Schedule

Online Communities Workshop

August 9-10, 2011

Room 202 ATLAS Building, University of Colorado

Boulder, CO

TIME

TOPIC

LEAD

Tuesday, August 9

9:00-9:30

Welcome & Introductions

Choose lunch for tomorrow

Lecia Barker & Jocelyn Petyak

9:30-10:10

Defining Community

Lecia Barker & Jocelyn Petyak

10:15-10:55

Do We Need People? An Adaptive Agent as Community Member on LambdaMOO

Charles Isbell

10:55-11:05

Short break

11:05-11:45

Conceptualizing Self-As-Community

Jaime Banks

11:50-12:30

The Serendipitous Collaboration: Emergent  Social Norms and Creative Processes in an Online Remixing Community

Jude Yew

12:30-1:45

Lunch

University Memorial Center

1:50-2:30

Leadership and Bonding in Two Online Communities of Rock Bands

Andrea Baker

2:35-3:15

‘The Social Network’ and the Eritrean Diaspora: African Experience and the Internet

Victoria Bernal

3:15-3:25

Short break

3:25-4:05

Connected Migrants: Orkut and the Making of an Online Brazilian Scape

Mieke Schrooten

4:10-4:50

I Am Large, I Contain Multitudes: The Problem of ‘The Creator’ in New Media Endeavors

Megan Winget

5:00

Adjourn: Shuttle or walk to Millenium Hotel

 

6:45

Shuttle from hotel for Dinner at the Mediterranean (7 pm reservation)

Wednesday, August 10

 

9:00-9:20

Housekeeping; Plan for the day

Lecia Barker

9:25-10:15

Becoming Participatory in Cultural Studies: the ‘Becoming Methods’ Experiment

Jamie “Skye” Bianco

10:20-11:00

Piracy, Emulation, and the Rise of Homebrew: “Jailbreaking” the Social Movement

Casey O’Donnell

11:00-11:10

Short break

11:10-11:50

Digilante Rhetoric: Analyzing the Intersection of Race, Crime, and Justice Online

Dara Byrne

11:55-12:35

Managing Real Tension in Virtual Reality

Lecia Barker

12:40-2:00

Working Lunch; Adjourn

 

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