here are panels in for the conference:
CHANGING WOMEN�S ROLES IN POPULAR MEDIA FORMS: WOMEN PURSUING CHANGE
SPONSOR: POPULAR COMMUNICATION DIVISION
CHAIR: MARILYN YOUNG, FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY
�From Grrl Games and Pink Software to Serious Games and Gamer.org:
Deconstructing the Stereotypes in the Gaming Sector�
Debbi Hatton, Sam Houston State University
��Thank you, thank you very much�: Brenda Lee Johnson as a Transforming Agent of the Television Police Cop�
Charlene Strickland, Hardin-Simmons University
��She�s tough, she�s pugnacious, she makes us pay attention.� Molly Ivins�
Vision of the Woman Political Columnist�
Marilyn Young, Florida State University
Teddy Arizona as the New Cowgirl: Baxter Black Reinterpreting the Western Heroine�
Mary Evelyn Collins, Sam Houston State University
DISCUSSANT: WILL BE FROM THE AUDIENCE
TOP THREE COMPETIVE PAPERS IN THE POPULAR COMMUNICATION DIVISION
SPONSOR: POPULAR COMMUNICATION DIVISION
CHAIR: MIKE EAVES, VALDOSTA STATE UNIVERSITY
“A Gumbo of Opinions: Just Add a Hurricane, Racism, a Rise in Violent Crime, Political Corruption, Newspaper Coverage of All These Events and Watch it Simmer On-Line”
Kim LeDuff, University of Southern Mississippi
“The Music Festival as Potential Catalyst for Social Change: A Critical Examination of Blues Festivals in the Mississippi Delta”
Stephen King, Delta State University
From Black Flag to No Flags: Punk’s Noble/Savage Resistance to Presidential Constructions of National Identity”
Christian Steinmetz, Georgia State University *
RESPONDENT: DEBBIE PHILLIPS, MUSKINGUM COLLEGE
*Top Division Paper
POPULAR MEDIA FORMS CONFRONT THE 21ST CENTURY NORMS
SPONSOR: POPULAR COMMUNICATION DIVISION
CHAIR: MIKE EAVES, VALDOSTA STATE UNIVERSITY
“The Construction of Gender in the Home on HGTV”
C. Wesley Burke, East Tennessee State University
“Verbal Aggression and Humor: Who Thinks its Funny When Characters are Verbally Abused in ‘Hell’s Kitchen’?”
Joe Mitchell, Valdosta State University
“Turning Dinner Upside Down: A Critical Analysis of TLC’s ‘Take Home Chef’” Mike Eaves, Valdosta State University
“Turn the Radio On?”
Naeemah Clark, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
DISCUSSANT: WILL BE FROM THE AUDIENCE
ARE WE THERE YET? MEDIATED VERSIONS OF (NEAR-)DYSTOPIAN FUTURES
SPONSOR: POPULAR COMMUNICATION DIVISION
CHAIR: DAVID SILVERMAN, VALLEY CITY STATE UNIVERSITY
“’What is Light Without Dark?’ V for Vendetta and the Chiaroscuro Effect” William P. Lipscomb III, Troy University
“It’s 1984 All Over Again: Dystopian Narratives in News Coverage of the War on Terror”
Larry J. King, Stephen F. Austin State University
“I Have a Pill for That: Monitoring and Suppressing Reality in THX-1138” Joe Watson, Louisiana State University
RESPONDENT: DAVID NELSON, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI
BLOGGING AND NEW MEDIA TOOLS AS COMMUNICATION
SPONSOR: POPULAR COMMUNICATION DIVISION
CHAIR: DANIELLE WILLIAMS, GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY
“The Sidewalks of a New Media Neighborhood”
C. Allin Means, University of Southern Mississippi *
“The Role of New Media Tools in Young Adults’ Engagement”
Jin Yang, University of Memphis
“Memories from the Road-The Rhetorical Appeal of Paradise and Hell in Travelers’ Blogs”
Sharon Avital, University of Texas-Austin
“Something in the Air: Canada’s Aboriginal Voices Radio and Aboriginal Peoples Television Network”
Larry Etling, Valdosta State University
RESPONDENT: DAVID SILVERMAN, VALLEY CITY STATE UNIVERSITY
*Top Student Paper
VARIOUS THEMES IN POPULAR COMMUNICATION: IDENTITY AND CONDUCT
SPONSOR: POPULAR COMMUNICATION DIVISION
CHAIR: C. WESLEY BURKE, EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY
“Disciplining the self in Desperate Housewives”
Monica Moore, University of Minnesota
“The FSU Sod Cemetary: Creating Identity through Place and Mobility”
Stephen Andon, Florida State University
“Tonight Romance! Tomorrow Regret! Avoidance, Family Communication, and Conflict”
Dave Nelson, University of Southern Mississippi
DISCUSSANT: WILL BE FROM THE AUDIENCE
COMMUNICATING AND THE CHANGING SOUTHERN CONDITION: RETHINKING POPULAR MEDIA PORTRAYALS OF SOUTHERNERS
SPONSOR: POPULAR COMMUNICATION DIVISION
CHAIR: REBECCA B. WATTS, STETSON UNIVERSITY
“’Best Dishes, Y’all’: Food Network’s Paula’s Home Cooking and the Ideology of the South in Media”
Laura Beth Daws, University of Kentucky
“My Name is Earl: The Southern Redneck in the Twenty-First Century”
Mark Hickson, University of Alabama at Birmingham
“Murder and Mayhem in the Celluloid South”
Mary M. Dalton and Lauren McInnis, Wake Forest University
“An Acceptable Stereotype: The Southern Image on Television and Film”
Alison Miller, University of Louisiana, Monroe
RESPONDENT: REBECCA B. WATTS, STETSON UNIVERSITY
CHANGING THE HUMAN CONDITION: MEDIA LITERACY ANALYSES OF POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE INFLUENCES OF MEDIA PORTRAYALS OF SEX, LOVE, AND ROMANCE
SPONSOR: POPULAR COMMUNICATION DIVISION
CHAIR: MARY-LOU GALICIAN, ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY, TEMPE
“For Better of Worse, ‘We’ll Always (and Only?) Have Paris’: Film and TV’s Insistence that the City of Light is the Only Location for Love” Amber Hutchins, Kennesaw State University
“The Good, Bad, and Ugly of Mediated Couples’ Communication: HBO’s ‘Tell Me You Love Me”
David Natharius, California State University, Fresno
“The Agony and Ecstasy of Valentine’s Day: An Analysis of Media Hype as a Source of Both Elation and Depression”
Deborah Shelley, University of Houston
DISCUSSANT: WILL BE FROM THE AUDIENCE
‘YOU REALLY LIKE ME, YOU REALLY LIKE ME’: EXAMINING THE APPEAL OF INTERNET DATING SITES
SPONSOR: POPULAR COMMUNICATION DIVISION
CHAIR: GARY LeFLEUR, MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY
PANEL DISCUSSION PARTICIPANTS:
James E. Reppert, Southern Arkansas University
Gary Deaton, Transylvania University
Tammy Rice, Owensboro Community and Technical College
Misty L. Knight, Penn State University-Harrisburg
Richard A. Knight, Shippensburg University
Robert J. Glenn, Owensboro Community and Technical College

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