Future Communications Conference 2015 December 11 2015 #FCCComCult2015 Morning:

8:30 a.m.-9:00 a.m.: 9:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.: Music in Action Shelagh Pizey-Allen

Samantha Whatley Erica Melamed Maggie Huang

Identity, Veil, & Niqab Safiyya Hosein Nicolette Little Amanda Kiminski Dean Ray

Maida Amir

Conference starts in Vari Hall, York University 4700 Keele St, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Welcome and Registration

Vari Hall 1152 A

Vari Hall 3004 Whoever Speaks of “Music Cities” Speaks of Administration as Well: Revisiting Cultural Policy Debates in Music Scholarship Acting American: Performance, Authenticity and American Identity in Rock and Roll The Empty Audience: The Use of the Cellphone at Concerts Collective Management in the Digital Age for India's Music Industry Vari Hall 3005 Constructing the Islamic Superhero: Revisionist Interpretations of the Veil in Graphic Novels Niqabis Speak Out! Harper’s “Niqab Ban,” Media, and MuslimCanadian Women’s Response Internet, Exclusion, and the Public Sphere Connected Territories: Deterritorializing Female Muslim Bodies: the Transformation of the Interaction Order in Digital Spaces Digitally Re-Defined Identites: Internet As A Preferred Medium of Islamic Knowledge in Canada’s South Asian Muslim Diaspora

Radio, Broadcasting and the Spectrum Vari Hall 3006 Kris Bertram Decolonizing the Digital: Reallocating (Radio) Spectrum in an Age of Neocolonialism Amanda Oye CBC News: Public Service, Technology, and the Digital Future Daniela Mastrocola Another One Bites the Dust? The Closing of CHRY 105.5FM Stacey Copeland Empowering Voices of Queer Women: Freedom and Identity in Transnational, Local and Community Radio 1

Comedy, Caricatures and Collections Vari Hall 3009 Nicola Natale Communication and Caricature: Stewie Griffin as ‘Enlightened’ and Misanthropic Andrew Monti The Artillery of Dissent: the Aggregate Political Content of Stand-up Comedy 1990-2010 Farwa Farshori Humans of New York: Clickbait or a New Form of Resistance Katie O’Connor Murderabilia and True Crime Collections Transgressive Spaces: Race, Sexuality, and Feminism Vari Hall 1152 A Christine Feraday Identity Expression in LGBTQ+ Tumblr Communities Priya Rehal Cosplaying in ‘Colour’: Punking Post-Colonialism through Costume Play Mary Grace Lao This is What a Feminist Looks Like Online: Navigating Feminist Safe Spaces Amanda Wong Procedurally Generating Maps Outside of Videogame Culture: Game Curation and Pop-up Arcades Workshop:

9:15 – 9:45 TEL 3009 How to apply to the MA and PhD degrees in Communication & Culture at York and Ryerson Universities

10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.: Body Image and in Action Vari Hall 3004 Whitney Sweet Big Nothing: Invisible Characters Grotesque Bodies Jessica Cwynar-Horta The Digital Production and Circulation of Body-Positive Imagery Leila Talei Female Body as a Battlefield: Violent Iconography and Fragmentation in Alexander McQueen’s “High Land Rape” Catwalk Anne-Marie Santerre Deconstructing Dancer's Body; Accepting Differences The City, Space, Surveillance Vari Hall 3009 Jesse Cumming Safety and Democracy: CCTV and The Legacy Of 'Eyes On The Street' Danielle Dawson When Inanimate Objects Converse: The Somatic Surveillance of People by Things George Martin Jussi Parikka’s Notion of Layers as a Concept for Investigating Urban Space Missy Anderson The Translation and Assemblage of Canadian Sanctuary City Policies

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Games and Gaming Chris Alton Sarah Stang

Evan Fradley-Pereira Andrea Luc

Vari Hall 3005 “The Hills are Alive with the Sound of...” An Examination of the Soundscape of Silent Hill Immersion, Identification, and Agency: How Current Discourses are Shaping the Cultural and Academic Understanding of Video Games and Future Gaming Technologies Designing Beauty: Aesthetics of Gaming in the Construction and Experience of “Beautiful Play The Construction of Satire in Grand Theft Auto V and Bioshock: An Examination into the Production of Satire in the Gaming Industry

Community, Race and Identity Vari Hall 3006 Laurence Butet-Roch Indigenous Territories in Cyberspace: Interactive Storytelling as a Tool for Self-Determination Nataleah Hunter-Young Beyond Carding: Did the Media Dilute the Discourse Around Racial Profiling in Ontario? Jamaliah Henry Communicating Black Consciousness: A Mixed Method Study of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement Sydney Lang Unintentional Education in Kerala: The Navigation of Cultural Capital and Communication in Contested Space Farihah Ali Bill S-8: A Continued Failure in Addressing Systemic Water Inequities for First Nation Communities in Canada

Perspectives on Gender in the Digital Age Roundtable Vari Hall 1152 A Anna Frey, Vanessa Ciccone, Gabrielle Willms Workshop:

10:45 - 11:15 TEL 3009 How to apply to the MA and PhD degrees in Communication & Culture at York and Ryerson Universities

12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.: Lunch on your own Afternoon sessions follow on next page

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1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.: Social Media and Their Power on Knowledge Vari Hall 3004 Elizabeth Basskin Destined to be Together Donna Gall Never Home Alone: Premeditation and Parental Anxiety Abu Haque Is the Future Here? Tatyana Terzopoulos Toward a More Diverse Media Content Landscape for Canadian Tweens Aesthetic Ruptures in Communication and Culture Vari Hall 3005 Nick White Touching without Feeling: Speculative Textures in HumanComputer Interaction Alysse Kushinski Abject Realities and the Consensual Sublime: E-Waste, Photography, and the Privileged Spectator Jonathan Ptrychyn Soft Skin: Haptics, Painting, and Film in Pedro Almodovar's The Skin I Live In Ivona Jozinovic Back Home Cinema, Film and the Industry Vari Hall 3006 Jade Guthrie Your Dreams are His Nightmares: Banksy's 'Dismaland' and the Deconstruction of Capitalist Abstract Space Robin Goodine A History of Art in Six Seconds: Vine, Experimental Film, and Video Art Practice Jessica Bay The Studio that Bella Built? The Franchise-Creation Strategy of Lionsgate Wendy Donnan Motion Capture and Posthumanism: A New Synthetic Reality Environment, Enterprise and Economy Vari Hall 3009 Karl Petschke The Goddess, The Sovereign, and The Enterprise: A History for Honeybees and Humans Gary Larsen Ciphers of Ontological Totalitarianism in Digital Pedagogy Tyrone Hall The Limitations of Social Marketing in Climate Change Communication Dylani Shea ‘Buen Conocimiento para el Buen Vivir'? Preliminary Findings of a Policy Evaluation on the Knowledge Revolution in Ecuador Lauren Cullen Stitchin’, Hookin’, and Bitchin’: The Secret Life of Needlework in Rug Hooking

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Posters and Creative Works Vari Hall 1152 A Golrokh Daneshgar Power of place: Investigating the relationship between nature perception and sociability of places in the built environment Maria Casasfranco The Self and The Other Tanya Bailey Road Trip to Space: How the Media Role in Introducing Early Automobile Technology Will Shape Future Communications of Advanced Transportation Technologies Amara Pope Seduction in Corruption: A Creative Demonstration of Media Reliance in Trinidad Nadine Ryan Communicating Difference: Autistic Abilities and the Diversity Movement

2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.: Television and Beyond Vari Hall 3004 Kate Moore Mindy Kaling's Powerful Implementation of Postfeminist Discourse Elizabeth Edwards Dressing the Companions: The Role of Costuming in ClassicEra Doctor Who Fan Fiction Milena Sanoeva Television Beyond: Trash TV and Hate Watching Ian Fitzgerald "Personally, I don't like his odd, bird face”: The New Faces of the Hollywood Rom-Com Democracy, Digital and Otherwise Vari Hall 3005 Alexandra Marcinkowski The Society of the Spectacle 2.0 and the Commodification of Life Alexandra Berceanu Curating Desired Outcomes Samuel Forrest “Anyone but Harper” and the Successes of Strategic Voting Bahar Nasirzadeh The Question of Ideology: Mediality and Public’s Collective Affectivity Culture Miram Alsaadi Sebastian Oreamuno Bora Yun

Vari Hall 3006 Beauty and the YouTube World: A Visual and Textual Analysis of Personal Branding and the YouTube Beauty Guru Automythnography: Bridging Realities and Communicating Positioning The Monsters Within Us: Analysis of the Contemporary Monster Narratives

Issues in Visual Art: How Mediations Affect Perception Dissemination and Experience Roundtable. Vari Hall 1152 A Kyle McNamee, Emma Sharpe, Leslie Schumacher 5

Inclusion and Exclusion Vari Hall 3009 Vanessa Lilly Restoring Rehtaeh Parsons’ Rape Narrative - An analysis of #YouKnowHerName on Twitter Samar El-Khatib The UN’s HeforShe Campaign and the Social Media Attack of White Feminism Nathalie Down Dominate and Penetrate: How Entrepreneurship Culture Alienates Women Jocelyn Burbach Political Identity Construction, Gender and the Role of Social Media

Workshop:

2:45 - 3:15 TEL 3009 How to apply to the MA and PhD programs in Communication & Culture at York and Ryerson Universities.

4:15 p.m. – 6:15 p.m.

Break on your own and make your way down to Ryerson University campus by transit or with friends near the Dundas subway station.

6:30 p.m.

Engineering Room LG-11 245 Church Street, north of Dundas Desserts, Coffee & Tea

7:00 p.m.

Keynote Speaker: Penelope Ironstone Wilfrid Laurier University President of the Canadian Communication Association “Microbial Politics at the End of the World: The Future Communication of Some Very Small Things”

8:30 p.m.

ComCult GSA End-of-Term Holiday Party Imperial Pub, 54 Dundas East, Toronto All participants and Program faculty are welcome to join the ComCult Grad Student Association for a holiday celebration at the end of semester. Please see Campus Maps on next page

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