Conferences and Invited Presentations

Bareiss, W. (2017). An unexpected awakening: Conducting research with the deaf community. Presented at the Thirteenth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Champaign-Urbana, IL, May 2017. (Abstract)

Bareiss, W. (2017). Communication among deaf patients and healthcare practitioners: A meta-analysis of English-language scholarship, 1996-2016.Presented at the D.C. Health Communication Conference, Fairfax, VA, May 2017. (Abstract)

Bareiss, W., & Ellis, T. (2016). Improving communication between deaf patients and healthcare workers. First steps in an ongoing research project. Invited presentation, Magdeburg University of Applied Sciences, Magdeburg, Germany, June 2016.

Bareiss, W. (2015). Mothers, daughters, and ritual abjection: Narrative analysis of adolescent self-injury in four US films. Presented at the Southern States Communication Association annual conference, April, 2015, Tampa, Florida. Top Paper Award, Gender Studies Division. (A revised version of this paper was presented at the International Communication Association annual conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 2015.)

Bareiss, W. (2015). Networking a health communication course into your curriculum. Presented at the Central States Communication Association, Health Communication Division, Madison, Wisconsin, April, 2015.

Bareiss, W. (2014). Evil mothers and rebellious daughters: Popular self-injury films. Presented at the Tenth Annual Upstate Research Symposium, Spartanburg, SC, April, 2014.

Bareiss, W. (2013). “Mauled by a bear:” Narrative analysis of self-injury among adolescents in U.S. newspapers, 2007-2012. International Communication Association (ICA) annual conference, Childhood and Adolescents Division, London, June 2013. Abstract.

Bareiss, W., & Mercincavage, K. (2012). “’Facing AIDS’ as visual and verbal representation: Iconic and indexical performance codes in a social media health campaign. Presented at the International Communication Association (ICA) annual conference, Health Communication Division, New Orleans, May 2012. Abstract.

Bareiss, W., & Mercincavage, K. (2011). Visual Narratives as Ritual Performance: Textual Analysis of Photographs in an HIV/AIDS Social Media Campaign. International Communication Association annual conference, May 2011, Boston, Health Communication Division. Abstract.

Bareiss, W., & Mercincavage, K. (2011, November). Dialogical Identification: Social Media and HIV/AIDS Narratives. Presented at the National Communication Association (NCA) annual conference, New Orleans, LA.

Bareiss, W., & Mercincavage, K. (2010). Exploring Digital Innovations and Bridging Perceptive Divides: A Textual Analysis of HIV Community Photos as Ritual Performance. The National Conference on Health Communication and Marketing and Media, Atlanta, August, 2010. Abstract. Conference link.

Bareiss, W. (June 22, 2010). Participant in the International Communication Association Pre-conference on Intercultural Dialogue: Bridging Cultures Through Research, A Project of the Council of Communication Scholars, Singapore. I discussed "liminality" and "middlebrow culture."

Bareiss, W. (2008). If you remember me: Fan grieving, isolation, and consolation on the death of singer-songwriter, John Stewart. Part of a panel that I organized on fan culture and the death of celebrities. The panel--called "Unconventional Grieving: Technologically Mediated Fan Culture"--was presented at the National Communications Association annual conference, Human Communication and Technology Division, Nov. 2008. Abstract.

Bareiss, W. (2007). Middlebrow Knowingness: The Kingston Trio, San Francisco, and the 1950s. National Communication Association annual conference, San Diego.

Bareiss, W. (2005). Class Baggage and Organizational Ethos: Personal Reflections on Class Mobility and Academe. Presented at the National Communication Association annual conference, November 2005.

Bareiss, W. (2002). Ghost Hunting as Transcendent Storytelling: Relationships Among Supernatural Tales, the Internet, and Communication Technologies in the Ritual Process of Personal and Communal Reconstruction. National Communication Association (NCA). November, 2002.

Bareiss, W. (2000). Telemedicine in South Dakota: A Cultural Studies Approach. Presented at the Association of Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) national conference in Phoenix, August 2000.

Bareiss, W. (1997). The Construction of Social Space in an Alternative Radio Station: Resistant Praxis and Hegemonic Rhetoric at KUNM-FM, Albuquerque. Presented at the Association of Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication conference: July 1997, Chicago.

Bareiss, W. (1997). Place Identity: A Case Study of Alternative Radio Station, KUNM-FM. Presented at the International Communication Association Conference: May 1997, Montreal.

Bareiss, W. (1996). Public Space, Private Face: Symbolic Boundary Maintenance at an Alternative Radio Station. Presented at the Association of Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication conference: August 1996, Los Angeles.

Bareiss, W. (1996). The Construction of a Public Sphere: The Dialectics of Alternative Radio. International Communication Association Conference: May 1996, Chicago.

Bareiss, W. (1996). Utopian Imagery of the Southwest on the FM Band. Presented at the Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery Conference: March 1996, Colorado Springs.

Bareiss, W. (1995). Television Time and Family Time: Television Activism and the Family Hour. Midwest Journalism History Conference, St. Louis.

Bareiss, W. (1995). Talking Back to the Radio: Listeners' Responses to a Community Radio Station. Presented at the Midwestern Popular Culture Conference, Indianapolis.

Bareiss, W. (1995). Community Radio as a Public Sphere. Presented as part of the IU Department of Telecommunications ongoing research symposium.

Bareiss, W. (1993). Countdown for Blast-Off: Radio Theater and the Red Scare, 1954-1957. Presented at the Popular Culture Association Conference, New Orleans.

Bareiss, W. (1992). Noise Abatement in Philadelphia, 1906-1966. Presented at the New Directions in Critical Theory Conference, Tucson, Arizona.