Critical
Cyberculture Studies: Mapping an Evolving Discipline
April 26-27,
Joan Korenman,
“Women Online: The 52% Minority”
Center for Women and Information
Technology
Session One: Political Action in Cyberspace
Seminar Room, Basement of McKeldin Library
“CYBERACTIVISM:
Between False Empowerment and
Radical
Action,” Sandor Vegh,
“CollectiveIdentity.org:
Searching for a Collective Identity in
the Feminist Cyberactivist,” Mike
Ayers, New School for
Social
Research
“Identifying
with Information: Citizen Empowerment, the
Internet,
and the Environmental Toxins Movement,” Wyatt
Comment:
Martha McCaughey, Virginia Tech
Session Two: Theoretical Cyberspace
0106 Francis Scott Key Hall
“Toward
a Praxis of Cyberculture Studies: Inter/activism
and the Commercial,” Jeremy Hunsinger, Virginia Tech
“Strategic
Hyperlinks: Cyberculture Studies, Net Discourse,
and the Rise and Fall of dot.coms,” David Silver, University
of
“Refusing Disciplinarity, Or
Epistemologies of Cyberculture
Studies:
What will we Universalize and objectify this time?”
Radhika
Gajjala,
Humanities (MITH)), Basement of McKeldin Library
Session Three: Ordinary and Extraordinary Cyborgs
0106 Francis Scott Key Hall
“Cyborgian Freak Show: Mutants, Clones, and A.I Robots as
Representations of the Differently Abled,” Kimberly J.
Surkan,
“’She
is the Shape of Things to Come’: Dark Angel and the
(Re)
Shaping of the Female Body in Popular Culture,” Jessica
A. Karmenzind,
“Progressive Embodiment and
Ordinary Cyborgization,” Wendy Robinson,
Comment: Tracy L. M.
Kennedy,
Session Four: Different Literacies
0102 Francis Scott Key Hall
“Writing
Without Space,” Michele White,
“Not
Without New Media: Composing and Evaluating
Strategies
in Composition and Communication Classrooms,”
Cheryl
E. Ball,
“Reading
Software: Materiality and Method in Cyberculture
Studies,”
Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, University of
3:15-4:45 Breakout
Sessions
Session Five: Cyborg Bodies
0106 Francis Scott Key Hall
“Blank
Generation: Critical Race Theory in Cyberspace,”
Kali
Tal,
“Cyberculture,
and the meaning of Digital Life,” Melissa
Colleen
Stevenson,
“’Coded
in Spiral and Pheromone’: Toward a Theory of
Embodiment
for Cyberculture Studies,” Maura Daly,
Session Six: Hegemonic Notes
0102 Francis Scott Key Hall
“Music,
Technology, and Resistance to Hegemony,” Mary Madden,
“Say it Ain’t So John”: Or How an Arizona
Senator Became a
Player
in a Hegemonic War of Position Around the Internet,
Privacy,
and Capitalism,” Linda Baughman, Saint Lawrence
University
Comment:
Bob Gibson,
Session Seven: Painting With
Pixels
0106 Francis Scott Key Hall
“Radical
Software Critical Artware: Contemporary
Historicism,
Theory-Practice and net.art Production in the
Classroom,”
Jon Cates,
“’Net
Years Away’: Net.art, Research and Temporality,”
Susanna
Paasonen,
Comment:
Debra DeRuyver,
Session Eight: Agency and
Artifice in Cyberspace
0102 Francis Scott Key Hall
“Applied
Cyberstudies: Launching Memes into the Media
Universe,”
Jonah Peretti,
Technology
“How I Made My Own
“Carnivore,”” Alexander R. Galloway “The Special Effects of Technoscience,”
Julian Bleecker,
Saturday April 27
Session Nine: The Business of the Web
1117 Susquehanna Hall
“Playing
at Work: Understanding the Future of Work
Practices
at the ‘Institute of the Future,’” Lonny J. Brooks,
“’Your
Job is to Master the BLUR’ Postmodernism,
Cybercapitalism, and Computerized Subjectivity in Digital
Culture,”
Sidney Eve Matrix,
“Materializing
Cyberculture Studies,” Michelle Rodino,
“Cyberspace:
A Critical History,” Fred Turner,
Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
Comment:
Somer Brodribb,
Session Ten: Identity
Technologies
1119 Susquehanna Hall
“Adventures
of the Avatar—From Masterpiece to
Cybergenius,”
Lauren Cruikshank,
“I
Want Me To Want me: Performing Desire and Self-
Consumption
on www.HotorNot.com,” James Cahill,
“Citizen
Cynic: The Politics of IT Professionals,” Nathan
Epley,
“Between
Emblematics and Free Indirect Discourse:
Theorizing
On-line Experience Without a Subject,” Ken
Hillis,
“Everyday
Life in Cooltown and the Liberation Theology of
Complete
Capitalism,” Jonathan Lillie,
11:15-12:45 Breakout Sessions
Session Eleven: Divides
1117 Susquehanna Hall
“Race, Gender, and the Rhetoric of Liberation vs.
Dependency
in the Digital Divide,” Vanessa Mason,
“PAUSE,”
Carolivia Herron
“Digital
Sistas,” Shireen Mitcheel
Comment: Alonzo Smith, Smithsonian Institute
Session Twelve: Cyberculture Defined
1119 Susquehanna Hall
“What
is Cyberculture? Cyberculture Information Theory,”
Ronald
Day,
“Science,
Technology, and Cyberculture: Reflections on an
Emerging
Discipline,” Richard Grusin,
University
“Smashing
Code, Constructing Paradox: Avante-Garde
Agency
on the Internet,” Barrett Watten,
University
Comment:
Charles J. Stivale,
Session Thirteen: Publishing in a Virtual
Field (Roundtable)
1117 Susquehanna Hall
Matthew
Byrnie, Associate Editor, Routledge
David
Silver,
Jennifer
Preece,
Session Fourteen: Talking Online
1119 Susquehanna Hall
“A
Comparison of Anonymous and Author-Identified
Comments
in Online Student Dialogs on Oppression and
Diversity,”
Melissa B. Littlefield,
1117 Susquehanna Hall
Martha
Nell Smith, Maryland Institute for Technology in the
Humanities
(MITH)
Katie
King,
Matthew
G. Kirschenbaum,
Donald
Snyder,
Donna Haraway, “From Cyborgs to
Companion Species: Kinship in Technoscience,”