Psychology and Public Opinion Section (PPO) of the IAMCR

Conferences

IAMCR Mediated Communication, Public Opinion and Society Section (MC)
(21 July – 24 July, 2009)

Section: Mediated Communication, Public Opinion and Society Section

Session 1: “The Internet and its uses for political and social action”

Date: July 21 Time: 1415-1545 Room: Cele 1

Chair and Discussant: Friedrich Krotz

Ghodsi Bayat (Iran): Internet Filtering in Iran: Communication Expert’s Opinion

Claudia Alicia Lerma Noriega (Mexico): Promotiom of Web 2.0 on the portals of the Mexican media networks

Lu Chen (Hong Kong): Internaet and empowerment

Yunbo Chen (Hong Kong): How the ICT empower Lower-class people in China

Qian (Sara) Gong (UK): The Internet mediated political discussion in China:
The process of online discussion of self tax declaration in Qiangguo forum

Session 2: “Media effects on the individual” Date: July 21 time: 1615-1800 Room: Cele 1

Chair and Discussant: Hillel Nossek

Anabela Gradim (Portugal): Don’t feed the models: Ana’s blog and the limits of public communication

Rashidat adeyinka Hassan (Nigeria): Evaluation of the indigenous content of cartoon programs on
Nigerian television station and its likely effect on the Nigerian child

Aiko Mukaida and Tetsuro Kobayashi (Japan): Mobile phone use by children and its effect on children:
A comparative study in Japan, Korea, China, India and Mexico.

Nilloofar Niknam (Iran): We need to be informed: The Meaning and Functions of Mobile Phones
in the Everyday Lives of Youth in Teheran

Session 3: “Mass media and public opinion” Date: July 22 Time: 0900-1045 Room: Cele 1

Chair and Discussant: Friedrich Krotz

Neeraj Khattri (India): An Analytical study of public opinion regarding infotainment format of television programs
among youth in a developing countries with special reference of India

June Woong Rhee (South Korea): Transformation of visibility and its impact on making publics in Korea

Yie-Jing Yang (Taiwan): Concepts of public opinion and public subjectivity: from the point of view of the lay people

Susan Guand YANG (Hong Kong): Need for cognition moderates media agenda-setting effect on Individuals:
Accessibility Effect and applicability effect

Ya-Chi Chen (UK): From Germs to ghosts – the political naming of an epidemic

Leonardas Rinkevicius (Lithuania): Bridging the global and the local villages: Climate change risk perceptions and
mass media discourse configurations in Lithuania

Session 4: “Theoretical questions in mediated communication research”

Date: July 22 Time: 1415-1545 Room: Cele 1

Chair and Discussant: Irene Neverla

Irene Neverla (Germany): Doing time -urgently wanted. The role of time and timing in mediated communication

Marc Briziarelli (USA): A Historical and sociological account of Hegemony generation and exercise:
A Gramcian reading of Habermas’ structural transformation of the public sphere

Friedrich Krotz (Germany): McLuhan, Medium Theory and the Mediatization approach: a conceptual discussion.

Hanna Adoni & Hillel Nossek (Israel): The Literary Divide: Reading books and the integration of social groups

Tanja Thomas, (Germany): Critique and Critical Communication Studies in media cultures

Session 5: “Media social effects” Date: July 22 Time: 1615-1800 Room: Cele 1

Chair and Discussant: Roland Perez

       Viviana Uriona (Germany): Local independent radio and New Social Movements.

         Mehita Iqani (UK): The mechanics of gloss: commodities, celebrities and the aesthetic operations of
         promotional discourse in consumer magazine covers

Ignacio Bergillos Garcia (Spain): Inviting Audience Tele-participation: the Spanish Case

Yowei Kang (USA): Hybrid interactive rhetorical engagement in massively multiplayer online role-playing games
(MMORPGS): examining the role of thrtors and audiences in the generative rhetorical discourses

Roland Perez (Costa Rica): Internet Divide? A contextual, Attitudinal and motivational dimensions of Internet use among
Costa Rican adolescents

Session 6: “Responsabilidad de los Medios en la sociedad (in Spanish)

Date: July 23 Time: 0900-1045 Room: Cele 1

Chair and Discussant: Friedrich Krotz

Tanius Karam (Mexico): Formas en el discurso periodistico sobre derechos humanos. Isotopias y disensos.

Claudia Garcia Rubio, (Mexico): Los derechos del televidente en México.

Julián Andrés Burgos Suárez (Colombia): Visibilidad ciudadana y derecho a la información. El caso de las
agendas mediáticas, públicas y ciudadanas en Manizales.

Susana Gonzalez Reyna (Mexico): El Periódico como actor político que media entre los acontecimientos de la
realidad social y el publico lector.

Martha Elizabeth Alvarez González (Mexico): La prensa regional como formadora de la opinión pública con miras
a las elecciones federales del 2 de julio de 2006

Session 8: “New Technologies and the effect of different uses”

Date: July 23 Time: 1615-1800 Room: Cele 1

Chair and Discussant: Oliver Hahn

Chritina Schumann, Sven Jockel & Jens Wolling (Germany): virtual gaming communities and civic values:
An intercultural exploration of relationships between online gaming and civic values

Lee Ha Ha (Korea): A study of news characteristics of portal media news in South Korea, focusing on a comparison
of preferred news types, such as the most often clicked on, replied to and scrapped

Ali Murat Vural (Turkey): The Paradox of Trust: Can mass media resolve the issue?

Scott Timcke(Canada): Filling the gaps: memory and archives in communication studies

Oliver Hahn & Ibrahim Saleh (Germany & Egypt): Mass mediated diplomacy: The dilemma of Logo Theory

Session 9: “Media and Society” (French and Spanish Panel)

Date: July 24 Time: 0900-1045 Room: Cele 1

Chair and Discussant: Friedrich Krotz

Quentin Delavictoire (Canada): Démocratie représentative et démocratie participative : une interrogation sur la place
de la parole citoyenne sur Internet.

Ines Trabelsi (Tunisia): The Role of Permission on youth attitude toward Mobile Advertising: An exploratory study

Nallely Salgado Ruiz (Mexico): Desviación social y pacto de solidaridad: la visibilidad del movimiento francés
de personas incapacitadas, “Ni pauvres ni soumis”.

Sebastián Sánchez Castillo, (Espana): En busca de nuevas formas simbólicas mediáticas, identitarias y culturales en
le panteísmo televisivo.

Joao José Azevedo Curvello (Brasil): La relación entre los medios de communicación, el Estado,
la sociedad civil y los siudadanos en Brasil: un estudio de caso.

Session 10: “Media portrayal of social groups” Date: July 24 Time: 1415-1545 Room: Cele 1

Chair and Discussant: Hillel Nossek

Andra Seceleanu (Romania): Stereo tips on minorities in Romanian press: between ethics, editorial policy and justice
the case of president Traian Basescu

Aydogom Filiz (Turkey): Turkish media interpretation of freedom of speech

Fang Fang, Lei Wen& Sha Yang (China): Media Investigation in district of Shanghai, China

Session 11: “Media and human rights” Date: July 24 Time: 1615 - 1800 Room: Cele 1

Chair and Discussant: Rosa Cabecinhas

Noam Schimmel (UK): Communicating Radical evil: The challenge of reporting on genocide to an indifferent public
by an indifferent media

Rosa Cabecinhas (Portugal): Representation of world history and humane rights: a cross national study

Jemaiyo Chabeda (South Africa): The 2009 Kenya communications act and the role of the media in Kenya
in breaching human rights during the 2008 post election violence

Trajeet Sabharwal (India): Human rights: a selective right?

C.S.H.N.Murthy (India): Human rights and the electronic media in India post 1991 .

Session 12: “Medias y problemas sociales” (Spanish)

Date: July 24 Time: 1615 - 1800 Room: DGSCA 1

Chair and Discussant: Friedrich Krotz

María Gabriela Flores Chávez, Erika Sánchez Díaz, Ernesto Cisneros & Alejandro Gutiérrez Lizardi (Mexico):
La estigmatización como problema para el desarrollo de los medios de comunicación en lenguas indígenas.

Carlos Muniz, Jaqueline Casanova & Javier Serrano (Mexico): Estudio de las relaciones entre el consumo
de medios de comunicación y los prejuicios, estereotipos y emociones hacia indígenas mexicanos.

Leandro Peñaranda C. (Colombia): De marihuaneros a mafiosos: La construcción periodística del problema droga
en Colombia antes de las “guerras contra el narcotráfico”

Marta Martín Llaguno, Cristina Guirao, Mari Sol Campillo &Dolores Frutos (Espana): La construcción social
del problema del conflicto familiar y laboral. Un análisis de agenda research

Carlos Manuel Herrera Loayza (Mexico): El Ciberactivismo pro derechos humanos en portales LGBT de América Latina.

Pedro Cerruti (Argentina): Violencia y medios de comunicación. La legitimación del abuso de poder como reacción
frente al crimen en México

Mediated Communication, Public Opinion and Society (MCPOS)
(21 July – 25 July, 2008)
Co- Chairs:
Friedrich Krotz, University of Erfurt, Germany (e-mail: Friedrich.Krotz@uni-erfurt.de)
Hillel Nossek, College of Management Academic Studies, Israel (e-mail: hnossek@colman.ac.il)

Panel 1 (slot 7) 22.7.2008 1745-1900 Room: D289

Mediatization
Chair and Respondent: Friedrich Krotz

Presenters:
Knut Lundby, University of Oslo, Norway: "Questioning the 'media logic' of mediatization processes"
Stig Hjarvard, University of Copenhagen, Denmark: "Mediatization - An Institutional Approach"
Tom Moring and Juri Mykkänen, University of Helsinki, Finland: "Mediatization of politics - a reality check"
Toril Aalberg and Ann Iren Jamtøy, NTNU, Norway: "Mediatisation of politics. The audience's assessment"

Panel 2 (slot 8) 23.7.08 1400-1530 Room: D289

News and Information
Chair and Respondent: Hillel Nossek

Presenters:
Jacques Alkalai Wainberg, Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil:Terrorism, Islamic fundamentalism and the Brazilian social imaginary.

Eun Kyung Na (Korea Press Foundation, Korea), Hyun Joo Song (Hallym University, Korea),Hyun Suk Kim (Seoul National University, Korea) and June Woong Rhee (Seoul National University, Korea): News Framing Effects on Discrete Emotional Responses.

Lea Mandelzis, Sapir Academic College, Israel and Muli Peleg, Netanya College, Israel: From Standstill to High Thrill: Media Manipulation between the Lebanon War and the Iranian Bomb

Yi-Ning Katherine Chen, National Chengchi University, Taiwan: The Relationship between how we watch Television News and What we get: From Agenda Setting and Uses & Gratifications Perspectives.

Sara Pereira, Paula Cristina Martins and Rui Ramos, University of Minho, Portugal: Media Representations of Children – Elements of Analysis.

Panel 3 (slot 9) 24.7.2008 1430-1730 Room: D289

Digital Media: Mobile phone and new forms of the Public Sphere

Chair and Respondent: Friedrich Krotz

Presenters:
Vikanda Pornsakulvanich and Nuchada Dumrongsiri, Assumption University, Thailand: Cultural influences on Mobile Phone Use and Satisfaction..
Iren Schulz, University of Erfurt, Germany: Adolescent Networks and Mobile Communication as a Strategic Ritual of Participation.
Yuval Karniel, Amit Lavie Dinur,The Interdisciplinary Center, Israel, Susanna Priest, University of Las Vegas, U.S., Doron Friedman, The Interdisciplinary Center, Israel, and Lawrence Mullen University of Las Vegas, U.S.:
Virtual Worlds as Public Sphere (Second life)
Hanyun Huang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong: Instant Messenger Addiction among Teenagers: Shyness, Alienation and Academic Performance Decrements.
Ven-hwei Lo, National Chengchi University, Taiwan, Ran Wei, University of South Carolina, US: Is Medium the Message in Pornography? Comparing the Third-person Effects of Internet Pornography with Pornography in Traditional Media.

Panel 4 (slot 10) 24.7.2008 1600-1730 Room: D289

Methodology (and Business Session)

Chairs and Respondents: Hillel Nossek and Friedrich Krotz

Presenters:
Claudia Padovani, DSSP University of Padova, Italy and Elena Pavan, DSRS University of Trento, Italy: “In-formation” Discursive Practices. Mapping Global Communication Governance Through Network Approaches.
Yevgeny Kozhemyakin, Belgorod State University, Russian Federation: Modern Discourse Studies: Back to Foucault.

Liselot Hudders, Ghent University, Belgium: Keeping up with the Beckhams: Luxury Advertising as a Means to Communicate Values to consumers.

Panel 5 (slot 11) 24.7.2008 1745-1900 Room: D289

Conditions and Consequences of Media Use

Chair and Respondent: Friedrich Krotz

Presenters:
Ferran Casas, University of Girona, Spain: Adolescents Audiovisual Media Use, Their Family Activities and Their Personal Well-being.
Pei Si Peggy Chua, Weirong Lin, Kongyong Ng, and Benjamin Hill Detenber, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore: The Third Person Perception: A self-categorization Explanation.
Friedman, Doron, The Interdisciplinary Center, Israel: Social Influence and Persuasion in Virtual Worlds
Peter Petrov and Cecilia von Feilitzen: Media, Power Discourses(s) and Social Structure
Wei-wen Chung, National Chengi University, Taiwan: Bringing the Body Back in: An Embodied View of Human-media Interaction.

Panel 6 (slot 12a) 25.7.2008 0900-1030 Room: D289

Media Effects

Chair and Respondent: Hillel Nossek
Presenters:
Knut De Swert and Volkan Uce, University of Antwerp, Belgium: The Effects of Language Choice and the Role of Ethnocentricity: An Experiment About the Effects of News Source Language on Audience Opinions.
Harold Miesen, Tilburg University, Netherlands: The effect of Crisis Type and Response on Corporate Reputation: The Moderating Influence of Personal Self-monitoring.
Yuying Dong and Luzhou Li, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong: Opinion Expression in Online Discussion of Free Distribution of Condoms on College Campus in Mainland China: A Test of Spiral of Silence in Internet Environment.
Thomas Koch, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and Lutz Hofer, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands: At first sight or in the course of time? Development of Parasocial Relationships.

Ayse Cengiz and Bahar Eroglu Yalin, Istanbul University, Turkey: The Children’s Magazines as the “Life Coach” of the Turkish Children and as a Means of “Cultural Cognition” in Turkey.

Panel 7 (slot 12b) 25.7.2008 Room: E355

The Production of Normality on and by Television. A Foucauldian Perspective

Chair: Jan Pinseler, University of Lueneburg, Germany Respondent: Markus Stauff, University of Bochum, Germany
Presenters:
Eggo Mueller, Utrecht University, The Netherlands/University of Michigan, US: Class Display: Negotiating Social Differences in Reality TV’s “Swapping Shows”.
Sofie van Bauwel, University of Ghent, Belgium: The Real Trauma: Reality Television and the Gazing of Tragedies. A Reception Study.
Jan Pinseler, University of Lueneburg, Germany: Punitive Reality Television. The Live Broadcasting of Punishment

Tanja Thomas, University of Lueneburg, Germany: “Embody your optional!?”. Lifestyle and Recognition on Makeover Reality Shows.

Karin Knop, University of Munich, Germany: Body Image and Advertising: Normalism and Normativity of Body Ideals.

Panel 8 (slot 13a) 25.7.2008 1045-1200 Room: D289

Entertainment and Advertising

Chair and respondent: TBA

Presenters:

Miri Gal-Ezer and Maurices Awabdy, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel: What makes Arab-Israeli Middle Class Families Watch Syrian Ramadan Prime Time Series Bab Elhara?
Huan Wu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong: Similar Topic, Different Strategies: A Comparative Study on Therapeutic TV Talk Shows in US and China.
Lemi Baruh, Kadir Has University, Turkey: Beyond Social Curiosity? Mediated Voyeurism and Consumption of Reality Programming.
Dieter Grammens and Liselot Hudders, Ghent University, Belgium: Fatty Temptations or Healthy Recommendations? Parental Attitudes Towards the Influence of Food Advertising on Their Children.
Anabela Gradim, Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal: Better Not Spoken: Eros and Thanatos in Some European Forbidden Ads.

Panel 9 (slot 13b) 25.7.2008 1045-1200 Room: E355

Joint session with Journalism
Joint session:
17. Friday, 25 July
10:45 – 12:00 1hr15
Joint Session JRE/ PPO

Chair: TBA
Respondent: TBA

Presenters:

Chin-Chih Chiang, Shih Hsin University, Taipei, Taiwan: Exploring journalistic imaginations of audience through discursive psychology.
Francois Heinderyckx, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium: Audience reactions to TV news topics: An empirical study in Belgium.
Maria Madalena Oliveira, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal: Madeleine McCann: the greatest story of public opinion seduction.
Risto Kunelius, University Tampere, Finland, Elisabeth Eide, University of Oslo, Norway, Angela Phillips, Goldsmiths College, UK, Hillel Nossek, College of Management Academic Studies Tel-Aviv, Israel: Transnational journalistic fields? Tracking the local and global in professionalism.
Jonathan Mendilow, Rider University, USA: Cyberspace and the Dynamic of Identity Formation: A Tocquevillian Perspective.

Ece Karadogan Doruk, Istanbul University, Turkey: Media Discourse and Identity Perception about New Political Poli

Heads of Section:

Hillel Nossek
(College of Management Academic Studies, Tel-Aviv, Israel)
Mail: hnossek@colman.ac.il

Friedrich Krotz
(Department of Media and Communication, University of Erfurt, Germany)
Mail: Friedrich.Krotz@uni-erfurt.de