Common Ground features student research, creative activity
The Media School Graduate Association hosted its annual Common Ground conference last Saturday in Franklin Hall. The 2023 conference’s theme was “Fostering Community, Scholarship, and Creativity.”
With this year’s theme, the conference welcomed submissions that considered media, analyzed its impact on the public sphere, democratization, or individual communities, or told a story about oneself or one’s community.
Below is a list of students and their presentations:
- Anna Stamm, “Outward Projections and Interior Expressions: Local Television Identity from 1955 to 1975”
- Cole Nelson, “Abeng in Context: The Guerilla Intellectual Reads the Paper”
- Kristin Wells, “Olympic Podium to NFL Sideline: A Comparative Analysis of the Media infrastructure Of Two Protests”
- Shobha S V, “Precarious Labor and Feminist Solidarity: Notes from a Journalistic Field in India”
- Meredith Hemphill, “An Investigation of OB/GYN Healthcare in U.S. Prisons (snappy headline TBD)”
- Kate Stewart, “A Content Analysis of Puberty Depictions in Popular Coming-of-age Movies”
- Daniella Carrera, “Complicating Latinidad and Sexuality in Reggaetón”
- Alex Brannan, “Artificial Intelligence: Human-Machine Imaginaries within the Professional Chess Community”
- Neil Ni, “Appetitive and Aversive Motivation in PACMAN Game”
- Kristin Wells, “The Little 500 Sit-In and the IU Ten: Sport and Activism in Indiana History”
- Jimmy Ochieng, “Visual Representation of Presidential Candidates in Kenya”
- Kevin Mudavadi, “Social Media and Agenda-Setting in Kenya’s Pre-2022 General Elections”
- Aditya Sahasrabudhe, “Content Priming: A Means to Enhance Viewers’ Engagement and Emotional Arousal WhileConsuming Media Content”
- McCall Booth and Aditya Sahasrabudhe, “Music and Emotion: Audience Engagement and Experience with Emotional Music”
- Yuki (Yuxian) Lin, “In Control of Your Own Narrative: Exploring How Meaningfulness of Interactive Choices Affect Arousal in Interactive Video”
Assistant professor, Lisa Lenoir delivered the keynote address at the beginning of the conference. Screenings of documentary films with Vlada Lodesk, Bruno Dariva, and Ibrahim Odugbemi, and a roundtable on global film cultures with Vlada Lodesk, Bruno Dariva, Ibrahim Odugbemi, Narmeen Ijaz, and Khurram Sheikh were also held in the afternoon.
