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SCMS, Day 2

My obligatory conference day-of-hooky has come a little earlier than usual; under ordinary circumstances, I usually burn out on panels on the third day and zip off to do some shopping or sightseeing or other non-session related activity. Here, it’s turned out that today’s the day, for a whole series of reasons, mostly that I’m presenting tomorrow, and the main panels I want to see today were scheduled for 8.30 am and 5.00 pm.

But I also went to the book exhibit this morning. I now find conference book exhibits deeply depressing — both in the too-muchness of interesting work I’ll never get time to read, and in the too-fewness of publishers by whom I’ve already been rejected. To recuperate, I decided to take some time off and do a bit of writing and thinking. I’ll post some of those thoughts soon, but do want to post my notes from this morning’s session.

Sad to say, the 8.30 start time (5.30 am to my west-coast self) and the confusing layout of the hotel’s conference facilities (conference rooms are on three different floors of two different towers, and all of the rooms are named after trees; note to hotel designers: if you’ve got two towers, naming the rooms in one after trees and the other after flowers, or fruits, or presidents, would be a kindness) conspired to make me forty minutes late for the session. I missed Fred Turner’s presentation, “Digital Journalism and the Anxious Citizen,” entirely, and caught only the last few minutes of Michele White’s “Public Privates: Representation of Women Webcam Operators at Home and in the Office.” It’s a shame; the discussion that followed made it clear I’d missed great papers. The good news is that I did get to hear that discussion, as well as the final paper:

Mark Andrejevic, “Nothing Comes Between Me and My CPU: Wearable Computers and Mobile Privatization”

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