SF June11 Union For Dem Communica Conf
Institute for Global Communications
UDC '98 Annual Conference
Conference Schedule
(updated April 19, 1998)
Union for Democratic Communications Conference -- University of San
Francisco
June 11-14, 1998
THURSDAY JUNE 11
5:30 p.m. -- 7:00 p.m.
Reception and Registration.
7:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m.
Screenings
"Midnight Ramble -- Oscar Micheaux and the Story of Race Movies"
Video screening and discussion with film maker, Pam Thomas.
"What Faroki Taught"
Film screening and discussion with film maker, Jill Godmilow.
"Who's Counting? Marylin Waring on Sex, Lies and Economics."
Viewing and discussion facilitated by Susan C. Strong, Communication
Consultant.
FRIDAY JUNE 12
8:30 a.m. -- 10:30 a.m.
Technology, Democracy, and the `Virtual Community'
Chair: John W. Higgins, University of San Francisco.
"New Technologies and Democracy," David Paletz, Duke University.
"Tele-Community Planning and Development," Richard Lowenberg, Davis
Community Network.
"The Role of Geographic Community in Providing Access to the Virtual
Community," Scott J. Patterson, San Francisco State University.
Title TBA, Marci Lockwood, Institute for Global Communications.
Title TBA, Barry Steinhardt, Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Media, Democratization and Social Change
Chair: Bob Hackett, Simon Fraser University.
"Commercialization and Democratization in China: Contradictions and
Tensions," Yuezhi Zhao, University of California, San Diego.
"Televisual Discourse and the Mediation of Power: The Rise of the Political
Soap Opera in Reform Era China," Bill Godby, University of Hawaii.
"Bulgarian Media after the Breakdown of the Iron Wall, 1989 to 1998,"
Daniela Dimitrova, University of Oregon.
"Sub-Saharan African Democratic Quest and the Public Sphere: Press Pressures
and Politics," Jerry Kornia Domatob, Long Island University.
"Public" Media, "Private" Consumption?
Chair: Jackie Byars, Wayne State University.
"Contemporary British TV: Public Spaces and Private Identities," Dr. Lucy
Mazdon, University of Southampton, Britain.
"From the Inside Out: Recognizing the Activist Potential of the Historical
Fan-Based Community," Chad Dell, Monmouth University.
"'Highlander,' the Phenomenon: Mass Media, Fandom, and Community in the Age
of Cyberspace," Jackie L. Byars, Wayne State University.
"From Mission to Value: Public Radio's Audience 98 Study in Context," Tom
McCourt, Valdosta State University.
"Inclusion and Loyalty: Mass Media and the African-American Consumer,"
Shannon Campbell, University of Florida.
11:00 a.m. -- 1:00 p.m.
Theme Panel: "Political Economy of the Public Sphere"
Chair: David Paletz, Duke University.
"Why Does Capital Hate the Public Sphere?" Herbert Schiller, University of
California, San Diego.
"Dividing Practices: Segmentation and Targeting in the Emerging Public
Sphere," Oscar Gandy, University of Pennsylvania.
"Intersections of Political Economy and Feminism," Eileen Meehan and Ellen
Riordan, University of Arizona.
"The Political Economy of 'Celebration'/Celebrating Political Economy,"
Janet Wasko, University of Oregon.
"Peopling the Public Sphere: Power, Peace, and Procedure," Brenda Dervin,
Ohio State University.
1:30 p.m. -- 2:30 p.m.
"Deconstructing Persuasion: Paper Tiger Tracks Sport Utility Vehicles"
Presentation, video and discussion. Robin Andersen, Fordham University and
Mike Simmonds, School of Visual Art, New York.
"Organizing Action: Research and Education Tools Workshop," Brian Murphy,
"The Global Media and Public Space Project, " Media Education Foundation.
"Disney and Democracy," Roundtable discussion with Janet Wasko, University
of Oregon, Mike Budd, Florida Atlantic University and Lee Artz, Loyola
University.
3:00 p.m. -- 5:00 p.m.
Theme Panel: "Alternative Media"
Chair: Michelle A. Wolf, San Francisco State University.
"Combat Radio," David Barsamian, Alternative Radio.
"Radio That Activates," Peggy Law, Making Contact.
"Seizing the Airwaves," Stephen Dunnifer, Free Radio Berkeley.
"Alternative Communications and Global Solidarity," Jesse Drew, Paper
Tiger/Deep Dish TV.
"A Case Study for Progressive PR," Seeta Pena Gangadharan, Institute for
Alternative Journalism/S.P.I.N.
5:30 p.m. -- 7:30 p.m.
Communication Strategies for Social Change
Chair: Alice DoValle, University of San Francisco.
"Feminist Media Strategies and News Discourse: Is Incorporation Inevitable?"
Bernadette Barker-Plummer, University of San Francisco.
"Progressive Public Relations," Michael Shellenberger, Director,
Communication Works, San Francisco.
"An Analysis of the GLAAD Update: Strategies for Gay and Lesbian Media
Activism," Dr. Jack Banks, Northwestern University.
"Words that Make Things Happen: Communication for Empowerment in a
Grassroots Leadership Campaign," Eleanor Novek, Monmouth University.
"On Electronic Civil Disobedience," Stefan Wray, New York University.
"Public" and "Private" in the Cybersphere
Chair: Scott Patterson, San Francisco State University.
"Two Cheers for Anonymity: Rethinking Privacy Law in the Internet Era," Chad
Raphael, Santa Clara University.
"Anonymity and Pseudonymity in Cyberspace: Deindividuation, Incivility and
Lawlessness versus Freedom and Privacy," M. E. Kabay, Education
International Computer Security Association.
"Telecommunications as Public Space and Public Sphere," Lewis Kaye,
University of Oregon.
"Public Debates on the Internet," Robert van Boeschoten, McLuhan Program,
The Netherlands.
Implementing Alternative Video: Community-Based Access Television
Chair: John W. Higgins, Department of Communication, University of San
Francisco.
"Community Access Television and the Public Sphere," Elliot Margolies, Mid
Peninsula Access Corporation.
"Accessibility of Major and Minor Media Outlets to Communities of Color,"
Cheryl Fabio-Bradford, Educational Access Television (San Francisco), Cable
Channel 52.
"Influencing Municipal Telecommunications Policy," Zane Blaney, San
Francisco Community Television Corporation (SFCTC) and CITYWATCH.
"Community Access Television and the Public Sphere: The Contradictory
Culture of Manhattan Neighborhood Network," Kevin Howley, Northeastern
University.
"Towards A Definition Of Alternative Video," Carlos Fontes, Worcester State
College.
Title TBA, Martha Wallner, Berkeley Community Media.
7:30 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m.
Business Meeting: UDC in the Next Millennium
Membership, Publications, Website, Leadership.
Issues of Access And Class In The Electronic Culture
Roundtable Discussion with Patricia Wilburn, San Francisco State University,
Chupoo Alafonte, Institute for Global Communications, Ethel Long-Scott,
Women's Economic Agenda Project and Chester Williams, Computers and You,
Glide Memorial Church, San Francisco.
9:00 -- 11:00
Screenings
9:00 p.m. -- "Fear and Favor in the Newsroom." 1996.
Producer/writer: Beth Sanders. 57 minutes.
9:15 p.m. -- "The Ad and the Ego." 1996. Producers, Harold Boihem
and Chris Emmanouilides. 57 minutes.
SATURDAY JUNE 13
8:30 a.m. -- 10:30 a.m.
Problematizing the "Public"
Chair: Jim Wittebols, Niagara University.
"If You Build It, They Might Not Come: Media, the Public Sphere and the
Privatization of Consciousness," Jim Wittebols, Niagara University.
"Communities, Publics, and Counterpublics: Feminist Access and the
Mass-Mediated Public Sphere," Lisa McLaughlin, Miami University.
"Taking Environmentalist Multiculturalism Seriously in Critical Media
Studies," Clay Steinman, Macalester College.
"A Proposal For A University Public Sphere Project," David Sholle, Miami
University.
Studies of Media Practices and Public Discourse
Chair: Ted Glasser, Stanford University.
"Newsroom Reform and the Limits of Change from Within: The Case of Public
Journalism," Elissa Lee, Stanford University.
"Property Rights and Internet Policy: Lessons from the History of
Broadcasting, " Christian Sanvig, Stanford University.
"Understanding the Conditions for Public Discourse: A Critique of Criteria
for Letters to the Editor," Karin Wahl-Jorgensen, Stanford University.
"Counter-publics and the Berkeley Barb: A Study of the Prospects for Social
Change," Seeta Gangadharan, Institute for Alternative Journalism.
Larry Bensky, respondent, KPFA Radio and California State University,
Hayward.
Law and Policy Spheres
Chair: Laura Stein, University of Texas at Austin.
"Does the First Amendment Protect Democratic Speech? The State of Speech
Rights in U.S. Media," Laura Stein, Department of Radio-Television-Film,
University of Texas at Austin/University of San Francisco.
"Copyright & the Suppression of Access to Digital Information: Attacks on
the Concept of Fair Use," Howard Besser, UC Berkeley School of Info Mgmt &
Systems.
"Crash And Burn:" The Censorship Wars Of David Cronenberg's "Depraved And
Corrupt" Film In The United States And Great Britain," Kevin Sandler,
Sheffield Hallam University/ University Of Michigan.
"Creating and Safeguarding a Public Sphere: The Role of the Supreme Court,
Print Press, Cable and Broadcast Television," Nandini Sen, Temple
University.
"Copyright and the Reproduction of Economic and Ideological Power," Ron
Bettig, Penn State University.
"Ideological Implications of Increasing Concentration of Ownership in Mass
Media," Dan Nicholson, University of Oregon.
11:00 a.m. -- 1:00 p.m.
Theme Panel: Media And Democratic Action
Chair: Dee Dee Halleck, University of California, San Diego.
"Labor, Telecommunications and The Global Economy," Steve Zeltzer, Union
Producers and Programmers Network/Labor Video Project.
"Transnational Media and Art on the Border: A Han Young Account, " Fred
Lonedier, University of California, San Diego and David Bacon, journalist.
"Necessity is the Mother of Invention," Deborah Kelly, Social Change Media,
Melbourne, Australia.
"Radio Educacion: Its History and Its Effects on Commercial Radio Content,"
Sonia Riquer, Radio Educacion, Mexico City.
Title TBA. Luis Fernando Baron, Director, Media Center, Centro de
Investigacion y Educacion Popular (CINEP) [pending funding]
"Community-based Media Education Projects," Norman Cowie, Fordham University
and Cara Mertes, Hunter College/Fordham University and Producer/Director of
PBS series Signal to Noise: Life with Television.
1:30 p.m. -- 2:30 p.m.
Telecom Act Roundtable
Henry Kroll, former KQED Board member and producer, and Reverend Paul
Sawyer, United Unitarian Church invite discussion about strategies to
challenge the 1996 Telecom Act.
Internet Safety Workshop
Karen Randolph, San Francisco State University, Colin Gabriel Hatcher,
CyberAngel, Debbie Mahoney, Save Our Children-United Mothers and Karen
Coyle, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR).
The Dumbed Down Audience: Challenges to Writers of Popular Entertainment
Roundtable facilitated by Corless Smith, with Karen Caronna, Elsa E'der,
John Hu and Shibani Bathija, all of San Francisco State University.
.
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Theme Panel: Media Literacy for a Multicultural Society
Chair: Michelle Wolf, San Francisco State University.
"Literacy in a Digital World," Kathleen Tyner, Media Analysis & Practice.
"Economics of the Image," Elana Rosen, JustThink Foundation.
"Media Images: Presenting Undemocratic Values Through Visual Manipulation,"
Hamid Khani, San Francisco State University.
"Response Ability: Critical Intersections of Media Literacy in Gay and
Lesbian Media Activism," Al Kielwasser, Media Alert.
"Teens and High Tech Democratic Communication," Cassandra Van Buren, New
Technology High School.
Title TBA, W. James Potter, University of California, Santa Barbara.
5:00 p.m. -- 7:00 p.m.
Reception and Dallas Smythe Award Ceremony
7:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m.
UDC Dinner
9:00 p.m. --- 12:00 a.m.
Party/Dancing
SUNDAY JUNE 14
8:30 a.m. -- 10:30 a.m.
Media, Nation and Identity
Chair: Jennifer Turpin, University of San Francisco.
"After a Century of Imperial Media: Time for a Global Democratic Discourse,"
Christopher A. Vaughan, Rutgers University.
"Pope, Prostitutes and Prisoners: US Media's Distorted Image of Cuba," Karen
Wald, independent journalist working in Cuba.
"Contesting Notions of Nation: Greece's Demografiko and its Others,"
Alexandra Halkias, University of California, San Diego.
"Film, Politics and National Culture in Argentina," Tamara Falicov,
University of California, San Diego.
"Communications On The Internet And The Promotion Of A European Public
Sphere, " Maria Teresa Cordero, Complutense University of Madrid/University
of California, San Diego.
News, Democracy and the Public Sphere
Chair: Mike Budd, Florida Atlantic University.
"Television News, Democratic Discourse, and the Public Sphere," Mike Budd,
Florida Atlantic University.
"Newsmaking Victimology," Robert Elias, University of San Francisco.
"Communicative Politics: A Critique Of Public Journalism," James Compton,
Simon Fraser University.
"Public Story-telling: Reframing Public Policy Debate," Sarah Lewison, San
Francisco State University.
"Journalistic Decision-Making and the Legislative Process," Ellen Kanervo,
Patrick Jablowski, Mike Gotcher and David Kanervo, Austin Peay State
University.
Post-Soviet, Post-Empire, And Post-Hoffa Ideologies Of Gender And Class In
Media Representations
Chair: Kate Kane, Loyola University.
"Feminine Hygiene And Post-Soviet Markets, " Kate Kane, Depaul University.
"Post-Empire Man: The Full Monty And Brassed Off," Deborah Tudor, Depaul
University.
"Mother Trucker: Now You See Her, Now You Don't--Women, The Labor Movement,
And Democracy In Canadian And U.S. Media Images," Virginia Keller, Loyola
University Chicago.
11:00 a.m. --- 1:00 p.m.
Theme Panel: Democratizing Media
Chair: Bernadette Barker-Plummer, University of San Francisco.
"Who's Telling All the Stories?" George Gerbner, Temple University, and
Chair, the Cultural Environment Movement (CEM).
"Influencing News Discourse: Project Censored Canada As A Pedagogical,
Academic And Political Intervention," Robert Hackett, Canadian Project
Censored, Simon Fraser University.
"Academia as Ombudsman: Project Censored and American Media Censorship,"
Peter Philips, Project Censored, Sonoma State University.
Title TBA. Norman Solomon, Institute for Public Accuracy/FAIR.
Title TBA. Dee Dee Halleck, University of California, San Diego.
1:30 p.m. -- 2:30 p.m.
California Newsreel: Thirty Years of Independent Video Distribution
Presentation and demonstration of the work of California Newsreel.
Televised Town Meetings: A Project Report. Bob Sauber Public Policy
Coordinator, University of Rhode Island.
Youth Media: the Next Generation. Discussion and presentation of new work
facilitated by Nell Bernstein, editor of Youth Outlook (YO!), Pacific News
Service.
3:00 p.m. -- 5:00 p.m.
Internet and Democracy
Chair: Gerry Sussman, Portland State University.
"Discourses on the Information Society," Gerry Sussman, School of Urban
Studies and Planning, Portland State University.
"Democratic Theory, Associations, and the Internet," Hans K. Klein, Georgia
Tech.
The Electronic Democracy Project (EDP)," Allison Warriner and Beverley Wall,
California State University, Hayward.
"The Baby and The Bathwater: Technology, Education and Democracy,"
Christopher Francis White, Sam Houston State University.
"New media and the democratization of technological choice," David Phillips,
University of Pennsylvania.
Public Broadcasting, Privatization and Democracy
Mike Alcalay, Past producer of "Aids In Focus" on Pacifica.
Art Persyco, Media Activists IBT85.
Michael Hardesty, Journalist, Former Board Member Oakland Rent Board.
Kim Shanahan, Media Activist IBT Local 856 & TDU.
Media Representations and Democracy
Chair: Jeanne Hall, Penn State University.
"Union Maids and Union Busters: Goal Centered Characters and Class Action in
Norma Rae and Matewan," Jeanne Hall, Penn State University.
"The Commodification of Conspiracy: The X-Files, Cloning and Critical
Inquiry into the Frankenstein Myth," James Smolinski and Marc Pruyn , New
Mexico State University.
"Consuming Bodies/Desiring-Production: The Necessity of Communicating the
"Other" in a Democratic Society," Rod Metts, Berry College.
"Containment of Controversy through Comedy," Dave Lippman, University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
"We Get Cable, but....," Megan Mullen, University of New Hampshire.
5:00 p.m.
Good-bye Drinks and Wrap-Up at the pub
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