Student Section

Julie L Semlak, North Dakota State Univ

Al Jazeera and the Old Guard: Explicating ‘Mediacentrism’ - Justin Martin, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Building a War Agenda: George W. Bush’s 2002 State of the Union Address - Cynthia N Shipman, Texas State University-San Marcos

Confucius in Chinese Rhetoric - Xiaoyong Liu, Texas Tech University

Engaging Information Design: Re-considering the user's experience - John A McArthur, Clemson University

Harry Potter and the Public Relations Phenomenon - Ashley Rae Muddiman, Wake Forest University

Historicizing Digital Media: Benjamin in the Age of Digital Reproducibility - Jin Kim

Nonverbal Communication Behavior of Successful Leaders on NBC’s "The Apprentice 3" - Jocelyn DeGroot, Ohio University

Planning for Life after College: An Analysis of Career Planning, Proactivity, Motivation, and Academic Locus of Control - Robert Sidelinger, West Virginia University; Sara R Banfield, West Virginia University

Prank Stars: The Media Hoax as (in)Civil Disobedience - Paul Falzone, Annenberg School for Communication, UPenn

Social Support and Bipolar Disorder: The Case for a Communication Approach - Eileen F Doherty, Purdue University

The Effect of Memes, Truthiness and Wikiality on Public Knowledge - James Eric Black, Georgia State University

The third-person effect on viewers of objectified and idealized male and female images in advertising - Hans Schmidt, Temple University

Understanding Collective Efficacy as Shared Efforts from Theory of Reasoned Action and Situational Theory of Publics Perspectives - Bumsub Jin, University of Florida

Workplace Bullying: A Distinct, Interpersonal, and Communicative Phenomenon - Vanessa C Heeman, Kent State University

Kate Magsamen-Conrad, Rutgers University