08:45-09:00am: Welcoming Remarks

09:00-10:15am: Session One

• Roundtable:
  Foucault, Power and Communication
  Chair: Marie Radford, Pratt Institute
  Sandra den Otter, Queens University
  David McMenamin, Boston College
  Simon Moore, Bentley College
  Mario Moussa, College of Mount St. Vincent
  Gary Radford, William Paterson College
  Ron Scapp, College of Mount St. Vincent

• Papers Presentation:
  Communication and Cyberspace
  Chair: Thom Gencarelli, Montclair State University
  Sue Barnes, Fordham University, "Cyberspace: Creating Paradoxes for the Ecology of Self"
  Joseph Barrett, Wall Street Journal, "Killing Time: The New Frontier of Cyberspace Capitalism"
  Paul Lippert, East Stroudsberg University, "Cinematic Representations of Cyberspace"
  Lance Strate, Fordham University

• Experiential Workshop:
  Communication Through Movement
  Geraldine Silk, Rutgers University

• Papers Presentation:
  Social and Political Implications of Mediated Communication
  Chair/Respondent: Don Swanson, Monmouth University
  Albert Auster, Fordham University, "From Kovacs to the Fonz: Teenagers and Television in New Jersey, 1945-1975"
  David D'Alessio, Richard Stockton College, "Use of the World Wide Web in Campaign '96"
  Chuck McGeever, Richard Stockton College, "Talk Show Phenom: A Taxonomy"

• Roundtable:
  The Impact of Society on Newspapers: City Characteristics and Coverage of Critical Events
  Co-Chair: Elvin Montero, College of New Jersey
  Co-Chair: John Pollock, College of New Jersey
  Nicolas Badolato, College of New Jersey
  Leslie Everts, College of New Jersey
  Jamie Forman, College of New Jersey
  Jessalynn Kearney, College of New Jersey
  Kim Stringari, College of New Jersey

10:15-10:30am Coffee Break

10:30-11:45am Session Two

• Paper Presentation:
  Models, Metaphors and Other Scholarly Meanderings: Renovating Models of Communication
  Susan Drucker, Hofstra University
  Gary Gumpert, Communication Landscapers
  Respondent: Guy Fielding, Queen Margaret College

• Papers Presentation:
  Culture and Risk: Does the Future Compute?
  Chair: LaDonna Garrett, Fashion Institute of Technology
  Henry Perkinson, New York University, "No Safety in Numbers"
  Steven L. Talbott, NETFUTURE, "The Computer is Our Hope If We Can Accept It as Our Enemy; As Our Friend, It Will Destroy Us"
  Respondent: Sue Barnes, Fordham University

• Roundtable:
  Practicing Theory in the Skills-Based Media Communication Classroom Context
  Chad Dell, Monmouth University
  Eleanor Novek, Monmouth University

• Papers Presentation:
  Alternative Conceptualizations of Teaching and Learning: A Graduate Student Perspective
  Chair: Jennifer Lehr, Rutgers University, "Exploring the Application of the Quality Approach to the Classroom"
  Ira Kleinberg, Rutgers University, "Literacy 'Literacy': Toward a Communicational Understanding"
  Christine Lemesianou, Rutgers University, "Reconceptualizing the Classroom: Real and Lived Spaces for Teaching/Learning"
  David John Petroski, Rutgers University, "Making Sense of Classrooms: Reconsidering the Context of Teaching and Learning"
  Respondent: Barry Morganstern, William Paterson College

• Roundtable:
  Television in the Next Millenium
  Chair: Thom Gencarelli, Montclair State University
  Peter Flynn, NBC
  Jeff Friedman, NJN
  Bill Mesce, HBO
  Joseph Tucker, ABC

12:00-12:30pm Business Meeting

12:30-01:30pm Lunch

01:30-02:15pm Keynote Speaker
Stanley Deetz, Rutgers University and President, International Communication Association

02:30-03:15pm Session Three

• Student Papers Panel:
  Communication and Popular Culture
  Chair/Respondent: Robert Kubey, Rutgers University
  Gregory Adamo, Rutgers University, "Politics & Policy: The FCC's Regulation of Indecency"
  John Chapin, Rutgers University, "Limited Effects, But It's Easy To Dance To: Interdisciplinary Research in Popular Music"
  Adam Kimelman, Monmouth University, "Television Cameras Should Not Be Allowed in the Courtroom"
  Agnieszka Orzel, William Paterson College, "Use of Tattooing as a Self-Expression and a Ritual Rite of Passage"
  Margaret Paynor, College of Mount Saint Vincent, "The Role of Media in Portraying Violence in Children's Cartoons and its Effects on Children"

• Student Papers Panel:
  Exploring Research Boundaries: Interpersonal and Mediated Communication
  Chair/Respondent: Christine Nystrom, New York University
  Robert Armitage, Pratt Institute, "Nonverbal Communication in a Research Library Setting"
  Stephen Cooper, Rutgers University, "Privacy and Computer-Mediated Environments"
  Heather Griskonis, William Paterson College, "Open Communication and Romatic Commitments"
  Cynthia Walker, Rutgers University, "A Dialogic Approach to Creativity in Mass Communication"

• Pedagogy/Video Session:
  Departmental Production Activity as an Enhancement of the Broadcasting Curriculum: A Case Study
  Larry Londino, Montclair State University
  Patricia Piroh, Montclair State University

• Paper Presentation:
  Telephone Apprehension: Sex and Gender Differences
  Guy Fielding, Queen Margaret College
  Gavin Jappy, Queen Margaret College
  Respondent: Gary Gumpert, Communication Landscapers
  Respondent: Susan Drucker, Hofstra University

03:45-04:00pm: Coffee Break

04:00-05:15pm: Session Four

• Website Tour:
  WWW Communication Resources for the Academic Curriculum
  Marie Monteagudo, William Paterson College

• Roundtable:
  Music, Communication and Culture
  Chair: David Sanders, Montclair State University
  Robert Albrecht, St. Peter's College
  Chris Cavallaro, WBGO
  Roger O. Johnson, Ramapo College
  Anahid Kassabian, Fordham University
  Casey Lum, William Paterson College

• Roundtable:
  Cyberspace: The Next Generation
  Chair: Sue Barnes, Fordham University
  Sharmila Pixy Ferris, William Paterson College
  LaDonna Garrett, Fashion Institute of Technology
  Shannon Roper, William Paterson College
  Lori Smerechniak, Fordham University

• Multimedia Presentation:
  Postmodern Feminism in the 1990's: Empowerment Confronts Fragmentation
  Jan Anderson, SUNY-New Paltz, "Separate and Unequal: The Role of the Marketplace Metaphor in Creating Gendered Realities"
  Ann Baretta, William Paterson College, "Massaging the Message: Media's Role in the Regression of Postmodern Feminist Discourse"
  Arlene Scala, William Paterson College, "The Intersection of Fragmentation and Empowerment: The Postmodern Quest"
  Video: Anne Barretta & Richard Bartone, William Paterson College; produced and directed by Emmet O'Conlon

05:30-06:00pm Cocktails

06:00-07:15pm Dinner & Awards Presentation

07:15-08:00pm Keynote Speaker
Neil Postman, New York University

08:00-??:??pm Music
The Professors and Blue Race