SASSI 2020 Virtual Program
Society for the Academic Study of Social Imagery
The Image of IMPACT in Literature, Media, and Society
The ordering below is from original program draft before COVID-19 cancelations began.
Understandably, not all from the original program provided materials for the virtual
conference. Hyperlinked prompts or titles below take you to item submitted. NOTE: Some individuals submitted multiple items (e.g. paper, PowerPoint, audio/video);
in those cases, look for multiple hyperlinks per participant (e.g. title, name, institution). In a couple cases, documents were submitted on behalf
of a roundtable or panel discussion; in those instances the hyperlink(s) are in the
panel descriptions, etc. For ease of navigation, each link opens a new target window.
Session 1
SASSI Student Showcase (UNC Undergraduate Panels)
1.A Resilience Via Impact: The Six Core Powers of Strong & Resilient People
Chair: Sherilyn Marrow, University of Northern Colorado
Co-Presenters: Summer Preston, Betty Brown (Alum, UNC)
Student Participants:
Jonathan Warner
Chris Martinez
Steven Maas
Mikayla Miller
Aishat Akolade
Megan Case
Chase Campbell
1.B Television as Text: Rhetorical Analyses of Popular Shows
Using methodologies outlined in Sellnow’s The Rhetorical Power of Popular Culture, students apply prominent rhetorical theories to television programs or genres.
Chair: Thomas Endres, University of Northern Colorado (Intro Comments)
Student Participants:
Jamison A. Will (PowerPoint, Outline)
Sarina Chhabra (Slides[compressed], Outline, Audio)
Caitlin Stoddard (PowerPoint, Outline)
Cayla Ansay
Patrick Jones
Morgan King
Session 2
2.A Data (Mis) Visualization and its Impact on Academic Advancement and Public
Understanding
Chair: Nicole Webber, Business and Communication Liaison Librarian
Panelists:
Dale Edwards, Program Coordinator & Professor of Journalism & Media Studies
Rob Reinsvold, Professor of Biological Sciences, Coord. Seconday Ed. Program
Maggie Shawcross, Asst. Prof. & Health Sciences Librarian
Crystal Jingyning Zhen, Graduate student, Digital Media (UNC) and Computer Graphics
(Shandong Normal University)
2.B Exploring The Impact of Dance, Music, and Art
Participants:
Fenella Kennedy, University of Alabama
Un-Bracing for Impact: Softening Violence in Popular Contemporary Dance
Svana Martin, Western Nevada College
The Impact of Literacy on Hawaiian Musical Development, 1820-1870
Rey-Lynn Little, University of Colorado Boulder
Signs in International Media: The Image of the Journalism in Anime
Session 3
3.A Houston, We Have Elocution – and Deeper Space Solutions: The Impact of Scientific
Imagination
Chair: Lin Allen, University of Northern Colorado
Participants:
Lin Allen, Professor of Communication Studies
Scott Franklin, Professor of Biological Sciences
Katie-Leigh V. Corder, UNC Creative Content Producer (in abstentia)
3.B Perspectives on Societal Behaviors and Relationships
Participants:
Elizabeth Potter, University of Colorado Boulder
How Do Law Enforcement Social Media Posts Impact Journalistic Authority?
John Umland, University of Nebraska Kearney
Black Friday – A Tribute to Edward Bernays
Frederick D. Watson, Metro State University
The Impact of the Civil Rights Movement on Race Relations in the United States
Session 4
4.A What We Have in COMMon: Snapshots from UNC’s School of Communication
Presenters:
Lin Allen and Dale Edwards, Professors of COMM, JMS (respectively)
Cross-References: Impactive Memorial Legacy in American Legion v AHA
Charles Soukup, Professor of Communication Studies
The Image of Artificial Intelligence: The Impact of Representations of Humanoid Robots
on Expectations of AI
Mikayla Miller and Jarae Fulton, COMM undergraduate & Senior Lecturer
The Impact of Anxiety on Students’ Educational Experience: Incorporating the Voice
of Students Who are Impacted
Heidi Muller, Associate Professor of Communication Studies
The Impact of the Everyday Rhythm of Choosing, Caretaking, Conversation, and Creativity
4.B Forays Into Mediated Mind and Models
Participants:
Andrey Reznikov, Black Hills State University
The Impact of the Mueller Report on the Public Opinion of the 45th President of the
United States
David Staton, University of Northern Colorado
Photographic Secrets: Getting to the “Truths” of Iconic Images
J. Brad McCauley, Front Range Community College
Burning Down the House: Propaganda on Social Media
David J. Paterno, RMIT University
Research Impact Assessment: Survey of a Developing Field
Session 5
5.A Storied Journeys
Participants:
Robert “Mac” Thompson, Butler Community College
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and a Response to Fascism
Ralph Buechler, University of Nevada Las Vegas
The Impact of History: Walter Kempowski’s Im Block
Hannah Agustin, University of Wisconsin Whitewater
In the Name of Religion: A Look Into Ritualistic Religious Performance in Marjane
Satrapi’s Persepolis
5.B Image and Aesthetics of Self and Place
Presenters:
Misbah ul Islam Khokhar, Nanjing University of the Arts
Impact of Contemporary Self-Image (Selfie) on New Aesthetics
Kathleen M. Ryan, University of Colorado Boulder
Datazone: Tracing Environmental Impacts
Derek Moscato, Western Washington University
Mediating Eco-Utopia: The Impact of News Media on Cascadia’s Aspirational Geography
Session 6
6.A Life, Literature, and Legacies
Participants:
Samuel J. Umland, University of Nebraska at Kearney
Impersonation, Dissimulation, and the Impact of Martin Guerre
Megan Gifford, University of Nebraska at Kearney
Of Moral Weakness and Redemption: The Impact of Malory on Tolkien
Rebecca Umland, University of Nebraska at Kearney
Reluctant Partings and Belated Homecomings: Tennyson’s Impact on the Cinema
6.B The Impact of Technology on Communication (SASSI Student Showcase)
UNC graduate students (MA, Communication) share and discuss perspectives on the ever
increasing role that technology plays in human message exchange.
Participants:
Lisa Ellert
Noah Christensen
Natalie Hanson
Micayla Lander
Amanda Meister
Index of Participants (names in bold provided materials for virtual conference)
Agustin, Hannah 5.A
Allen, Lin 1.B, 3.A, 4.A
Ansay, Cayla Registration, 1.B
Bhuju, Kriti 6.A
Buechler, Ralph 5.A.
Campbell, Chase 1.A
Case, Megan 1.A
Chhabra, Sarina 1.B
Christensen, Noah 6.A
Corder, Katie-Leigh V. 3.A
Edwards, Dale 2.A, 4.A
Ellert, Lisa 6.A
Endres, Thomas 1.B.
Franklin, Scott 3.A
Fulton, Jarae 4.A
Gifford, Megan 6.B
Hanson, Natalie 6.A
Jones, Patrick 1.B
Kaba, Ilker 6.A
Kennedy, Fenella 2.B
King, Morgan 1.B
Lander, Micayla 6.A
Little, Rey-Lynn 2.B
Maas, Steven 1.A
Marrow, Sherilyn 1.A
Martin, Svana 2.B
Martinez, Chris 1.A
McCauley, J. Brad 4.B
Meister, Amanda 6.A
Miller, Mikayla 1.A, 4.A
Moscato, Derek 5.B
Muller, Heidi 4.A
Niyonzima, Donatien 1.B
Paterno, David J. 1.A, 4.B
Potter, Elizabeth 3.B, 6.A
Preston, Summer 1.A
Reinsvold, Rob 2.A
Reznikov, Andrey 1.B, 4.B
Ryan, Kathleen 5.B.
Shawcross, Maggie 2.A
Soukup, Charles 3.B, 4.A
Staton, David 4.B
Stoddard, Caitlin 1.B
Thompson, Robert “Mac” 5.A
ul Islam Khokhar, Misbah 5.B.
Umland, John 3.B
Umland, Rebecca 6.B
Umland, Samuel 6.B
Warner, Jonathan 1.A
Watson, Frederick D. 3.B
Will, Jamison A. 1.B
Webber, Nicole 2.A, 6.A
Zhen, Crystal Jingyning 2.A
