New Media and Democracy: Global Perspectives Conference
April 9th and 10th | Room 110 – Knight Law Center
Thursday, April 9th
Keynote Address 7-8 PM
Dr. Sang Jo Jong, “South Korea as the World’s Most Wired Nation: Its Digital Democracy as a Real-Life Case Study?”
Reception 8-9 PM (Wayne Morse Commons, Knight Law Center)
Friday, April 10th
Introduction and Opening Remarks 9-9:15
Biswarup Sen, University of Oregon
Doug Blandy, Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, University of Oregon
Session 1: 9:15-11:00
Informational Politics
Moderator: Dan HoSang, Associate Vice President for Equity and Inclusion, University of Oregon
Panelists:
Leah Lievrouw,UCLA, “Alternative and Activist New Media, v. 3.0”
Camille Crittenden, UC Berkeley, “Data and Democracy: How New Digital Tools Enhance and Endanger Representational Politics”
Margaret Rhee, UCLA, Short-circuiting Citizenship: Feminist Movement Building in our Digital Age
Session 2: 11:15-1.00
Identities, Subjects, Publics
Moderator: Carol Stabile, professor in the School of Journalism and Communication and department of Women’s and Gender Studies
Panelists:
Purnima Mankekar, UCLA, “The Recursive Public Sphere, ‘New Media,’ and Cinema in the New India”
Tarek El-Ariss, University of Texas at Austin, “The Leaking Subject”
Sean Jacobs, The New School, “Making Sense of African Political Identities Online”
Lunch Break (Wayne Morse Commons, Knight Law Center) 1-2PM
Session 3: 2-3:45 pm
Digital Democracy: Local Iterations
Moderator: Daniel Rosenberg, Professor of History and Faculty at the Robert D. Clark Honors College
Panelists:
Matthew Adeiza, University of Washington, “Text Me Maybe: Digital Media, Elections, and Stomach Infrastructure in Nigeria”
Joe Straubhaar, University of Texas at Austin, “Technological Junctions, Networks and Entry Points: Four Key Moments in Social Movements and Democracy in Brazil”
Aswin Punathambekar, University of Michigan, “Politics After Youtube: Satire and Democratic Politics in Digital India”
