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9:20-9:50PLENARY SESSION - MARIO MINICHIELLO, SCHOOLOF DESIGN, COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, UNIVERSITYOF NEWCASTLE, NEWCASTLE, AUSTRALIA
Media and Visual Culture in the Post Truth Political Landscape 9:50-10:20 GARDEN CONVERSATION
10:20-12:00 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 1 Narratives of Consumption
Writing (on) the Body: Women’s Activewear, Inspiration, and the Politics of Comfortable Clothing
Madison Magladry, Department of Media, Culture, and the Creative Arts, Curtin University, Perth, Australia
Overview: This paper discusses the cultural work of "inspirational" tank tops in women's fitness culture, focusing on their dual role as a second skin and an internalized attitude.
Theme: Media Cultures
Popular Media Portrayals of Inmates and Outlaws Feed the Public Appetite for
"Dark Tourism"
Dr. Ruth Massingill, Department of Mass Communication, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, USA
Mel Strait, Department of Mass Communication, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, USA Overview: This multimedia paper examines how prison movies, network dramas, and "outlaw" music serve up an addictive diet of thrills, romance, and violence that fuels a booming market for prison tourism.
Theme: Media Cultures
Much More Than "Fifteen Minute Meals": Celebrity Chef Personas and Their Consumption
Carina Jane Mansey, Sociology Department, School of Social Sciences, City, University of London, London, UK
Overview: This paper analyzes how the qualities of celebrity chef personas are packaged into media products and the way fans consume and internalize these qualities.
Theme: Media Cultures
New Business Models for Digital Journalism? Cases of Gift Economy in China and Sweden
Dr. Ling-Yi Huang, Department of Media and Journalism, Linneaus University, Kalmar, Sweden Overview: This study examines how much of the digital economy is in the form of a gift and what are the kinds of gift forms in Sweden and China.
Theme: Media Business
F RIDAY , 17 N OVEMBER
10:20-12:00PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 2 Media Culture and Impact
The Challenges of Facebook Social Network among Iranian Family Members Dr. Sedigheh Babran, Department of Communication Studies, Islamic Azad University, Tehran Central Branch, Tehran, Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Mahin Siroosian, Tehran, Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Overview: This study analyzes the viewpoints of Iranian family members about the challenges of the world’s largest online social media, Facebook.
Theme: Media Technologies and Processes
Home Is Where the WiFi Connects Automatically: Exploring Everyday Practice of Internet Use
Dr. Richard Davis, London, UK
Overview: Increasing sophistication of digital media embedding within domestic environments requires practice-based approaches to contextualize use and deepen understanding. These participant-orientated approaches vividly illustrate a sense of this complex mix.
Theme: Media Theory
Adoption of Modern Communication Technology among Older Adults and Its Impact on Their Family Relationships
Dr. Mikiyasu Hakoyama, Human Environmental Studies Department, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, USA
Dr. Eileen MaloneBeach, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, USA
Overview: This study examines the impact of modern communication technology (MCT) among older adults on their family relationships, revealing significant association between length of use of MCT and communication frequency.
Theme: Media Technologies and Processes Room 3 Media Education
A Case for Immersive Media Production Learning Abroad: Taking Students out of Their Comfort Zone Opens Doors and Imaginations
Prof. Rustin Greene, School of Media Arts and Design, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, USA Overview: Learning media production abroad strips away cultural competencies and enables students to focus on story and storytelling.
Theme: Media Technologies and Processes
A Need for Media Literacy Education in United States Schools
Dr. Sam Nkana, Journalism and Communication, Southern Adventist University, Collegedale, USA Overview: United States schools lag behind other developed countries when it comes to the establishment of media literacy education in schools. This paper discusses the need for media literacy education.
Theme: Media Literacies
Employers’ Needs Versus Student Skill Sets: Do Recent Graduates Have the Critical Thinking Skills and Research Readiness Needed for Success?
Susan Hahn, University Libraries, University of Oklahoam, Norman, USA
Prof. Jocelyn Pedersen, Price College of Business, University of Oklahoma, Norman, USA Overview: This paper reviews the skills employers seek and the skill sets new graduates have to offer.
These skills include, research, critical thinking, problem solving, credible source discernment, and soft skills.
Theme: Media Literacies
F RIDAY , 17 N OVEMBER
10:20-12:00 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 4 Media Psychology
The Individualized Psychology of Today’s Television Viewer: A Profiling Model for the Digital Era
Dr. Christine Dee, Telecom, Media, and Entertainment Industry Organization, IBM, Seattle, USA Overview: This study applies the psychological profiling constructs that determine how and why individual television viewers engage content in the way that they do. The paper discusses twelve distinct factors.
Theme: Media Theory
The Role of Advertisement in Remolding a Materialistic, Opulent Society: Special Reference to Contemporary Punjab, India
Dr. Rajesh .Kumar Mahajan, Department of Commerce, Jagdish Chandra D.A.V. College, Hoshiarpur, India
Overview: This paper studies the psychological consequences of advertisement on a materially steered society and the impact produced by juxtaposing it to an adaptable background.
Theme: Media Business
The Effects of Positive Messages to Help Smokers by Means of Audiovisual Materials
Tatiana Gonçalves, Department of Communication Studies, University of Coimbra, Aveiro, Portugal Overview: This research explores the effects of persuasive messages to help smokers to give up smoking.
This research is based in positive messages and is introduced through audiovisual materials.
Theme: Media Theory
Depression and Loneliness among Television Binge Viewers
Prof. Azza Ahmed, Communication Studies and Languages Department, Abu Dhabi University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates
Overview: This study investigates binge television watching among a sample of 260 Arab residents in the United Arab Emirates. It examines how television binge watching might correlate to depression and loneliness.
Theme: Media Cultures Room 5 Colloquium
Re-thinking the History of Media Cultural Industries in Japan
Miru Shinoda, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, University of Tokyo, Bunkyou-Ku, Japan
Dr. Shinji Oyama, International Relations Faculty, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan Dr. Ryousuke Hidaka, Faculty of System Design, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan Sota Takahashi, Faculty of Humanities, Fukuoka Jo Gakuin University, Fukuoka, Japan Yoko Fujishima, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-Ku, Japan
Overview: In this colloquium, we give an overview of the histories of media cultural industries in Japan and re-think the framework of historical studies of media cultural industries.
Theme: Media Cultures
12:00-12:50 LUNCHAND PUBLISHING YOUR WORKWITH COMMON GROUND RESEARCH NETWORKS
F RIDAY , 17 N OVEMBER
12:50-13:35PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 1 Posters
The Recapture of Joaquín Guzmán Loera in the Mexican Press: Analysis of the Covers of "El Universal," "Reforma," "Excelsior," and "La Jornada" (2016) Dr. Elba Díaz Cerveró, Panamerican University, Guadalajara Campus, Guadalajara, Mexico Dr. Luis Veres, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
Dr. Daniel Barredo Ibáñez, School of Human Sciences, Del Rosario University, Bogotá, Colombia Overview: This study discusses a content analysis of the covers on the recapture of the "Chapo" Guzmán, in the four main Mexican newspapers.
Theme: Media Cultures
The Social Media Commercialization of Sport: Analyzing Facebook Content of Professional Athletes
Katerina Turkova, Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Overview: This poster explores the commercialization of sport on social media, whilst discussing a theoretical framework and research approach to the analysis of athletes’ commercial content on Facebook.
Theme: Media Business
A Phenomenological Investigation of College Students’ Perceptions of Fake News Dr. David Magolis, Mass Communications, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, Bloomsburg, USA Overview: The author discusses a research study with undergraduate college students that explores, from a phenomenological perspective, what fake news is and how undergraduate college students define fake news.
Theme: Media Literacies
Political Propaganda and Power over Opinion: Multidisciplinary Methodological Approach and Evidence form African Cases of Media Coverage
Alexandra Fokina, International Affairs Department, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation
Anastasia Poretskova, Politcal Science Department, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation
Overview: This multidisciplinary research brings together the sphere of public opinion theories and IR, introducing a new methodological approach for investigating political propaganda with evidence from African cases.
Theme: Media Theory
Gender Affordances in the Mediascape
Witold Wachowski, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland Overview: This poster introduces a theoretical framework for research on gender affordances in the mediascape, taking into account trade-offs between the human and the non-human.
Theme: Media Cultures
The Modern-day Digital Neolithic: Theoretical and Professional Implications of the Increased Use of Pictographic Communication by Mobile Device Users
Dr. Tracy Rutledge, Department of Communications, University of Tennessee at Martin, Martin, USA Overview: As mobile technology evolves, written communication is “de-evolving” creating a modern-day digital Neolithic generation that relies on pictography. This cultural shift affects message strategy, typography, and information processing theory.
Theme: Media Technologies and Processes
Enhancing Competency Indicators of Media Literacy in a Digital Era
Dr. Ping-Hung Chen, Graduate Institute of Mass Communication, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan
Overview: This study explores the new terminology and new competency for media literacy in a digital era.
Theme: Media Literacies
F RIDAY , 17 N OVEMBER
12:50-13:35PARALLEL SESSIONS
Gratifications of Reality Television: The Potential Gratifications between Reality Television and Herta Herzog's "On Borrowed Experience"
Elyse Gessler, Communications Media Department, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, USA Overview: Uses and gratifications theory helps expose potential relationships between radio shows from the 1930s and modern reality television. These relationships explain the uses of media of viewers in different eras.
Theme: Media Cultures
The Memory Store: An Approach to Authoring and Designing an Online Storytelling Project
Sarah Haynes, Media Production, Liverpool Screen School, Faculty of Arts, Professional and Social Studies, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK
Overview: This study explores notions of audience in a digital environment and practices of participation in media through the introduction of an online collaborative narrative project, "The Memory Store."
Theme: Media Technologies and Processes Room 2 Virtual Lightning Talks
The Online Public Sphere: "Last Week Tonight" and Their Unique Twitter Hashtags
Angela Hart, School of Communication, American University, Washington, USA
Overview: How is "Last Week Tonight" transcending the limitations of television to continue content related discussions via Twitter? Has Jürgen Habermas’s public sphere transcended to online platforms in this manner?
Theme: Media Theory
Court Reporting in Australia: Journalism Practice, Legal Processes, and the Principle of Open Justice
Dr. Deb Waterhouse-Watson, Department of Media, Music, Communication, and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Overview: Drawing on interviews with current and former court reporters, this paper examines how changes to the profession and legal processes impact on fairness and balance in reporting on criminal trials.
Theme: Media Cultures
Does Viewing Documentary Films Affect Environmental Perceptions and Behaviors? Media Influences on Environmental Behavior
Dr. Henry Janpol, Halmos College of Environmental Sciences and Oceanography, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, USA
Dr. Rachel Dilts, Walden University
Overview: This experimental study explores whether viewing documentary films about the natural or built environment can produce changes in behavior and perceptions toward the environment.
Theme: Media Technologies and Processes
Extreme Sports as Filmed Entertainment: An Exploration of the Characteristics of Successful Extreme Sports Filmed Entertainment Products
Joe Carter, School of Communication, Creative Industries Faculty, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
Overview: How can entertainment producers innovatively capture and utilize the fear, adrenaline, and risk of death faced by extreme sports athletes to create stories with increased appeal to wider audiences?
Theme: Media Technologies and Processes Saudi Women and WhatsApp Messenger
Easa Alqahtani, Journalism, Media, and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK Overview: This paper discusses how the WhatsApp Messenger has changed the social life of Saudi Women.
Theme: Media Cultures
F RIDAY , 17 N OVEMBER
12:50-13:35PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 3 Workshop
Exploring Hispanic Culture through Documentary Filmmaking: A Case Study Dr. Isabel Rivero-Vilá, Carthage College, Kenosha, USA
Dr. Vertna Bradley, Film Studies, Penn State University, -, USA
Overview: In this workshop we introduce ways to help students interact with the Hispanic community and involve them in the creative process of documentary filmmaking.
Theme: Media Cultures Room 4 Workshop
Observational Documentary for Virtual Reality
Dr. Diogo Cortiz, Web Technology Study Center, Network Information Center, São Paulo, Brazil Newton Calegari, Web Technology Study Center, Network Information Center, São Paulo, Brazil Overview: Virtual reality is the next big platform for storytellers. In this workshop, we introduce the first steps to plan, produce, and publish on the web an observational documentary for VR.
Theme: Media Technologies and Processes 13:35-13:50BREAK
13:50-15:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS
Room 1 Dynamics of Participatory Culture
Adult Social Media Communities: The Phenomenon of Real Housewives and Blogger/Influencer Snark Sites
Dr. Kelly McBride, Department of Communication and the Arts, York College of Pennsylvania, York, USA
Emily Rosado, Department of Communication and the Arts, York College of Pennsylvania, York, USA Overview: Adult cyberbullying exists in many online communities, and some get really "ugly." This paper examines cyberbullying in online snark sites related to reality television and blogger/influencers.
Theme: Special Theme 2017: Rethinking the "Mediascape"
"Like Being in a Lucid Dream, But Awake": The Mediated Experience of Prosocial Community in Online Multiplayer "Minecraft"
Kenzie Woodbridge, School of Communication and Culture, Royal Roads University, Burnaby, Canada Overview: Players in online multiplayer "Minecraft" form important friendships and community. This research examines how community creators in "Minecraft" modify and moderate the game to better support a prosocial community experience.
Theme: Media Cultures
Exploring User Participation in Fictional Worlds: Players’ Agency in Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing Games
José M. Blázquez, Cultures, Film, and Media Department, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK Overview: This paper compares user agency in participatory story-worlds, where audiences can create canonical content, and entertainment franchises by analyzing two MMORPGs, "Lord of the Craft" and
"World of Warcraft."
Theme: Media Cultures
Social Media and Social Capital: The Case of an Opioid Epidemic
Dr. Hana Noor Al-Deen, Department of Communication Studies, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, USA
Overview: This study analyzes the discussion on social media regarding the current opioid epidemic while focusing on the role of social capital. Social network analysis method will be employed.
Theme: Media Technologies and Processes
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13:50-15:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS
Room 2 Politics, Policy, and Practice
"No Balm in Gilead": Freedom of Information and the Failure of Internationalist Media Reform in the United Nations, 1947-1952
Sarah Nelson, Department of History, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA
Overview: In 1948 U.N. delegates drafted an internationalist vision to facilitate global freedom of information, but by 1952 the entire effort was dismantled. This historical investigation explains freedom of information's failure.
Theme: Media Cultures
Demarketization: A Study of Government Subsidies to Chinese News Organizations Since 2005
Dr. Songjie Liu, Department of Journalism, School of Communication and Design, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
Overview: This paper studies Chinese government's increasing subsidies to news organizations in recent years, and maintains that the marketization reform of press might be endangered if this trend continues.
Theme: Media Business
Eyes Everywhere: Media Surveillance in the Digital Age Eric Forthun, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA
Overview: This paper argues that privacy, security, and surveillance have been distorted by corporate and governmental powers through media consolidation, unbridled distribution of personal information, and suppression of content availability.
Theme: Media Cultures
Room 3 Technology and the Entertainment Industry
Television Media and Construction of Virtual Reality for the Viewer
Thiago Da Silva Andrade, Center of Human Sciences, Letters, and Arts, Department of Communication, Federal University of Paraiba, Campina Grande, Brazil
Overview: This research deals with technologies applied to television media to build a virtual reality for the viewer developed on Brazilian television during the Olympic Games 2016 in Rio de Janeiro.
Theme: Media Technologies and Processes
Virtual Reality and the 360-degree Video as Platforms for Observational Documentaries
Dr. Diogo Cortiz, We Technology Study Center, Network Information Center, São Paulo, Brazil Newton Calegari, Web Technology Study Center, Network Information Center, São Paulo, Brazil Overview: In this paper we discuss how virtual reality is a powerful tool for documantaries and how it can be used to stimulate sense of presence and empathy in the audience.
Theme: Media Technologies and Processes
Ambulatory Mobile Filmmaking and Empathic Audience Experience of Screen Space
Dr. Gavin Wilson, Faculty of Arts, School of Media, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, UK Overview: Drawing on de Certeau’s notions of everyday walking and enunciation, and Luke’s (2005) updating of the Benjaminian flâneur, I interrogate embodied experience and identification in filmmaking using mobile phones.
Theme: Media Technologies and Processes
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13:50-15:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS
Room 4 Dissemination, Regulation, Law
Mapping Pedagogy and Praxis in the Production of Public Relations Videography:
A Classroom Case Study in the Production and Dissemination of Digital Content Maria McLeod, Department of Journalism, Western Washington University, Bellingham, USA Overview: This paper presents a case study of student-created, promotional videography and the influence of the channel upon the production of the message, including the fluidity between media, content, and medium.
Theme: Media Technologies and Processes
Social Media as a Source of Cybercrime against Women: Causes and Legal Succor under Indian Law
Dr. Neelu Mehra, School of Law and Legal Studies, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi, India
Overview: This paper discusses the causes and impact of social media on Indian women and remedies available under Indian laws against such cybercrime.
Theme: Media Technologies and Processes
The CanCon Challenge: Do Canadian Content Regulations Really Promote Canadian Culture?
Kevin Curran, Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Oklahoma, Norman, USA
Overview: Canadian radio managers must contend with Canadian content regulations. In practice, compliance with rules designed to promote Canada’s culture have instead become a game for program executives.
Theme: Media Business
Running from State to State and Province to Province: Production Incentives and Primetime Television in the United States
William M Kunz, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington Tacoma, Tacoma, USA
Overview: This study analyzes television production over five years (2012-13 thru 2016-17), including U.S.
broadcast, cable, and streaming services, to measure the use of production incentives in various states and provinces.
Theme: Media Business
Room 5 Media Representations: Addressing Gender
“Gender Advertisements”: Long Gone or Still Existent?
Natalya Vodopyanova, Communications Media Department, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, USA
Overview: Manipulated images in newspaper advertisements influence our gender identity and perception of “appropriate behavior.” This paper discusses if there has there been any change in gender representation in newspaper advertisements.
Theme: Media Cultures
“I Love You, I’ll Kill You”: Gendered Violence as Love in Bollywood Cinema Dr. Shweta Kushal, Communications Department, Indian Institute of Management Indore, Indore, India Overview: The paper studies selected visual narratives of Bollywood Cinema from the late-twentieth and early-twenty-first century to establish that the narrative of harassment turning into love is pervasive.
Theme: Media Cultures
The Female Voice in Select Tunde Kelani’s Movies
Abimbola Adetola Stephen-Adesina, Department of Theatre Arts, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria Overview: This paper examines how Nigerian film, through selected Tunde Kelani’s films, projects the
Abimbola Adetola Stephen-Adesina, Department of Theatre Arts, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria Overview: This paper examines how Nigerian film, through selected Tunde Kelani’s films, projects the