Researchers, postdoctoral fellows, and scholars from the Annenberg Public Policy Center are set to attend the 67th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), to be held this year in San Diego on May 25-29. This year’s conference theme is “Interventions: Communication Research and Practice.”
APPC director Kathleen Hall Jamieson, APPC’s Adolescent Health and Risk Communication Institute director Patrick E. Jamieson, and postdoctoral fellows Meghnaa Tallapragada and Robert B. Lull will present research and take part in discussions. Kathleen Hall Jamieson is also taking part in a pre-conference plenary panel on Normative Theorizing in Communication Research. The conference will also feature research by postdoctoral fellow Ben Lyons; APPC research director Dan Romer; APPC visiting scholar William K. Hallman; former APPC research scientist Amy Bleakley (now at the Annenberg School for Communication); and APPC coding research manager and analyst Ilana Weitz.
See below for participation by APPC researchers.
- Preconference: Strategic Environmental Communication and Exploration of Research in Crisis, Risk and Disaster Communication
- Meghnaa Tallapragada and William K. Hallman – “Construal Level Theory and Psychological Distance in Environmental Messaging: Understanding the Public’s General Disapproval of Genetic Modification (GM), but Approval of Specific GM Applications”
- Robert B. Lull – “Identifying Strategic Communication Opportunities in the Context of Public Support for Releasing Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes as a Response to Zika Virus”
- Preconference: Normative Theorizing in Communication Research
- Panelists include Kathleen Hall Jamieson
- Advertising and Branding
- Robert B. Lull – “Violence, Sex, and Advertising Effectiveness”
- Cognition, Attitude, and Persuasion
- Amy Bleakley, Patrick E. Jamieson, and Ilana Weitz – “Drinking and Killing at the #RedWedding: Social Media Use as a Moderator of Exposure to Risky Media Portrayals and Behavioral Intention”
- Growing up with Media: Gender, Sexuality, and Romance during the Teen & Young Adult Years
- Amy Bleakley, Patrick E. Jamieson, and Ilana Weitz – “Risk Exposure from Mainstream and Black-oriented Movies: Differential Associations with White and Black Adolescents’ Behavior”
- Journalism and Sociology: Comparative Epistemologies, Boundaries, and Ways of Knowing the World
- Ben Lyons – “Do Data Scandals Beget Boundaries? (Methodological) Tension Between the Social Sciences and Journalism in the Age of ‘Data’ Reporting”
- Media Violence, Aggression, and Suspense
- Robert B. Lull and Dan Romer – “Is Parental Desensitization to Violent Films a Function of Justified Violence?”
- Top Papers in Intergroup Communication
- Ben Lyons – “Reducing Group Alignment in Factual Disputes: Comparing Self-Affirmation and Relative Identity Prominence Interventions”
- Issues in Crisis, Risk, Disaster Communication Research
- Robert B. Lull – Chair
- Studies of Media and Contextual Effects on Health Behavior
- Amy Bleakley, Patrick E. Jamieson, and Ilana Weitz – “Adolescent Wishful Identification with Risky Media Characters and the Co-occurrence of Alcohol Use and Sexual Behavior”
