New Media Research at UMN Conference Schedule

Thursday – Sept 15
Walter Library – 4 th floor

5:00 – 6:00 Registration

5:30 – 6:45 Social and Poster Session (drinks and appetizers)

6:45 – 7:15 Welcome and Introduction

7:15 – 8:30 Panel on new media studies by department heads

Friday – Sept 16
Coffman Union – Mississippi Room, Room 303, Room 324

8:30 – 9:00 Registration and Coffee (Mississippi Room)

9:00 – 9:15 Welcome, Intro, Intentions (Mississippi Room)

9:15 – 10:30 Concurrent Panel Sessions 1 (Coffman Union Rooms 303 & 324)

1A – Coffman Union Room 303

Jisu Huh – “Feature-based and Perceived Credibility of Websites”

Lauren Curtright, Carla Johnson, Rachel Mordecai, & Maria Zavialova - “Literature, Liminality and the Internet - VG: Voices from the Gaps”

Sela Sar – “Congruity and Clutter Effects in Web Advertising”

Emily Lein, Larry An, Dana Farley, Glenn Hirsch, Cheryl Perry, Harry Lando, & Deb Hennrikus – “The RealU: An Online Smoking Prevention and Cessation Intervention for College Students”

1B – Coffman Union Room 324

James Druckman & Martin Kifer - "Congressional Candidate Use of the Internet”

Krista Kennedy – “Methodological Issues Relevant to the Study of Authorship in Wikipedia”

Justin Holmes – “Motivation, Media Choice, and Political Knowledge”

Itai Himelboim & Shawn Lavelle – “Applying Network Analysis to the “Network of Networks”

10:45 – 12:00 Concurrent Panel Sessions 2 (Coffman Union Rooms 303 & 324)

2A – Coffman Union Room 303

Anna M. Martinson – “Identifying Gender Ideology in Web Content: Debates about Feminism”

Heather Haberman, Brenda Hudson, & Paula Lenz – “Health Literacy Levels of an Online Support Group: A Pilot Study”

Mark McCahill & Bernadette Longo – “Writing and Learning Support in the Multi-user 3D Croquet Environment”

Dan Burk – “Law as a Network Standard”

2B – Coffman Union Room 324

Aimee Whiteside, Joan Hughes, & Scott McLeod – “Interconnecting Cognition, Contact, and Comprehension: The Influence of Social Presence in a Hybrid-Model Certificate Program”

Clancy Ratliff – “Where are the Women? Rhetoric and Gender on Weblogs”

George Anghelcev & John Wirtz – “The Role of Multi-Method Research Approaches in the Development of New Media Theory”

Brenda Hudson & Kevin Peterson – “electronic Primary Care Research Network (ePCRN)”

12:00 – 1:30 Lunch and Keynote by Lee Rainey – Pew (Mississippi Room)

1:30 – 3:30 Collaborative Research at the U (Mississippi Room)

3:30 – 4:00 Keeping the networking going (Mississippi Room)

Feedback sessions, plans in the works, and how to stay involved.