William Freivogel 
SIU Foundation 
Global Media Research Center
Speaker Series
Spring 2008
Thursday, February 7th 2008
Professor Lisa Nakamura, University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign
Communications 1032, 4:30 pm
Race, Class, and Gender in Multiplayer Online Game Environments
This paper explores the ways that machinima, or user produced videos made using Massively Multiplayer Game Engines such as World of Warcraft, reveal, create, and re-invent race, class, and gender biases.
More information about Prof. Nakamura can be found at http://www.spcomm.uiuc.edu/faculty/people/lnakamur/
Thursday, February 14th 2008
Philip Mattera, Director-Corporate Research Project, Good Jobs First, Washington, DC
Communications 1032, 4:30 pm
The New Greenwashing
Mattera will speak on the new ways in which large corporations are using advertising and public relations to present themselves as leaders in environmental progress, even when their credentials for doing so are highly dubious. He will discuss the similarities and differences between todayís forms of greenwashing and those of the past.
More information about Mr Matteraís work can be found at www.corp-research.org
Monday, February 18th 2008
Good Times, Bad Times for the Global Music Industry
Kleinau Theater, 4:30 pm
Industry veterans will examine and discuss where the global music industry is, how it got here, and where it may be going. Topics will include corporate consolidation, piracy, Digital Rights Management (DRM), and the massive legal front presented by the RIAA.
Vice-President of ASACP-Nashville Dan Keen http://www.ascap.com/index.html
A&R Executive Don Grierson http://www.dongrierson.com/bio.html
Engineer/Producer Ron Chiarelli http://www.finalmix.com
Panel chaired by Professor Todd Herreman (SIU-C/Radio-TV).
Friday, February 29th 2008
Journalist Gary Younge - New York correspondent of the London Guardian
Student Center Auditorium, 10:00 am
GMRC is sponsoring Mr Younge in contribution to the two-day symposium Muse & Mimesis: Wole Soyinka, Africa and the World. Mr Younge will speak during the second symposium session, The Climate of Fear: Human Rights, Law, Politics and Media.
Mr Youngeís work can be found at http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Archive/0,5673,-286,00.html and more information regarding the symposium is available by contacting GMRC at 618-453-6876.
Thursday, April 3rd 2008
Communications 1046
Professor Jacob Podber, Southern Illinois University Carbondale at Carbondale, Dept. of Radio Television
Professor Podber will speak about his new book, The Electronic Front Porch: An Oral History of the Arrival of Modern Media in Rural Appalachia and the Melungeon Community
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Professor Novotny Lawrence, Southern Illinois University Carbondale at Carbondale, Dept. of Radio Television
Prof Lawrence will speak about his forthcoming book, Blaxploitation Films of the 1970s: Blackness and Genre.
Time & Location TBD
More information available by contacting GMRC at 618-453-6876.
Monday, April 7th 2008
Professor Mia Consalvo, Ohio University-Athens
Communications 1032, 4:30 pm
Prof. Consalvo will be presenting about her research on Japanese videogames. More information about Prof. Consalvo can be found at http://www.tcomschool.ohiou.edu/faculty/consalvo.html
Wednesday, April 9th 2008
Professor, author Federico Subervi, Texas State University-San Marcos, School of Journalism and Mass Communication
The Mass Media and Latino Politics (Routledge, New York, 2008)
Jointly sponsored with the Paul Simon Institute for Public Policy
Luncheon ñ by invitation only
Friday, April 25th 2008
Panama Canal Forest Conservation Zone Program
Communications 1032; 4:00-6:00 pm
(jointly sponsored with the SIUC Forestry Department)
CalArts Photographer-Artist Andrew Freeman
Prof Andrew Carver (SIUC-Forestry)
Prof Jay Needham (SIUC-Radio-Television)
Brooke Thurau (SIUC Grad student-MCMA/Forestry)
