{"id":13010,"date":"2023-12-13T10:22:27","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T15:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/?p=13010"},"modified":"2023-12-18T09:06:01","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T14:06:01","slug":"fall-2023-faculty-publications-conferences-and-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/news\/2023\/12\/13\/fall-2023-faculty-publications-conferences-and-grants\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall 2023 Faculty Publications, Conferences, and Grants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Harrington faculty members have continued to conduct cutting-edge research that they have published, presented, or received awards for this semester. Here are some of the highlights from their work:<\/span><\/p>\n<hr>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8577\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8577\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8577 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2164\/Emily-Diamond-v8-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8577\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emily Diamond, assistant professor of communication studies and marine affairs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/meet\/emily-diamond\/\"><b>Emily Diamond<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, assistant professor of communication studies and marine affairs, presented results from &#8220;Framing the wind: Media coverage of offshore wind in the Northeastern U.S.,&#8221; a media content analysis of newspaper coverage of offshore wind in the Northeast. It was included in the Top Paper Panel for the Environmental Communication Division of the National Communication Association.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\nPresentations:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Diamond, Emily, Nikol Damato, David Bidwell, Tiffany Smythe. &#8220;Framing the wind: Media coverage of offshore wind in the Northeastern U.S.&#8221; Paper presented at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the National Communication Association (Top Paper panel), November 16-19, National Harbor, MD.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8578\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8578\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8578 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2164\/ReneeHobbs-v2-crop-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8578\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Renee Hobbs, professor of communication studies<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/meet\/renee-hobbs\/\"><b>Renee Hobbs<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, professor of communication studies, published an article regarding the use of media literacy training for law enforcement and how to develop these programs. She and her co-author, Anne Kringen, used the research to train 34 police trainers from the&nbsp; Austin Police Department. They presented their findings at the International Communication Association Conference in May.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Publications:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Training the Trainers in Media Literacy, Police Chief Magazine <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.policechiefmagazine.org\/training-the-trainers-in-media-literacy\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/www.policechiefmagazine.org\/training-the-trainers-in-media-literacy\/<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/mediaeducationlab.com\/sites\/default\/files\/Hobbs_Kringen%20-%20July%202023.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/mediaeducationlab.com\/sites\/default\/files\/Hobbs_Kringen%20-%20July%202023.pdf<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Presentations<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;Reframing the Uses of Video in Police Training: Media Literacy Education for Law Enforcement Officers&#8221; Renee Hobbs, U of Rhode Island, Anne Kringen, Austin Police Academy, Brienz Edwards, Austin Police Academy. Paper presentation at the 73rd annual International Communication Association Conference, Toronto, Canada, May 28, 2023.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11467\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11467\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11467 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2164\/ammina-khotari-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2164\/ammina-khotari-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2164\/ammina-khotari-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2164\/ammina-khotari-364x364.jpg 364w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2164\/ammina-khotari.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11467\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ammina Kothari, professor of journalism and director of the Harrington School<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/meet\/ammina-kothari\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Ammina Kothari<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, professor of journalism, recently published two papers, one focusing on the relationship between social media and attitudes about mental healthcare and another on approaches to multimodal storytelling.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She also presented multiple research papers at national and international conferences, with some focusing on perceptions of generative AI by news audiences and African journalists and the implications of integrating AI tools in newsrooms. Another co-authored project with <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/meet\/joon-kim\/\">Professor Joon Kyoung Kim<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> explored the impact of media representation of LGBTQ+ on heterosexual young adults&#8217; attitudes and behaviors towards people who identify as LGBTQ+.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Publications:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shackelford, L. <\/span><b>Kothari, A<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">., and Van Meenen, K. (2023). Gathering Stories: Creating Spaces for Young Women to Connect and Build Community through Multimodal Storytelling. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Social Science, 12(9), 481. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/socsci12090487\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/socsci12090487<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Godleski, S.A., <\/span><b>Kothari, A<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">., and Haraden, D. (2023). The impact of social media use on attitudes toward mental healthcare: The role of emotional connectedness and routine integration of social media. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Journal of Technology in Behavioral Science. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s41347-023-00337-y\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s41347-023-00337-y<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Presentations:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Kothari, A<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">., Orama, A*., Miller, R*., Peeks, M*., Bailey, R., and Alm, C. (2023). \u201cNews Consumption Helps Readers Identify Model-Generated News\u201d. IEEE Western New York Image and Signal Processing Workshop, Rochester, NY.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cruikshank, S., and <\/span><b>Kothari, A. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(2023). \u201cAfrican Journalists\u2019 Perceptions of Generative AI Use in Newsrooms\u201d. International Communication Association in AFRICA Conference, Cape Town, South Africa.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Kothari, A., <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cruikshank, S. (2023). \u201cAfrican Journalists and Social Media Use: How Editorial Policies and AI Knowledge Inform News Reporting\u201d. Future of Journalism Annual Conference, University of Cardiff, Wales, UK.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Kothari, A., <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Josiowicz, A. (2023). \u201cDiscourse on Artificial Intelligence in Latin America: A Netnography of Portuguese and Spanish Language Tweets\u201d. The inaugural International Netnography Conference, University of Salford, Manchester, UK.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Kothari, A<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. (2023). \u201cIlluminating Teen Voices Through Multimodal Storytelling\u201d. 11th International Digital Storytelling Conference, Maryland.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Kim, J. K., <b style=\"font-family: Charter, Georgia, serif;font-size: 20px\">Kothari, A<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">., and Godleski, S. (2023). \u201cRelationship between Media Representation of LGBTQ+ People and Heterosexual Young Adults&#8217; Attitudes and Behaviors towards LGBTQ+ People\u201d. International Communications Association (ICA) Conference, Toronto, Canada.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4441\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4441\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4441 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2164\/yan-ma-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Yan Ma\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2164\/yan-ma-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2164\/yan-ma-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2164\/yan-ma-364x364.jpg 364w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2164\/yan-ma-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2164\/yan-ma.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4441\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yan Ma, professor of library and information studies<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/meet\/yan-ma\/\"><b>Yan Ma<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, professor of library and information studies, recently had her paper &#8220;Paradigm Shift, Expansion, and Inclusion: Visual Literacy Research for the Field of Information&#8221; published in the larger collection <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Connecting &amp; Sharing: The Book of Selected Readings. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ma gave a presentation on the paper at the 10th Annual International Conference on Library and Information Science.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She was also invited to chair a special session of a conference and the Keynote Speaker Selection Committee at two conferences next year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Publications:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ma, Yan. (2023). Paradigm Shift, Expansion, and Inclusion: Visual Literacy Research for the Field of Information. In J. Lee, W. Huang, X. Chen, F. Rodrigues, L. Okan, S. Beene, C. Huilcapi-Collantes (Eds.), Connecting &amp; Sharing: The Book of Selected Readings 2023 (pp. 114-127). International Visual Literacy Association. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.52917\/ivlatbsr.2023.018\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.52917\/ivlatbsr.2023.018<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Presentations:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ma, Yan. (2023). Presented Online &#8220;Visual Literacy Research Spectrum: Paradigm Expansion for the Field of Information&#8221; 10th Annual International Conference on Library and Information Science as part of the 10th Annual International Conference on Social Sciences, Athens, Greece, 24-27 July 2023.&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ma, Yan. (2024). Invited to Chair the special session of &#8220;Visual Literacy and Global Media&#8221; at the 11th Annual International Conference on Library and Information Science, Athens, Greece, July 29 to August 1, 2024.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ma, Yan. (2023). Chair of the Keynote Speaker Selection Committee of the 2024 International Visual Literacy Association Conference, San Diego, CA, October 3-5, 2024.&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"Qr7Oae\" role=\"listitem\">\n<div class=\"OxAavc NVbRL\" data-required=\"true\" data-item-id=\"563137217\">\n<div class=\"xMZTse Ih4Dzb\">\n<div aria-describedby=\"c99\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p class=\"Mh5jwe JqSWld yqQS1\" aria-describedby=\"c99\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11606 \" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2164\/HSCM-Head-Shot-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"313\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/meet\/stephanie-west-puckett\/\">Stephanie West-Puckett<\/a><\/strong>, assistant professor of professional and public writing and director of first-year writing, published a paper and presented her research at a conference this year. Her article &#8220;Engaging Assessment Counterstories through a Cultural Rhetorics Framework&#8221; offers a set of practical and theoretical tools for writing teachers, program administrators, and campus assessment leaders to nurture and sustain human-centered ecologies of writing in the age of machine-assisted composing.<\/p>\n<p aria-describedby=\"c99\">At the Computers and Writing Conference, West-Puckett presented research about how three-dimensional thinking and modeling in both physical and digital forms can reorient writing assessment toward more relational, material, and embodied practices.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Publications:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">West-Puckett, Stephanie et al. (2023, September). Engaging Assessment Counterstories through a Cultural Rhetorics Framework. College Composition and Communication, 75.1, 186-203.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Presentations:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"cTDvob D1wxyf RjsPE\" role=\"heading\" aria-describedby=\"i.desc.1317115015 c106\">West-Puckett, Stephanie (2023, June). Unflattening Assessment: Three-dimensional Thinking, Modeling, and Mapping for Classrooms and Writing Programs. Presented at the Computers and Writing Conference in Davis, CA.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div role=\"heading\" aria-describedby=\"i.desc.1317115015 c106\">\n<hr>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For more information about this research or any other faculty research, check out our faculty profiles on the Harrington School website and keep an eye out for more research highlights.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harrington faculty members have continued to conduct cutting-edge research that they have published, presented, or received awards for this semester.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4952,"featured_media":13051,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-research-overview"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4952"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13010"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13105,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13010\/revisions\/13105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}