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Upcoming CISS Seminars will be announced in the Fall.
Past Lectures & Seminars
Updated 06-May-2003

Presented April 24
Jesper Juul, visiting scholar at Comparitive Media Studies
MIT, Boston, MA
http://www.jesperjuul.dk/
"What is a Game?"


Presented April 23
Ken Hillis, Communication Studies, UNC-CH
http://www.unc.edu/~khillis/
"On-Line Graphical Chat and the Modern Bourgeois
Novel: Strategies of Communicating at a Safe Distance"


Presented April 9
Nancy Green
, Computer Science, UNC Greensboro
http://www.uncg.edu/~nlgreen/
"Computational models of argumentation for genetic counseling"

Presented March 26
Jason Swarts, English, NCSU
"The Textualization of Professions: Rethinking the Aims of Document Review"

Presented March 19
Nalini Kotamraju, Sociology, University of California at Berkeley, "Pushers, Plumbers, and Pediatricians: The Symbolism of the Pager in the United States - 1975 to 1995."

Presented March 5
Jane Macoubrie, Communication, NCSU
"Communication Theory and Mediated Democratic Deliberation."

Presented February 26
David Rieder, English, NCSU
http://www4.ncsu.edu:8030/~dmrieder/
"Studies in Grammatology: The Muse Learns to Actionscript"

Presented February 12
Jenny Fry, School of Information and Library Science, UNC-CH
"The disciplinary shaping of scholarly communication: Patterns of
computer-mediated communication across three diverse specialisms."


2002 International Symposium on Technology and Society
(ISTAS '02)
June 6 - 8, 2002
Co-sponsored by CISS
Raleigh, NC
For more information on ISTAS '02, visit:

http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/herkert/istas02.html

Presented April 2, 2002
Howard Besser, Associate Professor
UCLA College of Education and Information Studies
"The Social Effects of Information Technologies"
Erdahl Cloyd Theater at D. H. Hill Library
For more information contact Jennifer O'Brien Roper
919-515-6329 / jennifer_roper@ncsu.edu

Presented May 23, 2001
Wayne Crews, Brock Meeks and Robert Ellis Smith
Forum on Personal Privacy
Kamphoefner Auditorium
NC State University

Presented April 6, 2001
Michael Young, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
Department of Computer Science
"Coherence and Control:
The Inevitable Battleground of Interactive Narratives"
Caldwell Hall, M-8
NC State University

Presented March 23, 2001

Kevin Kahn, Ph.D. Director of Communications Architecture
Intel Architecture Labs
"Networking at Home:
Directions in Connected Computing for the Consumer"
Winston Hall, Room 29
NC State University

Presented March 2, 2001
Julia Earp, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Information Technology,
Department of Business Management
"Factors that Influence Us to Give Up Privacy Online"
Caldwell Hall, M-8
NC State University

Presented on February 9, 2001
T. L. Taylor, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, NC State University,
Department of Communication and affiliated faculty member,
Women's and Gender Studies Program
"Intentional Bodies:
Virtual Environments and the Designers Who Shape Them"
Caldwell Hall, M-8
NC State University

Presented on December 11, 2000
CISS Lecture Event
Featuring Ann McDaniel, Robert Entman, Harlan Teller, Paul Betz, and Anders Gyllenhaal

Presented on December 1, 2000
Dr. Steve Wildman, Michigan State University;
Author: Making Universal Service Policy: Enhancing the Process Through Multidisciplinary Evaluation
"Likely Developments and Pressing Policy Issues In the Market for
Residential Broadband Services: A Research Presentation"


Presented on November 6, 2000
Dr. Cynthia L. Selfe, Michigan Technological University; Co-editor,
Computers and Composition: An International Journal for
Teachers of Writing
"Critical Technological Literacies for the 21st Century"

Presented on May 1, 2000
Dr. Jay David Bolter, Wesley Professor of New Media &
Director of Center for New Media Education and Research,
Georgia Institute of Technology
Research Seminar Series
"Remediation: Old Media and New Media"

Presented on March 10, 2000
Dr. Laura Gurak, Director, Center for Internet Studies,
Univ. of Minnesota; Persuasion and Privacy in Cyberspace (Yale, 1997)
Series: Privacy and the Internet
Real Video Player "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain:
Privacy and Persuasion Behind the Interface"

Presented on March 3, 2000
Dr. Bonnie Nardi, Design Anthropologist, AT&T Labs West;
Information Ecologies (MIT Press, 1999)
Research Seminar Series
"netWORK: Software for managing social networks in the workplace."

Presented on February 28, 2000
Matthew Szulik, CEO, Red Hat, Inc.
Series: Antitrust, Competition, and Innovation in the Software Industry
Real Video Player "Opening Up the Software Market:
Red Hat, Open Source and the Future of Computing"

Presented on February 17, 2000
Philip Zimmermann, inventor of PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) and
Senior Fellow at Network Associates
Series: Privacy and the Internet
Real Video Player "Privacy and the Internet"

Presented on January 18, 2000
Joel Klein, U.S. Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division
Series: Antitrust, Competition, and Innovation in the Software Industry
Real Video Player "Antitrust in the New Economy"

Presented on December 10, 1999
Dr. Joseph Walther, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
"Communication in Cyberspace: Impersonal, Interpersonal,
and Hyperpersonal Interaction"