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Several Media School faculty and students received honors, presented their work, participated in panels or attended workshops at the International Communication Association international conference. Communicating with Power was June 9-13 in Fukuoka, Japan.

Those who attended or whose work was presented include:

Presentations:

• “Explicating Corporate Social Responsibility: Defining CSR and Suggesting Theoretical Models for Inquiry” and “Is It Worth It? Consumers’ Willingness to Pay for Socially Responsible Practices” (poster session),  assistant professor Nicholas Browning.
• “‘Never Quit, You’ll Be A Winner’: Athletes As Sources Of Emotional Social Support On Twitter,” Jan Boehmer and Michael North, both of the University of Miami, and assistant professor Galen Clavio.
• “From Cum Shots to Cunnilingus: The Agentic and Objectifying Scripts of Feminist and Mainstream Pornography,” doctoral student Niki Fritz.
• “Re-Conceptualizing Coping Styles as an Arousal-Based Motivational Bias During the Processing of Mediated Self-Threatening Messages,” graduate student Jingjing Han and Distinguished Professor Annie Lang.
• “Relationships Between Neural Patterns During Picture Priming and Creative Thinking During Electronic Brainstorming,” doctoral students Jingjing Han and William Liao, Randall Minas of the University of Hawaii at Mānoa, Alan Dennis of the Kelley School of Business and associate professor Rob Potter.
• “Effects of Musical Complexity and Intensity on Listener Emotion,” doctoral student Edgar Jamison-Koenig and associate professor Rob Potter.
• “Variation in Probe Tone Frequency Affects Secondary Task Reaction Time,” doctoral students Edgar Jamison-Koenig and Josh Sites.
• “The Influence of the Perception of Organizational Justice on Employee Engagement, Turnover Intention, and Employee Boosterism,” assistant professor Minjeong Kang and MinJung Sung of Chung-Ang, University of Korea.
• “Online Identity Practices Within Coercive Networks: The Case of Korean Mobile Instant Messenger KakaoTalk,” doctoral student Steffie Kim.
• “The Goals of Game Design and the Consequences for Games,” doctoral student Isaac Knowles.
• “Scared of the Dark: Examining Aversive Activation During a Virtual Navigation Task,” master’s student Joomi Lee and Distinguished Professor Annie Lang.
• “Examining Characteristics of Personality Measures in Physiological Responses During Emotional Stimuli and Risky Behaviors,” Satoko Kurita and Hirokata Fukushima of Mie University and Distinguished Professor Annie Lang.
• “Trail Motivational Activity Across the Life Cycle Predicts New Media Use,” Distinguished Professor Annie Lang and Paul Bolls of Texas Tech University.
• “Experiencing Games: Investigating What Influences the Adverse Effects of Game Violence,” doctoral students Nicholas Matthews, Teresa Lynch and Glenna Lee Read.
• “Cross-Cutting Exposure on Facebook and Political Participation: Unraveling the Effects of Emotions and Online Inclivity,” doctoral student Yanqin Lu and assistant professor Jessica Gall Myrick.
• “Likeminded News Exposure and Affective Polarization: Mediating Effects of Emotional Responses and Political Discussion,” doctoral student Yanqin Lu and associate professor Jae Kook Lee.
• “Experiencing Games: Investigating What Influences the Adverse Effects of Game Violence,” doctoral students Nicholas Matthews, Teresa Lynch and Glenna Read.
• “Unpacking Types of Turkish Diasporic Activism in Reaction to the Gezi Park Protests,” Leen S. J. d’Haenens and Roya Imani Giglou of Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, and Professor Emerita Christine Ogan.
• “Colorism, Racism, and Cyber-activism: The Affective Politics of South Asian Diasporic Narratives,” professor Radhika Parameswaran.
• “The Continuance of Orienting to Auditory Structural Features Presented in Natural Listening Conditions,” associate professor Rob Potter and doctoral students Edgar Jamison-Koenig, Josh Sites and Xia Zheng.
• “Playing Versus Watching a Sexualized Female Avatar Under Conditions of Cognitive Load,”  doctoral students Glenna Read, Teresa Lynch and Nicholas Matthews.
• “Electroencephalographic Responses to Gay Imagery in Advertising,” doctoral students Glenna Read and Irene Van Driel, and associate professor Rob Potter.
• “Mind the Gender Gap: Differences in Liking and Purchase Intention After Viewing Advertisements of Gay and Heterosexual Couples,”  doctoral students Glenna Read and Irene Van Driel, and associate professor Rob Potter.
• “It’s No Game: Testing if Generative Music Systems in Video Games Increase Flow in Players,” doctoral student Josh Sites.
• “Exploring Self-Presentation on Tinder,” doctoral students Stephen Stewart, Edgar Jamison-Koenig and Diana Sokolova.
• “Kawali Killers and Femme Fatales: How Japanese and U.S. Video Game Firms Communicate the Power of Female Characters,” doctoral students Jessica Tompkins, Teresa Lynch, Irene van Driel and Niki Fritz.
• “Measuring Public Mood and Public Opinion: An Empirical Example,” in the panel, “Kuuki, Public Mood and Other Similar Concepts and Their Significance,” Yue Tan, PhD’08 and Distinguished Professor Emeritus David Weaver.
• “Sexual Script in Online Sexually Explicit Materials: A Social Network Analysis,” doctoral student Yanyan Zhou.

Panel participants:

• “Advances in the Study of Science Communication” and “Just Games? Considering How Digital Games Can be More Than Entertainment” (preconference), doctoral student Teresa Lynch, chair.
• “Communicating Open Science: What the Communication Field Has to Offer to the Next Scientific Revolution,” doctoral students Nicholas Matthews and Teresa Lynch.
• “Africa, Globalization and Media,” professor Radhika Parameswaran, moderator.
• “Media, Conflicts, and Violence,” associate professor Rob Potter, chair.
• “Mind the Gender Gap: Differences in Liking and Purchase Intention After Viewing Advertisements of Gay and Heterosexual Couples” and “Electroencephalographic Responses to Gay Imagery in Advertising,” doctoral students Glenna Read and Irene van Driel, and associate professor Rob Potter, respondents for the panel presentation.
• “Journalistic Roles: Perception, Performance, Identity,” Distinguished Professor Emeritus David Weaver, chair.
• “Back to the Future: Implicit Attitudes as Expressions of Directional Behavioral Response,” Yijie Wu of Florida State University, doctoral student Anthony Almond and Distinguished Professor Annie Lang, respondents for panel presentation.

Honors:

• Work by master’s student Joomi Lee and Distinguished Professor Annie Lang was selected for the Best Papers session in Information Systems division. Their paper is “Scared of the Dark: Examining Aversive Activation During a Virtual Navigation Task.”
• “Variation in Probe Tone Frequency Affects Secondary Task Reaction Time,” by doctoral students Edgar Jamison-Koenig and Josh Sites, was named a Promising Student Paper in the Information Systems division.

Several Media School alumni also attended the conference, including Paul David Bolls, PhD’99, University of Missouri; Satoko Kurita, PhD’09, Mie University, Japan; Yue Tan, PhD’08, Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan; Nicky Lewis, PhD’15, University of Miami; Yijie Wu, MA’15, Florida State University.

About the conference:

The annual gathering brings together ICA members and scholars to hear and present interdisciplinary research on emerging issues and topics. The theme this year, Communicating with Power, looked at how politically charged communication through media affects democracy and the lives of others.