Presentations and Publications

Academic Presentations

(Most papers and presentations are available upon request).

Janicke, S. H., Taylor, A., Raney, A. A. (November, 2016). Exploring viewer experiences with inspiring television shows and films. Paper to be presented at the annual meeting of National Communication Association, Philadelphia. Top paper panel, Mass Communication Division.

Raney, A. A., Janicke, S. H., Oliver, M. B., Dale, K. R., Jones, R. P., & Cox, D. (2016, November). Profiling the sources of and audiences for inspiring media content: A national survey. Paper to be presented at the annual meeting of National Communication Association, Philadelphia.

Dale, K. R., Raney, A. A., & Janicke, S. H. (2016, June). Mapping the anatomy of inspiration: Identifying and analyzing elicitors of self-transcendent emotions in media. Presentation given at the annual meeting of International Communication Association, Fukuoka, Japan.

Janicke, S.H. (2016, June). Exploring the “spirit” of Inspiring media. Presentation given at the annual meeting of International Communication Association, Fukuoka, Japan.

Possler, D. (2016, June). Examining video games’ power to inspire prosociality through self-transcendent emotions. Presentation given at the annual meeting of International Communication Association, Fukuoka, Japan.

Possler, D., Klimmt, C., & Raney, A. A. (2016, June). Inspirational video games: The impact of game-induced awe on appreciation and pro-social behavior. Presented at the ICA Game Studies Preconference in conjunction with the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Tokyo Japan.

Oliver, M. B., Ferchaud, A., Kim, K., Wang, R., Yang, F., Waddell, T. F., & Chen, T.-W. (2016, June). When we are the creators: Implications of user generation of inspiring media messages. Presentation given at the annual meeting of International Communication Association, Fukuoka, Japan.

Raney, A. A., Oliver, M. B., Janicke, S. H., & Dale, K. R. (2016, June). Uses and effects of inspiring media content: Developing a subfield of positive media psychology. Workshop directed at the annual meeting of International Communication Association, Fukuoka, Japan.

Raney, A. A. (2015, October). Reconstruction through disruption? Considering media’s capacity to inspire prosociality. Keynote presentation at 2015 International Forum on New Media, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and International Communication Association, Shanghai, China.