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esn panels and poster sessions.
2007 iamcr conference paris, france.
theories and practices in the press: a look through history.

tuesday, july 24th
9:00 - 10:30

relationships and interaction: the internet as nexus.

tuesday, july 24th
11:00 - 12:30

identity construction and representation: from celluloid to cyberworld.

tuesday, july 24th
16:00 - 17:30

round table: media content for politics and policies.

tuesday, july 24th
16:00 - 17:30

global content, local context: international media and culture.

wednesday, july 25th
9:00 - 10:30

Joint round table cp&t and esn: technologies, evaluation methodologies and the future.

monday, july 23rd
14:00 - 15:30

poster sessions.

locations and times
listed in conference programme.

 
 
 
 
  tuesday, july 24th
9:00 – 10:30
chair. Mark A.M. Kramer, University of Salzburg, Austria
respondent.
Chandrika Kaul, University of St Andrews, Scotland
 
Changing modalities in cultural journalism

Maarit Jaakkola
University of Tampere, Finland

On justification: A manual for Cold War journalists

Susan Haas
University of Pennsylvania, USA

Rhetorics within rhetoric: An holistic analysis of Reagan's address on U.S.-Soviet Relations

Paul Falzone
University of Pennsylvania, USA

With hopes and fears: Coverage of the 2005 Kyrgyz Revolution by the Russian, American and British press

Svetlana V. Kulikova
Louisiana State University, USA

The local press as a medium to create diversion

Loïc Ballarini
Université de Paris 8, France

Researching the history of the BBC Television Light Entertainment Group, 1975-1987

Heather Ann Sutherland
University of Westminster, London

Whose Paris? Making a space for non-nationals in the global city

Erika Polson
Penn State University, USA

 
  tuesday, july 24th
11:00 – 12:30
chair. Denize Araujo, Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná, Brazil
respondent. TBA
 
New social practices and new information technologies: A pluralistic approach

Marcienne Martin
Nouvelle Revue d'Onomastique, France

Romance online: An examination on predictors of online dating

Chew Changhui, Deborah Ng & Sophie Koh
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Internet use, individual differences, and online relationships

Vikanda Pornsakulvanich
Assumption University, Thailand

Social support and self-expression: The use of online dating websites among widows and widowers

Dannagal Goldthwaite Young & Scott Caplan
University of Delaware, USA

Why do they play? A uses and gratifications approach for examining MMORPG players

Chern Fong Lim, Weirong Lin & Kong Yong Ng
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Exploring online news reading patterns among college students in Singapore

Cheong Poh Kwan, Chong Wai Yin, Kwan Chi En Grace & Yeo Yun Ling Kym
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

 
  tuesday, july 24th
14:00 – 15:30
chair. Stefania Milan, European University Institute, Italy
respondent. Ellen Riordan, University of St. Thomas, USA
 
Representation of ethnic minorities in the news media: A panorama of international theories and practices

Christine Larrazet
Recently of W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University, USA

Examining the effects of ethnicity-based message targeting

A. Susana Ramírez
University of Pennsylvania, USA

Passing shadows on the silver screen: Passing in Hollywood films from 1990-2007

Marcia A. Dawkins & Marc Choueiti
University of Southern California, USA

Hybrid identity: The construction of the category Muslim–Australian

Liza Hopkins
Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

New information and communication technologies and the emerging identities of Nigerian university students

Walter C. Ihejirika
Federal University of Port-Harcourt, Nigeria

Steve Jobs: The human logo

Chloë Peacock
University of Brighton, UK

 
  tuesday, july 24th
16:00 – 17:30
respondent/chair. John Downing, Southern Illinois University, USA
 
 
Communication and development: Moroccan public television as a case study

Bouziane Zaid
Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco

Leaving development behind communication policy: Private broadcasting in Nigeria and socio-economic development programming

Abubakar Alhassan
University of Florida, USA

Media in political campaigns in Burundi: From propaganda instruments to political watchdogs

Eva Palmans
University of Antwerp, Belgium

ICT and social mobilization: The Spanish case

Xavier Ginesta Portet & Jordi Sopena Palomar
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain

Worlds constructed: Values and attitudes of youth and social unrest in television serials

Lorena Gómez
University Pompeu Fabra, Spain

Fear of crime, moral panics and the South African press

Viola C Milton
University of Pretoria, South Africa

To catch an audience: Problematising Dateline's Predator series

Claire Wardle, Cardiff University, UK &
Bethany Klein, University of Central England, UK

Political docudrama: The path to democracy or the path that should not be taken?

Keren Tenenboim Weinblatt
University of Pennsylvania, USA

Unintended consequences: Political cartoons and the millennium development goals

Antonio G. Lambino
University of Pennsylvania, USA

What kind of citizens are the Dixie Chicks?: Controversy over celebrities' political speech and implications for cultural citizenship

Brittany Griebling & Nicole Rodgers
University of Pennsylvania, USA

 
  wednesday, july 25th
9:00 – 10:30
chair. Lauren Movius, University of Southern California, USA
respondent. Nick Couldry, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
 
How much for culture? How much for economics? The shifting dynamics of international audio-visual trade and policy

Katharine Oliver
University of Melbourne, Australia

Globalization and cultural hybridity in multicultural society

Terrie Siang-Ting Wong & Vivian Hsueh-hua Chen
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Ugly Betty goes global: Global networks of localized content in the telenovela industry

Jade Miller
University of Southern California, USA

Popular-culture in the land of the Czars: Media hermeneutics and post-colonial identity of Russian university students

Jared Collis Penrose
Messiah College, USA

Branding post-communist nations: The politics of representation

Nadia Kaneva
University of Colorado at Boulder, USA

Beyond Al-Jazeera: The Arab world and parameters of alternative media

Adel Iskandar
University of Texas at Austin, USA

 
  monday, july 23rd
14:00 - 15:30
chair. Rosa Mikeal Martey, Colorado State University, USA
 
 
Scenario planning: Reflections on the value of this research method for a more inclusive information and technology policymaking practice

Amanda Williams
University of Calgary, Canada

What drives digital switchover policies? Some considerations from the Italian case

Alessandro D’Arma
University of Westminster, UK

Citizens and Terrestrial Digital Television: Awareness and perceptions of digital television in Spain three years before the disappreance of analog

Isabel Sarabia Andu´gar
Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia, Spain

Digital radio in Mexico: Technological advances versus political-economic interests

Norma Patricia Maldonado Reynoso
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico

Digital distribution of media products in some technologically advanced nations

Navendu Tripathi
Southern Illinois University, USA

Developments in cyberculture studies in Brazil: Epistemological clusters

Denize Correa Araujo
Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná, Brazil

Blog marketing as storytelling: A narrative study of Levi’s “Stay True”

Wei-Jung Chang
Shih-Hsin University, Taiwan

The interconnection between the form and the content of video game: A medium perspective

Meily Cheung Mei Fung
Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

 
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locations and times will be listed on the official conference programme.
 
Metaphor: A key tool for supplementing traditional Canadian political economy of communication perspectives on telecommunication policy

Amanda Williams
University of Calgary, Canada

Health education in entertainment: The case of medical dramas

Lauren B. Frank
University of Southern California, USA

Newsworthiness and photojournalism: A case study of Portuguese daily newspapers

Sara Moutinho
Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Ideas of holidays: symbolic representations on rural tourism websites

Emma-Reetta Koivunen
Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

Journalism in the French context

Economics and business education for the media: Changing institutional logics in the field of French journalism?

Matthieu Lardeau
ESSEC Business School, France

Do online journalists belong to the newsroom? Case study: La Libre Belgique

Vinciane Colson
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

Learning and new technologies: Theory and practice

Exploring communication research and theories of collaborative mobile learning contexts

Mark A.M. Kramer
University of Salzburg, Austria

Using m-technology in the classroom to improve English Language Learning

Michelle Zuckerman-Parker
Duquesne University, USA

Privacy in a networked world: Policy and technology

National regulation in an international world: Transborder data flows and privacy

Lauren Movius
University of Southern California, USA

When private goes public: Genetic privacy in media and policy

Jean Lutkenhouse
University of Pennsylvania, USA

Considering celebrity: Self and fame

Exploration of the concept of false intimacy: Being vicariously involved with celebrities

Janel S. Schuh
University of Southern California, USA

Celebrity anarchy: Rethinking fame for the 21st century

Michael Serazio
University of Pennsylvania, USA

Cinema: Techniques and impacts

Film for children: The evolution of a concept for improving children's quality of life

Mariana Pérez-Cabello
Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain

Cinema and visual effects: The dissociation of the indexes

Roberto Tietzmann
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do RS, Spain

 
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