Faculty, students participate in summer conferences
Faculty and students spent summer attending conferences around the world, where they presented their work and served as panelists.
Here are a few of the conferences and their activities:
GenCon, Aug. 14-17, Indianapolis
Lecturer Will Emigh attended the GenCon game convention Aug. 14-17 in Indianapolis to demo Tattletale! a card game he designed last year and that Game Salute just released.
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Aug. 6-9, Montreal
Professor Emeritus David Nord, “Are Interest Groups Civil or Uncivil? Jeffrey Alexander’s Sociology of Power.”
Professor Lars Willnat and Professor Emeritus David Weaver, “The American Journalist in the Digital Age: How Journalists and the Public Think About Journalism in the United States.”
Associate professor Mike Conway, chair, the Emerging and Senior Scholar Awards; panelist, “Teaching Qualitative and Historical Research: Challenges and Opportunities.”
Associate professor Julia Fox and doctoral student Edo Steinberg, “News You Can’t Use: A Content Analysis of the Daily Show’s Media Criticism.”
Associate professor , Emily Metzgar, discussant, “Crisis Communication, the News Media & the Public”; moderator, “National Identity at ‘the Other’: From the Inside Out and the Outside In.”
Associate professor Sung-Un Yang, “Message Strategies and Public Engagement in Corporate Facebook Pages,” with doctoral student Cheonsoo Kim; chair for a refereed Korean American Communication Association research session.
Assistant professor Minjeong Kang, co-author, “Mediation Effects of Employee Engagement on Employee Communication Behaviors”; co-author with doctoral student Young Eun Park, “Trust, Distrust, Symmetrical Communication, Public Engagement and WOM.”
Assistant professor Jessica Gall Myrick, “Incidental Contact with Same-sex couples in Non-traditional News Content: An Examination of Exemplification and Parasocial Contact Effects,” with co-author Rhonda Gibson of the University of North Carolina; “Hope and the Hyperlink: Drivers of Message Sharing in a Twitter Cancer Network,” accepted in the Communicating Science, Health, Environment and Risk Division. Co-authors are Avery Holton of the University of Utah, Itai Himelboim of the University of Georgia and Brad Love of the University of Texas.
Lecturer Bonnie Layton, co-taught a workshop on Tile Mill and Google Fusion data maps.
Doctoral student Hyon Jin Ahn, “The Moderating Role of Discussion in the Relationship Between SNS Network Heterogeneity and Political Participation, with second author assistant professor Jae Kook Lee.
Doctoral student Claudia Kozman, second author of “Sourcing and Framing the Syrian Crisis: How Elite Newspapers Covered the International Reaction to Syria’s Use of Chemical Weapons.”
Doctoral student Teresa Lynch and associate professor Andrew Weaver presented “A Look of Horror: Perceptions of Frightening Content Based on Character Expression.”
Doctoral candidate Nicholas Matthews, “Too Good to Care: The Effect of Skill on Hostility and Aggression Following Violent Video Game Play.”
Doctoral candidate Rosemary Pennington, “Dissolving the Other: Orientalism, Consumption and Katy Perry’s insatiable Dark Horse”; “When New Media Makes News: Framing Technology and Sexual Assault in the Steubenville Rape Case,” co-authored with journalism alumna and Bridgewater State University professor Jessica Birthisel, PhD’13.
Doctoral student Young Eun Park, co-author of “Factors Affecting CSR Evaluation: Type of CSR and Consumer Characteristics.”
Doctoral student Roshni Verghese, “An Indian Abroad: Postulating Post-Colonial Feminisms via Priyanka Chopra’s Globality.”
Doctoral student A.Jay Wagner, “Melted: Iceland’s Failed Experiment with Radical Transparency.”
Graduate student Jingjing Han, co-author, “Framing Climate Change: A Content Analysis of Chinese Mainstream Media from 2005 to 2012”; “How Does the Audience Respond to Cancer Videos? A Content Analysis of YouTube Comments.”
Cosmographies Conference, July 24-25, Falmouth University,United Kingdom; University Film and Video Conference , Aug. 6-9, Bozeman, Mont.
Graduate student Megan Brown, “A Mediated Sublime: Popularizers and Animation in Cosmos and A Brief History of Time,” Cosmographies Conference and University Film and Video conference.
Northeast Historic Film Summer Symposium, July 24-26, Bucksport, Maine
Graduate student Brian Graney, “Conversations in Maine: the Schoolhouse on Sutton Island,” which discusses a 1987 work by filmmaker Frances Reid, who captured hours of footage documenting the community, environment, domestic activities and impassioned discussions at the Schoolhouse, a summer home on Sutton Island.
National Communication Association Honors Seminar, July 17-20, College Park, Md.
Doctoral candidate Nicky Lewis, “Social Comparison Processes in Reality Television Consumption.” Lewis was named one of 11 nation-wide selected applicants to participate in the Mass Communication NCA Doctoral Honors Seminar.
Microsoft Research Faculty Summit, July 14-15, Redmond, Wash.
Associate professor Mary Gray, “When Data Science and Human Subjects Research Collide,” “Crowds are People, too!” “Crowdwork: Jobs of the Future?” and “Meet the Crowd: The Political Economies and Cultural Meaning of Digital Labor” (demonstration).
International Association of Media and Communications Research, July 15-19, Hyderabad, India
Distinguished Professor Emeritus David H. Weaver and professors Lars Willnat, “The American Journalist in the Digital Age: Changes in Demographics, Perceived Roles, Values and Attitudes 2002–2013.”
Professor Radhika Parameswaran, featured keynote speaker; presenter and panelist for “Feminist Media Research: The Next Generation.”
Professor Lars Willnat, “Opportunities and Challenges of Online Survey Research.”
Associate professor Mary Gray, “Making Sense of Crowdwork: A Grounded Approach to the Political Economies of Digital Labor.”
Lecturer Dennis Elliott and Ammina Kothari, PhD’12, “Acknowledging and Acting on SMS Health Messages: A Study of User Needs in Tanzania.”
Pacific Asian Communication Association Conference, June 24-26, Bandug, Indonesia
Professor Carolyn Calloway-Thomas, keynote speaker,“Empathy Matters: The Global Imperative.”
WebSci 14, June 23-26, Bloomington
Professor Emerita Christine Ogan, co-author, “Evolution of Online User Behavior During a Social Upheaval” are Onur Varol, Emilio Ferrara, Ogan, Filippo Menczer and Alessandro Flammini. This paper won the best paper award.
Dormitor Conference, June 21-25, University of Illinois
Professor Greg Waller, panelist, presenter, “Advertising and Visual Culture: The Case of International Harvester.”
Graduate student Andrew Uhrich, performer, reconstruction of a 1904 illustrated lecture with films and magic lantern slides, called “A Pictorial Story of Hiawatha.”
International Central and East European Media Conference, June 12-14, Wroclaw, Poland
Professor Emeritus David Weaver, keynote speaker, “Central and Eastern European Journalists in Comparative Perspective: Demographics, Working Conditions and Professional Values.”
FCC Future of Broadband Regulation workshop, May 30, Pennsylvania State University
Doctoral student Ryland Sherman, “The Future of Online Video” An Economic Perspective” with professor David Waterman and graduate student Yongwoog Jeon.
Sigma Play, May 23-24, Bloomington
Lecturer Will Emigh, organizer.
International Communication Association, May 22-26, Seattle
Distinguished Professor Annie Lang, co-author, “Available Resources as an Indicator of Brand Placement Processing”; co-author with doctoral student Sean Connolly, “Help! I’m Being Attacked by a Giant Word!”; “A Dynamic Human-Centered Conceptualization of Flow, Presence and Transportation States”; “Conceptualizing Combined Motivational Activation as the Mechanism Underlying Implicit Attitudes,” with co-authors master’s student Yijie (Camille) Wu and doctoral student Anthony Almond; “Encoding Systems, Biological Imperatives and Persuasion: Symbols Change Explicit and Representations Change Implicit Attitudes” with co-authors doctoral student Anthony Almond, master’s student Jingjing (Crystal) Han, graduate student Yongwoog Jeon, J. Liu and R. Kamhawi.
Professor Maria E. (Betsi) Grabe, co-author with doctoral candidate Ozen Bas and doctoral student Irene I. van Driel, “Defecting from The Gutenberg Legacy: Employing Images to Test Knowledge Gaps” and “Parsing Gender Gaps on News Memory Making and Decay.”
Professor Emerita Christine Ogan, panel, “Reinvigorating the Public Sphere in Turkey: The Gezi Park Social Movement.”
Professor Radhika Parameswaran, “Barriers to Regionalizing India in Media and Cultural Studies: The Resilience of Linguistic and Cultural Hegemony”; discussant, research panel in the feminist scholarship division; discussion leader, preconference, “Researching and Working in a Global/Transnational Context: Mentoring on Practical Considerations.”
Professors Lars Willnat and David Weaver, “The American Journalist in the Digital Age: A First Look.”
Associate professor Mike Conway, “‘Adventurous Laymen’ and a Berlin Wall Tunnel: Cold War Television, Documentaries and Journalism Boundary Work in the 1960s.”
Associate professor Robert Potter presented four papers: “Not THAT Again: Habituation of Multiple Repetitions of Identical Camera Changes,” with freshmen Ryann Seifers, Tori Ziege, doctoral student Anthony Almond and master’s student Niki Fritz; “Effects of Music Complexity and Intensity on Listener Attention and Arousal,” with co-author doctoral student Edgar (Ted) Jamison Koenig; “Pop Prosody: The Effect of Emotional Singer Inflections on Automatic Attention to Popular Music,” with co-authors by master’s student Yijie (Camille) Wu, Jiawei Liu and undergraduate Katie Krizan; , “The Effect of Familiarity on Automatic Attention to Expectancy Violations in Popular Songs,” with co-authors and doctoral student Glenna Read and graduate students Jingjing Han and Josh Sites.
Associate professor Andrew Weaver, “Narrative and Moral Perspective-Taking as Determinants of Players’ Antisocial Behavior,” with co-authors doctoral candidates Nicholas Matthews and Nicky Lewis, and undergraduate Fangxin Xu.
Associate professor Sung-Un Yang, “Will You Join Us? The Effects of Partake-in-Our-Cause (POIC) Messages in Corporate Social Responsibility Campaigns on the Evaluations of a Negatively Publicized Company” (co-author).
Assistant professor Elizabeth Ellcessor, “Hidden from View: Closed Captioning, Digital Labor, and Ideologies of Ability”; presented “Disability and Digital Distinction” at Digital Divide preconference.
Assistant professor Jessica Gall Myrick, “Moody News: The Impact of Collective Emotion Ratings on Online News Readers’ Attitudes, Memory and Behavioral Intentions” (co-author); “Testing a Social Cognitive Theory-Based Model of Indoor Tanning: Implications for Health Communication” (co-author).
Assistant professor Paul Wright, co-author, “Reexamining LGBT Resources on College Counseling Center Websites: An Over-Time and Cross Country Analysis”; “Built for Submission? Pornography Consumption and U.S. Adults’ Gender Attitudes Toward Women”; co-author, “Adults’ Pornography Consumption and Attitudes Toward Adolescents’ Access to Birth Control: A National Panel Study.”
Doctoral candidate Jihyang Choi and assistant professor Jae Kook Lee, “Investigating the Effects of News Sharing and Political Interest.”
Doctoral candidate Lindsay Ems, “From the Fence to the Switch: Calibrating the Amish Link to the Global Information Network.”
Doctoral candidate Daphna Yeshua-Katz received a top paper award.
Doctoral student Claudia Kozman, “Ten Years of Steroids in Baseball: A Study of News and Sports Issue Coverage.”
Doctoral student Yanqin Lu, “Democratic Potential of China’s Micro-Blogging Sites: Framing of News Media Posts and Civility of Comments.”
Doctoral student Rashad Mammadov, “Vision of Eurovision: Pre-Eurovision Visual Profiling of Azerbaijan and Sweden as a Reflection of Cultural Conflict between ‘East’ and ‘West.’”
Doctoral student Young Eun Park, “The Effects of Message Framing and Source Credibility in Cause-related Marketing.”
Cannes Film Festival, May 13-21, Cannes, France
Lecturer Norbert Herber with collaborator Katy Borner from IU Informatics presented “Humanexus: Knowledge and Communication Through the Ages.”