This panel focuses on some of the important ideas, insights and issues that have come out of academic research and writing and journalistic reporting of Hiphop. It also focuses on areas of reporting and research that have been overlooked and might be included in the body of knowledge on Hiphop culture.

This panel is concerned with Hiphop as a potential source for activism and social change. It focuses on political organizing and the use of electronic media to share ideas and shape opinions.

This panel addresses questions about how artists produce and represent Hiphop as well as media and scholarly attempts to label artists. Its focus is on both what the artist is trying to do and how the artist deals with other’s critique of what he or she does.

This panel focuses on how Hiphop shapes our understanding of society as well as some of the questions it raises about race, social class, community building, family, gender and organizing throughout the world.

This panel is concerned with some of the issues raised when conducting Hiphop research and reporting for traditional and non-Hiphop friendly audiences, academic institutions and media outlets.