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Faith, Fun, and Futuramas
3rd Annual Pre-APSA
Conference on Political Communication
Wednesday, September 1, 2004
Departments of Communication &
Political Science Political
Communication Division
University of Illinois, Chicago American
Political Science Association
Program
1:00
– 2:20 pm Faith Roundtable: The Hidden
Hand of Religion in American Politics
Rm B-102 Moderator: Andrew
Rojecki, University of Illinois, Chicago
Participants:
Sam Cherribi, Emory
University
John Corrigan, Florida
State University
Sam Fleischacker,
University of Illinois, Chicago
Philip
Goff, Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture, IUPUI
Paul J. Griffiths,
University of Illinois, Chicago
Pippa Norris, Harvard
University
Rm 1169 Fun Panel I: Youth and Humor
Chair: Kevin G.
Barnhurst, University of Illinois, Chicago
“Voters of the Future: How Today's Youngest
Citizens Will Change American Elections.”
Molly
Andolina, DePaul University and Krista Jenkins, Fairleigh Dickinson University
“Quips, Jokes, and
Power: Humor as Weapon in Presidential Campaigns.”
Michael A. Krasner, Queens College, City University of New York
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“The Daily Show and the Redefinition of
Political Journalism.”
Geoffrey Baym, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
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“Comedy
or News? Viewer Processing of Political News from ‘The Daily Show.’”
Ross Chanin and Diana
Mutz, University of Pennsylvania
Chair: Jerrold Rusk,
University of Illinois, Chicago
“e-Organization--The Role of Online
Organization in the 2004 Iowa Caucuses.”
C. Clayton Hull, Georgetown University
“The Real Lessons of Howard Dean.”
Matthew Hindman,
Princeton University
“What
They Did Online: Campaign e-mail in the 2004 Presidential Nominating Contest.”
Joongsik Kim and Michael
Margolis, University of Cincinnati
“Hyperlinking, Blogging, and
Fundraising.”
Andrew
Paul Williams and Lynda Lee Kaid, with Kaye D. Trammell, Justin Martin, and
Monica Postelnicu, University of Florida, Gainesville
2:30
– 3:50 pm Futurama Roundtable: Election
2008—What’s in the Cards?
Participants:
Dean Alger, Moorhead University
Scott Althaus,
University of Illinois, Urbana
Stephen Farnsworth, Mary
Washington College
Diana Owen, Georgetown
University
Thomas Patterson,
Harvard University
Michael Traugott,
University of Michigan
Chair: Paula Cobo,
University of Illinois, Chicago
“The Double-Edged Sword
of Anxiety in Campaign Advertisements.”
Ronald Holbrook, Ohio State University
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“Iowa 2004: A Touching
Campaign.”
Bob Boynton, University of Iowa
“Spotting
the Running Men: Political Advertising in the 2003 California Recall Election.”
Costas Panagopoulos, New
York University
Chair: Jennifer Diaz,
University of Illinois, Chicago
“Partisanship, Political Communication, and
Economic Voting in the 2000 Presidential Election.”
Erika Franklin Fowler and Stacey Pelika, University of Wisconsin, Madison
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“Trends in Voter Policy Preferences During
the 2000 Presidential Election and Issue Coverage in Media Content.”
Dannagal Goldthwaite Young and Kate Kenski, University of Pennsylvania
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Discussant: Patricia
Phalen, George Washington University
4:00 – 5:20 pm Fun Roundtable: Is He a Presidential Candidate, or Does He just Play One on
“The Letterman Show”: The Eroding Distinction Between News and Entertainment in
the 2004 Election
Participants:
Michael delli Carpini,
University of Pennsylvania
Bruce A. Williams,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Matthew Baum, University
of California, Los Angeles
Robert Entman, North
Carolina State University
Joseph Turow, University
of Pennsylvania
Rm 1169 Faith Panel: Religion and
Political Discourse
Chair:
Michael Vari, University of
Illinois, Chicago
“The
De-Europeanization of American Christianity.”
R. Stephen Warner, University of Illinois, Chicago
“Free
Market Theology: Christianity and Tax Policy.”
David
Madland, Georgetown University
“Gay
Marriage, Guns, and Butter: The Roots of Religious Cleavage in American
Politics.”
Pippa Norris, Harvard University, and Ronald Ingelhart, University of Michigan
Discussant: Laura R.
Olson, Clemson University
Rm 1171 Panel: Elections in Comparative Perspective
Chair: Holli A. Semetko,
Emory University
“Framing Election
Outcomes: Indicators from the Media, Politicians and the Public.”
Jacob
Shamir and Tamir Sheafer, Hebrew University, and Michal Shamir, Tel-Aviv University
“The Contingent Nature of Agenda-setting:
Different Agenda-Setting Dynamics in Election and Non-Election Times?”
Stefaan Walgrave and Peter Van Aelst, University of Antwerp
“Political Communication
and Party Development: The Case of Mexico.”
Yomara Guerra
Aguijosa, Georgetown University
“Political Campaigning in the
Enlarged Europe: Party Strategies in the June 2004 European Parliament
Elections.”
Sam Cherribi and Hubert Tworzecki, Emory
University
5:30 –
7:00 pm Reception
Dean’s Room