Conference Presentations 2008-2009
Arsenault, A. (2008). Media assistance and public diplomacy: An analysis of potential synergies. Paper presented to the National Communication Conference. November 21-24, 2008. San Diego, CA.
Arsenault, A. (2008). American media assistance 2.0: The role of ICTs in United States government media assistance programs. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference. May 22-26, 2008. Montreal, Canada.
Arsenault, A. (2008). Coordination and control: Mapping United States government global media & communication strategies in Southern Africa. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference. May 22-26, 2008. Montreal, Canada.
Arzumanova, I. (2008). Dancing and romancing in a vision of post-racial America. Mongrel America Conference. University of Texas, Austin, TX
Arzumanova, I. (2009). Club Swirl. 2009 Pop Conference at EMP/SFM. Seattle, WA. (April 16th, 2009).
Belanger, P., Gilbert, K. & Goodnight, G. T. (2009). The apologies of Australia, Canada and the United States to historically subjugated peoples: On argumentation, reconciliation, and forgiveness. Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation. University of Windsor, Windsor, ON.
Belanger, P. (2008). Science/fiction: The conflation of entertainment and technical spheres. National Communication Association Annual Conference. San Diego, CA.
Belanger, P. (2008). Security and peace: Canadian national tropes and the war in Afghanistan. Canadian Communication Association Annual Conference. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.
Boser, B. L. (2009). The rhetorical evolution of Nelson Mandela. Western States Communication Association (WSCA) Conference. Mesa, AZ.
Boser, B. L. (2009, Upcoming). Attempting (re)stabilization: Sarah Palin’s politics of American nationalism. National Communication Association (NCA) Conference. Chicago, IL.
Broad, G., Gonzalez, C. & Villaneuva, G. (2009). Academics as advocates: Promoting positive storytelling through community-based research. Local Media For Social Change - A Southern California Regional Summit. Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA.
Brough, M. (2008). Online Video and symbolic politics: YouTube and Burma’s saffron revolution. OurMedia 7 Conference: Identity, Inclusion, Innovation. Accra, Ghana.
Mobile Voices (multiple authors, 2009). Mobile Voices: A Mobile, Open Source, Popular Communication Platform for First-Generation Immigrants in Los Angeles. ICA. Chicago, IL.
Brough, M. & Li, Z. (forthcoming, July 2009). Human rights advocacy and online video from a media systems dependency perspective: A comparison of Burma’s 2007 'Saffron Revolution' and the WITNESS hub video portal initiative. IAMCR. Mexico City, Mexico.
Brough, M. (forthcoming, July 2009). Mobile voices: An analysis of participatory design for popular communication and social change. IAMCR. Mexico City, Mexico.
Frank, L. B., Monge, P. R., Durham, A., & Chatterjee, J. S. (2009, March). Lending practices among rural Ecuadorian women. Paper presented at the International Network for Social Network Analysis Sunbelt Conference. San Diego, CA.
Chávez, C. (2008). Beyond the binary: A meaning based approach to Spanish language advertising. Paper to be presented to the National Communication Association Conference. San Diego, CA. Selected as one of the Top Papers in the Latina/o Studies interest group.
Chávez, C. & Ball-Rokeach, S. (2008). Catholic parishes as sites of discursive interaction. Paper presented at the National Communication Association Conference. San Diego, CA.
Chen, N.-T. (2008). Primed by supersize: Examining the attitudinal effects of Super Size Me through priming. Paper presented the Annual Conference of the National Communication Association. San Diego, CA.
Chen, N.-T. (2009). Communicating emerging infectious diseases in globalized society: A case study of WHO’s SARS discourse. Paper to be presented the Annual Conference of the International Communication Association. Chicago, IL.
Ball-Rokeach, S., Parks, Chen, N.-T., Usher, N., Dong, F., Huang, J. & Carillo, W. (2008). The potential and challenges for trilingual local journalism: A community-based approach. Paper to be presented the Centers and Peripheries Conference. Glasgow, Scotland.
Wang, H., Chung, J. E., Park, N., McLaughlin, M. L., & Fulk, J. (2009). A technology acceptance model of online community participation. Paper to be presented at the Annual Conference of the National Communication Association (NCA). Chicago, IL. November 12-15, 2009.
Chung, J. E. (2009). Serious games, changes, and theories: Understanding mechanisms of how serious games work. Paper to be presented at the Annual Conference of the National Communication Association (NCA). Chicago, IL. November 12-15, 2009.
Ratan, R. A., Chung, J. E., Shen, C., Foucault, B., & Poole, M. S. (2009). Schmoozing and smiting: Trust and communication patterns in an MMO. Paper to be presented at the Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA). Chicago, IL. May 21-25, 2009.
McLaughlin, M. L., Frank, L. B., Chung, J. E., Pan, S., Phua, J., Sen, N, & Wang, H. (2009). Modes of online health information acquisition. Paper to be presented at the Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA). Chicago, IL. May 21-25, 2009.
Chung, J. E., Pan, S., Huh, S., & McLaughlin, M. (2008). Serious games for older adults: Critical issues and available examples. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the National Communication Association (NCA). San Diego. CA. November 21-24, 2008.
Chung, J. E., Shen, C., Xiong, L., & Williams, D. (2008). Pwn the mob, noob: Chat, grouping and trust within MMOs. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the National Communication Association (NCA). San Diego. CA. November 21-24, 2008.
Costanza-Chock, S. (2008). New social movements in the network society: Implications for democratic processes. Invited presenter, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency conference, Big Brother and Empowered Sisters: The Role of New Technologies in Democratic Processes. Uppsala, Sweden.
Costanza-Chock, S. (2008). Free and open source video tools. Transmission Asia-Pacific. Sukabumi, Indonesia.
Costanza-Chock, S. (2008). Popular communication on the Net. Invited panelist, Funding Exchange Annual Conference. Los Angeles, CA.
Costanza-Chock, S. (2008). E-communication strategies for organizers: What works. Invited panelist, Liberty Hill Foundation. Los Angeles, CA.
Costanza-Chock, S. & Garces, A. (2008).Communication for social change methodology with garment workers and day laborers in Los Angeles. Paper presented at the Social Science Research Council grantees convening. Philadelphia, PA.
Dong, F. (2008). Blogsphere in China: From onlin communication to self-presentation. National Communication Association Conference. San Diego, CA.
Mendoza, K., Felt, L., Chiarello, C., & Randall, R. (2009). Media literacy and parents: Building bridges with moms and dads. National Association for Media Literacy Education Biannual Conference. Detroit, MI.
Murphy, S. T., Frank, L. B., Moran, M., & Woodley, P. (2009, May). Involved, transported or emotional? Exploring the determinants of change in knowledge, attitudes, and behavior, in entertainment education. Paper to be presented at the International Communication Associate Conference. Chicago, IL.
Frank, L. B., Murphy, S. T., & Cody, M. (2008, October). Public perception of likelihood of and response to a terrorist attack: Assessing the effects of the Homeland Security Advisory System. Paper presented at the American Public Health Association Conference. San Diego, CA.
Frank, L. B., Monge, P. R., & Murphy, S. T. (2008, May). The role of exposure to and trust in media in determining health beliefs and behaviors. High density paper and poster session presented at the International Communication Association Conference, Montreal, Canada.
Chatterjee, J. S., Bhanot, A., Frank, L. B., Murphy, S. T., & Sen, N. (2008, May). Jasoos Vijay: A model of knowledge, attitude, discussion, and self-efficacy, and behavior. Paper presented at the International Communication Associate Conference. Montreal, Canada.
Gillespie, R. (2008). Resistance is submission: Love, subject(ion) and the unconventional in the age of global capitalism. Competitive paper presented at National Communication Association Conference. San Diego, CA.
Gillespie, R. (2008). Why do activists want to tell the other side that they are wrong?: A psychic approach to communication as a tool for social change, nationalism, and the spectre of the whole. Competitive paper presented at Central States Communication Association Conference. Madison, WI.
González, C. & Moreno, M. (2008). Exploring black-brown relations in South Los Angeles: CBOs as bridging agents. International Communication Association Conference. Montreal, Canada.
Ball-Rokeach, S. J. & González, C. (2008). Bridging scholars/activist divides in the field of communication. International Communication Association Conference. Montreal, Canada.
Gould, J. J. (2009). The impact of disruptive environmental events on patterns of organizational partnerships. Sunbelt Social Networks Conference. San Diego, CA. March 2009.
Schuh, J. S., Chatterjee, J., & Gould, J. J. (2009). Transactive memory systems within the entertainment education context: Extending the study of interpersonal communication in relation to mass media and social change. International Communication Association. Chicago, IL.
Fulk, J., & Gould, J. J. (2008). Social dilemmas and motivation to contribute in social software-based communities: Lessons from collective action theory in the contemporary online environment. International Workshop on Distributed Learning and Collaboration, “Participation and personalization: The main factors of social software”. Tubingen, Germany.
Hanan D. E. R. (2008). 'No-limits' entertainment: Capital, queer ideology and the construction of gender variance in English-language subscription cable. National Communication Association’s 94th Annual Convention. San Diego, CA.
Hanan D. E. R. (2008). Harvesting transgressive, normative, and bourgeois pleasures in Showtime’s 'The L-Word'. Console-ing Passions International Conference on Television Audio, Video, New Media and Feminism. Santa Barbara, CA.
Heiss, B. M. (2008, May). Genealogies as communicative artifacts of organizational community transformation: Tracing organizational form evolution from a community perspective. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the International Communication Association. Montreal, Canada.
Hether, H. J., & Valente, T. W. (2009, March). An analysis of social support and social capital on a health-related social networking site. Paper presented at the 24th International Network for Social Network Analysis Conference. San Diego, CA.
Huh, S. (2008). Video game genre and other factors mediating addiction. 94th National Communication Association Annual Convention. San Diego, CA. November, 2008.
Huh, S. (2009). Video games are still boys’ toy. It’s who they are, not how they process. 95th National Communication Association Annual Convention. Chicago, IL. November, 2009. (expected)
Kelly, S. (2008, July). Women and passing in online games. Paper presented at Games, Learning & Society. Madison, WI.
Kelly, S. (2008, November). Virtually memorializing: A rhetorical criticism of the 9/11 memorial in Second Life. Paper presented at the National Communication Association 94th Annual Convention. San Diego, CA.
Kelly, S. (2009). Gaming our society: Social theory embodied through games. Submitted for consideration for Games, Learning & Society, 2009 Conference.
Kelly, S. (2009). Txting in the classroom: Dispositions of communication engaged during online gaming. Submitted for consideration for Games, Learning & Society, 2009 Conference.
Kelly, S. (2009). Femininity and passing as male in online games: A World of Warcraft case study [Working Title]. Submitted for consideration for the Digital Games Researchers Association, 2009 Conference.
Ku, S., Chiang, C. –Y., Jones, R., Kim, Y., Mooney, C., Murphy, W., Teng, H. –I., Yang, P. (2008). Deconstructing Cho Seung-Hui and the Virginia Tech massacre. Panelist in Intercultural Communication Interest Group of 2008 Western States Communication Association Annual Convention.
Bilge, N., Yang, P., Graham, L., Kim, Y., & Yang, J. (2008). Intercultural classroom: Engaging worldviews in academia. Panelist in Intercultural Communication Interest Group of 2008 Western States Communication Association Annual Convention.
Klosterman, M. K. (2009). What you gonna do with that beat?: Loop based composition and performance practices. The Columbia Music Scholarship Conference 2009, Sound in Circulation. New York, NY.
Klosterman, M. K. (2009). Case studies in music and technoculture. The International Association for Media and Communication Research 2009, Human Rights and Communication. Mexico City, Mexico.
Lapsansky, C. (2008). Community on the walls: How public murals can affect intergroup relations in a shared community. Paper presented at the International Communication Association Conference. Montreal, Canada.
Movius, L., Lapsansky, C., Schuh, J., Cody, M., Woodley, P. & Buffington, S. (2009). Evaluating a bone marrow storyline on The Bold and the Beautiful: The impact of identification, transportation, and motivation on knowledge and action. Paper to be presented at the International Communication Association Conference. Chicago, IL.
Lapsansky, C. (2009). A digital storytelling approach to participatory evaluation of a community-based new media project. Paper to be presented at the International Association for Media and Communication Research. Mexico City, Mexico.
Liu, J. (2008). Study of public sphere in non-western context. (Pre-Conference paper). 94th Annual National Communication Association Conference. San Diego, CA. Oct. 2008.
Liu, J. (2009, May). Picturing a green virtual space for social changes in China: Internet activism and Chinese environmental NGOs. 59th Annual International Communication Association Conference. Chicago, IL.
Liu, J. & Gallivan, M. (2009, August). An empirical study of factors that affect Chinese software vendors interest in adopting offshore outsourcing. 2009 Academy of Management Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL.
Liu, J. (2009, November). Engaging a holistic approach to examine communicative actions of Chinese environmental NGOs: The interplay of influential allies, organization resources, framing, and new media in effecting environmental movement outcomes of Chinese ENGOs. 95th Annual National Communication Association Conference. Chicago, IL.
Liu, J. & Goodnight, G. T. (2009, November). Imagining a green public culture in China. 95th Annual National Communication Association Conference. Chicago, IL.
Lopez, L. K. (2009). Eating a meal with the other: The ethical challenges of the travel food show. Far West Popular and American Culture Association Convention. Las Vegas, NV.
Lopez, L. K. (2009). The political limitations of “Asian American culture” on college campuses. Association for Asian American Studies Convention. Honolulu, HI.
Lopez, L. K. (2009). The yellow press: Asian American radicalism and conflict in Gidra. International Communication Association Convention. Chicago, IL.
Mailland, J. (2009). Framing a research frontier: Cyberinfrastructure policy in global perspective. Roundtable participant, International Studies Association National Convention. New York, NY. February 17, 2009.
Margolin, D. B. (2009). The epistemological basis of stable links. Presented at International Sunbelt Social Network Conference (XXIX). San Diego, CA.
Knobloch-Westerwick, S., & Meng, J. (2008). Looking the other way: Selective exposure to attitude-consistent and counter-attitudinal political information. International Communication Association 2008 Annual Meeting. Montreal, Canada.
McDonald, D. G., Meng, J., & Lin, Shu-Fang. (2008). Media enjoyment as experience: segmentation, cohesion and empathy. International Communication Association 2008 Annual Meeting. Montreal, Canada.
McDonald, D. G., Meng, J., & Sarge, M. (2008). Resonance or dampening? Elaboration and cognitive interference in media viewing. Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication 2008 Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL.
Miller, J. & Khera, O., (2008). Digital library adoption in Peru and Kenya: A Cross-country analysis. Presented at the Telecom Policy Research Conference (TPRC). Arlington, VA. September 26 – 28, 2008.
Jordan-Marsh, M., Moran, M. B., Gradis, M., & McLaughlin, M. (2008). Insights from a senior center CyberCafe evaluation. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of National Communication Association. San Diego, CA.
Kim, Y. C., Moran, M. B., Wilkin, H. A., & Ball-Rokeach, S. B. (2008). Community-based health information network and disease-specific health literacy. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Public Health Association. San Diego, CA.
Morrison, E. (2008, November 23). The Zoe narrative: Construction of trans/gender on All My Children. National Communication Association Conference. San Diego, CA.
Usher, N., & Morrison, E. (2009, July). Minority interests and the future of print journalism: Considering the consequences of proposed business models. International Association for Media and Communication Research Conference. Mexico City, Mexico. (in review)
Movius, L. (2009, May). Global debates on the right to communicate. Communication and Policy Division. International Communication Association Conference. Chicago, IL. Top Student Paper Award.
Movius, L. (2008, November). New technologies and political communication: A case study of a local election campaign. National Communication Association. San Diego, CA.
Nam, Y. (2009, May). Cultural participation and stronger community life: Multilevel analysis of participation in community organizations and cultural events as an indicator of strong community belonging and local storytelling network. International Communication Association. Chicago, IL.
Nam, Y. (2009, November). Racial paranoia run amok? Framing of the Latino-Black dynamics through narrative structures of gang violence in mainstream and African American newspapers. National Communication Association. Chicago, IL.
Nam, Y. (2009, November). Skin you are in: Examining Second Life as a stage for gender and race production and performance through ethnography and interview with its co-founder and users. National Communication Association. Chicago, IL.
Thomas, D., Kafai, Y., Nam, Y., Fields, D., & Searle, K. (2009, November). Dating, flirting, and pairing off: Understanding romantic relationships among tweens in Whyville.net. National Communication Association. Chicago, IL.
Nam, Y., Okamoto, J, Buffington, S., Cantu, M., & Valente, T., (2009, November). Can primetime drama change health knowledge & priorities? An evaluation of a Law & Order: SVU storyline, HIV/AIDS knowledge, global health, and domestic priorities. Paper under review at the American Public Health Association. Philadelphia, PA.
Newman, R. (2009, summer). FCC at a nexus. IAMCR Conference. Mexico City, Mexico.
Newman, R. (2008). "Legislation 2.0" and opportunities for activism. National Conference for Media Reform. Minneapolis, MN.
Newman, R. (2008). COMPASS, finance, and epistemology. ICA Conference. Montreal, Quebec.
Ognyanova, K. (2009). Careful what you say: Media control in Putin’s Russia – implications for online content. To be presented at 2009 ICA Conference. Chicago, IL.
Pan, S. & Jordan-Marsh, J. (2008). Older adult internet skills and habits: Focusing on China's seniors. Paper accepted and presented at the Ethnicity, Age and Gender as Factor in Digital Divide Studies Panel at 94th Annual Conference of National Communication Association (NCA). San Diego, CA.
Pan, S. (2009). China’s AIDS NGOs networking: A social network analysis. Paper accepted and to be presented at the Intergroup Communication Interest Group, ICA 2009 Annual Conference. Chicago, IL.
Pan, S. (2008). An exploration of online social support: Case study of China’s biggest BBS for HBV carrier. Paper accepted by 2008 Western States Communication Association (WSCA). Denver/Boulder, CO.
Park, M. (2009). A new face in the crowd: Mediated contestations of Barack Obama. National Communication Association Annual Convention. Chicago, IL.
Park, M. (2009). Emasculation, subversion and remasculinization: An analysis of Harold and Kumar go to White Castle. National Communication Association Annual Convention. Chicago, IL.
Phua, J. (2008). Attribution of model minority characteristics to products in print advertisements with Asian-American spokesmodels: An experiment. National Communication Association Conference. San Diego, CA. November, 2008.
Phua, J. (2008). Posters and lurkers: Participation in online smoking cessation communities and its implications for perceived social support and smoking cessation self-efficacy. National Communication Association Conference. San Diego, CA. November, 2008.
Powers, S. (2008). The politics of protest: The Al-Jazeera effect in Malaysia. International Communication Association Annual Conference. Montreal, Canada.
el-Nawawy, M. & Powers, S. (2008). News influence in the global media sphere: A test case of Al-Jazeera English. Arab-US Association for Communication Educators. Richmond, VA. Awarded top paper.
Powers, S. (2008). The lessons of Alhurra. National Communication Association Conference. San Diego, CA.
el-Nawawy, M & Powers, S. (2009). Al-Jazeera English and the possibility of a conciliatory media. Al-Jazeera Forum. Doha, Qatar. (Invited)
Rafferty, S. (2009, May). Arguing for accountability: Toward a cross cultural discourse ethics. Paper presented at the 59th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association. Chicago, IL.
Rafferty, S. (2009, May). The “Dirty South”: A tropological comparison of racial identity in American popular culture. Paper presented at the 59th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association. Chicago, IL.
Rafferty, S. (2008, November). Confronting hate speech: A rhetorical criticism of Playboy Magazine’s interview of George Lincoln Rockwell. Paper Presented at the 94th Annual Conference of the National Communication Association. San Diego, CA.
Rafferty, S. (2008, August). Comic frames and parrhesiastic games: Burke and Foucault on the theory and practice of criticism. Paper presented at the 3rd Tokyo Conference on Argumentation. Tokyo, Japan.
Rafferty, S. (2008, April). The presence and absence of music in the media coverage of the 2007 anti-G8 protests. Paper presented at the Music & Politics Conference at the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Music. Santa Barbara, CA.
Huh, S., Ratan, R. & Williams, D. (2008). Going (online) with the flow: Modeling flow within a large social online world. National Communication Association Conference. San Diego, CA.
Ratan, R. A. (submitted, 2009). A theoretical framework self-presence based on a holistic construction of the self. International Conference on Facets of Virtual Environments. Berlin, Germany. July 27-29.
Robertson, S. R. (2008). Technologies at the gate!: The appeal and heel-dragging associated with technology in forensics. Paper presented at the annual National Communication Association Convention. San Diego, CA. November 16-19, 2008.
Sanders, W. S. (2008). Uncertainty reduction and information seeking strategies on facebook. Presented at the National Communication's Annual Conference. San Diego, CA.
Sanders, W. S. (2008). Mobile phone usage among young urban Chinese. Presented at the National Communication's Annual Conference. San Diego, CA.
Schuh, J. S. (2008, November). Mapping the stars: Reproducing celebrities in movie star homes tours. Paper presented at the National Communication Association 94th Annual Convention. San Diego, CA.
Schultz, C. M. (2008). Online forums and the spreading of health information: A theoretical approach to behavior prediction. Presented at the National Communication Conference. San Diego, CA.
Schultz, C. M. (2009). Virtual organizations and resource partitioning theory: How new communication technologies enable blending processes. Paper will be presented to the Annual Conference of the International Communication Association. Chicago, IL.
Scott, D. T. (submission). Technology, pathology, etiology: Discourses of disease and electric communication. Society for the History of Technology. Pittsburgh, PA.
Scott, D. T. (2009). Sick users, interference, and media as sensory inhibition. Media Ecology Association. St. Louis, MO.
Scott, D. T. (2009). The utility of sound studies' theory and practice in media studies. International Communication Association, The Future is Prologue: New Media, New Histories?" preconference. Chicago, IL.
Scott, D. T. (2009). The postfeminist user: Interactivity, agency, and gender. National Communication Association. San Diego, CA.
Scott, D. T. (2009). Sounds of sickness: Audio tech diseases and the gendered technological subject. National Communication Association. San Diego, CA.
Ritterfeld, U., Shen, C., Wang, H., Nocera, L., & Wong, W. L. (2009, May). Multimodality and interactivity: Connecting properties of serious games with learning outcomes. Paper presented at the 59th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA). Chicago, IL. Top 2 Paper Award
Castronova, E., Williams, D., Huang, Y., Shen, C., Keegan, B., Xiong, L., & Ratan, R. (2009, May). As real as real? Macroeconomic behavior in a large scale virtual world. Paper presented at the 59th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA). Chicago, IL.
Shen, C. & Williams, D. (2009, March). Internet use and psychosocial well-being: Results from a large virtual world. Paper presented at International Sunbelt Social Network Conference (XXIX). San Diego, CA.
Huang, Y., Shen, C. & Contractor, N. (2009, March). The role of proximity and homophily in virtual world networks. Paper presented at International Sunbelt Social Network Conference (XXIX). San Diego, CA.
Shen, C. (2008, November). Wikipedia in China: Free culture in a controlled society. Paper presented at the 94th Annual Convention of the National Communication Association (NCA). San Diego, CA.
Sigismondi, P. (2009, forthcoming). New paradigms in the global mediascape: The rise of the digital glocalization of entertainment. Paper to be presented at the International Communication Association Conference (Global Communication and Social Change preconference). Chicago, IL. May 21-25 2009.
Sigismondi, P. (2008). Hollywood piracy in China: A case of US public diplomacy in the globalization age? Paper presented at the National Communication Association Conference (Association for Chinese Communication, Top papers section). San Diego, CA. November 21-24, 2008.
Weber, M., Stephens, K. & Thomas, G. F. (2009). Handling live fire: Enacting strategic communication in crisis situations. Academy of Management. Chicago, IL.
Strait, L. P. (2008). The effect of political efficacy on web 2.0 usage: The 2008 primaries. Paper presented to the Annual Meeting of the National Communication Association. San Diego, CA.
Sen (Tustin), N. (2008, March). Health consequences of shift work in India. Annenberg/LSE Conference on Globalization and Communication. USC, Los Angeles, CA.
Tustin, N. (2008, November). Patient dissatisfaction as a motivating factor in online health information seeking. Annual NCA Conference. San Diego, CA.
Tustin, N. (2008, November). Online social support for cancer patients: Effects of stress, shyness, and family support. Annual NCA Conference. San Diego, CA.
Usher, N. (2009). Organizational culture and the capacity for change at public service news organizations. (with Patricia Riley) International Communication Association. Chicago, IL. 2009. (forthcoming)
Usher, N. (2009). Goodbye to the news: Using journalists’ last words to unpack the “structures of feeling” or journalism in transition. International Communication Association. Chicago, IL. 2009 (forthcoming)
Usher, N. (2008). Reviewing fauxtography: A blog-driven challenge to mass media power without the promises of networked publicity. National Communication Association. San Diego, CA. 2008.
Usher, N. (2008). Gay sex scandals: Toward a typology of mediated scandal scripts. National Communication Association. San Diego, CA. 2008.
Villanueva, G. (2009). Media for social change: A process evaluation of Bresee's Youth Film Festival on social justice. Academics as Advocates session @ Local Media for Social Change: A Southern California Regional Summit. Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA.
Villanueva, G. (2009). Communicating the Philippines into the United States master script. International Communication Association. Chicago, IL.
Villanueva, G. (2009). Public responses to the 1992 Los Angeles riots and the transformation of the urban public sphere for the 21st century. National Communication Association. Chicago, IL.
Waisanen, D. J. (2009). Tolerance on the nexus of the religious-secular form: The historical arc of the conversion narrative. Paper presented for the Religious Communication Division at the 2009 National Communication Association Conference. Chicago, IL.
Waisanen, D. J. (2009). Creating a rhetorical space for comic shocks of insight: The remarkable hyperrealism of The Onion News Network. Paper presented at the 2009 International Society for Humor Studies Conference. Long Beach, CA.
Waisanen, D. J. (2009). Vernacular rhetorical borders in immigration activism: Outlaw-civic discourse in a conservative collective. Paper presented for the Rhetoric and Public Address Division at the 2009 Western States Communication Association Conference. Mesa, AZ.
Waisanen, D. J. (2008). Political conversion as rhetorical recovery: Dissociating the self in David Brock’s Blinded by the Right. Paper presented for the Rhetoric and Communication Theory Division at the 2008 National Communication Association Conference. San Diego, CA.
Waisanen, D. J. (2008). Conversion narratives in politics. Paper presented at the Religion & Public Life seminar at the University of Southern California. Los Angeles, CA.
Waisanen, D. J. & Suzuki, T. (2008). From Colbert to counterfactual argument: Reflections on parodic public spheres. Paper presented for the 3rd Tokyo Conference on Argumentation. Tokyo, Japan.
Wang, H. & Wellman, B. (2008, May). Internet and an increasingly connected life in America: Trend spotting through a year-to-year comparison between 2002 and 2007. Paper presented at the International Communication Association Annual Conference. Montreal, Canada.
Wang, H. (2008, May). Hedonic processing of narrative persuasion: An examination of Dae Jang Geum for social change. Paper presented at the International Communication Association Annual Conference. Montreal, Canada.
Weber, M. S., Fulk, J. & Monge, P. (2009). Emergence of social networking sites as a legitimate organizational form. National Communication Association Conference. Chicago, IL. November 12 – 15, 2009.
Weber, M. S. (2009). A historical perspective on the intersection of networks of news production. WebScience ’09. Athens, Greece. March 18 – 22, 2009.
Weber, M. S., Monge, P, & Fulk, J. (2008). Emergence of social networking sites as a legitimate organizational form. International Communication Association Conference. Montreal, Canada. May 22 – 26, 2008.
Weber, M. S., & Monge, P. (2008). The flow of digital news in a network of providers, authorities and hubs. International Communication Association Conference. Montreal, Canada. May 22 – 26, 2008.
Winkelman, D. (2008). Burke, terministic screens, and orientations: An analysis of female genital cutting debates in Egypt and the United States. National Communication Association, Kenneth Burke Society. San Diego, CA. November 2008.
Xiong, L. (2008, May). A preliminary study of the interfirm network of wireless mobile media business in the U.S. Paper presented at the 58th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association. Montreal, Canada.
Xiong, L. (2008, May). Imagining the medium of the mobile game: Technical, commercial, and social issues. Paper presented at the 58th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association. Montreal, Canada.
Zhou, M. (2009, June). Dissecting the 'self-immolation' incident by Falun Gong as a media event. 2009 International Conference of CESNUR (Center for Studies of New Religions). Salt Lake City, UT. http://www.cesnur.org/conferenze.htm