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2005 Graduate Research Forum Program

 

Temple University School of Communications and Theater
7th Annual Graduate Student Research Forum

Friday March 25, 2005
(snow date)

Tuttleman Learning Center 405AB, 8:30 am to 12:45 pm

 

8:30-8:45         Welcoming remarks

                        Concetta Stewart, Dean of the School of Communications and Theater

                        Renee Hobbs and Zizi Papacharissi, Co-Directors, Mass Media and

                            Communication Doctoral Program, SCT

                        Carolyn Kitch, Chair, Graduate Research Forum Committee

 

8:45-9:30        Panel 1:  Changing Models for Policy, Practice, and Perception

                       Moderator: Jan Fernback

 

Maria Simone From Chaos to Commercialism: The Politics of the Public Interest in Communications Policy, 1922-1947
Susan Robinson Experiencing Journalism: A New Model in Online Newspapers
Maria Oliveira Changing the Reality: A Frame Analysis of Viva Rio Organization

 

9:30-9:40         Break

 

9:40-10:40       Panel 2:  Collective Memory and Media

                        Moderator: Zizi Papacharissi

 

Su hi Choi

The Contested Memory of a Forgotten War: Textual Analysis of U.S. Newspaper Coverage of the No Gun Ri Incident

Rick Popp The Narratives of Conspiracy: The Collective Memory of Conspiracy on the History Channel
Heather Muse ?You?re Living in the Past, It?s a New Generation?: Music as Memo Device in Nostalgia Television Shows
Guillermo Avila-Saavedra Stonewall 25 and the Media?s Role in Shaping Collective Gay Memory and Identity (1969-1994)

 

10:40-10:50       Break

 

10:50-11:35       Panel 3: Persuasive Communication

                          Moderator: Michael Maynard

 

Rebecca Hains Sex Roles and Narrative Structure in Television Advertisements: A Content Analysis
Satarupa Dasgupta Impact of Direct to Consumer Advertisements of Prescription Drugs on Women
Dawn Gilpin The Demise of Parmalat: An Autobiography

 

11:35-11:45      Break

 

11:45-12:45      Panel 4: Visual Culture

                         Moderator: Andrew Mendelson

 

Melissa Lenos ?Tragedies of Humankind?: The Evolution of the American Film Melodrama
Sueen Noh Science, Technology, and Women Represented in Korean Sci-Fi Girls? Comics
Matthew Jones Construction of Social Memory through Strategies of Reflexivity: A Case Study in Three Texts by Art Spiegelman
Sara Zia Ebrahimi The Persian Eye: Pre-Cinematic Ways of Looking and the Introduction of Cinema in Iran

 

1:00-2:30         Lunch for presenters and faculty

                        Presentation of top-paper awards

                        Rhodes Room, Diamond Club, Mitten Hall

 


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