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Several Media School faculty and students will receive honors, present their work, participate in panels or attend workshops at the next International Communication Association international conference. Communicating with Power is set for June 9-13 in Fukuoka, Japan.

Those who will attend or whose work will be 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,” by assistant professor Nicholas Browning.
• “From Cum Shots to Cunnilingus: The Agentic and Objectifying Scripts of Feminist and Mainstream Pornography,” by doctoral student Niki Fritz.
• “Re-Conceptualizing Coping Styles as an Arousal-Based Motivational Bias During the Processing of Mediated Self-Threatening Messages,” by graduate student Jingjing Han and Distinguished Professor Annie Lang.
• “Relationships Between Neural Patterns During Picture Priming and Creative Thinking During Electronic Brainstorming,” by 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.
• “Variation in Probe Tone Frequency Affects Secondary Task Reaction Time,” by doctoral students Edgar Jamison-Koenig and Josh Sites.
• “Scared of the Dark: Examining Aversive Activation During a Virtual Navigation Task,” by former master’s student Joomi Lee and Distinguished Professor Annie Lang.
• “Examining Characteristics of Personality Measures in Physiological Responses During Emotional Stimuli and Risky Behaviors,” by Satoko Kurita and Hirokata Fukushima of Mie University and Distinguished Professor Annie Lang.
• “Trail Motivational Activity Across the Life Cycle Predicts New Media Use,” by Distinguished Professor Annie Lang and Paul Bolls of Texas Tech University.
• “Cross-Cutting Exposure on Facebook and Political Participation: Unraveling the Effects of Emotions and Online Inclivity,” by doctoral student Yanqin Lu and assistant professor Jessica Gall Myrick.
• “Likeminded News Exposure and Affective Polarization: Mediating Effects of Emotional Responses and Political Discussion,” by doctoral student Yanqin Lu and associate professor Jae Kook Lee.
• “Experiencing Games: Investigating What Influences the Adverse Effects of Game Violence,” by doctoral students Nicholas Matthews, Teresa Lynch and Glenna Read.
• “The Continuance of Orienting to Auditory Structural Features Presented in Natural Listening Conditions,” by 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,” by doctoral students Glenna Read, Teresa Lynch and Nicholas Matthews.
• “Electroencephalographic Responses to Gay Imagery in Advertising,” by 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,” by doctoral students Glenna Read and Irene Van Driel, and associate professor Rob Potter.
• “Kawali Killers and Femme Fatales: How Japanese and U.S. Video Game Firms Communicate the Power of Female Characters,” by doctoral students Jessica Tompkins, Teresa Lynch, Irene van Driel and Niki Fritz.
• “Sexual Script in Online Sexually Explicit Materials: A Social Network Analysis,” by doctoral student Yanyan Zhou.

Panel participants:

• “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.
• “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:

• Former master’s student Joomi Lee and Distinguished Professor Annie Lang have been selected for the Best Papers session in Information Systems division for their paper, “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.

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, looks at how politically charged communication through media affects democracy and the lives of others.

In the call for papers, the ICA suggested these issues that would serve the theme:

• The social and psychological uses and effects of video games, simulations and virtual environments in general;
• The cultural affordances, uses, and meanings of games, simulations and virtual environments;
• Games, simulations, and VEs as training or instructional media;
• Comparative media analyses involving games, simulations or other virtual environments;
• Human-computer interaction in games, simulations and virtual environments;
• Design research in the context of games, simulations and virtual environments;
• Users’ motivations and emotional, cognitive and psychophysiological experiences in games, simulations and virtual environments.