Research and Insights

CJC at the International Communication Association Conference 2024

June 20-24, 2024
Gold Coast, Australia 

For a complete list of speakers for each session, click here.

Wednesday, June 19, 2024

PRECONFERENCE

Media and Communication in Global Latinidades

Pre/postconference, Pre/Postconferences, Chair: Celeste Wagner

Friday, June 21, 2024

9:00 AM-10:15 AM, Room 8 (GCCEC Upper)

Human-Machine Communication Business Meeting & Welcome Session Business Meeting, Human-Machine Communication

Kun Xu

9:00 AM-10:15 AM, Coolangatta 3 (Star L3)

HIGH-DENSITY: Information Systems and Agents and Identity
High-Density Paper Session, Information Systems

Kun Xu

10:30 AM-11:45 AM, HALL 4 (GCCEC Ground)

Sustaining, Growing and Flourishing Critical Race Theory: An Ethic of Care
Standard Paper Session, Ethnicity & Race in Communication

Natural Hair Activism as Resistance: Dismantling Discrimination to Pass the CROWN Act During Florida’s “Stop WOKE” Era

Nikki Lyons

12:00 PM-1:15 PM, Arena 1B (GCCEC Ground), HYBRID

Purr-spectives on Cues
Panel Session, Communication and Technology

Chair: Benjamin Johnson

12:00 PM-1:15 PM, HALL 3 (GCCEC Ground), HIGH-DENSITY

Crisis Communication
High-Density Paper Session, Public Relations

Corporate Conscience: Applying Ethics of Care Informed Crisis Responses to Corporate Social Advocacy Backlash

Christen Buckley

12:00 PM-1:15 PM, Room 9 (GCCEC Upper)

Big Ideas About HMC Through Critical, Theoretical, and Ethical Approaches
Standard Paper Session, Human-Machine Communication

Explainable AI Research is (Partly) Communication Research: Initiating Conversations Between the Two Fields

Kun Xu

1:30 PM-2:45 PM, HALL 4 (GCCEC Ground)

Activism, Protest, Performance, and Solidarity: Theorizing Latin American Affective Feminist Praxis
Panel Session, Feminist Scholarship

Pedagogy of Patience as a Feminist Praxis: The Experience of Feminist Activists in Argentina

Celeste Wagner

1:30 PM-2:45 PM, Central A (GCCEC Ground), HYBRID

Hello Chatbot! Can We Talk?
Standard Paper Session, Human-Machine Communication

Chair: Kun Xu

1:30 PM-2:45 PM, Central C (GCCEC Ground), HYBRID

Critical Perspectives on Health and Popular Media
Panel Session, Popular Media & Culture

Watching Gameplay for Mental Respite: A Qualitative Study on the Impact of Game Streaming on Stress Relief

Qing Sunny Xu

1:30 PM-2:45 PM, Surfer’s Paradise 2 (Star L3), HIGH-DENSITY

Information Systems and Narrative
High-Density Paper Session, Information Systems

More Than Just a COVID-19 Vaccine Message: A Content Analysis of Health Belief Model Constructs in CDC Instagram Posts

Xiaobei Chen; Chelsea Hampton; Xiaotong Yu; Lauren Michaels; Samantha Benavides; Taylor Vasquez; Kelsey Lunsford; Benjamin Johnson

3:00 PM-4:15 PM, Central B (GCCEC Ground)

Public Relations Top Papers, Standard Paper Session, Public Relations

“Who Asked for This”?: Authenticity and Race-Centered CSR

Ajia Meux

Saturday, June 22, 2024

9:00 AM-10:15 AM, Surfer’s Paradise 1 (Star L3)

Patient-Provider Communication I
High-Density Paper Session, Health Communication

Chair: Haoran Chris Chu

9:00 AM-10:15 AM, Room 3 (GCCEC Upper)

Global Governance and Global Issues in Public Diplomacy Research
Panel Session, Public Diplomacy

Multilateral Agenda-Building During High-Level Visits: A Three-Level Analysis of Irish, British, and U.S. Public Diplomacy During the 25th Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement

Spiro Kiousis

 9:00 AM-10:15 AM, Room 9 (GCCEC Upper)

Global Journalism Under Duress: Key Findings From WJS3
Panel Session, Journalism Studies

Revisiting Professional Autonomy Through a Cross-National Survey of Journalists

Seungahn Nah

10:30 AM-11:45 AM, Kirra Boardroom (Star L2)

Teaching Science and Health Journalism in an Age of Misinformation
Blue Sky: Pedagogical Workshop, Blue Sky Workshops

Combatting Misinformation Through Science and Health Journalism

Moderator: Kim Walsh-Childers

10:30 AM-11:45 AM, Broadbeach (Star L3)

Emotion in Health Communication
Standard Paper Session, Health Communication

How to Use Worldview Value to Cope With Fear of Death in Organ Donation

Yu-Hao Lee

10:30 AM-11:45 AM, Coolangatta 4 (Star L3)

Communications for Social Changes
Standard Paper Session Global Communication and Social Change

Global Communication as a Standpoint: A Critical Engagement With Research, Pedagogy, and the Profession Through a Global Communication Lens

Celeste Wagner

10:30 AM-11:45 AM, Arena 1A (GCCEC Ground), HYBRID

Continuing Research in OPR and PR in Higher Ed
Standard Paper Session, Public Relations

Incentivizing Privacy Practices: Applying Privacy-as-Trust to the Organizational Public Relationship Model

Christen Buckley

10:30 AM-11:45 AM, Room 6 (GCCEC Upper), HYBRID HIGH-DENSITY

Individual Differences, Expression, and Social Connection
High-Density Paper Session, Communication Science, and Biology

Conceptualizing and Measuring Character Depth

Rebecca Frazer

12:00 PM-1:15 PM, Surfer’s Paradise 2 (Star L3)

HIGH-DENSITY: Information Systems and Considerations in Advertising
High-Density Paper Session, Information Systems

Moderator: Benjamin Johnson, U of Florida

Production Quality as a Cue for Credibility, Authenticity, and Persuasion: Perceptions of Brand-Related Videos on Instagram

Benjamin Johnson; Lee LaPlaca; Ben Vollmer; Chelsea Hampton

12:00 PM-1:15 PM, Central A (GCCEC Ground), HYBRID HIGH-DENSITY

Public Relations Potpourri
High-Density Paper Session, Public Relations

Female Entrepreneurs’ Leadership Communication in China: Strategies, Institutional Determinants, and Outcomes

Linjuan Rita Men

1:30 PM-2:45 PM, Central A (GCCEC Ground), HYBRID HIGH-DENSITY

The Gaming Psychologies: Grief, Justice, and All the Feels
High-Density Paper Session, Game Studies

Seeking Justice in Video Games: Belief in a Just World and Video Game Preferences

Yu-Hao Lee; Qing Sunny Xu; Hanzi He; Xiaotong Yu

3:00 PM-4:15 PM, Room 4 (GCCEC Upper), HYBRID

Sport. Athlete, and Identity
High-Density Paper Session, Sport Communication

Faces of the Game?: Division I Female Athletes’ Use of Performance and Appearance-Related Photos on Social Media Before and After NIL

Emma Bissell

3:00 PM-4:15 PM, Southport 3 (Star L3)

Paws and Reflect: Trust, Anxiety, and Expectations in AI
Panel Session, Communication and Technology

How an AI Bot Looks Can Be Deceiving: Using Explanation Affordance to Help Users Calibrate Their Trust

Yuan Sun

3:00 PM-4:15 PM, Surfer’s Paradise 2 (Star L3), HIGH-DENSITY

Information Systems and Dis(Mis)information, Privacy, and Disclosure
High-Density Paper Session, Information Systems

“Not the Same Kind of Clickbait News”: Unveiling the Distinctions Between Information Bait and Rage Bait

Jieun Shin; Christopher DeFelice

4:30 PM-5:45 PM, Broadbeach (Star L3)

PARTNER PANEL: KACA – ICA Research Session

Personality’s Prism: How the Personality Predicts Perceptions of Anti-Smoking Campaigns

Won-Mi Moon

Sunday, June 23, 2024

9:00 AM-10:15 AM, Central A (GCCEC Ground), HYBRID HIGH-DENSITY

B.E.S.T. I: Can Organizations Do Good and Be Successful?
High-Density Breakout Session, Organizational Communication

When My Organization Is Socially Irresponsible: The Joint Effect of Moral Obligation and Ideological Psychological Contract in Digital Employee Activism

Jie Jin

9:00 AM-10:15 AM, Room 5 (GCCEC Upper), HYBRID HIGH-DENSITY

Trusting, Criticizing, and Avoiding News Media
High-Density Paper Session, Political Communication

In AI News We Trust: Causes, Components, and Consequences of News Credibility

Seungahn Nah

9:00 AM-10:15 AM, Room 9 (GCCEC Upper)

Virtual Worlds Unleashed: Understanding VR Environments
Panel Session, Communication and Technology

Cultural Differences in Embodied Social Interactions in Social Virtual Reality (VR): Mediated Reality or a Disassociated Virtual Playground?

Yu-Hao Lee

10:30 AM-11:45 AM, Room 1 (GCCEC Upper)

Explicating Social Other-ness: Implications of Emerging Communication Technologies
Panel Session, Communication and Technology

Understanding Social Responses to Emerging Technologies: Linking and Distinguishing Key Concepts

Kun Xu

10:30 AM-11:45 AM, Southport 2 (Star L3)

HIGH-DENSITY: Trust Issues
High-Density Paper Session, Journalism Studies

Leaking Trust: An Examination of Whether Leaked Documents From the U.S. Supreme Court Impact the Public’s Trust in the Court and the Media That Covers It

Jessica Sparks; Myiah Hutchens

10:30 AM-11:45 AM, Southport 3 (Star L3)

Examining Audience Perceptions of News and Journalists
Standard Paper Session, Journalism Studies

Defining News Quality Through Open-Ended Survey Responses

Jieun Shin; Nader Dagher; Jessica Sparks; Xinlei Wu

12:00 PM-1:15 PM, Surfer’s Paradise 3 (Star L3)

Regulating Authenticity in a Sea of BS
Standard Paper Session, Communication Law and Policy

Chair: Jessica Sparks

12:00 PM-1:15 PM, Central C (GCCEC Ground)

Health Message Design
Standard Paper Session, Health Communication

Generating Targeted and Tailored Health Communication Narratives With AI

Haoran Chris Chu

12:00 PM-1:15 PM, Broadbeach (Star L3)

Sports and Identities: Navigating New and Contested Spaces
Standard Paper Session, Sport Communication

Segmentation of Athlete and Viewer Gender in Motivations for Watching eSports

Benjamin Lynn; Roxane Coche

1:30 PM-2:45 PM, Room 5 (GCCEC Upper)

HYBRID HIGH-DENSITY: Sports and Sporting Events as Sites of Identity, Discourse, and Protest
High-Density Paper Session, Sport Communication

Chair: Roxane Coche

1:30 PM-2:45 PM, Southport 3 (Star L3)

The Importance of Words in Fostering and Advancing Communication in Service of Global Human Rights
Roundtable proposal, Activism, Communication and Social Justice

Angela Bradbery

1:30 PM-2:45 PM, Coolangatta 4 (Star L3)

How Do We Respond to ChatGPT and AI?
Standard Paper Session, Human-Machine Communication

Chair: Tom Kelleher

3:00 PM-4:15 PM, Room 4 (GCCEC Upper), HYBRID

Methodologies and Historiographies of Communication
Panel Session, Communication History

Chair: Rachel Grant

3:00 PM-4:15 PM, Room 5 (GCCEC Upper), HYBRID

Psychological Dimensions of Media Influence: Motivations, Affect, Cognition, and Morality
Standard Paper Session, Mass Communication

The Entertainment Trichotomy: Integrating Psychological Richness as a Third Dimension to Characterize the Motivations and Experiences of Media

Rachel Son

3:00 PM-4:15 PM, Stradbroke Room (Star L2)

Science Communication and the Monitoring and Surveillance of Activism During Covid-19
Panel Session, Activism, Communication and Social Justice

Gaming the Algorithm II: Race and Surveillance in TikTok User Anti-Algorithmic Behavior

Jasmine McNealy

Monday, June 24, 2024

9:00 AM-10:15 AM, Central B (GCCEC Ground), HIGH-DENSITY

Imagined Feminist Communities, Visibility, and Resistance in Digital Spaces
High-Density Paper Session, Feminist Scholarship

#WheresTiffany: Redefining Racial Broadcast Norms With Tiffany Cross’ MSNBC Removal

Rachel Grant

 9:00 AM-10:15 AM, Room 2 (GCCEC Upper)

Going Green: Green Marketing and Consumption
Standard Paper Session, Environmental Communication

What Is in an Ecolabel? A Qualitative Study of Gen Z Individuals’ Perceptions and Understanding

Chelsea Hampton; Juliana Fernandes; Lucy Rodríguez

 9:00 AM-10:15 AM, Southport 3 (Star L3)

Global Perspectives on Streaming: Creation, Distribution, and Consumption
Standard Paper Session, Media Industry Studies

Consumer Segments and Drivers of SVOD Repertoires in Streaming Video Industry

Sylvia Chan-Olmsted; Anran Luo

10:30 AM-11:45 AM, Room 4 (GCCEC Upper), HYBRID

Digital Struggles: Perpetrating and Resisting Gender and Sexual Aggression Across Platforms
High-Density Paper Session, Feminist Scholarship

From Victim to Villain: Misogynoir Aimed at Megan Thee Stallion

Nikki Lyons

10:30 AM-11:45 AM, Southport 1 (Star L3), HIGH-DENSITY

Look! AI is Everywhere!
High-Density Paper Session, Human-Machine Communication

Ethics in Algorithmic Decision-Making and Social Inequity: A Systematic Review of Algorithmic Bias and Responsibility

Mo Chen; Xiaofan Sophie Wei

10:30 AM-11:45 AM, Surfer’s Paradise 2 (Star L3)

HIGH-DENSITY: Connecting Communication Measurement and Theory
High-Density Paper Session, Communication Science, and Biology

Comparing Moral Measures: The Predictive Validity of Two Character Morality Questionnaires

Rebecca Frazer

 12:00 PM-1:15 PM, Stradbroke Room (Star L2)

How Adopting a “Global Communication Standpoint” Can Strengthen Theory, Practice and Pedagogy Across the Communication Discipline
Blue Sky: Big Ideas Session, Blue Sky Workshops

Celeste Wagner

1:30 PM-2:45 PM, Room 8 (GCCEC Upper)

New Developments in Tobacco, Smoking, Vaping Communication II
Standard Paper Session, Health Communication

Perceptions of Culturally Tailored Anti-Vaping Messaging Among LGBTQ+ Youth

Ramzi Salloum; Kathryn Pluta; Jennifer LeLaurin

Freedom and Social Perception in Shaping Smokers’ Attitudes Towards Anti-Smoking Campaigns

Won-Ki Moon