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Faculty Presentations
Listed in alphabetical order.
When the Gate Slams Shut: The Acceptability of Online Degrees in Business and Industry
The steady expansion of online education has brought great promise and controversy. Recently, a new question has emerged in the debate about the merits and problems of distance education: Do job applicants who have earned a degree entirely online, or even partially online, have an equal chance of employment as those who have earned their degrees in the traditional manner? Recent research appears to indicate rather clearly that they do not. This panelist will discuss the results of national studies of hiring “gatekeepers” and their perceptions of online degrees. Friday, November 16 - 11:00am - 12:30pm, Building/Room: Chicago Hilton / Normandie Lounge
Evaluating Internet Content Relevance through Active Participation in Social Networks
Web 2.0 “social software” applications are impacting how web-based communication is prepared, categorized, ranked, and promoted. Social search is a method that determines page relevance by including Internet users’ votes on a Web page or document. This paper examines how including the user community in the Web page ranking process has the potential to bring social democratic values to search relevance but also carries the risk of introducing bias, segmentation, and misleading suggestions of merit. Saturday, November 17 - 2:00pm - 3:15pm, Building/Room: Chicago Hilton / Lake Ontario
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Grandchildren and Grandparents' Use of New Communication Technologies: Bringing Together What Has Grown Apart?
Saturday, November 17 -9:30am - 10:45am, Building/Room: Palmer House/PDR 6
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Session Chair, Social Cognitive Approaches to the Study of Language
Saturday, November 17 - 8:00am - 9:15am, Building/Room: Chicago Hilton / Continental Ballroom B
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A Worldview on Race and Gender: An Assessment of Verbal Aggression of Black and White Men and Women
This study examines verbal aggression of Black and White men and women. One hundred forty nine participants completed Infante and Wigley's (1986) Verbal Aggression Scale in order to assess whether there were race and sex differences in the use of verbal aggression messages. Results revealed no significant differences between Blacks and Whites, but a significant difference between men and women on the self-report measure. Implications for the results and suggestions for future research are forwarded. Thursday, November 15 - 3:30pm - 4:45pm, Building/Room: Chicago Hilton / Conference Room 4K
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Wireless Services: Reconstructing Urban Space and Mobility
Friday, November 16 - 8:00am - 9:15am, Building/Room: Chicago Hilton / Williford A
Session Discussant, The Role of Communication Technologies in Government and Anti-Government Actions
Sunday, November 18 - 8:00am - 9:15am, Building/Room: Chicago Hilton / Lake Huron
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Session Discussant, Reconsidering a Worldview: "Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story," an Experiment in Documentary, Performance, and Pedagogy
Friday, November 16 - 5:00pm - 6:15pm, Building/Room: Chicago Hilton / Astoria Room
Mickee Faust Club's Comic Video Shorts: "Disability Factor" and "Evacuation Procedures"
Video: "Disabilty Factor" Written by Derek Barton. Directed by Diane Wilkins and Donna Marie Nudd. Starring Terry Galloway, Sam Atwood, Lori Violette, Dona Milinkovich, Jimmers Metcalf, and Mickey Dutey. DWP/Faust Films. (2007). "Disability Factor" is an exciting, thrill-packed reality game-show hosted by philosopher and advocate for human dignity Peter Singer, and co-hosted by his frail and elderly mother, Cora Singer, who blends the glamour of Vanna White with the heart-breaking humanity of the Alzheimer's patient. Disabled contestants compete in a series of challenges designed to test their endurance, dexterity, and willpower in overcoming their own malfunctioning bodies. The winner of the challenges receives the right to what every disabled person secretly longs for: euthanasia. "Disability Factor" is, in the end, about compassion, overcoming adversity, and, most importantly, human beings reaching out to each other to promote the greater good by doing what must be done. The show also contains a surprise for the studio audience: one of the contestants is not actually disabled, but is only pretending to be disabled. This is revealed to the studio audience at the end of the show, and they are asked to vote on who they believe is the "fake." If the disabled fake successfully fools the studio audience, they receive a special prize. "Disability Factor" is an in-your-face, controversial satire of some contemporary perspectives on the disabled and their place in society. It features a cast of disabled performers performing their own disabilities, and the sketch poses or implies many questions, including: What happens when disability is performed or parodied? How does an audience perceive such a performance differently when it is explicit that the performers are themselves disabled and performing their own disability? Why does this matter? What are the ethics of the "able-bodied" performing disability? Saturday, November 17 - 3:30pm - 4:45pm, Building/Room: Chicago Hilton / PDR 4
Video: "Evacuation Procedures" Written by Terry Galloway, Carrie Sandahl and Sam Atwood. Produced by Donna Marie Nudd and Diane Wilkins Productions. Directed by Terry Galloway and Diane Wilkins. Starring Actual Lives Company Members. DWP/Faust Films. (2007). In this comic short, a voice over provides five easy, non-costly ADA steps for businesses to assure the safety of disabled workers in case of a catastrophe. While the voice-over instructions for "Effective Evacuation" seem well-intended, the visual images in the video comically point to their ineffectiveness. This video was based in part on the real life harrowing tales of disabled children and adults' actual experience with "evacuation procedures" in institutional settings. It was also inspired by the State of Florida's Department of Education's well-intended but ill-informed revision of their "evacuation procedures" manual. The sketch features an ensemble cast of disabled performers performing their own disabilities. It too poses a number of questions surrounding disability issues. Why are disabled people considered to be more expendable? Why are our evacuation and safety procedures, twenty-years post ADA, still desperately inadequate? Since disabilities vary widely, why is it that safety procedures for "disabled people" do not? Why aren't those who are writing these safety procedures consulting directly with the disabled for guidance?
Saturday, November 17 - 3:30pm - 4:45pm, Building/Room: Chicago Hilton / PDR 4
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Greening NCA: A Roundtable Discussion on Shrinking the Ecological Footprint of the NCA Annual Convention
This round table will bring together environmental communication scholars, NCA administrators and audience members to begin a conversation about the how to make the annual gathering of communication researchers more sustainable. We will examine the feasibility of a wide range of options, such as using recycled materials for conventions, identifying more sustainable convention venues, and providing educational information for NCA members on how each of us can become more sustainable when "on the road.” We hope this round discussion will result in a set of policy recommendations to NCA. Saturday, November 17 - 2:00pm - 3:15pm, Building/Room: Chicago Hilton / Williford A
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Are All Fans Created Equal? Exploring Gender Differences in Mediated Sports Enjoyment
Media sports researchers have consistently identified differences between male and female responses to sports on television. However, few have considered the influence of team and sports fanship when reporting such differences. New results from studies conducted with viewers of televised college football and basketball call into question these presumed gender differences. This presentation will discuss these findings, along with implications on mediated sports theory development. Saturday, November 17 - 9:30am - 10:45am, Building/Room: Chicago Hilton / Conference Room 4D
Session Discussant, Media Models and Theories
Friday, November 16 - 6:30pm - 7:45pm, Building/Room: Chicago Hilton / Conference Room 4A
Session Discussant, Social Cognitive Views of Traditional and New Media
Sunday, November 18 - 8:00am - 9:15am, Building/Room: Chicago Hilton / Lake Michigan
Online Sports Fans' Motive Research: Does Interactivity Lead Motives or Follow Them?
Sports websites are among the most popular sites on the Internet. Using survey responses from 353 individuals, the current study investigates why frequent visitors (online sports fans) of sports information or news websites (e.g., ESPN.com, Yahoo!Sports.com, etc.) use their favorite sites. Based on Uses and Gratification (U&G) approaches and discussion of mediated sports events, three key antecedents of attitude toward and satisfaction with the sites are identified: entertainment, informativeness, and perceived interactivity. A resulting structural equation model of the various relationships is tested and verified. Based on the results, this paper tries to answer to question, "Does interactivity lead or follow motive of online sports fan?" Finally, observing the relationships between endogenous and exogenous variables in the structural equation model, this paper also discusses similarities and dissimilarities between sports website use and consumption of mediate sports events in an attempt to suggest the new value of sports websites in the interactivity context. Sunday, November 18 - 11:00am - 12:15pm, Building/Room: Chicago Hilton / Lake Huron
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"Political Commentary: '. . .politics is the finest form of entertainment...'"
This paper seeks to assess Ivins’ vision of politics as a liberal with a populist bent. The essay will cover her early career at the Texas Observer, the issues that she took on with the magazine that set the stage for her development as a widely read columnist. Ivins perennially favorite issues will be discussed in light of her consistency and essence of her ongoing critique. Special attention will be paid to her last year writing critique of Bush and the War in Iraq. Saturday, November 17 - 12:30pm - 1:45pm, Building/Room: Chicago Hilton / PDR 3
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Additional FSU Faculty Presenters:
Launer, Michael (Professor, Modern Language and Linguistics)
Lustria, Mia (Assistant Professor, Information Studies)
Picart, Caroline J. S. (Associate Professor, English)
Sandahl, Carrie (Associate Professor, Theatre)
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