Academic Conference Presentations
November 2008
Papers presented at the National Communication Association Convention, San Diego, CA ...
Dr. Lee, "Negotiating an Identity: Journey from 'Am I What?' to 'I Am an Alien!'”
October 2008
Dr. Johns presented a paper, "Voting 'Present': Religious organizational groups on facebook.com," was presented at the Ninth International Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers at the IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
July 2008
Dr. Lee presented a paper, "Women of Stuck-Generation: A Prelude to The New Family in South Korea," at the International Association of Women Philosophers Symposium XIII: Multiculturalism and Feminism, Seoul, Korea.
May 2008
Dr. Lee had a paper accepted, "Women of Stuck-Generation and New-Generation in South Korea:
Internal Dialectics in Transitional Mother-Daughter Relationships," at the 58th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, Montreal, Canada.
November 2007
Papers presented at the National Communication Association Convention, Chicago, IL ...
Dr. Pierce: "Islam, Purdah, Poetry, and Sexual Politics of Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan."
Dr. Powell: "Us vs. Them: A Comparative Framing Analysis of Post-9/11 Images of Muslims in the U.S. and UAE"
October, 2007
Dr. Lee presented a paper, "Dialectics in Mother-Daughter Relationship in South Korea," at the 30th Annual Global Studies Conference. University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Dr. Johns presented a paper, "The Virtualized Other: Presentation of Identity on facebook.com" was presented at the Eighth International Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers at the Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
January, 2007
Dr. Lee presented a paper, " Dimensions of face: A factor analysis" at the 2007 Biennial Pacific and Asian Communication Association Convention, Honolulu, Hawaii.
November 2006
Papers presented at the National Communication Association Convention, San Antonio, TX...
Dr. Pierce: "The role of the cyberconduit in connecting the fragmented (cyber)self: Rhetorical performance at the virtual/real-world divide."
Dr. Johns, with student collaborators, Kirsten Boettner, '06, Michael Lindsay, '07, and Emily Powers, '06 presented a paper, "Profile Updated: The Generalized Other and Presentation of Identity on facebook.com"
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March 2006
Dr. Powell presented a paper, "Building Peace: Dubai as the New Development Model" at the Peace Prize Forum, Luther College.
November 2005
Papers presented at the National Communication Association conference in Boston:
Dr. Powell: "Creating a Family through Foster-adoption: Media Portrayal of the Foster Care System in the U.S."
Dr. Pierce: "Interactive lives: the roles of weblogs and cyberfeminism in the health of feminist and communication research."
October 2005
Dr. Johns presented a paper, "Unique and ordinary problems in internet research" as part of an invited pre-conference workshop on internet research ethics at the Association of Internet Researchers conference in Chicago, IL.
September 2005
Angela Grunder, '06, presented a paper at the annual meeting of the Iowa Communication Association in Cedar Falls, Iowa.
July 2005
Dr. Pierce presented a paper, "Blogging for life: the role of the cyberconduit in everyday narratives, cyberfeminism, and global social change" at the 6th International Women into Computing Conference, Greenwich, England
June 2005
Papers presented at the National Women's Studies Association Conference, Orlando, FL. ...
Dr. Powell: "Motherhood and the Academy: Policy meets Praxis"
Dr. Powell: "The Women's Studies Minor: Growing the Base"
Dr. Pierce presented a paper, "Ecofeminist cyberconduits: the cyberactivism of Donna Haraway and Vandana Shiva."
March 2005
Dr. Powell presented a paper: "A Leadership Bind? Women Talk Back" at the International Women's Leadership Conference, Dubai, UAE, 2005.