Wednesday November 16, 2011 - National Communication ...

"The Holy Grail of Physics: String Theory and the Pursuit of Unification" Brent Yergensen, Dixie State College of
Utah
"The Voice of the Frontiersman: Francis Collins and Human Genome Research" Leah M. Ceccarelli, University of
Washington
312115 2:00 PM to 3:15 PM Sheraton New Orleans Borgne - Third Floor
From PSAs and HIV, to Pregnant Women and People with Disabilities: The Many Voices of Mass
Communication
Sponsors: Health Communication Division, Mass Communication Division
Chair: Chan Le Thai, Univ of California, Santa Barbara
Respondent: Jakob D. Jensen, University of Utah
"The Impact of Attitude Accessibility and Message Perceptions on Adolescents’ Retention of Anti-Smoking Public
Service Announcements" Elisabeth Bigsby, Northeastern University; Jennifer L. Monahan, University of Georgia; David
Ewoldsen, Ohio State University
"Consuming Image: How Mass Media Impact the Self Identity of People with Disabilities" Lingling Zhang, Towson
University; Beth Haller, Towson University
"Explicating the Effects of Gain and Loss Framed Messages on HIV Test Intentions: Integrating Theories of Message
Effects, Information Processing and Behavior Change" Shawnika Hull, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"A Qualitative Analysis of the Role of Magazine Portrayals of Celebrity Pregnancy in Social Comparison Processes in
Pregnant Women" K. Megan Hopper, Illinois State University
"It Matters to Me: An Examination of the Impact of Information Utility on PSA Message Perceptions" Tracy Worrell,
Rochester Institute of Technology
312121 2:00 PM to 3:15 PM Sheraton New Orleans Bayside A - Fourth Floor
The Obama Effect—Emergent and Divergent Voices Since the 2008 Campaign
Sponsors: American Studies Division, Political Communication Division
Chair: Catherine Squires, University of Minnesota
Presenters:
Bertram Ashe, University of Richmond
Aimee Carrillo Rowe, University of Iowa
Dina Gavrilos, University of St Thomas
Heather Harris, Stevenson University
Rebecca A. Kuehl, South Dakota State University
Kimberly Moffitt, University of Maryland
Robert Spicer, Rutgers University
312122 2:00 PM to 3:15 PM Sheraton New Orleans Bayside B - Fourth Floor
Socially Constructing Identity and Relationship
Sponsor: Communication as Social Construction Division
Chair: Katie Margavio Striley, Ohio University
"Is the Voluntarily Childlessness Stigma Evolutionarily Justified? (Top 3 Paper)" Jeff Halford, Keene State College
"'Of Course, My Mother Had to Create Her Family': The Social Construction of Motherhood by Holocaust Survivor
Mothers and Their Daughters" Samantha Gable, Villanova University; Sheryl Perlmutter Bowen, Villanova University
"Ricoeur’s Narrative Identity as a Way to Explore Individual and Society Co-construction" Joëlle Basque, University
of Montreal; Marie-France Vermette, University of Ottawa
"Memento Mori: Processing Silenced Memories of the 'Suicide Dead' by a Living Survivor" Nicholas Zoffel, Sierra
College