Annenberg faculty, students present their research at IAMCR
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Annenberg’s Elihu Katz, Ph.D., Distinguished Trustee Professor of Communication (above), was honored by ICA for his “lifelong contribution to Media Studies.”
Annenberg faculty and students presented over one dozen papers during the annual International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) conference in Istanbul, Turkey, July 13 – 17. Below are some of the Annenberg presenters, with hyperlinks to abstracts of their work.
Faculty presentations:
Arab Music Videos: Contention and Circulation in the New Media Environment
Broken Promise: War Nationalism and Sexuality in Arab Music Videos
Bold Red line Patriarchy and Capitalism in the Saudi-Lebanese Media Connection (with Sara Mourad)
Neo-Ottaman Cool: The Rise of Turkey in Arab Media Space (with Omar Al-Ghazzi)
Playing to the Familiar When the Local No Longer Connects
Why the Focus on Democracy in Thinking about Journalism Has Created Undemocratic Journalistic Scholarship
Student presentations:
Bab al-Hara Television Series: Nostalgia and the Neighborhood
Neo-Ottaman Cool: The Rise of Turkey in Arab Media Space
(With Marwan M. Kraidy)
Looking out is looking in: How their news coverage of the Haiti earthquake reflects the fabric of the nation-states of South Africa, Lebanon, and Hong Kong
Aftershock of Aftershock: The Voices from a Chinese Social Networking Site on Chinese Blockbuster and Collective Memory
Celebrating a Global Chinese New Year: State Media and Global Chineseness
Science and Media in the Risk Society: Contestation of Scientific Claims about Climate Change
Celebrity journalists: Or, what happens when Angelina tries to teach us about Darfur
Countries on YouTube: Participation, influence, and information flows
Triumph of Concealment: The Politics of Murals in Post-Revolutionary Iran and Mexico
Challenging a Past: Cityscape, Aesthetics, and Collective Memory
Tea’d Off: Media and the Rise of the 21st Century Tea Party