Shannon Zenner

Refereed Paper Presentations

Zenner, S. Sign, Sign, Everywhere a Sign: The Typography and Design of Local Political Yard Signs presented at the 2022 annual American Institute for Graphic Arts SURFACE Conference for Design and Education in Seattle, WA.

Zenner, S., Haenschen, K., Collier, J. You’re Just Not My Type: The Relationship Between Fonts, Political Ideology, and Affective Polarization presented in the Visual Communication Division at the 2022 annual Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference in Detroit, MI.

WINNER: First Place Faculty Paper, Visual Communication Division

Zenner, S. That’s a Good Sign: The Typography and Design of Political Yard Signs presented in the Visual Communication Division at the 2021 annual Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference in New Orleans, LA. (virtual).

Zenner, S. The Political Appeal of Nostalgic Television: A Textual Analysis of the TV drama Blue Bloods presented in the Television Division at the 2019 annual Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association conference in Pittsburgh, PA.

Zenner, S. It Costs a Lot of Money to Look This Cheap: A Survey to Understand Preference for Differing Levels of Design Quality in Advertising presented in the Visual Communication Division at the 2018 annual Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference in Washington, D.C.

WINNER: First Place Student Paper, Visual Communication Division

Zenner, S. It Costs a Lot of Money to Look This Cheap: A Survey to Understand Preference for Differing Levels of Design Quality in Advertising presented in the Visual Communication Division at the 2018 annual Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Southeast Conference in Tuscaloosa, IL.

WINNER: First Place Student Paper, Visual Communication Division

McGregor, S., Zenner, S., & Kreiss, D. An Emergent Public: Journalistic Representation of Social Media as Public Opinion presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication 2017 Conference in Chicago, IL.

Lazard, A., Holton, A., Wilner, T., Zenner, S., & Cannon, A. Cancer Selfies: Implicit Representations of Cancer and Gender on Instagram presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication 2017 Conference in Chicago, IL.

Invited Presentations & Panels

Moderator for research panel The Future of Visual Research: Shaping Our Tools, Techniques, and Partnerships accepted for presentation at the 2022 annual Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference in Detroit, MI co-sponsored by the Visual Communication and Communication Theory and Technology Divisions in partnership with Julian Kilker, Ph. D. of University of Nevada Las Vegas.

Innovation in Teaching presentation of An Ungrading Technique to Increase Risk Taking and Creativity at the 2022 annual Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference in Detroit, MI co-sponsored by the Visual Communication and Magazine Divisions.

Invited discussant in a session entitled Conflict, Ideology, and Memory presented by the Visual Communication Division at the 2022 annual Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference in Detroit, MI.

Moderator and organizer of Visual Communication division luncheon with speakers Kiana Wenzell, Director, Detroit’s Month of Design, Design Core Detroit for the College for Creative Studies, and Kristi Tanner, Computational Journalist, Detroit Free Press presented by the Visual Communication Division at the 2022 annual Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference in Detroit, MI.

Teaching panel Best of Design Contest presented at the 2021 annual Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference in New Orleans, LA (virtual) co-sponsored by the Visual Communication and Newspaper and Online News Divisions in partnership with Ross Taylor of the University of Colorado Boulder.

Invited discussant in a session entitled Visual Communication Top Papers presented by the Visual Communication Division at the 2020 annual Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference in San Francisco, CA. (virtual).

Invited research lecture on my paper, It Costs a Lot of Money to Look This Cheap: A Survey to Understand Preference for Differing Levels of Design Quality in Advertising for Dr. Matthew J. Haught’s Visual Media Theory and Practice graduate class at the University of Memphis in September 2020 (virtual).

Invited discussant in a session entitled Visual Communication Top Papers presented by the Visual Communication Division at the 2020 annual Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference in San Francisco, CA. (virtual).

Invited panelist in a session entitled Reflecting on Integration - Challenges in Research and Practice presented by the Public Relations and Advertising Divisions at the 2019 annual Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference in Toronto, Canada.

Invited panelist for Master’s seminar critique of visual communication projects at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina (virtual) in 2018.

Invited talk entitled “Social Media Monitoring and Verification for Electionland” in MEJO 244: Talk Politics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina in 2016.