Media Studies Senior Project Presentations

Hi Everyone! Just a reminder that the senior Media Studies majors are giving their final project presentations tomorrow.

They'll be in New England 107 from 11 to 5:30. There will be free breakfast from 10-11, lunch from 1:15-1:45, and cocktails from 5:30-6:30.

Here's the schedule:

11:00-12:00 Session 1 Gender on Screen, Bodies in Media
a. Lindsay Kozlowski, "Appearance and Visual Identity: The Mediated Body"
b. Anh Nguyen, "Mimicking Hysteria: Exploring Feminist Mimesis in YouTube"
c. Becca Marcus, "Gender in the Media: Pretty Women and What Women Want"

12:15-1:15 Session 2 Media for Distribution: News, Music, and Exploring the Source
d. Anita Varma, "Hurricane Katrina and the Public Sphere: Mainstream and Alternative News Coverage of a Crisis"
e. Sam Calvano, "Potentials of Collaborative Online News Sites"
f. Chel Quintana, "New Models of Digital Music Distribution"

1:45-2:45 Session 3 New Technology Adaptations-Novel to Film, Nature to Television, Drawings to Animation
g. Ryan Cadrette, "The Big Gatsby"
h. Allison Kelly, "A Close Reading of Meerkat Manor"
i. Ryan Peterson, "Animation and the Film Industry"

3:00-4:00 Session 4 Mediated (Physical) Spaces and Scenes
j. Kelsey Sundberg, "(Un)conscious Collection"
k. Maya Peraza-Baker, "Mediating the Scene of the Crime"
l. David Knowles, "Video-Architecture"

4:15-5:30 Session 5 Documenting Mediated Moments (in History and Memory)
m. Lily Mooney, "Marketing the Edison Phonograph"
n. Nina Feinberg, "Time and Image Making in Instant Photography"
o. Corey Spencer, "Cigarette Advertising Historicity"
p. Jesse Holcomb, "N0st4Lg140--Digital Memory in 2008"