Presented By: Digital Studies
“What Is Digital Studies?” Interdisciplinary Digital Studies at the University of Michigan
Conference schedule:
11:30am | Lunch
12:30 - 12:45pm | Opening Remarks, Professor Lisa Nakamura
12:45 - 2:15pm | “What Is Digital Studies?” Graduate Student and Faculty
Panel
John Cheney-Lippold, Moderator
Amanda D. Lotz, Professor, Communication Studies and Screen Arts and Cultures
Researching Television Distribution as Digital Studies
Cass Adair, Ph.D. Candidate, English Language and Literature
Trans Digital Aesthetics in the Age of the ‘Real Name’ Policy
Anna Watkins Fisher, Assistant Professor, American Culture and Residential College
The Politics of Parasitism in a Networked Age
Stephen Molldrem, Ph.D. Candidate, American Culture
Queer Protocols and ‘Programmed Visions’ of LGBTQ Health
Irina Aristarkhova, Associate Professor, Stamps School of Art & Design
Caring Objects in The Future Uncanny Valley: I Know She Is Not Real, But…
2:30 - 4:00pm | DS Faculty PechaKucha Presentations
Presenters work through a fast-paced talk with twenty, 20 second slides to cover a wide range of topics.
Christian Sandvig, Associate Professor, Communication Studies and School of Information
The Awakenings of the Filtered
Lia Wolock, Ph.D. Candidate, Communication Studies
Curating Community History
Scott Campbell, Associate Professor and Pohs Professor of Telecommunication, Communication Studies
Mobile Communication and Social connection: Old and New Directions in Research and Theory
Jeremy Gibson Bond, Lecturer, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Choice, Complicity, Understanding: The Creation of Meaning Through Player Choice in Interactive Media
Joseph DeLeon, Ph.D. Pre-Candidate, Screen Arts and Cultures
Mapping Digital Detroit
4:15 - 6:15pm Keynote | Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, “Updating to
Remain the Same: Habitual New Media”
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun is Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. She is the author of Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics, Programmed Visions: Software and Memory, and the forthcoming Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media, all published by the MIT Press.
Catered dinner
6:30 pm | 3512 Haven Hall
RSVP required for dinner:
http://tinyurl.com/dsumich-RSVP
Continue the conversation
on Twitter using hashtag
#dsumich
Livestreaming at:
http://lsa.umich.edu/digitalstudies/livestreaming
This event is being held in conjunction with the Department of American Culture’s 80th Anniversary.
11:30am | Lunch
12:30 - 12:45pm | Opening Remarks, Professor Lisa Nakamura
12:45 - 2:15pm | “What Is Digital Studies?” Graduate Student and Faculty
Panel
John Cheney-Lippold, Moderator
Amanda D. Lotz, Professor, Communication Studies and Screen Arts and Cultures
Researching Television Distribution as Digital Studies
Cass Adair, Ph.D. Candidate, English Language and Literature
Trans Digital Aesthetics in the Age of the ‘Real Name’ Policy
Anna Watkins Fisher, Assistant Professor, American Culture and Residential College
The Politics of Parasitism in a Networked Age
Stephen Molldrem, Ph.D. Candidate, American Culture
Queer Protocols and ‘Programmed Visions’ of LGBTQ Health
Irina Aristarkhova, Associate Professor, Stamps School of Art & Design
Caring Objects in The Future Uncanny Valley: I Know She Is Not Real, But…
2:30 - 4:00pm | DS Faculty PechaKucha Presentations
Presenters work through a fast-paced talk with twenty, 20 second slides to cover a wide range of topics.
Christian Sandvig, Associate Professor, Communication Studies and School of Information
The Awakenings of the Filtered
Lia Wolock, Ph.D. Candidate, Communication Studies
Curating Community History
Scott Campbell, Associate Professor and Pohs Professor of Telecommunication, Communication Studies
Mobile Communication and Social connection: Old and New Directions in Research and Theory
Jeremy Gibson Bond, Lecturer, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Choice, Complicity, Understanding: The Creation of Meaning Through Player Choice in Interactive Media
Joseph DeLeon, Ph.D. Pre-Candidate, Screen Arts and Cultures
Mapping Digital Detroit
4:15 - 6:15pm Keynote | Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, “Updating to
Remain the Same: Habitual New Media”
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun is Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. She is the author of Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics, Programmed Visions: Software and Memory, and the forthcoming Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media, all published by the MIT Press.
Catered dinner
6:30 pm | 3512 Haven Hall
RSVP required for dinner:
http://tinyurl.com/dsumich-RSVP
Continue the conversation
on Twitter using hashtag
#dsumich
Livestreaming at:
http://lsa.umich.edu/digitalstudies/livestreaming
This event is being held in conjunction with the Department of American Culture’s 80th Anniversary.
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