Geographical Diffusion of Protests in China: Evidences From Social Media - Mengyang Zhao, University of Pennsylvania; Ye Wang, New York U

Media and Corruption in Tanzania: From Pre-Colonial to Re-Democratisation - Malima Pamba Zacharia, U of Dar es Salaam; Sophia Kokugonza Ndibalema, U of Dar es salaam

Spinning Frames of Mediatized Protest: Body, Language, Culture, Space, and Religion - Mariam Betlemidze, California State San Bernadino

Capitals, Censorship and Risks: The Role of Social Media in Localised Small-Scale Environmental Protests - Xiaokun Sun, University of Cambridge

Communication Activism in the Basic Course: A Public Speaking for Social Justice Model - Angela L. Putman, Penn State U, Brandywine

Mobile Technologies and the 2012 Occupy Nigeria Protest - Temple Uwalaka, University of Canberra

So, “How” did the Women’s March Succeed? Women’s March Facebook as an Evidence From Resource Mobilization Theory - Esul Park, Temple University

Constructed Identity in Memes: Analyzing the German Identitarian Movement’s Strategic Framing and Its Reach on Facebook - Lars Guenther, Institute of Communication Research / Friedrich Schiller U Jena; Jenny Bischoff, Institute of Communication Research, Friedrich Schiller U; Georg Ruhrmann, U of Jena

A Treat for the Eyes. How Food Cues in Media Content Attract Children’s Visual Attention - Ines Katrin Spielvogel, University of Vienna; Jorg Matthes, U of Vienna; Brigitte Naderer, University of Vienna; Kathrin Karsay, University of Vienna

Do Children’s Food Choices “Go With the Crowd”? The Effects of Peer Majority Cues in Placements of Foods High in Nutritional Value - Alice Binder, University of Vienna; Brigitte Naderer, University of Vienna

Education vs. Entertainment: The Effect of TV Cooking Shows on Adolescents’ Cravings, Hunger and Food Preference - Yandisa Ngqangashe, University of Antwerpen; Charlotte Jacqueline De Backer, U of Antwerpen

News Framing of Adolescents’ Use of Facebook in Taiwanese Newspapers - Yue Tan, National Sun Yat-sen U

"Put Your Phone Down?": How Mothers' Smartphone Use Is Associated With Sensitivity - Sophie Katharina Kitzmann, U of Hohenheim; Lara N. Wolfers, Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien, Tübingen; Sabine Sauer, U of Hohenheim; Nina Sommer, U of Hohenheim; Sabine Trepte, U of Hohenheim

Representing Gender-Based Violence in Teen Series: Young People’s Discourses on the Spanish Series Física o Química - Maria-Jose Masanet, U Pompeu Fabra; Frederik Dhaenens, Ghent U

Transmedia Literacy in the New Media Ecology: An International Map of Teens’ Transmedia Skills and Informal Learning Strategies - Carlos Alberto Scolari, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Youngsters' Conceptions and Knowledge about Cinema in the European Union - María T. Soto-Sanfiel, U Autònoma de Barcelona; Isabel Villegas-Simón, U Autònoma de Barcelona; Ariadna Angulo-Brunet, U Autònoma de Barcelona

Computational Methods for the Critical Simulation of Image-based Social Media Platforms - Daniel Angus, University of Queensland; Nicholas Carah, U of Queensland; Adam Smith, The U of Queensland

Development and Initial Validation of the Self-Transcendent Emotion Dictionary - Qihao Ji, Marist College; Arthur A. Raney, Florida State U

Harnessing Collective Wisdom From Communication Patterns in Human Organizations - Agnes Horvat, Northwestern University; Daniel Romero, U of Michigan; Brian Uzzi, Northwestern U

Hollywood’s Political Space: Estimating Film Ideology From Revealed Preferences - Sean Fischer, The Annenberg School for Communication, U of Pennsylvania; Yphtach Lelkes, University of Pennsylvania

Theory-Driven Automated Content Analysis of Suicidal Tweets : Using Typicality-Based Classification for LDA Dataset - Joon-Mo Park, Seoul National University; Chul-joo Lee, Seoul National U; Yunseok JANG, Seoul National University

The Role of Socio-Demographics for Attitudes towards Science and Information Use: Evidence from a Representative Survey - Julia Metag, U of Fribourg; Silje Kristiansen, Northeastern U; Mike S. Schaefer, U of Zurich

Reexamine Third Person Effects in the Context of Collective Actions - Xiaodong Yang, Shandong University; Liang Chen, Sun Yat-sen University

The Frontier Myth in U.S. Offshore Wind Energy Rhetoric - Nicolas Hernandez, The University of Texas at El Paso

Corporate Voice on Climate Change: Business Reporting of Climate Science, Drivers and Barriers for Engagement - Jagadish J Thaker, Massey U; Daniel Rimmer, Massey U

Use of Learning Frames in Climate Change Communication: A Study of Organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean - Fatima Viteri, Universidad San Francisco de Quito; Bruno Takahashi, Michigan State U

Learning, Doing, Flow, and Fun: Understanding Relationships Between Difficulty, Enjoyment and Skill Development in Games - Blake Wertz, Boston University; Qiankun Zhong, Boston University

How to Threaten Male Gamers: The Effects of Stereotype Threat on Video Game Performance - Gary Lee Wagener, Bonn U; Andre Melzer, U of Luxembourg

Video Games, Gender, and Spatial Ability: Assessing the Matthew Effect - Chelsea Lonergan, U of California, Santa Barbara; Mary Hegarty, U of California, Santa Barbara

Beyond the Controllers: The Impact of Natural Mapping on the Persuasive Effects of Immersive Virtual Reality Advertising - Dai-Yun Wu, National Chengchi University; Jih-Hsuan Lin, National Cheng-Chi U

Katerina Tsetsura, U of Oklahoma

Chun-ju Flora Hung-Baesecke, Massey U

Budweiser in the 2017 Superbowl: Dialectic Values Advocacy and the Rhetorical Stakeholder - Benjamin Windholz, University of Kentucky

Global Capabilities for Public Relations: The Results of the US Study - Katerina Tsetsura, U of Oklahoma; Anne Gregory, U of Huddersfield; Johanna Fawkes, U of Huddersfield

Image Repair and Judging a Politician’s Racially Insensitive Statements: Does Gender Matter? - Maria E. Len-Rios, The U of Georgia; Hyoyeun Jun, University of Georgia

Politics, Crises, and Gender: Female and Male Politicians’ Crisis-Communication Modes and Traits - Ester Cohen-Rinski, Bar Ilan Uiversity; Clila Magen, Bar Ilan U

The Influence of Social Media Comments on the Perception of Crisis Responses - Michael Andreas Etter, Cass Business School; Matthes Fleck, Lucerne U of Applied Sciences and Arts

Voices behind the timelines: Investigating Practices of Social Media’s Institutionalization in Local Health Authorities - Alessandro Lovari, Universita' degli Studi di Cagliari

Voices in a Terrorist Attack: Static Versus Dynamic Communication Networks in a Public Safety Crisis - Christine Hiu Ying Choy, The Chinese U of Hong Kong

Fixing the Broken Link: Communication Strategies for Supply Chain Crises - Kathleen Ambrose, University of Kentucky; Shari R. Veil, U of Kentucky

Listening to Customer Sentiment: Creating a Measure to Assess Organizational Trust - Natalie C. Doyle Oldfield BA(Hons.), BPR, MPR, Mount Saint Vincent U; Alla Kushniryk, Mount Saint Vincent U; Stanislav Orlov, Mount Saint Vincent U

Exploring the Effect of Transparent CSR Communication in Stigmatized Industries - Tae Ho Lee, U of Oregon; Maria Leonora (Nori) G. Comello, U of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

“If You Mess up This Tweet...”: Hispanic Voices on Promoted Twitter Content - Alison N. Novak, Rowan University; Kristine Johnson, Rowan U; Bokyung Kim, Rowan U

Is My Job Worth it?: Identity Gaps, Emotional Exhaustion, and Intent to Leave - Rita Daniels, University of Western Washington; Shaun Anderson, Loyola Marymount U; Melissa Tindage, Cal State LA

Peers and Prejudice. How Small Groups Process Outgroup Related Media Messages - Johanna Schindler, LMU Munich; Anne Bartsch, University of Leipzig

The Vicious Spiral of Voices: Mainland China-Hong Kong conflict, Identity-Relevant Derogatory Names, and Disseminator Characteristics on Weibo - Xiao Zhang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Jingyuan Wang, Hong Kong Baptist U; HU Shiran, HKBU

Negotiating Perceptions of Role Expertise: Constructing Connections in Transactive Memory Systems - Kristen Guth, U of Kentucky

Stephanie Kelly, North Carolina A&T State U

Are Marginalia Just Another Kind of Heading? A Learning Experiment Using Eyetracking - Thorsten Philipp Aichele, Universität Würzburg

LGBTQ/Ethnic Studies and the Next Class: A Look at a Transfer Task and Opinion Change in One Public High School - Laura Moorhead, San Francisco State University

What Makes One Influential? – Examining the Network Structure and Central Users in a Twitter-Enabled Conference Backchannel - Quan Xie, Bradley University; Tian Luo, Old Dominion U

Interdisciplinary Learning in Journalism: A Hong Kong Study of Data Journalism Education - Lingzi Zhu, Hong Kong Baptist U; Ying Roselyn Du, Hong Kong Bapist U

A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Exemplars on Emotional, Attitudinal, and Behavioral Intention Responses to Messages - Cabral A Bigman, U of Illinois; Elisabeth Bigsby, U of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Andrea Martinez Gonzalez, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Marketing Higher Education on YouTube: A Content Analysis of College Promotional Videos - Marianne Fritz, California State University, Los Angeles; Andrea Smith, California State U, Los Angeles; Frances Chee, Cal State U Los Angeles

Perspective-Taking and Language Competence as Predictors of Language Accommodation by Adolescents From Monolingual and Bilingual Households - Jessica Gasiorek, U of Hawaii - Manoa; Marko Dragojevic, U of Kentucky; Laszlo Vincze, Swedish School of Social Science, U of Helsinki.

Positivity Versus Negativity: Cold or Hot Cognition? - Bregje Holleman, Utrecht U; Emily Felker, Radboud U Nijmegen; Naomi Kamoen, Utrecht U/ Tilburg U; Marijn Struiksma, Utrecht U / UiL OTS

When Mediated Messages Leads to Making/Losing Money: Influence of Monetary Risk and Benefit on Information Processing - Byungho Park, KAIST

Revisiting ‘The Rise and Decline’ in a Population of Peer Production Projects - Nathan TeBlunthuis, University of Washington; Aaron Shaw, Northwestern U; Benjamin Mako Hill, University of Washington

Peer Group Talk and Striving for Autonomy as Motivators for Cyberbullying - Mathias Weber, Department of Communication / Johannes Gutenberg U of Mainz; Christina Koehler, U of Mainz

Relax and Think: Using Mobile Technology to Understand Emotion Regulation in STEM Related Academic Performance - Narine S. Yegiyan, U of California, Davis; Mingxuan Liu, University of California, Davis; Bayan Mashat, U of California, Davis; Davey Belliss, U of California, Davis

Kenneth Alan Lachlan, University of Connecticut

Rethinking Political Socialization in the Digital Age: Media Use, Political Values and Expressive Behaviors - Min-Hsin Su, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Jiyoun Suk, U of Wisconsin-Madison; Hyungjin Gill, U of Wisconsin-Madison; Hernando Rojas, U of Wisconsin-Madison

Television Attorney-Client Relationships: A Content Analysis of Fictional Programs About Trust in Seeking Legal Services - Ke M. Huang, U of California, Davis; Supreet Mann, University of California, Davis

Social Media’s Portholes to the World: Comparing Tweets About Individual Countries in Top Five Languages - Denis Wu, Boston U

Who Interacts on Reddit? Understanding Factors of Participation in Hostile Social Media Environments - Danielle Kathleen Kilgo, Indiana University; Margaret Yee Man Ng, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Martin Johannes Riedl, U of Texas at Austin; Ivan Lacasa-Mas, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya

What We Do and Don’t Know: A Meta-Analysis about the Knowledge Gap Hypothesis - Fabienne Lind, University of Vienna

City-Related Content’s on Media: How Induced and Autonomous Communication Present a Metropolis - Deya Xu, Chinese U of Hong Kong; Di Cui, Florida State U; Fang Wu, School of Media and Design, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

When Bad Characters Endorse a Good Cause: Actor-character Fundamental Attribution Error and Persuasion - Riva Tukachinsky, Chapman U

Young Adult Perspectives on Pornographic Media Content - Rebecca Lin Densley, Texas Tech U; Eric E Rasmussen, Texas Tech U

U.S. Audiences’ Perceptions of Mass Shooting Coverage and Factors Predicting Those Perceptions - Nicole Smith Dahmen, U of Oregon; Jesse Abdenour, School of Journalism and Communication, University of Oregon; Karen Elizabeth McIntyre, Virginia Commonwealth U

Cultivation Theory and Estimates of Romantic Initiation: The Moderating Role of Direct Experience - Jenna McNallie, Augsburg University

Watching the Rich and Famous: The Cultivation Effect of Reality Television Shows and the Mediating Role of Parasocial Experiences - Mi Rosie Jahng, Wayne State University

Advertising Effectiveness in Model Type: A Study Examining Physically Attractive versus Realistic Looking Models - Linda Dam, CSU Dominguez Hills; Dana Rogers, Southern Connecticut State University

A Users’ Perspective on the Need for Sanctions Against Facebook Content - Thorsten Naab, Deutsches Jugendinstitut (DJI); Teresa K. Naab, U of Augsburg; Jonas Brandmeier, U of Augsburg

Publically Personal: A Masspersonal Perspective of the Haul Video on YouTube - Maria N Nelson, Villanova University

Gratifications of Digital Media: What Motivates Users to Consume Live Blogs - Mirjana Pantic, Pace University

Chinese Audience Citizenship: Deliberative Discourse of Controversial Social Issues on Social Media - Yafei Zhang, West Texas A& M University

The Mediating Effect of Perceived Trust on Privacy Concern and Intention to Use App-Based Location-Based Mobile Advertising: Evidence from Taiwan - Trisha T. C. Lin, National Chengchi University; Yi-hsuan Chiang, Shih Hsin U

The Voice(s) of Reddit: Exploring the Effects of New Entrants on the Content of Online Discussions - Elliot T. Panek, U of Alabama; Jinjie Yang, Temple U; Wyatt Harrison, U of Alabama

Voice, Imagination, and Actionable Possibilities: A Positive Deviance Inquiry Of Women Entrepreneurs In Uttar Pradesh, India - Pallavi Jain, The Change Designers; Anu Sachdev, The Change Designers; Arvind Singhal, U of Texas at El Paso; Peer J. Svenkerud, Norsk Tipping AS; Sakshi Agarwal, The Change Designers

Voice Opportunity vs Voice Instrumentality: Examining Voice and Silence in Healthcare Teams through Ideological Dilemmas - Mary Lee, National Healthcare Group; Yu Han Ong, NHGHQ; Keng Teng Tan, Tan Tock Seng Hospital

Volunteers as Boundary Workers: Negotiating Tensions Between Volunteerism and Professionalism in Nonprofit Organizations - Kirstie McAllum, U de Montreal

Mixed Emotions in Non-Profit Communications: An Experiment of Blood Donation Message - Baobao Song, Virginia Commonwealth U; Jing Taylor Wen, U of South Carolina; Nanlan Zhang, U of South Carolina

Blurring Lines: CCO and the Politics of Sexual Violence Allegations - Nikki Cannon, Boise State University; John McClellan, Boise State U

Demographic Diversity, Functional Diversity and Team Success in Collaborative Crowdsourcing - Rong Wang, Northwestern University

(Meta-)Stereotypes of Older Workers - Martine van Selm, Amsterdam School of Communication Research; Anne Cornelia Kroon, U of Amsterdam

Destabilizing Divergence and Convergence: An Intervention to Transcend the Tension Between Diversity and Creativity in Teams - Sam Wilson, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Luisa Ruge-Jones, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; William C. Barley, U of Illinois; Marshall Scott Poole, Texas A&M U; John Moder, Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities; Algirdas S Kuslikis, American Indian Higher Education Consortium; Joseph Whittaker, Morgan State U

It’s About How Employees Feel! Examining the Impact of Emotional Culture on Employee-Organization Relationships - Linjuan Rita Men, U of Florida; Katy Robinson, U of Florida

Layoff Survivors’ Workplace Communication Networks and Performance Across a Downsizing: A Mediated Longitudinal Analysis - Alex M. Susskind, Cornell U; Ozias A. Moore, Lehigh U; K. Michele (Micki) Kacmar, Texas State U at San Marcos

Sanne Frandsen, Lund University School of Economics and Management

Kate Lockwood Harris, U of Minnesota - Twin Cities