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2003 Graduate Research Forum Program
5th Annual SCAT Graduate Student Research Forum
February 14, 2003
Temple University Center City (TUCC) Room 206
| 8:45-9:00 | Refreshments & welcoming remarks
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| 9:00-10:00 | Panel 1: New technology, pedagogy and identity Moderator: Nancy Morris |
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| Yan Tian | The Effects of Internet Use on Social Trust |
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| Daliza Crane | Sesame Street to LOGO: A critical analysis of computers in the classroom and their role in aiding early childhood cognitive development and a look at the changing role of pedagogy as a result of this technology |
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| Rebecca Hains | Media Literacy Goals in the US Classrooms: A Review of the Literature from 1998-2002 |
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| Melissa Selverian | A Pan-Pedagogical Model for 'Virtual' Learning |
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| Maria Simone | Preparing a Face: An Exploration of Identity Presentation in Online and Offline Contexts |
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| 10:10-11:00 | Panel 2: Communication in a global world Moderator: Michael Maynard |
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Can the Global Market Create "Visual Esperanto"? A Content Analysis of Korean and US TV Commercials |
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| Sudjai Karuchit | Negotiation with the Other: A Case Study of Advertising in Thai Women's Magazines |
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| Chang-de Liu | Global Sports, Global Advertising: NBA and Americanized Advertising in Taiwan |
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| Olga Vilceanu | Multidimensional Borderline, the Emerging New Paradigm in Communication: Public Opinion and Agricultural Biotechnology | |
| 11:10-11:50 | Panel 3: Popular culture and representation Moderator: Pat Bradley |
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| Jen Mintzer | Gender Portrayals in "Best Picture Nominee" Movie Posters from 1991-2000 |
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| Margaret Rakus | An Offer to Debate the Meaning of Motherhood: Demi Moore and Vanity Fair |
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| Tom Polcari | Postmodern Nostalgia and Intertextual Pastiche: The Semiotic Construction of Cartoon Network's Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law |
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| 12:00-12:50 | Panel 4: Mass media and social change Moderator: Andy Mendelson |
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| Dandan Liu | Stadium Out of Chinatown: A Case Study of the Interaction between News Media and Social Change |
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| Levi Obonyo | Building a Nation: Assessing Development Agenda in Daily Nation Cartoons |
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| Mark Scalese | Adversaries or Allies? The Relationship between Producers and Their Subjects in Documentary Production |
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| Lydia Timmins | Personalized and Customized News: The Journalism of Choice |
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| 1:00-??? | Presentation of awards; pizza party |
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