40 Media School students, faculty to present research at ICA conference
Forty Media School faculty members and students will give presentations, participate in panels or receive awards at the 69th annual International Communication Association Conference this weekend in Washington, D.C.
This year’s conference will address the theme, “Communication Beyond Boundaries,” and touch on topics such as international reporting, diversity in the media, and issues relating to politics, gender, race and health care.
Awards
Doctoral student Aysehan Julide Etem won the Top Student Paper award from the ICA Communication History Division for “A History of Educational Film Center in Turkey.”
Master’s student Hongtao Hao earned second place in the Top Student Paper competition from the ICA Public Diplomacy Interest Group for “Global expansion of China’s media for soft power promotion.”
Presentations
The following attendees will present their research at the conference.
Faculty
Assistant professor
Lead organizer, preconference: “Environmental Communication Beyond Boundaries: Transnational, international, and comparative approaches to understanding environmental issues.”
Professor
“Growing Older and Growing Out of Love with Watching Sports? An Emotion-Regulatory Perspective,” in the session, “Sports Fans, Mental Health, and Identity.”
Assistant professor
- Chair, “Just the Facts? Portraying and Perceiving Environmental Science and Scientists.”
- “Seeing Native American Scientists: Implicit and Explicit Attitudes towards Native American Sources in Science News,” in the session, “Just the Facts? Portraying and Perceiving Environmental Science and Scientists.”
- “Source Effects: The Roles of Source Expertise, Shared Values, and Interpersonal Warmth in Environmental Policy Support,” in the session, “High Density: Hearts and Minds: New Pathways to Environmental Persuasion.”
Associate dean
- “The Potential of Twitter Images for Galvanizing Citizens to Collective Actions,” in the session, “Instapolitics: Visual and Non-Verbal Forms of Political Communication.”
- “Political Polarization and Perceptions of News Bias: Does Content Matter?” in the session, “Polarized Media, Polarized Opinions?”
- “Verbal-Visual Match: Introducing a New Measure of Audiovisual Frame Congruence,” in the session, “Framing in Politics and Public Life: Developments and Debates.”
Assistant professor
- Chair, “Context Dependency of Political Participation.”
- “The Role of the Two-Step Flow of Information in Attention to Social Movements,” in the session, “Studying Social Movements: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Studies.”
Assistant professor
- Respondent, “Communicating and Engaging with Internal Stakeholders.”
- “Mediated Effects of Employee-Organization Relationships on Crisis Outcomes,” in the session, “Communicating and Engaging with Internal Stakeholders.”
Assistant professor
“Preferring and Creating Homophilic Networks: Unfriending’s Contribution to Polarized Politics,” in the session, “Networks and Networking.”
Distinguished professor
- “An Embodied Motivated Approach to the Perception of Camera Framing: Affective Effects of Camera Angle and Distance When Looking at Pictures,” in the session, “Visual Information Processing: Attention Cues and Social Factors.”
- “From the Body, to the Mind, to the Public: An Agent-Based Model of Media Effects on Public Opinion Dynamics,” in the session, “Simulation Studies of Communication.”
Associate professor
- Respondent, “Navigating the Media World Together: Grandparents, Parents, and Their Children.”
- “Audiovisual Media Content Preferences of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: Insights from Parental Interviews,” in the session, “Navigating the Media World Together: Grandparents, Parents, and Their Children.”
- Respondent, JOCAM editorial board meeting.
Herman B Wells endowed professor
- Moderator, preconference: “#Communicationsowhite: Discipline, Scholarship, and the Media.”
- Chair, “Global Infrastructures/Local Cultures: Gender, Temporality and Discourses of Smartness in Digital India.”
- “Viral Toilets, Virtual Humor: Reading Gendered and Transgressive Bodies in Urban India,” in the session, “Global Infrastructures/Local Cultures: Gender, Temporality and Discourses of Smartness in Digital India.”
- Discussant, “Trump’s Gendered Politics of Hate: Mapping Diverse Women’s Responses in the Media Field.”
- “Rural India’s Virtual/Visual Archive: Mapping the Material and Aesthetic Contours of an ‘Insane’ Digital Intervention,” in the session, “Infrastructure, Culture and Critique: Global Communication for Social Change.”
- Respondent, “Transcending the National: Gendered and Feminist Representations in Indian and Pakistani Media.”
- “Vision, Visibility, and Visuality: Skin Pedagogies and Social Hierarchies in India’s Transnational Media Field,” in the session, “Transcending the National: Gendered and Feminist Representations in Indian and Pakistani Media.”
Assistant professor
- Respondent, “Materializing Media: Critical Intersections in Infrastructure Histories.”
- “The Dirt on Clean Rooms: The Mutual Vulnerability of Humans and Machines in Computer Chip Production,” in the session, “Materializing Media: Critical Intersections in Infrastructure Histories.”
Professor
“Does Culture Matter? Emotion and Attitudes toward Same-Sex Advertisements in Western and Eastern Countries,” in the session, “Biological Mechanisms in Message Processing.”
Assistant professor
- “User-Generated Content and the Development of Self-Determined Citizens,” in the session, “Community and Alternative Media Practices.”
- “The Role of Social Identity in Niche Online Dating Websites,” in the Mass Communication Interactive Paper Session.
- “Promoting Pathology: The Persuasive Tactics and Propaganda Techniques of Pro-Ana Websites,” in the session, “Health Communication in Online Communities.”
Dean
- “Seeing Native American Scientists: Implicit and Explicit Attitudes towards Native American Sources in Science News,” in the session, “Just the Facts? Portraying and Perceiving Environmental Science and Scientists.”
- “From the Body, to the Mind, to the Public: An Agent-Based Model of Media Effects on Public Opinion Dynamics,” in the session, “Simulation Studies of Communication.”
Assistant professor
- “And You Are Nothing: Examining Framing within the Media Coverage of Larry Nassar,” in the session, “Framing and Communicating Crises in Sport.”
- “My Team Isn’t in the Game, But I Still Need to Cheer! Examining the Idea of Secondary Fandom Using the 2018 FIFA World Cup,” in the Sport Communication High Density Paper Session.
- Chair, “Social Issues in Sport Media – Gender, Race, and LGBTQ Athletes.”
Assistant professor
“One-Way or Two-Way Streets: Do Effects of ‘Mindless’ Interactions with Agents Carry over to Humans and Vice Versa?” in the session, “From Social Media and Games: The Online Plaza to Social Robots in the CASA.”
Associate professor
“Sexual Scripts and Sexual Strategies Theory: Explanations for Sex Differences in Pornography Use and Sexual Permissiveness,” in the session, “The Media, Sex and Violence.”
Associate professor
- Respondent, “Communicating and Engaging with Internal Stakeholders.”
- “Mediated Effects of Employee-Organization Relationships on Crisis Outcomes,” in the session, “Communicating and Engaging with Internal Stakeholders.”
Students
Doctoral student
“What Is Missing? How Technology Maintenance Is Overlooked in Representative Surveys of Digital Inequalities,” in the session, “Issues of Digital Inequalities.”
Doctoral student
“Seeing Native American Scientists: Implicit and Explicit Attitudes towards Native American Sources in Science News,” in the session, “Just the Facts? Portraying and Perceiving Environmental Science and Scientists.”
Doctoral candidate
“An Embodied Motivated Approach to the Perception of Camera Framing: Affective Effects of Camera Angle and Distance When Looking at Pictures,” in the session, “Visual Information Processing: Attention Cues and Social Factors.”
Doctoral student
- “The Act of Clicking: Institutional Authorship in UNICEF’s Multi-Media Projects about Syrian Refugee Children,” in the session, “Hashtag Activism.”
- Respondent, “Global/Institutional Correspondences.”
- “A History of Educational Film Center in Turkey,” in the session, “Global/Institutional Correspondences.”
Doctoral student
- Chair, “Media Effects in the Light of #Metoo Movement: Examining the Effect of Mass Media on Attitudes of Sexual Consent.”
- “Conceptualizing Sexual Consent and Its Relationship to the Media,” in the session, “Media Effects in the Light of #Metoo Movement: Examining the Effect of Mass Media on Attitudes of Sexual Consent.”
Doctoral student
“Viral Toilets, Virtual Humor: Reading Gendered and Transgressive Bodies in Urban India,” in the session, “Global Infrastructures/Local Cultures: Gender, Temporality and Discourses of Smartness in Digital India.”
Doctoral student
- “An Embodied Motivated Approach to the Perception of Camera Framing: Affective Effects of Camera Angle and Distance When Looking at Pictures,” in the session, “Visual Information Processing: Attention Cues and Social Factors.”
- “Verbal-Visual Match: Introducing a New Measure of Audiovisual Frame Congruence,” in the session, “Framing in Politics and Public Life: Developments and Debates.”
Master’s student
“Global Expansion of China’s Media for Soft Power Promotion,” in the session, “Mediated Public Diplomacy.”
Master’s student
“One-Way or Two-Way Streets: Do Effects of ‘Mindless’ Interactions with Agents Carry over to Humans and Vice Versa?” in the session, “From Social Media and Games: The Online Plaza to Social Robots in the CASA.”
Doctoral candidate
“Political Polarization and Perceptions of News Bias: Does Content Matter?” in the session, “Polarized Media, Polarized Opinions?”
Master’s student
“Preferring and Creating Homophilic Networks: Unfriending’s Contribution to Polarized Politics,” in the session, “Networks and Networking.”
Doctoral student
- “Mediated Effects of Employee-Organization Relationships on Crisis Outcomes,” in the session, “Communicating and Engaging with Internal Stakeholders.”
- Respondent, “Communicating and Engaging with Internal Stakeholders.”
Doctoral student
“South Korean Agencies: A Comparative Analysis of the 2016 MERS Outbreak in South Korea,” in the session, “Mechanisms of Health Communication and News Effects in Asian Contexts.”
Doctoral candidate
- “We Tried to Save Yaw: Black Women’s Collective Responses to Trump’s Misogynoir on Black Twitter,” in the session, “Trump’s Gendered Politics of Hate: Mapping Diverse Women’s Responses in the Media Field.”
- Respondent, “Trump’s Gendered Politics of Hate: Mapping Diverse Women’s Responses in the Media Field.”
Doctoral candidate
- “Worth the Work: Greater Reward Processing Demands by Game Condition Predict Game Enjoyment and Frustration,” in the session, “High Density: All Aboard the Student Paper Express, from East to West, Theory to Test.”
- Chair, “Game Preferences and Motives Abound: Want to go Poké Around?”
Doctoral candidate
- “Viral Toilets, Virtual Humor: Reading Gendered and Transgressive Bodies in Urban India,” in the session, “Global Infrastructures/Local Cultures: Gender, Temporality and Discourses of Smartness in Digital India.”
- “From #Metoo to #Mainbhi: Transnational Resonances in Digital Feminism from the U.S. to South Asia,” in the session, “The Power of #Metoo: Evaluating the Cultural Influence of the Global Movement.”
- “Rural India’s Virtual/Visual Archive: Mapping the Material and Aesthetic Contours of an ‘Insane’ Digital Intervention,” in the session, “Infrastructure, Culture and Critique: Global Communication for Social Change.”
Doctoral student
“An Embodied Motivated Approach to the Perception of Camera Framing: Affective Effects of Camera Angle and Distance When Looking at Pictures,” in the session, “Visual Information Processing: Attention Cues and Social Factors.”
Doctoral candidate
“Does Ambivalent Sexism Emerge in the Design of Female Video Game Characters?” in the session, “Social Identity and Stereotypes.”
Doctoral candidate
“Gender, Generation and Girlhood: Charting Memories of Young Female Viewers of Popular Western Television in India,” in the session, “Popular Girlhoods.”
Doctoral student
- “Growing Older and Growing Out of Love with Watching Sports? An Emotion-Regulatory Perspective,” in the session, “Sports Fans, Mental Health, and Identity.”
- “Seeing Native American Scientists: Implicit and Explicit Attitudes towards Native American Sources in Science News,” in the session, “Just the Facts? Portraying and Perceiving Environmental Science and Scientists.”
- “An Embodied Motivated Approach to the Perception of Camera Framing: Affective Effects of Camera Angle and Distance When Looking at Pictures,” in the session, “Visual Information Processing: Attention Cues and Social Factors.”
- “From the Body, to the Mind, to the Public: An Agent-Based Model of Media Effects on Public Opinion Dynamics,” in the session, “Simulation Studies of Communication.”
- “What Is Missing? How Technology Maintenance Is Overlooked in Representative Surveys of Digital Inequalities,” in the session, “Issues of Digital Inequalities.”
Doctoral candidate
- “Gendered Political News Use across Life Stages in China,” in the preconference session, “Digital Asia: Social Change, Engagement, and Communication Beyond Boundaries.”
- “Vaccine Misinformation’s Impact on Parental Vaccination Decisions Differs by Parents’ Educational Level,” in the session, “Approaches to Detecting and Addressing Misinformation about Health Issues.”
Doctoral candidate
“Porn Use, Two Forms of Dehumanization, and Sexually Aggressive Thoughts and Behaviors: Sexual vs. Sociocultural Explanations,” in the session, “#Metoo, Consent, and Sexual Misconduct.”