SUBMIT A MEDIA STUDIES NEWS ITEM
“Going With the Flow”
article in Chronicle of Higher Education about the Flow media studies journal
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MORGAN BLUE (Ph.D. student)
Will be presenting at The Jonathan Levy Child Drama Symposium: Ethics and the Representation of Childhood in Performance, Pedagogy and Popular Culture at Arizona State University in March 2009.
ALEXIS CARREIRO (Ph.D. student)
presented a paper at the 2008 National Communication Association Conference, November 2008 in San Diego, CA.
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 (Ph.D. student)
"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 CELESTE KEARNEY (Associate Professor)
“From Bobbysoxers to Teenagers: The Development of Teen Programming.” Television: The Experimental Moment - From Invention to Institution (1935-1955). Paris, France, 27 May, 2009.
"\More than Blogs and Snapshots: Expanding Girls\' Media Production for the 21st Century\." Digital Dialogues: 2009 National Media Education Conference. One of the keynote addresses at the conference. Adelaide, South Australia, 27, Sept., 2008.
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 (Ph.D. student)
“Brown Berets”; “Chávez, César”; “Chicano Moratorium”; “Chicano Movement”; “Chicano Theater”; “Film, Independent”; “Gonzales, Rodolfo ‘Corky’”; “Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán (MEChA)”; “United Farm Workers”; “Zoot Suiters.” American Countercultures: An Encyclopedia of Nonconformists, Alternative Lifestyles, and Radical Ideas in U.S. History. Encyclopedia Ed. Gina Misiroglu. Published by M.E. Sharpe.
“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 (Ph.D. student)
“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 (Ph.D. student)
“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)
“Their Words, Our Story: Freedom Writers as Scenario of Pedagogical Reform.” Film and History 39.1. Spring 2009.
"Smut Goes Corporate: TMZ and the New (Corporate, Conglomerate) Face of Celebrity Gossip." Presented April 17th 2009 at Cultural Studies Association National Conference, Kansas City, Missouri.
“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 (Ph.D. 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 (Ph.D. student) 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.
Dr. Janet Staiger, William P. Hobby Centennial Professor of Communication
Publications
Convergence Media History. Co-edited: Janet Staiger and Sabine Hake. New York: Routledge, 2008.
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“The Revenge of the Film Education Movement: Cult Movies and Fan Interpretative Behaviors,” Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History 1 (Fall 2008), 43-69.
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Recent Presentations
“The Wertham Case: Evaluating Effects of Media Theories.” IAMHist Conference. Aberystwyth, UK: 8-11 July 2009.
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“’The First Bond Who Bleeds, Literally and Metaphorically’: Gendered Spectatorship for ‘Pretty Boy’ Action Movies.” Screen Conference. Glasgow, UK. 3-5 July 2009.
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“Film History, Film Practices.” Keynote. NECs: European Network for Cinema and Media Studies. Lund, Sweden. 25-28 June 2009.
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“Independent of What? The Ideology of ‘Alternatives’ to Hollywood.” Keynote. American Independent Cinema: Past, Present, Future. Liverpool, UK. 8-10 May 2009.
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“The Political Economy of Affect.” Seventh Annual Cultural Studies Association Conference. Kansas City, KS: 16-19 April 2009.
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“’Nuking the Fridge’: Great Expectations and Affective Reception.” Invited Lecture. Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI. 13 November 2008.
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“The Centrality of Affect in Reception Studies.” Film-Cinema-Spectator: Film Reception. Rome, Italy. 18-20 September 2008.
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“’Nuking the Fridge’: Great Expectations and Affective Reception.” Keynote. “In Anticipation of….” Conference. University of the Arts London. London, England. 5-6 September 2008.
R. COLIN TAIT (Ph. D. student)
Publications
“Politics, Class and Allegory in Spike Lee's Inside Man" (Book Chapter). Fight the Power: The Spike Lee Reader, eds. Janice D. Hamlet and Robin Means-Coleman, 2008.
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"Piercing Steven Soderbergh's Bubble" (Book Chapter). The Business of Entertainment: Movies, ed. Robert Sickels, 2008.
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“You Shook Sinatra's Hand, You Should Know Better: Competing Modes of Capital in Ocean's 11. The Philosophy of Steven Soderbergh, The University of Kentucky Press, Forthcoming (2011
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"The HBO-ification of Genre." Cinephile: The Film Journal of the University of British Columbia, 2008. The essay can be found at: http://cinephile.ca/archives/volume-4-post-genre/the-hbo-ification-of-genre
Conferences
“The Scene as Constitutive Unit in Spike Lee's Films." Spike Frames: The Spike Lee Conference. New York University, New York, November 2009.
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“sex, lies and (digital) videotape: Steven Soderbergh as Digital Auteur.” The Film Studies Association of Canada Conference. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 2008.
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“No Expense Was Incurred Bringing this Motion Picture to the Theatre: Considering the Interesting Failure of Steven Soderbergh’s Schizopolis. The Film Studies Association of Canada Conference. The University of Saskatchewan, Canada, 2007.
JACQUELINE VICKERY (Ph.D. student)
“Latinitas: Finding Empowerment and Cultural Identity through Media and Technology.” National PCA/ACA Conference. New Orleans, April 2009.
“The rates are never low enough and the whores are never putting out enough: Sex workers, feminists, and the blogosphere that loves them.” Cultural Studies Association. Kansas City, MO., April 2009.
“‘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.