3206 TOP FOUR PAPERS IN MEDIA STUDIES
8:45 – 10:00 Sunday, February 19 Enchantment B
Chair: Anne Bialowas, Weber State University
- “Lost” in Circuits of Drive: The LOST Series Finale, Communicative Capitalism, and Drive Subjectivity — Robert L. Mack, University of Texas at Austin
- Visual Strategies of Containment: Allocation and Subversion of Giada de Laurentiis’s Power in Esquire* — Elizabeth A. Brunner, University of Utah
- Digital Screen Culture and the Media Logic of Relevance — Charles Soukup, University of Northern Colorado
- Materializing the Practice of Mobile Media Photography — Daniel H. Kim, University of Colorado Boulder
Respondent: Beth E. Bonnstetter, Adams State College
*Top Debut Paper in Media Studies
3306 POLITICAL MEDIA COVERAGE: SATIRE TO SERIOUSNESS
10:15 – 11:30 Sunday, February 19 Enchantment B
Chair: Olga Zaytseva, University of New Mexico
- Third-Person Perception & Political Humor: An Examination of Saturday Night Live Political Satire — Gwendelyn S. Nisbett, Stephanie G. Schartel, University of Oklahoma
- The Tragedy of Hannity: Monoglossia and the Strategic Strangulation of Public Discourse* – Jennifer Tipton, California State University Fresno
- Blue Framing and Red Framing of News Coverage: A Comparative Analysis of 2010 Election News Coverage in Local and National Newspapers* — Young Kim, Montana State University Billings
- Digital Apologia: Sarah Palin’s Response to the Tucson Shooting — Justin Eckstein, University of Denver
Respondent: Alexis Olds, University of LaVerne and Cuesta College
* Debut Paper
3506 REPRESENTATIONS OF WOMEN IN MEDIA: FILM, ADVERTISING, AND TELEVISION
1:00 – 2:15 Sunday, February 19 Enchantment B
Chair: Sara J. Holmes, University of New Mexico
- The Hardest Part of Being an Animated Girl is Existing in the First Place — Amy Stockhausen, University of Utah
- It Had to be You: Love, Romance, and Living Happily Ever After in Romantic Comedies — Stephanie L. Gomez, University of Utah
- Beyond Real Beauty: A Foucauldian Analysis of the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty — Leticia Williams, California State University Fresno
- Girl Talk, Entre Mujeres, and the Public Sphere: Creating the Modern Woman in a Honduran Talk Show — Sky L. Anderson, Colorado State University
Respondent: Mary-Lou Galician, Arizona State University
3606 RADIOLAB AS AN ANTIDOTE TO OCULARCENTRICITY
2:30 – 3:45 Sunday, February 19 Enchantment B
Chair: Elizabeth A. Brunner, University of Utah
- The Sound of Science: Micropolitics and Radiolab — Justin Eckstein, University of Denver
- Becoming Through Radiolab: Tracing Affect as it “Plays” in the Mind — Aaron Donaldson, University of Denver
- Using Science and Sound to “Normalize” Socially Abstract Behavior — Elizabeth A. Brunner, University of Utah
Respondent: Donovan Conley, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
3706 CINEMATIC TRANSFORMATIONS AND CULTURAL ANXIETY
4:00 – 5:15 Sunday, February 19 Enchantment B
Chair: Greg Dickinson, Colorado State University
- Coming of Age in 1946: Illusions and Reality in The Yearling — Carl R. Burgchardt, David Scott Diffrient, Colorado State University
- Over the Rainbow and Down the Hole: The American Monomyth in The Wizard of Oz and Alice in Wonderland — Beth E. Bonnstetter, Adams State College
- From Apparatus to Assemblage: Oldboy as Media Theory — Gordana Lazic, University of Denver
- Corporeal Cinema: Pain, Pleasure, and Presence in Black Swan — Brian L. Ott, University of Colorado Denver
4106 USING MEDIA TECHNOLOGY: CELL PHONES, TWITTER, AND THE INTERNET
8:00 – 9:15 Monday, February 20 Enchantment B
Chair: David Scott Diffrient, Colorado State University
- Parents’ Information Seeking on Connected Technology and Digital Safety Issues* — Vauna L. Davis, Brigham Young University
- The Communication Culture of College Student Cell Phone Use: A Qualitative Study of One American Campus — Rick Malleus, Seattle University
- American Idol, Twitter, and Parasocial (In)Action — Marisa C. Garcia Rodriguez, Stacey M. Overholt, University of New Mexico
- Rifftrax and iRiffs: Expanding Performative Movie Riffing on the Internet* — Matt Foy, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Respondent: Charles Soukup, University of Northern Colorado
* Debut Paper
4406 EXPLORATIONS OF SEXUALITY, DISABILITY, AND CYBORGS IN THE MEDIA
2:15 – 3:30 Monday, February 20 Enchantment B
Chair: Deirdre J. Morgenthaler, University of Colorado Denver
- I’ll be Playing the Guy in the Wheelchair, Right?: Representations of the Differently-abled Body in Glee — Lydia Reinig, Colorado State University
- This Will All Happen Again: Becoming-Imperceptible in Battlestar Galactica — Chema Salinas, Arizona State University
- The It Gets Better Project: Performances of Homonormativity* — Sasha Solomonov, University of Utah
- God Hates Fa(n)gs?: The Gay Marriage Debate in True Blood* –Stacey M. Overholt, University of New Mexico
Respondent: Erika Engstrom, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
*Debut Paper
4506 OLD AND NEW MEDIA: PHOTOGRAPHS, RADIO, GRAFFITI, AND BLOGGING
3:45 – 5:00 Monday, February 20 Enchantment B
Chair: Matthew Richards, University of Utah
- Affect and Skepticism: Viewer Response to the Photographic Image – Mary E. Domenico, University of Colorado Denver
- An Alternative Post-Graffiti: Banksy’s Revival of the Graffiti Art World* — Casey Wopat, University of Colorado Denver
- Reexamining Commercial News Radio in the New Media Matrix: A Case Study* – Melinda Schulte Krakow, University of Utah
- The Impact of Local Blogging: Constructing Citygarden Through New Media* — Claire S. Chase, University of Colorado Boulder
Respondent: Teresa Bergman, University of the Pacific
*Debut Paper
4606 MEDIATED REPRESENTATIONS OF RACE AND DRAMA
5:15 – 6:30 Monday, February 20 Enchantment B
Chair: D. Robert DeChaine, California State University Los Angeles
- The Return of Racial Antagonisms in White Liberal Cinema: Afro-pessimism and a Critique of District 9 — Maria Cristina M. Visperas, San Diego State University
- “I Have Roots…I’m Actually an American”: Constructions and Commodifications of Genealogy, Archive, and Race in Who Do You Think You Are? — Lydia Nelson, University of Texas at Austin
- Mediated Reality: Hurricane Katrina and Media Framing of Racialized Looting Images* — Erin Davison, University of Colorado Denver
- Prime Time Drama(tism): A Pentadic Exploration of the 1950s Television Quiz Show Scandals — Robert L. Mack, University of Texas at Austin
Respondent: Bernard J. Armada, University of St. Thomas
* Debut Paper
5102 TEACHING CIVIL DISCOURSE: STRIVING FOR SOCIAL CHANGE THROUGH TEACHING AND PROBLEMATIZING CIVILITY
8:30- 9:45 Tuesday, February 21 Fiesta II
Co-Presented by the Communication and Instruction and Media Studies Interest Groups
This round-table discussion will begin with an analysis of incivility in our contemporary media culture and then discuss how we teach civil discourse and civic engagement in our various communication studies courses. We will bring diverse perspectives and discuss creative and varied ways to introduce, analyze, and improve discourse, including perspectives of how to teach civility and/or that we should embrace “uncivil tongues” as we are “striving for social change.” Our contributors will participate in the discussion bringing brief examples and analysis of mediated incivility and teaching tools for how to teach civil discourse in our courses–from assignments, sample syllabi, and a bibliography of texts to films and activities.
Chair: Emilie Falc, Winona State University
Participants:
- Adria Battaglia, Angelo State University
- Dana Cloud, University of Texas at Austin
- Emilie Falc, Winona State University
- Amy Hermodson, Winona State University
- Richie Neil Hao, University of Denver
- Zach Justus, California State University Chico
- Daniel Lintin, Winona State University
- Nina M. Reich, Loyola Marymount University
- Anna M. (Amy) Young, Pacific Lutheran University
5106 MEDIA AND REPRESENTATIONS OF DIFFERENCE: FOUR STUDIES
8:30 – 9:45 Tuesday, February 21 Enchantment B
Chair: Elizabeth A. Brunner, University of Utah
- Selling Couches, Tables and Identity: A Rhetorical Analysis of EthanAllen.com — Jessica Solverud, Colorado State University
- Social Learning, Cultivation, and Schema Development of Stereotyped Minorities: A Critical Analysis of the Oscar-Winning Cartoon Movie Happy Feet* — Monica L. Gallegos, University of Arizona
- Virtually Ethnic Voices: Is the Internet the Key to How Diasporic Public Spheres Can Re-Imagine Themselves in New Communities or the Medium of a Cultural Identity Crisis? — Kristina Gorgevich, California State University Sacramento
- Kanye West and Taylor Swift: Constructions of Aggressive Black Men and Passive White Women by the Media
- Cassidy Higgins, University of Denver
Respondent: Christina R. Foust, University of Denver
*Debut Paper
5306 PRESENCE MEDIATED
10:00 – 11:15 Tuesday, February 21 Enchantment B
Co-presented by the Communication Theory and Research and the Media Studies Interest Groups
Chair: Sonja K. Foss, University of Colorado Denver
- Looking for Presence in All the Wrong Places: The Nature and Function of Persuasion in Confirming and Contrasting Presence — William J. Waters, University of Houston Downtown — Jeanine Warisse Turner, Georgetown University — Sonja K. Foss, University of Colorado Denver
- A Curator for the Masses: Psychology of Form and the Construction of Visual Presence in The Sartorialist — Marla R. Kanengieter, St. Cloud State University
- Rhetorical Presence in Audio-Visual Reproductions of I Have a Dream — Bernard J. Armada, University of St. Thomas
- A Queered Website Presence: The National Story Tour of I’m From Driftwood’s Pink Boots — Ricky Hill, University of New Mexico
