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CIC Research & Creative Scholarship Symposium

The CIC Research & Creative Scholarship Symposium is an internal forum for CIC faculty and doctoral students to learn each other’s research and creative scholarship.

Archived Symposium Presentations

Agenda

Feb 23, 2024  |  1 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Davis 209

Section 1. CIC Research Update (11:00-11:10 a.m.)
CIC Research Update
Linwan Wu, Associate Dean for Research, College of Information and Communications

Section 2. Research Technology Demonstration (11:10-12:10 p.m.)

Methods A.I. : A Method of Experimenting with the A.I Algorithms Influencing how Students Think
Alamir Novin, Assistant Professor, School of Information Science

Coffee Break. (12:10-12:20 pm)

Section 3. Research/Creative Scholarship Presentations (12:20-1:30 pm)

12:20-12:40 p.m.
Creative Thinking for Everyone
Sabrina Habib, Associate Professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communications

12:40-1 p.m.
The Gamification of Health in Breast Cancer Communication: Narrative Games as Vehicles of Transportation
Adetutu Wande-Kayode, Ph.D. Student, School of Journalism and Mass Communications

1-1:20 p.m.
Who is a scientist? Gender and racial biases in Google Vision AI
Ehsan Mohammadi, Associate Professor, School of Information Science

Moderator
Valerie Vera, Ph.D. Student, School of Information Science

Section 4: Lunch & Chat (1:30-2 p.m.)

 

Section 1. CIC Research Update 

  • CIC Research Update
    Linwan Wu, Associate Dean for Research, College of Information and Communications

Section 2. Grant Experience Panel and Share 

  • Balancing Grant-Funding with Goals for Supporting Participatory Research
    Panelists
    Kim Thompson, Faculty, School of Information Science
    Feili Tu-Keefner, Faculty, School of Information Science
    b, Faculty, School of Information Science
    Eric Robinson, Faculty, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
    Moderator
    Linwan Wu, Faculty, School of Journalism and Mass Communications

Section 3. Research Presentations

  • Ensuring Equitable Access for Blind, Visually Impaired, and Print-Disabled (BVIPD) Students: Preliminary Review of Literature and Social Media Data
    Clayton Copeland, Faculty, School of Information Science
    Eric Robinson, Faculty, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
  • Cause-related Influencer Marketing: Are AI Influencers Up to This Job?
    Cindy Chen, Ph.D. Student, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
  • A Computer Vision Methodology to Predict Brand Personality from Image Features
    Taylor Wen, Faculty, School of Journalism and Mass Communications

Section 4: Lunch & Chat

Section 1. CIC Research Update

  • CIC Research Update
    Linwan Wu, Ass. Dean for Research, College of Information and Communications

Section 2. Grant Experience Panel and Share 

Interdisciplinary Funded Projects that Incorporate Communication

  • Panelists
    Margot Habets, Ph.D. Candidate in Geography
    Julie Salinas, M.A. Candidate in Ed. Psych & Research
    Amadi Sefah-Twerefour, Ph.D. Candidate in Marine Sciences
  • Moderator
    Brett Robertson, Faculty, School of Journalism and Mass Communications

Section 3. Research Presentations

  • Information Behaviors during Three Crisis Scenarios
    Mónica Colón-Aguirre, Faculty, School of Information Science
  • Cancer and COVID-19 Vaccines on Twitter: The Voice and Vaccine Attitude of Cancer Community
    Ali Zain, Ph.D. Candidate, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
  • Making a Cocoon: The Social Factors of Pandemic Misinformation Evaluation
    Yi Wan, Ph.D. Student, School of Information Science
  • Black Influencers: Interrogating the Racialization and Commodification of Digital Labor
    Wesley Stevens, Faculty, School of Journalism and Mass Communications

Section 4: Lunch & Chat

Section 1. Grant Experience Share

  • The Pros and Perils of Interdisciplinary Research and Grants
    Brooke McKeever, School of Journalism and Mass Communications

Section 2. Research Presentations

  • Anti-Intellectualism Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Dynamics of Anti-Fauci Discourse on Twitter
    Seihill Kim and Yingying Chen, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
  • Rural Queer Resistance and Social Media
    Jesselyn Dreeszen, School of Information Science
  • #IAmABlackMan: Using Instagram and Hashtag Activism to Culturally Project
    Candice Edrington and Tara Mortensen, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
  • “There’s Always a Way to Get Around the Guidelines”: Nonsuicidal Self-Injury and Content Moderation on Tiktok
    Valerie Vera, School of Information Science
  • The Excluded Black Male in School Libraries: How Embedded Librarians Can Assist with Combating the School-to-Prison Pipeline
    Kiera Vargas, School of Information Science

Section 3: Lunch & Talk

Section 1. Completed/In-Progress Projects 

  • Are Workers Autonomous? The Influence of Routines and the Development of Workarounds
    Darin Freeburg, School of Information Science
  • “Pick Up Arms and Fight”: Editorial Coverage of the 1970 Jackson State College Shootings -- A Qualitative Coding Analysis
    Dante Mozie, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
  • An Eye-Tracking Analysis of Negative and Positive Emotional Staff and Stock Photos in the News
    Tara Mortensen, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
  • Charter School Libraries Pilot Study
    Katie Klein, School of Information Science

Section 2. Research Ideas Exchange

  • Identifying Media Effects in Open-Ended Survey Responses about Political Candidates and Issues
    Jacob Long, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
  • Narrative Inquiry of Black Educators in South Carolina as they Experience Cultural Heritage Institutions
    Constance Caddell, School of Information Science
  • Comparisons of Social Justice Curriculum in LIS Programs
    Wendy Moore, School of Information Science

Section 3: Scholar-To-Scholar Session & Lunch

 

Questions or need more information?

Contact Linwan Wu (linwanwu@mailbox.sc.edu).


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