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Welcome to the 2012 UDC Conference The Union for Democratic Communications is an organization of communication researchers, journalists, media producers, policy analysts, academics and activists dedicated to:
• critical study of the communications establishment; • production and distribution of democratically controlled and produced media; • fostering alternative, oppositional, independent and experimental production; • development of democratic communications systems locally, regionally and internationally.
Steering Committee Robin Andersen Ron Bettig Thomas (T.C.) Corrigan Brian Dolber Aimee-‐Marie Dorsten Steve Macek Rob McMahon Brian Murphy Randy Nichols Jennifer Proffitt Kathleen Kuehn Michelle Rodino-‐Colocino (chair)
Local Conference Coordinating Committee: Jennifer Proffitt Stephen McDowell Andy Opel Jeanette Castillo Shea Smock Nicole Cox
John Sullivan Doug Tewksbury
3:30-6:00
Screening of The Corporation, Center for Global Engagement, Auditorium
6:00-8:00
Reception, Center for Global Engagement, Dining Room Hosted by Dean Larry Dennis, College of Communication & Information
7:30-‐9:00 Continental Breakfast, Turnbull Center
9:00-10:30 Sessions, Turnbull Center
Panel 1, Room 101
Problematizing/Remaking Conceptions of Communication and Radical Praxis
Chair, James F. Hamilton, University of Georgia
Loren Saxton, University of Georgia, “The Occupation Will be Televised: Spatial and Mediated Production of Sites of Social Resistance”
Brian Creech, University of Georgia, “Simulcasting Truth to Power: Mobile Technologies and New Subjectivities of Dissent”
James F. Hamilton, University of Georgia, “Critique, Brought to You by ______: The ‘Docbuster’ and the Effectivity of Commercial Critique”
Panel 2, Room 205
Social Media and Democracy
Chair, John Mayo, Florida State University
Matt Gayetsky, University of Pittsburgh, “Territory and Reterritorialization: The Impact of New Media Technologies on Arab Spring Revolutions”
Linda Fuller, Worcester State University, “Tunisia as a Turning Point for Community Cyberevents”
Jeanette Castillo, Florida State University, “Wonderful, Horrible, Adorable: Politicians in the Age of Social Media”
Panel 3, Room 114
The Work of Gaming: Subjectivity, Self and Labor
Chair, Kathleen Kuehn, Christopher Newport University
Ergin Bulut, University of Illinois, “Visualizing Subjectivity in Video Game Production: Towards a Methodology of the Immaterial and the Aesthetic”
Kathleen Kuehn, Christopher Newport University, “Managing the Self, Streamlining the Brand: A Critical Analysis of Third-‐party Dashboards”
Michael Palm, University of North Carolina, “Then Press # Everyday Digital Labor in the Social Office”
Panel 4, Room 201
Tea, Pods and Crumpets: Media and Social Movement Activism
Chair, Deana Rohlinger, Florida State University
Deana Rohlinger, Florida State University, “From Fervor to Fear: Internet Communication Technology and Emotions in the Tea Party Movement”
Ginevra Adamoli, Florida State University, “Citizen-‐consumers in Digital Area: A Textual Analysis of Messages Posted on Whole Food’s Blog by Consumers to Challenge Corporate Practices”
Chang Sup Park, Southern Illinois University, “Podcast as a Carnivalistic Alternative Media -‐ An Analysis of Naggomsu in South Korea”
10:45-12:15 Sessions, Turnbull Center
Panel 1, Room 101
War Society: The Militarized Information/Communication Environment and Resistance
Chair, Brian Martin Murphy, Niagara University
Patricia Mazepa, York University, “Until Death Do Us Part: Canadian Weblocks in the Militarized Global Environment”
Brian Martin Murphy, Niagara University, “Development of the ‘Weaponized’ Information and Communication Technology Industries”
Randy Nichols, Bentley University, “Mapping the Cultural Impact of Video War Games”
Robin Andersen, Fordham University, “Challenging a Decade of Expanding Militarism in American Society and Media Culture”
Panel 2, Room 205
Sports and Culture: Labor, Advertising, and Technology
Chair, Felecia Jordan Jackson, Florida State University
Jonothan Lewis, Florida State University, “Sports, Labor, and the Media: An Examination of Media Coverage of the 2011 NFL Lockout”
Wanda Fenimore, Florida State University, "The Political Economy of Celebrity Endorsements: Danica Patrick and Go Daddy."
Li-Shiue Gau, Asia University, Taiwan, “Does Communication Technology Bring Democracy of Leisure to Taiwan”
Panel 3, Room 114
Dissenting Bio-Public: Free Speech and Public Policy
Chair, Margot Susca, Florida State University
Sonja Macdonald, York University, “The Future of Public Interest Principles in Canadian and American Local Television Policy”
Chris Demaske, University of Washington Tacoma, “Dissident Speech during Climates of Change: A Call for Greater First Amendment Protection”
Zoheb Nensey & Kristen Porter, Florida State University, “The Inherent Biopower in the Stop Online Piracy Act: The Expansion of State Power into the Internet”
Panel 4, Room 201
Film and Climates of Cultural Change
Chair, Christopher Robé, Florida Atlantic University
Ryan Lizardi, Pennsylvania State University, “The Epistemology of Re-‐Imagined Cinematic ‘Classics’”
Christopher Robé, Florida Atlantic University, “Materializing Cultural Struggle in Film and Media Studies”
Steve Macek, North Central College, “The Chicago Civil Liberties Committee and the Struggle against Film Censorship in Chicago”
Panel 5, Room 208
Production as Activism: Seizing the Tools to Change the Narrative
Jeanette Castillo, Florida State University, Screenings
UDC: Past, Present, and Future
Chair, Michelle Rodino-‐Colocino, UDC Steering Committee Chair, Pennsylvania State University
1:45-3:15 Sessions, Turnbull Center
Panel 1, Room 101
Laboring Communication Studies
Chair, Brian Dolber, SUNY College at Oneonta
Open discussion of academic labor issues
Panel 2, Room 205
Networks of Change and Resistance
Chair, Davis Houck, Florida State University
Cayce Myers, University of Georgia, “Social Media A New Phenomenon?: A Political Economic Analysis of the Historical Roots of Social Media in Early Radio Amateur Hours 1920-‐1951”
Caroline Nappo, University of Illinois, “The Transformation of the System of Information Provision in the 1930s United States: Technology, Access, and Policy”
Victor Pickard, University of Pennsylvania, “Social Democracy Deferred: A Clash of Paradigms in Postwar Media Policy”
Molly Niesen, University of Illinois, “The Little Old Lady Has Teeth: The U.S. Federal Trade Commission, Advertising Regulation, and the Right to Rebuttal”
Panel 3, Room 114
Occupy This Panel
Chair, Jeanette Castillo, Florida State University
David Morris, University of South Florida, “Physical Bodies in Digital Space: Occupy Wall Street and the Communicative Environment of the 21st Century”
Mike Budd, Florida Atlantic University, “Occupy Palm Beach County, Florida: A Case Study”
Kamilla Pietrzyk, York University, “Occupy and the Temporal Politics of Prefigurative Democracy”
Camille Reyes, Rutgers University, “Occupy Messages”
Panel 4, Room 201
Democracy in the Age of Corporate Personhood
Chair, Shea Smock, Florida State University
Jim Wittebols, University of Windsor, “Transforming Democracy: Prospects for an Authentic Politics”
Aaron Heresco, Pennsylvania State University, “Citizens Divided: Campaign Finance Reform, Deliberative Democracy, and Citizens United”
Shea Smock, Florida State University, “Super PACs: How Did We Get Here? An Historical Political Economic Analysis of Campaign Finance Law and Freedom of Speech”
Sophie Boulay, Université du Québec à Montréal, “Astroturfing : An Influential but Potentially Dangerous Communication Strategy for Democratic Societies”
Panel 5, Room 208
Andy Opel, Florida State University, Screening of:
Beating Justice: The Martin Lee Anderson Story
3:30-5:00 Sessions, Turnbull Center
Panel 1, Room 101
Space, Race, Interface: The Changing Climates of Economy and Identity
Chair, Steve Macek, North Central College
Aaron Heresco, Pennsylvania State University, “In the Shadow of Hobbes: Economic Individualism and Advanced Industrial Society”
Robert Carley, Texas A&M University, “Gramsci, Modernity, and Racialization”
Adina Edwards, Simon Fraser University, “Living Spaces in Public View: Contested Space in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, B.C. Canada” Amie Jones, University of Georgia, “Media System Dependency Theory”
Panel 2, Room 205
Media Activism and Activist Scholarship
Chair, Juliann Cortese, Florida State University
Michelle Rodino-Colocino, Pennsylvania State University, “Participant Activism: Exploring a Methodology for Scholar-‐Activists through Lessons Learned at WashTech”
David Skinner, York University, “Contemporary Currents in Media Reform in Canada”
Christine Quail, McMaster University, “Picture This: Understanding and Creating Images -‐ A Media Literacy Project”
Valerie Beynon, Florida State University, “Social Activism 2.0: The Twibbon Effect on Building Grassroots Support for Social Movements”
Panel 3, Room 114
Real Work, Virtual Rewards: The Political Economy of Labor in the Cyber-workforce
Chair, Rich Templin, Legislative and Political Director, Florida AFL-‐CIO
Kathleen Kuehn, Christopher Newport University, & T.C. Corrigan, Pennsylvania State University, “Hope Labor: The Role of Employment Prospects in the Practice and Structure of Voluntary Online Content Production”
Ergin Bulut, University of Illinois, “Will Work for Fun: Precarious Labor in the Video Game Industry”
Nicole Cohen, York University, “Theorizing Media Labour: Freelancers and Exploitation”
Panel 4, Room 201
Channels of Control and Resistance
Chair, Doug Tewksbury, Niagara University
Evan Rowe, Broward College, “Beyond the Propaganda Model of News: How Declining Profitability Rates for Major U.S. Mass Media Outlets will Require New Models to Maintain Elite Control over the Doctrinal System”
Margot Susca, Florida State University, “Fragweisers, Butcher Battalions, and Elite Contract Killers: Analyzing Online Comments of America’s Army Video Game Players”
Brian Dolber, SUNY College at Oneonta, “Fighting Fascism: The Jewish Funds for Justice Campaign Against Glenn Beck”
Doug Tewksbury, Niagara University, Dan Tamul, Indiana University-‐Purdue University Fort Wayne, & Nadia Martinez, Pennsylvania State University, “Our Unmanned Heroes: Techno-‐Centric Agency and the Discourse of Unmanned Drone Attacks”
5:30-7:30 Business Meeting/Dinner at Jasmine Cafe, 109 East College Ave. ( buy your own meal), or dinner on your own.
Good Corp, Bad Corp: Social Responsibility and the Breaking of Democracy
Joel Bakan University of British Columbia, Plenary co-‐sponsored by the College of Communication & Information Student Leadership Council, the School of Communication, the Florida State University Student Government Association, and the Union for Democratic Communications
Joel Bakan is a Rhodes Scholar who currently works as a law professor and legal scholar at the University of British Columbia. He authored the critically-‐acclaimed and internationally-‐recognized book, The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power, which later became an award-‐winning documentary of the same name. Bakan has authored other works such as Just Words: Constitutional Rights and Social Wrongs, and recently released Childhood Under Siege: How Big Business Targets Children.
(7:30-9:30am Registration, Lobby, Turnbull Center)
7:30-9:00 Continental Breakfast, Turnbull Center
9:00-10:30 Dallas Smythe Award presentation and Plenary Turnbull Center, Room 208
“Towards a Political Economy of Social Movement Media” John Downing, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
John Downing
is a Professor Emeritus and Founding Director of the New Global Media Research Center at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He studies international communication, alternative media, and social movements and has authored books such
as Radical Media: Rebellious Communication and Social Movements and edited books such as the comprehensive Encyclopedia of Social Media Movements.
Plenary co-sponsored by The Ruth K. and Shepard Broad International Lecture Series and the Union for Democratic Communications
10:45-12:15 Sessions, Turnbull Center
Panel 1, Room 101
The Corporatization of Culture and Commercialization of Cool
Chair, Chris Jordan, St. Cloud State University
David Gracon, Eastern Illinois University, “Through Being Cool: iTunes and the Political Economy of Music Retail”
Murali Balaji & Thomas Sigler, Lincoln University, “Eating the Flag: An Analysis of Pan-‐Caribbean Nationalisms in Reggaeton, Dancehall, and Soca Videos”
Chris Jordan, St. Cloud State University, “Live Nation Entertainment and Enclosure of the Live Music Industry”
Vicki Mayer & Jade Miller, Tulane University, “Where Does the Capital for Runaway Production Run Away To?”
Panel 2, Room 205
Climates of Change, or Changing the Frame?
Chair, Laura Arpan, Florida State University
Joe Clark, Florida State University, “Multiuser Virtual Environments and Climate-‐-‐Change Activism”
Shea Smock & Jennifer Toole, Florida State University, “Universal Green Washing: What are the True Goals of the ‘Green is Universal’ Campaign?”
Diana Eidson, Georgia State University, “Which Side are You On?: Climate Changes in Labor Rhetoric”
Panel 3, Room 114
Feminist Political Economy of Culture
Chair, Michelle Rodino-‐Colocino, Pennsylvania State University
Michelle Rodino-Colocino, Pennsylvania State University, “’Man Up,’ Woman Down: ‘Mama Grizzlies,’ ‘Feminism,’ and Tree House Politics”
Nicole Cox, Florida State University, “‘For All the Single Ladies, Trendy Moms, Affluent Gay Men, and Newborn Grown Ups’: A Feminist Political Economy Analysis of The Real Housewives in the Media Market”
Alexandra Endaltseva, Purdue University Calumet, “Class in Feminist Blog-‐ sites: A Socialist Feminist Reflection.” Barbara Robinson & Stephen D. McDowell, Florida State University, “Women, Rape and Voice in the Game of War: Who Will Tell Their Stories?”
Panel 4, Room 201
Technology and Policy: Facing Challenges to Free Speech and the Public Interest
Chair, Art Raney, Florida State University
Robert Bodle, College of Mount St. Joseph, “Real Names Only! Regulating Freedom of Expression on SNSs”
Margot Susca, Florida State University, “From Sam’s Stationery to Grand Theft Auto: Does Ginsberg v. New York Have a Place in Contemporary Media Policy?”
Leah P. Hunter, Florida State University, “Longevity and EEO Regulations: The Role of Stakeholders in the Formulation of Effective FCC Policy”
Remembering Jeanne Lynn Hall
Chair, Chris Jordan, St. Cloud State University
1:45-3:15 Sessions, Turnbull Center
Panel 1, Room 101
Political Discourse: Civility, Collectivity and Creative Resistance
Chair, Christine Quail, McMaster University
Bryan Sacks, Rutgers University, “Monitoring the Monitors: Civil Oversight and Collective Intelligence within the Digital Enclosure”
Anthony Nadler, University of Minnesota, “Media and the Populist Moment”
Rachel Ruben, Pennsylvania State University, “Is A Rude Voice Better than None at All? Assessing the Potential of Animal Activist Culture Jamming”
Panel 2, Room 205
This Panel Brought to You Buy…: Hypercommercialization of Culture
Chair, Leigh Edwards, Florida State University
Chenjerai Kumanyika, Pennsylvania State University, “Tweet #MegajugoofPepsi to Cure Diabetes? Integrated Cause Marketing and the Fight for New Media Spaces”
Matthew Crain, University of Illinois, “Market Share is Everything: The Dotcom Investment Bubble and the Rise of Online Advertising”
Agata Wlodarczyk & Jennifer M. Proffitt, Florida State University, “Selling Out or Buying In: A Critical Look at a Hopeful Docbuster”
Leigh Edwards, Florida State University, “Twitter, Democratic Access, and Corporate Branding”
Panel 3, Room 114
Pranksters and Tricksters: Creative Resistance in the Age of Media Monoliths
Chair, Andy Opel, Florida State University
Derrick Shannon, Florida State University, “Representing the Yes Men”
William Lawson, University of Maryland, “Advocacy and Agency in the Land of the Advertised: Extending the Guerrilla Paradigm to Create a Communications Typology of Resistance”
Greg Elmer, Ryerson University & Andy Opel, Florida State University, “Preempting Dissent: A Book, A Film, A Work in Progress”
Panel 4, Room 201
The Political Economy of Gender and of Television: A Global View
Chair, Nicole Cox, Florida State University
Murali Balaji, Adriana Fraser, & Khadeem Hughson, Lincoln University, “Producing Bodies and Borders: A Political Economy of Masculinity and Nationalism”
Bryce Renninger, Rutgers University, “The 'Against Equality' Media Environment”
Azmat Rasul, Florida State University, “Chicktainment Sells: Current Affairs TV Programing in Pakistan and Female Bodies”
Cindy Stewart, Florida State University, “Never-‐Ending Programs: American Idol in Repetition”
3:30-5:00 Sessions, Turnbull Center
Panel 1, Room 101
Technology: Climates of Change Worldwide
Chair, John Downing, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Mary Triece, University of Akron, “The Electronic Media and the Voices of Honduran Resistance”
David Montez, Florida State University, “Are They Really Helping? An Examination of Economic Models Supporting Community-‐based Media in Sierra Leone”
Rich Potter, University of Illinois, “Community Media in Socialist Latin America: Lessons from Venezuela”
Panel 2, Room 205
The Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Corporate Media
Chair, James Tracy, Florida Atlantic University
Deepa Kumar, Rutgers University, “Mediating Islamophobia: A Structural Analysis of the Networks of Anti-‐Muslim Racism”
Jennifer Toole, Florida State University, “Nestle -‐ the Big-‐man on the Block in Fryeburg, Maine: An Analysis of How the Issue of Water Mining is Covered in Maine Newspapers”
James Tracy, Florida Atlantic University, “Sticking PIIGS: US News Media in an Era of Unmitigated Financial Terrorism”
Kyle Bunds & Joshua Newman, Florida State University, “The Spectacle of Disposability: Bodies, Bumfights, and the Neoliberal Street”
Panel 3, Room 114
Digital Media and Democracy
Chair, Ginevra Adamoli, Florida State University
Helen Sun, University of Texas-‐Permian Basin, “E-‐public Sphere in China”
Tabe Bergman, University of Illinois, “Journalism, Digital Media and Democracy in the Netherlands”
Shruti Nair & Stephen D. McDowell, Florida State University, “ICTs and Social Development in India: Assessing Efforts to Address the Digital Divide”
Panel 4, Room 208
David Gracon, Eastern Illinois University, Documentary Video Screening
“Walls of Sound: A Look Inside the House of Records”
Performance by The Mickee Faust Academy for the Really Dramatic Arts
“Mickee Faust’s Minnee Cabaret”
“Dead Mouse” by Billie Grace Lynn
Dance with JB’s ZydecoZoo
Mickee Faust Clubhouse, Railroad Square
JB’s Zydeco Zoo
School of Communication
Dean Larry Dennis, College of Communication & Information
Center for Global Engagement
College of Communication & Information Student Leadership Council
Florida State University Student Government Association
John Mayo and The Ruth K. and Shepard Broad International Lecture Series
The Mickee Faust Academy for the Really Dramatic Arts
Billie Grace Lynn
Florida AFL-CIO
John H. Phipps Scholarship Fund
Karl and Madira Bickel Scholarship Fund
Special Thanks to the Florida AFL-CIO for sponsoring our water bottles!