Media School scholars to present, participate at ICA conference
Several Media School faculty and students will present their work, participate in panels or attend workshops at the next International Communication Association international conference. Communication Across the Life Span is set for May 21-25 in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Some will receive honors.
- Professor Radhika Parameswaran will receive the Teresa Award for the Advancement of Feminist Scholarship.
- “Is There a Sign for That? Media, American Sign Language Interpretation and the Paradox of Visibility,” by assistant professor Elizabeth Elcessor, won top paper, Popular Communication.
- “Audience Susceptibility to the Negative Effects of Celebrity-Based Dietary Misinformation: Mechanisms and Remedies,” by assistant professor Jessica Gall Myrick, was a top paper entry, Health Communication Media Effects.
Presentations:
“Trait Motivation Activation as a Predictor of Neural Activity During Emotional Image Processing on a Large-Screen TV,” student Anthony Almond, Institute for Communication Research lab manager Sharon Mayell, associate professor Rob Potter.
“Young Scholars Preconference on Visual Methods,” preconference panel discussion, student Ozen Bas, participant.
“Gender Differences in Memory for Social and Inanimate Visuals in a Mediated Environment in Research Exploring Individual Differences,” student Irene van Driel, Mariska Kleemans (Radboud University Nijmegen), student Ozen Bas, professor Maria Elizabeth Grabe.
“The Participatory Potential of Emotional Personalization in News,” student Ozen Bas, professor Maria Elizabeth Grabe.
“Narrative, Autobiographical Memory and Emotion: Intersections of Memory, Emotion and Meaning as Constructed via Modality,” interactive paper session with students Stephanie Brehe and Edgar Jamison-Koenig.
“‘The Necessary Restraints of National Security’: Cold War U.S. Government-Journalism Negotiations and the Communist Reaction,” associate professor Mike Conway, Kevin Grieves (PhD’09), Ohio University.
“Notes From the Field: Living With Colonialism and Environmental Injustice in Puerto Rico,” student Kathleen de Onis.
“Satire as Counter-Discourse: Dissent, Cultural Citizenship and Youth Culture in Morocco,” student Mohamed El Marzouki.
“Online Political Satire and Practices of Cultural Citizenship in Morocco,” interactive poster session, student Mohamed El Marzouki.
“Freedom of Information Laws as Symbols of Modernization: Chile’s Transparency Law,” associate professor Anthony Fargo, panel presentation.
“The Arc of Sports Fanship,” professor Walter Gantz and student Nicky Lewis.
“Glocalization and Networked Individualism: Mixed Findings From a Low-Income Neighborhood Text Intervention on Health and Cohesion,” assistant professor Amy Gonzales.
“Civil Discussions or Partisan Rants? Comment Interactivity on Online News Websites,” student Kyle Heatherly.
“The Headless and Feckless in Obesity Messages,” students Yongwoog Jeon and Minchul Kim, associate professor Rob Potter.
“Motivation, Social Media Type and Network Heterogeneity,” student Cheonsoo Kim, associate professor Jae Kook Lee. This paper is a project of the school’s Communications Research Group.
“Investigative Reporting and FOI: How Journalists Use and View Public Access Laws,” assistant professor Gerry Lanosga (panel discussion).
“Examining the Utilization of Social Media by Nongovernmental Organizations for Dialogic Communication: A Study of Chinese NGOs’ Weibo Use,” Xinyu Lu (MA’14), associate professor Sung-Un Yang.
“Fight, Flight or Just Feasting Your Eyes?” student Teresa Lynch.
“Minitel and the State,” assistant professor Julien Mailland, Kevin Driscoll (Microsoft Research).
“Media Choice in the Times of Uncertainty: Media Richness Theory as a Predictor of Media Choice in Greece in the Times of Political and Economic Crisis,” student Rashad Mammadov, associate professor Sung-Un Yang.
“Gritty or Glamorous? A Content Analysis of Teen Parenthood in Teen Mom Reality Programming,” assistant professor Nicole Martins and students Mona Malacane, Nicky Lewis, Ashley Kraus.
“Watching the Middle Kingdom: American Reactions to CCTV America,” associate professor Emily Metzgar.
“An Empirical Analysis of Indoor Tanners: Implications for Audience Segmentation in Campaigns,” assistant professor Jessica Gall Myrick, third author.
“Computer-Mediated Communication,” assistant professor Jessica Gall Myrick, chair, interactive paper session.
“The Ties That Bind the Diaspora to Turkey and Europe During the Gezi Protests,” Professor Emeritus Christine Ogan, Roya Imani Giglou (KU Leuven), Leen S. J. d’Haenens (Catholic U., Leuven).
“Shaming the Indian Nation on Television: Barkha Dutt Tackles Beauty and Colorism on ‘We the People,'” professor Radhika Parameswaran.
“Protest, Parody and Patriarchy: Rape and the Culture of Victim-Blaming in India,” professor Radhika Parameswaran.
“The Power of Negative Thinking: Positive Role of Guilt and Luxury Brand’s CSR in Consumer Decision-Making Process,” student Young Eun Park, associate professor Sung-Un Yang, Hyunsang Son (Texas) and student Zachary Vaughn.
“That’s So OCD: The Effects of Disease Trivialization via Social Media on User Perceptions and Impression Formation,” student Rachelle Pavelko.
“Tweeting and Trivializing: How the Trivialization of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder via Social Media Impacts User Perceptions, Emotions and Behaviors,” student Rachelle Pavelko, assistant professor Jessica Gall Myrick.
“Do Psychophysiological Responses to Gay Imagery in Advertising Predict Consumer Behavior Better Than Self-Reported Responses?” students Glenna Read, Irene van Driel and Yongwoog Jeon, associate professor Rob Potter.
“Melodic Variations to Stimulate Your Attention. How Pitch Variations Can Improve Effectiveness, Arousal and Recognition of an Audio Message,” visiting scholar Emma Rodero, associate professor Rob Potter.
“What is an algorithm?” associate professor Ted Striphas.
“Framing HIV/AIDS: A Longitudinal Study of Chinese Wire News From 1985 to 2012,” student Jing Su.
“Playing With History: Historiographic Gameplay and Design,” student Jessica Tompkins.
“Journalism and Mass Communication Education in the United States: Past, Present and Future,” Professor Emeritus David Weaver, professor Lars Willnat.
Respondents:
“Examining Mediated Sport: Top Papers in the Sports Interest Group,” professor Walter Gantz, respondent for the panel presentation.
“Children, Adolescents and Media: Research Escalator 2,” assistant professor Nicole Martins, respondent for the panel discussion.
Chairs:
“The State and the Infrastructure,” associate professor Mike Conway, chair.
“Rhetorical Filters and Politics of the State,” assistant professor Elizabeth Ellcessor, chair.
“Online Harassment and Victimization,” student Teresa Lynch, chair.
“Algorithms, Public Culture and Platform Responsibility,” associate professor Ted Striphas, chair.
“From Hook Up to Pregnancy: Sex, Sexuality and Media,” student Jessica Tompkins, chair.
“The Study of Media Violence and Graphic Content,” associate professor Andrew Weaver, chair.
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, Communication Across the Life Span, focuses on how communication expectations shift through life as demands and needs change. This progression may not be solely linear and age-related, but also may encompass cultural or social transitions.
In the call for papers, the ICA suggested these issues as those that would serve the theme:
- Intergenerational communication across cultures
- Generational differences in the adoption of communication technologies
- Experiences of inequalities over the life span
- Interpersonal communication within and/or between life stages
- Social media use and identity development
- Cradle-to-grave marketing and consumer identity
- Life stage considerations for health promotion campaign design
- The implications of changing age contours in the workforce
- Appropriate methods, both quantitative and qualitative, needed for capturing change across time
- Questioning the expectation in communication research that life span trajectories are singular and progressive
- Political interest, engagement and participation across the life span
- The social construction of “childhood,” “middle age” and “the elderly” in popular culture
The full schedule of events reflect many of these suggested themes. It is searchable by day, presenter or topic.