The SCT Theory and Research Seminar Series (STARSS) features informal talks by MM&C and other faculty and students in the School of Communications and Theater as well as notable guest speakers from across Temple and beyond. All STARSS talks are free and open to the public and unless otherwise announced, are held from 11:40 - 12:30 in Annenberg Hall Room 301. The STARSS schedule for the current semester is below.

Note: MM&C students can earn 1 credit of MM&C course work by registering for MMC 946, attending at least six STARSS talks, and writing a short paper about the experience and their reactions to it. Also, all MM&C students are required to present their dissertation proposal ideas in a STARSS.

For more information about STARSS please e-mail mmc@temple.edu.

Spring 2006

Wednesday, February 22, 2006
Testing Habermas's Legitimation Thesis: A Quantitative Approach
Tom Jacobson, SCT Senior Associate Dean, Temple University

Wednesday, March 1, 2006
Seeing Themselves Through the Lens of the Other: An Analysis of the Cross-Cultural Production and Negotiation of National Geographic's The Samurai Way Sstory
Fabienne Darling-Wolf (presenter) and Andrew Mendelson, Department of Journalism, Temple University

Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Countering Repressive Supreme Court Precedence: How Student Journalists Are Freeing Themselves of a High Court Ruling that Restricts Expression
Tom Eveslage, Chair, Department of Journalism, Temple University

Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Reconditioning the Media and Its Audience
Lydia Reeves Timmins, Mass Media & Communication Ph.D. student, Temple University

Fall 2005

Monday, October 17, 2005
Health-Media Literacy for the Elderly: How Do Older Persons Perceive Health Information and Marketing Messages in Print and Televised Drug Advertisements?
Pamela Z. Poe, Mass Media & Communication Ph.D. Candidate, Temple University

Monday, October 24, 2005
The Korean War Caught in Memory and History: Examining U.S. Media Coverage of the No Gun Ri Incident (1999 ­ Present)
Suhi Choi, Mass Media & Communication Ph.D. Candidate, Temple University

Monday, November 7, 2005
Representations of the American Motherhood Ideal in Celebrity Magazines
Margaret Rakus, Mass Media & Communication Ph.D. Candidate, Temple University

Spring 2005

Wednesday, February 16, 2005
Growing in the Cradle: History, Development, and Functions of Cartooning in Kenya
Levi Obonyo Owino, Mass Media & Communication Ph.D. Candidate, Temple University

Wednesday, March 16, 2005
Graphic Humor and Hidden Dissent in Present-day Cuba
Mercedes Diaz, Assistant Professor, Rider University

Wednesday, March 30, 2005
The Public's Public Interest: Television as a Shared Public Sphere
Maria Simone, Mass Media & Communication Ph.D. Candidate, Temple University

Wednesday, April 6, 2005
Stadium Out of Chinatown: A Case Study of the Interaction Between News Media and Social Change
Dandan Liu, Mass Media & Communication Ph.D. Candidate, Temple University

Wednesday. April 13, 2005
Media Imperialism Revisited: A Historical Analysis of Television in Barbados
Evene Estwick, Mass Media & Communication Ph.D. Candidate, Temple University

Wednesday. April 20, 2005
Objectivity and the Representation of History on the Web
Susan Jacobson, Assistant Professor, Broadcasting, Telecommunications and Mass Media Department, Temple University

Wednesday, April 27, 2005
The Narratives of Nonfiction in New Media and the Concept of Emergence
Rod Coover, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Film and Media Arts, Temple University

Fall 2004

Wednesday, September 15, 2004
Imported Imperialism? A Content Analysis of Thai Television and a Re-Evaluation of the Media Imperialism Thesis in Thailand
Sudjai Karuchit, Mass Media & Communication Ph.D. Candidate, Temple University

Wednesday, September 22, 2004
On the Tracks of Phoebe Snow: Issues of Gender, Race and Class in a Pioneering Media Campaign
Carolyn Kitch, Ph. D., Associate Professor, Journalism, Temple University

Wednesday, September 29, 2004
Can Something Be Said for the Other Side?: Effects of Television on the Perceived Legitimacy of Oppositional Views
Diana Mutz, Samuel A. Stouffer Professor of Political Science and Communication, University of Pennsylvania

Wednesday, October 6, 2004
The Computer as Information Intermediary: Using Spatial and Social Cues to Evoke Presence in Computer Users and Create Satisfying Human Computer Interaction
Karl Horvath, Mass Media & Communication Ph.D. Candidate, Temple University

Wednesday, October 27, 2004
Meaning-Making in Girl Culture: Girl Power Cartoons and their Viewers
Rebecca Hains, Mass Media & Communication Ph.D. Candidate, Temple University

Wednesday, November 3, 2004
Graduate Student Teachers: Handling Common Classroom and Teaching Issues
Tom Eveslage, Ph.D., Professor, Journalism, Temple University
Jan Fernback, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Broadcasting, Telecommunications and Mass Media, Temple University
Ed Trayes, Ph.D., Professor, Journalism, Temple University

Wednesday, November 17, 2004
Handling Common Classroom and Teaching Issues, The Sequel
We will continue brainstorming common teaching issues in an open forum. Come with your questions and answers.

Wednesday, December 1, 2004
Postmodernism, Power, and Public Relations
Derina Holtzhausen, Associate Professor of Communication, University of South Florida

Wednesday, December 8, 2004
Discovering the New Digital Geographies: A Presentation about Urban Tapestries
Nick West, New Media Artist
http://urbantapestries.net/

Spring 2004

Wednesday, February 4, 2004
Framing Science: International Media Coverage of Genetically Modified Foods, 1998-2002
Olga Vilceanu, Mass Media & Communication Ph.D. Candidate, Temple University

Wednesday, February 11, 2004
'A Working-Class Hero Is Something to Be': The Narrative Legacy of September 11th
Carolyn Kitch, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Journalism,
Temple University

Wednesday, February 18, 2004
No More Peace: How Disaster, Terror and War Have Upstaged Media Events
Elihu Katz, Trustee Professor, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania

Wednesday, February 25, 2004
Learning to Critically Analyze Advertising: Measuring Media Literacy Skill Development in Adolescents
Renee Hobbs, Associate Professor, Department of Broadcasting, Telecommunication & Mass Media, Temple University

Wednesday, March 17, 2004
Cultural Differences in Human-Computer Interaction: A Content Analysis and An Experiment of Design Features of Organizational Home Pages
Heeman Kim, Mass Media & Communication Ph.D. Candidate, Temple University

Wednesday, March 31, 2004
The Problematic Location and Logic of Metapictures in Everyday Photojournalism
Dick Chalfen, Ph.D., Professor of Visual Anthropology, Temple University

Wednesday, April 7, 2004
Small Town Hegemony: Creating the Myth of America in Thirties Visual Culture
Miles Orvell, Ph.D., Professor of American Studies & English, Temple University

Fall 2003

Spring 2003

Monday, February 3, 2003
Virtually multicultural: Gender, culture and belonging in an international fan community
Fabienne Darling-Wolf, Ph.D., Department of Journalism, Public Relations and Advertising, Temple University

Monday, February 24, 2003
The Essay Film from Alain Resnais to Derek Jarman: When Auteurs make Documentaries
Tim Corrigan, Ph.D., Department of English, Temple University

Monday, March 24, 2003
In Search of a Sensible Free Speech Theory for the Student Press
Tom Eveslage, Ph.D., Department of Journalism, Public Relations and Advertising, Temple University

Monday, April 7, 2003
"Predictive history": What US Videotex Told Us about the World Wide Web
Sandy Kyrish, Ph.D., SCT Assistant Dean, Technology and Planning, Temple University

Monday, April 14, 2003
The Uptown Coalition: A Case Study of the Intersection of Media Advocacy, Media Literacy and Social Change
Dave Marshall, Mass Media and Communication Ph.D. Candidate

Monday, April 21, 2003
Academic Book Publishing: How and Why (or Why Not)
Peter Wissoker, Senior Acquisitions Editor, Temple University Press

Monday, April 28, 2003
Politics in a Web-based Environment: The Effects of Presence and Flow on Political Knowledge, Interest, Efficacy, and Participation
Linda Greenwood, Mass Media and Communication Ph.D. Student

Fall 2002

September 30, 2002
The Effect of New Communication and Information Technologies on Academic Research Paradigms
Irene Berkowitz, Mass Media & Communication Ph.D. Candidate

October 7, 2002
Image is Everything: Another Way of Understanding Celebrities and the Paparazzi
Andrew Mendelson, Dept. of Journalism, Public Relations and Advertising

October 21, 2002
Unpaid Advertising: The Case of Wilson the Volleyball in Castaway
Michael Maynard, Department of Journalism, Public Relations and Advertising, Temple University
Megan Scala, Mass Media & Communication Ph.D. Student

November 4, 2002
'Virtual' Learning: In Search of a Pan-pedagogical Model for Enhanced Learning Through 'Presence'
Melissa Selverian, Mass Media & Communication Ph.D. Candidate

November 18, 2002
Trajectories of Utopia: Conflicting Visions of the Ideal Society in 20th Century Film, Media, and Culture
Barry Vacker, Department of Broadcasting, Telecommunications and Mass Media

December 2, 2002
Attribution, Narrative Agency and Interactive Media
Jeff Rush, Associate Dean, School of Communications and Theater and Dept. of Film and Media Arts

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