The Legacies of Elihu Katz

It is our great pleasure to share with you an ICA pre-conference dedicated to the consideration and discussion of Elihu Katz’s ideas: https://legacies-of-katz.pubpub.org Thanks to the generous support of our sponsors, registration for this pre-conference is free. To register for the pre-conference, please go here: https://www.icahdq.org/event/ICA23-ElihuKatz Questions about the pre-conference should be directed to any one of the pre-conference organizers listed below. # The Legacies of Elihu Katz 25 May, 2023 Toronto, Canada Organized by: Menahem Blondheim (Hebrew University), David W. Park (Lake Forest College), Jeff Pooley (Muhlenberg College), and Julia Sonnevend (The New School) ## SCHEDULE: 8:30 am - 8:45 am: Arrival, Coffee 8:45 am - 8:50 am: Opening Remarks from Pre-Conference Sponsors 8:50 am - 9:20 am: Orienting Katz Historically Moderator: Jeff Pooley * Peter Simonson, “Communication, Opportunity Structures, and the Making of Elihu Katz, 1926–1956: The Child is Father of the Man” 9:20 am - 9:35 am: Coffee Break 9:35 am - 10:50 am: Katz on Journalism, Democracy, and the Media Moderator: Barbie Zelizer * Klaus Bruhn Jensen & W. Russell Neuman, “Enriching the Concept of Communication Effects: The Legacy of Elihu Katz” * Leah A. Lievrouw, “Katz, Tarde, and Theorizing Digital Communication” * Michael McDevitt, “Is the U.S. Press Invested in Democratic Crisis?” * Kimberly Meltzer, “Legacies of Elihu Katz: Contributions to Theorizing on Journalism and Television” * Patrícia Dias & Priscila Krolow, “Youth on BeReal: Emergent Uses and Sought Gratifications” 10:50 am - 11:00 am: Coffee Break 11:00 am - 12:30 pm: The Continuing Relevance of Media Events Moderator: Julia Sonnevend * Esther Hammelburg, “Being There Live: Witnessing & Belonging at Contemporary Media(tized) Events” * Johanna Sumiala & Katja Valaskivi, “Hybrid Media Environment: A Key Challenge to Contemporary Media Event Theory?” * Charlotte Knorr & Christian Pentzold, “The Craft of Data Scandals: Reassessing Contemporary Whistleblowing as Media Events” * Sachie Hamada, “Media Events in the Internet Age: From ‘Watching on Couch’ to ‘Doing Sports Together’” * Rainier Winter & Jörg-Uwe Nieland, “Rethinking ‘Media Events’: Sports Mega-Events, Authoritarian States, and the Battle for Meaning” 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm: Lunch 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm: Two-Step Flow Moderator: Larry Gross * Devon Powers, “From Fads to Trends: Lessons From Katz” * Laura Dilley, “The Memetics of QAnon as Dynamical System: A Historical and Forensic Analysis of Katz-Inspired Diffusion of pro-QAnon Sentiment Among Social media Micro-Influencers” * Svetlana S. Bodrunova, Kamilla Nigmatullina, Nikolay Rodossky, and Dmitry Nepiyushchikh, “The Two-Step Flow Model in a Hybrid Environment: Decentralization of Media in Discussions on User Complaints in the VK.com Social Network” * Hynek Jerabek, “Elihu Katz’s Journey From the ‘Two-Step Flow Report’ to ‘His Master’s Voice’: 65 Years of Opinion Leaders” * Elizabeth Dubois, “Strategic Personal Influence: From Political Opinion Leaders to Social Media Influencers” 3:00 pm - 3:15 pm: Coffee Break 3:15 pm - 4:30 pm: The Multidimensional Katz: A Cross-Cutting Conversation Moderator: Menahem Blondheim * Sonia Livingstone * Jeffrey C. Alexander * Limor Shifman * Michael Schudson 4:30 pm - 4:45 pm: Closing Words Pre-recorded video contributions pending. The Pre-Conference is Sponsored by: The Department of Communication and the Smart Family Institute of Communications at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California; and the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania Contact the organizers at legaciesofkatz@gmail.com.