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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 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.

 

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

Structuring the Status Quo: The L-Word and Queer Female Acceptability

  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