21 Media School students, faculty to present at ICA conference
The Media School Report
May 25, 2021
Twenty-one Media School faculty and students will present research at the 71st annual International Communication Association conference.
The conference, “Engaging the Essential Work of Care: Communication, Connectedness, and Social Justice,” will take place virtually Thursday through Sunday.
Students
Doctoral student
“Visibility and Representation of Women in Prime-Time Network TV: 1967-2015,” Mass Communication Division
“The effects of musical characteristics on attention to Public Service Announcements,”Information Systems Division
Doctoral student
“Tech neck effects during mobile device use: Impact of spinal flexion on physiological cognition, emotion & arousal,” Communication Science & Biology Interest Group
Doctoral student
“The effects of musical characteristics on attention to Public Service Announcements,”Information Systems Division
Doctoral student
“Predicting physiological responses to popular music with retrospective self-report ratings,” Communication Science & Biology Interest Group
Master’s student
“Emotional Displays and the Novelty of Race and Gender in News Coverage of the 2020 Democratic Presidential Primary,” Journalism Studies Division
Doctoral student
“Prevalence and Demographic Differences of Happiness Paradox,” Computational Methods Division
“Visibility and Representation of Women in Prime-Time Network TV: 1967-2015,” Mass Communication Division
“How Camera Perspective Contributes to Normative Judgments of Officers and Citizens in Police Use of Force Videos,” Information System Division
Master’s student
“Does Identification with Strong Female Protagonist in Films Broaden Self-concept under Narrative Transportation Effects?” Information Systems Division
“Big Five Personality and Motivations of ‘Digitally Made-up’ Predict Body Dissatisfaction and Restrained Eating in Chinese Women,” Mass Communication Division
Doctoral student
“Advertisement Exposure and Risk Perception,” Information Systems Division
“News consumption and affective polarization: Longitudinal evidence on the mediating roles of likeminded political discussion and relative hostile media perception,” CCA-KACA Joint Session: Social Media and Public Participation in East Asia
“Social media and e-cig use among US youth: Longitudinal evidence on the mediating roles of ads exposure and risk perception,” Information Systems Division
Faculty
Assistant professor
“Building the Science News Agenda: The Permeability of Science Journalism to Public Relations,” Journalism Studies Division
Assistant professor
“Building the Science News Agenda: The Permeability of Science Journalism to Public Relations,” Journalism Studies Division
Assistant professor
“Inaccurate affective forecasting as a barrier to civic discussion,” Environmental Communication Division
Professor
“Emotional Displays and the Novelty of Race and Gender in News Coverage of the 2020 Democratic Presidential Primary,” Journalism Studies Division
Participant, ICA Fellows Panel Discussion: Digital Media, Civic Society, and Communities of Opinion
Assistant professor
“Emotional Displays and the Novelty of Race and Gender in News Coverage of the 2020 Democratic Presidential Primary,” Journalism Studies Division
“Building the Science News Agenda: The Permeability of Science Journalism to Public Relations,” Journalism Studies Division
Distinguished professor
“Can Media Make Us Feel Alike? Skin Conductance Synchrony as a Function of Message Valence, Arousal, and Emotional Change Rate,” Information Systems Division
Associate professor
“…If They Only Disrespect Us a Little, and the Story is Interesting, I Keep Watching: Navigation of Race-Based Media Gratifications by Latinx Adolescents,” Mass Communication Division
Professor emerita
“Media Use and Affective Political Polarization: What Shapes Americans Attitudes Toward Immigrants?” Mass Communication Division
“Use of Social Media in Turkish Women’s Struggle for Justice,” Intersectional Imaginaries in Media, Religion and Gender pre-conference
Herman B Wells endowed professor
Participant, South Asia Communication Association (SACA) Colloquium: Theorizing Media, Technology and Culture in South Asia
Assistant professor
“Spill, Soak and Spray: Rethinking ‘Saturation’ for Mobile Media,” Mobile Communication Division
Professor
“Tech neck effects during mobile device use: Impact of spinal flexion on physiological cognition, emotion & arousal,” Communication Science & Biology Interest Group
“Predicting physiological responses to popular music with retrospective self-report ratings,” Communication Science & Biology Interest Group
“The effects of musical characteristics on attention to Public Service Announcements,”Information Systems Division
“Does Identification with Strong Female Protagonist in Films Broaden Self-concept under Narrative Transportation Effects?” Information Systems Division
Dean
“Visibility and Representation of Women in Prime-Time Network TV: 1967-2015,” Mass Communication Division
Assistant professor
“That bygone feeling: Controller haptics and nostalgia in video game play,” Game Studies Division
Awards
Doctoral student Eugene Kim (Ty Vinson | The Media School)
Doctoral student Eugene Kim will receive the Amanda L. Kundrat Thesis of the Year Award for his thesis, “The Predictors of Electronic-Cigarette Users’ Risk Information Avoidance.” His advisors are professor Sung-Un Yang and assistant professor Melanie Sarge.
The award, which is given by The International Communication Association and National Communication Association Health Communication Divisions, recognizes the best master’s thesis completed in the last year in the field of health communication.
Distinguished professor Annie Lang won the top paper award in the Information Systems category with Santa Clara University’s Jingjing Han, MA’15, PhD’20, and Mary Armon of the University of Central Florida.
The winning paper was “Can Media Make Us Feel Alike? Skin Conductance Synchrony as a Function of Message Valence, Arousal, and Emotional Change Rate.”
