The program for the "Theorizing the Web" conference, New York March 1-3

*They've got "hashtag moderators."

http://www.theorizingtheweb.org/2013/program.html

*A few choice highlights from contemporary web theory (and if you think that's freaky now, wait till it becomes web practice):

Wall Posts Can't Protect You: Networked Privacy & Social Surveillance in Facebook

Ctrl+Alt+Del: Control, Resistance, and Refusal

How We Talk about Media Refusal: Popular Frames for Understanding Resistance to Social Media Platforms in Everyday Life

Beyond Bridges, Speed-Bumps, And Hotel Keys: A New Design Paradigm for Control Technologies

The Participatory Culture Industry

Digital Fetishism, KPop and Projective Modernity: A Culturalist World-Systems Analysis of MyKoreanBoyfriend.com

The ‘lived now.’ Observing the changes in the spatiotemporal experience of everyday life through the use of ICTs

Viral Velocity: States of Interaction in Meme Culture

Re-examining the New Aesthetic Movement through an Analysis of Satellite Technologies in New Media and Digital Arts

etc.