[ARCHIVE] Preliminary Program Schedule

Registration is now open! Please register by July 20.

8:00-8:30 Registration/Sign-In (IPK Lobby)

8:30-9:00 Welcome (IPK)

9:00-10:00 Keynote Address (IPK)
Social Communication in the Twitter Age

Dhiraj Murthy, Goldsmiths, University of London

10:00-10:15 BREAK 

10:15-11:30 Parallel Paper Session 1

1.1 Theorizing Media Sociology (IPK)

Moderator: Andrew Lindner, Concordia College 

- Where is Media Sociology?: A Reappraisal. Silvio Waisbord, George Washington University 

- Putting America in Its Place. Arvind Rajagopal, New York University 
- The Feedforward Cycle and Recursive Theories of Media Influence. Thomas Crosbie, Yale University
- Braver Newer World. Eugene Halton, University of Notre Dame 

1.2 Gender and Sexuality in the Media (Room 652)
Moderator: Nicholas Boston, Lehman College - CUNY
- The Intersections of Sexuality and Media Culture. Dustin Kidd, Temple University 

- Already Pretty: Resisting/Producing Commodity Feminism in the Fashion Blogosphere. Alice Marwick, Fordham University 

- Queering the Internet. Greg Goldberg, Wesleyan University
- The Fun, Fearless Female: A Cultural Analysis of Cosmopolitan Magazine. Elissa Zeno, CUNY Graduate Center 

1.3 Sociologies of Television (Room 653)

Moderator: Eleanor Townsley, Mount Holyoke College 

- The Construction of Taste: Television and American Home Décor. Stylés I. Akira, University of Southern California and Larry Ossei-Mensah, Les Roches International School

- Resisting Post-Network Prestige: TV Critics and Middlebrow Reception of HBO Drama. Michael Wayne, University of Virginia

- Daytime and Late-Night Television: Practices of Interviewing, Politics, and the Public Sphere. Laura Loeb, University of California, Los Angeles

- Sociologising Audience Pleasures: Television and Interpretation. K. Berfin Emre Cetin, Hacettepe University

1.4 Online Communities, Participation, and Expertise (Room 655)

Moderator: Nathan Jurgenson, University of Maryland

- Exploring the Impacts of Contextual Factors on China’s Young Internet Users’ Disclosure of Private Information on Social Network Sites. Bo Mai, University of Pennsylvania

- New Media and the Virtual Public Sphere. Political Participation in the Digital Age. Leocadia Díaz Romero, University of Murcia

- Network Media: An Alternative for Social Engagement. Juliana Cunha Costa, Jacobs University Bremen

- Public Sociology Online. Sarah Esther Lageson, University of Minnesota 

11:30-11:45 BREAK 

11:45-1:00 Parallel Paper Session 2

2.1 Media Logics (Room 652)

Moderator: Ronald Jacobs, State University of New York - Albany

- Sociology and the Socially Mediated Self. Jeff Pooley, Muhlenberg College

- Twitter and the Structural Transformation of the Journalistic Field. Stephen R. Barnard, University of Missouri

- Between Efficiency and Authenticity: Is There an Extent to the Rationalization of the Internet? Tatiana Tatarchevskiy, Sacred Heart University 

2.2 Entertainment and the Aesthetic Public Sphere (IPK)

Moderator: Eleanor Townsley, Mount Holyoke College 

- “The Green Priestess of the Cosmic Computer”: Star Trek and the Aesthetics of Camp. Lauren Levitt, New York University

- The Meaning of a Game: Videogame Commentary and the Construction of an Aesthetic Public Sphere. Brian McKernan, State University of New York - Albany

- “Beautiful Pieces of Paper”: Dialectics of Art and Commerce in Entertainment Advertising. Gabrielle Raley, Knox College

- News, Entertainment, or Performative Failure? Comparing the Parodies of George W. Bush and Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live in the Journalistic Public Sphere. Nickie Michaud Wild, State University of New York - Albany

2.3 Mediated Performance and Embodiment (Room 653)

Moderator: Casey Brienza, City University London 

- i-Care of the Self: Interfaces of Address and Multiplatform Subjectivities. Julia Nevarez, Kean University

- Sociologies of Glossy Magazine Production: Addressing the Gap in Critical Media Industry Studies. Nicholas Boston, Lehman College - CUNY and Brooke Erin Duffy, Temple University

- Shaping Collective Memory: A Scandalous Japanese Idol. Penn Pantumsinchai, University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa

- Fashionable Bodies. Elizabeth Wissinger, Borough of Manhattan Community College - CUNY 

2.4 Ethnographies of the News (Room 655)

Moderator: Matthias Revers, State University of New York - Albany 

- Mapping Business News Values: An Ethnographic Study of The New York Times. Nikki Usher, George Washington University

- Redefining “Source”: Who (and What) Informs News Stories. Katherine Fink, Columbia University

- The Social and Intellectual Context of the “Newsroom Studies.” Sarah Stonbely, New York University

- Negotiating the Boundary of News Reporting: Strategies of Journalists to Access and Report Political Information in China. Xianwen Kuang, University of Southern Denmark 

1:00-2:00 LUNCH (own arrangements) 

2:00-3:15 Parallel Paper Session 3

3.1 Media and Materiality (Room 655)

Moderator: Ian Sheinheit, State University of New York - Albany 

- New Media and the Paradox of Novel Re-creation, J.L. Johnson, George Mason University

- Meaning, “Good Noise,” and Subject Construction in “Personalized Audio.” Joseph Klett, Yale University

- Between Public Enlightenment and Public Relations: The Men and Religion Forward Movement and the Use of Documentary Evidence in Early Modern Journalism. CW Anderson, College of Staten Island - CUNY

- From Differentiated Use to Differentiating Practices: Reconceptualizing Digital Inequality as Situated Practice, Christo Sims, University of California, San Diego 

3.2 Fields of Cultural Production (IPK)

Moderator: Casey Brienza, City University London 

- Signals of Victory: The Production of Cultural Reproduction in Field Configuring Events. Clayton Childress, University of Toronto and Brian Moeran, Copenhagen Business School

- Popular, Professional, and Critical Recognition in Award-Winning U.S. Television Shows, 1984-2012. Carolyn Robbins, Emory University 

- Diversifying Discourse? Local Media Coverage of the Terri Schiavo Case. Deana A. Rohlinger, Florida State University; JoEllen Pederson, Florida State University; and Giuseppina Valle, Florida State University 

- “What is it a case of”? Theoretical Interrogation of Ethnographic Findings of Collaboration during Filmmaking. Ritesh Mehta, University of Southern California

3.3 Journalistic Norms and Practice (Room 653)

Moderator: Sarah Sobieraj, Tufts University

- Caught between Professional Objectivity and Online Populism?: Examining Chinese Journalists’ Reaction to the Impacts of Online Opinions on News Production. Chu-Jie Chen, City University of Hong Kong

- The Guise of Neutrality: Journalists’ Role in Framing the Abortion Debate. Beth Gharrity Gardner, University of California - Irvine; Erin Evans, University of California - Irvine; and Myra Marx Ferree, University of Wisconsin - Madison

- Their Own Worst Critics?: How U.S. Journalists Talk About Their Own Profession. Sarah Ann Oates, University of Maryland and Tetyana Lokot, University of Maryland 
Training for Uncertain Futures: Confusion and Struggle in the Field of Journalism Education. Max Besbris, New York University and Caitlin Petre, New York University

3.4 Public Spheres and Social Identities (Room 652)

Moderator: Ronald Jacobs, State University of New York - Albany

- "Cliquing": The Conditions of Identity Performance on Twitter. Ahrum Lee, University of Virginia; Carl Frederick (Harvard Kennedy School); and Daniel Finn (University of Virginia).

- Formal, Informal Public Sphere and the Formation of Pseudo-Public in the Chinese Context: The Coverage on Microblog Real Name Policy. Muyang Li, State University of New York - Albany

- Yes We Can (Publicize Our Memes): Social Issues in the Broadening Journalistic Sphere. Noah Grand, University of California, Los Angeles 

- Still the Tragic Mulatto? Examining Multiraciality in the Media. Sheena Gardner, Mississippi State University

3:15-3:30 BREAK (IPK Lobby)

3:30-4:45 Parallel Paper Session 4

4.1 News on Public Affairs and Crisis around the World (Room 655)

Moderator: Matthias Revers, State University of New York - Albany 

- Journalistic Field in National and Global Contexts: Reporting on Atrocities in Darfur. Joachim Savelsberg, University of Minnesota; Holly Nyseth Brehm, University of Minnesota; and Wahutu Siguru, University of Minnesota

- Banalization of Electoral Campaigns: A Critical Analysis of the Advertising Policy Face of a Democratic System. Felipe Braga Albuquerque, University of Fortaleza

- Media, Globalization, Indigenous Performance, and the Politics of Race and Culture in Central Mexico. Pavel Shlossberg, Gonzaga University

- Media Narrative of Air Pollution in Chinese Official News Coverage. Haoyue Li, State University of New York - Albany 

4.2 Media Reception, Activism, and Engagement (Room 652)

Moderator: Andrew Lindner, Concordia College 

- How Ideology and Organizational Structure Shape Digital Activism: Do Organizations use the Internet to Engage the Powerless or Influence the Powerful? Jen Schradie, University of California, Berkeley

- “Get in There and Fix That”: Actors of Color and Activism. Nancy Yuen, Biola University

- Scandalizing News: Effects of Online Comments on Recipients’ Perceived Public Opinion and Attitudinal Evaluations. Christian von Sikorski, German Sport University Cologne

- Seeking Search Skills. Laura Robinson, Santa Clara University 

4.3 The Mass-Mediated Family (Room 653)

Moderator: Andrea Press, University of Virginia

- “Expert” Debates on Marriage and Kinship for Same-Sex Couples in Le Monde and The New York Times. Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer, University of California, Los Angeles

- The Construction of Modern Families. Heidi Steinour, The University of Florida

- The “NEXT” New Normal: The TV Sitcom, Gay Parenting and Cross-Sexuality Co-Parenting. Sylvan Solloway, New York University

- Motherhood and In-Law Conflicts: A Comparative Study of the Experiences and Coping Strategies in Online Communities. Zheng An, University of Southern California 

4:45-5:00 BREAK 

5:00-6:30 Discussion Panel Plenary (IPK)
Mapping the Field of Media Sociology

Moderator: Andrew Lindner, Concordia College 

Rodney Benson, New York University 
Dhiraj Murthy, Goldsmiths, University of London

Andrea Press, University of Virginia 

Michael Schudson, Columbia University 

Eleanor Townsley, Mount Holyoke College

6:30 CLOSE