Sue-Ellen Case
Professor and Chair of Critical Studies, Department of Theater, UCLA (more…)
Professor of Studio Art & Information and Computer Science, UC Irvine; Co-Director for the Art, Computation and Engineering Program (ACE); Director of the UC Irvine Game Culture and Technology Lab;Affiliated faculty in the Visual Studies Program Game Culture and Technology
(more…)Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies/Visual Studies, University of California, Irvine; Program Faculty Member of Arts Computation Engineering, University of California, Irvine (more…)
Professor of History, Film and Media Studies, and the Critical Theory Emphasis, UC Irvine (more…)
Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture, UC Santa Barbara; Co-Director of UC Microcosms Project (more…)
Professor of Computer Science; Chair, Media Arts and Technology; and Co-Director, Four Eyes Laboratory, UC Santa Barbara (more…)
Arthur N. Rupe Professor in the Social Effects of Mass Communication and Co-Director of the Center for Film, Television and New Media, UC Santa Barbara (more…)
Associate Professor of English and Medieval Studies Program, UC Santa Barbara (more…)
Associate Professor of Sociology; Associate Dean of the Graduate Division, UC Santa Barbara (more…)
Professor, Media Arts and Technology Program, and Art Dept., UC Santa Barbara (more…)
Professor of Film Studies and Center for Information Technology and Society Humanities Coordinator, UC Santa Barbara (more…)
Director of Consortium for Literature, Theory, and Culture and Associate Professor of English, UC Santa Barbara (more…)
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Please also register as an author on the Transliteracies conference site to discuss the seed questions or post a comment here or on other discussion parts of the site.
For your information: a UCSB TV crew will be at the conference to videotape the conversation roundtables and discussion. An edited version of the proceedings may be broadcast on UCTV, the University of California’s educational television channel. Portions of the proceedings may also be available online from the Transliteracies site in the future.—Thank you for your interest in the conference, Alan Liu (conference organizer), Melissa Stevenson (conference research assistant)
Driving North on US 101 take the UC Santa Barbara/Highway 217. Follow 217 (Ward Memorial Blvd.) to the East Gate of the University. Proceed straight through the gate, and merge right onto Mesa Road. Three lighted intersections later, turn left onto Ocean Road. Bear right to at the stop sign to stay on Ocean Road, then take your first left at the El Colegio intersection. The road terminates in three parking lots. Turn into the right parking lot, and the HSSB Humanities and Social Sciences Building (the site of the March 8-10 2002 Conference) is immediately on your left. All sessions will be held in the McCune Room, 6020 HSSB. Parking passes may be purchased from electronic kiosks in the lot.
Driving South on US 101, exit at Storke Road/UCSB exit and drive south (toward the ocean) to a “T” junction with El Colegio Road. Turn left onto El Colegio Road and you will pass through the West Gate of the University. Continue on El Colegio Road through the intersection with Ocean. The road terminates in three parking lots. Turn into the right parking lot, and the HSSB Humanities and Social Sciences Building (the site of the March 8-10 2002 Conference) is immediately on your left. All sessions will be held in the McCune Room, 6020 HSSB. Parking passes may be purchased from electronic kiosks in the lot.
How are people today “reading” in digital, networked environments? For example, what is the relation between reading and browsing, or searching? Or between reading and multimedia? Can innovations in technologies or interfaces increase the productivity, variety, and pleasure of these new kinds of reading? How can the historical diversity of human reading practices help us gauge the robustness of the new digital practices; and, inversely, how can contemporary practices provide new ways to understand the technical, social, and cultural dimensions of historical reading? (more…)
Kevin C. Almeroth * Anne Balsamo * Walter Bender * Bruce Bimber * John Seely Brown * Nicholas Dames * Judith Green * N. Katherine Hayles * Yunte Huang * Adrian Johns * George Legrady * Cynthia Lewis * Alan Liu * Peter Lyman * Jerome J. McGann * Tara McPherson * J. Hillis Miller * John Mohr * Christopher Newfield * Robert Nideffer * Lisa Parks * Carol Braun Pasternack * Christiane Paul * Leah Price * Rita Raley * Ronald E. Rice * Warren Sack * Schoenerwissen/OfCD (Anne Pascual & Marcus Hauer) * Bob Stein * Brigitte Steinheider * Matthew Turk * William B. Warner * Curtis Wong. (more…)
» Three keynote presentations to mark out the diversity of disciplines and approaches needed to address the problem of online reading (keynoters: Anne Balsamo, Walter Bender, Adrian Johns). » Three moderated, plenary conversation roundtables (1. Reading, Past and Present 2. Reading and Media 3. Reading as a Social Practice). » A presentation session on “The Art of Online Reading” featuring Christiane Paul and digital artists George Legrady, Anne Pascual and Marcus Hauer of Schoenerwissen, and Robert Nideffer. » A Planning Workshop for the Transliteracies project.
Discuss online the questions that have been pre-circulated among participants in the conversation roundtables. Comments welcome before and after the conference. (more…)
Schoenerwissen/OfCD conducts research and development in computational design. (more…)
Professor of English, UC Santa Barbara; Director of the UC Digital Cultures Project. (more…)
Professor, Department of Computer Science, UC Santa Barbara; Associate Director, Center for Information Technology and Society; Media Arts and Technology Program; Technology Management Program; and Computer Engineering Program, UC Santa Barbara (more…)
Associate Professor in the Department of History and the Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, Univ. of Chicago [Keynoter] (more…)
Professor of Literacy Education, College of Education, University of Minnesota (more…)
(Seed question for Roundtable 2: Reading and Media)
(Seed question for Roundtable 2: Reading and Media)
(Seed question for Roundtable 2: Reading and Media)