2005 Graduate Student Recognition

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Fellowships, Scholarships & Awards

Giorgia Aiello, Graduate Scholarship, Washington State Credit Union, 2005.

Whitney Anspach, Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship in German studies, UW Jackson School of International Studies, 2005; Instructional & Developmental Communication Division Student Teaching Award, International Communication Association (ICA), 2005.

Nancy Bixler, Madeline Jones Campbell Scholarship, Mortar Board Alumni/Tolo Association, 2004.

Ted Coopman, Illinois Initiative for Media Policy Research Travel Fellowship, “Can Freedom of the Press Survive Media Consolidation?” Conference, Urbana-Champaign, IL, May 2005.

Natalie Debray, Fellowship, Connecting with the Community: An Institute on the Public Humanities for Doctoral Students, UW Simpson Center for the Humanities, 2004; Research Grant, Quebec Studies Program, Minister of International Affairs, Quebec, 2005; Conference Participation Scholarship, International Council for Canadian Studies Conference, Ottawa, May 2005; Publicly Active Graduate Education (PAGE) Award and Workshop Fellow, “Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life” Conference, Philadelphia, 2004.

Tema Milstein, Fellowship, Connecting with the Community: An Institute on the Public Humanities for Doctoral Students, UW Simpson Center for the Humanities, 2004.

Sara Morgan, Publicly Active Graduate Education (PAGE) Award and Workshop Fellow, “Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life” Conference, Philadelphia, 2004.

Clifford Tatum, Project Connect Fellowship, sponsored by Canadian government & Canadian Studies programs at University of Vermont & Plattsburgh State University, Ottawa, Canada, Summer 2004.

Service Awards, Honors & Activities

Whitney Anspach, Workshop Facilitator, Annual UW TA Conference, Autumn 2004.

Danielle Endres, Workshop Facilitator, Annual UW TA Conference, Autumn 2004; Presentation Training Consultant, UW Bothell, Autumn 2004; Expert Reviewer, Washington State Oral Communication Grade Level Expectations, Spring 2005.

Edith Manosevitch, Workshop Facilitator, Annual UW TA Conference, Autumn 2004.

Teresa Brownwolf Powers, Honored Role Model, Empowering Young Women as Leaders, Women of Color Empowered Luncheon, Seattle, Sept. 2004; Director and editor, public service announcements for Native American Heritage Month, sponsored by Native Action Network, Nov. 2004.

D. Travers Scott, Student Fellow, UW Center for Internet Studies.

Leah Sprain, Japan Debate Tour, National Communication Association (NCA) Committee for International Discussion and Debate, Summer 2005.

Clifford Tatum, Invited Chair, Trade and Integration session, Association for Canadian Studies in the US (ACSUS) Colloquium, Vancouver, Canada, Oct. 2004.

Research Mentor Center (RMC) Volunteers 2004-05: Avery Alix, Whitney Anspach, Meredith Bagley, Diane Beall, Ted Coopman, Natalie Debray, Tony Docan, Kate Dunsmore, Louisa Edgerly, Maria Garrido, Isaac Gottesman, Jessica Harvey, Pattijean Hooper, Sue Lockett John, Sara Morgan, Stephanie Smith, Leah Sprain, Dru Williams.

Publications

Laura Black, (2005) Book review, “Peaceful persuasion,” Journal of Mass Media Ethics, 20, 90-92.

Ted Coopman, (2005) “Dissentworks: Identity and emergent dissent as network structures,” in M. Allen & M. Consalvo (eds.) 2nd Internet Research Annual, Peter Lang.

Danielle Endres (with Barbara Warnick, Mike Xenos & John Gastil), (2005) “Effects of campaign-to-user and text-based interactivity in political candidate campaign websites,” Journal of Computer Mediated Communication 10(3); (with Barbara Warnick), (2004) “Text-based interactivity in candidate campaign websites: A case study from the 2002 elections,” Western Journal of Communication, 68(3): 322-342.

Verena Hess (with Mike Xenos & Patricia Moy), (2005) “Communication and citizenship: Mapping the political effects of infotainment,” Mass Communication and Society, Vol. 8, 111-131.

Taso Lagos (with Lance Bennett, Victor Pickard, et al.), (2004) “Managing the public sphere: Journalistic construction of the great globalization debate,” Journal of Communication, 54:3, 437-455.

Taso Lagos & April Peterson (with Meg Spratt), (2005) “Of photographs and flags: Uses and perceptions of an iconic image before and after September 11, 2001,” Popular Communication, 3(2), 117-136.

Tema Milstein, (2004) Book review, “The Ethics of diet: A catena of authorities deprecatory of the practice of flesh-eating,” Ethics, Place, and Environment, 7 (3), 216-219; (2004) “Reflections at the International Communication Association Conference,” Language and Intercultural Communication, 4(3).

D. Travers Scott, (2005) “Protest email as alternative media in the 2004 U.S. presidential
campaign,” Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, 2(1), 51-71.

Marcos Torres (with Patricia Moy, M. McCluskey & K. Tanaka), (2005) “Knowledge or trust? Investigating linkages between media reliance and participation,” Communication Research, 32, 59-86.

Saskia Witteborn (with J. Stewart & K. Zediker), (2005) Together: Communicating interpersonally. A social construction approach (6th ed.). Los Angeles, CA: Roxbury.

Conference Presentations

~ American Political Science Association, Chicago, Fall 2004:
Verena Hess, “Politics at the water cooler: Infotainment and civic engagement.”

~ American Public Health Association, Washington, DC, Nov. 2004:
Katherine Hall (with M. Miller & D. Linker), “Historically speaking: Why some teen workers are excluded from child labor laws”; (with S. Morris & J. Camp), “Content analysis: Borrowing a page from communication research,” poster.

~ Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication (AEJMC), Toronto, Canada, Aug. 2004:
Whitney Anspach (with Patricia Moy), “Duck and cover vs. duct tape: Comparing U.S. government’s domestic propaganda tactics.”

~ Association of Internet Researchers, Brighton, England, Sept. 2004:
Ted Coopman, “Ubiquitous resistance: Complex systems and the infrastructures of dissent.”

Ted Coopman & Clifford Tatum, “Resistance for the rest of us: Apple, file sharing, and the transversal paradox.”

Taso Lagos, “Parallel societies: The emerging microsized online public sphere and its ramifications in emerging politically deliberative bodies,” panel.

Clifford Tatum, “Vancouver Chinatown: Spatiality online and offline.”

~ Campus Compact: Continuums of Service, Portland, OR, Spring 2005:
Verena Hess, “Social responsibility in practice: Building bridges in the academy.”

~ Critical Themes in Media Studies, New York, Oct. 2004:
D. Travers Scott, “New-media news medium: The blogosphere transcodes gatekeeping.”

~ Digital Games Research Association, Vancouver, Canada, June 2005:
Avery Alix, “Warriors, narrators, strategists and interactors: Quantitative gamer archetypes.”

~ Georgetown Linguistic Society, Washington, DC, Feb. 2005:
Andrea Hickerson, “Medya TV and the mediation of the Kurdish language.”

~ International Communication Association (ICA), New York, May 2005:
Giorgia Aiello, “‘Talking back’ as a strategy in identity formation: The European Union vs. the U.S. on issues of (audio)visual representation.”

Fiona Clark & Katherine Hall, “Content analysis as a public health research tool,” poster.

Irina Gendelman, “Communication and broken windows: Graffiti debates.”

Sue Lockett John, “Myth and newspaper competition: When story-bearers are the story,” Journalism Studies Division top student paper.

Tema Milstein, “Questioning the discourse: A critical exploration of the interplay of dominant and resistant messages about animals at the zoo.”

Leah Sprain, “‘The process--it’s where the magic is’: Group process and ideological commitment in Conversation Café.”

Nancy Van Leuven, “Women and the news,” panel chair.

Jun Young (with Kirsten Foot), “E-cruiting: Construction of work in Fortune 500 recruiting websites.”

~ Media in Transition, Cambridge, MA, May 2005:
D. Travers Scott, “Tempests of the blogosphere: Presidential campaign stories that failed to ignite mainstream media.”

~ Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research, Chicago, Nov. 2004:
Sue Lockett John (with Patricia Moy), “Framing competition: How Seattle newspapers report the story of their lives.”

Edith Manosevitch, “Argument repertoire and political efficacy: Exploring measures in youth discourse of issues.”

~ National Communication Association (NCA), Chicago, Nov. 2004:
Giorgia Aiello, Irina Gendelman & Tema Milstein, “Public space, cyberspace and culture: A critical conversation about experiences of space and technology.”

Whitney Anspach (with Kevin Coe & Crispin Thurlow), “‘The other closet?’: Atheists, homosexuals, and lateral appropriation.”

Deborah Bassett, “Living with terrorism in Israel: An ethnography of how Israelis construct reality and cope with terror.”

Laura Black (with John Gastil), “Teaching the ropes through spinning a yarn: A structurational analysis of organizational narrative in newcomer socialization.”

Ted Coopman, “Radio is my bomb: Anarchism, American free radio, and a new approach to old media”; “So long and thanks for the digital infrastructure: Porting resistance to globalization.”

Verena Hess, “The professional development series in a national perspective,” panel.

Sara Kennedy, “Framed behavior: Building a reality of male-female interaction through ‘Dear Abby.’”

Danielle Endres, “The new rhetoric and the epideictic”; “The rhetoric of political comedy,” panel.

Leah Sprain, “Communication and commitment in small groups.”

~ National Communication Association (NCA) Doctoral Honors, Albuquerque, July 2004:
Danielle Endres, “‘Now they want to dump nuclear waste on native lands’: Geographic, sovereign and cultural borders in the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste controversy.”

~Playing the Past: Nostalgia in Video Games and Electronic Literature, Gainesville, FL, March 2005:
Avery Alix, “Sweat for play? EA and global labor.”

~ Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, San Diego, March 2005:
Nancy Van Leuven, “Beyond the red and blue: Colorful language in today’s tribal casinos”; “Rear view mirror: Tribal casinos as cultural dreamcatchers.”

~ Quebec in Question: UW Canadian Studies Center, Seattle, March 2005:
Clifford Tatum, “Montreal Chinatown: A case study of web-based civic engagement,” conference co-chair.

~ Society for Technical Communication, Seattle, May 2005:
Katherine Hall, “Fear and humor in risk communication”; “Communicating risk: Overcoming apathy, denial, and other barriers,” panel chair; “Careers in environmental technical communication,” panel.

~ Western Social Science Association (WSSA), Albuquerque, April 2005:
Natalie Debray, “I remember France: Media, collective memory, and nation-building in post-quiet revolution Quebec.”

~ Western States Communication Association (WSCA), San Francisco, Feb. 2005:
Meredith Bagley, “Consensus and currency: Using performatative traditions to reform science.”

Tony Docan (with S. Podshadley), “Issues of infidelity: Physical, emotional, and communicative acts of cheating in romantic relationships.”

Tema Milstein (with Valerie Manusov), “Opposition in Israeli media: Reflections of diverse cultural identities in coverage of the Rabin-Arafat handshake.”

Sara Morgan, “Adjuncts, part-timers, and provisional faculty: Negotiating in the third professional space,” panel.

D. Travers Scott, “The shifting alternative-mainstream dialectic in U.S. journalism: Fox news channel.”

Clifford Tatum, “Google bombs: Power at play on the internet, the question of epistemology online.”

~ What is space and what does it say?: UW Art History’s Graduate Symposium for the Humanities, 2005:
Irina Gendelman, “Archiving Seattle,” poster.