News
- August, 2009 ICR Director Rob Potter taught an Intensive Freshman Seminar in the ICR. The class, entitled "This is Your Brain on Media" allowed 12 incoming freshmen to explore topics associated with cognitive processing of media. Check out Potter's blog entries from IFS to see the great work his students accomplished.
- July 23, 2009 Dmitri Williams, Nicole Martins, Mia Consalvo, and James D. Ivory have published "The virtual census: representations of gender, race and age in video games" in the latest issue of the journal New Media & Society (Aug 2009; Vol. 11, No. 5, 815-834).
- July 23, 2009 Edward Castronova, Dmitri Williams, Cuihua Shen, Rabindra Ratan, Li Xiong, Yun Huang and Brian Keegan have published "As real as real? Macroeconomic behavior in a large-scale virtual world" in
the latest issue of journal New Media & Society (Aug 2009; Vol. 11, No. 5, 685-707).
- July 13, 2009 Andrew Weaver and Barbara Wilson have published “The Role of Graphic and Sanitized Violence in the Enjoyment of Television Dramas” in the latest issue of Human Communication Research (Volume 35, Issue 3).
- June 24, 2009 Robert Potter will be a Visiting Research Fellow at the Interactive Television Research Institute at Murdoch University in Perth, Western Australia for the 2009-2010 academic year.
- June 15, 2009 Congratulations to Dr. Satoko Kurita who successfully defended her doctoral dissertation entitled "Playing violent and non-violent video games: Physiological and emotional responses as a function of motivational activation." Dr. Kurita has begun work as a post doctoral researcher at Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan.
- May 19, 2009: Congratulations to Soyoung Bae who successfully defended her Master's Thesis entitled "The Effect of Viewer Involvement and Reviewer Expertise on Persuasiveness and Trustworthiness in Professionally-Generated vs. User-Generated Product Reviews.”
- April 2, 2009 Doctoral Candidate Satoko Kurita will present research entitled "Dimensions of Attention: Media structure, content, cognitive load & overload" at the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition conference in Kyoto, Japan July 26-30. Kurita's co-authors are Ya Gao, Annie Lang, & Sungkyoung Lee.
- April 1, 2009 Congratulations to Annie Lang who will be awarded the Steven H. Chaffee Career Productivity Award by the International Communication Association at their annual conference in May. The award "acknowledges sustained and coherent work on a well-focused communication problem central to the communication discipline."
- March 27, 2009 Congratulations to Sungkyoung Lee who accepted an offer for a post-doc position at Penn's Annenberg School for Communication at the Center of Excellence in Cancer Communication Research. The 2-year position will begin in August.
- February 27, 2009 Annie Lang, Sungkyoung Lee, and Rob Potter will give the T600 presentation entitled "Media & Magnets: Using fMRI to Investigate Message Processing." 12:30 in RTV 251.
- February 20, 2009 Betsi Grabe will give a research presentation entitled Image Bite Politics as part of the research Social Psychology Seminar Series @ 3:30 in Room 128 of PBS.
- February 9, 2009: Rob Potter will present research to the Indiana University Neuroimaging Group research entitled Brain Activation and Risk The Influence of Trait Motivation on ACC Activation during Choice and Consequence. It is work he co-authored with the ICR's Annie Lang along with Josh Brown, Adam Krawitz, and Rena Fukunaga of the Cognitive Control Lab in IU's Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences.
- February 5, 2009: Congratulations to Jim Cummings who successfully defended his Master's Thesis entitled "Smile and the Virtual World Smiles With You: Eletcromyographic Response to Avatar Facial Expressions." An extended abstract of the work was also accepted for presentation to the International Communication Association conference in Chicago.
