7th Annual Data|Media|Digital Graduate Symposium
Friday, April 11, 2025
Knight Library DREAM Lab
Schedule of Presentations
9:15a Arrival, morning coffee/pastries (& morning panel setup)
9:30a Opening Welcome from UO Faculty co-organizers: Courtney Cox (Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies), Maxwell Foxman (School of Journalism and Communications), and Colin Koopman (New Media and Culture + Philosophy)
9:35a-11:15a PANEL A: Media (Re-)Configurations
Presentations followed by 25-minute group Q&A
Moderator: Dr. Courtney Cox (Indigenous, Race, & Ethnic Studies)
Andy Wilson (SOJC), “Playfully Anachronistic and Historically Inauthentic? Understanding Player Resistance to Diverse Representation in Call of Duty: Vanguard”
Songyi Ahn (SOJC), “The Effectiveness of Weight-Inclusive Food Messages in ‘#whatieatinaday’ Videos in Mitigating Orthorexic Tendencies among Young Women: The Moderation of Mother’s Body-Related Influence”
Alexander Symonette (IRES), “Controversy, Conspiracy, and Cultural Authenticity in ‘the Age of Truth’”
Samira Baei (SOJC), “How Are Fully AI-Generated Short Films Reshaping Audience Expectations and the Definition of Cinema in the Emerging Age of Fully AI-Driven Storytelling?”
Ramtin Ranjpour (SOJC), “A Bridge for Seamless Connection: Artificial Intelligence for Accessible and Inclusive Communication in Augmented and Mixed Reality”
11:30a-12:30p FACULTY RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT
Dr. Hannah Waight, Department of Sociology
Dr. Stephanie Jones, Department of English
12:30-2:00p Lunch for presenters [on-campus location TBD]
(presenters for next panel return early to set up a/v)
2:00-3:20p PANEL B: (Re)-Configuring Data
Presentations followed by 20-minute group Q&A
Moderator: Dr. Colin Koopman (Philosophy + NMCC)
Asher Caplan (Philosophy), “Between Chatting and Doing: Linguistic Pragmatism, Artifactual Performance, and AI”
Abbas Bagwala (Philosophy), “Sapience in Large Language Models”
Havi Khurana (College of Education), “A Deep Dive into Oregon’s School Revenue and Expenditure Data: Unpacking Trends for Students in Special Education”
Gen Witter (English), “Drawing Data: Embodied Mediation and the Evolution of Data Visualization”
3:20-3:45p Coffee break with snacks (& final panel setup)
3:45-5:05p PANEL C: Social (Re-)Configurations
Presentations followed by 20-minute group Q&A
Moderator: Dr. Maxwell Foxman (SOJC)
Michaela Flaherty (SOJC), “Of course it is happening inside your head’: The effect of ambient academic film-themed study videos on academic performance”
Rajeev Ravisankar (SOJC), “Subjection of Labor or Emancipation From Work? Media Workers Respond to the Perils & Promises of AI”
Chailen August (IRES), “Exploring Tyler the Creator’s album Chromakopia and Black Identity Expression”
Bruce Yuan (SOJC), “Cryptocurrency as a Political Agenda: Evaluating Public Discourse on Trump’s Crypto Campaign during 2024 US Presidential Election from YouTube”