Popular Communication Panels for the 2000 International Communication Association Meeting Acapulco, Mexico, June 1 - 5, 2000 ********** FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 2000 8:15-9:30 am Princesa IV Race and Ethnicity in Popular Culture Chair: Debra Merskin, U of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA Participants Audience Construction: Race, Ethnicity, and Segmentation in Popular Media, Oscar H. Gandy, Jr., U of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA Inferential Racism in Women's Films: Comparing Experiences in Waiting to Exhale and First Wives Club, Radharani Ray, U of Texas, Austin, TX, USA I'm an American Girl...Whatever That Means: Girls Consuming Pleasant Company's American Girl Identity, Carolina Acosta-Alzuru and Peggy J. Kreshel, U of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA Hybridity at Foxwoods: A Critical Reading of the Mashantucket Pequots' Tribal Casino, Celeste C. Lacroix, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, USA Respondent: Angharad N. Valdivia, U of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA *** FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 2000 9:45-11 am Princesa II Popular Television Around the World Chair: Miri Talmon, Open U of Israel, Tel Aviv, ISRAEL Participants Imagining Flanders: Television Series and the Popular National Identity, Alexander Dhoest, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, BELGIUM Journalism as Company, Stig Hjarvard, U of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, DENMARK Television For "Time Pass": A Reception Analysis, Divya C. McMillin, U of Washington, Tacoma, WA, USA Rediscovery of Muslim Identity: Alternative Advertisements on the Turkish Television Landscape, Ozlem Okur, U of Texas, Austin, TX, USA Respondent: Kathryn S. Egan, Brigham Young U, Provo, UT, USA *** FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 2000 11:15-12:30 pm Princesa II Popular Culture and the Narration and Telling of Stories Chair: Divya C. McMillin, U of Washington, Tacoma, WA, USA Participants It Makes Sense to Us: Cultural Identity in Traditional Narratives of Place, S. Elizabeth Bird, U of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA Holocaust Memory and Israeli Popular Culture: The Case Study of Ashes and Dust, Eyal Zandberg, Hebrew U, Jerusalem, ISRAEL and Oren Meyers, U of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA The Fabric of Facts: An Analysis of the Stephen Glass Scandal, Lilach Nir, U of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA If You Build It, We Won't Leave: Turner's Social Drama in Daily Newspaper Coverage of Stadium Construction Controversies, Ronald Bishop, Drexel U, Philadelphia, PA, USA Respondent: Divya C. McMillin, U of Washington, Tacoma, WA, USA *** FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 2000 3-4:15 pm Sala B Cultural Expression Within a Latin American/Latino Context ExpresiÑn Cultural en un Contexto Latinoamericano y/o Latino (jointly sponsored with the Feminist Scholarship Division) Chair/Coordinador: Robert Huesca, Trinity U, San Antonio, TX, USA Participants/Participantes Salsa and Latina/os: Expressive Forms of Popular Culture; La Salsa y la gente latina: Formas expresivas en la cultura popular, Angharad N. Valdivia, U of Illinois, Champaign, IL, USA Transnational Infections: Hybrid Theory, Gender, and Latino AIDS/SIDA Narratives; Infecciones Transnacionales: La teorÕa hÕbrida, el gZÿnero y las narrativas latinas sobre el AIDS/SIDA, MarÕa Victoria Ruiz, U of Illinois, Champaign, IL, USA Danzoing Our Way to Feminine Identity: New Uses of Melodrama in Mexican Cinema; "Danzoneando" hacia la identidad femenina: Nuevos usos del melodrama en el cine mexicano, Dora MartÕnez-Ramos, U de Monterrey, San Pedro Garza GarcÕa, NL, MEXICO Popular Communication in the Radio: The Case of "Monitor News" in Mexico City; Formas de expresiÑn popular en la radio: El caso del noticiero "Monitor" en la Ciudad de MZÿxico, Angela Giglia, Faculty of Latin American Social Sciences, Ciudad de MZÿxico, DF, MEXICO Respondent/Comentarista: Robert Huesca, Trinity U, San Antonio, TX, USA *** FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 2000 4:30-5:45 pm, Princesa II Popular CULT-ure: Theory, Cult TV, and Fandom Chair: Ernest A. Hakanen, Drexel U, Philadelphia, PA, USA Participants Cultural Theory in Popular Culture and Media Spectacles, Michael Real, San Diego State U, San Diego, CA, USA Fear of Queer Reproduction: The Hybrids, the Bees, and The X-Files, Kathleen Battles, U of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA Creating a Pocket Universe: 'Shippers,' Fan Fiction, and The X-Files On-Line, Christine Scodari, and Jenna L. Felder, Florida Atlantic U, Boca Raton, FL, USA False Intimacy: Vicarious Involvement with Celebrities in the Media, Janel S. Schuh, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA Respondent: Ernest A. Hakanen, Drexel U, Philadelphia, PA, USA *** FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 2000 6-7:15 pm, Princessa II Popular Communication Division Business Meeting ********** SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 2000 8:15-9:30 am, Princesa II The Environment, Animal Rights, and Natural Resources Chair: Katherine Fry, Brooklyn College-City U of New York, Brooklyn, NY, USA Participants From Loch Ness Monsters to Global Warming: Framing Environmental Risk in a Supermarket Tabloid, Donnalyn Pompper, Florida A&M U, Tallahassee, FL, USA Korean Environmental Journalism: Journalists' Perspectives of Their Journalistic Role, Jaeyung Park, U of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA Monopoly, The National Parks Edition: Reading Neo-Liberal Simulacra, Andy Opel, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA *Social Noise and Popular Rhythms: Generating and Maintaining Common Faith in Animal Rights, Peter Simonson, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA, USA Respondent: Rob Drew, Saginaw Valley State U, University Center, MI, USA *Top Rated Paper *** SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 2000 9:45-11 am, Princesa II Popular Music and Culture Chair: Sari Thomas, Temple U, Philadelphia, PA, USA Participants *Emcees Who Love Too Much: Sincerity and Cynicism on the Karaoke Circuit, Rob Drew, Saginaw Valley State U, University Center, MI, USA The Persistence of Consumption: Theorizing the Use of Obsolete Media, John D. Seibert-Davis, and Thomas R. Lindlof, U of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA The Polyphony of Discourse: Music Criticism's Contribution to Media and Intellectual History, Les Roka, Ohio U, Athens, OH, USA One and a Half Stars: A Critique of Rock Criticism in North America, Kembrew McLeod, U of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA Respondent: Sari Thomas, Temple U, Philadelphia, PA, USA *Top Three Paper *** SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 2000 3-4:15 pm, Princesa II US Popular Culture and Representations of the World Chair: Matt McAllister, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA Participants Cartoon Cuba: Politically Colored Views of a Needy Neighbor in 1898, Christopher A. Vaughan, Rutgers U, New Brunswick, NJ, USA *Hollywood and the "Real Asian Man": Representation and Race in "The Ballad of Little Jo", Nancy Inouye, U of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA Japan, Hollywood, and America's Storytelling Potency: An Analysis of the Takeover Fantasy in Contemporary American Commercial Fiction, Peter W. Oehlkers, Emerson College, Boston, MA, USA But the Distance Between Here and There: The Potential and Limitations of Travel Journalism on Global Television, Elfriede Fursich, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA Respondent: Peter Kareithi, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY, USA *Top Three Paper *** SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 2000 4:30-5:45 pm, Princesa II Studies in Popular Cinema Chair: Christine Scodari, Florida Atlantic U, Boca Raton, FL, USA Participants The "Other" French Cinema: Kassovitz's Metisse and La Haine, Michela Ardizzoni, Indiana U, Bloomington, IN, USA Viewing the Troubles: Irish-American Audience Interpretations of Political Violence, Alicia Kemmitt, U of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA Graphic Screen Violence: Problems of Visual Rhetoric, Aesthetic Pleasure, and Viewer Response, Stephen Prince, Virginia Tech U, Blacksburg, VA, USA "Evil" Images in At Play in the Fields of the Lord: Evangelicals and Representations of Sexuality in Contempory Film, Todd Rendleman, Seattle Pacific U, Seattle, WA, USA Respondent: Lynne Schofield Clark, U of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA ********** SUNDAY, JUNE 4, 2000 8:15-9:30 am, Princesa II Studies of Sexuality and Popular Communication: Multidivisional Perspectives Chair: Debra Merskin, U of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA Panelists Representing Feminist Scholarship, Meenakshi Gigi Durham, U of Texas, Austin, TX, USA Representing Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Studies, Sue Lafky, U of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA Representing Communication Law and Policy, Chris Demaske, U of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA Representing Mass Communication, Jane Banks, Indiana U-Purdue U, Fort Wayne, IN, USA Representing Popular Communication, Debra Merskin, U of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA In keeping with the Popular Communication Division's tradition of hosting a multi-divisional discussion on a topic involving popular culture, this panel highlights how issues related to sexuality and popular culture are studied across the discipline. The cultural artifacts and issues to be covered include advertising imagery, hate crime legislation, television and reactionary ideologies of sexuality, and mediated constructions of female sexuality. *** SUNDAY, JUNE 4, 2000 9:45-11 am Princesa II "We're Not in Kansas Anymore:" HBO's Oz and the Changing Landscape for Dramatic Television Series Chair: Jonathan David Tankel, Indiana U-Purdue U, Fort Wayne, IN, USA Participants There's No Place Like Oz: HBO and "Quality Television", Steve Carr, Indiana U-Purdue U, Fort Wayne, IN, USA Representations of Punishment as Lived Experience in Oz, Toby Miller, New York U, New York, NY, USA Discipline and Fetish: The Spectacle of the Male Body in Oz, Jane Banks, and Rodney Farnsworth, Indiana U-Purdue U, Fort Wayne, IN, USA Aristotle in a Wheelchair: Narrative Strategies in Oz, Jonathan David Tankel, Indiana U-Purdue U, Fort Wayne, IN, USA Respondent: Susan Drucker, Hofstra U, Hempstead, NY, USA Broadcast network television dramatic series are restricted by televisual conventions designed for mass audience appeal and by network standards and practices. Pay-cable services are not subject to these restrictions. This panel examines Oz, the first pay-cable hour-long dramatic series, in order to determine the possibilities pay-cable offers dramatic series in terms of content and aesthetics. The panel looks at the production techniques, narrative strategies, visual representations of the male body, and representations of punishment in Oz. *** SUNDAY, JUNE 4, 2000 3-4:15 pm, Sala C Interactive Display Sessions Participants Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book: Domestic Fertility Rituals of the Post-War Era, Jennifer R. Horner, U of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA Constructing Purity: Bottled Water and the Commodification of Nature, Andy Opel, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA Don't Tease Me: Effects of Ending Type on Horror Film Enjoyment, Cynthia M. King, and Nora Hourani, California State U, Fullerton, CA, USA Enamoring, Emulating, and Familiarizing Martha: The Creation of Martha Stewart, a Popular Culture Icon, Melissa Wood Aleman, James Madison U, Harrisonburg, VA, USA Images of the Day: Visual Symbolism in Broadcast News, John Huxford, U of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA Media Use and Public Leisure Activities: Competition or Symbiosis?, Leo W. Jeffres, Kimberly Neuendorf, and David J. Atkin, Cleveland State U, Cleveland, OH, USA The Role of Television Advertising in the Construction of Gender Identity, Edit Gorogh, U of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA Toward a Model of Democratic Self-Help: Identifying the Rhetorical Characteristics of a Therapeutic and Empowering Discourse, Kimberly N. Kline, Purdue U, West Lafayette, IN, USA We Are What We Say: Healing and Communication in Self-Help Literature, Louise Woodstock, U of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA Roving Respondents: Barbara Ann Mastrolia, Indiana U Northwest, Gary, IN, USA; Mary Beth Oliver, Penn State U, University Park, PA, USA; Jonathan David Tankel, Indiana U-Purdue U, Fort Wayne, IN, USA *** SUNDAY, JUNE 4, 2000 4:30-5:45 pm Atlantes Amphitheatre "Postfeminism" and Popular Television Chairs: Laurie Ouellette, Rutgers U, New Brunswick, NJ, USA and Susan McKenna, U of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA Participants Ally McBeal and the Politics of Postfeminist Sexuality, Laurie Ouellette, Rutgers U, New Brunswick, NJ, USA Not Your Mother's Bewitched?, Heather Downs, U of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA Heterosexuality and Its Discontents: The Queer, Queer World of Ally McBeal, Jane Banks, Indiana U-Purdue U, Fort Wayne, IN, USA Television and the Search for the Postfeminist Body, Susan McKenna, U of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA Respondent: Andrea Press, U of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA This panel explores television representations of gender and sexuality in today's "postfeminist" political climate. The four papers discuss the contradictions between the appearance of an already achieved sexual equality and the representation of subordination, difference, and discontent. These papers examine the extent to which postfeminist promises of agency, equality, and sexual freedom are valorized in popular television representations, yet simultaneously undermined by the construction of sexual difference, eating disorders, sexual harassment, and female power. *** SUNDAY, JUNE 4, 2000 6-7:15 pm Sala B Beyond Mexico and Brazil: Telenovelas East and West; Màs Allà de MZÿxico y Brasil: Telenovelas del Este y el Oeste Chair/Coordinadora: Anne Cooper-Chen, Ohio U, Athens, OH, USA Participants/Participantes Venezuela: "Por Estas Calles" [Down These Streets], Nelson Hippolyte, Ohio U, Athens, OH, USA Guyana: "Agree to Disagree" [Acordamos no Acordar], Vibert Cambridge, Ohio U, Athens, OH, USA Japan: "Oshin", Anne Cooper-Chen, Ohio U, Athens, OH, USA Sri Lanka: "Yugawilakkuwa" [When the Candle Burns at Both Ends/Quemando la vela por ambos extremos], Samanthi Hewakapuge, Ohio U, Athens, OH, USA As a complement to the ICA preconference on the role of telenovelas in Latin America, this panel looks at the TV serial genre outside of the producer-exporter centers of Mexico and Brazil. Although contexts differ, all four series discussed on this panel expose social problems&endash;from race relations to political corruption to poverty. Each panelist will address how Bandura's social learning theory, which posits that audiences can learn from the behavior of fictional characters, relates to these four narrative TV series. Complementando la pre-conferencia de ICA sobre el papel de las telenovelas en AmZÿrica Latina, este panel examina el gZÿnero telenovelesco màs allà de MZÿxico y Brasil, que tradicionalmente han sido los centros de producciÑn y exportaciÑn. A pesar de que los contextos varÕan, estas cuatro teleseries exponen problemas sociales que van desde las relaciones raciales hasta la corrupciÑn polÕtica y la pobreza. Cada panelista recalcarà la teorÕa de aprendizaje social de Bandura, segÏn la cual los telespectadores pueden aprender del comportamiento de personajes ficticios, y resaltarà la conexiÑn entre cada una de las teleseries y este marco teÑrico. Respondent: Youichi Ito, Keio U, Shonan Fujisawa, JAPAN ********** MONDAY, JUNE 5, 2000 8:15-9:30 am Atlantes Amphitheatre Gender in Popular Culture Chair: Jean Grow von Dorn, U of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, WI, USA Participants India in the 1990s: Transformations in the Indian Television Landscape and Reconstructing Indian Femininity on the Small Screen, Debasmita Roychowdhury, U of Texas, Austin, TX, USA The Warrior Women of Television: A Semiotic Cultural Analysis of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dawn Heinecken, and Vickie Rutledge Shields, Bowling Green State U, Bowling Green, OH, USA The Kabessa Horror Picture Show and Jabber's Crying Game: Two Paradigms of Gender Identification on Israeli Television, Gilad Padva, Tel Aviv U, Tel Aviv, ISRAEL The Performance of a Lifetime: Competition, Athleticism, and Feminine Masquerade in Rodeo Queen Culture, Vickie Rutledge Shields, and Colleen Coughlin, Bowling Green State U, Bowling Green, OH, USA Respondent: Lynne Y. Edwards, Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA, USA *** MONDAY, JUNE 5, 2000 æ9:45-11 am, Princesa II Pointing the Finger of Blame: News Media Coverage of Popular Culture Culpability Chair: Lisa Weidman, U of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA Participants Case Study 1: The Death of Princess Diana, Lisa Weidman, U of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA Case Study 2: The Jenny Jones Incident, Kimberly L. Bissell, Southern Illinois U, Carbondale, IL, USA Case Study 3: The Littleton Massacre, Erica Scharrer, U of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA Theoretical Foundation and Implications, Erica Scharrer, U of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA and Lisa Weidman, U of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA This panel examines how and why the press came to assign blame to popular culture products (tabloids, video games, etc.) in news coverage of three major events: the death of Princess Diana, the "Jenny Jones" murder, and the massacre in Littleton, Colorado. Panelists discuss how coverage evolved from presenting the facts of each event to speculating on possible contributing factors and why popular culture products and their producers were implicated in these tragedies. #####
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