URBAN COMMUNICATION FOUNDATION NCA SEMINAR

URBAN COMMUNICATION:
PROLIFERATING WORLDVIEWS IN THE URBAN LANDSCAPE

Date: November 14, 2007
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 5:15 p.m.
Location: Chicago Hilton, Room: Boulevard B
Download the complete schedule for this year's 2007 UCF/NCA Seminar (PDF)

Group One: 9:00-10:15 a.m. [5 papers]

Teresa Bergman,
“How to Remember the Alamo” (DOC)

Maggie LaWare,
“Defying a ‘Livable City’: Parks, Playgrounds, and the Shaping of Play and Sociability in a
Midwestern Town” (DOC)

Jesica Speed,
“The Rhetorical Enactment of Zero Waste” (DOC)

Cindy Frewen Wuellner,
“A Rhetoric of Architecture: Reshaping the American Dream at Ground Zero” (DOC)

Kenneth Zagacki and Victoria J. Gallagher,
“Rhetorical Depiction and the Mediation of Nature: The Case of the North Carolina Museum of Art
Sculpture Park” (DOC)

Respondent: Maggie LaWare

Group Two: 10:30-11:45 a.m. [5 papers]

Giorgia Aiello,
“Aurora Avenue in Seattle: Visual Landscape and the Social Construction of a Contested Place” (DOC)

Gene Burd,
“The Street as a Site for Urban Communication: A Dangerous or Endangered Space and Place?” (DOC)

Greg Dickinson,
“Imaging Safety in Suburban Neighborhoods” (DOC)

Joan Faber-McAlister,
“Unsafe Houses: Suburbia as a Site for Moral Disorder in Popular Film” (DOC)

Irina Gendelman,
“Gentrification Argument: Colonization, Word Wars and the Feelings of Loss” (DOC)

Respondent: Irina Gendelman

Group Three: 12:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. [3 papers]

Mary Ann Allison,
“Flows, Flocks, and Feedback: Developing Urban Capacity to Convene Global Communities” (DOC)

Leo W. Jeffres, Mary F. Casey, Cheryl Bracken, and Guowei Jian,
“The Impact of Third Places on Community Quality of Life” (DOC)

Matthew Matsaganis,
“Harnessing the Power of Neighborhood Communication Networks to Build Health Literacy in Diverse Urban
Communities” (DOC)

Respondent: Leo Jeffres

Break for lunch: 1:00-2:30 p.m.

Group Four: 2:30-3:45 p.m. [5 papers]

Susan Drucker & Gary Gumpert,
“The Transect Transformed: Planning in this Media Age” (DOC)

Dong-Hoo Lee,
“Re-imagining Urban Space: Mobility, Connectivity, and a Sense of Place” (DOC)

Casey Man Kong Lum,
“Understanding Global City Centers as Megamedia: A Theoretical Exploration” (PDF)

John Monberg,
“Containing RFID: Questioning Communication, Technology, and Culture” (DOC)

Marie L. Radford, Lynn Silipigni Connaway, and Jocelyn DeAngelis Williams,
“Connecting in Cyber Communities: Comparing Communication Preferences and Behaviors in Live Chat
Reference Encounters” (DOC)

Respondent: John Monberg

Group Five: 4:00-5:00 p.m. [4 papers]

Shannon DeBord,
“How Leander, Texas, Made it on the Map” (DOC)

Tim Gibson,
“Kelo’s Children: Ideological Struggles over Class and Property in the Post-Kelo Era” (DOC)

Irving Rein and Ben Shields,
“The Rhetorical and Communicative Aspects of the Chicago Olympics Bid” (DOC)

Tim Simpson,
“The Function of Themed Environments in Post-Socialist Consumption in Macao” (DOC)

Respondent: Tim Simpson

Wrap Up: 5:00-5:15 p.m

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