Agenda
🕑: 09:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Breakfast and Registration, the Forum
🕑: 10:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Welcome and Introductory Remarks, Room 109
Info: Sarah Banet-Weiser, (University of Pennsylvania)
Guobin Yang, (University of Pennsylvania)
🕑: 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
Panel 1: Private Spaces and Microcommunities of Play and Leisure, Room 109
Info: Moderator: Lucy March
Sueen Marie (Noh) Kelsey (North Park University) - Spoofing and Socializing: A Case Study of a Pokémon GO Community
Ryan Milner (College of Charleston) - Memetic Microcultures: Studying Private Places of Online Humor and Play
Jess Maddox (The University of Alabama) - TikTok as Television: Rethinking Entertainment and Fan Cultures in The Creator
🕑: 11:45 AM
Lunch, the Plaza
🕑: 01:00 PM - 02:30 PM
Panel 2: Humor, Memes, and Identity, Room 109
Info: Moderator: Devo Probol (University of Pennsylvania)
Lori Morimoto (University of Virginia) - Short-form Humor as Transcultural Vernacular
Carolyn Biltoft (Geneva Graduate Institute) - The Joke in the Machine: Bergson, Freud and the Comedic as Psycho-Social Cryptogram
Zari Taylor (New York University) - You Think You Just Fell Out of a Coconut Tree?”: Kamala Harris, Controlling Images, and Political Memes
🕑: 02:30 PM - 02:45 PM
Coffee Break, the Forum
🕑: 02:45 PM - 04:15 PM
Panel 3: Work, Labor, and Power in the Digital Play Economy, Room 109
Info: Moderator: Ran Wang (University of Pennsylvania)
Adrienne Shaw (Temple University) - Working Hard for Play
Sulafa Zidani (Northwestern University) - Temporal Play and Power in Digital Culture
Qian Huang (University of Groningen) - Cautious Labor in Digital Leisure Practices
🕑: 04:15 PM - 04:30 PM
Closing remarks, Room 109
🕑: 04:30 PM - 06:00 PM
Post Symposium Reception, the Plaza
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Annenberg School for Communication, 3620 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, United States
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