Terps@Ica, San Diego, 2017

Terps participate in annual international conference in San Diego.

Faculty members and graduate students from the Department of Communication will present research and participate in meetings at the 67th annual convention of the International Communication Association, May 25-29, 2017, in San Diego, California, USA. ICA is an academic association for scholars interested in the study, teaching, and application of all aspects of human and mediated communication.

Linda Aldoory & Elizabeth Toth, "Confronting Master Narratives of Gender, Race, and Power in Understanding Strategic Communication."

Deepa Anagondahalli & Ning Xie (with others), "Reducing Academic Entitlement: The Mediating Role of Relational Frames" (TOP PAPER PANEL, Instructional and Developmental Communication).

Anita Atwell Seate & Irina Iles, "Help a Fan Out? The Effect of Fandom Type and Task Type on People’s Willingness to Help or Harm Different Types of Fans in a Collaborative Effort."

Luke Capizzo, "(Financial) Crisis of Confidence: The Refocusing Events of the Great Recession for Financial Journalism and Media Relations."

Zexin Ma, "An Exploration of Involuntary Autobiographical Memories in Narrative Persuasion."

Zexin Ma & Xiaoli Nan (with others), "Promoting Positive Attitudes toward Depression in Different Cultures: Testing the Narrative Transportation Hypotheses through a Multi-Group Analysis."

Xiaoli Nan, Zexin Ma, & Michele Futerfas, "Using Narratives to Promote Sunscreen Use: The Persuasive Impact of Narrative Perspective and Modality."

Erich Sommerfeldt, "An Intervention: Disconfirmation, Cognitive Dissonance, and Emotional Labor among Public Relations Professors."

Samantha Stanley, "I'm Scared of the Disappointment": Young Adult Smokers' Relational Identity Gaps as Sites of Intervention."

Ning Xie, "Influence of Relationship Cultivation Strategies on Employee-Organization Relationships: Incorporating Positive and Negative Relationship Dimensions."

Sifan Xu, "Discourse of Renewal: Developing Multiple-Item Measurement and Analyzing Effects on Relationships;" and "We Won’t If You Won’t Damage the Relationship: The Investment Model in Organizational Crises for (Re)building Relationships" (TOP STUDENT PAPERS PANEL, Public Relations Division).

Xinyan Zhao & Mengqi Zhan, "Evolving Publics, Evolving Messages: Analyzing Publics’ Information Sharing Network in a Social-Mediated Crisis" (TOP STUDENT PAPERS PANEL, Public Relations Division)

Xinyan Zhao & Bo Yang, "Toward a Multilevel E-health Engagement Model: Analyzing trend for immigrants’ e-health engagement from 2008 to 2013."