8:30 – 10:30 am
Sound Networks: Socio-Political Identity, Engagement, and Mobilization through Music in Cyberspace and Independent Media
Chair: Noriko Manabe, Princeton University
*Sponsored by the Popular Music Section and Special Interest Group for Sound Studies
8:30 Technological Factors Conditioning the Socio-Political Power of Music in Cyberspace
Michael Frishkopf, University of Alberta
9:00 Cyber-Mobilization, Informational Intimacy, and Musical Frames in Ukraine's EuroMaidan Protests
Adriana Helbig, University of Pittsburgh
9:30 Countering Spirals of Silence: Protest Music and the Anonymity of Cyberspace in the Japanese Antinuclear Movement
Noriko Manabe, Princeton University
10:00 Living (and Dying) the Rock and Roll Dream: Alternative Media and the Politics of “Making It” as an Iranian Underground Musician
Farzaneh Hemmasi, University of Toronto
10:45 am−12:15 pm
President’s Roundtable–Expressive Culture, Alternative Justice and Conflict Resolution
Chair: Beverley Diamond, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Samuel Araujo, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Jessica Schwartz, University of California, Los Angeles
Sylvia Nannyonga-Tamusuza, Makerere University, Uganda
Barry Shank, The Ohio State University
