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CCI Faculty, Students Participate at National Communication Association Convention

November 17, 2022 by Hillary Tune

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
  • Co-presenter Southern States Communication Association Business Meeting 
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
  • Disclosing then and now: How COVID-19 disclosures changed over time 
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
  • Parasocial Rivals: Jealousy and Threat in Parasocial Romantic Relationships and Parasocial Friendships 
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
  • Short Course 04: Honoring PLACE: Teaching Leadership AND Followership Communication 
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
  • Respondent – Advocacy and Activism: Athlete, Community, and Corporate Applications 
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

 

Filed Under: Faculty News, School of Advertising and Public Relations, School of Communication Studies, School of Journalism and Electronic Media, Student Experience Stories, Student News

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