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I'm looking for papers for a panel for SCS '95 (New York City) provisionally
titled "Conservative Media Activism: The Challenge to Critique."

                     * * * Panel Description * * *
The New Right has made unprecedented use of communications technologies
(direct mail, video, satellite television, BBS etc..) in two important and
overlapping ways: first to construct and disseminate an ideology of "family
values" and second to orchestrate "grassroots" activism on specific
legislative issues. Focussing of the relationship   between communications
technologies and Conservative ideology and activism, this panel will address
the difficulties and possibilities of an oppositional response to the New
Right.

Possible paper topics might include: the failure of liberal models of
critique and explorations of new critical methodologies and activist
strategies; Conservative uses of new technologies (N.E.T., Town Hall,
etc..); "Pro-Life" and anti-gay rhetoric and imagery; politics and
advertising -- The National Conservative Political Action Committee and The
DeMoss Foundation's "Life, What a Beautiful Choice" campaign; Rush Limbaugh;
the "Culture War"; The Heritage Founation and the role of New Right
thinktanks; the Christian Coalition. . .

By August 31 please send me a 1-2 page abstact and brief bibliography. My
e-mail address is aams@troi.cc.rochester.edu. You can also send me papers by
postal mail to:

Anna Williams,
Program in Visual and Cultural Studies,
Department of Art & Art History,
424 Morey Hall,
University of Rochester,
Rochester, NY 14627.

Tel: 716-423-0989

*** Please feel free to depart from my paper suggestions. Topics that would
be germaine to this panel exceed my ability to list them.

                    Thankyou for reading this message,

                            Anna Williams.