SJMC Faculty and Grad Students Presenting at 2023 ICA Conference

J-School graduate students and faculty are presenting their research this week at the International Communication Association’s 73rd annual conference. The hybrid event, titled “Reclaiming Authenticity in Communication,” is May 25–29 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and includes presentations, panels and poster sessions covering a wide range of topics.

Additionally, recent J-School Ph.D. graduate, Matt Minich was awarded the top student paper from ICA’s Children, Adolescents and Media Division for his paper, “Real-world adolescent smartphone use is associated with improvements in mood: An ecological momentary assessment study.” Matt will present this research during the conference on Friday during the “Adolescents’ Media Use, Mood, and Life Satisfaction” session at 3 p.m.

Check out all of the sessions featuring SJMC faculty and grad students (and plenty of alumni too!):

Thursday, May 25

The Global Fact-Checking Movement: Regional, Comparative, Organizational, and Institutional Perspectives
8:30 a.m.–5 p.m.; Center for Social Innovation, 192 Spadina Ave, Toronto, Canada

Chair(s): Regina Cazzamatta (U Erfurt), Lucas Graves (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Laurens Lauer (U Duisburg-Essen)

Friday, May 26

HYBRID HIGH-DENSITY: Data and Digital Activism: Activism, Communication and Social Justice
9–10:15 a.m.; LC – Grand Ballroom West (Sheraton)

Alternative Media and the Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement: (Un)Reversed Protest Paradigm and Beyond

Linjie Dai (U of Wisconsin-Madison)

HYBRID: Visual Facts, Visual Fictions: News, Disinformation, Ethics
9–10:15 a.m.; 2 – Dominion South (Sheraton)

Chair(s): Lindsay Palmer (U of Wisconsin-Madison)

Communication Science and Biology Welcome Meeting
9–10:15 a.m.; X MTG 4 – Kensington (Sheraton)

Chair(s): Elisa Baek (U of California, Los Angeles), Christopher Cascio (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Jason Coronel (The Ohuio State U), Richard Huskey (U of California, Davis), David Lydon-Staley (U of Pennsylvania), Robert Potter (Indiana U Bloomington), Ralf Schmaelzle (Michigan State U), Shelby Wilcox (Michigan State U)

HYBRID: Correcting Health Misinformation and Misperception
10:30–11:45 a.m.; 2 – Provincial North (Sheraton)

Facilitating through Distracting: Cognitive Mechanism of Debunking COVID-19 Misinformation on TikTok

Mengyu Li (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Gaofei Li (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Sijia Yang (U of Wisconsin-Madison)

Racial Capitalism, Colonialism, and Commoditizing Communication
10:30–11:45 a.m.; 2 – Kent (Sheraton)

What Predicts Separatist Tendencies in Hong Kong? Effects of Selective Media Use, Political Discussion With Strong Ties, and State Repression

Zhi Xiong Koo (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Hernando Rojas (U of Wisconsin-Madison)

HYBRID: The Very Picture of Health: Visuals, Virus, Verification
1:30–2:45 p.m.; 2 – Dominion South (Sheraton)

Responses, Reactance, and Discussion Intentions among Chinese Male Smokers

Ran Tao (U of Wisconsin, Madison), Yidi Wang (U of Georgia), Jiaying Liu (U of Georgia), Yilang Peng (U of Georgia), Sijia Yang (U of Wisconsin-Madison)

HYBRID: Political Participation and Mobilization
3–4:15 p.m.; M – Willow East (Sheraton)

From Perceptions of Polarization to Mobilization or Resignation: The Effects of Perceived Political Polarization on Political Participation and Online Expression

Jisoo Kim (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Hernando Rojas (U of Wisconsin-Madison)

HIGH-DENSITY: Adolescents’ Media Use, Mood, and Life Satisfaction
3–4:15 p.m.; M – Chestnut East (Sheraton)

Real-World Adolescent Smartphone Use is Associated with Improvements in Mood: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study

Matt Minich (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Megan Moreno (U of Wisconsin-Madison)

HIGH-DENSITY: TOP 20 in Feminist Scholarship – Day 1
3–4:15 p.m.; M – Maple East (Sheraton)

Welcome to This Brave Bro’s World: The (Re)Production of Hegemonic Masculinity in a Chinese Manosphere

Luhang Sun (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Linjie Dai (U of Wisconsin-Madison)

Saturday, May 27

HIGH-DENSITY: Designing Health Communication and Campaign Messages
10:30–11:45 a.m.; LC – Osgoode West (Sheraton)

Leveraging Testimonials from Clinicians and Community Leaders to Develop and Test COVID-19 Vaccine Promotional Messages Targeting Rural Adults: Converging Evidence from an Online Experiment and Facebook/Meta A/B Testing

Sijia Yang (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Ran Tao (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Mahima Mahima Bhattar (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Liwei Shen (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Malia Jones (U of Wisconsin-Madison) Andy Garbacz (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Susan Passmore (U of Wisconsin-Madison)

Can Enhanced Cannabis Warning Labels Mitigate Youth-Targeted Marketing and Pro-Cannabis Online Social Influences? Evidence from and Online Experiment among At-Risk Adolescents and Young Adults

Lynne Cotter (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Sijia Yang (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Linqi Lu (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Lauren Kriss (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Jiaying Liu (U of Gerogia), Lynn Silver (Public Health Institute), Christopher Cascio (U of Wisconsin-Madison)

HYBRID: Media, Boy Image, Fitness, and Well-Being
10:30–11:45 a.m.; M – Willow West (Sheraton)

Watching YouTube Videos while Encountering Ads: The Effect of Ad Location and Narrative Genre on Emotional Well-Being

Ranran Mi (Kean U), Ran Tao (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Linqi Lu (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Katheryn Christy (U of Wisconsin-Madison)

HYBRID HIGH-DENSITY: Hot Issues in Feminist Scholarship 2: Misogyny, Hate Speech, and Censorship
10:30–11:45 am.; M – Willow East (Sheraton)

Predicting the Stigmatization of Feminists in China and South Korea: Entanglement with Nationalism

Dongdong Yang (U of Connecticut), Jiayun Ye (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Yukyung Lee (U of Connecticut), David Atkin (U of Connecticut), Jiyoun Suk (U of Connecticut)

Correcting Health Misinformation and Misperception II
10:30–11:45 a.m.; M – Peel (Sheraton)

Promoting Truth: Using Ads Promotion and Social Bots to Deliver Misinformation Correction on Social Media

Liwei Shen (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Yibing Sun (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Danielle Ka Lai Lee (Washington State U), Emily Vraga (U of Minnesota), Leticia Bode (Georgetown U), Porismita Borah (Washington State U), Dhavan Shah (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Michael Wagner (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Sijia Yang (U of Wisconsin-Madison)

HYBRID HIGH-DENSITY: Communication Science & Biology Idea Blitz
10:30–11:45 a.m.; 2 – City Hall (Sheraton)

Chair(s): Christopher Cascio (U of Wisconsin-Madison)

HIGH-DENSITY: Health Behavior and Prevention
10:30–11:45 a.m.; 2 – Huron (Sheraton)

The Effects of Vaccine Efficacy Information on Vaccination Intentions through Perceived Response Efficacy and Hope

Linqi Lu (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Jiawei Liu (Cornell U), Sang Jung Kim (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Ran Tao (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Dhavan Shah (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Douglas McLeod (U of Wisconsin-Madison)

HYBRID HIGH-DENSITY: Feminist Activism and #MeToo Movement: Global and Comparative Cases
Noon–1:15 p.m.; M – Willow Center (Sheraton)

A Cross-Platform Analysis of 2017–2020 #MeToo on Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit

Mengyu Li (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Jiyoun Suk (U of Connecticut), Yibing Sun (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Ruixue Lian (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Yini Zhang (U at Buffalo – SUNY), Hyerin Kwon (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Rui Wang (U at Buffalo – SUNY), Xinxia Dong (U at Buffalo – SUNY), Jon Pevehouse (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Dhavan Shah (U of Wisconsin-Madison)

Covering Conflicts and Violence (Works in Progress)
1:30–2:45 p.m.; LC – Osgood West (Sheraton)

Two Sides of the Mediated Border. Authenticity Regarding the American & Mexican Coverage in a Borderland Violent Incident

Carlos Dávalos (U of Wisconsin-Madison)

HIGH-DENSITY: Raced Contexts of Communicative Spaces
1:30–2:45 p.m.; M – Maple East (Sheraton)

Community Listening Exercises: How Journalists Might Facilitate Self-Efficacy among BIPOC People Experiencing Inequities

Margarita Orozco (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Sue Robinson (U of Wisconsin-Madison)

Curation and Polarization
1:30–2:45 p.m.; 2 – Churchill (Sheraton)

Social Media and Perceived Polarization: Role of Perceived Affordances, Political Discussion, and Perceived Others’ Discussion

Macau K. F. Mak (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Mengyu Li (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Hernando Rojas (U of Wisconsin-Madison)

Sunday, May 28

Social Media Uses and Implications
9–10:15 a.m.; 2 – Mackenzie (Sheraton)

Setting the Agenda on College Campuses: Student News and Twitter Trends

Wil Dubree (U of Wisconsin-Madison)

Disinformation: Perceptions, Detection, and Effects
10:30–11:45 a.m.; M – Chestnut East (Sheraton)

How Intergroup (De) Threats Messages Affect the Public’s Ability to Identify Conspiracy Theories: Evidence from an Experiment on U.S. Populations in the Context of Sino-US Relations

Yiming Wang (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Liwei Shen (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Oliver Lang (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Kaiping Chen (U of Wisconsin-Madison)

HYBRID HIGH-DENSITY: AI and News Media
10:30–11:45 a.m.; 2 – Dominion South (Sheraton)

Not So Automatic Perception of Hostility in Automated Journalism: The Role of Source Congeniality and Belief in AI Heuristic

Eun-Ju Lee (Seoul National U), Hyun Suk Kim (Seoul National U), Yoo Ji Suh (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Jin Won Park (Seoul National U)

HYBRID: Political Polarization and Hostile Media
10:30–11:45 a.m.; 2 – City Hall (Sheraton)

Right-Wing Drivers of Antipathy toward and Threats from Immigrants on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube

Xiaoya Jiang (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Yini Zhang (U at Buffalo – SUNY), Ruixue Lian (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Zhengjun Zhang (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Yiming Wang (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Adam Dounane (U at Buffalo – SUNY), Lauren Hando (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Dhavan Shah (U of Wisconsin-Madison)

Communication Science and Biology Escalator Session
10:30–11:45 a.m.; 2 – Kent (Sheraton)

Chair(s): Christopher Cascio (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Jason Coronel (The Ohio State U), Richard Huskey (U of California, Davis), David Lydon-Staley (U of Pennsylvania), Robert Potter (Indiana U Bloomington), Ralf Schmaelzle (Michigan State U), Shelby Wilcox (Michigan State U)

What Constitutes an “Authentic” Journalism History?
10:30–11:45 a.m.; 2 – Civic North (Sheraton)

Foreign Policy Reporters 1945-55 as Committed Internationalists, Not Deferential Professionals

Kathryn McGarr (U of Wisconsin-Madison)

HYBRID: Health Information Seeking I
Noon–1:15 p.m.; M – Willow Centre (Sheraton)

Predictors of Young Adults’ Diet and Exercise Information Seeking on YouTube: Applying and Extending the Comprehensive Model of Information Seeking

Eunyoung Myung (U of Wisconsin-Madison)

Information Monitoring and Partisan Media Use
1:30–2:45 p.m.; M – Linden (Sheraton)

Perceived Extremity of Partisan News: How It Is Shaped by Ideology and Catalyzed by Partisan Information Consumption

Xiaoya Jiang (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Jisoo Kim (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Heysung Lee (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Mengyu Li (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Hernando Rojas (U of Wisconsin-Madison)

Political Efficacy, Competence, and Understanding
1:30–2:45 p.m.; 4 – Yorkville West (Sheraton)

News, Talk, and Social: Linking Political Communication Repertoires to Political Efficacy and Trust

Macau K. F. Mak (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Mengyu Li (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Sijia Yang (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Dhavan Shah (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Michael Wagner (U of Wisconsin-Madison)

BLUE SKY BIG IDEAS SESSION: Ethical Dilemmas in Research Using Digital Data: New Directions for Communication Scholars
1:30–2:45 p.m.; X MTG 2 Roosevelt (Sheraton)

Participant: Dhavan Shah (U of Wisconsin-Madison)

Recognizing the Contributions of Joseph N. Cappella and Robert C. Hornik to the Field of Health Communication
4:30–5:45 p.m.; M – Chestnut East (Sheraton)

Participants: Lourdes Martinez (San Diego State U), Robin Nabi (U of California, Santa Barbara), Rebekah Nagler (U of Minnesota), Jeff Niederdeppe (Cornell U), Yariv Tsfati (U of Haifa, Israel), Sijia Yang (U of Wisconsin-Madison)

Communication Science and Biology Business Meeting
4:30–5:45 p.m.; M – Linden (Sheraton)

Chair(s): Christopher Cascio (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Jason Coronel (The Ohio State U), Richard Huskey (U of California, Davis), David Lydon-Staley (U of Pennsylvania), Robert Potter (Indiana U Bloomington), Ralf Schmaelzle (Michigan State U), Shelby Wilcox (Michigan State U)

HYBRID HIGH-DENSITY: Morality, Partisanship, and Polarization
4:30–5:45 p.m.; 2 – Dominion North (Sheraton)

How Moral Foundation Matching Facilitates Political Persuasion: The Role of Processing Fluency and Self-Affirmation

Yoo Ji Suh (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Hyun Suk Kim (Seoul National U)

From Selective Exposure to Mobilization: Partisan Media, Polarization, and Voting Behaviors

Heysung Lee (U of Wisconsin-Madison)

HIGH-DENSITY: Perspectives on Media Influence and Effects
4:30–5:45 p.m.; 2 – Civic South (Sheraton)

A Symbolic Interactionist Perspective of the Spiral of Silence: Reconsidering Reflexive Thinking and Social Changes

Macau K. F. Mak (U of Wisconsin-Madison)

Reevaluating Message Desirability in Third- and First-Person Effects Studies: Fact-Checking as a Case of Differentially Perceived Message

Zhi Xiong Koo (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Macau K. F. Mak (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Hernando Rojas (U of Wisconsin-Madison)

Monday, May 29

HYBRID HIGH-DENSITY: Trust Issues: Objectivity, Authenticity, and Credibility in Journalism (Works in Progress)
10:30–11:45 a.m.; M – Willow West (Sheraton)

Rectifying Harm Through Care-Based Practices: How Journalists Contend with Disengaged Communities’ Distrust

Sue Robinson (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Patrick Johnson (U of Iowa)

Media and Messages for Health Communication
10:30–11:45 a.m.; M – Peel (Sheraton)

Chair(s): Sijia Yang (U of Wisconsin-Madison)

HIGH-DENSITY: Assessing Bias in Social Media and Engagement with News
10:30–11:45 a.m.; M – Maple West (Sheraton)

Adoption and Implication of the Biased-Annotator Competence Estimation (BACE) Model Into COVID-19 Vaccine Twitter Data: Human Annotation for Latent Message Features

Luhang Sun (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Yun-Shiuan Chuang (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Yibing Sun (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Sijia Yang (U of Wisconsin-Madison)

HIGH-DENSITY: Perceptions of Political Difference, Polarization, and Intergroup Communication
10:30–11:45 a.m.; M – Maple East (Sheraton)

Others or People Like Us: How Partisan News Consumption Shapes Americans’ Perceived Similarity, Empathy, and Attitudes towards Chinese People

Xining Liao (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Hernando Rojas (U of Wisconsin-Madison)

HYBRID: Social Support in Online Health Communities
10:30–11:45 a.m.; 2 – City Hall (Sheraton)

Talking about Pain Plainly: Authentic Expression of Pain Management on Reddit

Ellie Yang (Northwest Missouri State U), Bao Pham (Northwest Missouri State U), Shifan Zhang (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Lauren Kriss (U of Wisconsin-Madison)

HIGH-DENSITY: Persuasion and Health Communication
10:30–11:45 a.m.; 2 – Kenora (Sheraton)

Neural Reactance to Cannabis Use PSAs: A Brain-as-Predictor Study

Matt Minch (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Lauren Kriss (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Sijia Yang (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Christopher Cascio (U of Wisconsin-Madison)

HYBRID: Decoding Data Journalism
Noon–1:15 p.m.; M – Willow West (Sheraton)

Analyzing Code: What is the Editorial Role of Computational Analysis in Data Journalism Stories?

Aman Abhishek (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Lucas Graves (U of Wisconsin-Madison)

HIGH-DENSITY: Computation of Emotions, Morals, and Social Support
1:30–2:45 p.m.; M – Maple West (Sheraton)

Relating Psychological Metrics Inferred from Social Media Posts with Political Preferences: Evidence from a Geospatial Perspective

Zening Duan (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Michael Cohen (U of Chicago), Mehak Sachdeva (Arizona State U)

VecOpt: Development of a Word Embedding-Based Optimization Approach to Extracting Moral Appeals from Text

Zening Duan (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Sijia Yang (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Anqi Shao (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Kaiping Chen (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Yicheng Hu (Dow Inc.), Yoo Ji Suh (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Jisoo Kim (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Heysung Lee (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Xining Liao (U of Wisconsin-Madison)

HIGH-DENSITY: Pushing from the Margins: Dynamics of Exclusion and Inclusion
1:30–2:45 p.m.; M – Maple East (Sheraton)

Radical Boycotters and Conservative Buycotters: Feminist Consumer Activism in China

Mian Wei (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Kecheng Fang (Chinese U of Hong Kong)

Journalism and Conflict: How Scholars Do Applied Research with Newsrooms during Political and Cultural Crises
1:30–2:45 p.m.; 2 – Civic North (Sheraton)

The Roles Journalists Might Play in Political Polarization through Quantitative-Qualitative Study

Sue Robinson (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Joshua Darr (Louisiana State U)