| 8:30 | Breakfast |
| 9:00 | Welcome |
| | Opening Address by Ernest
Wilson, Director, Center for International Development and Conflict
Management, University of Maryland |
| 10:00 | Break |
| 10:10 | Session I: Race
Games: Simulations in Cyberspace |
| | | "'Black Like Virtual Me:' Student
Reactions to Online Diversity" Nicholas Proctor, Simpson
College |
| | | ""The Construction of Gender and
Race in a Massive Multiplayer On-Line Role Playing Game," Mindy
Basi, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
| | | "The Turing Game: A
Participatory Exploration of Identity in Online Environments," Joshua
Berman and Amy Bruckman, Georgia Tech University |
| 11:30 | Break |
| 11:40 | Concurrent
Sessions: |
| | Session II: New
Terrains: Presentations of Self Online |
| | | "The Same Old Gender Plot? Women
Academics' Identities on the Web" Jill Arnold & Hugh Miller, The
Nottingham Trent University |
| | | "Virtually Belonging: Risk,
Connectivity and Coming Out Online," Elizabeth Bassett and Kate
O'Riordian, University of Brighton |
| | | "The Digital Voice of Black
Germany: Opportunities and Dangers of an Online Discussion on
Afro-German Identity," Isabell Cserno, University of
Maryland |
| | Session III: Style
and Difference in Online Youth Culture |
| | | "Cyberspace and Youth Cultural
Styles," Brad Warren, Deakin University, Australia |
| | | "Online Bonds and Offline
Boundaries: Teens and Discussions of Difference," Lynn Clark,
University of Colorado |
| 1:00 | Lunch - Roundtable
Discussion on Teaching in/and/with the Diversity of Cyberspaces, Debra
DeRuyver, University of Maryland, Moderator |
| 2:00 | Concurrent
Sessions: |
| | Session IV: Tune
in, Tune Out, Log On: Whose Domain is it, Anyway? |
| | | "Encoding/Decoding Cyberspace: Towards a
Theoretical Framework for Exploring Cultural Diversity In and Out of the
Net," David Silver, University of Maryland |
| | | "Surfing in Public: Race, Public
Access, and the Internet Experience," Elizabeth Tunstall, Sapient
Corporation |
| | | "The Revolution will (Probably) Not
Be Digitized: An Overview and Analysis of MP3 and the Recording
Industry," Vincent Stephens, University of Maryland |
| | Session V: Art,
Identity, and Diversity |
| | | "Building A Cyber Center With
Community Art," Chris Drew, Uptown Multi-Cultural Art Center,
Chicago |
| | | "The Delightful Diversity of
Cyber-Places," Arthur Helweg and Adrian Mihalache, Western Michigan
University |
| | | "The Post-Gender Identities as a
Metaphor: Gender Constrcution in Cyberspace," Jasna Koteska, Central
European University, Budapest |
| 3:20 | Break |
| 3:45 | Keynote
Address: "Transnational Digital
Subjects: Constructs of Identity and Ignorance in a Digital
Economy," Radhika Gajjala, Bowling Green State
University |
| 5:00 | Adjourn |
| 6:00 | Dinner |