[SIGCIS-Members] Fwd: The Future is Prologue ICA Pre-con

[Fred Turner]

Hi All,
	
	The ICA is hosting another preconference this year that seems to be  
up our collective alley. It's "New Media, New Histories," with the  
program below. Check it out.

-- Fred Turner


>
> See below for details regarding a pre-conference that will be part  
> of the offerings at the annual ICA conference in Chicago this May.   
> Entitled "The Future is Prologue: New Media, New Histories?," this  
> preconference brings together scholars who are interested in  
> considering new media in terms of history, and vice versa.  There is  
> still room for those who wish to attend this pre-conference, and we  
> welcome all interested parties.
>
> Registration for the ICA conference and this pre-con can be found  
> here:
> http://www.icahdq.org
> [the pre-conference is called PC3 in the registration system]
>
> And let's hear it for my co-planners, Nick Jankowski and Steve Jones.
>
> Thanks,
> Dave Park
>
>
> The Future is Prologue:
> New Media, New Histories?
>
> An ICA Pre-Conference Organized by: New Media & Society, The  
> University of Illinois at Chicago, And The Communication History  
> Interest Group of the ICA
>
> Chicago, 21 May 2009
> University of Illinois at Chicago
> Lecture Center C1
>
> Schedule
>
> 8:00:  Bus pickup at Marriott Hotel.  Buses depart at 8:10 a.m. for  
> UIC
>
> 8:30 a.m.-9:00 a.m.:  Opening remarks
>
> 9:00 a.m.-10:15 a.m.:  Roundtable 1: Storage and New Media: Beyond  
> the Container Metaphor
>             The idea of storage operates as one of a number of  
> helpful-though also constraining-visions of how information  
> operates.  New media connect the controversies connected to this  
> idea of storage to long-standing disputes concerning the social role  
> of information.  How do media connect with different modes of  
> storage?  And how do issues relating to storage in turn connect with  
> historiographical concerns?  These will be the animating ideas of  
> this roundtable.
>         Devon Powers, "What Was Popular? New Media, History, and the  
> Problem of
>                 the Music Charts"
>         Sabryna Cornish, "Correcting History: The Perils of New  
> Media Correction in a
>                 Digital Age"
>         Adriana de Souza e Silva and Daniel M. Sutko, "Mobile  
> Locative Interfaces as
>                 Potentiality: Actualizing Information in Space and  
> Space as Information"
>         Megan Sapnar, "From Old to New and Back Again: Broadcast  
> Histories,
>                 Software Studies, and the Work of Web Historiography"
>         Deborah Leiter, "Hidden in Plain Sight?: The Exigence of  
> (Electronic) Visibility
>                 for Print Materials"
>         Erik Glyttov, "Mediated Realities: Virtual Worlds as New  
> Media and the
>                 Preservation of Digital Ancestry"
>
> 10:15 a.m.-10:45 a.m.: Coffee Break
>
> 10:45 a.m.-12:00 p.m.: Roundtable 2:  The Theoretical in the  
> Historical: De-Centering New Media History
>             Media historians are often trained to avoid tendencies  
> like technological determinism and Whig history.  Related to these  
> tendencies is the practice of reifying technologies and media,  
> setting them aside as if they were naturally separate 'things'.   
> This roundtable pulls together papers that exemplify the practice of  
> de-centering new and old media through grounded understandings of  
> social praxis, understood through varying theoretical lenses.
>         D. Travers Scott, "The Utility of Sound Studies' Theory and  
> Method for Histories
>                 of New Media and Communication Technologies"
>         Peter D. Schaefer, "Reflections on the Sliding Signification  
> of 'Interface'"
>         Klaus Bruhn Jensen & Rasmus Helles, "The Internet as a  
> Cultural Forum:
>                 Implications for Research"
>         Josh Lauer, "Surveillance History and the History of New  
> Media"
>         Benjamin Peters, "Media We Do Not Yet Know How to Talk  
> About: History as
>                 New Media"
>         Lance Porter, "A Multi-Method Examination of the Move from  
> Print to New
>                 Media of Online Sports Reporters and Fans"
>         Dawn Shepard, "The Closet and the House-Tops:  Communication
>                 Technologies and the Paradox of Privacy"
>
> 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m.:  Lunch
>
> 1:00 p.m.-2:15 p.m.: Roundtable 3: Doing History: New Media  
> Historiography, and the History of History
>             Historiography-understood as the methods of history and  
> as the history of history-is of particular importance to those who  
> take an historical approach to new media.  How do new media-as  
> storage tools and as analytic devices-intersect with the methods we  
> use to do media history?  And what methodological adjustments can we  
> see in new media research?
>         Jaako Suominen, "Gaming Legacy?: Four Approaches to the  
> Relation Between
>                 Cultural Heritage and Digital Technology"
>         Mark Brewin, "A History of the History of Objectivity"
>         Simon Popple & David E. Morrison, "Opening the Archive: The  
> BBC, New Media,
>                 and Media History"
>         Meghan Dougherty, Jamaica Jones, and Steven M. Schneider,  
> "911 at 10:
>                 Collaboration across Fields to Challenge Formats for  
> New Media History"
>         Michael Dick, "Writing a Prologue for 'Web Science':  
> Situating an Evolving
>                 Discipline-and the New Media at its Core-Within  
> Determinist-                    Constructivist Discourse and Medium  
> Theory"
>         Jan Fernback, "Knowledge Capital, ICTs, and the Academic  
> Community"
>
> 2:15 p.m.-2:30 p.m.:  Break.
>
> 2:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.: Keynote address by speaker TBA
>
> 3:30 p.m.-3:45 p.m.:  Break.
>
> 3:45 p.m.-5:00 p.m.: Roundtable 4: Historicizing New Media:   
> Applying Historical Approaches to New Media Practice
>             The future assumes numerous forms in media practice. The  
> idea of the future-and the sense of possibility and flexibility that  
> often comes with it-is of particular importance to new media  
> practice. The papers collected here address the ideas of emergence  
> and flexibility as they relate to new media.
>
>         Holly Kruse, "Internet Gambling and the Changing Meanings of  
> Domestic Space"
>         Charles van den Heuvel, "Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web in  
> Research from a
>                 Historical Perspective: The Designs of Paul Otlet  
> (1868-1944) for                       Telecommunication and Machine  
> Readable Documentation to Organize                Research and  
> Society"
>         Stephanie Schulte, "Blogging into the Future: The Internet  
> as Unmediated Proxy
>                 of the Self"
>         Deb Aikat, "Digitally Inspired: Classic Concepts, Texts and  
> the Pioneers Who
>                 Shaped the Evolution of Computing in 1833-1945"
>         Carolyn Kane, "Digital Art and Experimental Color Systems at  
> Bell Laboratories,
>                 1965-1984: Restoring Interdisciplinary Innovations  
> and Color Systems to                 Media History"
>         Patricia T. Whalen, "The Tipping Point for Newspapers: A  
> Snapshot of an Industry
>                 in Denial"
>
> 5:00 p.m.-6:30 p.m.:  Closing Reception, featuring guided visit to  
> the Electronic Visualization Laboratory.
>             Though space for the EVL tours may be limited, there  
> will be a chance for groups of approximately 25 attendees to take  
> this tour sequentially.
>

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