Senior Communication Studies major Lori Warren will present her capstone research project at the 82nd annual convention of the Western States Communication Association Convention in Monterey, Calif., Feb. 20. The paper is titled “Camp (and) Gaga: The Lady’s Hegemonic and Resistive Constructions of Sexuality and Gender.”

At the same conference, Julia Johnson, associate professor and chair of Communication Studies and a Feminist Studies affiliate, will perform “Embodiment and Motion” in honor of Christie Logan, professor emeritus of Communication Studies at CSU Northridge. She also will serve as a respondent for two panels, one titled “Gaga, Vixens, and Archetypal Masculinity: Mediated Identities and Evolving Representations in Popular Culture” and a second titled “From Ethnographic ‘Eyes’ to the Ethnographic ‘I’: Exploring Researcher Reflexivity in Critical Ethnographic Work.”

Bob Bednar, associate professor of communication studies, presented a paper titled “Materializing Memory: Space, Memory, and Transference at Roadside Car Crash Shrines” at the International Contained Memory Conference at the Te Papa Tongarewa National Museum of New Zealand in Wellington, New Zealand, on Dec. 10, 2010.

Davi Johnson Thornton, assistant professor of communication studies, has the lead article in the October issue of the journal Critical Studies in Media Communication. Her article is titled: “Race, Risk, and Pathology in Psychiatric Culture: Disease Awareness Campaigns as Governmental Rhetoric.”

Communication studies major Lili McEntire presented her paper titled “Lol Mom and Dad, Who’s txting now: Remedying Middle-Aged Resistance to Text Messaging through Advertising” at the Southern States Communication Association Conference in Memphis April 7-11.