The Eighth Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association

Media Ecology Association 9th Annual Conference
Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
June 19-22, 2008

“Communication, Technology, and the Sacred”

*****PROGRAM DRAFT*****

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Thursday June 19	1:00 - 5:00	Registration Conference: California Mission Lobby (Blake Hall) Lodging: Casa Italiana (Residence Hall)
	4:15 - 4:30	Welcoming Remarks California Mission Room
	4:45 - 6:00	Session I California Mission Room Plenary Speaker: Fritjof Capra
	6:00 - 7:30	Hors d'oeuvres California Mission Lobby
	7:30 - 8:45	Session II - A Parlor C Theology, Religion and Technology Chair: A Test of Strictness and Marketing upon Church Growth and Health Rhonda Oosterhoff KPOF: A Pillar of Fire on the Denver Airwaves Kimberly Casteline Narrative Convergence and Evangelical Homiletics Curt Wanner Electrical Equivocal: The Sublimating Effect of the Electrical Sublime in Sacred Worship Space Steven Reagles Session II -B Parlor B *Sustaining What's Sacred: Finding the Ghosts in/through Our Machines* Chair: Robert MacDougall, Curry College Natural Boundings Bronac Ferran, Royal College of Art, UK The Creative Ghost Barry Liss, University of Wisconsin The Feeling of Flow: A Phenomenological Analysis of On- and Off-line Life Robert MacDougall, Curry College Aural Space, Acoustic Space, and Visual Space: The Quest for Virtual Reality in Musical Reproduction James Morrison, Western Connecticut State University Session II - C Williman Room *Theorizing Media Ecology* Chair: Meta-Four-Play: A Comparison of Marshall McLuhan's Tetrad and Claude Levi-Strauss' Canonical Formula Robert Blechman Sin and Sacrament: Media Criticism from the Contrasting Theological Perspectives of Jacques Ellul and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Peter Fallon Are We the Center of Construction of the Universe? Teilhard's Sacred Perspective on Media Construction Christine Tracy, Eastern Michigan University Ellul and Communication Ray Gozzi Session II - D Parlor A Theorizing the Human Soul in a Digital Age Chair: The Human Soul and the Sacred: The Influence of Communication Technologies Magda Rodrigues de Cunha Theology in a Digital Age: The Example of David Tracy Jerry Harp The Gods are Back in Town: Pagan Beauty and the Culture of Spectacle Arthur Hunt
	8:45 - 10:00	Welcome Reception California Mission Lobby
Friday June 20	8:30 - 5:00	Registration Conference: California Mission Lobby (Blake Hall) Lodging: Casa Italiana (Residence Hall)
	7:30 - 9:00	Breakfast
	9:00 - 10:15	Session III - A Williman Room *Methodology in Media Ecology #1* Chair: Corey Anton, Grand Valley State University Postman Lance Strate, Fordham University What I Learned from Marshall McLuhan Robert Logan, University of Toronto Classical Rhetoric and Media Ecology Methodology Anne Pym, California State University, East Bay Extreme Visual Tactics and Social Movements: No Method is Sacred When the Whole World is No Longer Watching Donna Flayhan Session III - B Parlor B *Emergent Media, Systems Theory, & Informatics* Chair: A Biological Approach to the Rhetoric of Emergent Media: Exploring the Biological Design, News and Religion Ecosystems Robert Logan, University of Toronto Christine Tracy, Eastern Michigan University Designing for Emergence and Innovation: Redesigning Design Greg Van Alstyne The Design Ecosystem: Designing for Emergence and Innovation Robert Logan, University of Toronto Greg Van Alstyne Constructed Reality “Re-Sacralized'? Systems Theory Perspectives Yu-Cheng Liu Session III - C Parlor C Media Depictions Chair: The War Bride: Folklore of Military Man Brett Robinson Forsaking Convention, Forsaking Content? Postmodern Fiction, Typographical Experimentation, and Letters in an Electronic Age Matt Thomas, University of Iowa World Wide Web and Religious Integration in Egypt: Coptic United and Islam Online as Case Study Samy Saad Screen Hierophants: Orally and Literately Inflected Modes of Engagement with the Sacred in Visual Narrative Sheila Nayar, Greenboro College
	10:30 - 11:45	Session IV California Mission Room Featured Session: McLuhan & Ong in Conversation Chair: Anne Pym, California State University, East Bay The Priest and the Prophet: Ong, McLuhan, and the Mysteries of Media David Curtis Contemporary Theo-Technology Curt Wanner Respondent Paul Soukup, Santa Clara University Respondent Lance Strate, Fordham University
	12:00 - 1:30	Lunch
	1:30 - 2:45	Session V California Mission Room Plenary Session: Silicon Valley Group Chair: Paul Soukup, Santa Clara University ????
	3:00 - 4:15	Session VI California Mission Room Plenary Session: Leonard Shlain Introduction & Respondent:
	4:30 - 5:45	Session VII - A Parlor B *Sacred Earth, Sacred Universe* Chair: The City's Curse: The Church's Plight - An Ellulian Perspective Stephanie Bennett Media Ecology, Sacred Earth, and the Agrarian Mind Arthur Hunt The Metaphysics of Media: Toward an End of Postmodern Cynicism and the Creation of a Virtuous Reality Peter Fallon 12,000 Years from Pythagoras: Numbers, Time and the Music of the Long Now Ed Tywoniak, St. Marys College Session VII B Parlor C *Histories and Evolution in Media Ecology* Chair: Clocks, Synchronization, and the Fate of Leisure: A Brief Media Ecological History of Digital Technologies Corey Anton, Grand Valley State University From Alphabet to Google Search: A Media History of the Emerging 'Control' Paradigm Scott Eastham MoneyGod: The Economic History of the World's Most Valuable Idea Read Mercer Schuchardt Evolution is the Message: A Diachronic Medium Theoretic Comparison of the Evolution of Speech, the Printing Press and the Internet Mogens Olesen Session VII - C Williman Room The Media Ecology Tradition in Latin America Chair: FernandoGutierrez, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico The Founders of a New Tradition Fernando Gutierrez, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico El Pensamiento de McLuhan en la Reconfiguracion de la Academia Latinoamericana de Communicacion Octavio Islas, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico La Comprension de los Nuevos Ambientes Para La Comunicacion Amai Arribas, Techologico de Monterrey, Mexico
	6:00 - 7:30	Dinner
	7:30 - 8:00	President's Address: California Mission Room Lance Strate, Fordham University
	8:00 - 9:00	MEA Awards California Mission Room
	9:00 - 10:30	Reception California Mission Room Lobby
Saturday, June 21	8:30 - 5:00	Conference Registration California Mission Lobby (Blake Hall)
	7:30 - 9:00	Breakfast
	9:00 - 10:15	Session VIII - A Salon B Civic Engagement, Media, and Reality Construction Chair: The Civic Soul: Public Space Remixed and Curative Archive Paul Guzzardo and David Walzcyk Journalism, Cell Phone and Young Voters: The Development of an Election MoBlog in Philadelphia Susan Jacobson, Temple University Karen Turner It Ain't Heavy: The Bias of Digital Communication Thom Gencarelli Civic Engagement: Spirit, Reality, and Truth Anne Pym, California State University, East Bay Session VIII - B Salon C Modes of Media Production Chair: Te dedico esta cancion: El amor en los tiempos del YouTube Marcela Acosta Moreno Made-From-TV-Movies: Turning Television into Films in the 1950s Blair Davis Living in Hybrid Spaces: Digital Photography, Subjectivity, and the Competing - Claims of Private and Public Spheres Dong-Hoo Lee Remediation of the Sacred on YouTube Mike Wesch Session VIII - C Williman Room Uses of Technology in Education (from a Media Ecology perspective) Chair: Robert Blechman The Impact of Technology On Pedagogy Michelle Seelig, University of Miami Photojournalism and Visual Journalism Larry Dailey, University of Nevada The Effects of Textbooks as a Cultural Information Transmission Technology Leo Fahey Seeing Like a Camera: Introducing Contemporary Art Through the Use of Cameras Kathleen Sweeney Online Learning and Educational Computing Alexander Kuskis, Gonzaga University Community Blogs Susan Jacobson Classroom Lecture Recording Technology Robert Blechman
	10:30 - 11:45	Session IX California Mission Room Plenary Session: Lynn Clark
	12:00 - 1:30	Session X California Mission Room Plenary Session: Joshua Meyrowitz
	1:30 - 2:45	Lunch
	3:00 - 4:15	Session XI - A Williman Room Methodology in Media Ecology #2 Chair: Corey Anton, Grand Valley State University Figures of Speech as Method Valerie Peterson, Grand Valley State University Using Q-sort Methodology Paul Grosswiler Walter Ong?? Paul Soukup, Santa Clara University Phenomenological Methodologies for Media Ecology Corey Anton, Grand Valley State University Session XI - B Salon C Political Life and Mediation Chair: The New Religion: How Technoculture is Transforming our Experiences of the Sacred Pete Moberg I'm Not Bad, I'm Just Drawn That Way: Political Remixes and Transgressive Political Women Karla Stevenson Where Girard Meets McLuhan: On the Need to Communicate Violence Phil Rose, York University The Blogos-Fear: A Case Study of the Sacred and Profane Paul Grosswiler Session XI - C Salon B Catholic Theology and catholic Technology Chair: John Jasso The Logos, the Trinity, and the Trivium: Fine Tuning a Classical Antenna for Modern Reception and Broadcast John Jasso The Splendor of Form: Rhetoric, Aesthetics, and the Medium of the Mass Anthony Wachs The Commodification of Authority in the Media Age Daniel Dooghan A Picture is Worth a Thousand Acolytes: The Church, the Media and the Power of the Image P. J. Barnett
	4:30 - 5:45	Session XII California Mission Room Keynote Address: Frank Dance
	6:00 - 7:30	Dinner
	7:30 - 9:00	Reception & Hootenanny California Mission Lobby
Sunday, June 22	7:30 - 9:00	Breakfast
	9:00 - 10:15	Session XIII - A Salon B *Worship and Media* Chair: Degitizing the Devine: Eli Stone and Fusion Spirituality Susan Jasko Tele-visuality, Dreams, and Intercession among Coptic Orthodox of Contemporary Egypt Angie Heo Vlogging for God Brian Dixon The Role of Media Effects in Popular Eschatology Jon Olsen Session XIII - B Salon C *Language and Media Strategies* Chair: The Key Factors to Driving Chinese Players into MMORPG Online Game Li Yifan New Forms of Cognition from the Use to Internet Luis Esau Bravo On Metaphor Sun Zhenbin Session XIII - C Williman Room *Embodiment in Media Technology* Chair: The Body and the Sacred in the Digital Age: Thoughts on Posthuman Sexuality Brett Lunceford Where Did the Wild Ones Go? Manic Media Environments Melt Rituals, Mutate Primates, and Sacrifice the Sacred Donna Flayhan The Nature of Equilibrium as an Intrinsic Feature of Personal Health, Growth and Self-Cultivation Barry Liss McLuhan Redivivus: Hemisphericity, Plasticity, Electricity and the Rations of the Soul Steve Reagles Session XIII - D Salon A *Media Ecology, The Sacred, and the Christian Tradition at Christian Schools* Drop in discussion Discussion Leaders: Stephanie Bennett and Peter Fallon
	10:15 - 11:30	Business Meeting Salon A
	11:45 - 1:00	Session XIV California Mission Room Plenary Session: Communication, Social Action, and the New Journalism Chair: Ed Tywoniak, St. Marys College Role of Journalism in the Construction of a Just Society Mike Russo, St. Marys College Ecology and Democracy: Citizen Journalism in the Digital Age Christine Tracy, Eastern Michigan University Social Media and the Revolution in User-created/User-distributed Media J.D. Lassica, President of the Social Media Group The Emerging “Female Voice” in Contemporary American Politics Valerie Peterson, Grand Valley State University
	1:00 - 1:15	Closing Remarks California Mission Room
		WINE TOUR or HALF-MOON BAY or…

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