Event Information
HYATT REGENCY, MINNEAPOLIS, MN
JUNE 5, 2008
The National Conference for Media Reform (NCMR) has become the meeting place for media reform advocates, activists, media makers, educators, journalists and other citizens concerned about the state of American media. In recent years, there has been growing interest in how academics can tie their research to a reform agenda.
The Academic Symposium for Scholars, co-hosted by Pennsylvania State University, the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), and Free Press, will be held the day before the NCMR. The Symposium will be a forum for presenting new research about reform movement issues and for promoting dialogue between academics and media reform proponents. It will be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel adjacent to the convention center where the NCMR will be held. Academics and media reform activists are encouraged to attend and pre-registration for both events is required.
8:00 - 8:30 AM: REGISTRATION (Greenway Promenade)
8:30 - 9:00 AM: WELCOME (Greenway Ballroom A, J)
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM: Roundtable: Discussion with members of the Future of American Communications Working Group (www.fact-wg.info) on the first draft of the agenda for the new administration (Greenway Ballroom A, J)
10:30AM - 10:45AM: COFFEE BREAK
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM: PAPER SESSION 1
Media Ownership 1: The utilization of FCC research (Greenway Ballroom A, J)
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Chair: S. Derek Turner - Research Director, Free Press
Danilo Yanich - University of Delaware - When is Local Local?: Media Ownership, Localism & the FCC
Williams Kunz - University of Washington - FCC Analysis of Prime Time Programming and Cable Services: Flawed Measurements and Unsupported Conclusions
Colleen Mihal - University of Colorado - Research as Alibi: Analysis of the FCC's 2007 Media Ownership Studies
Mark Cooper - Consumer Federation of America - When counting counts
Sustaining Independent Media (Greenway Ballroom B)
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Chair: Andrew Kennis - University of Illinois
Cynthia Conti - New York University - Examining LPFM Licensees as Agents of Localism
Caroline Nappo - University of Illinois - Resisting Abridgment: Librarianship as Media Reform
Jessica Clark - American University, Tracy Van Slyke - The Media Consortium - Independent Media: New Impact Measurements
Adam Davis - Southern Illinois University - Television by the People, For the People: A Political Economic View of Current TV
International Challenges (Greenway Ballroom I)
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Chair: Leslie Regan Shade - Concordia University
Donald Browne - University of Minnesota - What Is 'Community' in "Community Radio?"
Abu Naser Rajib - Southern Illinois University - Restructuring Public Service Broadcasting Television Network: A Suggested Model for Emerging Democracies
Jane Regan - Babouket La Tonbe! (The Muzzle has Fallen!): Lessons learned from Haiti's popular and community radios and their contributions to Haiti's the democratic and popular movement (1995 - 2002)
Pinitta Sukkosol - Naresuan University Indigenous Rights and Knowledge
Respondent: Fabrizio Germano - Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
12:15 - 12:45PM: LUNCH, Boxed lunches provided by conference
12:45 - 2:00 PM: PAPER SESSION 2
Media ownership 2 (Greenway Ballroom B)
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Chair: Amit Schejter - Penn State
Lisa Barr - Western Illinois University - Media Indifference: Deadlier than Silence? Coverage of the FCC Hearings in Chicago, 2007
Amit Schejter, Jon Obar - Penn State - Tell it not in Harrisburg, publish it not in the streets of Tampa: Framing, media ownership, and the public interest
Matt Crain - University of Illinois - The rise of private equity media ownership in the United States
Steve Anderson - Simon Fraser University - The Synergistic Membrane
Access to Dominant Media (Greenway Ballroom I)
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Chair: Anthony Varona - American University Washington College of Law
Mark G. Kiyak - Valdosta State University - No American Citizen Left Behind
Duncan Brown, Eddie Ashworth - Ohio University - Turning Disruptive Media into Digital Dollars: How New Technologies are Forcing the Recording Industry to Change its Existing Business Model
Mari Castaneda - University of Massachusetts - Independent Latino Media in the U.S.
Lydie Nadia Cabrera - St. Thomas University - Red Lion Red Bull, Ownership Consolidation of Broadcast Media, Commercialized Programming of Public Issues and the Necessity for the Return of the Fairness Doctrine
Emily Shaw, Christian Sandyig - University of Illinois - Does Infrastructure Require Policy?: Limits of Community-Based Broadband
Digital Technology Challenges: Net Neutrality (Greenway Ballroom A, J)
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Chair: Chris Russill - University of Minnesota
Catherine Sandoval - Santa Clara University - Network Management, Net Neutrality and Unfair and Deceptive Business Practices
Robert Handley - University of Texas - For Mandated Net Neutrality: Normative Priorities
Brian Dolber - University of Illinois - 'Divide and Conquer': The Racial politics of the COPE act and the Network Neutrality Debate
Moran Yemini - University of Haifa - Mandated Network Neutrality and the First Amendment: Lessons from Turner and a New Approach
2:15 PM - 3:30 PM: PAPER SESSION 3
The Media Reform Movement: Historical and Contemporary Challenges (Greenway Ballroom B)
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Chair: Terri Fishman - Clemson University
Angela J. Campbell - Georgetown University - Media Policy and Social Science Research
Lauren Kogen - University of Pennsylvania - Patronage, the Ford Foundation, and Media Reform Research
Victor Pickard - University of Illinois - Media Reform from Above and Below: Lessons from the 1940s Media Democracy Movement
Katie Gay - University of North Carolina Wilmington - Student activist awareness and the media democracy movement
Copyright and Free Speech (Greenway Ballroom A, J)
Chair: Bill Herman - University of Pennsylvania
Neil Netanel - UCLA -Copyright's Paradox
Matt Jackson - Penn State - respondent
Ruth Okediji - University of Minnesota - respondent
Edwin Baker - University of Pennsylvania (tentative) - respondent
Tim Wu - Columbia University - respondent
3:45 - 5:00 PM - CLOSING: Featuring a key-note speech presented by Saskia Sassen, the Lynd Professor of Sociology and Member of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University
The Symposium will be held at the Hyatt Regency in Minneapolis, MN. The Hyatt Regency is conveniently located next to the Minneapolis Convention Center, the venue for the National Conference for Media Reform. The Hyatt is located at 1300 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, MN 55403.
For information on lodging, discounted room rates and to book a room at the hotel, click here.
For more information on travel to Minneapolis and the Hyatt Regency in Minneapolis,click here.
For more information on the event, including details about the limited scholarship funds available from SSRC to graduate students for travel, contact Amit Schejter at mediareformconference@psu.edu.
For more information on the event, please contact Amit Schejter, Ph.D, at mediareformconference@psu.edu or by phone at 814-865-3717.
