Popular Communication Panels for the 54th International Communication Association Meeting San Diego, CA, May 23 - 27, 2003 ********** Saturday, May 24, 2003 8:15 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Methods without Borders: Methodological Challenges in Ethnography across Media Channels Chair: Lee M Humphreys - Annenberg School for Communication, U of Pennsylvania Participant(s): ÒCan you hear me now?Ó An exploration of wireless media ethnography, Lee M Humphreys, Annenberg School for Communication, U of Pennsylvania The Online Interview: Challenges of Investigating Why People Use the Internet, Jennifer Stromer-Galley, U at Albany Capturing Sentiment: Crafting an Ethnographic Approach to Studying Greeting Card Communication, Emily West, U of Pennsylvania DawsonÕs Creek in Sorority Life: Using a Case Study to understand group television viewing, Verena Hess, U of Washington; Gerald J. Baldasty, U Of Washington; April Peterson, U of Washington Respondent: Barry Dornfeld, U of the Arts *** Saturday, May 24, 2003 12:45 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Representations in Popular Communication Chair: S. Elizabeth Bird, U of South Florida Participant(s): 'And Our Flag Was Still There': The News Images of the American Flag Symbol Following 9-11, Betty Houchin Winfield, U of Missouri Mad or Bad? Negotiating the Boundaries of Mental Illness on Law & Order, Rachel M. Gans - Annenberg School for Communication, U of Pennsylvania; Claire Wardle, Annenberg School for Communication, U of Pennsylvania No Future: Fruit Chan's Cinematic Vision of Post-Handover Hong Kong, Weiyu Zhang - The Chinese U of Hong Kong The Symbolic Colonization of Hybrid Bodies Through Popular Narratives of Latinidad, Isabel Molina-Guzman, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Respondent: Gina Daddario, Shenandoah U *** Saturday, May 24, 2003 12:45 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Music as Popular Communication Chair: Andy Opel, Florida State U Participant(s): From Midnight to Broad Daylight: The constructive capabilities of techno, Rebekah Farrugia, U of Iowa Rebel Mystic: Toward a Theorization of the Aesthetic and Communicative Dimensions of Reggae and Dub, James F. Tracy, Florida Atlantic U Satisfied: Consumption, Identity, and Widespread Panic, Todd A Fraley, U of Georgia Radio in Accra: A confluence of National and Traditional Representations, Kwasi Boateng - Ohio U Respondent: Robert Drew, Saginaw Valley State U *** Saturday, May 24, 2003 12:45 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Appetite for Ideology: The Politics of Food in Film (Jointly Sponsored with Admin) Chair: Nancy Inouye, U of Massachusetts Amherst Participants: Chocolat Cravings: The Role of Food in Policing Ideological Boundaries, Kathleen LeBesco, Marymount Manhattan College, and Peter Naccarato, Marymount Manhattan College. What's Cooking? Scraping the Melting Pot for a Taste of Culture, Ishita Sinha Roy, Allegheny College. Italian Identity, Marinated In America: The Representation of Ethnic Assimilation in the film Big Night, John P. Shields, Norwalk Community College ÔNuevo LatinoÕ: Cooking, Communication, and Family Dining in Tortilla Soup, Nancy Inouye, U of Massachusetts Amherst. Chocolat Cravings: The Role of Food in Policing Ideological Boundaries, Nancy Inouye, U of Massachusetts Amherst *** Saturday, May 24, 2003 3:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Popular Communication Division's Annual Business Meeting Chair: Jonathan Tankel *** Sunday, May 25, 2003 8:15 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Popular Communication as/and History Chair: Stewart M. Hoover, U of Colorado Participant(s): Cleansing the Past, Selling the Future: DisneyÕs Corporate Exhibits at the 1964-65 New York WorldÕs Fair, Jonathan J Lillie, UNC School of Journalism & Mass Communication What is a quiz show? Early radio and the instability of genre(s), Olaf Hoerschelmann, Eastern Illinois U The Role of Imagination in Popular History, Katherine Jackson Dorsey, Northwestern U *** Sunday, May 25, 2003 8:15 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Popular culture, public sphere, and new media: Theories and practices of participatory media cultures Chair: Patricia Aufderheide, American U Participant(s): Youth E-Citizens and the Web, Kathryn Montgomery, U of Maryland Bridging Practice and Theory: White Papers in Public Access Cable Television, John Higgins, Menlo College The pedagogy of socially-engaged media, Robert Huesca, Trinity U Creating alternatives: MediaChannel.org, media activism, and international civil society, Seeta Pe–a Gangadharan Respondent: Jonathan Tankel, Indiana U-Purdue U Fort Wayne *** Sunday, May 25, 2003 11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Advertising, Culture, & Hypercommercialism Chair: Matthew Soar - Hampshire College (Chair) Participants: Inger Lisbeth Stole, U Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Product Placement with a Philanthropic Twist: Social and Cultural Implications of Cause Related Marketing Matthew P. McAllister, Virginia Tech J. Matt Giglio, Virginia Tech The Commercial Synergy of the Internet and U.S. Children's Television Debra Merskin, U of Oregon The hypersexualization of preadolescent girls in fashion advertising Robin Andersen Advertising Alcopops: Targeting the Youth Market Matthew Soar, Hampshire College From Props to Costars: Product Placement in Hollywood and HBO *** Sunday, May 25, 2003 12:45 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Television: News, Quality Programming, and Fan Activism Chair: Debra L. Merskin - U Of Oregon Participant(s): Beyond Ratings or Quality. Surpassing the Dilemma of Entertainment in Public Broadcasting, Irene Costera Meijer, U of Amsterdam More Show Than News: The Evolution of Network Television News, James H Wittebols, Niagara U MTV News: Glimpsing the Future of News Magazines, Bethany L Klein, U of Pennsylvania, Annenberg School for Communication Television Activism: ÒProÓ and ÒAntiÓ Campaigns, Einat Temkin, U of Southern California Respondent: Matthew P. McAllister - Virginia Tech *** Sunday, May 25, 2003 2:15 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Beyond Lifetime: Television for, by, and about Women Chair: Sharon R. Mazzarella, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY, USA Participants: Not Your Mother's Oldsmobile: Representations of Third Wave Feminism in Prime-Time Television, Norma Pecora, Kristen Sekella, and Jessica Tag, Ohio U In the Name of Love: Death and the Women of Sunnydale, Lynne Y. Edwards, Ursinus College Donna Reed Doesn't Live Here Anymore: The New Generation of Television Mothers as seen "Gilmore Girls", Sharon R. Mazzarella, Ithaca College Race, Power and Influence: The Oprahtization of America, Jennifer E. Mabry, Ithaca College What is Sexy? Victoria's Secret and Prime Time Porn, Debra Merskin, U of Oregon *** Monday, May 26, 2003 8:15 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Beyond Audiences: Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Media Ethnography Chair: S. Elizabeth Bird, U of South Florida Participants: Taking methods seriously: In search of an ethnographic way of seeing, S. Elizabeth Bird, U of South Florida Passing ethnographies: Rethinking the sites of agency and reflexivity in a mediated world, Nick Couldry, London School of Economics Playing the Field: Gender and Power in Ethnographic Fieldwork, Divya C. McMillin, U of Washington, Tacoma Media audiences and their narratives: Field research on meaning and identity in the media age, Stewart M. Hoover, U of Colorado *** Monday, May 26, 2003 12:45 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. The Popular, the Mythological and the Digital Chair: Teresa G Bergman, California State U - Chico Participant(s): Cultural and Formal Convergence in _Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, Jane Chi Hyun Park, U Of Texas at Austin Cultural and Formal Convergence in _Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within_ Informatics, Cyberpunk, and Nation-States: Behind Narratives of Globalization and Technology, Craig Hayden, U of Southern California Midriffs, Mooks, and Myth: Re-imagining CampbellÕs Hero in the Post-MTV Era, Marc Leverette, Rutgers U Taking the American Dream to a Theatre Near You: The Mythology of Star Wars as a Product of the Culture Industry, Joshua Atkinson, U of Missouri- Columbia Respondent: Lynn Schofield Clark, U of Colorado *** Monday, May 26, 2003 2:15 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Approaches to Audiences Chair: David Park Participant(s): A Challenge to the Duel: Socializing Dedicated Virtual Reality Fans to the Ideology of Textualism, Chad Tew - U of San Diego 'Resistance Reexamined: Gender, Fan Practices, and Science Fiction Television', Christine Scodari - Florida Atlantic U Toward a 'Renewed Theorization of the Audience': An Approach to Audiences in Media Cultural Studies, Diane Alters Audience Perception of Framed Music during Times of War, Erica Samantha Graham - U of Washington Respondent: Taso Lagos *** Monday, May 26, 2003 3:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Ethnographic Studies of Teens and the New Media Chair: Lynn Schofield Clark, U of Colorado Participants: Learning How to Make It: Teens and New Media at School, JoEllen Fisherkeller, New York U Queer Youth, Identity and the Internet: An ethnographic study of gay, lesbian and bisexual teens in cyberspace, Mark LaPointe, U of Washington Alruna, the Cyber Witch, Mia Lovheim, Uppsala U, Sweden Teen Friendship Networks Online, Lynn Schofield Clark, U of Colorado Respondent: Amanda Lenhart, Pew Internet & American Life *** Monday, May 26, 2003 5:15 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Journalism and/as Popular Communication Chair: Vickie Rutledge Shields, Bowling Green State U Participant(s): THE WHOLE WORLD IS SWEATING: Newspaper Framing of the Student Anti-Sweatshop Movement, Andy Opel, Florida State U Rival Visions: Reportorial Approaches, Audience Preferences, and New Frontiers, Christopher A. Vaughan, Rutgers U (Presenter) Nationwide Newspaper Coverage of Music Censorship: A Community Structure Approach, Kristen M Boehm, The College of New Jersey The Middle East in America's News: A 20th Century Overview, Dina A. Ibrahim, U of Texas at Austin Respondent: Stewart M. Hoover, U of Colorado *** Monday, May 26, 2003 5:15 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. News Talk: How People Discuss Journalism and What it Means Chair: Karin Wahl-Jorgensen, Cardiff U, Wales, UK Children Talk About the News: Citizenship, Participation and Empowerment, Cindy Carter, Cardiff U, Wales, UK; Maire Messenger-Davies, Cardiff U, Wales, UK; Stuart Allan, U of the West of England, England, UK Metajournalism: Competition and the Desire for Distance, Stephanie Craft, U of Missouri Journalism and Its Consequences: Lessons from Conversations with Investigative Reporters, Theodore L. Glasser, Stanford U Living in the Past: Older AdultsÕ Relationship to the Daily Newspaper, John Pauly, Saint Louis U Citizenship, Disgust and Media Capital: Discourses on British Tabloid Newspapers Karin Wahl-Jorgensen, Cardiff U *** Tuesday, May 27, 2003 9:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. THE EXTRAORDINARY WITHIN THE ORDINARY: Everyday Performances and/of Social Space Chair: James Leo Cahill, UC Irvine, Program in Visual Studies Participants: Abstracts: "Performing In/Visibility: The Phenomenon of Superbarrio, Public Spectacle and the Re-mapping of the Municipal Grid in Post-Quake Mexico City", James L. Cahill, U of California, Irvine "Looking for Malintzin Tenepal: Pilgrimage as Performative Intervention Through a Disruption of Public History and Cultural Shame in Mexico City", Bernadette Marie Calafell, U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "Gotham City PjÕs: The Performance of Everyday Survival Tactics in the New York City Housing Projects", Lisa Calvente, U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "Performing Race and Role Playing-Games", Nathan Scott Epley, U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Respodent: Judith Hamera, Cal State U, Los Angeles *** Tuesday, May 27, 2003 9:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Chair: Sharon R. Mazzarella, Ithaca College Participants: El Dia de los Muertos American-style: Communicating with the Living, Regina Miriam Marchi, U of California, San Diego ÒEveryoneÕs ItalianÓ The Image of Italy that We Eat At the ÒFazoliÕsÓ Restaurants, Davide Girardelli, U of Kentucky The Dieter as Model Citizen, Druann Lynn Pagliassotti, California Lutheran U The Construction of the Female Hero in Buffy the Video Game, Magdela P. Labre, U of Florida, and Lisa L. Duke, U of Florida Respondent: Divya C. McMillin, U of Washington, Tacoma *** Tuesday, May 27, 2003 12:45 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Race and Popular Communication Chair: Isabel Molina-Guzman - U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Participant(s): 'Dangerous Fiction': Race and Reception of NBC's "King", Jennifer L Fuller - U of Wisconsin-Madison You a stone freak in yo own skin: Missy Elliott's and Lil' Kim's Constructions of Black Womanhood, TaKeshia L Brooks, U of Michigan at Ann Arbor Oprah Winfrey, A White Woman Just Like Me;A Hegemonic View, Katherine R Hickok-Burk, Bowling Green State U The mismeasure of masculinity: The male body, race, and power in the enumerative discourses of the NFL Draft, Thomas P Oates, U of Iowa Respondent: Christine Scodari, Florida Atlantic U #####
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