2009 National Conference Program - PCA/ACA

Gender, Class and Sexuality"
Ashley Black, Northwestern University
"The Performance of Gender by Young Adults on Halloween"
Craig Macmillan, Washington State University
"The Parodic Potential: An Examination of the Mickee Faust Club"
Sarah Fryett, Florida State University
FRIDAY
8:30 – 10:00 P.M.
La Galerie 2 (2nd Floor)
3235 Internet Culture VII: Audiences, Resistance, Communication and
Conflict
Chair: Vanessa Au, University of Washington
"From DARPAnet to Facebook: A Brief History of the Social Evolution of the Net"
Mark Giese, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
"Examining Para-social Interaction and Mediated Conflict"
Alicia Mason, University of Oklahoma
Gwendelyn S. Nisbett, University of Oklahoma
Jessica Bogard, University of Oklahoma
"Sharing Irreverence: Viral Exchange, Transmedial Culture, and the Case of
Rickrolling"
David Gurney, Northwestern University
"My Day of Fame on Digg.com: Race, Resistance, and Public Discourse"
Vanessa Au
Balcony L (4th Floor)
3236 Science Fiction & Fantasy XIX: Area Business Meeting
Chair: Tanya R. Cochran
Incoming Chair: Sherry Ginn
Please join your co-chairs—Tanya Cochran and Sherry Ginn—your colleagues, and
your old and new friends for refreshments and a brief discussion of the area’s
goings on. Come prepared to share your past year’s accomplishments as well as
your ideas for the future of the area.
Jackson (5th Floor)
3237 Game Studies Meeting Roundtable/Business Meeting
Session Chair: Gerald Voorhees, High Point University
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