Politics of Media: Symposium
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
The Data Driven Life: Algorithms, Biopolitics, Affect: 2-2:45pm
Weston Game Lab Studio (JCL 133)
– Bret Klein Hart: “Decoded-Encoded Algorithmic Aesthetics: Gaming Content Creators and the Algorithmic Imaginary”
– Sasha Crawford-Holland: “Thermographic Knowledge at Border Sites”
– K.L. Sanders: “The Quantified Cow: Digitally Tracking Livestock with Wearable Devices”
– Sasha Crawford-Holland: “Thermographic Knowledge at Border Sites”
– K.L. Sanders: “The Quantified Cow: Digitally Tracking Livestock with Wearable Devices”
Social Media in China: 2:45-3:30pm
Weston Game Lab Studio (JCL 133)
– Tony Wang “Livestreaming in China: Agency, Sociability and Control”
– Xiaogao Zhou “Framing Transgender in China: Surveillance, Regulation and Censorship”
– Hua Jin “Constructing the Tower of Babel: Homogenization and Polarization of Social Media Contents”
– Tony Wang “Livestreaming in China: Agency, Sociability and Control”
– Xiaogao Zhou “Framing Transgender in China: Surveillance, Regulation and Censorship”
– Hua Jin “Constructing the Tower of Babel: Homogenization and Polarization of Social Media Contents”
Network Aesthetics and Digital Pleasures: 3:30-4:15pm
Weston Game Lab Studio (JCL 133)
– Lilian Kong “Li Ziqi: The Online Labor of Producing Asocial Affectivity”
– Basil Dababneh “FUN!” with Street View: Spatial Politics and the Pleasures of Browsing Network Maps
– Nick Rueda “Refractory Ecologies: Fantasies of Ecocide and Resilience in Monster Hunter: World“
– Lilian Kong “Li Ziqi: The Online Labor of Producing Asocial Affectivity”
– Basil Dababneh “FUN!” with Street View: Spatial Politics and the Pleasures of Browsing Network Maps
– Nick Rueda “Refractory Ecologies: Fantasies of Ecocide and Resilience in Monster Hunter: World“
BREAK: 4:15-4:45pm
Media Representation, Identification, and Personalization: 4:45-5:30pm
Weston Game Lab Studio (JCL 133)
– You Wu “Revolutionary New Media: What TikTok Can and Cannot Offer on Queer Representation in China”
– Ashley Truehart “She Is Who We Said She Was”: Identification, Creative Labor, and the Case of Black Hermione”
– Lily Scherlis “Feeling Like Yourself: Affect, Mental Health, and the Personalization Industry”
– You Wu “Revolutionary New Media: What TikTok Can and Cannot Offer on Queer Representation in China”
– Ashley Truehart “She Is Who We Said She Was”: Identification, Creative Labor, and the Case of Black Hermione”
– Lily Scherlis “Feeling Like Yourself: Affect, Mental Health, and the Personalization Industry”
Transnational Media Studies: 5:30-6:15pm
Weston Game Lab Studio (JCL 133)
– Nick Ogonek: “Encoding and Decoding the “Library of Japan”: Canon Construction of Japanese Literature Overseas”
– Sophia Walker: “Hunnu Rock: Mongolian Heavy Metal and Hebidge’s Subcultures”
– Wee Yang Soh: “It is Dangerous to Talk Like Americans”: How the “American-ness” of Media Production Affects Racial Discourse in Singapore”
– Nick Ogonek: “Encoding and Decoding the “Library of Japan”: Canon Construction of Japanese Literature Overseas”
– Sophia Walker: “Hunnu Rock: Mongolian Heavy Metal and Hebidge’s Subcultures”
– Wee Yang Soh: “It is Dangerous to Talk Like Americans”: How the “American-ness” of Media Production Affects Racial Discourse in Singapore”
Society of the Spectacle: 6:15-7:00pm
Research Computing Center (JCL 180)
– Cameron Day: “Ritual and Expertise: The Satanic Panic in the Press and the Law”
– Joshua Silver: “Breaking Ground: the Media Spectacle of Economic Events”
– Marcus McGee: “Photography, Death, Abstraction: Mexico City Illustrated Tabloids and an Experiment in Rhyming”
– Cameron Day: “Ritual and Expertise: The Satanic Panic in the Press and the Law”
– Joshua Silver: “Breaking Ground: the Media Spectacle of Economic Events”
– Marcus McGee: “Photography, Death, Abstraction: Mexico City Illustrated Tabloids and an Experiment in Rhyming”
Online Subcultures and the Dark Recesses of the Internet: 7:00-7:45pm
Research Computing Center (JCL 180)
– jade ryan: “Tradwives: Dark Domesticities”
– Hank Nooney: “Disruption and Appropriation: Trolling and Culture Jamming”
– Natalie Farrell: “Silence of the Scorn Stars, Or, Networking Soundscapes in TikTok Trauma Dancing”
– jade ryan: “Tradwives: Dark Domesticities”
– Hank Nooney: “Disruption and Appropriation: Trolling and Culture Jamming”
– Natalie Farrell: “Silence of the Scorn Stars, Or, Networking Soundscapes in TikTok Trauma Dancing”
Celebration!!! 7:45pm-Saturation
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