Saturday, October 13

Session 311: Design
Johnson Great Room, Gateway Center

New Media Poetics and Non/Narrative Structure
-- Cheryl Ball, Michigan Technological University, USA

Internet, Entropy and Net Art
-- Francis McKee, Research Fellow, Glasgow School of Art, SCOTLAND

Session 312: Speech & Policy
Ski-U-Mah Room, Gateway Center

Moderator: Rory O'Brien, Information Studies, University of Toronto, CANADA

censorship.gov.au
-- Matthew Allen,Curtin University of Technology, AUSTRALIA

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Internet Filtering Software
-- Josephine Ferrigno-Stack, Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, USA

State Laws Regulating the Internet
-- Rebecca Pressman, Florida State University, USA

Session 313: Journal Editors' Meeting
Ski-U-Mah Room, Gateway Center

Steve Jones, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Leslie Shade, University of Ottawa, CANADA

Refreshments sponsored by Sage Publishing

Session 314: Research on Virtual Worlds
Ski-U-Mah Room, Gateway Center

CHAIR: Sandra Braman

Software Limits to Social Interaction in Collaborative Virtual Worlds
-- Will T. Hooper, University of Alabama, USA

Comparative Virtual Worlds: Differences in Visual and Aural Content across Collaborative Virtual Environments
-- Laura Medders, University of Alabama, USA
-- John Hataway, University of Alabama, USA

Perceptions of Commercialization in Collaborative Virtual Worlds
-- Stephanie Lynch, University of Alabama, USA

Collaborative Virtual Worlds as Social Environments
-- Matt Supko, University of Alabama

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: LISA NAKAMURA, "The Work of Race in the Age of Digital Reproduction"

9:20-10:20am, Memorial Hall, Gateway Center

Session 331: On the Internet, No One knows You're a Fringe Group: Marginalized Groups Seek Mainstream Acceptability Online
Memorial Hall, Gateway Center

CHAIR: Todd S. Frobish, Iona College, USA

Developing Ethos on the World Wide Web: Virtually Creating and Constraining Rhetorical Appeals.
-- Mike T. Hubler, The University of Alabama at Huntsville, USA

Pornographic Ethos and Identity on the Web: The Rhetoric of Clublove.com.
-- Todd S. Frobish, Iona College, USA

Power 2 the People: Is P2P the "Killer App." for Alternative Media?
-- Ted M. Coopman, Rogue Communication, USA

Independence, Identity, and Credibility: Persons with Disabilities Commandeer the Net.
-- Stephanie J. Coopman, San Jose State University, USA

Session 332: Virtual Communities - Design & Conception
Johnson Great Room, Gateway Center

Moderator: Julie Mactaggart, University of Minnesota, USA

Constructionism and the Design of Online Communities
-- Amy Bruckman, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Online Communities as Third Places: Implications for Conversational Environments
-- Jim Hudson, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
-- Amy Bruckman, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

How Technical is the Social? Theorizing the Role of Online Communities
-- Rob Kling, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, USA
-- Geoff McKim, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, USA

Boundary Politics: Scale, Networks, and Cyberspace Research
-- Willard Uncapher, University of California, Davis, USA

Developing a Model of Virtual Community Functioning
-- Anita Blanchard, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, USA

Session 333: E-texts
Ski-U-Mah Room, Gateway Center

Moderator: Bernadette Longo, University of Minnesota, USA

Blackstone and Electronic Text
-- Michael Hancher, University of Minnesota, USA

Hypermedia Literature: Discourses, Communities, Practices
-- Thomas Swiss, University of Iowa, USA

Session 334: Surveys Online 59
Nolte Room, Radisson

Moderator: Jeremy Hunsinger, Virginia Tech University, USA

A Case Study of WWW Online Survey Development and Testing
-- Dorine Andrews, Georgetown University, USA

Software for Surveying Online: A Review and a Pilot
-- Nicholas Jankowski, University of Nijmegen, NETHERLANDS
-- Martine Van Selm, University of Nijmegen, NETHERLANDS

Quantifying and Correcting Unit Nonresponse-Errors in Online-Surveys
-- Gerhard Lukawetz, Black*Box FreeNet and Online-Community, USA

Session 341: Digital Divide: Comparitive Research and Studies
Memorial Hall, Gateway Center

The Internet and Access, Civic Involvement, and Social Interaction: Survey Trends 1995-2000
-- Ronald Rice, Rutgers University, USA

Electronic Agora? Digital Divide? The impact of Internet access on political activities of citizens
-- Martin Emmer, Ilmenau Technical University, GERMANY
-- Gerhard Vowe, Ilmenau Technical University, GERMANY

Network Competence as a Resource for Citizenship: Implications for Digital Divide
-- Reijo Savolainen, Department of Information Studies, FINLAND

Session 342: Virtual Communities-Case Studies
Johnson Great Room, Gateway Center

Collective Action and Community Involvement in a Wired Neighborhood
-- Keith Hampton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Who cares about Virtual Community? A Real Life Perspective
-- Maria Bakardjieva, University of Calgary, CANADA

Black Friday 8/20/99: Building and Destroying Trust Online
-- Laura Robinson, University of California Los Angeles, USA

Cybercash: Investing In Online Community
-- Meghan Walsh, University of Wisconsin, USA

Session 343: Intellectual Property II
Ski-U-Mah Room, Gateway Center

Moderator: Dan Burk, University Minnesota, USA

Beyond the VCR: Implications of Sony v. Universal City Studios for Internet-Related Actors
-- Stacey Dogan, Northeastern University School of Law, USA

Illegal Links: An Examination of the Impact of the Reimerdes Linking Case on DeCSS Linking
-- Kristin Eschenfelder, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
-- Alan Rubel, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Criminalizing the Hyperlink: The implications of the DeCSS case for free speech online
-- Tarleton Gillespie, University of California, San Diego, USA

Session 344: Health Online
Nolte Room, Radisson

Moderator: Amy Koerber, University of Minnesota, USA

Just Do It: the Online Communication of Breast Cancer as a Practice of Empowerment
-- Shani Orgad, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

Seeking Medical or Health Information or Advise on the Web
-- Amanda Spink, The Pennsylvania State University, USA

Internet and Medicine: Use and effects of the WWW in Cardiac Surgery Patients
-- Monica Murero, International Institute of Infonomics, THE NETHERLANDS

Session 345: Elections Online
Rotary Room, Radisson

Moderator: Rory O'Brien, Information Studies, University of Toronto, CANADA

New Tools, New Politics? A Rhetorical Analysis of the Minnesota Fourth Congressional District Campaign Web Sites
-- Gretchen Haas, University of Minnesota, USA

The Internet in Canadian Political Campaigning
-- Tamara Athene Small, University of Calgary, CANADA

The Internet, Democratic Participation, and the 2000 Elections in Ghana
-- Wisdom Tettey, University of Calgary, CANADA

Session 351: The Future of Critical Internet Studies: A Roundtable
Memorial Hall, Gateway Center

CHAIR: Jonathan Sterne, University of Pittsburgh, USA

-- James Hay, University of Illinois, USA
-- Lauren Langman, Loyola University of Chicago, USA
-- Tara McPherson, University of Southern California, USA
-- Lisa Nakamura, Sonoma State University, USA
-- Fred Turner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
-- Mari Castañeda Paredes, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USA

RESPONDENT: Greg Elmer, Boston College, USA

Session 352: Virtual Communities and Identity
Johnson Great Room, Gateway Center

From Communication to Community Online: The Role of Visibility, Relation and Co-Presence
-- Caroline Haythornthwaite, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
-- Alvan Bregman, University Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Paths to community belonging: Net surfer, media consumer, talker or joiner?
-- Sorin Matei, Annenberg School, University of Southern California, USA

Youth Identities among Online and Onground Contexts
-- Mechthild Maczewski, University of Victoria, CANADA

Session 353: Empirical Research on Relationship Dynamics in CMC
Ski-U-Mah Room, Gateway Center

Moderator: Ulla Bunz, University of Kansas, USA

Misattribution and Attributional Redirection to Facilitate Effective Virtual Groups
-- Joseph B. Walther, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

Virtual Propinquity and Interpersonal Attraction on the Internet
-- Diana Odom Gunn, McNeese State University, USA
-- Christopher W. Gunns

Precontractual Solidarity and the Important of Trust on Online Auctions
-- Chris Adamski, Western Illinois University, USA

Session 354: Political Discourses of Cyberspace: An International Comparative Analysis
Nolte Room, Radisson

Privatizing the Citizen: Technology Elites and the Reconstruction of Democracy
-- Philip Howard, Northwestern University, USA

Be careful what you ask for..." ? Resolving policy with the social uses of technology
-- Leslie Tkach, University of Tsukuba, JAPAN

US policy on IT and the democratization of China
-- Randy Kluver, National University of Singapore, SINGAPORE

Respondents
-- Charles Ess, Drury University, USA
-- Philip Howard, Northwestern University, USA
 

Session 355: Education Issues II
Rotary Room, Radisson

Moderator: Robert Luke, OISE/University of Toronto, CANADA

What is a Learning Object? From 'Multilogue' to Monologue: Modeling Education in Technical Standards
-- Cynthia A Frank, The University of Arizona, USA

Local Evaluation of a Website as Collaborative Activity
-- K. Ann Renninger, Swarthmore College, USA
-- Wesley Shumar, Drexel University, USA

Scientific Communication in Developing Areas: Will the Internet Make a Difference?
-- Wesley Shrum, Louisiana State University, USA
-- Theresa Davidson, Louisiana State University, USA
-- R. Sooryamoorthy, Louisiana State University, USA

Session 361: Selling Cyberspace: Commercial Discourses of the Internet
Memorial Hall, Gateway Center

CHAIR: Charles Ess, Drury University, USA

Disciplining Multicultural Cyborgs: Discourses of Digital Capital and Labor
-- Radhika Gajjala, Bowling Green State University, USA

Evolving Digital Discourses: Community Rhetoric and Commercial Practice
-- David Silver, University of Washington, USA

The New Eden: Children and the Discourses of Advertising in a Wired World
-- Sarah Stein, North Carolina State University, USA

Session 362: Net Design II
Johnson Great Room, Gateway Center

Soft Architectures
-- Catherine Smith, Queensland University of Technology, AUSTRALIA

A Bookling Monument: Reading on-screen art that takes some ideas from book pages
-- Anne Frances Wysocki, Michigan Technological University, USA

Session 363: History & Theory of the Internet
Ski-U-Mah Room, Gateway Center

Moderator: Richard C. Cante, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

The Role of Institutions in the Design and Development of Computer-Mediated Communication Technologies
-- Rajiv Shah, University of Illinois, USA
-- Jay Kesan, University of Illinois, USA

A Diffusion of Innovations Model for Internet Adoption by Private Landowners
-- Amy Sheaffer, Ball State University, USA

Session 364: Cyberwar and Security
Nolte Room, Radisson

Moderator: Lauren Langman, Loyola University, USA

Electronic Jihad: Middle East Cyberwar and the Politics of Encryption
-- Heidi Brush, University of Illinois, USA

Thinking Security: Crackers, Script Kiddies, and the Professionals Resisting Them
-- Jeremy Hunsinger, Center for Digital Discourse and Culture, Virginia Tech, USA

Session 365: Sacred and Memorial Cyberspaces
Rotary Room, Radisson

CHAIR: Stewart Hoover, University of Colorado, USA

Gathering the Scattered in Cyber-Sacredspace: The Internet, Spiritual Identity, and Religious Community
-- Cheryl Casey, New York University, USA

Sacred Cyberspace: Mediating Feedback on a Christian Prayer Website
-- Donna Drucker, USA

Virtual Walls, Virtual Memories?: Cybermemorials and the Performance of Memory Online
-- Ed Martini, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland, USA

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: BARBARA WARNICK

5:15-6:15pm, Memorial Hall, Gateway Center, Gateway Center