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The Prehistory of Cyberelectronic Language(s)
Donald Theall - Trent University

1:00-2:30 Great Hall A
Screening
The Tube - a film directed by Peter Entell

1:00-2:30 Lunch

2:30-3:45 Great Hall A
Session 3A - Roundtable Discussion
Education/Teaching
Moderator - Salvatore J. Fallica - New York University

Panelists
Peter Haratonik - New School University
Michael Lacy - Regis University
James Maroosis - Fordham University
Christine L. Nystrom - New York University
Alister Sanderson - Marymount Manhattan College

2:30-3:45 Great Hall B
Session 3B - Panel
Widening Perspectives on Media Ecology
Moderator - Lewis Freeman - Fordham University

Psychological and Philosophical Perspectives on Media Ecology
Steve Bailey - York University

Language: In Defense of a Method
Catherine W. Kaha - Hamilton College

Science and Technology Studies and Media Ecology: 
How They Might Talk to Each Other More (and Why They Should)
Joshua Greenberg - Cornell University

The Hallucination of Electric Life: Symplexity and Hyperreality
Frank Zingrone - York University

4:00-5:15 Great Hall A
Session 4A - Panel
Media Reconfigurations
Moderator - Laura Tropp - Marymount Manhattan College 

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

Interpersonal Networks and the Making of a Magazine: 
The Case of the Early New Yorker
Judith Yaross Lee - Ohio University

Western Views of Chinese Language and Culture: Critical Interrogations
Zhenbin Sun - Fairleigh Dickinson University

The Disappearance of Advertising
Read Mercer Schuchardt - Marymount Manhattan College

4:00-5:15 Great Hall B
Session 4B - Panel
Psychology
Moderator - Barbara M. Kelly - Hofstra University

Explaining Evil? Popular Belief and the Psychology of Brainwashing and
Persuasion
Stephen Biggs - York University

It Don't Mean a Thing, If It Ain't Got Those Strings or 
Bringing Media Ecology and Applied Behavioral Science Together 
for Enhanced Awareness and Improved Action
Fred Cheyunski - Rohm and Haas Company

Psychotherapy on Videotape: A Chapter in the Epistemology of Media
Peter Costello - Adelphi University

The Impact of Mass Media on the Cognitive Processes of Individuals
William Phillips - New York University

5:30-7:30 Theatre
Preview Screening
Moderator - BethAnn Bark - Marymount Manhattan College

McLuhan's Wake - a film directed by Kevin McMahon
Kevin McMahon - Primitive Entertainment Inc.

7:30-8:30 Black & White Lobby
Reception

SATURDAY JUNE 22

8:30 Main Lobby
Registration Opens

9:00-10:15 Great Hall A
Session 5 - Panel
Neglected Intellectual Roots of Media Ecology
Moderator - Kathleen LeBesco - Marymount Manhattan College
Respondent - Jeanne Posner - Western Connecticut State University

Media Ecology and Symbolic Interactionism
Susan B. Barnes - Rochester Institute of Technology

Hidden Dimensions of Hall in Media Ecology
Donna Flayhan - Goucher College

The Yin and Yang of Media Ecology
Janet Sternberg - Fordham University

10:30-11:30 Theatre
Featured Presentation
Moderator - Christine L. Nystrom - New York University
Respondent - Robert K. Logan - University of Toronto

Alphabet Versus the Goddess
Leonard Shlain - University of California, San Francisco

11:45-1:00 Great Hall A
Session 6A - Panel
Orality
Moderator - Terence P. Moran - New York University
Respondent - Paul Lippert - East Stroudsburg University

The Princess and the Virgin: A Preliminary Report and Some Early
Thoughts on an Ethnography of a Religious Celebration in Northern
Chile
Robert Albrecht - New Jersey City University

Toward a Media Ecology of Music
Thomas F. Gencarelli - Montclair State University

Oral Memory: Ong and the Story of Jesus
Shane Hipps - Fuller Theological Seminary

11:45-1:00 Great Hall B
Session 6B - Panel
Television and Media Ecology
Moderator - Janice Kelly - Marymount Manhattan College

HBO: The Network as Auteur
Al Auster - Fordham University

TV Genius: Four Arguments for the Imagination of Television 
David Lavery - Middle Tennessee State University

Sesame Street: How Season 33 Was Re-Designed to Meet the Educational
Needs of Today's Preschoolers
Rosemarie Truglio - Sesame Workshop

Celebrity Structures: Implications for Activism and Ideology
Sue Collins - New York University 

1:00-2:30 Great Hall A
Screening
Moderator - Terri Dewhirst - Marymount Manhattan College
The Tube - a film directed by Peter Entell

1:00-2:30 Lunch

2:30-3:45 Theatre
Keynote Address
Moderator - James W. Carey - Columbia University

Old Media in the New Millennium
Elizabeth Eisenstein - University of Michigan

4:00-5:15 Great Hall A/B
Session 7 - Roundtable Discussion
Policy Matters
Moderator - Margot Hardenbergh - Fordham University

Panelists
Susan Drucker - Hofstra University
Neil Kleinman - University of the Arts
Parry Aftab - WiredPatrol
James W. Carey - Columbia University
Jerry Komia Domatob - Southampton College, Long Island University

5:30-6:00 Great Hall A/B
President's Address
Moderator - David Linton - Marymount Manhattan College

Media Ecology as a Scholarly Activity
Lance Strate - Fordham University

6:00-6:30 Great Hall A/B
Presentation of the MEA Awards
William Petkanas - Western Connecticut State University
Missy Alexander - Marist College

6:30-7:00 Great Hall A/B
Performance
Moderator - Douglas Rushkoff - New York University

Media Ecology Unplugged
William Bly - Fordham University
John McDaid - New York University

7:00-8:00 Black & White Lobby
Reception

SUNDAY JUNE 23

8:30 Main Lobby
Registration Opens

9:00-10:00 Great Hall A/B
Business Meeting
All are welcome to attend
Moderator - Casey Man Kong Lum - William Paterson University

10:00-11:15 Great Hall A/B
Session 8 - Roundtable Discussion
The Day the World Changed: 9/11 and its Aftermath
Moderator - Peter Euler - Nassau Community College, SUNY

Panelists
Katherine Fry - Brooklyn College, CUNY
Gary Gumpert - Communication Landscapers
Paul Levinson - Fordham University
Marcia Rock - New York University
Paul Thaler - Mercy College

11:30-1:00 Great Hall A/B
Session 9 - Panel
Information Systems
Moderator - Michael Grabowski - College of New Rochelle
Respondent - Brian Cogan - New York University

Communication and Mass Media in a Differentiated Society
Mikkel Eskjaer - University of Copenhagen/New York University

The Call Plan: Cell Phones and the Redistribution of Business
Jason M. Schmitt - Eastern Michigan University

Mining Margins for the Mainstream: Recycling Trash into Information
Joseph Slade - Ohio University

A European View of Redefining Global Communication
Pamela Peeters - Our-Planet.Org

1:00 Convention Adjourns

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