EVENT
Theorizing the Web Day 1 Sessions
Ongoing
Doors open 10:30 a.m.
STUDIO A #A1
Internet Connection
Online mediation has changed the search for sex across the board, reshaping dating, pornography, and sex work, if not sexual identity itself.
Moderator: Brandon Arroyo. Featuring: Danielle Blunt, Jonathan Zong, Indiana Seresin, Anh Vo.
STUDIO B #B1
Follow, Like, Subscribe
More than just a collection of people who like the same things, fandoms and audiences build worlds both fictional and social
Moderator: Rita Damiron Tallaj. Featuring: Diana W. Anselmo, Carmen Warner, Patricia Ciccone, Anna Pendergrast.
STUDIO C #C1
Good Hustle
Emerging workplace technologies impose modes of tracking, evaluating, and measuring that cut against workers’ autonomy and bargaining power
Moderator: Yana Calou. Featuring: Tim Cowlishaw, Sarah Adams, Rafaela Nakano, Becca Ricks
1:30 to 2:45 p.m. Session 2
STUDIO A #A2
Vital Signs
What it means to be healthy changes with technological capacities, even as increased amounts of screen time trigger health panics of their own
Moderator: Lori Adelman. Featuring Neta Alexander, Timothy Recuber, Skyler Balbus, Emma Stamm.
STUDIO B #B2
“Hey Theory”
Voice assistants like Alexa or Siri simultaneously serve and surveil, while associating authority and servitude with particular identities
Moderator: Lydia Nobbs. Featuring Lindsay Weinberg, Catherine Chen, Cynthia Hua, Julia Foote.
STUDIO C #C2
Death Valley
As the tech industry proceeds with its boundless aspirations to disrupt and datify more aspects of everyday life, what does that mean for the rest of us and what can we do to stop it?
Moderator: Colin Garvey. Featuring Rachel Bergmann, Brian Justie, Allie Watson, Kelly Pendergrast
3:00 to 4:15 p.m. Session 3
STUDIO A #A3
Remote Access
The distribution of digital connection reflects both imbalances of power and efforts at resistance across local and international relations
Moderator: Johnathan Flowers. Featuring Assata Zerai, Olga Boichak, Joshua Weiss, Yoehan Oh.
STUDIO B #B3
You Can’t Handle the Post-Truth
Changes in how we produce and distribute information have sparked a growing anxiety over the nature of “truth” and the means of contesting it.
Moderator: Emily Esten. Featuring Maggie MacDonald, Stephanie Monohan, Sun-ha Hong, Jared Newman.
STUDIO C #C3
Forward March
Movements and protests can no longer choose to be online or not. The question now is how to best use online affordances while avoiding common pitfalls.
Moderator: Karina Rider. Featuring Sohum Pal, Ana Grouverman, Emily Stainkamp, Victoria Gonzalez.
4:15 to 6:00 p.m. Break, followed by Keynote Sessions.
Fakes and Pains
Moderator: Amanda Hess
Participants: Lyta Gold, Max Read, danah boyd, Damien Patrick Williams
From post-truth to deepfakes, people are decrying a reality torn apart and increasingly difficult to comprehend. Is it all the fault of the internet, or is our epistemic chaos not really so novel?
7:15 to 8:30 p.m. Keynote Session 2
REDSTONE #K2
Sexual Suppression
Moderator: Jessie Sage and PJ Sage
Participants: Cameron Glover, Samantha Cole, Liara Roux, Sunny Moraine, Ramona Flour
The increasing repression of sexual content across digital platforms threatens lives and raises important questions about representation, access, safety, and institutionalized discrimination.