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  • Katherine Anderson ~ Celebrity Advocacy
  • Omri Ceren ~ It’s Paranoia Even If They Are Out To Get You:  The Role Of Identity In Conspiracy Rhetoric
  • Joyee Chatterjee ~ Gender, Empowerment, and Popular Culture:  Producing Media and Social Change
  • Paulina Chow ~ Creativity and the New Urban Imaginary:  Globalization and the (re)Configuration of Space, Governance, and Everyday Life
  • Jae Eun Chung ~ Benefits of Social Networking in Online Social Support Groups
  • Laura Farmer ~ Crisis Leadership:  A Grounded Theory Analysis of Leadership During Hurricane Katrina
  • Lauren Frank ~ Contagious:  Social Norms about Health in Social Networks
  • Jessica Gould ~ Leveraging Knowledge Assets:  Examining the Relationships Between Affect, Expertise Recognition and Knowledge Exchange in Organiztional Teams
  • Deborah E. R. Hanan ~ National Transgressions:  Representing Mobility, "Boundary-Busting" and the Allegorical American During Periods of Major Economic Crisis
  • Bettina Heiss ~ Organizational Mimicry Strategists in American Social Movement Communities:  An Analysis of Differential Effects of Form Communication on the Evolution of Crisis Pregnancy Centers
  • Charlotte Lapsansky ~ Communication Infrastructure Theory as a New Direction for Development Communication and Social Change:  Developing Multi-Level Theoretical Frameworks.  An Ethnographic Case Study of the PADAV Campaign Against Domestic Violence in India
  • Jade Miller ~ The Globalization of Creative Industries:  The View From the South - the Nigerian Video Film Industry
  • Eleanor Morrison ~ Hollywood Lobbyists Against Themselves and the Industry:  Everyday Production of Public Interest Content in Corporate Entertainment Media
  • Lauren Movius ~ Freeing the Technologies of Freedom:  Global Social Movements and Internet Governance
  • Shuya Pan ~ Understanding the Effect of Online Community Participation on the Subjective Well-Being Among Chinese Older Adults Through the Conceptual Framework of Social Capital and Social Support
  • Joe Phua ~ Posters and Lurkers in Online Health Social Networking Sites for Smoking Cessation:  Influence of Social Identification, Social Capital and Social Support
  • Katherine M. Pieper ~ Children and the News:  The Impact of Graphic Visuals and Age of the Victim on Fright Responses
  • Laura Portwood-Stacer ~ The Practice of Everyday Politics: Culture, Lifestyle, and Identity in the Anarchist Movement
  • Steven Rafferty ~ Laughing With and At Race:  The Good, Bad, and Ugly of a Symbolic Regime in American Popular Culture
  • Rabindra Ratan ~ Self-Presence:  Theory, Measurement and Validation
  • D. Travers Scott ~ Killer Apps & Sick Users:  Technology, Disease, and Feminism
  • Jon Sharp ~ In Visible Empire
  • Cuihua Shen ~ Transaction, Collaboration and Socialization:  The Evolution of Multiplex Networks in Self-Organized Online Communities
  • Brad Shipley ~ Food Fight:  Communication and Organizational Justice During the Grocery Store Labor Dispute
  • Einat Temkin ~ Communication Practices and Uses Among Mexican Immigrants
  • Nupur Tustin ~ Reducing Time Taken to Seek Medical Help for Cancer:  An Experiment
  • Don Waisanen ~ I Once Was Lost, but Now am Found . . . Politically:  Conversion Narratives in American Public Discourse (1952-2002)
  • Helen Hua Wang ~ Building Personal Wellness Communities:  Meaningful Play in the Digital Network Society
  • Matthew Weber ~ From the New York Times to the Huffington Post:  The Emergence and Transformation of Coevolving Organizational Forms of News Production
  • Mei Zhou ~ The Falun Gong Resistance:  Body Politics and Counter-hegemonic Media Activism