Communication Department Produces Multiple Award Winners at National Conference

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Department of communication faculty were well represented at this year’s 2020 National Communication Association (NCA) Virtual Conference from Nov. 19 through 22. The focus of the conference was on “Communication at the Crossroads.”

The NCA advances Communication as the discipline that studies all forms, modes, media, and consequences of communication through humanistic, social scientific, and aesthetic inquiry.

Doctoral students received top paper awards:
• Menno Reijven and Alkim Yalin (coauthors) received the award in Language and Social Interaction for their paper “Categorizing YouTube Comments as Act Sequences.”
• Victoria Alcazar in Performance Studies for “‘This Much of the Flour and This Much of the Spice’ Women’s Storytelling as Creating Embodied Archives of Resistance in the Space of the Kitchen”
• In the Theater, Film and New Multi-media category, Brendan McCauley’s “Queer Worldbreaking: Der Samurai’s Murderous Ontological Horizon”
• Colby Miyose was recognized this year with Top Paper in Asian/Pacific/American Communication Studies Division

In addition, associate professor Claudio Moreira, along with current doctoral students Katty Alhayek, Timothy Sutton, and Porntip Israsena Twishime, and as well as Ph.D. graduates Ayshia Elizabeth Stephenson-Celadilla and Carmen Hernandez Ojeda, with Bryant Keith Alexander, received the 2020 Ellis-Bochner Autoethnography and Personal Narrative Research Awards for their coauthored article “‘I’m Sorry My Hair is Blocking Your Smile:’ A Performative Assemblage and Intercultural Dialogue on the Politics of Hair and Place.”

The Ellis-Bochner Autoethnography and Personal Narrative Research Award is sponsored by Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction Affiliate of the NCA.

In addition, many other faculty and grad students presented sessions at the conference, including emeritus faculty and Ph.D. program graduates who participated.

Those include:

Victoria Alcazar:
“This Much of the Flour and This Much of the Spice:” Women’s Storytelling as Creating Embodied Archives of Resistance in the Space of the Kitchen

Leda Cooks:
Caregivers at the Crossroads: Our Parents and the Institutions that Surround Them

(De)Growing Food Waste: Rescue, Reuse and Reduction

Critical Communication Pedagogy at the Crossroads of Pandemics and Precarities

The Rhetorical Positioning and Appeal of Food Waste Apps

Gonen Dori-Hacohen:
Conspiracy, Religion, and the Public Sphere: The Discourses of Right-Wing CounterPublics in the U.S.A and South Korea

Eean Grimshaw:
Braiding Positionalities: Indigenous Communication at the Crossroads

Tweet Versus Parakeet: Connection, Technology, and the Environment in Bird Box

Current Crossroads of Indigenous vs. Colonizer Rhetoric

Braiding, Knotting, Stitching, Beading: Weaving Indigenous Research Methodologies at the Crossroads of Critical/Cultural Communication

Woori Han:
Performing the complexity of queerness: Affective counter-profiling and affective solidarity in the Seoul Queer Pride parade

“Female Bodies Only:” The Intersection of Popular Feminism and Transgender Exclusionary Radical Feminism in Neoliberal Korea

Dasol Kim:
Growing Up Asian American: Asian American networked counterpublic on YouTube

Eunbi Lee:
Narratives of Marginalized Otherness in Migrant Women: In South Korean films Rosa and Thuy

Brendan McCauley:
Queer Worldbreaking: Der Samurai's Murderous Ontological Horizon

Kimberlee Pérez:
Crossroads to Communication: Advocating QED: A Journal of GLBTQ Worldmaking

Menno Reijven:
Conspiracy, Religion, and the Public Sphere: The Discourses of Right-Wing CounterPublics in the U.S.A and South Korea

Doing Presidential Debates: The Complex Speech Acts within Answers and Responses in the First 2016 U.S.A. Presidential Debate

Categorizing YouTube Comments as Act Sequences

Matthew Ross:
Conspiracy, Religion, and the Public Sphere: The Discourses of Right-Wing CounterPublics in the U.S.A and South Korea

Erica Scharrer:
Popular Media and Endorsement of Hegemonic Masculinity: A Research Review

Linking Media Effects and Critical Media Literacy

Nora Suren:
The Role of Art and Bodies against Authoritarianism: Crossroads of Hybrid Spaces to Constructing Counter-Hegemony in the Gezi Protests

J.D. Swerzenski:
Producing Professionalization: Analyzing the discourse of Adobe Premiere and editing technology in the classroom

Analyzing the E-Learning Environment: Blackboard, Moodle, Canvas and the Pedagogy They Produce

Porntip Israsena Twishime:
Performing Theory: A Letter to Feminists of Color On Aesthetics and Illiberal Humanisms

Goyland Williams:
Black Interruptions: Towards a Theory of Black Mothers in Mourning from Mamie Till to Mary Patillo

Alkim Yalin:
Categorizing YouTube Comments as Act Sequences