Times Square, at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue in New York City, has often been referred to as the “Crossroads of the World.” In fact, New York City itself can be considered a crossroads of the world. New York Harbor is home to Ellis Island, the main point of entry for the “huddled masses” who came to the United States in search of a better life, particularly as part of the “great immigration” of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and who became part of America’s great “melting pot.” The city’s five boroughs are home to the most diverse population of any city on earth, with virtually every culture and language group represented. New York is also a crossroads of the media/mass media world: home to the U.S. corporate headquarters of almost all of our major multinational media conglomerates; home to Silicon Alley; and the indisputable news and information capital of the United States. It must be added, too, that the way we understand, analyze, and make sense of our world and all things in it is through our human language, in its spoken, written, and print forms. That is to say, our world is all about words. And at this juncture in the history of human civilization, in which people speak of a “post-literate culture,” after media ecologist Walter Ong, S. J., subtitled his book Orality and Literacy “The Technologizing of the Word,” and media ecologist Jacques Ellul wrote The Humiliation of the Word, we can perhaps say that we stand at a “Crossroads of the Word.” Convention Coordinator: Thom Gencarelli (thom.gencarelli{at}manhattan.edu). Featured SpeakersSherry Turkle, Abby
Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the
Social Studies of Science and Technology
at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, and author of The
Second Self, Life on the
Screen, and her latest book Alone
Together Douglas Rushkoff (http://www.rushkoff.com/),
winner of the MEA's first Neil Postman
award for Career Achievement in Public
Intellectual Activity, author of ten
books including the recent Program
or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a
Digital Age, and producer of
three Frontline documentaries
including “Merchants of Cool”, “The
Persuaders”, and “Digital Nation” Terence P. Moran,
Professor of Media, Culture, and
Communication at New York University,
one of the three founding members of
NYU’s media ecology doctoral program,
and author of Selling War to
America: From the Spanish American War
to the Global War on Terror and Introduction
to The History of Communication:
Evolutions and Revolutions Jaron Lanier (http://www.jaronlanier.com/),
computer scientist, composer, visual
artist, author of You are Not a
Gadget, and one of Time
magazine’s “100 People” for 2010 The program will also include plenary sessions in celebration of the centenary of the birth of Walter J. Ong and Jacques Ellul. Campus HousingCampus housing at Manhattan College will be available from Wednesday night, June 6 through Sunday night, June 10 (with checkout on Monday morning, June 11). This housing is situated just a two-minute walk from the buildings in which the convention will be held. Pricing is as follows:
HotelsFor those of you who prefer to stay at a hotel, you have two options: You can stay at a hotel in midtown Manhattan. Or you can stay at a hotel In Yonkers, New York - a few miles north of campus. If you choose to stay at a hotel in midtown Manhattan, please note the following: (1) New York City has a great many hotels from which to choose. If you are not happy with the ones we recommend below, you are of course free to search for your own. (2) The hotels we recommend are all located on the west side of Manhattan, and are convenient to the No. 1 subway train, which will take you right down the hill - a two-minute walk - from the Manhattan College campus. If you choose an alternative hotel, we recommend that you also choose one on the West Side. (Subway directions can be found below.) (3) The recommended hotels do not offer a special convention rate, as we are not using their services otherwise. (4) A subway ride from midtown to the campus takes about a half hour. If you choose to stay at one of the recommended hotels in Yonkers, New York - both of which are located about seven miles (11.25 Km) from campus - you will need to either rent a car or take a taxi to campus and back. A taxi costs approximately $16.50 US each way. Hotels in Manhattan The following two hotels in Manhattan are presently pricing at about $250 per person per night:
In addition, the MEA has used the following hotel in the past. However, it is presently pricing at $379 per person per night:
Hotels in Yonkers, New York
Directions to Campus from the No. 1 Subway Line
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