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STATEMENT OF PURPOSE Thank you for attending the third annual Theorizing the Web conference. We are humbled by the success and growth of Theorizing the Web. Now three years into this project, the conference has begun to stick. While still very much a DIY event, the conference, its community, and what it stands for seem to have some traction and some influence on the overall discussion of the role of technology in society. However, as some things solidify, others have changed significantly. The most obvious change is the location. This year, we’ve teamed with CUNY’s JustPublics@365 initiative because we share a focus on social (in)justice and on making academic research accessible to larger publics. This has the additional benefit of making the conference more centrally located for more people. What could be more fitting for a conference theorizing technology than to insert it into Manhattan’s great cultural machinery? But this is still Theorizing the Web. There continues to be a strong focus on power, inequality, and domination—none of these are ignored or given a token corner, but woven through the program. And there is an emphasis in thinking for a broader set of publics, interdisciplinary but also nondisciplinary. We expect an audience not just of academics but also of activists, artists, and anyone else who is interested in the event. We also expect engagement with broader publics participating in the conference remotely via the conference hashtag (#TtW13) and live video stream. All this means that there is more emphasis than usual on making arguments as clear as possible. Our motivation for starting Theorizing the Web back in 2011 is made clear in the event’s title. Discussions about technology in general, and mobile and social digital technologies specifically, have been largely a-theoretical both within and outside the academy. We want to create space for discussing technology within a historical

and theoretical framework from a critical point of view. The Web is not some new, virtual space, but a technology situated within a society that comprises real people with real histories, bodies, and struggles. What past thinking sheds light on this new circumstance? What do new technologies tell us about our old theories? To address these questions, we have an exciting lineup of speakers. On Friday, the conference begins with an opening plenary by Alice Marwick titled, “Wall Posts Can’t Protect You: Networked Privacy & Social Surveillance in Facebook” followed by a panel called “Free Speech For Whom?” featuring danah boyd, Adrian Chen, Zeynep Tufekci and moderated by Jessie Daniels. On Saturday there are 44 competitively selected papers in 11 panels, a invited panel spotlighting research at the CUNY Graduate Center, and the conference concludes with a keynote address by the eminent theorist of surveillance David Lyon, titled, “The Emerging Culture of Surveillance: Digital Data, Visibility, and the Web.” As Marwick and Lyon’s talks indicate, the topic of surveillance is the (unofficial) theme this year. As two graduate students, we rely a lot on others to help throw this event. We want to thank our planning committee: from CUNY, Jessie Daniels, Bronwyn Dobchuk-Land, Jen Jack Gieseking, Matthew K. Gold, Wilneida Negrón, Morgane Richardson, and Emily Sherwood; from University of Maryland, Tyler Crabb, Tanya Lokot, Sarah Wanenchak, and William Yagatich; and from University of California, Santa Cruz, Whitney Erin Boesel. Special thanks to everyone who registered for the event through our pay-whatyou-want system. We appreciate those donations, whatever the amount. Last, the guiding principle of Theorizing the Web has been to create an event that we would want to attend. But that’s just the start; the rest is up to you. Be smart and be critical and be excited, and this will be a fun event once again. Check out the #OccupyDataNYC hackathon in the James Art Gallery and be sure to take advantage of the location and see the city (and not just Midtown!). Thanks again for joining us!

Nathan & PJ Conference Co-Chairs

GENERAL INFO /// Organizers Co-Chairs Nathan Jugenson & PJ Rey JustPublics@365 Jessie Daniels, Bronwyn Dobchuk-Land, Jen Jack Gieseking, Matthew K. Gold, Wilneida Negrón, Morgane Richardson, and Emily Sherwood Additional Committee Members Whitney Erin Boesel, Tyler Crabb, Tanya Lokot, and Sarah Wanenchak Designer Imp Kerr

/// Sponsors Theorizing the Web 2013 is supported by the Ford Foundation; the Advanced Research Collaborative (ARC), the Department of Sociology, and JustPublics@365 of The Graduate Center, City University of New York; and by the generous donations of our participants. We would like to thank the Graduate Center for use of their facilities and A/V support. We would also like to thank Katherine Carl at the James Gallery has been extraordinarily encouraging and accomodating of our various ideas. And, we would like to thank our designer, Imp Kerr, for contributing far above and beyond what our modest budget would otherwise make possible. Finally, we would like to thank the University of Maryland Department of Sociology, the staff of The New Inquiry, and the contributors at Cyborgology for assistance with logistics and publicity.

/// Presiders Presiders are in charge of running panels and will introduce each presenter, keep everyone to time limits, and conduct Q&A. Presiders may also choose to give a brief response to the panel, or to pose general questions, as they see fit.

/// Hashtag Moderators The hashtag moderator will act as a panel’s official livetweeter and will compile questions from Twitter for the Q&A session. During a panel, the presider will ask the hashtag moderator about the topics/questions arising on Twitter.

/// Conference Hashtag: #TtW13 We encourage participation on both the conference and the panel hashtags. Each panel has a unique hashtag comprised of the room and session number (e.g., #b1 is for the panel occurring in room B during session 1).

/// WiFi The CUNY Graduate Center provides free WiFi for guests. Simply login to the guest network and provide your email.

/// Registration We ask that all participants register online! Our institutional sponsors really like to see this data. theorizingtheweb.org/2013/registration.html

/// Online Program Up-to-the-minute schedule available at: theorizingtheweb.org/2013/program.html

/// Live Video Stream All presentations will be live video streamed and recordings will be archived. Links to the video stream are at: theorizingtheweb.org/2013/videostream.html

/// #OccupyDataNYC Hackathon Friday (12:00pm-4:00pm) and (Saturday 10:00am-6:00pm) in the James Gallery at the front entrance of the Graduate Center, join a collective of researchers, artists, occupiers, and hackers to discover new ways of relating to the Occupy movement through data analysis and visualization. New-York-based Occupy Data hackers will be creating a space for more days of planning, discussion, and implementation. The data sets from previous Occupy Data and Occupy Research events will be available, as well as some new data from Occupy Sandy. Occupy Data is a subgroup of Occupy Research, with the aim of mining and visualizing datasets related to the Occupy movement. At previous hackathons, teams of people worked on separate projects with the goal of using free and open source tools to creatively present data pertinent to the Occupy movement and the issues it has raised. Read more about previous projects and get inspired about what you might like to work on at occupydatanyc.org

/// Conference Afterparty Location: Slattery’s Pub (8 East 36th Street) Entertainment: DC Sean Gray, Fan Death Records

/// Food & Coffee Due to venue restrictions, we are unable to serve food or coffee. Please visit the location page of the TtW13 website for nearby options: theorizingtheweb.org/2013/ location.html

/// CUNY Graduate Center The CUNY Graduate Center occupies the historic B. Altman Department Store Building (one of the original flagship department stores of Fifth Avenue), and features a distinguished design by Trowbridge & Livingston. It is located at the northeast corner of 34th Street and Fifth Avenue.

/// Conference Rooms The conference rooms where Saturday’s panels will take place, as well as the auditorium, all share the foyer located on the Concourse Level of the Graduate Center.

/// James Gallery The James Gallery will host Friday’s presentations as well as the #OccupyDataNYC hackathon. It is immediately left of the main entrance to the Graduate Center.

/// Art Installations The foyer features installations by Paul Soulellis and Mitch Patrick. More details are available online.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Friday, March 1st /// Opening Plenary 4:00pm

Doors open

James Gallery

This is a ticketed event. You must have a ticket to gain entry.

4:30pm

Plenary: Wall Posts Can’t Protect You: Networked Privacy & Social Surveillance in Facebook

#f1

5:30pm

Speaker: Alice Marwick Refreshments

/// Public Symposium 6:30pm

Theorizing the Web Presents: Free Speech For Whom?

Auditorium #f2

Presider: Jessie Daniels /// Panelists: danah boyd, Adrian Chen, and Zeynep Tufekci Free and open to the public.

8:00pm

Friday Social

Slattery’s Pub

Organizers from JustPublics@365 will lead attendees to Slattery’s Pub (8 East 36th Street) for an informal social.

Saturday, March 2nd 10:00am

Doors open

Graduate Center

Pick up name badges and programs. We cannot serve food or drink, so we suggest you grab coffee/tea on your way.

10:30am

Opening Remarks

Auditorium

Speakers: Nathan Jurgenson & PJ Rey

10:45am

Break

/// Session 1 11:00am

Ctrl+Alt+Del: Control, Resistance, and Refusal

Room A #a1

Presider: Tanya Lokot /// Hashtag Moderator: Whitney Erin Boesel /// Panelists: Laura Portwood-Stacer, “How We Talk about Media Refusal: Popular Frames for Understanding Resistance to Social Media Platforms in Everyday Life” /// Raiford Guins, “Beyond Bridges, Speed-Bumps, And Hotel Keys: A New Design Paradigm for Control Technologies” /// Malcolm Harris, “Crowd-Sourcing Assassination 2.0” /// Tom Slee, “From Facebook to Banquets: Identity, Institutions, and Uprisings”

Room B #b1

The Participatory Culture Industry

Room C #c1

Memory and the Speed of Data

Room D #d1

Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction

Presider: Tara Conley /// Hashtag Moderator: Dorothy Santos /// Panelists: Andrea Baker, “A Digital/Physical Day in the Life of A Rock Music Fan: Online and Offline at Concerts” /// Sam Han, “Digital Fetishism, KPop and Projective Modernity: A Culturalist World-Systems Analysis of MyKoreanBoyfriend. com” /// Jasmine Salters, “Digitally (re)imagining the black female body: Representing race, gender, and class in sensual massage ads” /// Nicholas Boston, “‘Remember to click “Subscribe” an’ tell yuh friend dem dat Ramchan deh ‘pon YouChoob!’: YouTube, Cross-generational Drag and Caribbean Diasporic Technologies of the Self”

Presider: Matthew K. Gold /// Hashtag Moderator: Phil Tietjen /// Panelists: Lev Manovich, “Understanding the data stream” /// Sophia Drakopoulou, “The ‘lived now.’ Observing the changes in the spatiotemporal experience of everyday life through the use of ICTs” /// Caitie Kealy, “Viral Velocity: States of Interaction in Meme Culture” /// Piergiorgio Degli Esposti, “Death on Facebook: Mourning and memory as a prosumer activity”

Presider: Sarah Wanenchak /// Hashtag Moderator: David Banks /// Panelists: Andrea Marshall, “Star Trek and Subjectivity: Fan Videos as Sexual Textual Critiques” /// Cameron Paul, “Mediating Beyond the Page: Objectivity, Materiality, and Environmental Approaches to Digital Poetics” /// Faith Holland, “Internet as Pussy/Pussy as Internet” /// Olivia Rosane, “The Republic of Tweets”

12:15pm

Break

/// Session 2 12:30pm

You Are What You Post

Room A #a2

Presider: Sava Saheli Singh /// Hashtag Moderator: Emily Johnson /// Panelists: Carolyn Kane, “Infrared: The Algorithmic Production of Visual Knowledge” /// Rotem Rozental, “Framing an Emergency: Photography in Areas of Conflict” /// Rob Horning, “Rationalized identity construction, networked subjectivity, and the emerging ‘data self’” /// Dorothy Santos, “The Distant Gaze and Contemporary Notions of Perception: Re-examining the New Aesthetic Movement through an Analysis of Satellite Technologies in New Media and Digital Arts”

Room B #b2

The Facebook Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism Presider: Chih-Chin Chen /// Hashtag Moderator: Karen Gregory /// Panelists: Andrea Hunter, “Monetizing the Mommy: The Commodification of Motherhood in Blogs” /// Brooke Duffy, “Women Making Media: Revisiting Questions of Gender, Labor, and Power in the Digital Age” /// Jeremy Antley, “Data Serfdom in the Modern Age: Constructing a New Feudal Order” /// Mohammad Kazeroun, “Social Media and Reproduction of Prosumer Identity: Re-considering advertising strategies in the age of ubiquitous social media”

Room C #c2

The New Politics of Participation & Persuasion Presider: Tyler Crabb /// Hashtag Moderator: Michelle Forelle /// Panelists: Daniel Kreiss and Laura Meadows, “Media Events in a Networked Age: Twitter Publics and Active Spectatorship” /// David Parry, “When Elections Become Social Engineering Campaigns” /// Linda Huber, “Updating the discourse: practices of political news production and consumption on the Facebook news feed” /// Mona Kleinberg, “US Democracy, Race and Online News”

Room D #d2

IRL in the URL: Digital Dualism of the “Real” & “Virtual”

1:45pm

Lunch... om nom nom

Presider: Whitney Erin Boesel /// Hashtag Moderator: Jeffery Keefer /// Panelists: Tristan Rodman, “This is You: Turntable. fm and the Digital/Physical Divide” /// Stéphane Vial, “There is no difference between the ‘real’ and the ‘virtual’: a brief phenomenology of digital revolution” /// Lesley Gourlay and Martin Oliver, “Critiquing digital dualism in Higher Education: a posthuman / sociomaterial account of student entanglements with technologies” /// David Banks, “On the Political Origins of Digital Dualism: From Rousseau’s Masturbating Habits to The Front Page of the New York Times”

/// Session 3 3:00pm

The New Technologies of Surveillance Society

Room A #a3

Presider: Carla Ilten /// Hashtag Moderator: Rotem Rozental /// Panelists: Andrew Schrock, “User-Driven Video Surveillance in the Occupy Movement: Capturing Conflict, Claiming Space” /// Avery Henry, “Frustrating the Technostrategic Gaze: Poststructuralist Anarchy as a Response to the Surveillance Society” /// Karen Levy, “The Automation of Compliance: Techno-Legal Regulation in the U.S. Trucking Industry” /// Tobias Matzner, “Online Identity and the Fragmentation of the Internet”

Room B #b3

Bodies and Bits Presider: Jen Jack Gieseking /// Hashtag Moderator: Donald W. Taylor II /// Panelists: Christina Dunbar-Hester, “‘The Internet is a Series of (Fallopian) Tubes’: ‘Diversity’ Activism in Hacker and Software Projects” /// Gina Neff, “What We Talk About When We Talk Data: Metrics, Mobilization, and Materiality in Performing Health Online” /// Jenny Davis, “Identity Prosumption and the Quantified Self Movement” /// John Michalczyk, “Disability & Technology: Redefining the Stage and the Field”

Room C #c3

Room D #d3

Infostructures of Knowledge Presider: Karen Gregory /// Hashtag Moderator: Shane Tilton /// Panelists: Bonnie Stewart, “MOOCs are Not the Enemy: Networked, Non-Imperialist MOOC Models” /// Daniel Greene, “Do We Have A Sign That Says ‘Weirdos Welcome?’: Urban Libraries and the Control of Access” /// R. Stuart Geiger, “Values Where? Interrogating Client-Side Scripting as a Design Process” /// Shannon Sindorf, “In defense of eavesdropping: Twitter as conversation, not self-indulgence” Invited Panel: Spotlight on the CUNY Graduate Center: Theorizing a Public Web This panel will cover the wide range of research Web-related research done at the Graduate Center. Additional details can be found in the online program.

4:15pm

Break

/// Keynote 4:30pm

Keynote: The Emerging Culture of Surveillance: Digital Data, Visibility, and the Web

Auditorium #e4

Speaker: David Lyon

6:00pm

Afterparty

Slattery’s Pub

Join us at Slattery’s Pub (8 East 36th Street) for drink specials, conversation, and music.

TWITTER KEY Jeremy Antley Andrea Baker David Banks Whitney Erin Boesel danah boyd Adrian Chen Chih-Chin Chen Tara Conley Jessie Daniels Jenny Davis Piergiorgio Degli Esposti Bronwyn Dobchuk-Land Brooke Duffy Michelle Forelle Stuart Geiger Jen Jack Gieseking Matthew K. Gold Lesley Gourlay Daniel Greene Karen Gregory Sam Han Malcolm Harris Faith Holland Rob Horning Linda Huber Emily Johnson nathan jurgenson Mohammad Kazeroun Caitie Kealy

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