2009 National Conference Program - PCA/ACA

Chair: Christopher Bloss, Georgia Gwinnett College
WEDNESDAY
6:30 – 8:00 P.M.
"’Try to see what they might be seeing’: Land Consumption in Catherine Landis's
Harvest"
Sharon Colley, Macon State College
"Two Masters of the Rhetoric: Savannah's Native Writers Flannery O'Connor and
James Alan McPherson"
Patricia West, Indiana University of PA
"Southern Cinematic Cryptids and the Reappropriation of Redneck Sterotypes"
John Barbour, Clemson University
La Galerie 2 (2nd Floor)
1108 Internet Culture II: Filters and Boundaries
Chair: Marianne Leonardi, University of New Mexico
"Internet Communication in Brazil as a Large Cultural Phenomenon"
Regina Correa, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Brazil
"Power, Privilege and Panopticon: the Role of Surveillance in Facebook"
Zak Bronson, Brock University
"The Google Filter: Understanding News through the Propaganda Model in the
Global Digital Media Industry"
Tyler Baber, New School for General Studies, Media Studies Program
"On Whose Terms? Rules, Regulations and Boundaries in Cyberspace"
Marianne Leonardi
Preservation Hall Studio 7 (2nd Floor)
1109 Gender & Media Studies I: Gender, Television and Popular Culture
Chair: Monique LaCoste, University of Washington
"Makeover Television and Gender: The Case of What Not to Wear"
Olaf Hoerschelmann, Eastern Illinois University
"’We are not special; we are Japanese!’: Narrating Asian/American Masculinity in
the Heroes’ Universe"
Helen Ho, University of Michigan
"Understanding The Closer: Stereotyped Portrayals and Police Detectives"
Mia Poston, University of Alabama
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