Conference & Events
2023 ICR Graduate Student Conference
Saturday, March 3
4031 Campus Instructional Facility
| 8:30-9 a.m. | Welcome |
Sela Sar, ICR Director |
| 9-10:20 a.m. | Panel 1: Reconsidering News and Publics |
Sakshi Bhalla - Measuring the Consumption of Political News: Patterns of Selectivity and Avoidance Rik Ray - Got a minute? Impact of COVID-19 on News Engagement and the Role of Audience Availability Dongchan Lee, Woojin Kim, & Jane Yeahin Pyo - Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Journalism: News Readers’ Perception of Source and Message Credibility |
| 10:30-11:50 a.m. | Panel 2: Brands and Nation |
Namita Gupta - Utterly Butterly Indian: Constructing a National Memory in Advertisements Kirby Cook - Flavors of Fiction: Humorous Incongruencies of the Self-Parody Product Yiran Gao - Elite Identity vs Comedian Celebrity: A Controversy in Chinese Social Media Anirban Mukhopadhyay - Fireside Chat Re-imagined: Radio as the Citizenship Machine and “Mann ki Baat.” |
| 12-1:30 p.m. | Lunch and Keynote (RSVP required) |
Richard Huskey, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication (UC Davis) Simulation in Communication Science: Insights from a Non-Expert |
| 1:30-2:50 p.m. | Panel 3: Contesting, Resisting, and Recreating Gender |
Anqi Peng - “Leftover Women” Discourse and Counter-discourses in the Digital Space Brian Landes - The Paul Brothers or Abject Masculinity as the Official Style of Capitalism Jingyi Gu - Sisters Who Hustle: Inspirational Labor and Platformed Community of TikTok Live Shopping Streamers on Xiaohongshu |
| 3-4:20 p.m. | Panel 4: Technology, Digital Spaces, and Identities |
Chen (Crystal) Chen - What is “Being There”?: An Ontology of the Immersive Experience Ariana Cano - Understanding Self-Expression Through Avatar Creation for Women of Color William Helmke - A Media and Video Game-centered History of Tokyo’s Postwar Spatial Production |
| 4:20-4:50 p.m. | Poster Session |
Alyssa Xinle Du - Impact of Different Endorser’s Relevance level on customer’s Perceived Credibility Value Towards Advertising: A study Based on Celebrity and Expert Endorsers Ketan Krishna - Disciplining and Conditioning in Generative AI Weizi Liu & Mia Wang - Unpacking Trust in Recommendation Systems: The Roles of Source Framings, Agency Attribution, and Product Types in Consumer Perceptions and Evaluations Stephanie Perez - The Romance of Platonic Intimacies in And Just Like That Jennifer Shiyue Zhang, Ruochong Ji, Junqi Shao, & Leona Yi-Fan Su - Effects of Corrective Messages on Food- related Misperceptions and Behavioral Intentions: The Roles of Message Format, Information Source, and Perceived Credibility |
| 4:50-6 p.m. | Closing Keynote |
Aymar Jean Christian, Associate Professor, School of Communication (Northwestern University) Reparative Media |
| 6-6:05 p.m. | Closing |
Amanda Ciafone, ICR Director of Graduate Studies |
Sunday, March 4
336 Gregory Hall
10-11:30 am.
"Beyond Data: A Roundtable Discussion of Computational Methodologies and Epistemologies"
Panelists:
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Aymar Jean Christian, Associate Professor, School of Communication (Northwestern University)
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Richard Huskey, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication (UC Davis)
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Zoe LeBlanc, Assistant Professor, School of Information Sciences (Illinois)
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Margaret Yee Man Ng, Assistant Professor, Department of Journalism (Illinois)
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JungHwan Yang, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication (Illinois)