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
Maids of the Fist: Niagara Roller Girls, Local Identity and Roller Derby in the Niagara Region8B ADAPTATIONSTRATEGY ROOM 2CHAIR: Jennifer Lackey Brock University
Sarah Milner Trent University
Frankenstein as a Social Construct
Neta Gordon Brock University
Bill Willingham’s Fables and the adaptation of the folk and fairy tale
Jennifer Lackey Brock University
The Woman: Irene Adler and Constructions of Gender in Sherlock Holmes Television Adaptations
8C DANCE, MUSIC, POLITICS
ROOM 3
CHAIR: Vanessa Fleet York University
Nicole Marrello York University
Dance Competition and Youth in Popular Culture
Patricia Wong York University
Korean Traditional Dance as Means of Sociopolitico Defiance
Amy Gajadhar York University
Stop the Gravy Train: Local Politics and the Transformation of Calypso in Canada
8D ENGENDERING POPULAR CULTURE
STRATEGY ROOM 5
CHAIR:Juana Luck McMasterUniversity
Juana Luck McMaster University
Gendered Advertisement in Cosmo – German vs Canadian Edition (Nov. 2014)
Cecilia Turnbull Brock University
‘Slut-shaming’: The Construction of truth
Zoë Gross University of Toronto
Moral Panics and the (Self)Commodification of Kenyan Beach Boys: Teaching ‘Romance’ in “Paradise: Love”
8E TAKING FILMS SERIOUSLY
STRATEGY ROOM 7
CHAIR: Christie Milliken Brock University
Derek Foster Brock University
Don’t Act Like You’re Not Impressed: Anchorman Comes to the Newseum
Saeed Sabzian University of Waterloo
The sound of fear in Fight Club, movie and novel
Christie Milliken Brock University
“Is that Nature Boy?”: Nature, Culture and the Environmental Imagination in All That Heaven Allows
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CATERED LUNCH and AGM 2:10-3:30pm
BALLROOM
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SESSION 9 Saturday 3:30pm-5:00pm
9A CELEBRITY
STRATEGY ROOM 1
CHAIR: Pamela Ingleton McMaster University
Kiera Obbard McMaster University / independent scholar
Disrupting the Script of Sexual Violence in Canadian Celebrity Culture: Jian Ghomeshi and the CBC
Natalia Mukhina Queen’s University”
“Being Angelina Jolie”: breast cancer previvors in Russia after a big-name celebrity’s disclosure Lorraine York and Pamela Ingleton McMaster University
To Tweet or Not to Tweet: Reluctant Celebrity and Social Media
9B NATIONALISM, POLITICS, CULTURAL PRODUCTIONS
STRATEGY ROOM 2
CHAIR: Miles Weafer York University
Terrance H. McDonald Brock University
The Image of a Canadian Seed: Hockey, Masculinities, & the Films of Guy Maddin
Gianluca G. Agostinelli Brock University
Unearthing and Uprooting Place, Past, and Pedigree in Dean Serravalle’s ‘The Buried Tree’
Bernie Murray Ryerson University
France’s obsession with melodic jazz and Josephine Baker
Miles Weafer York University
Projecting the network: The rhetorical functions of The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in the Toronto Star’s 2012 online forum, “The Network”
9C SOCIAL MEDIA
STRATEGY ROOM 3
CHAIR: Amanda Piché Ryerson University
Graham Potts Brock University, Trent University, Wilfrid Laurier University, and York University
A Post-Death Drive Drive: Total Risk Management through Insurance Privatization and ‘Voluntary’ Self-Monitoring Technologies
Andrey Miroshnichenko Independent Scholar/Russian Association of Futurologists Inducing emotions: from scattered media to the real-like media environment
Amanda Piché Ryerson University
From Hashtag to Feature Film: How Kevin Smith Canvassed his Audience on Twitter to Garner Support for his Horror Flick Tusk