[Air-L] The Legacies of Elihu Katz. Schedule is available and registration is open.

[Park, David]

It is our great pleasure to share with you an ICA pre-conference dedicated to the consideration and discussion of Elihu Katz’s ideas:
https://legacies-of-katz.pubpub.org
Thanks to the generous support of our sponsors, registration for this pre-conference is free. To register for the pre-conference, please go here:
https://www.icahdq.org/event/ICA23-ElihuKatz
Questions about the pre-conference should be directed to any one of the pre-conference organizers listed below.
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Subject: ICA Pre-conference: The Legacies of Elihu Katz. Schedule is available and registration is open.
It is our great pleasure to share with you an ICA pre-conference dedicated to the consideration and discussion of Elihu Katz’s ideas:
https://legacies-of-katz.pubpub.org
Thanks to the generous support of our sponsors, registration for this pre-conference is free. To register for the pre-conference, please go here:
https://www.icahdq.org/event/ICA23-ElihuKatz
Questions about the pre-conference should be directed to any one of the pre-conference organizers listed below.
# The Legacies of Elihu Katz
25 May, 2023
Toronto, Canada
Organized by: Menahem Blondheim (Hebrew University), David W. Park (Lake Forest College), Jeff Pooley (Muhlenberg College), and Julia Sonnevend (The New School)
## SCHEDULE:
8:30 am - 8:45 am: Arrival, Coffee
8:45 am - 8:50 am: Opening Remarks from Pre-Conference Sponsors
8:50 am - 9:20 am: Orienting Katz Historically
Moderator: Jeff Pooley
* Peter Simonson, “Communication, Opportunity Structures, and the Making of Elihu Katz, 1926–1956: The Child is Father of the Man”
9:20 am - 9:35 am: Coffee Break
9:35 am - 10:50 am: Katz on Journalism,
Democracy, and the Media
Moderator: Barbie Zelizer
* Klaus Bruhn Jensen & W. Russell Neuman, “Enriching the Concept of Communication Effects: The Legacy of Elihu Katz”
* Leah A. Lievrouw, “Katz, Tarde, and Theorizing Digital Communication”
* Michael McDevitt, “Is the U.S. Press Invested in Democratic Crisis?”
* Kimberly Meltzer, “Legacies of Elihu Katz: Contributions to Theorizing on Journalism and Television”
* Patrícia Dias & Priscila Krolow, “Youth on BeReal: Emergent Uses and Sought Gratifications”
10:50 am - 11:00 am: Coffee Break
11:00 am - 12:30 pm: The Continuing Relevance of Media Events
Moderator: Julia Sonnevend
* Esther Hammelburg, “Being There Live: Witnessing & Belonging at Contemporary Media(tized) Events”
* Johanna Sumiala & Katja Valaskivi, “Hybrid Media Environment: A Key Challenge to Contemporary Media Event Theory?”
* Charlotte Knorr & Christian Pentzold, “The Craft of Data Scandals: Reassessing Contemporary Whistleblowing as Media Events”
* Sachie Hamada, “Media Events in the Internet Age: From ‘Watching on Couch’ to ‘Doing Sports Together’”
* Rainier Winter & Jörg-Uwe Nieland, “Rethinking ‘Media Events’: Sports Mega-Events, Authoritarian States, and the Battle for Meaning”
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm: Lunch
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm: Two-Step Flow
Moderator: Larry Gross
* Devon Powers, “From Fads to Trends: Lessons From Katz”
* Laura Dilley, “The Memetics of QAnon as Dynamical System: A Historical and Forensic Analysis of Katz-Inspired Diffusion of pro-QAnon Sentiment Among Social media Micro-Influencers”
* Svetlana S. Bodrunova, Kamilla Nigmatullina, Nikolay Rodossky, and Dmitry Nepiyushchikh, “The Two-Step Flow Model in a Hybrid Environment: Decentralization of Media in Discussions on User Complaints in the VK.com Social Network”
* Hynek Jerabek, “Elihu Katz’s Journey From the ‘Two-Step Flow Report’ to ‘His Master’s Voice’: 65 Years of Opinion Leaders”
* Elizabeth Dubois, “Strategic Personal Influence: From Political Opinion Leaders to Social Media Influencers”
3:00 pm - 3:15 pm: Coffee Break
3:15 pm - 4:30 pm: The Multidimensional Katz: A Cross-Cutting Conversation
Moderator: Menahem Blondheim
* Sonia Livingstone
* Jeffrey C. Alexander
* Limor Shifman
* Michael Schudson
4:30 pm - 4:45 pm: Closing Words
Pre-recorded video contributions pending.
The Pre-Conference is Sponsored by:
The Department of Communication and the Smart Family Institute of Communications at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California; and the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania