HCTD NCA Panels for 2007

Here is the complete listing of HCTD-sponsored panels and participants. We encourage you to attend these presentations. We have also included a printable list for you to take with you to the convention.

Impact of Online Gaming on Social Interaction and Engagement
Time: Thu, Nov 15 - 8:00am - 9:15am
Place: Chicago Hilton, Conference Room 5C

Participant: Tanya Joosten
Participant: Hsueh-hua (Vivian) Chen (Nanyang Tech Univ)
Participant: George Boone (Villanova University)

Chair: Edward A. Mabry (Univ of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)

Technology Reality Check: PowerPoint’s Limitations as a Learning Tool
Time: Thu, Nov 15 - 9:30am - 10:45am
Place: Chicago Hilton, Joliet Room

Participant: Robyn E. Parker (Kent State University)
Participant: Jacqueline Barnett (The Pennsylvania State University - York)
Participant: James Kimble (Seton Hall University)
Participant: Steven M. Weiss (Northern Kentucky University)
Participant: Rita Kirk (Southern Methodist University)
Participant: James A. Katt (Univ of Central Florida)
Participant: Karen Dietz (Polaris Associates Inc)
Participant: Jean G. Jones (Edinboro University)
Participant: Mark R. Stoner (California State Univ, Sacramento)

Chair: Star A. Muir (George Mason Univ)

Issues of Openness and Relationships in Social Networking Sites
Time: Thu, Nov 15 - 12:30pm - 1:45pm
Place: Chicago Hilton, Conference Room 5C

Emotional Support and Perceived Stress Among College Students Using Facebook.com: An Exploration of the Relationship between Source Perceptions and Emotional Support.
Kevin B Wright (University of Oklahoma), Elizabeth A Craig (University of Oklahoma), Cory B Cunningham (University of Oklahoma), Magdalena Igiel (University of Oklahoma)

Gender, Motivation, and Self-Disclosure Online: A Study of Korean Social Networking Websites
Jinsuk Kim (Michigan State University)

Shining Light onto the Dark Side of Facebook: A Content Analysis of Online College Social Network Use
Ashleigh K Shelton (Univ of Minnesota, Duluth), Paul Skalski (Univ of Minnesota, Duluth)

Will you be my Facebook friend?
Melanie Haspels (Wichita State University)

An Analysis of Female University Students’ Communicative Management of Privacy Online via Facebook
Jenna L Catlett (Univ of Nebraska, Lincoln)

Chair: Anna Marjorie Young (Univ of Texas, Austin)

Changes in Communication Technologies: Case Studies
Time: Thu, Nov 15 - 2:00pm - 3:15pm
Place: Chicago Hilton, Conference Room 5C

Educational Effects of Games: An Experimental Study on an Interactive Edu-Game
Eui Jun Jeong (Michigan State University), Namkee Park (Univ of Southern California), SeoungHo Ryu (Kangwon National University), Kwan M Lee (Univ of Southern California)

www.Faith.Org: (Re)structuring Communication and the Social Capital of Religious Organizations
Pauline Hope Cheong (State University of NY University at Buffalo), Jessie Poon (University at Buffalo)

U.S. Residing South Korean’s Uses of Self-Presentational Strategies and Information Exchange with Social Networking Sites
Heeman Kim (Kennesaw State University), William V Faux II (Valdosta State University), Youngrak Park (Florida State University)

Opinion Leadership in Indian Villages and Diffusion of E-Choupal
Do Kyun Kim (Northeastern University), Ketan Chitnis (UNICEF), P.N. Vasanti (Centre for Media Studies), Arvind Singhal (Ohio University)

Chair: Natalia V Rybas (Bowling Green State Univ)
Respondent: Davis Foulger (Brooklyn College--CUNY)

When Worlds Collide: Worldviews Constructed at the Intersection of Real and Virtual Worlds
Time: Thu, Nov 15 - 3:30pm - 4:45pm
Place: Chicago Hilton, Conference Room 5C

Third-Person Perception about Hyperfeminine and Hypermasculine Images in Video Games
Mark Douglas Cruea

What Did You Call Me? Examining Profanity and Hate Speech in Online Multiplayer Gaming
Jeffrey H. Kuznekoff (School of Visual Arts), Michael M. Parsons (James Madison University)

Target...Gamers: Air Force Recruitment Commercials Virtually Unrealistic
Stormi D Moskal (Bowling Green State Univ)

Let’s Get Real: Notes on Race and Videogames
Olivier Tchouaffe

Representations of The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: Day of Defeat: Source and Memories of World War II
Charles Walts (William Jewell College)

Respondent: Radhika Gajjala (Bowling Green State Univ) radhika@cyberdiva.org
Chair: Mark Douglas Cruea mcruea@bgsu.edu

The Ego Online: Self and Identity
Time: Fri, Nov 16 - 8:00am - 9:15am
Place: Chicago Hilton, Conference Room 5D

Why Do Teens Express Themselves Online? Making Sense of Young People’s Internet Authorship Experiences
Susannah Stern (University of San Diego)

The Effects of Avatars on Impression Formation in Different Contexts
David K Westerman (West Virginia University), Ron Tamborini (Michigan State University), Nicholas David Bowman (Michigan State University)

The Co-creation of Identity and Trust in Online Dating: An Analysis of Match.com
Monica L Gracyalny (Univ of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)

Body Discourse on EDateReview.com: Power and the Construction of Online Bodies
Shana Kopaczewski

You Can Tell A Lot About a Person From Their Profile: A Study in Identity Creation and Online Social Networking
Sarah B Feldner (Marquette University), Scott C. D'Urso (Marquette University)

Chair: Anne J. Greenleaf (Ohio University, Lancaster)

Rhetoric and Language in Technology-Mediated Communication
Time: Fri, Nov 16 - 9:30am - 10:45am
Place: Chicago Hilton, Conference Room 5D

Effects of the User Choice on Social Responses to Computer-Synthesized Speech
Younbo Jung (Univ of Southern California), Kwan M Lee (Univ of Southern California), Clifford Nass (Stanford University)

9/11 Conspiracy Theories on the World Wide Web: Digital Rhetoric and Alternative Epistemology
Charles E. Soukup (Univ of Northern Colorado)

The Effect of Formal Style and Written Medium Type on Message Attitude and Perceptions of Sender's Source Credibility
Russell Corrigan, Keri Keilberg Stephens (University of Texas at Austin)

When Does Gendered Language Evoke Gendered Person Perception in Computer-Mediated Communication?
Eun-Ju Lee (Univ of California, Davis)

Chair: Nanette M. Hogg (Univ of Nebraska-Kearney)
Respondent: Noemi C. Marin (Florida Atlantic Univ)

Synthetic Worlds and Second Lives: Human Communication and Online Role Playing Games
Time: Fri, Nov 16 - 12:30pm - 1:45pm
Place: Chicago Hilton, Marquette Room

The Economics of Arden
Edward Castronova (Indiana University)

Virtual Economies of Race and Embodiment: The Case of Asian 'Farmers' in MMORPG's
Lisa Nakamura (University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign)

Virtual Incorporations: Second Life, MMORPGs, and the End of Computer-Mediated Communication
David J. Gunkel (Northern Illinois Univ)

Respondent: Robert A. Brookey (Northern Illinois Univ) rbrookey@niu.edu
Chair: Roger Stahl (University of Georgia) rstahl@uga.edu

New Theoretical Models and Measurements Applied to the Internet
Time: Fri, Nov 16 - 2:00pm - 3:15pm
Place: Chicago Hilton, Conference Room 5D

Development and Test of an Internet Search Evaluation Measure
Adam C Earnheardt (Youngstown State University), Mary Beth Earnheardt (Youngstown State University), Rebecca Rubin (Kent State University)

Explaining Demographic Differences in Health Information Seeking on the Internet: An Initial Test of the Integrative Model of E-Health Use
Graham D. Bodie (Purdue University), Mohan J Dutta (Purdue University), Ambar Basu (Purdue University), James G. Anderson

Internet-related research trend from 2001 to 2005: a thematic meta-analysis of major and Internet-related journals
Chang Wan Woo (University of Alabama)

Journaling for the World (Wide Web) to See: A Proposed Model of Self-Disclosure Intimacy in Blogs
Erin E Kleman (Kent State University)

The Uses and Dependency Model: A Theoretical Guide for Researching the Cell Phone
Amber L. Ferris (Kent State University)

Chair: Paul Scovell (Salisbury University) pescovell@salisbury.edu

Social Interaction via Communication Technologies
Time: Fri, Nov 16 - 3:30pm - 4:45pm
Place: Chicago Hilton, Conference Room 5D

How social is social responses to computers?: The function of the degree of anthropomorphism in computer representations
Li Gong (Ohio State University)

The Effect of Interactivity on Initial Interactions: The Influence of Information Seeking Role on Computer-Mediated Interaction
Artemio Ramirez (Ohio State University)

Find the Missing Links: A Social Networks Framework for Community Development
Seungyoon Lee (Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California), *Arul Chib (University of Southern California)

Children's Use of Community Information Systems
Teresa Marie Harrison (University at Albany), James P Zappen (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

Respondent: Patrick O'Sullivan (Illinois State University) posull@ilstu.edu
Chair: Shannon C VanHorn (Valley City State Univ) shannon.vanhorn@vcsu.edu

Conversations with Leading Scholars: The Past, Present and Future Research on Human Communication and Technology - Part I
Time: Fri, Nov 16 - 3:30pm - 4:45pm
Place: Chicago Hilton, Waldorf Room

Participant: Susan B Barnes (Rochester Inst of Technology)
Participant: Nancy K Baym (U. of Kansas)
Participant: Noshir S. Contractor (Northwestern University)
Participant: Janet L. Fulk (Univ of Southern California)
Participant: Michele H. Jackson (Univ of Colorado, Boulder)
Participant: Malcolm Parks (University of Washington)
Participant: Marshall Scott Poole (Univ of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Participant: Ronald E. Rice (University of California - Santa Barbara)
Participant: Craig R Scott (Rutgers University)
Participant: Joseph B. Walther (Michigan State University)

Chairs: Scott C. D'Urso (Marquette University) and Yun Xia (Rider University)

Conversations with Leading Scholars: The Past, Present and Future Research on Human Communication and Technology - Part II
Time: Fri, Nov 16 - 5:00pm - 6:15pm
Place: Chicago Hilton, Waldorf Room

Participant: Susan B Barnes (Rochester Inst of Technology)
Participant: Nancy K Baym (U. of Kansas)
Participant: Noshir S. Contractor (Northwestern University)
Participant: Janet L. Fulk (Univ of Southern California)
Participant: Michele H. Jackson (Univ of Colorado, Boulder)
Participant: Malcolm Parks (University of Washington)
Participant: Marshall Scott Poole (Univ of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Participant: Ronald E. Rice (University of California - Santa Barbara)
Participant: Craig R Scott (Rutgers University)
Participant: Joseph B. Walther (Michigan State University)

Chairs: Scott C. D'Urso (Marquette University) and Yun Xia (Rider University)

Mobile Telephony in International and Interpersonal Contexts
Time: Sat, Nov 17 - 8:00am - 9:15am
Place: Chicago Hilton, Conference Room 5D

Mobile Communication as a Mode of Interpersonal Communication
Borae Jin (Univ of Texas, Austin)

Mobile Payphone Systems in Africa: Developments, Uses and Implications
Araba B Sey (Univ of Southern California)

Mothering Via Cellphone: Overseas Filipino Workers and Text Messaging
Cecilia Uy-Tioco (George Mason University)

The Mobile Phone in the Lives of Palestinian-Israeli Young Women: Notes on the Domestication of a Mobile Communication Technology
Rivka Ribak (Univ of Haifa), Hiyam Omari-Hijazi

Modernity and the Mobile Phone: Exploring tensions about dating and sex in Indonesia
Lee M Humphreys (Univ of Pennsylvania)

Chair: Kathryn P. Rothenberg (Case Western Reserve University)

"Getting the Job Done" - Communication in Team and Business Contexts
Time: Sat, Nov 17 - 9:30am - 10:45am
Place: Chicago Hilton, Conference Room 5F

If You Think We Are Overloaded Now...: A Cost-Minimization Perspective on Managing Workplace Instant Messaging Use
Keri Keilberg Stephens (University of Texas at Austin)

A Comparison of Face-to-Face, E-mail, and Telephone Usage in Industrial Sales: Unexpected Correlates of Sales Success
Seth Finn (Robert Morris University)

Virtual Scientific Collaboration: The role of Communication Technology in teamwork and interaction
Iftekhar Ahmed (Texas A&M University)

Respondent: Tracy C. Russo (University of Kansas)
Chair: Mark D. Nuss (Univ of Nebraska-Kearney)

Top Student Papers in Human Communication and Technology
Time: Sat, Nov 17 - 12:30pm - 1:45pm
Place: Chicago Hilton, Marquette Room

Blackboard Implementation: Metaphoric Perceptions and Technical Descriptions of a Cyberinfrastructure
Kerk F Kee (Univ of Texas, Austin)

Login for Love; Defining Intimacy in the Metaverse of Second Life
Mathew Woods (San Francisco State Univ)

Media Use and Supportive Message Content: Accounting for the Multimodality of Relationships
Andrew M Ledbetter (Ohio University)

Self-Concept Change in Online Environments
Amy L Gonzales (Cornell University), Jeffrey T Hancock (Cornell University)

User Acceptance of a Digital Library System in Developing Countries: An Application of the Technology Acceptance Model
Namkee Park (Univ of Southern California), Seungyoon Lee (Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California), Jae eun Chung (University of Southern California), Raul Roman (University of Southern California)

Chair: Ulla Bunz (Florida State University)

Top Papers in Human Communication and Technology
Time: Sat, Nov 17 - 2:00pm - 3:15pm
Place: Chicago Hilton, Marquette Room

Privacy and Health in the Information Age: A Content Analysis of Health Website Privacy Policy Statements
Stephen Rains (University of Arizona), Leslie Bosch

Do Aggressive People Play Computer Game in A More Aggressive Way? Individual Difference and the Distinctive Experience of Violent Game Playing
Wei Peng, Ming Liu (Michigan State University), Yi Mou (Communication Dept, Michigan State University)

Student & Faculty Perceptions of Instructional Technology: Factors of Influence and Anticipated Consequences
Robyn E. Parker (Kent State University), Alison Bianchi

Responding to Negatively Emotive E-mails within Organizations: Communicative Strategies and Their Origins
Angela Stewart (Waikato Institute of Technology (Wintec)), *Theodore E. Zorn (University of Waikato)

Chair: Nanette M. Hogg (Univ of Nebraska-Kearney) hoggn@unk.edu
Respondent: Steve Jones (University of Illinois, Chicago) sjones@uic.edu

Human Communication and Technology Division Business Meeting
Time: Sat, Nov 17 - 3:30pm - 4:45pm
Place: Chicago Hilton, Marquette Room
  James Carey Award Presentation Request--2007 NCA Convention

The Role of Communication Technologies in Government and Anti-Government Actions
Time: Sun, Nov 18 - 8:00am - 9:15am
Place: Chicago Hilton, Lake Huron

Old Wine in a New Bottle? Factors Explaining Web Interactivity in Online Political Campaigns: A Case Study of the 2006 Congressional Election
Kevin Y. Wang (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities), Hyung Min Lee (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)

Postmodernism and Networks of Cyberterrorists
Jonathan Matusitz (Univ of Central Florida)

Interactive citizen-government relations? A survey of e-government in India’s information capital
Veena V. Raman (University of California, Berkeley)

A Weblog in Media Controlled Nation: An Analysis of Screenshots in Malaysia
Jennifer L. Talbert (William Carey University)

Respondent: Stephen McDowell (Florida State University)
Chair: Rodney Keith Marshall (Eastern Illinois Univ)

The Many Applications and Opportunities of Second Life
Time: Sun, Nov 18 - 9:30am - 10:45am
Place: Chicago Hilton, Lake Huron

Second Life: Intellectual property and the commodification of leisure time
Scott A Simpson (Penn State University)

Virtually teaching: Second Life and education
Lynnette Grace Leonard (Univ of Nebraska, Omaha), Helene Quigley (University of Nebraska at Omaha)

Teaching Living Rhetoric through Second Life
Sarah Robbins (Ball State University)

Can you see the real virtual me? An exploration of digital and analog identities in Second Life
Mark Bell (Ball State University)

Virtual femininity and masculinity: Gendered artifacts in Second Life
Shannon L. Roper (Marist College)

Consumer behavior in Second Life: The mechanics are the message
Robert Boostrom (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale)

Will my “perfect” life end?: An examination of the evolution of business and advertising within the online world of Second Life
Tracy Worrell (Emerson College)

Chair: Dennis L Wignall (Dixie College) wignall@dixie.edu

Trust, Motivation, and Play in Digital Environments
Time: Sun, Nov 18 - 11:00am - 12:15pm
Place: Chicago Hilton, Lake Huron

The Influence of Dispositions and Internet-use Motivation on Online Communication Satisfaction and Relationship Closeness
Vikanda - Pornsakulvanich (Assumption University), Paul M. Haridakis (Kent State University)

Online Sports Fans’ Motive Research: Does Interactivity Lead Motives or Follow Them?
Moonki Hong (Florida State University), Arthur A. Raney (Florida State University)

The Influence of Online Dating Website Credibility, Romantic Attitude and Self-esteem on the Stigma and Perceived Motivation of Online Daters
Yunbo Chen, Huan Wu

Fantasy Sports: Playing Basketball on a Digital Court
Ben Shields

Respondent: Zhuojun Joyce Chen (Univ of Northern Iowa) CHEN@UNI.EDU
Chair: Gerald-Mark Breen (University of Central Florida) geraldbreen1980@aol.com

Scholar to Scholar Sessions
Digital Communication & Marketing Strategies

Scholar to Scholar Session II
Time: Fri, Nov 16 - 11:00am - 12:30pm
Place: Chicago Hilton, Normandie Lounge

"Keep this Virtual": Embodied Actions as Boundary Markers in Computer-supported Group Interaction,
Kris M. Markman, University of Memphis

A Content Analysis of an Online Support Group for Colorectal Cancer Patients and their Caregivers,
Bret Shaw, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Lauren Gumieny, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Abhiyan Humane; Helene McDowell, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Children’s Health and Advergaming: A Theoretical Study of Advertisement Driven Video Games, Product Placement, and Integrated Marketing Communication,
Thomas Robert Ian Turnipseed; Amy Rask, University of Alabama

Heroes, Transformers, and the Emerging World of Immersive Marketing,
Jacob Dickerson, Metropolitan State College of Denver

Technology and Persuasion: A Conceptual Analysis of Tailoring as a Marketing Strategy in the New Media Environment,
Se-Hoon Jeong

Digital Media: Diffusion & Uses
Scholar to Scholar Session III
Time: Fri, Nov 16 - 1:00pm - 2:30pm
Place: Chicago Hilton, Normandie Lounge

Eleven Dimensions of Digital Media Uses: A Conceptual and Empirical Investigation,
Eszter Hargittai

Globalization, Leapfrogging and the Diffusion of Affordable Technologies Toward a Theory of Pro-Social Convergence,

Matthew S. Weber, University of Southern California; Jessica Janine Gould, University of Southern California; Patricia Riley, Univ of Southern California

Searching and Researching Online: Online References in Academic Publications, a Reflection of Rogers’ Diffusion of Innovations Theory,
Ying R Du, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

The People’s Republic of YouTube? Interrogating Rhetorics of Internet Democracy,
Alice E Marwick, New York University

The Puzzling Effects of Multitasking in Online Environments,
K. Maja Krakowiak, The Pennsylvania State University; Anamarcia Lacayo M., The Pennsylvania State University; Mark S Pfaff, The Pennsylvania State University

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