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- Early Career Guidance: Landing the First Faculty Job and Beyond
Amy Jo Coffey, Florida (moderator)I.F.T. (Great Ideas For Teachers) - How to Use Instagram as a Motivator
John Freeman, Florida - Begging the Question of Content-Based Confusion: Examining Problems with a Key First Amendment Doctrine Through the Lens of Anti-Begging Statutes
Clay Calvert, Florida - Access to Information About Lethal Injections: A First Amendment Theory Perspective
Emma Morehart, Kéran Billaud and Kevin Bruckenstein, Florida - Source Nationality, Authority and Credibility: A Multi-National Experiment using the Diaoyu/Senkaku Island Dispute
Krystin Anderson, Xiaochen Zhang and Shintaro Sato, Florida; and Hideo Matsumoto, Tokai University - Differential Reasonableness: A Standard for Evaluating Deceptive Privacy-Promising Technologies
Jasmine McNealy, Florida - Netflix versus Hulu: A Comparative Analysis***
[Top student paper 3rd place; Media Management and Economics Division]
Ronen Shay, Florida - Trumping Mood: Transportation and its Effects on Brand Outcomes
Lu Zheng, Florida and Shuhua Zhou, Alabama - Framing Oil on the Media Agenda: A Model of Agenda Building
Mariam Alkazemi and Wayne Wanta, Florida - An Issue Divided: How Business and National News Differ in Affordable Care Act Coverage
Lauren Furey and Andrea Hall, Florida - Is the Internet Portal an Alternative News Channel or Another Gatekeeper?
Kyung-Gook Park, Pittsburgh and Eunju Kang, Florida - Icy Challenges: Consumer Perceptions of Brands’ Social Activism in ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
Naa Amponsah Dodoo, Florida - The Porn Effect (?): Links Between College Men’s Exposure to Sexually Explicit Online Materials and Risky Sexual Health Behaviors and Attitudes
Ashley McLain and Kim Walsh-Childers, Florida - Marketing Theatrical Films for the Mobile Platform: The Roles of Web Content/Social Media, Brand Extension, WOM, and Windowing Strategies**
[Top faculty paper 2nd place; Media Management and Economics Division]
Sang-Hyun Nam, Sungkyunkwan University; Sylvia Chan-Olmsted, Florida and Byeng-Hee Chang, Sungkyunkwan University - Online Collective Action as Group Identity Performance: Extending the Strategic Side of SIDE**
[Top faculty paper 2nd place; Communication Technology Division]
Yu-Hao Lee and Robert Wells, Florida - Effects of Content Type in a Company’s Social Networking Site on Users’ Willingness to Subscribe the Page and Word-of-Mouth Intentions
Jung Won Chun and Moon Lee, Florida - Panel: Online Security: Hacking, Framing, News, and Citizen Privacy
Sandra Chance, Florida (panelist) - Valence Framing and Egypt’s Country Reputation
Amal Bakry, Florida - College Students’ Beverage Consumption Behaviors and the Path to Obesity
Cynthia Morton and Naa Amponsah Dodoo, Florida - The Impact of Message Framing and Evidence Type in Anti-binge Drinking Messages
Hannah Kang, Kansas and Moon Lee, Florida - Panel: Media Branding Revised: Participative Audiences and their Consequences for Media Branding
Ronen Shay, Florida (panelist) - Panel: #Ferguson Coverage in Visual Social and Alternative Media — Research Insights
Holly Cowart, Florida (panelist)
Ginger E. Blackstone, Florida (panelist) - Cross Cultural Political Persuasion: Assessing The Moderating Role of Candidate Ethnicity And Strength of Ethnic Identification On Candidate Evaluation
Mian Asim, Zayed; Troy Elias, Oregon and Alyssa Jaisle, Florida - Mum’s the Word: An Analysis of Frames Used on Parents Who Left Children in Cars
Andrea Hall and Lauren Furey, Florida - Time-lagged Analysis of Third-level Agenda-building: Florida’s Debate on Medical Marijuana***
[Top paper; Public Relations Division]
Tiffany Schweickart and Jordan Neil, Florida; Ji Young Kim, Hawii at Manoa; Josephine Lukito, Syracuse; Tianduo Zhang, Florida; Guy Golan, Syracuse and Spiro Kiousis, Florida - Towards Effective CSR in Controversial Industry Sectors: Effect of Industry Sector, Corporate Reputation, and Company-cause Fit
Baobao Song, Jing (Taylor) Wen, and Mary Ann Ferguson, Florida - Communicating ALS to the Public: The Message Effectiveness of Social-Media-Based Health Campaign*
[Top student paper; Advertising Division]
Jing (Taylor) Wen and Linwan Wu, Florida - Difficulties and Dilemmas Regarding Defamatory Meaning in Ethnic Micro-Communities: Accusations of Communism, Then and Now*
[Top faculty paper 1st place; Law and Policy Division]
Clay Calvert, Florida - Above the Scroll: Visual Hierarchy in Online News
Holly Cowart, Florida - A Qualitative Framing Analysis of HPV Vaccine Coverage in U.S. Newspapers*
[Top paper 1st place; Graduate Student Interest Group]
Jieun Chung, Florida - Guilt by Disassociation: Millennials’ Opinions Regarding News Consumption and the Prevalence of “Should”**
[Top paper 2nd place; Graduate Student Interest Group]
Ginger Blackstone, Florida - We’re Just Good People: Corporate Sustainability Communications and Human Values****
[Top paper 4th place; Graduate Student Interest Group]
Lauren Bayliss, Florida - Searching for Thinspiration: A Qualitative Content Analysis of Tumblr Blog Posts about Weight Loss and Disordered Eating
Nicki Karimipour, Florida - “It’s On Us.” The Role of Social Media in Individual Willingness to Mobilize Against Sexual Assault
Cory Armstrong, North Texas, and Jessica Mahone, Florida - Ethical Approaches to Crisis Communication in Chemical Crises: A Content Analysis of Media Coverage of Chemical Crises from 2010 to 2014
Xiaochen Zhang, Florida and Jonathan Borden, Syracuse - Outpouring of Success: How the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Engaged Millennials’ Narcissism Toward Digital Activism
Andrea Hall and Lauren Furey, Florida - Panel: The Unbearable Filteredness of Being Online: Customization and the Media We Consume
Sri Kalyanaraman, Florida (panelist) - The Effect of CSR Expectancy Violations on Public Attitudinal and Behavioral Responses to Corporations: An Application of Expectancy Violation Theory
Moonhee Cho, Tennessee; Sun-Young Park, Rowan and Soojin Kim, Florida - Attribution Error of Internal Stakeholders in Assessments of Organizational Crisis Responsibility
Jonathan Borden, Syracuse and Xiaochen Zhang, Florida - The Importance of Authenticity in Corporate Social Responsibility
Mary Ann Ferguson and Baobao Song, Florida - Relationship Building in Nation Branding: The Central Role of Nation Brand Commitment
Linwan Wu, Florida - Panel: Teaching Taboo Topics: Practical Lessons for Teaching on the Edge
Clay Calvert, Florida (panelist) - Picture a Protest: Analyzing Images Tweeted from Ferguson
Holly Cowart, Lynsey M. Saunders, and Ginger E. Blackstone, Florida - The Global Media Job Market: A Comparison of Requirements in Job Listings for Six Broadcast News Organizations
Mariam F. Alkazemi and Wayne Wanta, Florida - Panel: Open Educational Resources (OER) and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) – How New Platforms are Changing Universities
Dave Carlson, Florida (panelist) - Empowerment: The Overlooked Dimension of Emotional Response
Jing (Taylor) Wen and Jon D. Morris, Florida - The Effects of Mixed Emotional Appeals: Construal Level Theory Perspective
Wonseok (Eric) Jang, Jon D. Morris, Yong Jae Ko and Robyn J Goodman, Florida - The Promise to the Arab World: Attribute Agenda Setting and Diversity of Attributes about U.S. President Obama in Arabic-Language Tweets
Mariam Alkazemi, Florida, Shahira Fahmy, Arizona, Wayne Wanta, Florida and Ahmedabad Abdelzaheer Mahmoud Farghali, Arizona - The Government Speech Doctrine & Specialty License Plates: A First Amendment Theory Perspective
Sarah Papadelias, Tershone Phillips and Rich Shumate, Florida