JustPublics@365, The Graduate Center, ARC, OpenCUNY and the Department of Sociology are pleased to host Theorizing the Web 2013 (#TtW13) Conference, Saturday, March 2. There will be a pre-conference meetup and panel discussion on the evening of Friday, March 1. All events are held at The Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue.
Friday March 1st
4:30pm | Opening Plenary | The James Gallery | #s1
Wall Posts Can’t Protect You: Networked Privacy & Social Surveillance in Facebook
Speaker: Alice Marwick (@alicetiara)
Watch archived video of the Alice Marwick!
5:15pm | Refreshments
6:30pm | Panel Discussion | Proshansky Auditorium, Concourse Level | #s2
Theorizing the Web Presents: Free Speech For Whom?
Presider: Jessie Daniels (@JessieNYC)
Panelists:
danah boyd (@zephoria)
Adrian Chen (@AdrianChen)
Kate Crawford (@katecrawford)
Zeynep Tufekci (@techsoc)
8:00pm | Drinks at Slattery’s Pub (8 East 36th Street), First Floor
Saturday March 2nd, Concourse Level
10:00am | Doors open
Pick up name badges and print programs.
10:30am-10:45am | Opening Remarks | Auditorium
11:00am-12:15pm | Session 1
Ctrl+Alt+Del: Control, Resistance, and Refusal | Room A | #a1
Presider: Tanya Lokot (@tanyalokot)
Hashtag Moderator: Whitney Erin Boesel (@phenatypical)
Panelists:
| Laura Portwood-Stacer | @lportwoodstacer | How We Talk about Media Refusal: Popular Frames for Understanding Resistance to Social Media Platforms in Everyday Life |
| Raiford Guins | Beyond Bridges, Speed-Bumps, And Hotel Keys: A New Design Paradigm for Control Technologies | |
| Malcolm Harris | @BigMeanInternet | Crowd-Sourcing Assassination 2.0 |
| Tom Slee | @whimsley | From Facebook to Banquets: Identity, Institutions, and Uprisings |
The Participatory Culture Industry | Room B | #b1
Presider: Tara L. Conley (@taralconley)
Hashtag Moderator: Dorothy Santos (@deedottiedot)
Panelists:
| Andrea Baker | @andee | A Digital/Physical Day in the Life of A Rock Music Fan: Online and Offline at Concerts |
| Sam Han | @sam__han | Digital Fetishism, KPop and Projective Modernity: A Culturalist World-Systems Analysis of MyKoreanBoyfriend.com |
| Jasmine Salters | @blkgirlwithapen | Digitally (re)imagining the black female body: Representing race, gender, and class in sensual massage ads |
| Nicholas Boston | ‘Remember to click “Subscribe” an’ tell yuh friend dem dat Ramchan deh ‘pon YouChoob!’: | |
| YouTube, Cross-generational Drag and Caribbean Diasporic Technologies of the Self |
Memory and the Speed of Data | Room C | #c1
Presider: Matthew K. Gold (@mkgold)
Hashtag Moderator: Phil Tietjen (@ptietjen)
Panelists:
| Lev Manovich | @manovich | Understanding the data stream |
| Sophia Drakopoulou | The ‘lived now.’ Observing the changes in the spatiotemporal experience of everyday life through the use of ICTs | |
| Caitie Kealy | @saltypalms | Viral Velocity: States of Interaction in Meme Culture |
| Piergiorgio Degli Esposti | @pgde | Death on Facebook. Mourning and memory as a prosumer activity |
Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction | Room D | #d1
Presider: Sarah Wanenchak (@dynamicsymmetry)
Hashtag Moderator: TBA
Panelists:
| Andrea Marshall | Star Trek and Subjectivity: Fan Videos as Sexual Textual Critiques | |
| Cameron Paul | Mediating Beyond the Page: Objectivity, Materiality, and Environmental Approaches to Digital Poetics | |
| Faith Holland | @asugarhigh | Internet as Pussy/Pussy as Internet |
| Olivia Rosane | @orosane | The Republic of Tweets |
12:30pm-1:45pm | Session 2
You Are What You Post | Room A | #a2
Presider: Sava Saheli Singh (@savasavasava)
Hashtag Moderator: Emily Johnson (@scremily)
Panelists:
| Carolyn Kane | Infrared: The Algorithmic Production of Visual Knowledge | |
| Rotem Rozental | @rotroz | Framing an Emergency: Photography in Areas of Conflict |
| Rob Horning | @marginalutility | Rationalized identity construction, networked subjectivity, and the emerging ‘data self’ |
| Dorothy Santos | @deedottiedot | The Distant Gaze and Contemporary Notions of Perception: |
| Re-examining the New Aesthetic Movement through an Analysis of Satellite Technologies in New Media and Digital Arts |
The Facebook Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism | Room B | #b2
Presider: Chih-Chin Chen (@ChihChinChen)
Hashtag Moderator: Karen Gregory (@claudiakincaid)
Panelists:
| Andrea Hunter | Monetizing the Mommy: The Commodification of Motherhood in Blogs | |
| Brooke Duffy | @brookeerinduffy | Women Making Media: Revisiting Questions of Gender, Labor, and Power in the Digital Age |
| Jeremy Antley | @jsantley | Data Serfdom in the Modern Age: Constructing a New Feudal Order |
| Mohammad Kazeroun | @mkazeroun | Social Media and Reproduction of Prosumer Identity: |
| Re-considering advertising strategies in the age of ubiquitous social media |
The New Politics of Participation & Persuasion | Room C | #c2
Presider: Tyler Crabb
Hashtag Moderator: Michelle Forelle (@MCForelle)
Panelists:
| Danie Kreiss* | @kreissdaniel | Media Events in a Networked Age: Twitter Publics and Active Spectatorship |
| David Parry | @academicdave | When Elections Become Social Engineering Campaigns |
| Linda Huber | @_puellaludens | Updating the discourse: practices of political news production and consumption on the Facebook news feed |
| Mona Kleinberg | @MonaBrooklyn | US Democracy, Race and Online News |
* Co-authored with Laura Meadows.
IRL in the URL: Digital Dualism of the “Real” & “Virtual” | Room D | #d2
Presider: Whitney Erin Boesel (@phenatypical)
Hashtag Moderator: Jeffery Keefer (@JeffreyKeefer)
Panelists:
| Tristan Rodman | @thetape | This is You: Turntable.fm and the Digital/Physical Divide |
| Stéphane Vial | @svial | There is no difference between the “real” and the “virtual”: a brief phenomenology of digital revolution |
| Lesley Gourlay* | @lesleygourlay | Critiquing digital dualism in Higher Education: a posthuman / sociomaterial account of student entanglements with technologies |
| David Banks | @da_banks | On the Political Origins of Digital Dualism: From Rousseau’s Masturbating Habits to The Front Page of the New York Times |
* Co-authored with Martin Oliver.
1:45pm-3:00pm | Lunch
3:00pm-4:15pm | Session 3
The New Technologies of Surveillance Society | Room A | #a3
Presider: Carla Ilten
Hashtag Moderator: Rotem Rozental (@rotroz)
Panelists:
| Andrew Schrock | @aschrock | User-Driven Video Surveillance in the Occupy Movement: Capturing Conflict, Claiming Space |
| Avery Henry | Frustrating the Technostrategic Gaze: Poststructuralist Anarchy as a Response to the Surveillance Society | |
| Karen Levy | The Automation of Compliance: Techno-Legal Regulation in the U.S. Trucking Industry | |
| Tobias Matzner | Online Identity and the Fragmentation of the Internet |
Bodies and Bits | Room B | #b3
Presider: Jen Jack Gieseking (@jgieseking)
Hashtag Moderator: TBA
Panelists:
| Christina Dunbar-Hester | ‘The Internet Is A Series Of (Fallopian) Tubes’: “Diversity” Activism in Hacker and Software Projects | |
| Gina Neff | @ginasue | What We Talk About When We Talk Data: Metrics, Mobilization, and Materiality in Performing Health Online |
| Jenny Davis | @Jup83 | Identity Prosumption and the Quantified Self Movement |
| John Michalczyk | Disability & Technology: Redefining the Stage and the Field |
Infostructures of Knowledge | Room | #c3
Presider: William Yagatich (@Praxis_In_Space)
Hashtag Moderator: Shane Tilton (@silnan)
Panelists:
| Bonnie Stewart | @bonstewart | MOOCs are Not the Enemy: Networked, Non-Imperialist MOOC Models |
| Daniel Greene | @greene_dm | ‘Do We Have A Sign That Says ‘Weirdos Welcome?’: Urban Libraries and the Control of Access |
| R. Stuart Geiger | @staeiou | Values Where? Interrogating Client-Side Scripting as a Design Process |
| Shannon Sindorf | @shannonsindorf | In defense of eavesdropping: Twitter as conversation, not self-indulgence |
4:30pm | Keynote | #k1 | Auditorium
The Emerging Culture of Surveillance: Digital Data, Visibility, and the Web
Speaker: David Lyon
6:00pm | After party
The afterparty is upstairs at Slattery’s Midtown Pub (8 E. 36th Street), two blocks from the Graduate Center.
