Leaders:
Holland Wilde
Sandeep Junnarkar

A voyeuristic luxury tour of that cliché-ridden, incoherent, and trivialized social-spectacle morality play we call broadcast journalism. This presentation will flail sophomoric visual theories of neuropolitics, culture jamming, and radical media criticism like a drunken bearded sailor in an old Viking Hall (truth in advertising), and serve it up authoritatively with rarified supersized dollops of righteous yammering pontifically parsed for the technologically privileged. Insanity, degradation, cultural bankruptcy, and the death of imagination… all for the squealing delight of the vlogging community. (note: portions may or may not actually happen.)

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Sandeep Junnarkar is an associate professor at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is the editorial director of The Lives in Focus Project, which uses video, audio and photographs to present the voices and stories of those who are rarely given space or time in traditional news media. He previously served as the New York bureau chief for CNET News.com and produced The New York Times on the Web and wrote frequently for the paper.

Holland Wilde (http://www.culturalfarming.com, http://medianipple.blogspot.com) (principal: Pencilogic) has designed globally for broadcast TV and network news for 20 years, receiving numerous prestigious awards including 10 Emmys. Wilde continues to publicly advocate for a deeper understanding within visual literacy and image-based communications for a viable balance between corporate media and a participatory democracy. Currently, Wilde is a PhD candidate in visual communication and culture at the University of Calgary.