UNC Hussman at 72nd annual ICA Conference in Paris | UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media

Fourteen graduate students, 11 faculty members, and various alumni and affiliates will represent the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media May 23-June 1, 2022 at the 72nd Annual International Communication Association Conference, held in a hybrid format in Paris, France, and virtually. These scholars will participate in panel sessions and present authored or co-authored papers.

The school will also partner with the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications at Penn State to host a reception Sunday, May 29. Alumni, faculty and graduate students interested in attending should RSVP online.

UNC Hussman faculty and student activities at ICA include:

Awards and honors

Ph.D. student Heesoo Jang (pictured) won a top student paper award for her paper, ” A co-oriented crisis communication model for an AI scansis: A case of chatbot, Lee-Luda.”

Ph.D. student Parker Bach will present “Do Our Jobs for Us for a Low Monthly Fee: The Politics-Reinforcing Recursive Commodification of The Babylon Bee.”

Ph.D. student LaRisa Anderson will present “The shadow of category: Critically engaging the study of religion in technoculture.”

Maria Leonora (Nori) Comello, Diane B. Francis ’16 (Ph.D.), Parul Jain and Jeannette Porter ’18 (Ph.D.) will co-chair the BlueSky Workshop “Beyond productivity: Writing groups as catalysts for peer mentorship and collaboration among minority faculty.”

Deen Freelon will present “Measuring political identity on social media: Do birds of a feather always flock together?”

Xinyan (Eva) Zhao, Sifan Xu and Lucinda Austin will present “Medium and source convergence in crisis information acquisition: Patterns, antecedents, and outcomes.”

Ph.D. student Heesoo Jang and Suman Lee will present “A co-oriented crisis communication model for an AI scansis: A case of chatbot, Lee-Luda.”

Incoming Ph.D. student Daniel Johnson ’22 (M.A.) will present “The use of Reddit by servicemembers as an anonymous tool to conduct stigmatized discussions on mental health.”

Ph.D. student Hailey Allen will present “The mediated context of collective control: Identity construction, socio-political opportunity structures, and the fatalist threat of populist democracy.”

M.A. student Carolyn Schmitt and colleagues will present “Setting the agenda through misinformation: Analyzing the vote-by-mail coverage during the 2020 US elections.”

Shannon McGregor will chair the practice-based panel “Building a global platform governance research network.”

Chris Gentilviso ’19 (M.A.) and Deb Aikat will present “One world, one network: Theorizing how Gen Z is altering the definition of news.”

Suman Lee and colleagues will present “How ethical ideologies affect behavioral intention to wear face masks in pandemic: The mediating role of attitude, subjective norm, and personal norm.”

Maggie Foster ’22 (M.A.) will present “‘Winegate’: A grounded theory of Reddit reactions to the Aziz Ansari #MeToo controversy.”

Shannon McGregor and Daniel Kreiss will present “Tech firms shape politics: Public communication scholarship at a time of democratic uncertainty.”

Ph.D. candidate Jacob Thompson will present “Defining diversity in the DEI workspace.”

Shannon McGregor will co-chair the virtual Blue Sky Workshop “We fucking warned you: A reminder about institutional and organizational resilience.”

Ph.D. student Emily Galper and colleague will present “Risk Revelation Model: Women’s Disclosure of Their Pornography Use to Their Romantic Partners.”

Xinyan (Eva) Zhao, Lucinda Austin and colleagues will present “How information repertoire affects vaccine hesitancy: Processes of information verification and cognitive elaboration.”

Maria Leonora (Nori) Comello, Ph.D. candidate Jacob Thompson, Ph.D. student LaRisa Anderson and colleagues will present “Do more complex portrayals of mental illness result in more support? An experiment testing the effects of multiple-categorization and race cues.”

Ph.D. candidate Jacob Thompson and colleagues will present “Tell me a story: The impact of narrative on learning.”

Ph.D. student Bridget Barrett, Lee McGuigan and Aaron Shapiro will present “Making an impression.”

Deen Freelon, CITAP postdoctoral fellow Meredith Pruden, Kirsten Adam Eddy ’21 (Ph.D.) and CITAP postdoctoral fellow Rachel Kuo will present “Inequities of race, place, and gender among the communication citation elite, 2000 – 2019.”

Ph.D. student Andrea Lorenz will present “‘Biased’ and ‘Minimal’: Intersectional candidates for public office and declining news coverage.”

Madhavi Reddi ’22 (Ph.D.) will present “Celebrity Endorsements of Minority Politicians.”

Fernanda Mediano Stoltze ’21 (Ph.D.), Francesca Dillman Carpentier, Jennifer Harris, Maria Leonora (Nori) Comello, Lindsey Smith Taillie, Allison J. Lazard and Marcela Reyes will present “Testing the assumption underlying ‘child-directed’ marketing regulations: Children’s attitudes toward child- vs. non-child-directed soda ads.”

Xinyan (Eva) Zhao and colleagues will present “Sequence of emotion in social stories: Examining user engagement with breast cancer narratives on Facebook.”