[Air-L] Announcing Keynote and Plenary Speakers

[Radhika G]

Excellent roundup of wonderful people!

this will be a conference to look forward to.

r

On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 8:50 AM, Hector Postigo <hector.postigo at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello Everyone
>
> It's my pleasure to announce AoIR 14’s Keynote Speaker and Plenary Panel
> speakers.  Our Keynote Speaker this year is Gabriella Coleman.  Prof.
> Coleman is Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy in the Art
> History and Communication Studies Department at McGill University.  Her
> first book, Coding Freedom: The Aesthetics and the Ethics of Hacking, is
> available from Princeton University Press. Her second book on Anonymous is
> forthcoming from Verso Press.
>
> Our Plenary Panel Speakers are as follows:
>
> Our first Plenary Panel will be themed “Race, Gender and Information
> Communication Technologies.”  Our speakers for that panel are Jenna
> Burrell, Lisa Nakamura and Christina Dunbar-Hester.  Jenna Burrell is
> Assistant Professor in the School of Information at UC Berkeley. Her first
> book, Invisible Users: Youth in the Internet Cafes of Urban Ghana, is
> available from MIT Press.  Lisa Nakamura is Professor in the Department of
> American Cultures and the Department of Screen Arts and Cultures at the
> University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.  She is the author of a number of books
> on race and the internet including Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the
> Internet from the University of Minnesota Press and Cybertypes: Race,
> Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet from Routledge Press.  Christina
> Dunbar-Hester is an ethnographer who studies activism in technical
> cultures.  She is Assistant Professor of Journalism & Media Studies in the
> School of Communication & Information at Rutgers University.  Her book on
> low-power radio activism will be published in 2014 by MIT Press, and her
> current NSF-supported research centers on efforts to promote "diversity" in
> hacker spaces and FLOSS.
>
> Our second Plenary Panel will be themed “Political Economy of
> Technoculture.”  Our speakers for the second panel are Tarleton Gillespie,
> T.L. Taylor and Gina Neff.   Tarleton Gillespie is an Associate Professor
> in the Department of Communication at Cornell University. He is the
> co-editor of Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality, and
> Society from MIT Press, and is finishing his second book on the
> implications of the content policies of online platforms for Yale
> University Press.  T.L. Taylor is Associate Professor in Comparative Media
> Studies at MIT. She has authored a number of pieces on gaming and
> multi-user spaces, including her recent book Raising the Stakes: E-sports
> and the Professionalization of Computer Gaming from MIT Press. Gina Neff is
> an Associate Professor at the University of Washington’s Department of
> Communication. She has authored research on how work, communication
> technologies, and organizational structures relate to one another and the
> commercial production of mediated culture in communication industries. Her
> recent book Venture Labor: Work and the Burden of Risk in Innovative
> Industries is available from MIT Press.
>
> My deepest gratitude to all of them for accepting my invitation to join us
> and to you, my fellow AoIR list readers and members, for your ongoing
> support of our conference.  As the date approaches please visit
> www.ir14.aoir.org for more information on our invited speakers and their
> forthcoming discussion topics.
>
>
>
> All the best,
>
> Hector Postigo
>
> AoIR 14 Resistance and Appropriation
>
> Program Chair
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