FCA 2024 Convention Program: Communication and Community Engagement

Breakfast & Membership Meeting

All members are invited to join with their breakfast of choice to conduct the annual business meeting.

Artificial Intelligence and Communication: Helpful or Hurtful?

Alyssa Kauffman: Helping students trust their writing and self-efficacy...instead of relying on ChatGPT (Suny Suffolk)

Gary Carlin: The evolution of community engagement strategies in the context of advancements in Artificial Intelligence technologies (Lynn University)

Moderator: Alyssa Kauffman

Making Connections

Larissa Little: Community or coalition: How
trans non-binary people connect (University of
Maine)

Zaria Boutan: Childhood friendships and adult
romantic relationships (Louisiana State
University)

Sarah Smith-Frigerio: Exploring negative
parasocial relationships: A thematic analysis
of comments on the Idaho 4 murder case
(University of Tampa)

Moderator: Felicia Murphy

Communication and Social Media

Monica Ancu: Tweets in news stories: How
CNN.com and FoxNews.com sourced
presidential candidates’ tweets during the US
2016 and 202 presidential elections
(University of South Florida)

Katherinne Peralta: Why are GenerationZ
consumers using the new TikTok Shop
Feature? Consumers’ purchase decisions
within the beauty and personal care product
category (Florida State University)

Randall Fowler: Polysyndeton, social media,
and the presidency: Digital culture and
rhetorical style in the 2020 election (Abilene
Christian University)

Yuan Nan: From social media communication
to market success: The diffusion of knowledge
comics in China (University of Florida)

Moderator: TBD

Communication and Race

Wesley Johnson: Blue rage: The racial logic of
Blue Bloods (Valencia College)

Daria Zavodskaia: Strategic ambiguity of
“Black” Super Taus in White Russia (University
of South Florida)

Brian Munoz: A horse of a different color: A
content analysis on the intersection of
substance use and race in popular narrative
television programming (University of Central
Florida)

Moderator: Roy Samuelson

Lunch & Keynote Speaker

All members are invited to join us with their
lunch of choice while we hear from this year’s
keynote speaker, Jamie Wilson.

Student Poster Session

Danielle Boland: “We want to empower them
with a choice”: Managing tensions of healthy
eating within patterns of family (Rollins
College)

Noelani Segree: Few places to learn, few
spaces to talk: Reproductive health literacy
among Gen Z women (University of Tampa)

Moderator: Alyssa Kauffman

Community for Classroom Engagement

Cara Mackie: Experiential learning through
community engagement (Florida Southern
College)

Ed Kellerman: The best classroom exercise
ever in non-verbal artifactual communication
(University of Florida)

Shelby Forbes: “They don’t cause problems,
but I never hear from them”: Applying a theory
of change to foster classroom engagement
among East Asian international students
(University of North Carolina)

Moderator: Erin Christie

Health, Rights, and Personal Choice

Stefanie Davis Kempton: MissInformation:
Analyzing women’s reproductive health myths
and their impact on online communities
(Florida Gulf Coast University)

Shana Cooper: The rhetoric of personal choice
in the public sphere: The modern marijuana
movement in Florida

Moderator: Roy Samuelson

Organizational Communication

Pamela Dykes: From academia to the
academy: Studying organizational
communication from multiple perspectives
(Florida Southern College)

Elena Chudnovskaya: Organizational culture as
a tool of engagement in a virtual community
(Texas Tech University)

Shelby Forbes: Engaging internal and external
stakeholders to overcome organizational crises
(University of North Carolina)

Moderator: Ashley Johns

Professionalism and Community

Aimee Whiteside: A call for unity: Closing the
divide between the humanities and
professionalization (University of Tampa)

Iryna Savich: Building a corporate identity in
an institution of higher (University of Houston)

Moderator: Felicia Murphy

Closing Award Ceremony and Membership Meeting