Call for Papers American Anthropological Association 100th Annual Meeting 100 Years of Anthropology: The Transformation of a Discipline Washington, DC, November 28-December 2, 2001 PROPOSED PANEL: transmitting culture: media, anthropology, electronic feed-back circuits The relationship of the mass media and culture has been approached from various fields including the early observations of critical theorists to the indigenous media studies carried out most notably in visual anthropology. Under this rubric, agency becomes displaced, misplaced or fore-grounded, opening up avenues for culturally subversive reclamations and demarcations of space and self. In here lie areas of resistance, representation, culture jamming and various avenues to explore the media as a site for the manufacture of culture, transformations of language and image use. As electronic media become more interactive and instantaneous, there occurs a narrowing of the feedback loop. Commercial messages tailored to modify the behavior of a consuming public are also themselves constantly changing in response to the dynamic audience. Because of the heightened immediacy and far-reach of late electronic media, resistance often takes the form of attempts to subvert messages. Such resistance begins to infiltrate the system at varying points, as the audiences' sophistication towards media literacy increases. Our interests lie in exploring what culture jamming, media pranks, hoaxes and other forms of subversion say about the maintenance and reproduction of culture and social structure. Please send 250 abstract by MARCH 25 to Jay Gabriel at [log in to unmask] Temple University Dept of Anthropology Gladfelter Hall 238 Philadelphia PA 19122 Fax 215-204-1410 for further information or questions email Stephanie Takaragawa [log in to unmask] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stephanie Takaragawa Temple University Visual Anthropology ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/ScreenSite