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2017 Conference

May 5, 2017

Center for Worker Education鈥擟UNY
25 Broadway
New York, New York

8:15鈥�9 a.m.: Check in

Continental Breakfast

9鈥�9:30 a.m.: Welcoming Remarks / Media Literacy in the 21st Century

Auditorium

• Katherine Fry, Professor and Chair, Department of Television and Radio, 可乐视频, DIGITAL EngAGEment Conference, Co鈥恈hair
• Maria Conelli, Dean, School of Visual, Media and Performing Arts, 可乐视频

9:40鈥�11 a.m.: Breakout Sessions I

Demo / Workshop: “Critically Analyzing Conspiracy Theories”

Auditorium

• Renee Hobbs, Professor, Media Education Lab, University of Rhode Island

Demo / Workshop: “Teaching Digital Literacy through PSYCH+Feminism: A Wikipedia Initiative”

Large Conference Room

• Elizabeth Che, Graduate Student, College of Staten Island / CUNY Graduate Center
• Patricia Brooks, Professor/Director, Language and Learning Lab, College of Staten Island (CUNY)

Digital Citizenship and the Public Sphere

Room 7鈥�10

Moderator: Keith Hughes

“Internet Studies Is the New ‘Digital Citizenship’”

• Michelle Ciccone, Technology Integration Specialist, Christa McAuliffe Charter School
• Reuben Loewy, Living Online Lab

“Expanding a Media Literacy Curriculum to Deal with Public Policy Issues: A Student-generated Social Media and Research Agenda for Analyzing Media Coverage and Raising Awareness of Opiate Abuse”

• Rachel Kovacs, Adjunct Associate Professor, College of Staten Island (CUNY)

Fact / Fiction: Issues Around Storytelling in the Digital Age

Room 7鈥�13

“Sherlock, Watson and You: An Experiment on Shared Interactive Storytelling in Virtual Reality”

• Jason Moore, Assistant Professor, Department of Television and Radio, 可乐视频

“Media Ethics Considerations for Media Makers: Think / Point / Shoot”

• Annette Danto, Professor, Department of Film, 可乐视频

“Fake Documentary and Truth’s Undoing”

• Alexandra Juhasz, Chair, Department of Film, 可乐视频

Interventions and Activism

Computer Lab

Students and alumni from the M.S. Program in Media Studies, and the M.F.A. in Television Production, at 可乐视频 showcase and demonstrate their media activism projects from their final seminar in the program.

These are available for review until 1 p.m.

11:15 a.m.鈥搉oon: Keynote Speaker

Auditorium

• Douglass Rushkoff, Media Theorist and Professor of Media Studies, Queens College (CUNY)

12:15鈥�1:15 p.m.: Lunch

Luncheon speakers:

• Michelle Ciulla-Lipkin, Executive Director, National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE)

“Alternative Facts and Holes of Oblivion: Checking in in a Technomediatic 21st C.”

• Adeena Karasick, Professor, Humanities and Media Studies, Pratt Institute

1鈥�2 p.m.: Breakout Sessions II

Demo / Workshop: “Cultivating Civic Activists in an Age of Digital Spectacle: Re-imaging Social Technologies for Civic Expression and Agency”

Auditorium

• Paul Mihailidis, Associate Professor, Emerson College

Demo / Workshop: “Fair, Balanced and Accurate?: News Literacy for Today’s Media Consumer”

Room 7鈥�10

• Jane Cubbage, Assistant Professor, Bowie State University

Demo / Workshop: “VR/AR Digital Media Literacy”

Room 7鈥�13

• Jamie Cohen, Assistant Professor / Program Director of New Media, Molloy College

Demo / Workshop: “Digital Literacy, Social Justice and Puberty: How the New York Public Library’s Middle School Innovation Labs Uses a Blended Learning Model to Foster the Next Generation of Conscientious Makers”

Large Conference Room

• Beth Dukes, Associate Manager, Out-of-School Time, New York Public Library

Demo / Workshop: Pirate Radio in the 21st Century

Small Conference Room

• John Anderson, Assistant Professor / Director of聽Journalism and Media Studies, 可乐视频

2:15鈥�3:30 p.m.: Breakout Sessions III

Media Literacy, Identity and Expression in the Digital Age

Room 7鈥�10

Moderator: Mark Hannah

“The Future of Media Literacy: Advances in Human-Machine Connection”

• Renee Cherow-O’Leary, President, Education for the 21st Century

“Sharing Political Expression on Social Media: Who Stands to Benefit?”

• Joel Penney, Assistant Professor, Montclair State University

“Startup Celebrity: The Influence of Image-based Social Media on Adolescents’ Identify Formation and the Risk of Identity Commodification”

• Catherine Burgess, Graduate Student, Media Studies, 可乐视频

Fake News and the Classroom: Strategies for Educators

Room 7鈥�13

Moderator: Michelle Ciulla-Lipkin

“Hack Fake News: Empowering Students Who Learn Differently to Be Savvy Media Consumers and Creators”

• Helen Carey, STEAM Program Manager, Tech Kids Unlimited, LLC

“Getting Spun: How College Students Verify News Stories”

• David Magolis, Associate Professor, Bloomsburg University

“The Importance of Acknowledging Our Implicit Biases when Fighting Fake News Through Media Education”

• Elizaveta Friesem, Media Education Lab

“Reading Beyond Slogans and Soundbites”

• Hugh Kesson, Temple University College of Education

Teaching Media Literacy Through Television, Film, and the Web

Large Conference Room

“Pay Close Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain: Media Literacy Through Media Production”

• Siobhan Cavanagh, Graduate Student, Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema, 可乐视频

“I Don’t Buy It: Exploring Elementary Students Application of Media Literacy Skills to Persuasive Techniques Used in Presidential Election Advertisements”

• Alice Sullivan, Doctoral Candidate, University of Texas at Austin

“Literacies for Life: Teaching Literacies Across Formats and Platforms”

• Joy Piedmont, High School Technology Instructor, LREI 鈥� Little Red School House & Elisabeth Irwin High School

3:45鈥�5 p.m.: Breakout Sessions IV

Open Forum: How Media Literacy Can Fight Fake News

Auditorium

• Yonty Friesem, Assistant Professor, Central Connecticut State University
• Renee Hobbs, Professor, University of Rhode Island; Founding Director, URI Media Education Lab
• Katherine Fry, Professor, Department of Television and Radio, 可乐视频,聽and Co-founder, The LAMP
• Allison Butler, Director, Media Literacy Certificate Program, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• Bill Densmore, Director, Journalism that Matters, Research Fellow, Donald W. Reynolds, Journalism Institute, Missouri School of Journalism, University of Missouri

Demo / Workshop: “Ways to Critically Evaluate Digital Media: Resources for Teaching First-Year Students”

Room 7鈥�10

• Christine Martorana, Assistant Professor, College of Staten Island (CUNY) / CUNY Graduate Center
• Amy Stempler, Assistant Professor, College of Staten Island (CUNY)
• Patricia Brooks, Professor, College of Staten Island (CUNY)
• Elizabeth Che, Graduate Student, College of Staten Island (CUNY)

Communication Education: Media Literacy Through DIGITAL EngAGEment

Large Conference Room

• Amanda Damiano, Assistant Professor, Department of Journalism Media Studies, and Public Relations, Hofstra University
• Jingsi Christina Wu, Assistant Professor, Department of Journalism Media Studies, and Public Relations, Hofstra University

5鈥�5:30 p.m.: Closing Remarks / Presentation of Daylong Project by M.S. / M.F.A. Students

Auditorium

• Katherine Fry, Professor and Chair, Department of Television and Radio, 可乐视频, DIGITAL EngAGEment Conference, Co-chair

5:30 p.m.: Ending Reception

Join us for hosted appetizers and lively discussion at a nearby establishment in Manhattan’s Financial District.