Communicative Cities Conference:
Integrating Technology and Place

PROGRAM

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Conference Site: Knowlton Hall, 275 West Woodruff, Columbus, OH 43210

THURSDAY, June 25, 2009

7:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Registration Open Knowlton Hall

7:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Breakfast on your own or network at Knowlton Hall cafe' Rountables

9:00 a.m. - 9:10 a.m. Welcome and Opening Address: Kate Terzano, Jack Nasar

9:10 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Plenary Panel Presentation
   Casey Lum (William Paterson University). Have you tasted a city lately? Understanding yumcha and dim sum cultures in Hong Kong as a communicative city
   Ron Gdovic (Linkstar Interactive). What is a Communicative City in a world of 160 ... no, make that 140 characters or less?
   Lewis Freeman (Fordham University). What cities communicate to children: Lessons from the unindoctrinated

10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Break

11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Keynote Speaker
   Cees Haemlink (University of Amsterdam). Why would a city want to be communicative?

12:00 p.m. - 1: 30 p.m. Lunch

1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Keynote Speakers
   Susan Drucker (Hofstra University) & Gary Gumpert (Queens College of the City University of New York). The where in somewhere or what if Dorothy had the Internet?

2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Break

3:00 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. Plenary Panel Presentation
   Leo Jeffres (Cleveland State University). The communicative city: Conceptualizing, operationalizing and policy making
   Harvey Jassem (University of Hartford). WiFi in the city: The information superhighway projects  

4:15 - 4:45 p.m. Break

4:45 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Concurrent paper session

   1. History and Exhibits
       Baloy, Natalie (University of British Columbia). The city as a site for native language education
       Kapp, Paul (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). Communication technology and the interpretation of historic sites
       Adria, Marco (University of Alberta). The McLuhan wireless city project

   2. Technology/Traffic
       Youngbook Kim (The Ohio State University). Radio frequency identification (RFID): A cutting-edge technology to enforce communications for relieving traffic congestions
       Doyle, Michael (Université Laval). Understanding the impact of mobile communications technologies on individual physical and virtual mobility. A review of the literature.
       Andrew Wong, Lip Soon (Telenor Research and Innovation Center). Youth use of mobile phones in Bangkok and Dhaka: Social negotiation and meaning-making in the mobile city Square
       Lee, Ming-Chun (The University of Texas at Austin). Wiring up local communities with community technology: A re-conceptualization of community-based computer Learning Programs

6:00 p.m. Dinner on your own

FRIDAY, June 26, 2009

8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Registration Open Knowlton Hall

7:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Breakfast on your own or network at Knowlton Hall cafe' Rountables

9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Plenary Panel Presentation
   Eric Gordon (Emerson College). Hub2: Augmenting public deliberation through immersive gaming
   Jean Hebert (Simon Fraser University). Visioning and revisioning communities and the mobile web: Mobile Muse, 2007-2010
   Gene Burd (University of Texas). The demise or digital rise of the communicative metropolitan daily newspaper
   Peter Hecht (Temple University, Environmental Psychologist, previously Research Director for Project for Public Spaces). Communication technologies and disengagement in the city

10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Break

11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Keynote Speaker
     Keith Hampton (University of Pennsylvania). New media and the structure of community in private, public and parochial spaces

12:00 - 1:30 p.m. Lunch

1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Plenary Presentation
     Kyle Ezell (The Ohio State University and Principal, Sensory Planning) and Mike Reed (Principal, Sensory Planning).Sensory Planning is a revolutionary new platform developed with a simple question in mind: "What if all global citizens came to one place to shape the world?"  

2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Break

3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Concurrent paper session

1. Social Capitol
     Miller, Andrew (Columbus Social Media Cafe). Hyperlocal strategies.
    Shirvanee, Lily (University of Cambridge). The social viscosities study: Mapping social activities in public space.
    Taylor, Andrew (Lincoln Street Studio). Multiple commitments: Practicing diffuse ties as a mode of civic engagement.

2. e-government policy
     Camara, Papa (University Paris 8). Communicative cities: The African challenge.
    Romandel, Michael (York University). Information and communications technologies (ICTs) and the spatial politics of global city formation.
    Schartung, Charles (University of Louisville). Urban flooding in the digital world: Building web sites as natural hazard mitigation and public policy tools.
    Yackovich, Kelly (The Ohio State University). CitiScapes: Enabling communication and collaboration in city eGovernment.

4:30 - 4:45 Final Comments. Kate Terzano, Jack Nasar

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