Critical Themes 2010

Abstracts

The Bad Apples: Examining 'Greedy' Wall Street Investors, CEOs and the Financial System in News Magazine Discourse from 1980-2009


Bob, Meet Roberta: Re-performing and Re-gendering ‘Just Like a Woman’


“Britney Spears” Autopsy and Séance


A Certain Convocation of Politic Worms: Assembling Community Vermiculture and the Ecological Collective


Cyber-Governmentality in Saudi Arabia: Filtering Online Content toward the Institutional Administration of Life


Dealing with Disorder: Visual Complexity and the Uncertain Whole


Digital Events: Media Rituals in the Electronic Age


The Discourse and Media Environment of Direct to Consumer Drug Advertisements


The Form of Content Delivery: Networked Television and Narrative Property


How Contemporary Takes on Art, Theory and Life Converge in Robert Altman’s ‘The Company’


I-Contact: Inconvenient Truths and the Interrotron


Images of Inheritance: Spectacle, Witnessing, and ‘Posts’ of Memory


Inland Empire and the Digital Language


The Ivory Village: Identifying a Digital Path toward Openness and Collaboration in the Academic Community


“Leave Britney Alone!” Online Queer & Transgender Vlog Communities and the Commercial Implications of YouTube’s “Don’t Be Evil” Policies


Metonymic Icons: How Faces Inspire Global Imagined Communities


MySpace Contra Multitudes: An Analysis of Social Networking Sites as a Function of Control Society


Neither Here nor There: Deconstructing Urban Simulation


The Neoliberal Vision: a Post-social World


A ‘Politics’ of Mapping, Or How to Produce a Whatever Documentary


Rethinking Curating


The Sounds, and Silences: Affective Use of Music and Silence in The Twilight Zone


A State-Run Internet: Developing an Authoritarian Internet Ontology of Control


The YouTube Assemblage: An emergent, banal and yet potent site of semi-conscious political and hegemonic contestation


“Shojo” and the Art of Resistance by Contemporary Japanese Women Photographers and Media Artists