Gena Asher | Jan. 16, 2011
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Professor Emerita Chris Ogan will serve on a panel, “From offline to online and back: explaining children’s experiences of risk of harm from online activities,” at ICA. The panel is organized and led by Sonia Livingstone, London School of Economics.
Ogan’s part of the panel covers “Is there a Digital Divide between EU Kids in Richer and Poorer Countries?” and includes information from the first wave of data from the EU Kids Online Project.
Associate professor Radhika Parameswaran will present her research paper, "Visualizing India in Animal Avatars: Emerging Signs of an Unruly Market," has been accepted for presentation in the Visual Communication Division of ICA 2011. Her research assistants were doctoral students Sangwon Park and Lily Luo.
In addition, she will serve as a discussant for a panel in the Feminist Scholarship Division and make presentations on three other research panels:
- Mapping Tensions and Limits of Multiculturalism in the Context of Globalization (Global Communication and Social Change Division)
- Gendered Trans/national Spaces and Media Assemblages (Feminist Scholarship Division)
- Global Oprah and the Politics of Gender, Race, and Class (Popular Communication Division)
Other authors include:
- Doctoral candidate Lori Henson, whose, "The Prophet and the Press: Images of Barack Obama by American Civil Religion’s Journalistic Priesthood," has been selected by the Visual Communication Division. The paper is based on a chapter of her dissertation, which she plans to defend in the spring. Her dissertation chair is associate professor Radhika Parameswaran.
- Doctoral student Mohammed Al-Azdee, whose paper, “Decomposing the Systemic Failure: Mediation Regression Modeling of The New York Times Coverage of the Underwear Bombing Attempt,” will be presented in the Mass Communication Division of the conference. This paper also received a 2011 Top Student Paper Award from the Mass Communication Division. Al-Azdee produced the first research design of this study during assistant professor Lesa Hatley Major's J600 Quantitative Methods in Mass Communications Research in spring 2010.
Also, the Graduate Student Conference has accepted his dissertation proposal, “The Crisis of Media Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics in Turbulent Open Societies – Case Iraq: An Analysis of Interventions in the Post-Saddam Media,” for presentation May 26. - Doctoral student Jessica Birthisel, who will present two projects in the Children, Adolescents and the Media Division.
- The first is a project titled “Beyond Snips and Snails: How Parenting Magazine Advertisements Present Boy Culture to Mothers.”
- A second project, “Responding to a National Emergency: The Post-9/11 Construction of Responsible Boyhood in Boys’ Life Magazine” is part of a panel titled “Innocence Lost: Mapping Social Tensions of Youth, Sexuality, and Moral Responsibility on Girlhood and Boyhood in Contemporary Media Frames.” The panel also features alumnae Spring Duvall, PhD’10, and Leigh Moscowitz, PhD’08.
- Doctoral student Jaesik Ha, whose three papers have been accepted:
- In the Communication and Technology Division, "Potential and Limitations of E-mail as a Learning-Enhancing Medium in the Classroom: Comparing “E-mail” and “Face-to-Face” Contact Between Teachers and Students."
- In the Political Communication Division, "Healthcare Reform and Presidential Evaluation: Attribute Agenda-Setting and Priming," with second author Sei-Hill Kim, associate professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communications, University of South Carolina.
- Journalism Studies Division: "Horse Race or Policy? An analysis of South Korean newspaper coverage of 2008 U.S. presidential election," with second author Uche Onyebadi, assistant professor, School of Journalism, Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
- Doctoral student Kioko Ireri, whose paper, "A Study of Newspaper Columnists' Framing Role in Kenyan Politics," will be presented in the Political Communication Division. The paper was developed and completed during assistant professor Lesa Hatley Major's J600 Quantitative Methods in Mass Communications Research in spring 2010.
- Doctoral student Stacie Meihaus Jankowski, who will present "Framing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Look at Twenty Years of Television News Coverage" in the Health Communication Division. Her co-authors are assistant professor Lesa Hatley Major and alumna Jessica Gall Myrick, MA’07, who now is a doctoral student at the University of North Carolina.
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