PANELISTS AND PAPER TITLES: 

Asif Agha (Penn) “Large and small scale forms of personhood”

Miyako Inoue, Stanford, “Stenography & the ventriloquistic imagination in early modern Japan”

Robert Moore (U Ireland) “The social life of mass mediated shibboleths”

John DuBois (UCSB) “The unseen audience: Unscripted voices in media marginalia”

Hannah Vorhees (Penn) “Inhabiting the brand: heritage, cultural tourism & emergent personhood in Alaska and Bali”

Debra Spitulnik(Emory) “Selves, others, and citizens in young adults’ conversations on media and the public sphere”

John Jackson (Penn) “Filming diaspora anew: Race-/Media-making among African-American Hebrews in Israel”

Betsy Rymes (U Georgia) “Rejuveniles, kidults, adultescents, and Peterpans as late Modern forms of personhood”

Stanton Wortham, Elaine Allard and Katherine Mortimer (Penn) Homies in the Latino diaspora”

Michael Joiner (Penn) “Brand discourses and social roles: The consumer as patient in a virtual weight loss clinic”

Liz Erkenbrack (Penn) “Mediating personhood through World of Warcraft”

Karl Swinehart (Penn) “The mass mediated chronotope, racial counter-publics and dialect in 1970s Norway”