Professor Barry Vacker, BTMM, doctoral student Angela Cirucci, MMC, and undergraduate Genevieve Gillespie, BTMM, will be part of a panel accepted for presentation at the 2012 International Communication Association (ICA) conference in Phoenix over Memorial Day weekend. The panel is titled “Whole Earth, Fragmented Cultures and Apocalyptic Futures: Visualizing Community and Destiny on Spaceship Earth” and the papers and participants are:
Angela Cirucci — “Social Media and Facebook: Fragmented Communities, Virtual Tribes, and Video Games at the Center of Everything”
Genevieve Gillespie — “Spaceship Earth in a Violent Universe: Apocalypses in Science Documentaries”
Jarice Hanson (University of Massachusetts) — “Reclaiming Earth after the Apocalypse”
Barry Vacker — “Art, Media and Cosmology: Visualizing Our Place and Destiny in the Universe”