The
Digital Revolution:
The Impact of Digital Media and Information Technologies
October 14-16, 2004, Columbia, South Carolina, USA
Conference papers and presentations
will be posted for download as soon as they become available.
THURSDAY - October
14 - Ifra Newsplex at the University of South Carolina
8:30 a.m. - Newsplex Moblog Training (Free
seminar; limited to 15 attendees. Vans leave hotel at 8:00.)
1 p.m. - Vans depart hotel to Newsplex
for general conference attendees
1:30 p.m. - Welcome: Charles
Bierbauer, Dean, College of Mass Communications & Information
Studies, Univ of South Carolina. Conference Overview: Augie
Grant, University of South Carolina
1:45 p.m. - Session
#1: Classroom innovations
3 p.m. - Session #2: Innovations
outside the box
- The Mac-in-the-box: Expertise on the go. Clyde Bentley, University of Missouri / Download handout
- http://proteus.fau.edu: An Exploration of New Media Forms. Susan Reilly, Florida Atlantic University / View presentation at http://proteus.fau.edu
- Yearbook Life Support: How One School is Hoping to Breathe New Life into its Yearbook with a Full-featured Companion DVD. Cade White, Abilene Christian University / Download PowerPoint
4:30 p.m. - Session #3: Tools for
Innovation: Hardware and Software
6 p.m. - Bus returns
to hotel from Newsplex (Dinner on your own)
FRIDAY
- October 15 - Clarion Townhouse Hotel
9 a.m. - Session #1: Industry
Adaptations to Digital Technology
- Recording Industry Response to Digital Technological Improvements in the Production and Distribution of Recorded Music. Aaron Furgason, Monmouth University
- Predictors of TV-Newspaper Partnership Success. Wilson Lowrey, University of Alabama / Download PowerPoint
- Good Things Come In Small Packages: Convergence at the Lawrence World Journal. Stephen Quinn, Ball State University
10:30 a.m. - Session #2: Audience
Analysis and Consumer Behavior in the Digital Era
- Effect of Multifarious Internet Activities/Uses on Online Content Creation. Abhiyan Humane & Benjamin Sayre, University of Wisconsin--Madison / Download PowerPoint
- Cyberlag: U.S. and Asian over-65s Internet usage. Anne Cooper-Chen, Ohio University
- New Motivations for New Media: Motivations for Using Internet Broadcasting. Seungwhan Lee, Indiana University
- Convergent Audiences: When Consumers Become Creators. Jan Schaffer, University of Maryland / Download PowerPoint
Noon - Lunch and
Conference Keynote Speaker
1:30 p.m. - Session #3: Small Media;
Big Impacts
- The Mobile Generation Experiences an Evolution in Interpersonal Communication. Katherine Hughes, Syracuse University / Download PowerPoint
- Is the Cell Phone Appropriate for Mobile Publishing? Exploring Factors Affecting the Choice of Media. Ran Wei, University of South Carolina / Download paper
- Small Scale Video Conveyance. Michael Murrie, Pepperdine University / Download PowerPoint / Download paper
- Broadcast and Internet Radio. Dan Shaver, University of Central Florida / Download PowerPoint / Download abstract
3 p.m. - Session #4: Contextual Issues: Legal, International and Historical Case Studies
- Blogs Without Borders: International Legal Jurisdiction Issues and Their Implications for Blogging Journalists. Robert Frank & Brian Carroll, Berry College / Download extended abstract
- Civic virtue in Desegregation: How Practicing Multiple Media Teaches Young Journalists History and Diversity. Cecile Holmes, University of South Carolina
- The Race to Establish Digital Broadband Services in Hong Kong: Winners, Losers, and How They Played the Game. Jeffrey Wilkinson, Regent University / Download PowerPoint
4:30 p.m.- Session
#5: Organizational Challenges
- Measuring Media Site Traffic: The Pitfalls of Using Computer Programs to Measure Web Activity. Clyde Bentley, University of Missouri & Greg Harmon, Belden Associates / Download paper / Download PowerPoint
- Media Convergence: The Third Age of Public Information. Dan Shaver, University of Central Florida / Download PowerPoint / Download abstract
- Digital Photo Archiving Policies & Practices at U.S. Daily Newspapers. Quint Randle, Brigham Young University & Lucinda Davenport, Howard Bossen, Michigan State University / Download PowerPoint
7 p.m. - Reception
(including heavy hors d'oeuvres), Clarion Townhouse Hotel
With special poster session
honoring Ph.D. graduates of USC's
School of
Journalism:
Barbara Gainey, Dayo Abah,
Debbie Van Tuyll, Emanuel Nneji,
Jodie Peeler,
Marilyn Sarow,
Rebecca Payne,
and others TBA!
SATURDAY, October
16 - Clarion Townhouse Hotel
8:30 a.m. - Session
#1: Critical Perspectives on Convergent Media
- Peer.Review: Telepistemology in the age of the webcam. Alison Bambridge, University of Sussex / Download PowerPoint
- The Digital Revolution or The Destiny of Television? Barry Vacker, Temple University
- Alternative Media on the Web: Advocacy, the War in Iraq, and the 2004 Presidential Election. John Dillon, Jeremy McKeel, & Carmen Corso, Murray State University / Download paper / Download PowerPoint
9:45 a.m. - Session #2: Media Without
Borders! Practical Advice for Designing an Introductory Skills
Course for
a Convergence Curriculum
- Implementation of Digital Convergence Courses:
Economics and Pedagogy. Christopher R. Harris, Middle Tennessee
State University
- The Backpack Professor: Teaching Digital Storytelling
in a Convergence Era. Vic Costello (Moderator), Elon University / Download presentation (in PDF)
- Where does the Web fit? Balancing Tools, Skills, and Theory.
Ed Youngblood, Texas Tech University
- Challenges for Development
of New Media Curriculums. Cher Cornett, East Tennessee State
University / View video at http://avl.etsu.edu/contents/portDetail.php?id=19
11:15 a.m. - Session #3: Lessons
from Newsplex
- Adventures in Creativity. Ernest Wiggins, Julie Nichols, & Geoff LoCicero, University of South Carolina
- Teaching the Teachers: Newsplex Summer Seminars. Augie Grant, University of South Carolina
- The Election Connection. Doug Fisher, University of South Carolina / Download presentation (in PDF) / Download handout (in PDF)
12:30 p.m. - Conference Adjournment |
