2009 National Conference Program - PCA/ACA

Thomas E. Young
La Galerie 2 (2nd Floor)
1025 Communication & Digital Culture I: Agency and Production
Chair: xtine Burrough, California State University, Fullerton
"Network Culture and the Fetishization of Agency"
Jane Fader, Wayne State University
"’Broadcasting Yourself’ in the Google Network: The Employee-Employer
Relationship between YouTube Users and Google, Inc."
Brett Werenski, Purdue University
"User Labor"
Burak Arikan, Independent Artist
Engin Erdogan, IDEO
"Mechanical Turk: A Digital Sweatshop?"
xtine Burrough
Balcony J (4th Floor)
1026 Stephen King I: The Faces of Suffering and Monstrosity
Chair: Deb Macintosh, University of Connecticut
WEDNESDAY
2:30 – 4:00 P.M.
"Why Do People Read That Stuff? Self-Exposure Therapy May Explain Stephen
King’s Success In the Horror Fiction Genre"
Amy Johnson, Ivy Technical College
"The Fallen King(dom): Surviving Ruin and Decay in the Novels of Stephen King"
Patrick McAleer
"Sacrificial Offerings for the King: Sweet Simpletons, Gentle Giants, and
Monstrous Morons"
Deb Macintosh
Mardi Gras B (3rd Floor)
1027 Eastern European Studies I: Eastern Europe Studies: Getaways in
Communist Eastern Europe, Part 1
Chair: Cate Giustino, Auburn University
"A Select Audience: Shaping the Public Image of Sports Events in the GDR"
Caroline Fricke, University of Potsdam
"Cracks in the System: Fun, Stadiums and Power in Ceausescu’s Romania"
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