Friday
February 26, 2016
4:00 pm – 8:00 pm / REGISTRATION / SHELL FOYER1101 / Publications Committee
11:00 – 2:00 / La Jolla
1102 / Finance Committee
11:00 – 2:00 / Pacific
1201 / Executive Council
2:30 – 10:00 / Finch
Saturday
February 27, 2016
7:00 am – 5:00 pm / REGISTRATION / PAVILLION2101 / Undergraduate Scholars Research Conference
8:00 – 1:00 / Saturday, February 27, 2016 / Mission Ballrooms
Sponsored by the Second Vice-President and Planner: Eric Aoki, Colorado State University
8:00 – 8:15 / Welcome / CD
8:30 – 9:30 / Panel Session 1 / Shell, AB and E
9:45 – 10:45 / Panel Session 2 / Shell, AB andE
10:45 – 11:30 / Break / CD
11:30 – 12:30 / Panel Session 3 / Shell, AB and E
12:30 – 1:00 / Awards / CD
2102 / WhaleWatchingandWaterRitualsasEcoculturalConvergence:ExploringComplicity, ImplicationandCoherenceviaanInternaturalCommunicationlens
9:00 – 5:00 / Saturday, February 27, 2016 / Pavilion
Presented by the Environmental Communication Interest Group
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Facilitators: JulieKalilSchutten,NorthernArizonaUniversity; JeremyG.Gordon, UniversityofSouthFlorida; AnastasiaPrentiss, HolyNamesUniversity; SuzannePullen, ArizonaStateUniversity; MichaelSalvador,CaliforniaStateUniversitySanBernardino
2201 / InnovationsinPresentationSlide-Design:ImprovingAudienceComprehensionand Retention
9:00 – 12:00 / Saturday, February 27, 2016 / La Jolla
Presented by the President-Elect
ThisworkshopwillfocusprimarilyontheAssertion-EvidenceSlideDesign.However, somealternativeslidedesignswillalsobediscussedincludingaTED-style(Nancy Duarte)andPresentationZenstyle(GarrReynolds)slidedesign.Thethreadsconnecting allthreeoftheslidedesignstylesistheemphasisoneliminatingnoisefromslides, limitingtheamountofverbalinformationdisplayed,andincorporatingpurposefulvisualevidence.Adoptingthesepracticeswillbenefitourownandourstudents’presentations.
Facilitators: LoriB.Miraldi, The PennsylvaniaStateUniversity; PeterN.Miraldi, ThePennsylvaniaStateUniversity
2202 / Curriculum Mapping and NCA’s Learning Outcomes in Communication
9:00 – 12:00 / Saturday, February 27, 2016 / Pacific
Presented by the President-Elect
Curriculum Mapping and NCA’s Learning Outcomes in Communication provides a specific exercise that aligns a determined, established set of learning outcomes with an individual department’s or program’s curriculum and pedagogical practices. Participants will learn and examine NCA’s Learning Outcomes in Communication (LOC) and explore how those LOCs may or may not be aligned with a specific curriculum in the Communication discipline.
Leaders: Jonathan Bowman, University of San Diego; David Marshall, Institute for Evidence-Based Change; Trevor Parry-Giles, National Communication Association; Meg Tucker, National Communication Association; Deanna Dannels, North Carolina State University
2203 / Busting Barriers: A collaborative effort among the Department of Human Communication, CSUF, Maple Elementary School, and the City of Fullerton to mentor new immigrant students
9:00 – 12:00 / Saturday, February 27, 2016 / Marina
Presented by the President-Elect
This workshop will present modules that help students bust through educational, cultural, social and political barriers. We will present and have workshop attendees participate in activities that we have used that have broken down psychological, sociological and cultural barriers and that have created a sense of belonging.
Chair: Robert Emry, California State University Fullerton; Participants: Rebecca Avalos, University of Colorado; Yvette Ramirez, Fullerton College; Aaron Zamora, Pepperdine University; Sam Bowers, California State University, Fullerton; Elizabeth Wenzel, Cal Poly Pomoma; Anthony Guy, California State University Fullerton; Phatana Ith, Orange Coast Community College; Thanh Le, California State University Fullerton; Emily Vu, Fullerton College
2204 / Pre-Conference: The State of Academic Labor in Communication Studies
10:45 – 5:00 / Saturday, February 27, 2016 / Ventana
Presented by the President-Elect
This collaborative pre-conference will assess the health of our field by considering to what extent the current state of academic labor compromises our ability to foster civic engagement, risks our commitments to critical and just pedagogy and inquiry, impedes the generation of new knowledge about communication, and endangers academic freedom.
Primary Organizers: Amy Kilgard, San Francisco State University; Benny LeMaster, California State University, Long Beach; Kathleen McConnell, San José State University; Juliane Mora, University of Tampa; Keith Nainby, California State University, Stanislaus
Participants: Bettina Brockmann, De Anza College; Bernadette Calafell, University of Denver; Aimee Carrillo-Rowe, California State University; Amy Edwards, Oxnard College; Trevor Parry-Giles, University of Maryland; Adam Perry, California State University, Channel Islands; Amy Pason, University of Nevada, Reno; Mark Staller, Bakersfield College
2301 / ORWAC Gender Preconference: Feminist Inquiry in the Communication Discipline
12:00 – 5:00 / Saturday, February 27, 2016 / Del Mar
Presented by the President-Elect
This pre-conference will provide feminist scholars the opportunity for sustained conversation around the following topics: Defining feminism, assessing feminism, articulating the silences, asking new questions, living feminist lives, and teaching as feminists.Six questions will be circulated in advance of the convention. Participants will be asked to submit a short position paper (2-4 double-spaced pages) by the deadline. Six coordinators will be responsible for facilitating the group discussions. Each group is free to take the discussion in whatever directions it wishes. The last hour of the day will be reserved for group reports:each group will report major take-aways from its discussion.
This pre-conference will provide feminist scholars the opportunity for sustained conversation about feminist inquiry in the discipline. To participate, submit a short position paper (2-4 double-spaced pages) on one of the following topics to Karen Foss () by February 1.
1. Defining Feminism: How do you define feminism? What does it mean to be a feminist—in the field of communication, in academia, and in general? Are there acts that are feminist and acts that are not? What are feminist principles? Can someone be a feminist simply by being a woman who realizes her full human potential in the world? Must she consistently act politically, and, if so, what does that mean? Do we still need the label feminist to describe our orientation to the world?
2. Assessing Feminism: What do you see as the current status of feminist research within the communication discipline? Is a feminist perspective on the decline in our discipline? Has a feminist perspective been integrated into the discipline? What evidence is there for whatever view you take on the status of feminism in our discipline? How can feminism be made fun again?
3. Articulating the Silences: What are you interested in discussing in terms of feminism that you have felt couldn’t be discussed? Are there strictures within the communication discipline or within feminism that make you feel that you can’t say certain things? How would a discussion of this “unspoken” topic change our perspective on or research about feminism and communication?
4. Asking New Questions: What question about feminism and communication would you like communication scholars to ask? What article from a feminist perspective would you most like to read in our journals?
5. Living Feminist Lives: How can our lives as academic feminists be made more satisfying and coherent? What does it mean to live as a feminist?
6. Teaching as a Feminist: What constitutes feminist pedagogy? Is it all that different from other kinds of good teaching? Is it contradictory in any ways to good teaching? What are the results of feminist pedagogy in our classrooms? How can we become more feminist in our pedagogy?
Coordinators: Lisa Flores, University of Colorado Boulder; Stacey Sowards, University of Texas, El Paso; Laura Hahn, Humboldt State University, Marnel Niles Goins, California State University, Fresno; Sonja Foss, University of Colorado Denver; and Karen Foss, University of New Mexico
2401 / Teaching The Introductory Communication Theory Course
1:00 – 4:00 / Saturday, February 27, 2016 / Pacific
Presented by the President-Elect
This course is for teachers who have little or no experience in teaching the introductory course in communication theory and are now called upon to teach it, or wish to do so in the near future. The short course/workshop is aimed at helping teachers prepare or reinvigorate a class in communication theory.
Directors: Lynn Turner, Marquette University; Richard West, Emerson College
2403 / San Diego Brewery Tour
1:00 – 6:00 / Saturday, February 27, 2016 / Pavilion
Presented by the Local Host
The tour is an inclusive price of $65 for the vehicle, the driver, his tip, and the tastings in three of the top ten breweries in San Diego. The limo bus picks us up at the Bahia at 1:00, then we have an hour at each of the three breweries. The limo bus will return us to the Bahia at 6:00.
2500 / Graduate Student Workshop
2:00 – 3:30 / Saturday, February 27, 2016 / La Jolla
Presented by the Second Vice-President: Eric Aoki, Colorado State University
A panel of Graduate Directors and Program Coordinators from a diverse set of graduate programs and academic institutions offer suggestions and advice for applying to, attending, and succeeding in graduate school.
Panelists:
Dr. Kurt Lindemann, San Diego State University
Dr. Mary Claire Morr Serewicz, University of Denver
Dr. LeiLani Nishime, University of Washington
Dr. Helene A. Shugart, The University of Utah
2501 / Graduate Programs Open House
3:45 – 5:00 / Saturday, February 27, 2016 / Pavilion
Presented by the Second Vice-President: Eric Aoki, Colorado State University
2601 / WSCA Convention Kick-Off
5:15 – 6:30 / Saturday, February 27, 2016 / Mission E
Presented by the Executives Club and the President-Elect
Debating the Predicaments of the Present: “Resolved: The rise of online education has contributed to the fall of the University.”
Chair: Sara Hayden, University of Montana
Moderator: Michael K. Middleton, University of Utah
Debaters:
Walter Zakahi, Keene State College
Jason Jordan, University of Utah
Brian Spitzberg, San Diego State University
Robert B. Layne II, University of Utah
2701 / WSCA 2016 Welcome Reception
6:00 – 8:00 / Saturday, February 27, 2016 / Mission ABCD
Presented by ALL the members of WSCA! Thank You!
2801 / Executive Club Social
7:30 – 9:30 / Saturday, February 27, 2016 / Del Mar
Presented by the Executives Club
Sunday
February 28, 2016
7:00 am – 5:00 pm / REGISTRATION / PAVILLION3103 / Sunrise Yoga: Converging Mind and Body
7:30 – 8:30 / Sunday, February 28, 2016 / Shell
Presented by the President-Elect
Innovation comes from within and often requires patience, discipline and focus. Yoga is a practice that can help us reach and strengthen these qualities that not only help us innovate, but communicate. Join us as we awaken and utilize the collaboration between mind and body. Open to all levels of experience; bring a towel or yoga mat and wear comfortable, stretchy clothes.
Chair: Jessica Baty McMillan, California State University, Northridge
Business Meetings
7:30 – 8:30 / Sunday, February 28, 2016
3101 / Health Communication / Del Mar
3102 / Community College / Ventana
3104 / Intercultural Communication / Marina
3105 / Interest Group Planners / La Jolla
3106 / Freedom of Expression and Legal Communication / Pacific
3201 / TOP PAPERS IN HEALTH COMMUNICATION
8:30 – 9:45 / Sunday, February 28, 2016 / Del Mar
Presented by the Health Communication Interest Group
Chair: Wendy L. Hine, University of New Mexico Hospital
Exploring the Diffusion of HIV Testing among the High-Risk Male Seeking-Male Population
Minhao Dai, University of Kentucky *Top Paper
Elisia Cohen, University of Kentucky
Inviting a Good Death: A Proposal for a Choice Model of Advance Care Planning
Jeremy Make, University of Colorado, Denver *Top Student Paper
Predicting Fraternity Men’s Communication of Sexual Consent during Sexual Activity: A Test of the Theories of Reasoned Action and Planned Behavior
Lori A. Bednarchik, Arizona State University, Tempe
Death with Dignity: A Rhetorical Analysis
Anasheh Gharabighi, California State University, Northridge *Top Debut Paper
Respondent: Anne Hubbell, New Mexico State University
3202 / (G.I.F.T.S.) GREAT IDEAS FOR TEACHING STUDENTS
8:30 – 9:45 / Sunday, February 28, 2016 / Ventana
Presented by Community College Interest Group
Chair: Amy Edwards, Oxnard College
Words That Hurt
Robert Emry, California State University Fullerton
Samuel Bowers, California State University Fullerton
Anthony Guy, California State University Fullerton
Elizabeth Wenzel, California State University Fullerton
Phatana Ith, California State University Fullerton
Using Game Creation to Develop Concept Synthesis
Colleen McGoff Dean, Kwantlen Polytechnic University and Whatcom Community College
Positive Affirmations and Positive Proclamations for Student Success
Denise L. Norris, Bakersfield College
Act Up (or Out!): An Innovative Activity for Team Building and Covering Important Concepts
Elaine Lee, De Anza College
3203 / FAR FROM SOCIAL? DISPARATE USES OF INTERNET NETWORKING SITES
8:30 – 9:45 / Sunday, February 28, 2016 / Shell
Presented by the Media Studies Interest Group
Chair: Robert W. Gehl, University of Utah
Mobilizing Fan Bases?: American Idol, Twitter, and Parasocial (In)Action
Stacey M. Overholt, University of Utah
Marisa C. Garcia Rodriguez, Northern Arizona University
Structures of Dissent: Social Media, Resistance Journalism, and the Mobilization of Poverty Activism
Cindy S. Vincent, Salem State University
Sara Straub, University of Oklahoma
Why the Selfie ‘Makes Sense’ to Your Followers But Not Your Neighbor
Ben Morton, Lewis-Clark State College
Lisa Silvestri, Gonzaga University
Morale and Communication: Social Networking Sites and the Military
James Hoy, University of La Verne
Alexis S. Olds, University of La Verne
Respondent: Laine Goldman, National University
3204 / TOP THREE FACULTY PAPERS IN INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION
8:30 – 9:45 / Sunday, February 28, 2016 / Marina
Presented by the Intercultural Communication Interest Group
Chair: Shinsuke Eguchi, University of New Mexico
Divergent: The Emergence of the Hybrid Hero in Hollywood*
Salma Shukri, Community College of Aurora
World War Z, The Zombie Apocalypse, and How We Learned to Stop Worrying about the Israeli “Security” Wall
Haneen Shafeeq Ghabra, University of Denver
Marouf A. Hasian, University of Utah
Negotiating Patriarchy through Grassroots Initiatives: Embodied Feminist Peacebuilding Strategies in Kenya
Mary Jane Collier, University of New Mexico
Brandi Lawless, University of San Francisco
Karambu Ringera, International Peace Initiatives
Respondent: Elizabeth Root, Oregon State University
* Top Paper
3205 / CONSTRUCTING IDENTITIES AND RELATIONSHIPS ACROSS CONTEXTS
8:30 – 9:45 / Sunday, February 28, 2016 / La Jolla
Presented by the Language and Social Interaction Interest Group
Chair: Jacqueline Bruscella, University of Oklahoma
The Discourse about the Chinese Identity in Malaysia
Ee Lin Lee, Western Washington University
Tensions on the Wall: Discursive Polarization of Houseless Identities
Breanne Acio, San Diego State University
Lauren White, San Diego State University
Kanye West’s Construction of Identity through Overlapping Frames and Boasting
Danielle Hodge, University of Colorado Boulder
(Re)construction of Womanhood and Motherhood Identity through Agency in Narratives of Pregnancy Loss.
Ingrid Normann,-Vigil. University of California Los Angeles
3206 / Innovative Convergences of Publics, Advertising, and the Internet
8:30 – 9:45 / Sunday, February 28, 2016 / Pacific
Presented by: Freedom of Expression and Legal Communication
Chair: Krista L. Phair, Ohlone College
Local Publics in the Making: How Different Publics Emerge in Seattle City Council Meetings
Yunkang Yang, University of Washington
Advertising the Grand Experiment: Colorado and Washington’s Marijuana Laws and Free Speech
Ann S. Hartman, University of Memphis
The Business of Broadband Access and Free Speech: Consequences of The 1996 Telecommunications Act on Net Neutrality
Che Meneses, San Jose State University
Censoring Hate Speech in Social Media Content: Understanding the User’s Perspective
Caitlin Ring, Seattle University
A Replication of Pretrial Publicity Effects on the Zimmerman Case
Alexandra Kasymova, California State University, Fullerton
Respondent: Nicholas Chivers, Ohlone College and San Francisco State University
3207 / GENDERED VIOLENCE AND INTERNATIONAL ACTIVISM: PUBLIC ADDRESS, PHOTOJOURNALISM, AND DOCUMENTARY
8:30 – 9:45 / Sunday, February 28, 2016 / Mission AB
Presented by the Organization for Research on Women and Communication
Chair: Marnel Niles Goins, California State University, Fresno
Dear Brothers and Sisters: The Rhetorical Framing of Malala Yousafzai’s Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
Kacey Bull, University of Colorado, Boulder
When Shaming Backfires: The Doublespeak of Digitally Manipulated Misogynistic Photographs
Olesya Venger, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Silent Light: Tropes, Subalternity, and Orientalism in India’s Daughter
Alvin Primack, California State University, Long Beach
Respondent: Sara Hayden, University of Montana
3208 / ADVANCING INNOVATIVE IDEAS THROUGH RESEARCH
8:30 – 9:45 / Sunday, February 28, 2016 / Mission CD
Presented by the Communication Theory and Research Interest Group
Chair: Shannan Troxel-Andreas, Butte College
Comparative Analysis of Deliberative Public Processes: A Survey Design for Efficient Evaluation
Katherine R. Knobloch, Colorado State University
The Role of Sex Identification with In-Group Virtual Characters on Perception and Future Behavior
Kristine L. Nowak, University of Connecticut
Dana Rogers, University of Connecticut
Kyle Hull, Aquinas College
A Further Exploration of the Effects of Restoration Postscripts on Reactance
Elena Bessarabova, University of Oklahoma
Claude Miller, University of Oklahoma
Jason Russell, University of Oklahoma
What’s the Matter with Threat? Testing the Traditional Inoculation Manipulation Check against a New Measure
John Banas, University of Oklahoma
Adam Richards, Texas Christian University
3209 / EXPLORING COMMUNICATIVE PROCESSES OF RESILIENCE
8:30 – 9:45 / Sunday, February 28, 2016 / Mission E
Presented by the Organizational Communication Interest Group
Chairs: Elizabeth A. Williams, Colorado State University
Andrew Ishak, Santa Clara University
Constituting Resilience by Chinese Professionals and Organizations: Emergent Communicative Processes in Self-Other, Recent-Future, and Local-Global Dynamics
Ziyu Long, Colorado State University
Patrice M. Buzzanell, Purdue University
Min Wu, Louisiana State University
Rahul Mitra, Wayne State University
Kai Kuang, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
Huijun Suo
Post-Deployment Resilience in Military Couples: Managing Reintegration Challenges through Communicative Processes
Kelly R. Rossetto, Boston College
Communication in a High Reliability Organization: Enacting Resilience After Tragedy
Elizabeth A. Williams, Colorado State University
Andrew Ishak, Santa Clara University
Communicative Resilience Processes of Marginalized Family Members
Elizabeth Dorrance Hall, Utah State University
Why Johnny Can’t Read: The Rhetoric of Resilience in Education Discourse
Luke Winslow, San Diego State University
3210 / GETTING TO KNOW YOU:COLLABORATIVE & INNOVATIVE ICEBREAKER STRATEGIES & ANALYSIS
8:30 – 9:45 / Sunday, February 28, 2016 / BB 1
Presented by Community College Interest Group
Chair: Charlene S. Gibson, College of Southern Nevada
#TeamGibson Collaborative Icebreaker
Charlene S. Gibson, College of Southern Nevada
First Day Perceptions
Amber S. Davies-Sloan, Yavapai College
Ice Breaker for All
Laurie Pratt, Chaffey College
The Two Minute Interview
Jodie Mandel, College of Southern Nevada
An Icebreaker Analysis
Robin Mara, Cabrillo College
3211 / RECONCEPTUALIZING PROTEST RHETORIC: EMBRACING NETWORKED PROTEST IN CHINA, HONG KONG, AND TAIWAN
8:30 – 9:45 / Sunday, February 28, 2016 / BB 2