In Event: Scholar to Scholar Presents: Popular Culture Extravaganza

Scholar to Scholar

1. 'Let's Bring it All Down!' Punk as Counterpublic Discourse - Chema Salinas, Arizona State Univ

2. Out of the Wilderness into the Spotlight: Celebrity & Radical Prophecy in the Obama Presidential Campaign - Margaret Cavin, Florida Gulf Coast Univ

3. Abercrombie & Fitch: Performance and Capital - Gina Bacon, University of Utah

4. Accurate and inclusive: Examining reviews of GLAAD-honored movies - Kirstie Hettinga, Penn State University

5. Adopting Frank Warren’s Post Secret Art Project to Illustrate the Role of Secrets in Interpersonal Communication - Christina Paxman, Western Washington University

6. Asian-American Portrayals on TV: Implications for Stereotype Endorsement, Intergroup Emotions, Symbolic Racism, and Pro-minority Policy Support - Srividya Ramasubramanian, Texas A&M Univ

7. Behind in the Count: An Examination of Major League Baseball and the Situational Crisis Communication Theory - Hilary Fussell Sisco, Quinnipiac University; Erik L. Collins, University of South Carolina

8. Betting on Climate Change: The Nenana Ice Classic - Karen Taylor, Univ of Alaska, Fairbanks; Karsten Hueffer, Univ of Alaska, Fairbanks

9. College Comedies as a Discourse and Implications for Gender and Race - Brittany Lee Wattner, Texas State University, San Marcos

10. Commodifying the Aunt: Interrogating a Popular Marketing Image - Patricia Sotirin, Michigan Technological Univ; Laura Ellingson, Santa Clara University

11. Constructing ‘the activists’ identity: The Yes Men, Ideology, and Culture Jamming - Sarah Jones, Univ of Nebraska, Lincoln

12. Continuity and Extension of African American Communication Dynamics through the Black Comic Strip - Sheena Howard, Howard University

13. Dance With the Devil: Representations of Femininity, Masculinity, and the Boss-from-Hell in Film - Alanna R. Miller, Temple University

14. Desire, Gender, and Labor on Etsy.com - Erin Louise Dempsey Cole, University of Minnesota

15. Distant Intimacy, Intimate Distance: Visual Bridges and Emotional Dialectics in Elia Kazan's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Carl Burgchardt, Colorado State University; David Scott Diffrient, Colorado State University

16. Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting: Commemoration, Camp, and Countering the Traumatic - Sarah Vartabedian, Univ of Texas, Austin

17. Examination of hegemonic/counter-hegemonic dichotomy: Beauty and power relations in 'Little Miss Sunshine' - Amy Fallah, Christopher Newport University

18. Facebook Memorial Groups: Quicksilver Tombstones on the Information Superhighway - Nathan Crean-Williams, Univ of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

19. Floating Signifiers: The haunting of hip-hop by the ghosts of emcees passed - Joseph Faina, Univ of Texas, Austin; Roy Christopher, Univ of Texas, Austin

20. From Cinderella to Bella: A Feminist Critique using Fairy Tales and Frames to Analyze Twilight - Matt Hammer, Univ of South Dakota

21. HBO, New Queer Cinema, and the AIDS Epidemic - Shayne Pepper, North Carolina State University

22. Is Intelligent Design Writing Scientific? A Content Analysis of Popular Evolution and Intelligent Design Texts - Dave White, Univ of South Dakota

23. Is Negative Feedback ‘Positive’ for Online Community-Building Practices? A Study of Negative References in CouchSurfing - Leon Laureij, Rutgers University; Vaibhavi Kulkarni, Rutgers University; Gillian Bonanno, Rutgers University; Mike Kuang, Rutgers University

24. Late-Night Talk Shows: Why People Watch and What They Seek to Gain - Jin Kim, University of Iowa; Julie Kocsis, Hope College

25. Manson and Columbine: Music’s Possible Effect on Tragedy - Matt Hammer, Univ of South Dakota

26. Nobody's Victim: Cosmo's 'Gray Rape' Article and Post-Feminist Narratives of Choice and Responsibility - Emma Kate Ranachan, Univ of Minnesota

27. Not a Laughing Matter? The Effects of Late-Night Comedy on Political Knowledge - Lars Kristiansen, Univ of Missouri, Columbia

28. Redeeming the Boomers with Forrest Gump: A Burkean Analysis - Leslie Ramos Salazar, Arizona State University

29. Revenge as Mourning in V for Vendetta: An Analysis of the Revenge Genre of Film - Katherine Lind, Syracuse University

31. Show Me the Numbers! Media Dependency and Fantasy Game Participants - John McGuire, Oklahoma State University; Greg Armfield, New Mexico State Univ; Jeff Boone, Angelo State University

32. Writing Love into Civic Engagement: The Discursive Construction of an Indie Nonprofit - R.M. Milner, University of Kansas

33. 'I Listen to Bands that Don’t Even Exist Yet': Pitchfork and Cultural Capital - Marilda Oviedo, University of Iowa

34. 'Inappropriate Political Content': Serialized Comic Strips at the Intersection of Visual Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of Humor - Liz Sills, University of Montana

35. 'This is Africa - not a world apart': Domination and Resistance in Gorfil & Zwick’s (2006) Blood Diamond - Daniel E. Trucil, Villanova University

36. Speaking from Experience: A Narrative Criticism of Alice in Chains’ 'Junkhead' and 'God Smack' - Kristine Weglarz, Univ of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Sarah Symonds, Univ of Missouri, Columbia

E. Michele Ramsey, Penn State Univ, Berks

Danielle Stern, Christopher Newport Univ