Gena Asher | Feb. 25, 2010
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The theme of the conference, set for June 26-28, is "Matters of Communication: Political, cultural and technological challenges." Of the record number of submissions, the ICA accepted just over half, according to the organizers.
The conference is the ICA's platform for presenting scholarly work in the area of human communication. ICA has 4,200 members in 80 countries, and conference attendees represent many areas of communication.
Here's a list of School of Journalism participants:
- Associate professor Radhika Parameswaran has organized a panel that has been accepted for the plenary session at ICA. This panel "Im/material Principles/Material Practices: The Women's Movement and its Media in Asia" will feature presenters from India, Singapore, Philippines and Malaysia.
She also will be a presenter on the panel "Becoming the Model Political Woman: Female as Media Spectacle and National Commodity" and a discussant for two other research panels, one on race and representation and the other on Bollywood and India's soft power in the global public sphere.
Parameswaran's paper "The Rise of China and India: Opportunities for the U.S. Communications Academy" has been accepted for presentation in the ICA preconference "Chindia Challenge to Global Communication," June 22. - Associate professor Jim Kelly’s paper, "The Presidential Image in News Photographs: Differences in Portrayals of Presidents Obama and Bush," has been accepted for presentation. His co-author is Yung Soo Kim of the University of Kentucky.
- Assistant professor Mike Conway and alumnus Jacob Groshek (Ph.D. ‘08) are authors of “The Effectiveness of the Pervasive Method in Ethics Pedagogy: A Longitudinal Study of Journalism and Mass Communication Students," which has been accepted in the journalism studies division.
- Assistant professor Jae Kook Lee’s paper, "Agenda-setting effects of incidental exposure to political information on the Internet," has been accepted for presentation at International Communication Association's conference in June.
- Assistant professor Emily Metzgar lead author of “Defining Hyperlocal Mediad; Proposing a framework for discussion” with David Kurpius and Karen Rowley, both of Louisiana State University. She will present the paper at the ICA conference. Metzgar also will serve as chair and respondent for a session in the political communication division focused on the public sphere.
- Doctoral student Yunjuan Luo,’s paper, "The issue agendas of China's rural-urban migration in the new century: A content analysis of the People's Daily, 2000-2009," has been accepted for presentation
- Doctoral student Seong Choul Hong’s two research papers have been accepted for presentation. "Wikipedia and its Participatory Characteristics" was accepted in Communication and Technology Division. "Intermedia Frame Building: The U.S. beef import case in South Korea" was selected in Journalism Studies Division. This paper was written by Seong Choul Hong and fellow doctoral student ChangHee Choi.
- Doctoral student Mohammed al-Azdee has two papers accepted to the conference: “Investigation of U.S. Public Diplomacy in Iraq and Cuba in Terms of Sawa and Marti” and “Nuclear Facility Episodic Storytelling Themes in Syrian Press Coverage: A Content – Textual Analysis.”
- Graduate student Rich Powell is co-author of a paper to be presented at the conference. "Red or Blue? The use of dichotomous colors in news coverage” was written with telecommunications graduate students Asta Zelenkauskaite and Ya Gao and is a Top Student Paper.
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