the Environment"

Janin Hadlaw, "Communicating Utopia: Design, Modernity and the Telephone"

Carrie R. Rentschler, "Refusing to be a Victim: Personal Security Technology and Middle Class Mobility"

David Sholle, "The Technological Milieu of the Information Society"

C. STUDYING FILM EXHIBITION & COMMUNITIES

Moderator: Christine List

Julie Lindstrom, "A History of Redeveloping Communities? New Chicago Theaters and Urban Spectators"

Amy Beer: "Comienza Hoy! [Opening Today!]: The Shifting Political Economy of Film Exhibition for US Latinos"

Barbara Wilinsky: "The Multiplex as Art House: Movie Exhibition and Art Cinema in the 1990s"

D. PERSPECTIVES FROM WOMEN NATURE WRITERS IN THE NEW MILLENIUM

Panel organizer: Carol Ann Bassett

(participants to be announced at a later date)

2:30-3:00 PM COFFEE

3:00-4:30 PM PANELS

A. CONTINUING COVERAGE: THE PROFESSIONAL MEDIA ENVIRONMENT

Mike Bush, "The Seattle Times: A Leader on the Road to Newsroom Diversity"

Carolyn Byerly, "Gender and Control of Newsmaking, A Comparative Study of Human Rights Coverage in Fall 1998"

G.J. Robinson, "The Professional Environment of Journalism: A Gendered Inquiry"

William R. Seaman, "'Truth' and 'Fairness' in American Journalism: Towards a Philosophy of News Reporting and Criticism"

Heike Mayer, "Network Forms of Organization in Portland's Multimedia Industry"

B. SELLING THE SPOTLIGHT: EXPLORING MEDIA SPECTACLE

Ursula Wiljanen, "The Super-rational Takes the Stand: The Media, the Madman and the Manifesto"

Robin Andersen, "The Commercial Enviornment of the Corporate Media"

James Compton, "The News Spectacle: Notes Toward a Theory of Spectacle in the New Media Environment"

Laura Vazquez, "The Spice Girls: The Struggle Over Presence in Pop Music and Cyberspace"

C. NEW HORIZONS; METAPHOR AND COMMUNICATION POLICY

David Firman, "Policy and Metaphor: Invoking the Imaginary in Communications Policy in Canada"

Kathleen Cross, "Survival of the Fittest: Hegemonic Uses of Organic Metaphors in Liberal Theory"

Andres Dimitriu, "Space, Power and Margins: A Critique of the Communication History in Latin America"

Alison Beale, "The Gender of Culture: the Femininity of Culture in Cultural Policy Discourse"

D. VIDEO SCREENINGS

Media Education Foundation:

"Behind the Screens: Hollywood Goes Hypercommercial" (40 mins approx)

"Game Over: Gender, Race & Violence in Video Games" (35 mins approx)

5:00-6:30 pm UDC BUSINESS MEETING

6:30-8:30 VIDEO SCREENINGS

John Scott, "Guerrilla Television: The Next Generation" (running time: 50mins)

"Andy Opel, "Dr Shipsey and the Cows" (running time: 28 mins)

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16

9:00-10:15 am PLENARY DISCUSSION: UDC: INTO THE NEW MILLENIUM

Discussion leaders: Eileen Meehan & Mike Budd

10:15-10:30 am COFFEE

10:30-12 noon PANELS

A. SITUATING LEFT THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES

John Bellamy Foster and Robert W. McChesney, "Communication and Marxism: Some Preliminary Observations"

Lisa McLaughlin, "Feminism Without Frontiers"

Shoba S. Rajgopal, "The Fundamental Theme in Postcolonial Literture and Theory: The (Re)Assertion of Identity as Counter-Hegemonic Discourse"

William R. Seaman, "The Narrativity Scene: Primary and Irreducible, or Ultimately Theoretical"

B. RENAISSANCE OR RUIN; RETHINKING URBAN ENVIRONMENTS

Gary W. McDonogh, "Nature in the City: Untangling Voices"

Timothy A. Gibson, "A Tale of Two Seattles"

Steven Macek, "Television and the Process of Urban Decline"

James H. Wittebols, "Sports, Spectatorship and Classism: The Cultural Environments of New Stadia and Arenas in the US"

C. PERSPECTIVES ON MEDIA ACTIVISM

Nancy Breaux, "Sadomasochism and the Mainstreaming of Fetishistic Subculture"

Sean Cassidy, "Portrayal of an Environmental Ethic in Films Produced by Megacorporations"

Dan Miller, "The American Experience: Commerce, Culture, Democracy and Access in American 'Public' Television" Broadcasting's Frontline and POV"

Scott Kynrim, "Tips and Techniques for Radicalizing from Within"

D. CONTINUING THE STRUGGLE: CIVIL RIGHTS AND SOCIAL CHANGE

Ellen Balka, "Jaques and Jill at VPL: Gender, Race, and the Culture of Internet Use at Vancouver Public Library"

Steven Classen, "Telling Stories: WLBT and the Experiences of Civil Rights Activists in Jackson, Mississippi"

Charles E. Simmons, "Robert F. Williams & Prganizing against KKK Violence"

Cindy Hing-Yuk Wong, "Can Video Build Community?: Ethnographic Perspectives on New Media and Social Change"

12:00-1:00 pm LUNCH

1:00-2:30 pm PANELS

A. AND ALL POINTS IN BETWEEN: CONTEXTUALIZING GLOBAL CULTURE

Mashoed Bailie, "Media Development in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus"

Ed Baker, "International Free Trade in Media Products"

Dave Park, "The Transnational Culture Industry and China"

Chris Purdie, "The Impact of Global Media on Culture and Identity: The Case of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus"

B. BUILDING A MOVEMENT: COMMUNITY ACTIVISM

Bob Hackett, "Taking Back the Cultural Environment: Is It Possible to Build a Movement for More Democratic Media?"

Rose Dyson, "The Cult of Media Violence: Community Activism and Critical Scholarship"

Dorothy Kidd

Robert McChesney, "The Emerging Global Anti-neoliberal Democratic Media Reform Movement"

C. PUBLIC LIFE/PRIVATE SPHERE

Mikey Carlson, "Political Economy of Reproductive Communication: The Case of Contraceptive Direct to Consumer Advertising"

Jyotsna Kapur, "Obsolescence and Other Playroom Anxieties: Toys as Commodities and the Transfor-mation of Childhood"

Eleanor M. Novek, "When Spheres Collide: Communication, Segregation and the Private Sphere"

Inger L. Stole, "Selling Our Children Short: Six Decades With Commercial Education"

D. MEDIA AND ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISM

Paul Burkhardt, "Crying Wolf: Some Effects of the Media Packaging of Biological Diversity and Bio-Politics"

Cheri Ketchum, "The Struggle Over Headwaters"

Charles E. Simmons, "Media Coverage of Environmental Justice in Detroit,1998-99"

2:30-3:00 pm COFFEE

3:00-4:30 pm PANELS

A. RADIOACTIVE ISSUES IN MEDIA DEMOCRACY

Moderator: Sheila Nopper

Robert W. McChesney, "Media Activism in the Late 1990s: A Growth Industry?"

Sheila Nopper, "CIUT: Radical Community Radio Under Seige in Toronto"

Ron Sakolsky, "History of Micropower Radio Movement"

Andy Opel, "Micropower Radio: The Legal Issues

B. CONTROLLING INTERESTS: REGULATING COMMUNICATION INDUSTRIES

Ronald V. Bettig, "Copyguarding Copyrights: Securing the Digital Music Frontier"

Chad Dell, "The Politics of Ambush: Red-Baiting, the "Blue Book" and the Broadcast Industry"

Chris Jordan, "A Toaster With Pictures: The Political Economy of Reagan Era Entertainment"

C. DISNEY & THE GLOBAL CULTURAL ENVIRONMENT

Report on the results of the Global Disney Audiences Project, including Mark Phillips, Janet Wasko, Eileen Meehan and Virginia Nightingale

5:00-6:30 PM CLOSING PLENARY PANEL: Vincent Mosco, Daniel Schiller, Gerry Sussman

6:30 pm - DINNER, SMYTHE AWARD CEREMONY & PARTY!  

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