Media and Communication in the New Global Economy: A Conference in Honor of Herbert I. Schiller organized by Ellen Seiter and Yuezhi Zhao University of California, San Diego October 2-3, 1999 For complete information see: http://communication.ucsd.edu/schiller.html This conference brings together leading senior scholars for one weekend (October 2-3, 1999) at UCSD to discuss, in dialogue with UCSD faculty, alumni and graduate students, the complex issues involved in the contemporary political economy of communications media. At the heart of the economic restructuring of the last two decades is the transformation of the world's electronic information infrastructure into a network capable of flinging signals -- including voices, images, videos, and data to the far ends of the earth. These changes have affected those fortunate enough to own a computer and have access to the Internet in dramatic ways and profoundly changed the forms and structures of media production. Somewhat less widely reported by the press, however, are the ways that these changes in communication infrastructures have affected everything from production scheduling and product engineering to accounting, advertising, banking, and training. The drive behind these changes has produced a worldwide shift in communication policy from public service policies to market driven tenets. Speakers addressing these topics will be encouraged to present policy position papers, present research on the social impacts of new media technologies, or analyze the political economics of the converging entertainment, computer, telecommunications industries. Saturday, October 2 9:00am Introduction / Welcome 9:30am Video celebration: DeeDee Halleck 10:00am Stuart Ewen Pictures In Our Heads: Public Relations and the Cult of the Image" response: Paula Chakravartty 11:00am Oscar Gandy "Identity and Identification in Cyberspace" response: Jane Rhodes 12:00pm Lunch 1:00pm Eileen Meehan "Divergent Convergence: A "New Age" in Technology?" response: Dan Hallin 2:00pm Vincent Mosco "Post-Industrial Cities: Understanding the Global in the Local" response: Yuezhi Zhao 3:00pm Janet Wasko "Thinking About Convergence and Analyzing Disney" response: Zeinabu Davis 4:00pm Bram Djikstra "Art as Politics: Managing Aesthetics in the Age of Global Marketing" response: DeeDee Halleck 6:00pm Dinner - The Lodge at Torrey Pines Sunday, October 3 9:00am Kaarle Nordenstreng "What Should Media Do in Democracy?" response: Michael Schudson 10:00am George Gerbner "Space to Act and Reason to Hope" response: Robert Horwitz 11:00am Closing remarks: Tributes to Herbert I. Schiller ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/ScreenSite