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2006 Couch-Stone Preliminary Program

Thursday, February 9, 2006

7:00 – 9:00 pm
Couch-Stone Symposium Reception
Tate Rm. 139

Friday, February 10, 2006

8:00 – 9:30:
  2. Sex and Sexualities
  3. Tate Rm. 141
    Presider: Dennis D. Waskul
    dennis.waskul@mnsu.edu
    • Claiming the Bodies of Exotic Dancers: The Problematic Discourse of Commodification
      Carol Rambo, Sara Renιe Presley, Don Mynatt, Alison Cody, and Victoria Brown
      crambo@midsouth.rr.com
      University of Memphis
    • Queer as Family:  The Family Dynamics of a Gay and Lesbian Catholic Community
      Shawn M. Perkins
      smperki4@mail.usf.edu
      University of South Florida
    • Constructing the Sexual Body
      Rebecca F. Plante
      rplante@ithaca.edu
      Ithaca College
    • Owning Our Sexualities: The African-American Woman's Struggle with a Hypersexualized Media Image
      Angel Horton
      Horton_AD@yahoo.com
      Lynchburg College
  4. Technology and Mediated Interaction
  5. Tate Rm. 142
    Presider: Suzanne Kurth
    skurth@utk.edu
    • Symbolic (Dis)order: A Goffmanian Approach to the Online Pro-anorexia Community
      Jodie Allen
      jodietoniallen@hotmail.com
      Concordia University
    • Can You Hear Me Now? (Not) Good!
      Julie Wiest
      jwiest@utk.edu
      University of Tennessee
    • Serial Communication
      Thomas Hood
      tomhood@utk.edu
      University of Tennessee
    • This Sickness Isn't Me: How LiveJournal Authors Create a Coherent Self Through Writing About Their Cancer Experiences
      Jill Summers
      jsummers@willamette.edu
      Willamette University
  7. 9:45 – 11:15
  9. Gender and Symbolic Interaction
  10. Tate Rm. 141
    Presider: Michael Ramirez
    mramirez@uga.edu
    • Selling Gender: Marketing Modified Masculinity
      Sharla Alegria
      sharla_alegria@yahoo.com
      University of South Florida
    • Stay at Home, Let the Men Do the Work
      Helen M. Sanders
      sanders_h@students.lynchburg.edu
      Lynchburg College
    • Finding the Trail: An Exploration of College Women as Campus Leaders
      Jenna L. Covey
      jenna.covey@mnsu.edu
      Minnesota State University, Mankato  
    • How has the Experience of Women Working in Law Enforcement Changed Over Time?
      Nicole Byrd and Jennifer Hammersley
      byrd@lynchburg.edu
      Lynchburg College
  1. Culture, Games and Leisure
  2. Tate Rm. 142
    Presider: Patrick Williams
    subzon@uga.edu
    • The Power Elite in Massive Multiplayer Online Games
      Mark Silverman
      darkstar4.6@videotron.ca
      Concordia University
    • Male Miniature Gamers and Nerd Masculinity: The Construction of an Alternative Masculinity
      Heather Bostwick
      hlbostwi@sa.ncsu.edu
      North Carolina State University
    • Playing Life and Life Playing: The Impact of Character Talk and Interaction in Role-Playing Games
      Matt Lust
      lust_82@yahoo.com
      Southern Utah University
    • Playing Research: A Virtual Ethnography of the Game EverQuest
      Tim Rowlands
      timothy.rowlands@asu.edu
      Arizona State University

11:15 – 12:30
 Lunch on your own – downtown Athens

12:30 – 2:00

  1. Self and Society
  2. Tate Rm. 141
    Presider: Simon Gottschalk
    karma@unlv.nevada.edu
    • "My hair is more important than taking my vitals": Understanding Illness Management in the Social Context of both a Salon and Medical Center.
      Annie Wagganer
      awagganer@fmhi.usf.edu
      University of South Florida
    • Creating a Sexual Self: Intercontinental Comparisons and the Concept of Citizenship
      Rebecca Plante
      rplante@ithaca.edu
      Ithaca College
    • This is Not Me: Identity, Proliferation, and Stuff
      Leslie Wasson
      lesliewasson@usa.net
      Chapman University
    • The Chemical Self: Serotonin, Psyberspace, and Symbolic Interaction
      Simon Gottschalk
      karma@unlv.nevada.edu
      University of Nevada, Las Vegas
  3. New Empirical Studies
  4. Tate Rm. 142
    Presider: Angus Vail
    d_a_vail@hotmail.com
    • Understanding Female Delinquency Through the Eyes of Girls, Families, and Juvenile Justice
      Christine Edwards
      cededwards@yahoo.com
      University of Texas, Austin
    • An Uphill Battle: A Cultural Analysis of Gender in Mountain Biking
      Erin Winter
      erinwin@uga.edu
      University of Georgia
    • History Lost: The Fate of Preservation in Post-Katrina New Orleans
      Melinda J. Milligan
      melinda.milligan@sonoma.edu
      Sonoma State University
    • "Negotiating Credibility: An Exploration of the News Construction Process"
      Eve Hosley-Moore
      evie139@excite.com
      University of South Florida
    2:15 – 3:45
  1. Temporary Communities
  2. Tate Rm 141
    Presider: Robert Gardner
    rgardne@linfield.edu
    • The Contradiction *is* the Solution: Intentionally Temporary Communities
      Christopher Schmitt
      schmic01@student.ucr.edu
      University of California-Riverside
    • The Poetics of the Border: An Examination of the Borderland through Chicana Literary Space
      Teresa Hernandez
      th05@fsu.edu
      Florida State University
    • Recurrent Temporary Communities
      Robert Gardner
      rgardne@linfield.edu
      Linfield College
  3. What Do We Mean by the Concept 'Identity'?
  4. Tate Rm. 142
    Presider: Dan Miller
    Dan.Miller@notes.udayton.edu
    • Identity as Process: Activity and Function
      Scott Renshaw
      Scott.Renshaw@asu.edu
      Arizona State University
    • My Name Is...: Situated Identities in Interaction
      Matt Lust
      lust_82@yahoo.com
      Southern Utah University
    • Narratives and the Construction of Selves: Identity Work in the Post-Modern Era
      Donileen R. Loseke
      dloseke@cas.usf.edu
      University of South Florida
    • Locating Acts and Identity Work
      Dan E. Miller
      Dan.Miller@notes.udayton.edu
      University of Dayton

4:15 – 6:00:
Plenary Session : 2005 G. H. Mead and C. H. Cooley Award Winners
Sanford Hall 213
Presider: Patrick Williams
subzon@uga.edu

  • Consequential Definitional Processes
    Jennifer Dunn
    jldunn@siu.edu
    Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
  • Terrorism and the Mass Media
    David Altheide
    David.Altheide@asu.edu
    Arizona State University

6:30 – 9:00
 Couch-Stone Symposium Banquet
DePalma’s, 401 E. Broad Street

Saturday, February 11, 2006

8:00 – 9:15

  1. Issues of Interpretation
    Student Learning Center, Rm. 267
    Presider: Linda Grant
  2. lgrant@uga.edu
    • The Epistemology of Herbert Blumer
      Daniel Pasch
      dpasch@nd.edu
      University of Notre Dame
    • Emergent Qualitative Document Analysis
      David Altheide, Michael Coyle, Christopher Schneider
      David.Altheide@asu.edu
      Arizona State University
    • A Pedagogical Investigation of a Japanese Animation Fan Using Inductive, Narrative, and Ethnodramatic Analysis
      Brent Allison
      lothar@uga.edu
      University of Georgia
  3. Health Issues
  4. Student Learning Center, Rm. 268
    Presider: Leslie Wasson
  5. lesliewasson@usa.net
    • The Skinny on Weight Watchers Meetings: Weight Loss Practices and Coping with the Program
      Diana R. Torres
      torres.diana@gmail.com
      University of South Florida  
    • Doing Classifiction: The Mutual Tuning of Multiple Trajectories in AIDS Care
      Rebecca J. Culyba
      r-culyba@northwestern.edu
      Northwestern University
    • Understanding Eating Boundaries: A Study of Vegetarian and Meat-Eating Identities
      Susan Kremmel
      kremmel@mail.usf.edu
      University of South Florida
    • One Must Bend: Redefining the Self with Multiple Sclerosis
      Victoria Brown
      vybrown@memphis.edu
      University of Memphis
    6. 9:30 – 10:45
  1. Symbolic Interaction in Minnesota
  2. Student Learning Center, Rm. 267
    Presider: Ryan Chukuske
  3. ryan.chukuske@mnsu.edu
    • Creating a "Coalition of the Willing" with Military Families
      Hope Crenshaw
      hope.crenshaw@mnsu.edu
      Minnesota State University, Mankato
    • For Tobacco Use Only: Ethnographic Notes from a Head Shop
      Nik Proehl
      nikolas.proehl@mnsu.edu
      Minnesota State University, Mankato
    • "I'm All In": An Ethnographic Look at the Idioculture of Poker Players
      Kevin Brennenstuhl
      kevin.brennenstuhl@mnsu.edu
      Minnesota State University, Mankato
    • Institutionalized Emotions: Working with Sex Offenders
      Ryan Chukuske
      Ryan.Chukuske@mnsu.edu
      Minnesota State University, Mankato
  4. But Is It Sociology? New Modes of Reporting in Ethnography
  5. Student Learning Center, Rm. 268
    Discussants: Andrea Fontana, Troy McGinnis
    atfontana@cox.net

    Panelists:

  6. 11:00 – 12:15
  1. Structural Approaches to Symbolic Interaction
  2. Student Learning Center, Rm. 267
    Presider: Dawn Robinson
    sodawn@uga.edu
    • Identity Flexibility: Theoretical Implications of Choice and Constraint in Defining Self and Behaviors
      Shirley A. Keeton
      skeeton@uncfsu.edu
      Fayetteville State University
    • Restoring the Challenged Identity of Others: Predicting Restorative Behaviors
      W. Craig Carter
      ccarter@mtsu.edu
      Middle Tennessee State University
    • Selective Identity Preferences: Choosing From Among Alternative Occupational Identities
      Christopher D. Moore
      moorecd@uga.edu
      University of Georgia
  3. Social Movements, Identity, and Culture
    Student Learning Center, Rm. 268
    Presider: Ross Haenfler
    ross@olemiss.edu
    • From "Adopt a Vegetarian Diet" to "Veggie Pride": Movement Identities in the Animal Rights Movement in France and the United States
      Elizabeth Cherry
      lcherry@uga.edu
      University of Georgia
    • Organization Forms of Modern Heathenry: A New Religious Movement in the Virtual Age
      Jennifer Snook
      snookj@colorado.edu
      University of Colorado
    • Women in Youth Movements: United and Divided in Straight Edge
      Ross Haenfler
      ross@olemiss.edu
      University of Mississippi

12:15 – 2:00
Lunch on your own – downtown Athens

2:00
 Group excursion
The State Botanical Garden of Georgia

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