Doctoral students and faculty from the College of Communication and Information attended the National Communication Association (NCA) Conference in Chicago, Illinois November 20-23, 2014. The theme of the conference was “The Presence of Our Past(s): NCA at 100,” as the association celebrates 100 years since being founded.
COMM students presented their research alongside top students and industry leaders from across the nation.
Faculty include:
Gary R. Heald, Ph.D., Director of School of Communication, “Effects of Absolute and Comparative Risk Information on Individuals’ Precautionary Actions against Skin Cancer”
Marilyn J. Young, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, “Connecting Argument and Archival History: Responses to Robert P. Newman’s Invincible Ignorance in American
Foreign Policy”
Presenting participants include:
B.J. Bae, “Effects of Absolute and Comparative Risk Information of Individuals’ Precautionary Actions against Skin Cancer”
Martha McKay Canter, “Tea Time: Eighteenth-Century English Women’s Economic Agency and the Rhetorics of Home Display”
Michael S. Chouinard, “Selling the Swamp: The Commodification of Cajun Culture in Swamp People”
Qihao Ji (joint project), “The Bigger the Data the Harder the Fall? Opportunities, Methodologies, and Challenges to Big Data Analysis”
Azmat Rasul and Arthur Raney, “Politically entertained: The effects of movies on the political attitudes of the female audiences”
Zihan Wang, “Single and educated: A study of women’s self-presentations on one Chinese online dating website”