[Air-l] Second Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association

[J. Sternberg]

The Second Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association
Sponsored by the Department of Culture and Communication
New York University
June 15-16, 2001
Lipton Hall at the D'Agostino Residence
NYU Law School Campus in Greenwich Village
108 West Third Street (between Sullivan & MacDougal Streets)
New York, New York  10012
Directions to the NYU campus are available at
<http://www.nyu.edu/maps.nyu>.

If you're interested in:
- the nature, history, and impact of technology, media, and symbol
systems;
- the study of communication, consciousness, and culture;
- technological determinism, media evolution, information theory and
cybernetics;
- the study of media codes, media literacy, and media education;
- orality, literacy, secondary orality, and post-literacy;
- oral, scribal, typographic, and electronic cultures;
- the graphic revolution and image culture;
- scholars such as Marshall McLuhan, Harold Innis, Walter Ong, Neil
Postman, Lewis Mumford, Edmund Carpenter, Jacques Ellul, and Erving
Goffman,
then you won't want to miss this summer's hottest convention in the
coolest part of New York City.

Keynote speaker:  Joshua Meyrowitz, author of the award-winning NO
SENSE OF PLACE:  THE IMPACT OF ELECTRONIC MEDIA ON SOCIAL BEHAVIOR
(Oxford University Press, 1985), as well as dozens of articles about
media and culture.  Professor of Communication at the University of
New Hampshire and a graduate of NYU's doctoral program in Media
Ecology, Dr. Meyrowitz will speak about promises and challenges of
media ecology research.

Featured presentations by Camille Paglia and Douglas Rushkoff.

Additional participants include Richard Barbrook, James Carey, Mark
Dery, Susan Drucker, Ray Gozzi, Gary Gumpert, Robert Logan, John
Pavlik, and Jay Rosen, among others.

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Convention Fees
The Convention is open to MEA members only.
Non-members add membership fee to registration fee.
$20	2001 Membership
$40	Registration
$10	Student 2001 Membership
$30	Student Registration

The Convention schedule (updated periodically), as well as a list of
hotels and hostels in Manhattan, can be found at
<http://www.media-ecology.org/events_conference2_.html#forms>

Questions?  Email Janet Sternberg <netberg at compuserve.com>

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The Second Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association
Sponsored by 
The Department of Culture and Communication
New York University
June 15-16, 2001

Schedule as of 5/31/01
updates and details at http://www.media-ecology.org

All sessions except Friday evening reception take place at:
Lipton Hall at the D'Agostino Residence
NYU Law School Campus in Greenwich Village
108 West Third Street (between Sullivan & MacDougal Streets)
New York, NY 10012

FRIDAY 

8:30
Registration Opens

9:00 - 9:30
Introduction and Greetings
Janet Sternberg - New York University
Terence P. Moran - New York University
Lance Strate - Fordham University

9:30 - 10:45
Session 1 - Panel
Perspectives on Our Age
Moderator - Dennis Gallagher - Regis University/Denver City Council

The National Information Infrastructure 
and the Shape of the Script in the Next Millenium
Edmond Chibeau - Eastern Connecticut State University

The Form of News:  U.S. Political History and the Media Environment
Kevin G. Barnhurst - University of Illinois-Chicago
John C. Nerone - University of Illinois-Chicago

Beyond Linguistic Apocalypse:  The Political Theory of Marshall
McLuhan
David P. Parisi - University of Albany

Jurgen Habermas:  Media Ecologist?
Paul Grosswiler - University of Maine

11:00 - 12:15
Session 2 - Panel
Communication and Urban Forms:  From Mumford to Wired Cities
Moderator - Thomas F. Gencarelli - Montclair State University

Cities without Lines:  Demassification in the Age of Ubiquity
James C. Morrison - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Is the Wired City Really So SMART?
Gary Gumpert - Communication Landscapers
Susan Drucker - Hofstra University

Taking Private Matters to Public Space
Jack Barwind - Syracuse University

12:30 - 1:00
Featured Presentation
Moderator - [TBA]
Gender and Media:  A Report on Revising the Curriculum
Camille Paglia - University of the Arts

1:00 - 2:30
Lunch

2:30 - 3:45
Session 3 -  Panel
Art and Technics
Moderator - George L. Back - Hofstra University

Internet Artwork, Artists and Computer Analysts:  
Sharing the Creative Process
Jean-Paul Fourmentraux - Université de Toulouse II

Sense, Memory and Media
Scott Weiland - DigitalArtSource.com

VISCOM:  A Message and a Medium
Robert M. Hall - Flagler College

Cinema:  The New Cathedral of HollyWorld
Read Mercer Schuchardt - New York University

4:00 - 5:15
Session 4 - Roundtable Discussion
The Future of News
Moderator - Edward Wachtel - Fordham University
Panelists
James W. Carey - Columbia University
Mark Dery - New York University
Hal Himmelstein - Brooklyn College
John Pavlik - Columbia University
Jay Rosen - New York University
Paul Thaler - Mercy College

5:30 - 6:00
President's Address
Moderator - Janet Sternberg - New York University
The Flight of MinErvA's Owl
Lance Strate - Fordham University

6:00 - 6:30
Presentation of the MEA Awards
Michael Grabowski - New York University
Laura Tropp - Marymount Manhattan College

6:30 - 7:00
Keynote Address
Moderator - Lance Strate - Fordham University
Morphing McLuhan:  Medium Theory for a New Millennium
Joshua Meyrowitz - University of New Hampshire

7:30 - 9:00
Reception
Kimball Hall, 246 Greene Street, first floor lounge

SATURDAY 

8:30
Registration Opens

9:00 - 10:00
Business Meeting
All are welcome to attend
Moderator - Casey Man Kong Lum, William Paterson University

10:00 - 11:15
Session 5 - Panel
Demeaning of Meaning
Moderator - Neil Postman - New York University