I'm looking for papers for a panel for SCS '95 (New York City) provisionally titled "Conservative Media Activism: The Challenge to Critique." * * * Panel Description * * * The New Right has made unprecedented use of communications technologies (direct mail, video, satellite television, BBS etc..) in two important and overlapping ways: first to construct and disseminate an ideology of "family values" and second to orchestrate "grassroots" activism on specific legislative issues. Focussing of the relationship between communications technologies and Conservative ideology and activism, this panel will address the difficulties and possibilities of an oppositional response to the New Right. Possible paper topics might include: the failure of liberal models of critique and explorations of new critical methodologies and activist strategies; Conservative uses of new technologies (N.E.T., Town Hall, etc..); "Pro-Life" and anti-gay rhetoric and imagery; politics and advertising -- The National Conservative Political Action Committee and The DeMoss Foundation's "Life, What a Beautiful Choice" campaign; Rush Limbaugh; the "Culture War"; The Heritage Founation and the role of New Right thinktanks; the Christian Coalition. . . By August 31 please send me a 1-2 page abstact and brief bibliography. My e-mail address is [log in to unmask] You can also send me papers by postal mail to: Anna Williams, Program in Visual and Cultural Studies, Department of Art & Art History, 424 Morey Hall, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627. Tel: 716-423-0989 *** Please feel free to depart from my paper suggestions. Topics that would be germaine to this panel exceed my ability to list them. Thankyou for reading this message, Anna Williams.