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Schedule

Environments, Risks, and Digital Media:
Communicating, Governing, and Managing Risks in a Mediated World

A Research Symposium hosted by the
Ph.D. Program in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media
and co-sponsored by the Program in Science, Technology, and Society
at North Carolina State University

April 15-16, 2011

 

Friday, April 15

Walnut Room, Talley Student Center, North Carolina State University

Session 1
Keynote Presentation: Graham Murdock, Loughborough University
Title: "Digitalizing Risk: Communication, Control, Contradiction."
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Comments: Jeremy Packer, Department of Communication and CRDM program, NCSU.
Watch Panel 1 Q+A.
Chair: Bill Kinsella, Department of Communication and Interdisciplinary Program Director, Science, Technology & Society, NCSU.


Session 2: Rhetorical, Political, and Technological Risk Environments
Carolyn Miller, Department of English and CRDM program, NCSU. Title: "Risk, Trust, and Trustworthiness."
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G. Thomas Goodnight, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Southern California.
Title: "The Biopolitics of Risk."
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David Berube, Department of Communication and CRDM program, NCSU.
Title: "Law of the Grass Mud Horses: Spinternet—Strategies for Risk Attenuation."
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Chair: Andrew Binder, Department of Communication and CRDM program, NCSU.
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Session 3
Keynote Presentation: Blake Scott, University of Central Florida
Title: "Rhetorics and Publics of Global Pharmaceutical Risk Conflicts."
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Comments by Carolyn Miller, Department of English and CRDM program, NCSU.
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Chair: Steve Wiley, Department of Communication and Interdisciplinary Program Director, Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media, NCSU.

The NC State University Seminar Series on Engineering, Policy and Society
Co-sponsored by NCSU College of Engineering, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Kenan Institute for Engineering, Technology and Science, and the Institute for Emerging Issues.


Matthew Nisbet, American University
Title: "Climate Shift: Clear Vision for the Next Decade of Public Debate."
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Comments by David Berube, Department of Communication and CRDM program, NCSU.
Watch Panel 4 Q+A.

Session 5: The Rolf Buchdahl Memorial Lecture
Sponsored by the NC State Program in Science, Technology, and Society
Keynote Presentation: G. Thomas Goodnight, U. of Southern California
Title: "The Communications Revolution: The American Republic in a Digital Age."
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Watch Panel 5 Q+A.

Saturday, April 16

Session 6: Ins and Outs of Climate Change Communication

Marlia Banning, University of Colorado-Boulder.
Title: "'Climategate' and the Rhetorical Uses of Uncertainty."
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Watch Panel 6 Q+A.

Session 7: Risk Settings and Risk Behaviors
Jordan W. Smith (NCSU), Jessica E. Leahy (University of Maine), Dorothy H. Anderson (NCSU), and Mae A. Davenport (University of Minnesota).
Title: "Recreancy and Resource Management: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Trust and Civic Action”


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Christopher Cummings, CRDM program, NCSU
Title: "Mediated Environmental Health and Safety Risk Information Seeking Behavior: Descriptive Data from a National Survey."
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Kelly Albada, Department of Communication and CRDM program, NCSU and Brandi Moyer, Department of Communication, NCSU.
Title: "Media Influence on Appearance Expectations, Body Satisfaction, and Eating Behaviors during Pregnancy."
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Seth Mulliken, Department of Communication and CRDM program, NCSU.
Title: "We Are Getting Hyped to the Sound: Risk in Sonic Ecology."
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Watch Panel 7 Q+A

Session 8: Radiation, Risk, and Rhetorical Engagement
Tatsuo Nakajima, Media fellow, DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University; Science journalist , Yomiuri Shimbun, Japanese daily newspaper.
Title: "Japanese media coverage of the Fukushima events."
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Tudor B. Ionescu, Institute for Nuclear Technology and Energy Systems, University of Stuttgart, Germany.
Title: "Communicating about the Fukushima accident in Germany: How direct encounter beat media representations."
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Andrew Binder, Department of Communication and CRDM program, NCSU.
Title: "Figuring Out #Fukushima: Interpretive vs. Informative Functions of Twitter Commentary about Nuclear Technology in the United States."
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Ashley R. Kelly & Meagan Kittle-Autry, CRDM program, NCSU.
Title: "Big Power, Big Controversy: The Proposed Duke-Progress Energy Merger and Environmental Controversy in the Carolinas."
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Chair: David Berube, Department of Communication and CRDM program, NCSU.
Watch Panel 8 Q+A.

After Session 8, a Tornado Warning was issued for Wake County. In this clip, an announcement of the warning by session chair and professor of English at NC State Jason Swarts is followed by the awaited, yet surprising, alarm of the approaching tornado.
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After this, the conference attendees moved to the basement to wait out the tornado. The echo of conference themes in this moment cannot be overstated.

Session 9: Knowledge, Justice, and Education in a Risky World
William J. Kinsella, Department of Communication, Interdisciplinary Program in Science, Technology & Society, and CRDM program, NCSU.
Title: "Risks, Environments, and the Limits of Representation: Examples from Nuclear Energy."
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Elizabeth Dickinson, Salem College
Title: "Communicating the Risks of Environmental Racism: Toward an Environmental Justice Narrative Framework."
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Pat Arneson, Duquesne University, Visiting Professor of Communication, NCSU
Title: "The Perception of Crisis in Higher Education: The Role of Digital Media in Shifting the Educational Culture."
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Watch Panel 9 Q+A.