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U-Chicago conference on media and theory, with Seymour Hersh, May 14-15

The University of Chicago will be hosting a conference on
University of Chicago

May 14-15, 2004

Why do the news media consider certain events historically significant, worthy of sustained coverage and commentary, while other happenings generate little or no media interest or attention? What are events, and what makes happenings in the world into events? Beginning with the assumption that news is neither a natural nor self-evident category but the product of institutional practices of selection and representation, this two-day symposium brings scholars together in an effort to collectively understand the social processes through which news, as a general category and set of particular cases, comes into being. Looking across media type and genre, panelists will examine how mass media construct and construe happenings as significant events, trends, and facts about the world.

Constru(ct)ing the Current:
Theorizing Media in the New Millennium

University of Chicago
May 14-15, 2004

Assembly Hall
International House
1414 East 59th Street
Chicago, Illinois
Friday, May 14:

9:30 am – 10:30 am: Registration

10: 45 am – 11:00 am: Opening Remarks

11:00 am – 1pm: Receiving and Judging: Public Opinion/World Opinion

Cass Sunstein: University of Chicago, Law School
“The Speech Market”

Michael Dawson: Harvard University, Department of Political Science
“Fragmented Publics/Fractured Consensus.”

Robert Entman: North Carolina State University, Depts. of Communications and Political Science
“Media and Democracy in a 1.5 Party System”

Kevin Barnhurst: University of Illinois - Chicago
“Doing Ideology: 20th Century News, the Possibility of Interpretation and the New Long Journalism.”

1:00 pm – 2:15 pm: lunch break

2:15 pm – 4:40 pm: Mediations Inside Media: Cultures of Journalism
Dominic Boyer: Cornell University, Department of Anthropology
“Notes on the Phenomenology of News Journalism.”

John Nerone: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Blogging and the Tradition of Partisan Journalism.”

Carrie Rentschler: University of Pittsburgh, Women's Studies Program
“Trauma Training and the Emergence of a Therapeutic Culture in the U.S. News Industry.”

Jack Bratich: Rutgers University, Department of Journalism and Media Studies
“Pop Goes the Profession: Journalism, Popular Culture, and Political Rationality.”

Adel Iskander: University of Kentucky, Department of Communications
“Al-Jazeera, the ‘Arab Street,' and the Pursuit of Contextual Objectivity.”

4:45-6:15 pm: Keynote Address
Seymour M. Hersh 6:15 pm – 7:15 pm: Reception

Saturday, May 15:

10:00am–12pm: Reflections and Refractions: Media on a Global Stage

Mark Pedelty: University of Minnesota, Department of Anthropology

“Troubadours, War Correspondents, and Other Storytellers: A Comparative Analysis of News and Music from the Salvadoran War.”

Christian Davenport: University of Maryland, Department of Political Science

“Source Matters: Contentious Events, Media Reports, and the Importance of the Cold War.”

Cary Nelson: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of English

“The News from Poetry: Propaganda, Persuasion, and Panic in Wartime Newspaper and Postcard Verse.”

Meg McLagan: New York University, Department of Anthropology
“Circuits of Suffering.”

12:00 pm-1:15 pm: Lunch
1:15 pm – 3:15 pm: Modes of Presentation

Carol Stabile: University of Pittsburgh, Department of Communications
“From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: News Values and the Televising of Fear.”

Christopher Wilson: Boston College, Department of English & American Studies
“Criminal Informants, Criminal Cultures.”

Paula Treichler: UIUC, Institute of Communications Research
“The Condom's Life in 20th Century U.S. Print Media: Circumventing the Comstock Laws.”

Melani McAlister: George Washington University, American Studies

“The Personal is Political: Television News and the 1979-80 Iran Hostage Crisis.”

3:20 pm – 4:30 pm: Concluding Discussion
 
 

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