Name: Research Division - Top Research Presentations
Start: 2025-04-05T12:45:00-0700
End: 2025-04-05T13:45:00-0700

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Saturday April 5, 2025 12:45pm - 1:45pm PDT

W302

Moderator: Bridget Rubenking, University of Central Florida
Debut Paper Competition
Debut 1st Place Paper: Vlog Community Building for Social Support on YouTube: A Social Capital Perspective; Hyang-Sook Kim, Towson University; Heaseung Jeong, Inha University; Munyoung Chung, Wilkes University; Youjeong Kim, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Debut 2nd Place Paper: “You Are Not A Sin”: A Textual Analysis Of LGBTQ+ Experiences In Africa; Lilian Oluchukwu Onianwa
Open Paper Competition
Open 1st Place Paper: The Battle between Face-to-Face and Virtual Meetings: Who Wins in the Hybrid World?; Candace Saunders-Grewe, Regent University
Open 2nd Place Paper: Depiction of AI in the Film Ex Machina; Michael Sinclair, Regent University

Moderators

Bridget Rubenking

University of Central Florida

Speakers

Candace Saunders-Grewe

Ph.D. Candidate & Associate Faculty, Regent University | Mt. San Jacinto College

Candace Saunders-Grewe is a Ph.D. in Communication candidate at Regent University. Prior to studying at Regent, she obtained her B.A. in English from Radford University and M. A. in Communication from Johns Hopkins University. In addition to pursuing her doctoral degree, Candace currently... Read More →

Michael Sinclair

Chair, Dept. of Media and Visual Arts, Regent University

I am a television producer with 30 years of experience writing, directing, and producing television for various networks, including Discovery Channel, TLC, HGTV, OWN, Travel Channel, ID, MSNBC, National Geographic Channel, BET, PBS, and others. I teach film and television production... Read More →

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