Popular Communication Panels at the International Communication Association Annual Conference, Jerusalem, Israel, July 20-24, 1998 ********** Tuesday, July 20, 1998 8:15 - 9:30 am, Tamar Room (Mis)Communicating the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict Chair: Yosefa Loshitzky, Hebrew U, Jerusalem, ISRAEL Maps of Exile and Return in Israeli and Palestinian Cinema, Livia Alexander, New York U, New York, NY, USA Chronicle of Disappearance: The Absent "Other" in Israeli Cinema, Haim Bresheeth, Negev College, Hof Ashkelon, ISRAEL The Birth of a Nation: Phallocentrism and War in Israeli Cinema, Yosefa Loshitzky, Hebrew U, Jerusalem, ISRAEL The Public Sphere, the Media, and Democratization Processes in Palestinian Society, Amal Jamal, Ben Gurion U, Beersheba, ISRAEL Respondent: Lena Jayyusi, Al-Quds U, Jerusalem, ISRAEL *** Tuesday, July 20, 1998 9:45 - 11 am, Gideon Bodies, Deception, and Violence Chair: Hana Noor Al-Deen, U of North Carolina, Wilmington, NC, USA A Body That Does(n't) Matter: Passing in Film, Liora Moriel, U of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA * Dangerous Supplements: Body Doubling in Hollywood Film, Ann Chisholm, California State U, Northridge, CA, USA Pictures of Pain on Page One: Examining Media Violence, Jessica Fishman, U of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA, and Carolyn Marvin, U of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA A Policeman's Lot is Not a Happy One: An Overview of Contemporary American and British Crime Dramas, Albert Auster, Fordham U, Bronx, NY, USA Respondent: Jane Banks, Indiana-Purdue U, Fort Wayne, IN, USA * Top paper in Popular Communication *** Tuesday, July 20, 1998 1:45 - 3 pm, Gideon Representing Marginalization Chair: Robert Huesca, Trinity U, San Antonio, TX, USA Rewriting History and Absolving White Guilt: Disney's Pocahontas, Ellen Riordan, U of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA Israeli Graffiti: Groups, In-Groups, and Collective Identity in Israeli Cinema, Miri Talmon, Open U, Tel Aviv, and Hebrew U, Jerusalem, ISRAEL Hollywood's Myth of the Developmentally Disabled: Forrest Gump, Rainman, et al., Susan Hamovitch, Hofstra U, Hempstead, NY, USA Prime-Time Television "Fable-Families": Political and Social Satire for Segmented Audiences, Ayelet Kohn, Hebrew U, Jerusalem, ISRAEL Respondent: Bonnie Brennen, Virgina Commonwealth U, Richmond, VA, USA *** Tuesday, July 20, 1998 4:45 - 6 pm, Gideon Forms and Media of Memory: Communicating the Holocaust Chair: Hannah Kliger, Allegheny U, Philadelphia, PA and U of Persuasion and Holocaust Memorials: Case Studies of Berlin, Paris, Thessaloniki and New York, Gary Gumpert, Great Neck, NY, USA and Susan J. Drucker, Hofstrea U, Hempstead, NY, USA The Rhetoric of Memory: The Legacy of the Holocaust for Jewish Liturgy, Samuel M. Edelman, Chico State U, Chico, CA, USA Carol Edelman, Chico State U, Chico, CA, USA Holocaust Narratives and Family Themes: The Transmission and Transformation of Trauma in Life Histories, Hannah Kliger, Allegheny U, Philadelphia, PA, and U of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA Memory in Transition: Second Generation Israelis Screen the Holocaust, Yosefa Loshitzky, Hebrew U, Jerusalem, Israel ********** Wednesday, July 21, 1998 9:45 - 11 am, Tamar Resolving Identity Through Narrative Chair: Norma Pecora, Ohio U, Athens, OH, USA Father & Son In Law: The Defenders and Sixties TV, Steven D. Classen, California State U, San Bernardino, CA, USA Losing My Dirty Mind: Epilepsy, Narrative, and Taboo, Andrea Wagner, U of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA * Reading Popular Culture and Doing Gender, Ana C. Garner, Marquette U, Milwaukee, WI, USA My Story Is Like This...: Personal Experience Narratives on Israeli Talk Radio, Tamar Katriel, U of Haifa, Haifa, ISRAEL Respondent: Steve Carr, Indiana-Purdue U, Fort Wayne, IN, USA * Top paper in Popular Communication *** Wednesday, July 21, 1998 1:45 - 3 pm, Hotel Breezeway Interactive Display Presentations Evelyn Waugh in Ethiopia: News of a Thoroughly Disappointing War, Michael B. Salwen, U of Miami, Miami, FL, USA Sex Role Consumption and Magazine Readership Segmentation: Examining the Advertising Images Available to Different Audiences, Tom Reichert, U of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA and Kirkland Ahem, U of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA Women-In-Alternative/Rock Music: An Audience Reception, Critical Theory Analysis, Georgia Gotsis, Illinois State U, Bloomington-Normal, IL, USA Something about Nothing: The Joking Communicative Act on Seinfeld Across Boundaries, Shoshi Madmoni, U of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA Sowing the Seeds of Miscommunication: A Study of Archetypal Themes Present on Web Pages Featuring Mail-Order-Brides From Russian and Eastern European Nations, John L. Williams, California State U, Sacramento, CA, USA and Lev G. Vassiliev, Kaluga Federal Pedagogical Institute, Kaluga, RUSSIA Marketing and Missionary Work: Religious Advertising in the United States, Daniel A. Stout and Michelle Larson, Brigham Young U, Provo, UT, USA The Refeudalization of the Public Sphere in Campaign Films: Problematizing Objectivity, Charisma and Community-Building, Karin Wahl-Jorgensen, Stanford U, Palo Alto, CA, USA Roving Respondent: Barbara Ann Mastrolia, Indiana U Northwest, Gary IN, USA *** Wednesday, July 21, 1998 3:15 - 4:30 pm, Tamar Interpretive Authority Chair: Katherine Fry, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY, USA Controlling Minds and Memories: Medicine, the Media, and the Social Construction of Mental Disorders,Linda Billings, Indiana U, Bloomington, IN, USA Will the Real Expert Please Stand Up? Class, Trash, and the Struggle Over Expertise on Daytime Television Talkshows, Laura Grindstaff, U of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA From Behind the Walls: Boundary Work by News Organizations in Their Coverage of Princess Diana's Death, Ronald Bishop, Drexel U, Philadelphia, PA, USA Happy Birthday, Screw You: The Collision of Copyright Law, the Folk Song Tradition, and the World's Most Popular Birthday Song, Kembrew C. McLeod, U of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA Respondent: Robert Drew, U of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA *** Wednesday, July 21, 1998 6:15 - pm, Ballroom C MASS COMMUNICATION/POPULAR COMMUNICATION PARTY ********** Thursday, July 22, 1998 9:45 - 11 am, Tamar Future and Technology Chair: Robin R. Means Coleman, U of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA The Mediated Millenium: Heaven's Gate, Apocalyptic Expectations, and American Popular Culture, Stephen D. O'Leary, U of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA and Brenda Brasher, Mount Union College, Alliance OH, USA Dystopia in the Science Fiction Film: Blade Runner and Adorno's Critique, Seung Hyun Park, Indiana U, Bloomington, IN, USA Shooting Down Avatars: Virtual Reality Experts and Their Liquid Brush With Social Practice, Chad Tew, Indiana U, Bloomington, IN, USA Framing the Future: The Media's Use of the Science-Fiction Frame in Coverage of the Clone Controversy of 1997, John Huxford, U of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA Respondent: Jonathan Tankel, Indiana-Purdue U, Forth Wayne, IN, USA *** Thursday, July 21, 1998 1:45 - 3 pm, Ammon Spatial Practices Chair: Esther Schely-Neuman, Hebrew U, Jerusalem, ISRAEL Things You Can See From There You Can't See From Here: Globalization, Media and the Olympics, Alina Bernstein, Tel Aviv U, Tel Aviv, ISRAEL Don Tranquilo: The Comic As (Historical) Guide to the Modern South American City, Anton Rosenthal, U of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA Technologies of Place and Public Space, Jessica M. Fishman, U of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA Urban Aesthetic: The Meaning of a City's Skyline, Lawrence J. Mullen, U of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, USA Respondent: Mark Neumann, U of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA *** Thursday, July 21, 1998 3:15 - 4:30 pm, David Popular Communication and Pedagogy Across the Discipline Chair: Jane Banks, Indiana-Purdue U, Fort Wayne, IN, USA Representing Mass Communication: Alison Alexander, U of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA Representing Feminist Scholarship: Jane Banks, Indiana-Purdue U, Ft. Wayne, IN, USA Representing Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Studies: Larry Gross, U of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA Representing Organizational Communication: Patrice Buzzanell, Northern Illinois U, DeKalb, IL, USA Representing Language and Social Interaction: Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, U of Wisconsin-Parkside, Kenosha, WI, USA Representing Popular Communication:Jonathan Tankel, Indiana-Purdue U, Ft. Wayne, IN, USA Respondent: T. Andrew Finn This panel explores the uses of popular communication in teaching a variety of subjects across the discipline. These subjects range from lesbian and gay studies to language and social interaction. Participants in this panel will address specific application of popular communication to their pedagogical interests. *** Thursday, July 21, 1998 4:45 - 6 pm, Dvora Business Meeting ********** Friday, July 22, 1998 8:15 - 9:30 am, Tamar Rhetorics of War/Rhetorics of Peace: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict-- Communicating Across Boundaries Through Film Chair: Bernard Timberg, Radford U, Radford, VA, USA, and Robert West Panelists: To be announced Respondent: Al Auster, Fordham U, Bronx, NY, USA and Susan Hamovitch, Hofstra U, Hempstead, NY, USA This panel will bring together Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers in a discussion on the role of film in crossing boundaries, promoting dialogue, furthering the peace process, and communicating in a way that the political process and news cannot. *** Friday, July 22, 1998 9:45 - 11 am, Gideon Borders and Boundaries in Studies of Religion, Meaning, and the Media Age Chair: Stewart M. Hoover, U of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA Symbolic Appropriation: Postmodernist Religion in the Media Age, Stewart M. Hoover, U of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA Lynn Schofield Clark, U of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA Identity (Religious) in a ?-Modern World, Alf Linderman, U of Uppsala, SWEDEN The Bible Code: Deciphering the Relationship Between Popular Religion and the Media, Michele Rosenthal, Hebrew U, Jerusalem, ISRAEL Respondent: Gabriel Bar-Haim, College of Management, Tel Aviv, ISRAEL *** Friday, July 22, 1998 11:15 - 12:30 pm, Gideon Dealing With Death: Mass Media Discourses on the Human Dimensions of Loss Chair: Hal Himmelstein, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY, USA Confronting the Nightmare of Disaster: The Psychological Impact of Television Reporting of Mass Emergencies on Affected Populations, and the Special Role of Mass-Mediated Crisis Intervention by Mental Health Professionals, Hal Himmelstein, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY, USA, and E. Perry Faithorn, New York, NY, USA Beyond the Call of Duty: The Role of Broadcast Network vs. Local Journalists During Natural Disaster, Katherine Fry, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY, USA The Consequences of Reporting on Death, Carnage and Traumatic Events: What They Don't Teach in the Great Journalism Schools or on the Jobs of the Great News Organizations, Gregg Morris, Hunter College, New York, NY, USA As Silent as the Grave: Reporting on Port Arthur, Sue Turnbull, LaTrobe U, Bundoora, Victoria, AUSTRALIA Laughing and Crying Ourselves to Death: A Demography of Death on Prime Time Television, Barbara Ann Mastrolia, Indiana U Northwest, Gary, IN, USA #####
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