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Several faculty members’ and doctoral students’ work will be featured at the upcoming International Communication Association conference in Chicago May 21-25, and others will receive awards and chair panels.

Here are some highlights:

Associate professor Radhika Parameswaran is one of the organizers of a preconference program, India and Communication Studies, May 20-21. She also will receive a Top Faculty Research Paper Award for "E-raceing Color: Gender and Transnational Visual Economies of Beauty in India," from the Ethnicity and Race in Communication Division of the International Communication Association. She will present her paper May 23.






Roy W. Howard Professor David H. Weaver will serve as a moderator and discussant for a panel on "Stability and Change in German Journalism" sponsored by the German Communication Association.

He’ll also serve as a panelist in a session, "New Directions for Journalistic Role Research," sponsored by the Mass Communication Division. He’ll talk about research on journalistic roles at different levels of analysis from our surveys of U.S. journalists from 1982 to 2007.



Weaver and professor Lars Willnat wills serve as panelists in a session on “Domestic and Foreign TV Coverage of the 2008 U.S. Presidential Primaries: A Comparative Analysis of Agenda Setting and Framing,” sponsored by the Political Communication Division of ICA. Willnat organized this session.










Professor emerita Chris Ogan will serve as chair for the panel, "Public Service Media: Protecting the Public Interest in the Digital Environment." Her paper, “Can Turkish Women in the Diaspora Build Social Capital? Evidence from the Netherlands and Belgium," was accepted by the Ethnicity and Race Division. She wrote the paper with colleague Leen d’Haenens of the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, where Ogan spent the fall semester teaching and doing research at the Center for Media Culture and Communication Technology.





Associate professor Jim Kelly is co-author of a paper, "Reader Reactions toward an Ethical Dilemma Faced by Photojournalists: Examining the Conflict between Acting as a Dispassionate Observer and Acting as a “Good Samaritan," accepted for presentation at the conference. The paper’s lead author, Yung Soo Kim, was Kelly’s doctoral student who now is assistant professor at the University of Kentucky.







Assistant professor Lesa Hatley Major will present research funded by the Arthur W. Page Society at the ICA Health Communication Division. The title of the study is "Ethical Health Communication: A content analysis of predominant themes in public service advertisements." Her co-author on this piece is Renita Coleman, University of Texas at Austin.








Lori (Des Rochers) Lopez, M.A. ’08, also will receive a Top Student Paper Award from the Ethnicity and Race Division. Her paper, "The Yellow Press: Asian American Radicalism and Conflict in Gidra," is drawn from her thesis completed at the School of Journalism, advised by Parameswaran, and from a class paper she wrote in assistant professor Mike Conway’s history of journalism seminar.





For the second year in a row, doctoral student Jeff Cannon has two papers accepted, “Advertising in the Alternative Media Field of Production,” in the Journalism Studies Division, and “Story Branding in the News: Recurring Folio Banners and the Visual Grouping of Persistent Disaster Stories,” in the Visual Communication Studies Division.











Doctoral student Spring-Serenity Duvall’s paper, "Dying for Our Sins: Christian Salvation Rhetoric in Celebrity Colonialism," was accepted to the Global Communication and Social Change division.










Doctoral student Seong Choul Hong has three papers accepted for presentation at ICA.

The first, "Propaganda Leaflets and Cold War Frames during the Korean War," was accepted for the Communication History Division, where it was named one of the top three student papers in that division. This paper analyzed and compared the main themes of propaganda leaflets, which had been distributed during the Korean Wars (1950-1953), in terms of message senders such as Communists and U.S allies.

Second, "Rethinking the Impact of Real-World Conditions on Media Agenda-Setting" was accepted in the Journalism Studies Division. The paper investigated the relationships between the real world conditions of four issue characters and on news reporting of the New York Times and the three TV networks.

Third, "Scare Sell? A Framing Analysis of News Coverage of the Recalled Chinese Products" was accepted in Global Communication and Social Change. The paper analyzed how U.S. media and Chinese media differently reported the recalled Chinese goods in 2007.




Doctoral student Gerry Lanosga’s paper, "The Outsourcing of Investigative Reporting in American News Media: An Agenda Setting Study," was accepted for presentation at ICA on a panel devoted to the well-being of investigative reporting around the world. The paper is about the increasing array of non-journalistic or quasi-journalistic interest groups that produce investigative projects that wind up in some form on the pages of American newspapers.








Doctoral student Yunjuan Luo’s paper, "Agenda-building: Web site campaigning, newspaper coverage and candidate stereotypes in the 2008 democratic presidential campaign," has been accepted for presentation at Political Communication Division.










Doctoral student Jason Martin has been awarded a travel grant by the International Communication Association. The award will cover some of the cost of attending and presenting at conference. Martin’s paper "Agenda Setting Online: Interaction of Media and Internet User Feedback" was accepted by the ICA Journalism Studies Division.