2015 Program

2015 PCAC/ACPC Program

THURSDAY MAY 7th

WELCOME DESK 12:00pm-5:30pm

SESSION 1 Thursday 1:00pm-2:30pm
1A DIGITAL MEDIA AND POLITICAL PARTICIPATION

STRATEGY ROOM 2

CHAIR: Natasha Collishaw Ryerson University

Natasha Collishaw Ryerson University
Youth and Web 2.0: Democracy and Distraction
Cath Duchastel de Montrouge York University
Digital media and disability advocacy in India
Mary Grace Lao York University
The 2012 Quebec Student Movement: Reactions from Here and Abroad
Nikki Yorgiadis York University
Slacktivism or the next-generation participation? ALS Ice Bucket Challenge as a case study on slacktivism and social media

1B POLITICAL ORGANIZATION AND PHILANTHROPY

STRATEGY ROOM 3

CHAIR: Daniella Bendo Brock University

Daniella Bendo Brock University
A Chance to Rise Up: Giving Voice to the Oppressed
Vincci Li Simon Fraser University
A Cause for Celebrit-ization: The commodification of philanthropy at WE Day
Shannon Stettner York University
“What should I do, Mrs. Thompson?” Abortion in Advice Columns in 1960s Canada

1C AUDIENCES AND AUTHORITY IN POPULAR CULTURE: CASE STUDIES OF HIP-HOP SPECTATORSHIP

KING GEORGE ROOM (in Crowne Plaza)

CHAIR: Laura Wiebe Brock University

Vanessa Fleet York University
Photography, Performance, and Policing: Hip-Hop and the Civil Imagination
Eve Robertson York University
The Emergent Politics of Twerking on YouTube: Subversive Spectatorship in Acts of Symbolic- Embodied Resistance
Sean Robertson-Palmer York University
Audiences, Communication and Meaning Making in Toronto’s Battle Scenes
Mary Fogarty York University
Let’s Make Love: Popular Culture and the Sociology of Success

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COFFEE BREAK 2:30-3:00

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SESSION 2 Thursday 3:00pm-4:30pm

2A FASHION AND CLOTHING

STRATEGY ROOM 2

CHAIR: Vanessa Del CarpioYork and Ryerson Universities

Vanessa Del Carpio York and Ryerson Universities
Fashion, Femininities, and Photography: Examining the Self-Representation Practices of Young Women in in Relation to Socio-Cultural Discourses on the Female Body
Emma Thompson York and Ryerson University
The Favourite Piece: Favourite Clothing Items from the Perspectives of Persons with Mobility Disabilities
Daryna Granik Ryerson University
Jewish American Princess as a model of a style icon

2B SPORTS, POLITICS, AND COMMERCIALIZATION

CANADIAN AB (in Crowne Plaza)

CHAIR: Fannie Valois-Nadeau Queen’s and Concordia University

Fannie Valois-Nadeau Queen’s and Concordia University
Practicing Conspicuous Philanthropy with the Montreal Canadiens: Rethinking Social Engagement, Ageing and Celebrity in Sport Culture
Estée Fresco Western University
The Haunted Spirit Sings: The 1988 Calgary Olympics Glenbow Museum Exhibit
Matt Ventresca Queen’s University
Moustaches and Violent Gentlemen: Branding Movember in the Culture of Professional Hockey
Bachir Sirois Moumni Université du Québec À Montréal (Research Centre of CRICIS) Between identity affirmation and market recuperation, a critical pluridisciplinary outlook at sport- spectacle: the ultras subculture of Montreal Impacts supporters

2C HISTORICAL FANTASY

STRATEGY ROOM 3

CHAIR: Michele Braun Independent Scholar

Michele Braun Independent Scholar
A Bare Life Indeed: The Biotechnologic of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go
Brian de Ruiter Brock University
“Seven Must Die”: Using Curses to Develop Legitimacy in The Curse of Oak Island
Michael Plato Seneca College and Yale University
“The Hand of the King”: The Persistent Power of Monarchy in Contemporary Media

2D COVERING CANADIAN CRIMES

KING GEORGE ROOM (in Crowne Plaza)

CHAIR: Chris Richardson, Young Harris College

Chris Richardson Young Harris College
Stephen Harper and the Construction of Democratic “Gangs”
Romayne Smith Fullerton Western University
Naming Names: An International Examination of Criminals and Social Identity in News Organizations
Hans Skott-Myhre Kennesaw State University
Re-Thinking Young People, Crime and The Media: Turning Transcendental Illusion On Its Feet

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SPECIAL GRADUATE STUDENT PROFESSIONALIZATION SESSION 4:50pm-6:00pm

STRATEGY ROOM 2

“Precarious Labour and the Academic/ALTAC Job Markets

Panel:
Michele Braun- Independent Scholar
Alex Levant- Wilfrid Laurier University
Shannon Stetner- York University

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CONFERENCE WELCOME RECEPTION 7:00-9:00pm

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FRIDAY MAY 8th

WELCOME DESK 8:30am-12:30pm and 2:00pm-5:00pm

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CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST 8:00am-9:00am- 5th Floor Mezzanine

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SESSION 3 Friday 9:00am-10:30am

3A MATERIAL CULTURE

STRATEGY ROOM 7
CHAIR: Greg Gillespie Brock University

Greg Gillespie Brock University
Old School: Nostalgia, Intertextuality, and Meaning in Otherworld Miniatures
Emily Truman Carleton University
Playing with popular history: the materiality of historical novelty toys in a digital age
Johanie Bernard, Benoit Cordelier University of Quebec in Montreal
Stitch’N Bitch: Mother-Daughter Ties

3B GENDER AND POWER IN VISUAL MEDIA

STRATEGY ROOM 1

CHAIR: Laura Wiebe Brock University

Kayla Copland Brock University
The Monster As She: An Ideological Reading of Van Helsing as Masculine Recuperation
Alex Pennington-Little Brock University
From Riches to Rags and Back Again: The Revised American Dream as Ideological Myth in WB’s Gilmore Girls
Ashley Sirianni Brock University
Intersectionality Is The New Second Wave: A Critical Reading of Orange Is The New Black, Women’s Stories and Issues of Representation

3C NEW PERSPECTIVES ON B-BOYING/ B-GIRLING

STRATEGY ROOM 2

CHAIR: Mary Fogarty York University

Helen Simard Université du Québec à Montréal
B-girl Terra: Renegotiating Gender Online and On the Dance Floor
Daniel Blais York University
The Professionalization of B-Boying: Studying the Amateur/Professional Distinction
Erica Cleto Queen’s University
B-ing a Girl in a B-boy’s World: Gender Performance, Discontinuity, and Forging the B-girl Identity

3D BIG DATA AND DIGITAL SURVEILLANCE

STRATEGY ROOM 3

CHAIR: Graham Potts Brock University, Trent University, Wilfrid Laurier University, and York University

Dale Bradley Brock University
Communication and Control Made Visible: a Comparison of Telegraph and Internet Network Maps
Yanan Wang McMaster University and Shandong University in China
Media, Culture and Alienation in the Age of Big Data
Alex Levant Wilfrid Laurier University
Smart Phones and the Thinking Body: Theorising the Posthuman with Activity Theory

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COFFEE BREAK 10:30am-11:00am

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SESSION 4 Friday 11:00am-12:30pm

4A MUSIC FROM ACROSS THE POND

STRATEGY ROOM 1
CHAIR: Nicholas P. Greco Providence University College

Nicholas P. Greco Providence University College
“If You Go Your Way and I Go Mine”: U2’s Songs of Innocence as an example of Roland Barthes’ ideal novel.
Andy Linehan Curator, Popular Music British Library
“Dust never sleeps – archiving Popular Music recordings in a National Library
J Mark Percival Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, Scotland
Public service radio, alternative music and social networks: Vic Galloway, Facebook and BBC Radio Scotland

4B FOOD AND POPULAR CULTURE

STRATEGY ROOM 2

CHAIR: Jackie Botterill Brock University

Dr. Sabine Planka University of Siegen (Germany)
Culinary heterotopias: Between nature and culture in children’s literature
Josh Augustino Brock University
With Every Bite You Take, They Will be Watching You: Foucault, Facebook and Contemporary Foodways
Jackie Botterill Brock University
Backyard Barbeques: A Comment on Informalization

4C REPRESENTING QUEER CULTURES

STRATEGY ROOM 3

CHAIR: Jeremy Fairall University of Windsor

Jeremy Fairall University of Windsor
I Knew He Was a Fruit”: My Bodyguard as a Queer-Positive Adolescent Narrative
Steph Rogerson Ryerson/York Universities
I See You: Industrialization, Photography and Queerness
Evan Vipond University of Toronto
Trans(forming) Normative Representation in Popular Culture
Matthew Fesnak University of Toronto / Wilfrid Laurier
Queer Genes and Mutated Futurity

4D TECHNOLOGIES OF CHANGE

STRATEGY ROOM 5

CHAIR: Dale Bradley Brock University

Simon Orpana McMaster University
We Can Rebuild Him and Her: The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, and the Post- Fordist Renegotiation of Gendered Labour
Stephen Gennaro York University
Do you speak Apple? iDo! The media, the medium & the message of Apple
Adam Thomlison University of Ottawa
Digital self-publishing as planned behaviour: Authors’ views on e-book adoption

4E POPULAR CULTURE, PLASTICITY, CULTURAL AFTERLIFE OF DAWSON’S CREEK

STRATEGY ROOM 7

CHAIR: Derek Foster Brock University

Sarah Mulvihill Brock University
We Are Teen Soap, Hear Us Roar: Self-Awareness and Mass Culture Critique in TV’s Dawson’s Creek (1998-2003)
Nicole Lemieux & Jaycee McMullen Brock University
Not emo enough? Add some Dawson’s Creek: Teen feels and Postmodern Culture
Derek Foster Brock University
James Van Der Memes: Polymediation, playing Dawson, and playing with the real …

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LUNCH BREAK 12:30pm-2:00pm

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SESSION 5 Friday 2:00pm-3:30pm

5A GEEK CULTURE

STRATEGY ROOM 2
CHAIR: Malcolm Matthews Brock University

Malcolm Matthews Brock University
The Autistic Techno-Savant: a Prototype for the Post-Modern Masculine
Patricia Baxter Carleton University
Sexism in Comics Culture: The Truth Behind the “Fake Geek Girl”
Chris Alton York University
Nothing is Wrong, Everyone is Permitted: An Examination of Identity and Alterity in Videogame Player/Avatar Experiences

5B MONSTERS, CITIZENS, AND THINGS

STRATEGY ROOM 3

CHAIR: Dan Vena Queen’s University

Douglas Clarke York University
Hero/Villains – Monster/Citizens: Political Philosophy and the Monster’s Opposite
Calley Gresham
The Smell of Death Surrounds You: Repre(scent)ing Odor and Olfaction in Perfume: The Story of a Murderer and Twilight
Robin Alex McDonald and Dan Vena Queen’s University
Monstrous Relationalities: The Social Potentials of Thingness in Alan Moore and Stephen Bissette’s Swamp Thing

5C LES LITTÉRATURES POPULAIRES ET SURRÉALISTES

STRATEGY ROOM 5

CHAIR: Anthony Glinoer l’Université de Sherbrooke

Anthony Glinoer l’Université de Sherbrooke
Les Uncanny X-Men : un cas psychosociologique
Eugène Tavares Université Assane Seck de Ziguinchor
Tina e Bota dito : deux genres séculaires de la culture populaire de la Guinée-Bissau
Nacira Achi Université mouloud Mammeri
De la littérature populaire dans les manuels scolaires Algériens.
Idéologie et pédagogie

5D URBAN ART

STRATEGY ROOM 1

CHAIR: Marlie Centawer Queen’s University

Brian A. Brown University of Windsor
The Street Artist as Digital Artist
Natalia Dmuchowska Independent scholar
The Art of Jaywalking: A Contemporary Approach to Interaction, Ownership and Creation in Public Space
Deanne Kearney, Mary Fogarty, Jonathan Osborn York University
The Multiple Legitimacies of Tentacle Tribe, A Dance Company
Belinda Kwan OCAD University
Protest as art and art as protest: exploring the social and aesthetic agencies of urban arts practices and acts of protest

5E FANDOM

STRATEGY ROOM 7

CHAIR: Angie Fazekas Queen’s University

Candie Syphrit Kington State University of New York at Buffalo
Artist’s Alley: Fan Creators and Consumption Spaces at Conventions
Anne Showalter Trent University
Not So Clueless: A Netnographic Approach to 20 Years of User Reviews on the IMDB
Angie Fazekas Queen’s University
Jeff Davis is Not a Gift: Anger, Creativity, and Resistance in Teen Wolf Fandom

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COFFEE BREAK 3:30pm-3:45pm

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KEYNOTE 3:45pm-5:15pm

STRATEGY ROOM 2

Susan Fast McMaster University
‘Uptown Funk and the Politics of Retro: Privilege and Precarity in Sounding the Past
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CATERED RECEPTION 7:00pm-11:00pm

HARD ROCK CLUB

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SATURDAY MAY 9th

WELCOME DESK: 8:30am-1:00pm

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CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST 8:00am-9:00am

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SESSION 6 Saturday 9:00am-10:30am
6A GENDER IDENTITIES IN POPULAR CULTURE

STRATEGY ROOM 1
CHAIR:

STRATEGY ROOM 1

CHAIR: Isabel Pedersen University of Ontario Institute of Technology

Troy Bordun Trent University
On the Off-Screen Voice: Sound and Vision in Spike Jonze’s Her (2013)
Tess Jewell York and Ryerson Universities
In Technology Do We Trust?: A Comparative Analysis of Technopolies in Minority Report (2002) and Elysium (2013)
Tanner Mirrlees & Isabel Pedersen University of Ontario Institute of Technology
Elysium, dystopic capitalism, and archiving (the future of) invention

6B TRANSMITTING POPULAR CULTURE

STRATEGY ROOM 2

CHAIR: Arun Jacob Independent Scholar

Bonnie M. Miller University of Massachusetts Boston
The Art of Radio Visualization: Constructing Mental Pictures on the Airwaves in the Dramatic Radio Shows of the 1930s–50s
Malisa Kurtz Brock University
Lost in Transit? The Politics of Transnational Film and The Hunger Games
Arun Jacob Independent Scholar
Tuning into Serial: Analyzing the intersection of true crime reportage and its online reception

6C NATIONAL POLITICS AND POPULAR CULTURE

STRATEGY ROOM 3

CHAIR: Nick Baxter-Moore Brock University

Eyitayo Aloh Trent University
The Unwritten Text: Orality, Popular Culture and The Social Engineering process in Post- Colonial Nigeria
Santosh Bharti Delhi University
Lights, Camera and Sound: Indigenous Genres in Canadian Popular Culture
Nick Baxter-Moore Brock University
Re-constructing history: re-enactments and re-interpretations of the War of 1812 – a case study of the Battle of New Orleans

6D FANTASY

STRATEGY ROOM 5

CHAIR: Steven Greenwood Brock University

David C. Wright, Jr. Misericordia University
Struggles over Collective Memory in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Series
Ryan Scheiding York University
The Destruction of Raccoon City: Memory of the Atomic Bombs as Allegory in Resident Evil
Steven Greenwood Brock University
“Who Will Survive in America?”: Examining the Politics of Radical Self-Care in Selected Works of Gil Scott-Heron

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COFFEE BREAK 10:30am-10:50am

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SESSION 7 Saturday 10:50am-12:20pm
7A WOMEN ON TOP: GENDER, QUALITY TV AND THE BBC

STRATEGY ROOM 1
CHAIR: Scott Henderson Brock University

Stephanie Clayton Brock University
“You, of all people, on the telly!”: Miranda and the Unruly Woman in Chick-lit TV
Amber Wilkinson Brock University
No Paradise to be Found: Top of the Lake, Postfeminism, Rape Culture, and the Necessity of Feminism
Scott Henderson Brock University
Disturbing Nature: Top of the Lake and the Quality TV Paradigm

7B COMICS

STRATEGY ROOM 2

CHAIR: Brandon Christopher University of Winnipeg

Brandon Christopher University of Winnipeg
Can Blind People Read Comics?: The Otherness of Reading Philipp Meyer’s Life
Rebecca Thorndike-Breeze MIT
Comics, Comp. Class and the Long Revolution

7C POPULAR MUSIC AND SUBJECTIVITY

STRATEGY ROOM 3

CHAIR: Ola Mohammed York University

Ola Mohammed York University
“Who Will Survive in America?”: Examining the Politics of Radical Self-Care in Selected Works of Gil Scott-Heron
Jim Papple and Laura Wiebe Brock University
Popular Music, Language-learning, and Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Classroom
Eric Lehman Trent University
Platters Park: Imagining the Modern Suburban Narrative through Album Artwork
Alan Stanbridge University of Toronto
And Then I Don’t Feel So Bad: The Sound of Sentimentality

7D SUPERNATURAL FICTIONS

STRATEGY ROOM 5

CHAIR: Jessica Bay York and Ryerson Universities

Alevtina Naumova Ryerson and York University
At Home with the Unhomely: The ghost stories and the fear of displacement at living history museums
Lisa Robson Brandon University
It’s Just Me: Horror Cinema and the Salvation of the Self
Dao Minh Nguyen University at Buffalo
Antiheroes are Not Morally Ambiguous: Redefining Morally Ambiguous Characters and Viewer Enjoyment

7E POPULAR TELEVISION

Strategy Room 7

Adam Bajan Simon Fraser University
Trailer Park Boys: Legitimizing Marginal Lifestyles
Byron Hauck Simon Fraser University
Precautionary Courtship or Just Business as Usual? Netflix’s Acquisition of the Trailer Park Boys
Jessica Bay York and Ryerson Universities
Belief in Humanity: The Challenge of Sleepy Hollow

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COFFEE BREAK 12:20pm-12:40pm

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SESSION 8 Saturday 12:40pm-2:10pm

8A REBEL LIFE

STRATEGY ROOM 1
CHAIR: Suze Tkachuk Brock University

Jamie Jelinski Concordia University
Toronto’s Unrecognized Professors, Sailors, and ‘Needlers’: Tattooing in the Toronto Star and The Globe and Mail, 1913-1980
Marlie Centawer Queen’s University
“The Camera Gets a Studdered Shot”: Liz Phair and the photostrip as subversive indie media