News from the Annenberg School for Communication
November 15, 2011
National Communication Association Conference Preview
Annenberg students, faculty, and researchers will present their work at the National Communication Association annual conference Nov. 17 – 20 in New Orleans, LA. The following table highlights scheduled presentations and events.
| PRESENTER AND TITLE | TIME AND PLACE |
Dan Berger, Ph.D. “Carceral Voices: American Prison Notebooks and the Subject of Social Change” (Preconference) |
November 16 at 10:40 a.m. |
Jingwen Zhang |
November 17 at 2 p.m. |
Timothy Fallis “Paschal Beverly Randolph and his Spirits of the Dead: Giving Voice to the Voiceless” |
November 18 at 9 a.m. |
Piotr Szpunar “The Horror at Fort Hood: Disseminating American Exceptionalism” |
November 18 at 9 a.m. |
Kyung Chloe Lee |
November 18 at 2 p.m. |
Joelle Sano Gilmore, Ph.D. "Teenage Girls Don't Eat: Gender Representation in Food and Beverage Advertising Aimed at Children" |
November 19 at 9:30 a.m. |
Mihaela Moldovan, Ph.D. "Navigating the Cancer Information Environment: A Two-Way Relationship between Seeking from Medical and Nonmedical Sources of |
November 19 at 9:30 a.m. |
Le Han |
November 19 at 9:30 a.m. |
Matthew A. Lapierre |
November 19 at 9:30 a.m. |
Aymar Jean Christian |
November 19 at 11 a.m. |
Stephanie Mannis |
November 19 at 11 a.m. |
Sara Mourad |
November 19 at 11 a.m. |
Nora A. Draper "Storytelling Online: The Role of Personal Narrative in the 'It Gets Better' Campaign" |
November 19 at 11 a.m. |
Dan Berger, Ph.D. “Uncaging Visibility: Identity, Spectacle, and Imprisonment” |
November 19 at 12:30 p.m. |
Kara Garrity "The Influence of the Home Environment on Children’s Language Skills" |
November 19 at 12:30 p.m. |
Heidi Khaled |
November 19 at 1 p.m. |
Aymar Jean Christian "Producing Television 2.0: Reinventing the Industry in MTV's 'Valemont'" |
November 19 at 2 p.m. |
Susan Mello "Routine and Deliberate Information Exposure Effects on Mammography Behavior" |
November 19 at 2 p.m. |
Derek Blackwell "Lovebirds of a Feather: Online Dating and Homophily Preference in Romantic Relationships" |
November 19 at 2 p.m. |
Elizabeth Roodhouse “A New Digital Divide? Generational Differences in the Effects of Niche News” |
November 19 at 3:30 p.m. |
Jessica Taylor Piotrowski, Ph.D. "Association between Parenting Style and Children’s Media Use" |
November 20 at 8 a.m. |
Jessica Taylor Piotrowski, Ph.D. "Parenting and Media Use: Where do American Parents Turn for Media Advice?" |
November 20 at 8 a.m. |
Aymar Jean Christian “Web Video and Ethnic Media: Linking Distribution and Representation” |
November 20 at 10:45 a.m. |
More news from NCA:
Michael X. Delli Carpini, Ph.D., Professor of Communication and Walter H. Annenberg Dean, will be the respondent in the Top Papers in Political Communication panel (Saturday, November 19, Sheraton New Orleans Bayside Room at 2 p.m.).
Barbie Zelizer, Ph.D., the Raymond Williams Professor of Communication, will be the respondent at the panel “Visual Communication Spotlight Panel – The Voice of the Visual: About to Die: How News Images Move the Public,” at 12:30 p.m. at the New Orleans Marriott Balcony Room.
Prof. Zelizer also will be a presenter at the “Distinguished Scholars of 2011: Reflections on their Scholarship” panel at 2 p.m. at the New Orleans Marriott, La Galerie Room; and she will chair the Bill Ayers Lecture Series: Communicating for Social Justice, taking place at 3:30 p.m. on Saturday at the New Orleans Marriott, Preservation Hall.
John L. Jackson, Jr., Ph.D., the Richard Perry University Professor of Communication and Anthropology, will chair the “Representation Out of the Box: Toward a New Research Agenda” session taking place at 9:30 a.m. on Sunday at the New Orleans Marriott Preservation Hall. Presenters will include Annenberg doctoral students Aymar Jean Christian, Andrew Crocco, and Khadijah White. Madison Moore from Yale University also will present.
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Ph.D., the Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication and Director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC), talks about Stephen Colbert’s political action committee, and FlackCheck.org, the new project from the APPC in a pair of video interviews with The Washington Post. Prof. Jamieson also talked about FlackCheck with Miller-McCune, and with WHYY’s NewsWorks program.
Prof. Jamieson spoke with Bloomberg Businessweek about the pros and cons of candidates partaking in political debates.
Elihu Katz, Ph.D., Distinguished Trustee Professor of Communication, delivered three lectures recently at University of Lugano, the Italian University of Switzerland, Nov. 2 – 6. A summary of his visit to Lugano (in Italian), can be seen here.
Marwan M. Kraidy, Ph.D., Professor of Communication, delivered a lecture at a conference in Cairo, Egypt, Nov. 10 hosted by the Danish Egyptian Dialogue Institute, and organized by the University of Copenhagen’s program on the Islamic Public Sphere. Prof. Kraidy is on leave this semester conducting research in the Middle East.
Dean Delli Carpini, Prof. Turow will be the featured speakers at a “Penn 2 You” alumni event this evening at the W Hotel in Washington, D.C.
November 22 at 6:15 p.m., Room 109 – Scholars lecture by Amit Pinchevski.
December 2 (all day) – Scholars Symposium: Theorizing Production/Producing Theory
December 5 at 4 p.m. – ICT4D seminar.
December 7 at noon, Room 500, CECCR Speaker Series, Ellen Peters, Ph.D.
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