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Philip J. Deloria Professor and Director Program in American Culture University of Michigan |
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Henry Jenkins Professor and Director Comparative Media Studies Program Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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Tim Lenoir Professor and Kimberly Jenkins Chair for New Technologies and Society Department of Art, Art History, & Visual Studies Duke University |
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Leslie Berlin Project Historian Silicon Valley Archives Stanford University |
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Greg Downey Associate Professor School of Journalism & Mass Communication School of Library and Information Studies University of Wisconsin-Madison |
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Anna Everett Professor and Chair Department of Film and Media Studies University of California at Santa Barbara |
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Lisa Gitelman Associate Professor Department of Media Studies Catholic University of America |
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Jason Loviglio Director, Media & Communicaiton Studies Associate Professor Department of American Studies University of Maryland-Baltimore County |
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Henry E. Lowood Curator, History of Science and Technology Collections Co-Director, Stanford Humanities Library Stanford University |
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Robert MacDougall Assistant Professor Department of History University of Western Ontario |
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Tara McPherson Associate Professor School of Cinematic Arts University of Southern California |
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Jonathan Sterne Associate Professor Department of Art History and Communication Studies McGill University |
Keynote Address by Henry Jenkins,
Director, Comparative Media Studies Program
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Participatory Culture, Lead Use(r)s, and Moral Economy: How Convergence Culture is Changin the Relations Between Producers and Consumers"
September 27, 2007 | 6p.m.
Dumke Auditorium, Utah Museum of Fine Arts
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Henry Jenkins (John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities) is the Director of the Comparative Media Studies graduate program. His books include Science Fiction Audiences: Watching Doctor Who and Star Trek; Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture; From Barbie to Mortal Kombat, a study of gender, narrative and video games; The Children's Culture Reader; and Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture. His current research interests center around digital aesthetics, media convergence, transmedia storytelling, computer games, and youth culture. His current research interests center around digital aesthetics, media convergence, transmedia storytelling, computer games, and youth culture. He discusses these and many other topics relating to the intersection of culture and technology through his column, "The Digital Renaissance," featured each month in Technology Review." |
::Tentative Schedule of Activities:: Subject to Change::
Thursday, September 27, 2007 | 6:00 p.m.
Utah Museum of Fine Arts Dumke Auditorium
Henry Jenkins, MIT, Keynote address.
Friday, September 28, 2007 | Commander's House, Fort Douglas
| 9:00a.m. | Coffee |
| 9:30 a.m. | Opening Remarks - Eric Hinderaker |
| 10:00 - 12:00 p.m. | Panel 1: DISTANCE |
| Presenters: Robert MacDougall Lisa Gitelman Jason Loviglio Facilitator: Matt Basso |
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| 12:00 - 1:30p.m. | Lunch |
| 1:30 - 3:30p.m. | Panel 2: SPACE |
| Presenters: Jonathan Sterne Henry Lowood Tara McPherson Facilitator: Cassandra Van Buren |
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| 3:30 - 4:00p.m. | Break |
| 4:00 - 6:00p.m. | Panel 3: IDENTITIES |
| Presenters: Leslie Berlin Greg Downey Anna Everett Facilitator: Hector Postigo |
Saturday, September 29, 2007 | Hotel Monaco (15W 200 S Salt Lake City)
| 9:00a.m. | Coffee |
| 9:30 - 11:30a.m. | Panel 4: SYNTHESIS & DISCUSSION |
| Disscussants: Tim Lenoir Philip Deloria Henry Jenkins Facilitator: Ann Darling |