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

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

Experiential Learning through Community Engagement

Panelists: Pamela Dykes (Florida Southern
College), Vickie VanHurley (Florida Southern
College), Jobia Keys (University of Tampa),
Theresa MacNeil (University of Tampa), Cara
Mackie (Florida Southern College), Mike Trice
(Florida Southern College)

Chair: Cara Mackie (Florida Southern College)

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