The UC Digital
Cultures Research Conference
The
Digital Cultures Project, a new University California multi-campus research
group, is sponsoring its inaugural conference at the University of California
at Santa Barbara from Friday November 3rd to Sunday November 5th. The
UC Digital Cultures Research Conference will bring together humanists,
social scientists, and practitioners from diverse disciplines and departments
with the aim of identifying the pivotal public issues and most promising
research projects for the understanding and extension of digital cultures.
Presenters at the conference include those who have been pioneers in the
study of the digital culture, as well as those whose work has only recently
turned in that direction. All of us share a sense that new digital technologies
and the new kinds of textual, aural and visual activities that they make
possible are profoundly changing objects and methods of study in the humanistic
disciplines and the ways in which scholars and practitioners think about
their work. We hope this conference will incite collaboration among those
attending the conference. To this end, presentations will be comparatively
short, and there will be plenty of time for discussion, active participation
by all those attending, and perhaps, networking of the most traditional
human kind.
The Digital
Cultures Project is made possible by the support of our sponsors.
 Conference
Announcements and News (updated 11/02/00)
Conference Overview
All sessions will be held in Kohn Hall (also known as the
Institute of Theoretical Physics (ITP), room 1003
(Photos
of Kohn Hall)
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| Day: |
Session:
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Friday,
November 3, 2000
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Brief
Welcome and Introduction (W. Warner, D. Noto, D. Marshall) |
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Digital
Archives (B. Essick, J.H. Miller, A. Potter) |
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Digital
Constructions of Space (A, Friedberg, V. Sobchack, S. C. Murphy)
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Renaissance
Memory Theaters: Associational Thinking and Digital Research Environments
(M. Meadow, B. Robertson) |
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Mismanaged
Agency by PROXY (R. Nideffer) |
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Pockets Full of Memories
(G. Legrady) |
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Saturday,
November 4, 2000
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The
Digitalization of Gender and Sexualities (S. E. Case) |
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Media
Determinism and Media Freedom after the Digital Mutation: The
Matrix and Napster (W. Warner)
Media
Determinism and Media Freedom
Reading
Meet John Doe
Questions
and Issues
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Ethnography
of a Start-Up (P. Lyman) |
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Transnational
and National Business Linkages in the Construction of Digital Capitalism
(D. Schiller, Y. Zhao) |
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Intellectual
Property and the Future of Cyberspace: Does Information Want to
be Owned? (M. Rose, P.Geller, R. Rotstein, M. Winnacker) |
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Transference
and Counter-transference in the Interworked Classroom (E. Jackson) |
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The
Classroom of the Future: An Open Forum (A. Liu, A. Friedberg,
E. Jackson) |
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Sunday,
November 5, 2000
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Collaborative
Systems (S. Daniel) |
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Ethics/
Science/ Internet (M. Poster, L. Star, G. Bowker, T. W. Luke) |
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End
of Conference Discussion (A. Liu, W. Warner) |
(Printer-Ready
Program)
Friday,
November 3, 2000
| 1:00
- 1:15 |
Brief
Welcome and Introduction |
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William
Warner, Project Director
Dante Noto,
UC Office of the President
David
Marshall, Dean of Fine Arts and Humanities, UC Santa Barbara
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| 1:15 - 2:30 |
Digital
Archives |
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Bob
Essick, Chair
J.
Hillis Miller, English and Comparative Literature, UC Irvine,
"Digital Blake" (Text
of the Full Article)
Bob Essick, English, UC Riverside, "The
William Blake Archive: Problems and Opportunities" (A
Brief Outline of Conference Presentation)
Aaron Potter, English UC Riverside, "The Context and Reception
of Digital Archives"
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| 2:30 - 2:45 |
Break
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| 2:45 - 4:00 |
Digital
Constructions of Space |
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Anne
Friedberg, Film Studies/Visual Studies, UC Irvine, Chair
Vivian Sobchack, Film
and Television, UC Los Angeles, "Nostalgia for a Digital Object:
Regrets on the Quickening of Quick Time" (Text
of the full article)
Sheila C. Murphy, Film Studies/Visual Studies Program, UC Irvine,
"Lurk-TV: The Space of the Webcam"
Anne Friedberg, "The Virtual Window: From Alberti to Microsoft"
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| 4:00 - 4:15 |
Break
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| 4:15 - 4:45 |
Renaissance
Memory Theaters: Associational Thinking and Digital Research Environments |
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Mark Meadow and Bruce
Robertson, Department of Art History, UC Santa Barbara
Microcosms
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| 4:45 - 5:15 |
Mismanaged
Agency by PROXY |
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Robert
Nideffer, Information Studies and Art Studio, UC Irvine and
UCDarnet
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| 5:15 - 5:25 |
Short Break
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| 5:25 - 5:55 |
Pockets
Full of Memories |
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George Legrady, Department of Art Studio, UC Santa Barbara
(A Brief
Overview of Pockets Full of Memories)
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Saturday,
November 4, 2000
| 09:00 - 09:30 |
Morning Coffee
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| 09:30
- 10:00 |
The
Digitalization of Gender and Sexualities |
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Sue-Ellen
Case, Theater and Dance, UC Davis
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| 10:00 - 10:30 |
Media
Determinism and Media Freedom after the Digital Mutation: The Matrix
and Napster |
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William
Warner, English, UC Santa Barbara
A Digital Broadside: The
Geopolitics of Napster; or, New Media North and South.
Media
Determinism: most recent relevant research project
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| 10:30 - 10:45 |
Break
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| 10:45 - 11:15 |
Ethnography
of a Start-Up |
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Peter
Lyman, Political Science and School for Information Management
and Systems, UC Berkeley
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| 11:15 - 12:15 |
Transnational
and National Business Linkages in the Construction of Digital Capitalism |
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Speakers: Dan
Schiller, Communications, UC San Diego
Yuezhi
Zhao, Communications, UC San Diego
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| 12:15
- 2:00 |
Lunch
Organized by UC Santa Barbara Graduate Students
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| 2:00 - 3:30 |
Intellectual
Property and the Future of Cyberspace: Does Information Want to be
Owned? Dicsussion will be focused upon Lawrence Lessig's recent book
Code and other Laws
in Cyberspace. |
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Panel: Mark
Rose, English UC Santa Barbara, Chair, Paul Geller, Robert Rotstein,
Martha Winnacker
Paul
Geller is an attorney in Los Angeles who specializes in domestic
and international copyright law and related legal problems of global
media. He is the General Editor of the treatise International
Copyright Law and Practice and teaches international intellectual
property as adjunct professor at U.S.C. Law School. (http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~pgeller/
) For Paul Geller's articles on point -- especially the latest one:
"Copyright History and the Future: What's Culture Got to Do With
It?" -- go to: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=163988.
Robert
Rotstein, who is a partner in the Los Angeles office of McDermott,
Will, & Emery, is an attorney who specializes in copyright and entertainment
law litigation. He has published on matters related to copyright
and has taught copyright law at Loyola Law School.
Martha
Winnacker works in the Office of Information Resources and Communications
in the UC Office of the President (UCOP). She has followed copyright
issues for UCOP since 1996 and recently served as chief staff member
for the University wide Taskforce on Copyright.
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| 3:30 - 3:45 |
Break
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| 3:45 - 4:15 |
Transference
and Counter-transference in the Interworked Classroom |
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Earl
Jackson, Literature Board, UC Santa Cruz. Excerpted string of
dialogue from Earl Jackson's 1995 seminar on Hysteria
and Paranoia.
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| 4:15 - 5:15 |
The
Classroom of the Future: An Open Forum |
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Alan
Liu, English, UC Santa Barbara
with Anne
Friedberg, Film Studies/Visual Studies, UC Irvine; and Earl
Jackson, Literature Board, UC Santa Cruz
Classroom
of the Future Forum Website.
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Sunday,
November 5, 2000
| 09:00 - 09:30 |
Morning Coffee
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09:30 - 10:00
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Collaborative
Systems: Redefining Public Art in Electronic Information and Communication
Environments |
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Sharon
Daniel, Film and Digital Media, UC Santa Cruz and UCDarnet
Metaphoric Contruction
Co.
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| 10:00 - 11:30 |
Ethics/
Science/ Internet |
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Mark
Poster, Chair
Leigh
Star, Communications, UC San Diego, "The Ethnography of Infrastructure."
The presentation is drawn from her paper "It's
Infrastructure All the Way Down."
Geof
Bowker, Communications, UC San Diego, "Database and Data Superstructure:
Scientific Culture and the Internet"
Mark Poster, Film Studies, UC Irvine, "The Good, the Bad and the
Virtual: Ethics in the Information Age"
Tim W. Luke, Political
Science, VTI&SU, "From
Analogue to Digital Fordism: Reimagining the Global Production
and Local Consumption of Automobiles at Ford.com"
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| 11:30 - 1:00 |
End
of Conference Discussion |
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