Faculty research profiles
Rasha Kamhawi
Summary
Kamhawi’s research interests are cognitive and emotional effects of mediated messages in traditional and new media and analyzing news narratives. Currently involved in a cross national study of foreign news in 20 countries, the three part study is a content analysis of 4 weeks of television news, a survey of news consumers and in depth interviews with news gatekeepers. She is also working on a project that evaluates information acquisition from the virtual environment: Second Life.
Recent publications
Grabe, M., Kamhawi, R. & Yegiyan, N. (2009). Informing citizens: How people with different levels of education process television, newspapers, and Web news. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media. 53(1), 90-111.
Beck, D., Fishwick, P., Kamhawi, R., Coffey, A.J., Henderson, J., & Hamilton, B. (2009) “Synthesizing presence: A cross-disciplinary review of the literature.” Association for Education In Journalism and Mass Communication.
Kamhawi, R & De Swert, Knut (2009). Who Has a Say? – On the Construction of Authority in Foreign News. Journalism Studies Division, 59th Annual ICA Conference, Chicago, Illinois U.S.A.
Stepinska, Agnieszka & Kamhawi, R. (2009). Domestication of Foreign Television News. Mass Communication Division, 59th Annual ICA Conference, Chicago, Illinois U.S.A.
Grabe, M., Yegiyan, N. & Kamhawi, R. (May, 2008). Experimental evidence of the knowledge gap: Message arousal, motivation, and time delay. Paper presented to Information Systems Division at the International Communication Association, Montreal, Canada.
Kamhawi, R. & Grabe, M. (May, 2007). Why women are not watching: Gender differences in responding to negative, positive, and valence ambiguous TV news. Paper to be presented to Mass Communication Division at the International Communication Association, San Francisco, CA.
Grabe, M., Kamhawi, R. & Yegiyan, N. (May, 2007). Informing citizens: How people with different levels of education process television, newspapers, and Web news. Paper to be presented to Information Systems Division at the International Communication Association, San Francisco, CA.
Kamhawi, R. & Grabe, M. (July, 2006). Emotional valence as a frame: Gender differences in evaluating broadcast news. Paper presented in the Gender Studies division at the annual meeting of the International Association for Media and Communication Research, Cairo, Egypt.
Kamhawi, R. & Grabe, M. (May, 2005). Hard wired for negative news? Gender differences in processing and evaluating broadcast news. Paper presented in a joint session of the Journalism Studies Interest Group and Feminist Studies Division at the International Communication annual meeting, New York, NY.
Kamhawi, R. (May, 2003). Valence congruency in audiovisual messages: The impact on memory and evaluation. Paper presented to the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, San Diego, CA.
Grabe, M. & Kamhawi, R. (August, 2003). Cognitive access to new and traditional media: Evidence from different strata from the social strata. Paper presented in the Communication Theory and Methodology Division at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication annual meeting, Kansas City, MS.
Kamhawi, R. (August, 2002). Television News and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict: A content analysis. Paper presented to the annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Miami, Florida.
Kamhawi, R. (May, 2001). Learning from television news: Impact of redundancy and production pacing. Paper presented to the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Washington DC.
Son, Y. and Kamhawi, R. (August, 2000). Reporting public opinion polls in U.S. newspapers: The case of the 1998 senate race. Paper presented to the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Phoenix, Arizona.
Invited presentations
Fishwick, P., Coffey, A.J., Henderson, J., & Kamhawi, R. (2009, February). Technical review: Second China project. Presented to the Human Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling Program Technical Meeting of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Bedford, MA. Poster session and presentation (presentation given by Fishwick, poster session given by Coffey and Henderson). Authors listed above in alphabetical order, following first author.
Grabe, M. & Kamhawi, R. (October, 2006). Hard wired for negative news? Gender differences in processing broadcast news. Presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences, Bloomington, IN.
Keywords
Information processing, emotional valence and arousal, experiments, news framing, news narratives, television news, online news, virtual environments
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