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On-Campus Research Presentations

Graduate Showcase Series: College of Arts and Humanities

2011-2012 Academic Year

Catherine Bocke: Dynamic crisis modifiers: BP’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill

2010-2011 Academic Year

Jodi Jackson: Presentation of her thesis research - The Graying of Facebook: Emerging Adults and Their Parents as Facebook Friends

2009-2010 Academic Year

Kendra (McClure) Baker: Presentation of her thesis research - Hidden in plain sight: An examination of entertainment education

Graduate Exposition

2009-2010 Academic Year

Nora Swalls: Poster presentation of her creative thesis research project  - Ready, set, GROW! Planting the seeds for a targeted networking approach for rural businesses in Clark County, Illinois

Departmental Colloquium on Graduate Research

2009-2010 Academic Year

Amanda Fountain: Are we still friends? Maintaining long distance friendships.

Ramey Strong: In the eye of the beholder: An ethnographic view of teacher immediacy and it s effects on student learning and classroom culture.

Melissa Territo: Hidden in the shadows: A qualitative analysis of the “impossible” possibility: Male rape.

Brandon Hensley: Constructing postmodern bodies: Performative embodiment and hegemonic masculinity in gym structure.

Graduate Research at Communication Day

2011-2012 Academic Year

Telling Stories, Making Meaning and Creating Family Identity – Poster session
Tayleigh Brummer
Daniel Douglas
Stephanie Gruner
Denise Hasler
Brendan Hughes
Michael Janowski
Andre Simmons

Case Studies in Crisis Communication – Panel presentation
Catherine Bocke
Shea Brunson
Pauline Matthey
Lisa Schleef

Creatively Connecting Communication Theory to Understanding and Practice – Panel presentation
Catherine Bocke
Daniel A. Douglas
Brendan Hughes
Saunnie Knotts
Pauline Matthey
Chris Wagner

This Week on Undercover Boss: Uncover Theories in Corporate Communication – Panel presentations
Saunnie Knotts
Rashida Lyles-Cowan
Pauline Matthey
Lisa Schleef

New Directions in Critical Media Research – Panel presentation
Brendan Hughes
Jonathon Mattson
Andrew McLaughlin
Patrick Singer

2010-2011 Academic Year

Culture of Masculinity:  How Pop Culture Reinforces the "Manly Man Stereotype – Panel presentation
Catherine Bocke
Carlnice Robinson
Pauline Matthey
Marcus Wordlaw

The Culture of Facebook– Panel presentation
Karena Gwin
Jodi Jackson
Nicole Mangiaracina
Jenn Yap

2009-2010 Academic Year

Graduate Research Panel

Kendra McClure: Who’s getting schooled? A critical examination of an entertainment-education intervention. 
Brandon Hensley: New age, old disclosure: National Geographic, orientalism, and coverage of Afghanistan in the 21^st century.
Zachary Thuring: Don’t touch me faggot! Touch avoidance and verbal aggression as indicators of homonegative attitudes.
Brandon Hensley: Constructing postmodern bodies: Performative embodiment and hegemonic masculinity in gym structure.