CCI Faculty, Students Participate at National Communication Association Convention
Several College of Communication and Information faculty and graduate students are participating in the National Communication Association’s 108th Annual Convention this week by presenting papers, sitting on panels, and much more. Besides opportunities to expand professional development and learning, the convention also provides a chance for attendees to connect with other academics in the communication fields as well as with CCI alumni, said School of Communication Studies Associate Professor Michelle Violanti.
Violanti has a whole roster of events in which she will be participating and presenting, including a special presentation centering on one of her passions: accessibility. This presentation, “Excerpts of Seizing, an Accessible Performance of Living with Seizures,” which is part of the convention’s “The Accessible Panel Project: Exploring and Practicing Possibilities,” will be live-streamed for all viewers, Violanti said.
“Accessibility is really important to me and has been for a long time. I’ve been arguing for a long time at NCA that we’re not very accessible for people who have any kinds of visible or invisible differences, so this presentation and the bullying ones are near and dear to my heart,” she said. “The other reason I got NCA is because so many of our former graduate students go, and it’s a great opportunity to connect back with them and to connect with future students.”
Here’s an overview of those from CCI who are participating in this year’s convention:
School of Communication Studies
Assistant Professor Quinten Bernhold
Victoria Bertram, PhD student
- Panel chair – Examining Resilience in Organizing
- Presentation – ‘Count the Days by the Good Outcomes’: Family Farm Member Experiences with Stress and Coping
William Deverell, PhD student
- Presentation – Evaluating the Social Norm Model of the Tolerance of Deceit Via Hypothetical Scenario Inductions
Sarah Devereaux, PhD student
Assistant Professor Jenny Crowley
- Panel Chair – Friendships, for the Interpersonal Communication Division
- Presentation – Support Provider Burnout: Stress, Blame, and Support Provision During a Romantic Partner’s Unemployment
- Presentation – Family Communication Patterns, Mediated Communication, and Well-Being: A Communication Interdependence Perspective on Parent–Adult Child Relationships
- Serving on the Top Thesis and Top Dissertation Awards Committee for the Interpersonal Communication Division
Assistant Professor Jessica Frampton
Associate Professor John Haas
- Co-presenter – Southern States Communication Association Business Meeting
- Co-presenter – Regional President and Executive Director Meeting
Kylie Julius, graduate student
- Presentation – Intensity of Managerial Interventions to Mitigate Workplace Bullying: An Expectancy Violation Theory Approach
Associate Professor Michael Kotowski
- Presentation – Compliance-Gaining Theory: Foot-in-the-door 50 years on
- Presentation – Using Self-Schema Matching to Recruit Superdiffusers for a Potential Vaccine Word-of-Mouth Promotion Campaign
- Presentation – Evaluating the Social Norm Model of the Tolerance of Deceit Via Hypothetical Scenario Inductions
Associate Professor Laura Miller
- Co-presenter of the Southern States Communication Association business meeting
- Panel/Paper Presentation – Count the Days by the Good Outcomes’: Family Farm Member Experiences with Stress and Coping
Associate Professor Emily Paskewitz
- Presentation – Count the Days by the Good Outcomes: Family Farm Member Experiences with Stress and Coping
- Presentation – Intensity of Managerial Interventions to Mitigate Workplace Bullying: An Expectancy Violation Theory Approach
- Running for Vice Chair-Elect in the Group Communication Division
Cassandra Ray, PhD student
Professor Joan Rentsch
- Presentation – Intensity of Managerial Interventions to Mitigate Workplace Bullying: An Expectancy Violation Theory Approach
Associate Professor Roth Smith
- Presentation – Placing Nudge Theory in Conversation with Organizational Communication: Implications for CCO, Relationality, and Materiality Viewpoints
Professor Michelle T. Violanti
- Co-presenter – NCA Resolutions Committee Meeting
- Ensemble performance – Excerpts of Seizing: An Accessible Performance of Living with Seizures
- Presentation respondent – Applied Communication Research Examining Community and Stakeholder Connections
- Presentation – Communicating (Non-)Accommodation When Social Identities Intersect
- Presentation – The Gaze: Punishment at the Oscars
- Panel chair – Short Course 04: Honoring PLACE: Teaching Leadership AND Followership Communication
- Presentation – Honoring PLACE: Countering Bullying, Violence, and Intimidation in Our House to Transform the Discipline
- Presentation – Instructor Misbehaviors as Predictors of Students’ Writing Apprehension in Business Communication Courses
- Presentation – It’s Time: Faculty Advocate for Building a Community Focused on Mental Health, Wellness, and Healing for ALL in the Current Environment
School of Journalism and Electronic Media
Associate Professor Guy Harrison
- Presentation – Decolonizing Assessment: Exploring “Place” of Grades in the Communication Classroom
- Acceptance of Outstanding Book Award from NCA’s Communication and Sport Division
Tombras School of Advertising and Public Relations
Associate Professor Michael Palenchar
Assistant Professor Xu Sifan
- Presentation – Connecting Issues, CSR, and OPRs: Unpacking Identity Mediators of the Effect of CSR on Relationship and the Moderating Role of Intergroup Dynamics
- Panel chair – Exploring Engagement, Authentic Communication, and Network Perspectives in Public Relations
Doctoral student Carla White
- Presentation – Public Reactions to NFL Teams’ Racial Activism as a Function of Social Identity Management
- Presentation – Imagining the Thoughtful Home: Google Nest and Logics of Domestic Recording