Wednesday November 16, 2011 - National Communication ...

412113 2:00 PM to 3:15 PM Sheraton New Orleans Poydras - Third Floor
The Strong Voice of the Neurosciences
Sponsor: Association for the Rhetoric of Science and Technology
Chair: David Gruber, North Carolina State University
"'Neuroscience' as Voicebank: The Neuroscientific Turn in Literature" Jordynn M. Jack, University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill
"Disentangling the ‘Neuro’ from the ‘Rhetorics’: Punctuating the Prefixated Neuro-disciplines" Jenell Johnson,
University of Wisconsin, Madison; Melissa M. Littlefield, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
"Our Children’s Brains Are Mutating: Neuro-Imaging and the Rhetoric of 'Acquired Attention Deficit Disorder'" David
Gruber, North Carolina State University
"‘Fact Finding’ and ‘Theory Building’: The Rhetorical Use of Popular Neuroscience in the Emergent
Neurodisciplines" Melissa M. Littlefield, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Jenell Johnson, University of
Wisconsin, Madison
412114 2:00 PM to 3:15 PM Sheraton New Orleans Maurepas - Third Floor
Top Paper Panel in Health Communication
Sponsor: Health Communication Division
Chair: Lance Rintamaki, University at Buffalo, SUNY
"Encouraging Mexican-heritage Youth to Intervene when Friends Drink: The Role of Targeted Parent-Child
Communication about Alcohol" Jennifer A. Kam, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Bridget Potocki, Ohio State
University; Michael L. Hecht, Penn State University
"A new voice in health communication messages: Effects of persuasive hope appeals on subjective feelings of
hope" Amy E. Chadwick, Ohio University
"Too Fat, Too Thin, Just Right: Descriptions of the Perfect Female Body" Mary Bresnahan, Michigan State
University; Jenn Anderson, Michigan State University
"Routine and Deliberate Information Exposure Effects on Mammography Behavior" Susan Mello, Univ of
Pennsylvania; Sarah Parvanta, University of Pennsylvania
412115 2:00 PM to 3:15 PM Sheraton New Orleans Borgne - Third Floor
The National States Advisory Council: Successful Practices and Strategic Voices
Sponsor: National States Advisory Council
Chair: Susan Tomasovic, George Mason Univ
Presenters:
Thomas G. Endres, Univ of Northern Colorado
Eric Grabowsky, Dickinson State Univ
Scott L. Jensen, Webster University
Douglas Marshall, Duquesne University
Thomas Sabetta, University of Kentucky
C. Sue Strohkirch, Fort Hays State Univ
412121 2:00 PM to 3:15 PM Sheraton New Orleans Bayside A - Fourth Floor
Burke, Body, and Voice: Burkean Criticism Embodied
Sponsors: Kenneth Burke Society, Philosophy of Communication Division
Chair: Devika Chawla, Ohio University