EVAN ELKINS (MA student in Media Studies)
“Always Moving Forward: Hegemony and the Paradoxes of the Punk Documentary.” SW/Texas/PCA/ACA Conference (Albuquerque). Popular Music Panel. Feburary 13, 2008.
DR. CAROLINE FRICK (Asst Professor)
“Hybrid Approaches to Photo and Film Preservation.” American Institute for the Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works Conference. Denver, CO, 2008.
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“Hollywood at Home: Film History and Preservation Texas Style.” Explore UT, The University of Texas at Austin, 2008.
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“From Méliès to Melton: A Century of Texas Filmmaking.” Expresión en Corto International Film Festival. San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, 2007.
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Frick also produced a trailer celebrating UNESCO ‘s first annual “World Day for Audiovisual Heritage,” October 2007, featuring material from over twenty-five moving image archives across the globe that played throughout the UNESCO general conference in Paris, 2007. The trailer is available online.
CANDICE HADDAD
"I Am (Multiracial) Woman": A Case Study of America's Next Top Model's Construction of Racialized Beauty.” 2008 SXTX PCA/ACA Conference. February 13-16, 2008.
KATHERINE HAENSCHEN (PhD student) was recently elected Vice President of External Affairs of the Graduate Student Assembly. The GSA represents one of the largest bodies of graduate students in the country. Next year, the GSA plans to focus on health insurance, housing, and funding for graduate students, while also increasing student involvement in social events.
TIFFANY HENNING (MA student)
"Rebellion Through Popular Culture: The 'Can-Do' and 'At-Risk' Behaviors in Gilmore Girls." 2008 SW/Texas/PCA/ACA Conference (Albuquerque). February 14, 2008.
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"Score One for the Skirt: An Examination of the Gender Stereotypes in The Mighty Ducks Trilogy." PCA/ACA 2008 National Conference (San Francisco).
DR. MARY KEARNEY (Asst Professor)
Workshop organizer & participant: "Brainstorming for the Future: A Workshop for Revitalizing Feminist Media Studies." Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS). Philadelphia, PA, March 9, 2008.
"Pink Technology: Media-making Gear for Girls." Panel organizer: "Girls Get Busy: Media Production and Contemporary Female Youth." Console-ing Passions International Conference (Santa Barbara). April 26, 2008.
KRISTEN LAMBERT (MA student)
"There is some humanity left in you": Gender, Femininity, and Violence in NBC's Bionic Woman.” PCA/ACA 2008 National Conference. (San Francisco). March 21, 2008.
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“What's a Girl to Do: Aggression, Violence, and Contemporary Girl Protagonists." Center for Women and Gender Studies Conference. April 3, 2008.
JEAN LAUER
“From Mignola's Monster to Revolution Studios: Adapting Hellboy and the Future of the Cult Franchise Film." Panel chair: Monsters, Heroes and Villains, Oh My! Popular Culture/American Culture National Conference. San Francisco, CA, Mar 19-22, 2008.
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"Crises of Faith, Crises of Nationalism: History and Identity in a Postmodern Mexico." Sponsored by the Religion, Politics, and Globalization Program at UC Berkeley. Berkeley, CA, March 20, 2008.
KWANG-SUK LEE
“Globalization, Electronic Empire, and the Virtual Geography of Korea's Information and Telecommunications Infrastructure.” The International Communication Gazette. 70(1): 5-22.
MATTHEW THOMAS PAYNE
“The Office of War Information Presents / Versus David O. Selznick's Since You Went Away (1944).” University Film and Video Association (UFVA), Denton, TX, August 11, 2007.
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“Everything I Need to Know About Filmmaking I Learned from Playing the Sims 2: The Educational Promise of Machine Cinema.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS). Philadelphia, PA, March 8, 2008.
ANNE PETERSEN (Ph.D student)
“Narrative as Hostage to Cinema: Alfonso Cuaron's ‘Children of Men’ and the Politics of Abjection.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS). Philadelphia, PA.
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"Whores and Other Feminists": Recovering Deadwood's Unlikely Feminisms" Great Plains Quarterly. Volume 27, Issue 4. Fall 2007.
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"The 'Real' OC: Laguna Beach, MTV, and Reality Star Production." Forthcoming in The Business of Entertainment.
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"'Celebrity Juice, Not From Concentrate': Perez Hilton, Gossip Blogs, and the New Star Production." Forthcoming in The Business of Entertainment.
KEVIN PINKERTON (MFA in Screenwriting student)
"Effects of Morbid Curiosity on Perception, Attention, and Reaction to Bad News.” International Communication Association Conference (Montreal). May 24th, 2008.
DR. CHARLES RAMIREZ BERG (University Distinguished Teaching Professor)
“Latino Stereotyping & Counter-Stereotyping in Hollywood Film & Television.” Chican@ and Latin@ Studies Lecture. University of Wisconsin-Madison. April 9, 2008.
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“Manifest Myth-Making: Texas History in the Movies.” Communication Arts Lecture. University of Wisconsin–Madison. April 10, 2008.
KEVIN SANSON (PhD student)
“No Sex Farce, Please. We're American: Translating the BBC's 'Coupling' For US Network Television." 2007 RSS Conference on Reception Study. September 27-29, 2007.
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"No One Remembers Mama: NBC, 'Quality' Television, and 'Mama's Family'." The 15th Annual Emerging Scholarship in Women's & Gender Studies Conference. April 3, 2008.
JEREMIAH SPENCE was appointed in April 2008 by the Vice-President of Research to serve as the student-alternate to the full Institutional Review Board (IRB) of the University. Spence also received the IEF Scholarship for $1300 to support research abroad. From February 2007 to present, Spence has been appointed as a Research Fellow at the Brazilian NGO: IPSO-São Paulo. In August 2007, he was invited to the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) to a lecture titled, "Ondas de desenvolvimento nos meios de acesso digital no Brasil [Waves of development of access options in Brazil] by the Distance Education Research Nucleus - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil. 8 August 2007.
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Conferences and Papers this academic year:
“The growth of telecenters in Brazil and competing models for a national standard.” IX International Congress of the Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA). Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, March 27-30, 2008.
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Jeremiah Spence and Joseph Straubhaar. “Framing Digital Divide Responses in Brazil: the Observatório Nacional de Inclusão Digital nationwide telecenter survey and Beyond.” U.S. - Brazil Colloquium on Communications Studies. Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, March 25 & 26, 2008. (presented by Jeremiah Spence)
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Jeremiah Spence and Joseph Lopez. “Creating User Interfaces to Map the Historic Developments of Social Capital in Austin from 1880-2000: Designing new tools to facilitate the examination of cultural, social and racial trends in the creation of a Technopolis.” Exploring New Media Worlds Conference. Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, February 29-March 2, 2008. (presented by Jeremiah Spence)
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“SecondLife.Brasil.” AoIR 8.0 Doctoral Colloquium: Association of Internet Researchers International Conference. Vancouver, Canada, October 2007.
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“Orkut: a catalysis for the Brazilian internaut.” AoIR 8.0: Association of Internet Researchers International Conference. Vancouver, Canada. October 2007.
JACQUELINE VICKERY (MA student)
“‘i hate hate being single’ and ‘why is getting a bf so hard for me?’: Reproducing heteronormative femininity on gURL.com.” 2008 SW/Texas/PCA/ACA Conference (Albuquerque). February 14, 2008.
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“Challenging Dominant Discourse: Sex, etc and contemporary teenage sexuality.” PCA/ACA 2008 National Conference (San Francisco). Communication and Digital Culture: Transgressions Panel. March 21, 2008.
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"The Megan Meier MySpace Suicide: A case study exploring the social aspects of convergent media, citizen journalism, and online anonymity and credibility." UT Online Journalism Symposium. Social Networking and User-Generated Content Panel. April 5, 2008.
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"Strangers in a Virtual World: Negotiating identity on girls' blogs." Console-ing Passions International Conference (Santa Barbara). Teen TV and Girls' Blogs Panel. April 26, 2008.
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"MySpace, YourSpace, WhoseSpace?: Cultural Spaces and the Generation Gap." Cultural Studies Association Conference (New York). Networked Properties Panel. May 22, 2008.