Newhouse Faculty, Doctoral Students to Participate in 2025 ICA Conference

Several Newhouse School faculty members and doctoral students will participate in the 75th annual convention of the International Communication Association on June 12-16 in Denver, Colorado. Their involvement includes paper presentations, panel discussions and roles as presenters in workshops.

Note: For times and locations of presentations, please visit the conference website.

Friday, June 13

Journey Into Meaningfulness? How Manipulating a Need for Meaning-Making Impacts Eudaimonic Gaming Experiences
Nick Bowman; Janaki Riji Nair

Socioemotional Connections in Hybrid and Digital Worlds
Nick Bowman

Assessing the Effectiveness of Civic Local Journalism Training: A Mixed-Method Applied Research Study
Joshua Darr

Saturday, June 14

BLUE SKY ADMINISTRATOR WORKSHOP: The Role of Administrators in Advancing Faculty Research and Creative Work
Regina Luttrell 

Walking Into the Unknown: Manipulating Knowledge of the External Environment to Promote Presence in VR
Nick Bowman

Conservative Elite News Discourse and Right-Wing Defensive Publics: The Daegu Mosque and Anti-Muslim Sentiment in South Korea
David Oh

Mood Management in Many Dimensions: VR Gaming as a Source of Intervention Potential
Elena Zhao, Nick Bowman

The Power of Pop Culture Narratives in Teaching Intersectional Feminism: A Pedagogical Study
Tiara Johnson, Carrie Welch, Regina Luttrell, Anne Osborne  

The Promises and Perils of Being a Popular Youth Online Content Creator
Rebecca Ortiz, Sophia Condemi, Kelly Leahy, Srivi Ramasubramanian   

ICA Fellows’ Advice to Their Younger Selves [small-group mentoring sessions]
Jocelyn McKinnon-Crowley, Srivi Ramasubramanian  

Destructive or Democratic? Civility, Partisanship, and Perceptions of Protest
Emily Sydnor

Putting Human Agency at the Center of Technology Adoption: Weighing Psychological Empowerment and Risk Appraisals
Joon Soo Lim

Revisting ‘Building a Fugitive Academy’
Srivi  Ramasubramanian

Adapting to Hallucination Risks and Privacy Concerns: The Role of Information Verification and Privacy Protection in Continuance Intentions of Generative AI
Joon Soo Lim

Sunday, June 15

Similar But Not the Same: Freelance and Full-Time Journalists in the United States
Lars Willnat, Anuradha Herath, Stan Jastrzebski   

Making Their Voices Heard: Adolescents’ Social Media activism and Advocacy for Sex and Reproductive Health
Rebecca Ortiz

Partisan Responses to Cancel Culture on Social Media: Hostile Media Effects on Political Behavior
Joon Soo Lim, Bixuan Ren

Activism, Communication and Social Justice Research Escalator Session
Shannon Burth

Student Journalism as Witnessing, Solidarity, and Resistance: An Analysis of Pro-Palestine Campus Protests in Student-Run Newspapers in New York
Shannon Burth, Srivi Ramasubramanian, Fuhaid Alajmi 

Development and Validation of the Motivations of Eudaimonic Gaming (MEG) Scale
Nick Bowman

Time as a Challenge for Game Studies: Conceptualizing a Multi-Faceted Concept
Nick Bowman

Nostalgia, Age, and Gaming
Nick Bowman

Construct Inconsistency
Nick Bowman  

Monday, June 16

How Visuals Distractions Disrupt Information Processing: Impact of Floating Ads on News Audiences
Jocelyn McKinnon-Crowley

The Egocentricity and Emotionality of Sense of Place: Scale Development and Validation Across Digital/Physical and Positive/Negative Locales  
Nick Bowman

Playing in the Dark: The U.S. Army Esports Team on Twitch
Josh Foust 

Embrace or Embargo? Is That the Best Question?: Students’ Attitudes Toward AI and Their Potential Sources
Nick Bowman  

Populism and Political Communication, Standard Paper Session
Joshua Darr

Public Diplomacy: Forging Enduring Relationships That Endure Political Disruption, Panel Session
Steven Pike