Popular Communication Panels for the 1999 International Communication Association Meeting San Francisco, May 27-May 31, 1999 ********** PRECONFERENCE 13.PO Thursday, May 27 9-1 pm San Francisco State Downtown Center, 425 Market Street, 2nd Floor* (not at SF Hilton and Towers) Jointly Sponsored with PHILOSOPHY OF COMMUNICATION *** Virtual Scholarship: Cyberspace, Communication, and Culture Chairs * Christine Scodari, Florida Atlantic U, Boca Raton, FL, USA * Gilbert B. Rodman, U of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA * Scott J. Patterson, San Francisco State U, San Francisco, CA, USA Panelists * Christine Scodari, Florida Atlantic U, Boca Raton, FL, USA * Gilbert B. Rodman, U of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA * Nancy Baym, Wayne State U, Detroit, MI, USA * Alice Crawford, U of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA * Steve Jones, U of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA * John Macgregor Wise, Clemson U, Clemson, SC, USA The Internet explosion has, over the past decade, presented new manifestations and channels of communication, culture, and community as well as opportunities and methods for studying these phenomena. Scholars have sought to formulate, illustrate, and refine theories of computer-mediated communication and its analysis. This seminar, which will include presentations from invited experts and discussion with and among other participants, will attempt to assess the current status of such inquiry, particularly as it relates to the interests and pursuits of the Popular Communication and Philosophy of Communication Divisions of ICA. To Attend: By request (no fee, but must advance register), first come/first serve, as occupancy permits. Contact: Christine Scodari Dept. of Communication Florida Atlantic Univ. Boca Raton, FL 33431 561-297-2611; cscodari@fau.edu Fax: 561-297-2615 (Please include e-mail address) *Location provided by the Department of Broadcast and Electronic Arts and the Multimedia Studies Program at San Francisco State University ********** 21.PO Friday, May 28 8:15-9:30 am, Continental Parlors 1, 2, & 3 Jointly Sponsored with MASS COMMUNICATION and INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION Audience Relationships with Media Personalities: Further Exploration of Links Between Mass and Interpersonal Communication Chair Elizabeth M. Perse, U of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA Participants Fifty Ways to Love Your Character: A Theoretical Analysis of Viewer-Character Relationships. Jonathan Cohen, U of Haifa, Haifa, ISRAEL Attribution in Social and Parasocial Friendships. Rebecca B. Rubin and Alan M. Rubin, Kent State U, Kent, OH, USA Imported Versus Domestic: Examining the Relationship Between Components of Collective Identity and Television Viewing Preference for a Taiwanese Sample. Gail Coover, U of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA Measuring Mediated Relationships: A Conceptual Reconsideration. Cynthia Hoffner, Illinois State U, Normal, IL, USA 'Personal Broadcasting': Theoretical Implications of the Web. Patrick B. O'Sullivan, Illinois State U, Normal, IL, USA Respondent Elizabeth M. Perse, U of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA Last year three ICA divisions co-sponsored a preconference on the blurring boundaries between mass and interpersonal communication. This panel continues the dialogue by exploring aspects of the relationships that people develop with performers and characters in traditional and new media. *** 22.PO Friday, May 28 9:45-11 am Union Square Rooms 15 & 16 Semiotic and Ideological Approaches to Television Chair Sari Thomas, Temple U, Philadelphia, PA, USA Participants *Contradictions of Television Reality: The Case of Black Men on MTV's The Real World. Mark P. Orbe and Nancy C. Cornwell, Western Michigan U, Kalamazoo, MI, USA Colliding Tensions: 'Machismo,' Virginity, and Women's Oppression in Puerto Rico's Television Family. Yeidy M. Rivero, U of Texas, Austin, TX, USA Caribbean Popular Culture -- Going to Extremes. Juliette Storr, Ohio U, Athens, OH, USA For Seinfeld Communality Inheres in Self Interest: A Syndromic Approach. Nitzan Ben-Shaul, Tel-Aviv U, Tel-Aviv, ISRAEL Respondent Christine Scodari, Florida Atlantic U, Boca Raton, FL, USA *Top Rated Paper *** 23.PO Friday, May 28 11:15-12:30 pm Union Square Rooms 15 & 16 Television Science Fiction and Fantasy Chair Ivy Glennon, Eastern Illinois U, Charleston, IL, USA Participants Representations of Multiraciality in Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Assimilation of Lieutenant Worf. Michele S. Foss, U of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA Resistance Is Never Futile: Reading the Borg of Star Trek. Mia Consalvo, U of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA "Oh My Stars!": The Politics of History in Bewitched. Walter Metz, Montana State U, Bozeman, MT, USA The Politics of Fantasy in The X-Files: Scully, Mulder, and Gender Representation in the "Ego's Era". John M. Groves, U of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA Respondent Barbara L. Baker, Central Missouri State U, Warrensburg, MO, USA *** 26.PO Friday, May 28 3:15-4:30 pm Union Square Rooms 15 & 16 Popular Discussions of Death Chair Laurie Ouellette, Rutgers U, New Brunswick, NJ, USA Participants *Ideology, Religion and Class in a Mediated Environment: A Critical Reception Study of Touched by an Angel. Lynn Schofield Clark, U of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA Squeamishness and the Status Quo: Retributional Justifications of the Death Penalty. M. Louise Woodstock, U of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA Telling "Everyone's Story" through Celebrities: Mourning, Memorial, and Meaning in American Newsmagazines. Carolyn L. Kitch,Northwestern U, Evanston, IL, USA Public Photographs of Remembrance: Images of Death in Tabloids and the Elite Press. Jessica Morgan Fishman, U of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA Respondent Barbara Ann Mastrolia, Indiana U Northwest, Gary, IN, USA *Top Four Paper *** 27.PO Friday, May 28 4:45-6 pm Union Square Rooms 15 & 16 Popular Music and Alternative Media Chair Steve Jones, U of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA Participants *Being Apart Together: Integration and Difference in a Karaoke Scene. Vincent Doyle, U of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA "Keepin' it Real": Invocations of Authenticity Within Hip-Hop and African-American Culture. Kembrew McLeod, U of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA Creating Alternative Media: Shows in the Straight-Edge Field. Mary S. Pileggi, Villanova U, Villanova, PA, USA Selena's Posthumous Cross Over: A Case Study in Media Construction of Cross-Cultural Celebrity. Mary Caudle Beltràn, U of Texas, Austin, TX, USA Respondent Holly Kruse, Philadelphia, PA, USA *Top Four Paper ********** 31.PO Saturday, May 29 8:15-9:30 am Union Square Rooms 15 & 16 Advertising Criticism Chair Debra Merskin, U of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA Participants Transgressing the Template: Textual Traces of the Commodification and Containment of African-Americans in Nike Advertising. Alice Ashton Filmer, San Francisco State U, San Francisco, CA, USA Engines and Acolytes of Consumption: Black Male Bodies, Advertising, and the Laws of Thermodynamics. Matthew Soar, U of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA A World of Difference: Images of America in British Advertising. Jane C. Stokes, South Bank U, London, UNITED KINGDOM Class Anxiety and Consumption: An Analysis of Television Home-shopping Channels. Judi Puritz Cook, Salem State College, Salem, MA, USA Respondent Kevin G. Barnhurst, U of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA *** 33.PO Saturday, May 29 11:15-12:30 pm Union Square Rooms 15 & 16 Difference, Distinction, and Meaning: Reception Research in Households Chair Stewart M. Hoover, U of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA Participants Teens and the Regeneration of Meaning: The Use of Peer-led Discussion Groups in Ethnographic Inquiry. Lynn Schofield Clark, U of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA The Discourse of Difference in a Family's Media Practice. Diane Alters, U of Colorado, Boulder, CO Media Violence and Children: New Conceptualizations Challenging Assumptions of "Effects". Leona Hood, U of Colorado, Boulder, CO Media and Meaning-making of Environmental Families: A Suffusion-differentiation Model. Joseph G. Champ, U of Colorado, Boulder, CO Respondent Stewart M. Hoover, U of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA These papers result from a long-term qualitative study of media, symbolism, and meaning-making in households. Both the larger project and these papers assume that an important part of audience practice is an engagement with the media as a kind of symbolic inventory out of which practices of meaning, the self, and identity can be crafted and constructed. *** 35.PO Saturday, May 29 1:45-3 pm Union Square Rooms 15 & 16 Ethnic and National Identity in Popular Culture Chair Mark A. Neumann, U of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA Participants *Savage Desires: The Gendered Construction of the American Indian in Popular Media. S. Elizabeth Bird, U of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA Mapping "Hawaiianness" Through the Geographic. Rona Tamiko Halualani, San Jose State U, San Jose, CA, USA The Patriotism of the Future: Transnationalism and the Politics of Identity. Anu Mandavilli, U of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Savage Other, Civilized Self: The Oppositional Impulse and the US Colonial Gaze. Christopher A. Vaughan, Rutgers U, New Brunswick, NJ, USA Respondent Mark A. Neumann, U of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA *Top Four Paper *** 37.PO Saturday, May 29 4:45-6 pm Union Square Rooms 15 & 16 Sport: The Contradictions of History, Power, and Cultural Expression Chair Lawrence A. Wenner, U of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA Participants "Will the Playing Fields of America One Day Be Ruled by Amazons?": The Shibboleth of the Female Athlete in the Popular Press, 1921-1996. Susan Leggett, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA, USA Fictional Denials of Female Empowerment: A Feminist Analysis of Young Adult Sports Fiction. Mary Jo Kane, U of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA Myth, News, and Sport: Mark McGwire as Mythic Hero. Jack Lule, Lehigh U, Bethlehem, PA, USA Commodity Fetishism and the Female Body. Debra Merskin, U of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA Olympics, Soaps, and Spectacles: The Transformation of Women's Sports Programming. Gina Daddario, Shenandoah U, Winchester, VA, USA Respondent Sue Curry Jansen, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA, USA The panel uses the elements of power, history, and cultural expression as a collective departure point to address the contradictions and disjunctures in women's experiences as athletes, as subjects of media treatments, as audiences, and as commodities. Additionally, the panel considers how sport, mediated sport in particular, approaches mythic proportion and function in a case study of news coverage of Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa. ********** 41.PO Sunday, May 30 8:15-9:30 am Union Square Rooms 15 & 16 News as Popular Communication Chair Barbie Zelizer, U of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA Participants Made in Our Own Image: Cloning, Technology, & Taboo Kate M. Kenski, U of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA Science -- or Fiction?: Journalist Deems Science Out of Bounds... Linda Billings, Indiana U, Bloomington, IN, USA Covering The Starr Report: Two Korean Newspapers Made Opposite Ethical Choices -- How and Why? Jaeyung Park and Jongmin Park, U of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA From Activism to Consumption, the Evolution of a Community: The Oregon Daily Emerald's Framing of the Grateful Dead 1968-1995 Andy Opel, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA Respondent S. Elizabeth Bird, U of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA *** 42.PO Sunday, May 30 9:45-11 am Continental Ballroom, Parlor 6 Gender in Visual and Competitive Culture Chair Norma Pecora, Ohio U, Athens, OH, USA Participants The Black Woman as Semantic Marker of Hypersexuality in Western Mythology: Its Contemporary Manifestation in the Film The Scarlet Letter. Linus Abraham, Iowa State U, Ames, IA, USA LIFE's Contradictions: Narratives of the Female Body in 1930's Photojournalism. Dolores Flamiano, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA Class and Gender Propriety: Reading Public Criticism of Child Beauty Pageants. Ann Johnson, U of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA Acrobats and Angels: Perversity, Contradiction, and US Women's Gymnastics. Ann Chisholm, California State U, Northridge, CA, USA Respondent Jane Banks, Indiana U-Purdue U, Fort Wayne, IN, USA *** 43.PO Sunday, May 30 11:15-12:30 pm, Union Square Room 21 Studies in Contradiction: Popular Media and Cultural Distinctions Chair S. Elizabeth Bird, U of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA Participants Reading Oprah/Watching Books: "Oprah's Book Club" and the Production of the Literate Viewer-Subject. Janice Peck, U of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA Contradictions, Cultural Capital, and Romance Reading in Postcolonial India: The Discourse of High and Low Culture. Radhika Parameswaran, Indiana U, Bloomington, IN, USA Network Radio's "Intimate Public" and the Voice of the People. Jason Loviglio, U of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA Internet Crazies?: Television Fandom and the Question of Taste. S. Elizabeth Bird, U of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA A central theme of this panel is the interrogation of the High/Low culture distinction in everyday life. The four panelists use case studies to examine constructed distinctions among particular cultural forms and activities/audience--all of which produce apparent contradictions when articulated in unfamiliar ways. *** 45.PO Sunday, May 30 1:45-3 pm, Plaza Rooms A & B Interactive Display Session Beyond the Referential: Uses of Photographic Symbolism in the Press. John Huxford, U of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA Coaches, Drama, and Technology: Mediation in Super Bowl Broadcasts from 1969 to 1997. Lawrence J. Mullen and Dennis W. Mazzocco, U of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, USA Slippery Slope: Sex, Nationality, and the Olympics. Steve J. Collins, Syracuse U, Syracuse, NY, USA Alternative Explanations: A Textual Analysis of Rap Music Lyrics. Sonja Monique Brown, U of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA Seeding the Boundary: A Family's Defense Against Media and Greater Culture. Joseph G. Champ, U of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA This, That, and the Other: Fraught Possibilities of the Souvenir. Lisa L. Love, U of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA and Nathaniel Kohn, U of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA The First and Second Novel Traps: Cultural Conventions and Cultural Production. Courtney Bennett, U of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA Let's Put Our (Post)cards on the Table. Ayelet Kohn, Hebrew U, Jerusalem, ISRAEL Romantic Truth Construction from Dialogues through Time and Narrative: How Romance Writers and their Readers Refigure the Fantasy. Kathryn Smoot Egan, Brigham Young U, Provo, UT, USA Putting the World on the Couch: Cultural Authority and the Stance of the Public Expert, David Park, U of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA High-Tech Humor in a Low Bandwidth Medium: Representations of Technology in Cartoons from The New Yorker. T. Andrew Finn, Bruce Berger, John Davis, and Stephen Haggerty, U of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA Social Justice and Crime-Based Entertainment; A Cognitive Theory of Enjoyment, Arthur A. Raney, Indiana U, Bloomington, IN, USA and Jennings Bryant, U of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA Roving Respondents * Robin Andersen, Fordham University, New York, NY, USA * Jonathan D. Tankel, Indiana U-Purdue U, Fort Wayne, IN, USA * Doug Williams, U of California, San Diego, CA, USA *** 46.PO Sunday, May 30 3:15-4:30 pm Continental Ballroom, Parlor 6 Studies of Youth Culture and Popular Communication: Multi-Divisional Perspectives Chair Sharon R. Mazzarella, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY, USA Participants Representing Philosophy of Communication. Ellen Seiter, U of California, San Diego, CA, USA Representing Health Communication. Kim Walsh-Childers, U of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA Representing Mass Communication. Mary Beth Oliver, Pennsylvania State U, State College, PA, USA Representing Feminist Scholarship. Meenakshi Gigi Durham, U of Texas, Austin, TX, USA Representing Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender. Michelle A. Wolf and Sara Louise Brewer, San Francisco State U, San Francisco, CA, USA Representing Popular Communication. Sharon R. Mazzarella, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY, 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 of youth and popular communication are studied across the discipline. The topics to be covered are linked on some level by their focus on young people (from kids to "Generation X"), including issues related to sexuality, gender identity/socialization, sexual orientation, generational identity, and consumer identity. *** 47.PO Sunday, May 30 4:45-6 pm Union Square Rooms 15 & 16 Popular Communication Division Business Meeting Chair Matt McAllister, Virginia Tech U, Blacksburg, VA, USA ALL MEMBERS ARE INVITED! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 51.PO Monday, May 31 8:15-9:30 am Yosemite Room C Sex and Gender in Cyberspace: Intersecting Cultural Meaning and Technology Chair Sari Thomas, Temple U, Philadelphia, PA, USA Participants "No cyber...I only do real sex," or How Technology Reconfigures Popular Ontology. Sari Thomas, Temple U, Philadelphia, PA, USA Participation in Internet Chat as a Gender Issue. Jennifer Vaughn Trias, Temple U, Philadelphia, PA, USA I Found It!: Searching for the Lost Clitoris in Cyberspace. Allucquere Rosanne Stone, U of Texas, Austin, TX, USA Respondent Carolyn Marvin, U of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA Although scholars and social critics have certainly begun to invest their professional energies in studying cyberculture, sex, and gender issues, these efforts have, for the most part, either warned of new social dangers lurking in cyberspace or documented how older culture patterns are sustained in the information age. In a different way, each presentation questions how the popular advent of cybercommunication has or has not redefined sexual meaning and function. *** 52.PO Monday, May 31 9:45-11 am Union Square Rooms 15 & 16 Studies in Cinema Chair Steve Carr, Indiana U-Purdue U, Fort Wayne, IN, USA Participants Motion Pictures, Metaphors, and AIDS: An Examination of Metaphorical Expressions and Imagery in Entertainment Films with AIDS-Related Themes. Renee Maday, Arizona State U, Tempe, AZ, USA Korean National Cinema as Social, Political, and Cultural Praxis: Its Manifestos, Philosophies, and Legacies. Eungjun Min, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI, USA Hollywood, Hegemony, and Democracy. Patty Sotirin, Michigan Technological U, Houghton, MI, USA and M. Mehdi Semati, Michigan Technological U, Houghton, MI, USA Spectacle as Commodity: Special Effects in Feature Films. Luke Hockley, U of Luton, Bedfordshire, UNITED KINGDOM Respondent Bonnie S. Brennen, Virginia Commonwealth U, Richmond, VA, USA *** 53.PO Monday, May 31 11:15-12:30 pm Union Square Rooms 15 & 16 Occupied Territories: Visual Culture, Identity, and Inhabitation in Contemporary American Media-Made Places Chair Mark A. Neumann, U of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA Participants Southern California Noir 1940-1955: The Development of a Celluloid Landscape. Sharon E. Sekhon, U of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Consumed with the Past: Popular Memory at a Historic Picture Palace. Janna Jones, U of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA Looking for Country Music's Place: The Politics of Images in a Tourist Zone. David Eason, Middle Tennessee State U, Murfreesboro, TN, USA Occupied Territory: Landscape, Tourist Photography, and the Visual Culture of Monument Valley. Robert M. Bednar, Texas Lutheran U, Senguin, TX, USA Respondent Lynn Spigel, U of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA USA This panel will examine the contemporary visual culture of place in America to highlight the ways that visual representation have been produced, consumed, inhabited, and contested at four landscape sites where these issues are particularly problematic. Panelists explore contemporary questions of location, temporality, identity, and status as they are mapped, lived, imagined, and remembered within particular territories shaped by popular American visual culture. #####
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