Graduate Student Research Forum

8:30 a.m.
Opening remarks

8:45 – 10 a.m.
Learning in the 21st Century: Pedagogy and Methodology

Language Revitalization through Schools: Human Agency, Elizaveta Provorova

Legos™ on Steroids: An Exploratory Analysis of Constructivist Learning, Maria Cipollone

Facebook’s Many Faces: An Investigation in how Students Negotiate Their Online Identities, Angela M. Cirucci

Complementarity of Traditional Ethnographic Methods with Methods of Discourse Analysis: The Case of Ethnic Relations in the Post-Industrial Coal-Mining Town of Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, Melissa
Meade

10:15 – 11:30
Representing Reality: Socio-political and Ecological Issues in News and Documentary Film

When a Veil is Just a Veil: The Interaction of Humanizing Visual Frames, Empathy, and Prosocial Behavior, Jennifer Midberry

The “War on Women” 2012 Edition: Media Coverage of Women’s Issues During the Presidential Election Campaign, Urszula Pruchniewska

Workers and Unions in Reporting of the Marcellus Shale Gas Boom, Michael Buozis

Fighting the War On (Appalachian) Coal in Local and National News, Maxine Gesualdi

Governmentality and Documentary Film: Tehran Has No More Pomegranates, Persheng Sadegh-Vaziri

11:45 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Understanding Popular Culture: Sports, Gaming, and Fiction

Not Your Ordinary NBA Hero: A Narrative Analysis of U.S. and Taiwanese News Coverage of Linsanity, Chiaoning Su

Popular Mobile Games in Contemporary Society: As Based on Mobile Media Users, Hyungmin Kim

Use Only as Directed: How the English Language Localization of Imagine Makeup Artist (2009) Didactically Reinforces Exclusive Global Conceptions of Beauty, Yvonne Fulmore

Boys that Care and Girls that Dare: Fluid Gender Identity in Suzanne Collins’ The Underland Chronicles and The Hunger Games, Stephanie Palmieri

2013 Graduate Research Forum Committee

Andy Mendelson, JOUR; Hector Postigo, MSP; Brooke Duffy, ADV; Carrie Isard, MMC student