MSU at ICA 2023 | Michigan State University College of Communication Arts and Sciences

In late May, faculty and staff of MSU’s College of Communication Arts and Sciences will travel to Toronto, Canada to discuss their research at the 73rd Annual International Communication Association Conference.

The conference theme this year is Reclaiming Authenticity in Communication. Research contributions from ComArts faculty examine how "authenticity has become a variable, rather than a constant, in public discourses and popular culture across the globe, and with what relational, social, political, and cultural implications."

The ICA Conference will take place May 25–29, 2023 in a hybrid capacity with sessions taking place virtually as well as in person. The in-person portion of the conference will be at the Sheraton Centre Hotel in Toronto.

ComArtSci presenters are italicized.

Thursday, May 25, 2023 - Pre-conference

Ph.D. Mentoring Workshop, Environmental Communication Division
Nadine Strauss; Marijn H. Meijers; Silje Kristiansen; Hanna E. Morris; Apoorva Joshi
Journalism and the Immediate Causal Explanation of Unpredictable Events
Enrique Nunez-Mussa
The Ethics of Public Diplomacy Theory and Practice
Heijin Lee
New Frontiers in Global Digital Inequalities Research: The Global Digital Technology Space and Its Relations to Digital Inequalities
Fabian Braesemann, Alexandra Rottenkolber, Ole Teutloff, and Johannes M. Bauer

Friday, May 26, 2023

BLUE SKY SECAC SKILLS WORKSHOP: De-Mystifying Peer Review Process in Scholarly Publications: How to Become Reviewer 1 and How to Face Reviewer 2?
Taiquan Peng; Miriam Brinberg; Kaiping Chen; David Ewoldsen; Kokil Jaidka; Jörg Matthes; Cuihua Shen; Jonathan Zhu
BLUE SKY BIG IDEAS SESSION: Media Entertainment as an Authentic Field of Study: 21st Century Answers to Age-Old Questions
Nicholas Bowman; Sophie Janicke-Bowles; Mark Boukes; Ryan Lange; Douglas Schules; Philippe Chauveau; Haley Hatfield; Nancy Jennings; Lindsay Grace; Charisse Corsbie-Massay; David Ewoldsen; Nancy Rhodes; Lindsay Hahn; Purba Das; Anne Sadza; Arienne Ferchaud; Ron Tamborini; Claire Segijn; Jan Van den Bulck; Jason Gong; Jaime Banks; Tahleen Lattimer
Factors Influencing Farmers’ Ways of Coping During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Amanda Holmstrom; Jong In Lim; Yue Zhang
Developments in Corporate Social Responsibility Research
Yu Tian
CSR Communication on Instagram: Exploring CSR Signals and Countersignals in a Visually-Oriented Social Media Platform
Iago S. Muraro; Maximilian Schacker; Katarina Stanoevska-Slabeva
What if others see it? Investigating effects of eWOM Privacy, Social Tie Strength, and Product Category Stigmatization on Persuasiveness of eWOM messages on Instagram
Subhalakshmi Bezbaruah; Chuqing Dong; Saleem Alhabash
Media Consumption and Mental Health from Adolescence to Mid-Adulthood: A Latent Growth Modeling Approach to Examining the Dynamics among Daily Activities and Health Over Time
Sue Lim
Watching Movies in VR. A Research Ecosystem for the Study of Screen Media Effects
Gary Bente; Nolan T. Jahn; Faith A. Delle; Juncheng Wu; Zhen Huang
Environmental journalism and inoculation: An examination of strategic communication methods and their potential use in the journalist’s fight against misinformation
Kyle M. Davidson
Brazilian Indigenous Environmental Journalism perspectives
Gisele Souza Neuls
Feelings for Meetings: A Sentiment Analysis of Videoconferencing Platforms a Year Apart
Alex P. Leith; Maxwell Foxman; Rabindra (Robby) Ratan; Chaeyun Lim
Social-mediatization of news: normative logic and market logic
Jieun Shin; Seth Lewis; Soojong Kim; Kjerstin S. Thorson
Normative Social Influence from Peers About Vaping Among Chinese Young Adults: An Expansion of the Conceptualization of Peer Communication
Jingyuan J. Shi; Sandi W. Smith; Youzhen Su; Zixi Li
The Role of Collective Group Orientation and Social Norms on Physical Distancing Behaviors for Disease Prevention
Hyungro Yoon; Youjin Jang; Maria Lapinski; Monique M. Turner; Taiquan Peng; Sanguk Lee
Eye contact in communication: Message reception and signaling through gaze
Nolan T. Jahn; Ralf Schmaelzle; Gary Bente
Health [mis]information processing among older adults: An in-depth interview study comparing “misinformation detectives” and misinformation victims”
Wei Peng; Jingbo Meng; Sue Lim; Huiyi Liu
Journalistic Cultures in the Digital Era: (Re-)Focus on Negotiation and Practice
Patric Raemy; Lea C. Hellmueller; Tim P. Vos

Saturday, May 27, 2023

“Is it authentic?”: The role of overconfidence in the relationship between social media news use and institutional media use
Taewoo Kang; Kjerstin S. Thorson; Chankyung Pak
Ecological Dynamics of Audience Growth in the Digital Media System: Findings From Longitudinal Tracking Data From 2019 to 2022
Yu Xu; Taiquan Peng
Male chatbots, Female Chatbots, Investigating the Effects of Sex Heuristics in AI Emotional Support
Andrew Bredland; Jiaqi Qin; Jingbo Meng; Amanda Holmstrom
Black people and outcomes of contact with content that contains racialized violence on social media
Leilane Rodrigues
Why do they stay away from smartphones? An ethnographic investigation of the digital disconnection of the rural elderly in China
Juncheng Wu; Huan Zhang; Wan Liu
Truth default and mainstream media cues: Heuristic use in judging the accuracy of political news
Daniel E. Bergan; Dustin Carnahan; Manu Sastry
Towards Inclusive International Environmental Communication Scholarship
Bruno Takahashi
The Role of Latin America: Turning Points, Trajectories, and Accounts of Military Partners’ Post-Deployment Adjustment Concerns
Elizabeth Dorrance Hall; Patricia E. Gettings; Steven R. Wilson; Elizabeth A. Hintz; Ana Vidal
A Grounded Theory of Journalism’s Institutional Actors
Tim P. Vos; Wilson Lowrey; Ryan J. Thomas
Doorkeepers in Ghana’s social System: Conceptualizing the Normative Framework of the Media System of an African Liberal Democracy
Prosper K. Senyo
Metajournalistic discourse in US coverage of Brazil: Journalistic roles and values related to threats to democracy
Marialina C. Antolini; Marcos P. Da Silva; Tim P. Vos
"Find the Joy": Affect and Immanence in a News Correspondent's Tweets from Ukraine
Perry Parks
Race-Evasive Ideology in U.S.-based Science Communication Fellowship Staff Discourse
Nic Bennett; Anthony Dudo; John C. Besley; Yasmiyn Irizarry
From Agent to Avacar: Behavioral influence through the controllable-agent paradigm
Chaeyun Lim; Yiming (Skylar) Lei; Gabriel E. Hales; Hanjie Liu; Rabindra (Robby) Ratan
Exposure to diversity reduces racial prejudice through stronger common ingroup (human) identity: A short-lived effect?
Shay X. Yao; Morgan E. Ellithorpe; David Ewoldsen; Allison Eden; Nancy Rhodes; Brandon Van Der Heide
Identity-Driven Information Ecosystems: TikTok, Truckstops, and Barbershops
Dan Hiaeshutter-Rice; Guadalupe Madrigal; Gavin Ploger; Mia Carbone; Sydney L. Carr; Ava Francesca Battocchio; Stuart Soroka
Understanding Procedural and Distributive Fairness Perceptions of AI Decision-Making
Hyesun Choung; Prabu David
Lifetime TV Use Influences Racial Prejudice through Cultivating Implicit Norms: Differed Effects across Three Life Stages
Shay X. Yao; Nikki McClaran; Morgan E. Ellithorpe; David Ewoldsen; Fashina Alade
Why do People Unfollow "Friends" on Social Media? Communication Authenticity, Unfollowing, and the Construction of Networked Intimacy on WeChat Moments
Junwen Hu
I don’t want to talk about politics with my parents: The influence of family communication and political congruency in a political talk in the family.
Go-Eun Kim; Jong In Lim
Comparative Moral Intuition Prominence in Narratives Shapes Audience Intuition Salience and Affective Dispositions
Joshua Baldwin; Ron Tamborini
Investigating the Effects of Egoistic Need-Satisfying Narratives on Preadolescents
Melinda R. Aley; Ron Tamborini; Lindsay Hahn; Joshua Baldwin
Act Real After a Data Breach: An Exploratory Investigation of the Role of Authenticity in Chinese Crisis Management
Qi Zheng; Dongqing Xu; Qiu-ting Duan
The Online Dating Effect: Where a Couple Meets Predicts the Quality of Their Marriage
Liesel Sharabi; Elizabeth Dorrance Hall
The Long-Term Influence of Investiture and Serial Socialization Tactics on Organizational Newcomers
Scott Shank; Vernon Miller
Careers After COVID: Examining the Influence of Vocational Anticipatory Socialization on Post-Pandemic Career Values and Choices
Kenneth J. Levine; Melinda R. Aley; Vernon Miller

Sunday, May 28, 2023

How do Bots Persuade? The Role of Image-Identity Congruence in Creating an Online Persona
Maria D. Molina; Nora Rifon; Iago Santos-Muraro
When controversy meets controversy, what do you see? Understanding the visual communication of cannabis companies’ corporate social advocacy on Instagram
Chuqing Dong; Virginia S. Harrison; Qi Zheng; Morgan Vandenberg
Perceptions of Science Communication Among Scientists of Historically Minoritized Groups
Leigh Anne Tiffany; Leilane Rodrigues; Bruno Takahashi; Sunshine Menezes; Evelyn Valdez-Ward
Not All Anger is Created Equal: A Meta-Analytic Assessment of Anger Elicitation
Stefanie Z. Demetriades; Nathan Walter; Monique M. Turner; Callie S. Kalny
Joining A New Organization Remotely: Newcomers’ Information Seeking Behaviors in CMC context
Yidi Zhang
Playfully Virtual: Finding Authentic Communication in Videoconferencing and Online Meetings
Maxwell Foxman; Alex P. Leith; Rabindra (Robby) Ratan; Dalton Bouzek; Chaeyun Lim; David G. Beyea
Do Primary Emotions About COVID-19 affect Risk Perceptions, Efficacy Beliefs, Information Seeking and Behavior? Looking at Emotions as Audience Segments
Monique M. Turner; Jong In Lim; Youjin Jang; Ruth J. Heo; Qijia Ye; Hee Jung Cho; Miyeon Kim
Moments in Love: Redefining “Baby-Making” via Reproductive Justice Lens
Robyn B. Adams
Coherence and its impact on partisan news consumption: The roles of meta-cognition and enjoyment
Jennifer Hoewe; Diane Jackson; SaiDatta Mikkilineni; Cherag Keswani; David Ewoldsen
SRG Communication, Environment, Science and Society
Céline Pascual Espuny; Bruno Takahashi
Go negative for clicks: Negative sentiment in environmental advocacy emails increases public engagement
P. Sol Hart; Stuart Soroka; Dan Hiaeshutter-Rice
The Effects of the Source of Support and Message Contingency on Self-disclosure Unfolding over Conversational Stages
Jingbo Meng; Jiaqi Qin; Yue Zhang; Andrew Bredland; Sue Lim; Junwen Hu; Stephen A. Rains
A Preliminary Study for Developing Perceived ESG Scale to Measure Public Perception Toward Organizations’ ESG Performance
Hyun Jung Oh; Sejin Park; Hye Hyun Ma; Byoungkwan Lee; Dayeoun Jang

Monday, May 29, 2023

“Shaking things up” / “Fear of F***ing Up”: Creating Culturally Inclusive Preschool STEM Television
Tara J. Mesyn; Fashina Alade; Breniel Lemley
The Temporal Structure of Information Flow and its Consequences: An Online Experiment
Yi-Xin Zhou; Taiquan Peng; Jonathan Zhu
Media Multitasking with Online Video: Examining the Role of Perceptual Resources Overlap
Jonghwan Baek
Can Cooperative Gameplay Compensate for Ostracism? Exploring Roles of Collective Self-esteem, Belongingness, and Reciprocity Expectation
Yiming (Skylar) Lei; Hanjie Liu; David Ewoldsen; Nancy Rhodes
Elaborated negativity: How U.S. journalists assess the impact of social media
Stephanie Edgerly; Yingying Chen; Kjerstin S. Thorson; Taewoo Kang
Awe and Trepidation: The Role of Perinatal Care Providers in Black Fathers’ Experiences of Childbirth in the U.S.
Mary Bresnahan; Jie Zhuang; Joanne Goldbert; Libby Bogdan-Lovis; Kendra Elam; Sameerah Shareef
News consumption, partisanship, and energy preferences in Brazil and the United States
Rachel Mourao; Adam Mayer; Igor Cavallini; Ana Paula Bortoleto; Karina Ninni; Aaron McCright; Erik Brown; Maria Claudia Lopez; Emilio Moran
Leveraging Prompt-Engineering to Generate Health Awareness Messages - A Role for Artificial Neural Networks in Communication Science
Sue Lim; Ralf Schmaelzle
Explaining Conservation Donation Behaviors with the Theory of Planned Behavior Cross-nationally
Apoorva Joshi
Research on Social Memory of Traumatic Events: an Example of Wuhan’s Lockdown at the Beginning of COVID-19
Huan Zhang; Juncheng Wu; Yaning Wang
We had to rely on Instagram: Activist youth in Brazil during the Covid-19 pandemic
Marialina C. Antolini; Kjerstin S. Thorson
Assessing Theoretical Mediators of Campaign-Induced Communication in the Context of Social Norms Campaign
Sunyoung Park; Sandi W. Smith
Do People Believe in Misleading Information Disseminated via Memes? The Role of Identity and Anger
Maria D. Molina
Research in Progress: Is Teaching in Virtual Reality Superior to Video Conferencing? Examining the Role of Social Presence
Qiyang Lin; Rabindra (Robby) Ratan; Alexander Lover; Chaeyun Lim; Dayeoun Jang; Zachary Schultz; Yi An; Eugy Han
What is there to fear? Understanding fear of AI from the technological affordance framework
Emily Zhan; Maria D. Molina; Minjin Rheu; Wei Peng
Nostalgic Doom-Scrolling: Traversing Psychological Distance and Adjusting Mood Through Sad News Stories from Home
Hanjie Liu; Sherri Jean Katz
Work-Family Balance in Slovenia: Associations with Job Stress, Division of Labor Satisfaction, and Relational Wellbeing
Elizabeth Dorrance Hall; Kelsey Earle; Mengyan Ma; Katie Osika; Lorraine Kuch
Shared Social Media Use and the Spread of Network Diversity and Social Tolerance Amongst First Generation Rural University Students and their Parents
Keith N. Hampton; Kelley Cotter; Janine Slaker
Behavioral Analysis of Teachers’ Attitudes towards Students’ Use of Mobile Phones in Schools in Ghana
Barikisu Issaka; Sabena Abdul Raheem; Inusah Mohammed; Ebenezer A. Aidoo; Aderonke Daramola
"Can Virtual Influencers' Apology be Authentic?": The Different Perceptions of Moral Violation and Apology by Virtual and Human Influencers in the Brand Endorsement
Taenyun Kim; Chungheon Lee; Yanqin Wu; Jungwoo Jang; Huisung Kwon; Hyemin Park; Hayeon Song; Kwan M. Lee; Jae-gil Lee; Namkee Park

Tuesday, May 30, 2023 - Post-Conference

Authentic Voices in Science Communication
Keynote: John Belsey

Wednesday, May 31, 2023 - Post-Conference

Formation and Fragmentation of Mental Models in Heterogeneous Media Ecosystems During Times of Complex Crisis. 73rd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association-Media Sociology
Johannes M. Bauer; Megan Knittel; Wenjuan Ma; Ruth J. Shillair; Grant Blank