In lieu of sessions, accepted papers are available below in our version of an electronic conference proceedings.  Scheduled presenters will not be able to claim a conference presentation on their vita but, since the papers were refereed, this constitutes a juried electronic publication.  

 

The proceedings below follow the session structure of the original conference.  Only completed papers are available.  Look for blue highlighting to access .pdf versions of the papers. 

 

IMPORTANT: only those who have paid their conference fees will have their papers “published” in the proceedings.  For those who planned to register at the desk, please pay the conference registration to Arne G’Schwind at Regis (form available at http://www.unco.edu/RMCA/registration.htm).  Once a presenter is confirmed as paid, the link to their paper will be activated.

 

As much as we would like to simply post papers for free to those who have not registered, the sad truth is that RMCA’s financial existence rests solely on its membership and registration fees.  Fortunately, our dues are VERY inexpensive.  By comparison, fees at a similar regional conference held in March were $90.  Then, even though papers were eligible, there was an additional $40 charge to be published in the proceedings.  RMCA members get a great deal!  

2009 RMCA Conference Program

 University of Wyoming, Classroom Building, Saturday, April 18, 2009 (CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER)

 “Communication in a Time of Change”

 8:30-9:45 a.m.: Session I

 1.1—Room142—Life Changes and Changing Lives

 Chair: Beau Bingham, University of Wyoming

 The changing seasons: the season for change

            Katherine Hurley, University of Denver

 Virtually Balanced: Moving from Balance to Fusion

            Sarah Blithe, University of Colorado

 Divorce and Its Impact  on Cultural Beliefs of Marriage  in Young Adults

            Lea Littleford, University of Northern Colorado

 

 1.2—Room 103—Studies in Visual Communication

 Chair: Cary Berry-Smith, University of Wyoming

 Real world or not: A visual analysis of Second Life

            Alexie Jo Pitsch, University of Wyoming

 Sports Illustrated: Meaning of Images in Advertisements

            Kiley Tomassi:, University of Wyoming

 Digital Images and Memory

            Jennifer Dunn, University of Wyoming

  

1.3—Room 141—Explorations of Differences in Culture

 Chair: Frank Millar, University of Wyoming

 Exploring Dora: Whiteness and Othering in Dora the Explorer

            Courtney Yost, Colorado State University

 Chinese or global:  Analysis of the movie Red Cliff

            Jun Chen, University of Wyoming

 Between Hello, Welcome and Goodbye: An International Student Journey

            Nazmije Gjoci, University of Northern Colorado

  

1.4—Room 142—Mass Media:  Positive Self-help Guides or Positively Disastrous for One’s Self-esteem

 Chair: Kelly C. Scott, University of Northern Colorado

 The use of Ideological Criticism to examine the constructed image that popular Christian Literature promotes for women in contemporary society

            Jarae Fulton, University of Northern Colorado

 An exploration of the symbolic messaging presented in Brittney Spears lyrics and music video for her popular new song “Womanizer”

            Kelly C. Scott, University of Northern Colorado

 An examination of the false narrative of the women who are unable to find and keep a male companion.

            Melissa Donley, Community College of Denver

  

10:00-11:15 a.m.: Session II

 2.1—Room 118—Application of Alternative Frameworks

 Chair: Eileen Gilchrist, University of Wyoming

 The New Face of Dating:  An Application of Social Penetration and Uncertainty Reduction Theories to Explain Relational Development Online

            Liesel Sharabi, University of New Mexico

 A case study of the Rainforest Action Network to illustrate the power of alternative ideological frameworks on the environmental movement

            Kristen Owen, University of Wyoming 

Wizard Writers: An Analysis of Roland Barthes and Poststructural Theory

            Tonya Kron, Colorado State University

  

2.2—Room 141—Looking at the World of Sports Through Communication Studies

 Chair: Cindy Price, University of Wyoming

 Conversational Identities of Professional Coaches

            Irene Stein, Fielding Graduate University

 The Spectacle of the Native: The Domination and Commodification of Native Americans through Sports Mascots

            Amanda Purnell, Colorado State University

 

2.3—Room 103—Judicial Integrity:  The Rhetoric of Recusal in Caperton v. Massey

 Chair: Kelly Scott, University of Northern Colorado

 Participants:

             Lin Allen, University of Northern Colorado

            Kelly Scott, University of Northern Colorado

            Matthew Gale, University of Denver

 

2.4—Room 142—Embracing a learning-centered approach to education through service-learning: Meeting the changing needs of our students and society

 Chair: Sherry Messina Dewald, Red Rocks Community College

 Nurturing the Citizen Scholar in Public Speaking

            Gretchen Wheeler, Casper College

            Ryann Dubiel, University of Colorado Denver

 Engaging Students: A Sampling of Service-learning Assignments

            Ebba Stedillie, Casper College

  

11:30-12:15: Keynote Address

 Room 129

 Agenda Setting in a Time of Change

        Don Shaw, University of North Carolina

 

12:30-1:30 p.m.: Luncheon, Family Room—2nd Floor, Wyoming Union 

 

2:00-3:15 p.m.: Session III

 3.1—Room 118—Politics and the Media: From Agenda Setting to the Media’s Role in Campaigns

 Chair: George Gladney, University of Wyoming

 Politics and news media: A long relationship

            Mitzi Hettgar, University of Wyoming

 From Interest in the 2008 Presidential Election to Media Bias: Some Findings from a Survey of Students

            Charles Ingold, University of Northern Colorado 

Memo to the White House: Allocation of Agendas through the New York times, 1925-2005

            Thomas Terry, Idaho State University

 

 3.2—Room 142—Studies in Popular Culture—Radio, Television, Internet

 Chair: Gracie Lawson-Borders, University of Wyoming

 Desperate Housewives:  Now You Know its Colonial Discourse

            Beverly Natividad, University of Denver

 People’s Radio…For the Ghettos and the Varrio: Opening Ideographic Space in “Radio” through Hip-Hop

            Matt Plush, University of Wyoming

 Pentadic Analysis of Match.com

            Kelsey Hardin and Liesel Sharabi, University of New Mexico

  

3.3—Room 141—Examinations With a Cultural Focus

 Chair: Sandy Hsu, University of Wyoming

 Reported Speech as Performative: Culture, Identity, and Interpersonal Attitudes

            Jessica Robles, University of Colorado

 The Dilemma of May-December Love in Taiwan

            Yen-I Lee, University of Northern Colorado

 Applying metaphors of the Strict Father central model to the LDS Church

            Kellie Nelson, University of Wyoming

  

3.4—Room 103—Multi-channel Analysis of Political Discourse: Speeches, Newspapers, and Political Blogs

 Chair: Barbara J. Walkosz, University of Colorado Denver

 An Analysis of the Use of Invitational Rhetoric in Barack Obama’s The Audacity of Hope Speech

            Ryann Dubiel, University of Colorado Denver

 Bridging the ideological divide:  How new technologies unite and divide us, and what we can do about it

            Shannon Daut, University of Colorado Denver

Media and Politics: How Agenda Setting Led to Action during the 2008 Presidential Campaign

            Vanessa Delgado, University of Colorado Denver

3:30-4:45 p.m.: Session IV

 

 4.1—Room 142—Behavioral Studies in Communication

 Chair: Arne G’Schwind, Regis University

 Experience Inclusive Communication: A Framework for Consideration

            Heidi Muller, University of Northern Colorado

 Handling Nietzsche’s Two Men with Four Yellow Fingers: A Brief Attempt to Construct a Methodology by Dwelling with the Intuitive Man and the Rational Man

            Matt Plush, University of Wyoming

 You’re Supposed to Laugh: Predicted Outcome Values, Humor, and Likeability

            Peter Koprince, University of North Dakota

  

4.2—Room 141—Rhetorical Studies of Politics and Community

 Chair: Thomas Endres, University of Northern Colorado

 Obama’s inaugural speech interpreted through the five stages of speech preparation and compared to the ethos, logos and pathos of Abraham Lincoln  and Martin Luther King, Jr.

            Melissa Martin, University of Wyoming

 Collective rhetoric and the collective communication technique: Searching for a rhetoric of community.

            Mallorie Bruns, Colorado State University

 “Take It From a Gal Who Knows”:  The Rhetorical Roles of Sarah Palin’s 2008 Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Address

            Alyson Wallberg, Colorado State University

 

4.3—Room103—Barriers to Productive Interfaith Dialogue

 Chair: David Palmer, University of Northern Colorado

 “The Perfect Storm”: A Four Factor Model of Religious Anti-Pluralism

James A. Keaten, University of Northern Colorado

 Barriers to Productive Discourse in American Foreign Policy

David L. Palmer University of Northern Colorado

 

 4.4—Room 118— “The Times They Are a Changin'” (Dylan, 1964): How Community Colleges and Universities Change to Fit the Times

 Chair: Sherry Messina Dewald, Red Rocks Community College

 

Community Colleges Change With the Times

            Sherry Messina Dewald, Red Rocks Community College

            Tracey Mahoney, College of Southern Nevada

            Jay Sullivan, Red Rocks Community College

 

Casper College and the University of Wyoming:  Sustainability of a Successful Partnership

            Carol Tarantola, University of Wyoming/Casper College Center