DIGITAL engAGEment: Media. Literate. #activist 2018 Conference Program
May 18, 2018
Center for Worker Education (CUNY)
25 Broadway, 7th Floor
New York, New York
NOTE: A government-issued ID is required to gain entrance to the building.
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8:45–9:15 a.m. Check-In and Continental Breakfast
9:15–9:30 a.m. Welcoming Remarks / Media. Literate. #activist
Katherine Fry, Professor and Chair, Department of Television and Radio, Brooklyn College, DIGITAL EngAGEment Conference Co-Chair @katherinegfry
9:30–10:45 a.m. Paper Sessions/Panels
The Future Is Now: Digitally Engaging Education
- Moderator: Michelle Ciulla Lipkin, Executive Director, NAMLE @ciullalipkin
"Unlocking the Liberation Doctrine in Media Literacy and Higher Education" - Jayne Cubbage, Assistant Professor, Bowie State University
"The Knowledge Brokers: How Old Media Is Shaping New Education" - Keith Bevacqua, M.A. Student, Queens College (CUNY)
"Preparing to Be Digital: A Paradigm Shift for Media Study in Higher Education" - Katherine Fry, Professor, Brooklyn College
Media Binds or Blinds? Participatory Action Research in Deconstructing Myths and Misconceptions and Storytelling with Data
- Melda Yildiz, Chair/Associate Professor, New York Institute of Technology
- Juliet Boone, New York State Teacher, New York Institute of Technology
- Amr Swid, Assistant Professor, New York Institute of Technology
Representing and Resisisting: Gender and Sexuality in Media
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Moderator: Mobina Hashmi, Department of Television and Radio, Brooklyn College @mobinah
"The Sexualization of Female Athletes in Mass Media" - Neil Malvone, Department of Kinesiology, Brooklyn College
"Broke the Mold" - Erin Hart, M.S. Candidate, Department of Television and Radio, Brooklyn College
"ISSA MOOD" - Jessica Jupiter, M.F.A. Candidate, Department of Television and Radio, Brooklyn College
Changing the World in Our Digital Networks: Social Media Activism
- Moderator: Jamie Cohen, Digital Humanities and New Media Department, Molloy College
"Exploring CODEPINK: Strategic Practices for Social Media Activism" - Wiebke Reile, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Hawai’I at Manoa
"Searching for the Politicized Aesthetics of Social Media Through the Lens of Benjamin's 'Work of Art' Essay" - Alyssa Adkins, M.A. Student, University of St. Thomas (St. Paul, Minnesota)
"Trash Talk: Instagram Activism and the 'Zero Waste' Movement" - Catherine Burgess, M.S. Candidate, Department of Television and Radio, Brooklyn College
11 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Workshops
Fake-News + Media Poetry Workshop
- Alexandra Juhasz, Professor and Chair, Department of Film, Brooklyn College
- Orr Menirom, Independent Media Artist and Activist
The Power of the Voice: Audio Documentation and Reporting for Change
- Sandra Lopez-Monsalve, Brooklyn College
- Jared Marcelle, WNYC Radio Rookies/#CaughtPodcast
Learning to Digitally Engage
- Michelle Ciccone, Technology Integration Specialist, Christa McAuliffe Charter School
- Reuben Loewy, Living Online Lab @livingonlinelab
12:30–1:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30–3 p.m. Interventions and Activism Exhibit
Student projects from the M.S. Program in Media Studies, and the M.F.A. in Television Production, at Brooklyn College will be informally showcased in the Computer Lab as a self-guided experience. Presenters: Scott Eden (M.S.), Erika Gregorio (M.F.A.), Karina Robledo (M.F.A.), Cristina Soare (M.F.A.), Lawrence Williams (M.F.A.).
Screenings/Brooklyn College Graduate Student Projects
To accommodate attendees who wish to see more than one of the screenings that participants are showing today, we are running two identical 45-minute screening sessions (1:30–2:15 p.m. and 2:15–3 p.m.). The video creators will screen their work and then discuss/present information about its creation as well as take questions. Enjoy!
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"El árbol de la vida (la reina, la hija y las mujeres)"/"The Tree of Life (the queen, the daughter and the women)"
Bernardita Llanos, Professor and Chair, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Brooklyn College - "Fight Like a Girl"
Beatriz Alonso, Independent Video Producer - "That's We Language: Using Media to Preserve the Culture of Nicaragua's Caribbean Coast"
Digital Interventions and Activism
Students from the M.S. in Media Studies and M.F.A. in Television Production, Brooklyn College, present their final media activism projects for their seminar class: Jamie Cristello (M.F.A.), Julia Fitzgerald (M.F.A.), Joy Henry-Goodwin (M.S.), Diana Mei (M.S.), Albert Negrete Rimbau (M.F.A.), Darres Quiles (M.S.).
3:15–4:45 p.m. Power Panel: Activists, Interventions, Communities: The Future of Media Activism in Today's Political Climate
- Moderator: Katherine Fry, Professor and Chair, Department of Television and Radio, Brooklyn College, DIGITAL engAGEment Conference Co-Chair
- Jennifer Pozner, Founder/Executive Director, Women in Media and News (WIMN)
- James Bernard, Executive Director, Public Allies, NYC
- Jamia Wilson, Executive Director and Publisher, Feminist Press
Pozner, Bernard, and Wilson represent some of the most innovative and broad-ranging media activists in the New York City area. This diverse group of community leaders and organizers will share their experiences in media activism, media literacy, and advocacy; discuss the contemporary state of media activism; and consider future developments, innovations, and directions for media literacy activism and engagement.
4:45–5 p.m. Closing Remarks
- Katherine Fry, Professor and Chair, Department of Television and Radio, Brooklyn College, DIGITAL engAGEment Conference Co-Chair
Informal Ending Reception
Join us at Ulysses' Folk House, 95 Pearl Street, in Manhattan's Financial District for lively post-conference confab.
DIGITAL EngAGEment III – May 2019
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