Kimberly Gregson, Ph.D.

• PhD, Mass Communication, Indiana University, December 2003
• MS, Information Science, Indiana University - Bloomington, December 1999
• BA, Russian Area Studies, University of Missouri - Columbia, December 1979

Teaching Experience

	Fall 2002 - present	Assistant Professor. Ithaca College. Department of Television-Radio.
		Instructor. Indiana State University Department of Communication.
	Summer 2000	Instructor. Indiana University.
	Spring 2000	Assistant Instructor. Indiana University.
	Fall 1999	Assistant Instructor. Indiana University.
	Summer 1999	Instructor. School of Library & Information Science. Indiana University.
	Spring 1999	Assistant Instructor. Indiana University.
	Fall 1998	co-taught with Dr. Jean Umiker-Sebeok, School of Library and Information Science.
	Fall 1997	co-taught with Dr. Jean Umiker-Sebeok, School of Library and Information Science.

Publications

• Gregson, K. (in press). Youth Cultures in Arnett, J. Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media. Sage Publications.
• Gregson, K. (in press). Children's websites. in Arnett, J. Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media. Sage Publications.
• Gregson, K. (2005). "What if the Lead Character Looks Like Me? Girl fans of Shoujo Anime and Their Web Sites" in Mazzarrella, S. (ed.) Girl Wide Web: Girls, the Internet, and the Negotiation of Identity
• Bucy, Erik & Gregson, K. (2001, October). "Media Participation: A Legitimizing Mechanism of Mass Democracy". New Media and Society.
• Rosenbaum, Howard, Kim Gregson, "A Study of State Funded Community Networks in Indiana: Final Report", Report to the Indiana Department of Education. February 1998.

Conference Papers

• Gregson, K. Belsky, S. & Potter, M. (2005). "How Students React to Online Games". New Media Consortium Online Conference on Educational Gaming. December 2005.
• Bucy, E., D'Angelo, P., Gregson, K. (2005). "Real News Biases: Character Coverage and the Winnowing of Presidential Candidates". National Communication Association Annual Converence, Boston, MA, November 2005.
• Gregson, K. & Belsky, S. (2005). "Are advertising games really games in the eyes of game players?". New York Communication Association Annual Conference, Kerhonkson, NY, October, 2005.
• Gregson, K., Belsky, S., & Chun, Y. (2005). Advergames: Can playing games affect attitudes towards products?". International Communication Association Annual Conference. New York, NY. May, 2005.
• Gregson, K. (2005). "Understanding the appeal of zombie films: A disposition theory approach". International Communication Association Annual Conference. New York, NY. May, 2005.
• Gregson, K., Savaglio, C., Lohrey, J. (2005). "Media effects of primetime television on attitudes towards gay marriage". Poster presented at International Communication Association Annual Conference. New York, NY. May, 2005.
• Gregson, K. (2005). "Wrestlemania: The Male Soap Opera". Broadcast Education Association. Las Vegas, NV. April, 2005.
• Gregson, K. & Saccoccio, A. (2005). "I'm a loser: Visual framing of darkhorse candidates in national news magazines". Broadcast Education Association. Las Vegas, NV. April, 2005.
• Gregson, K. (2004). "Effects of individual differences on emotional and evaluative responses to extreme media". International Communication Association Annual Conference. New Orleans, LA. May, 2004.
• Gregson, K. (2004). "When the star of the cartoon looks like us: What girls are saying online about Shoujo anime". International Communication Association Annual Conference. New Orleans, LA. May, 2004.
• Gregson, K. (2003). "Increasing splashback: Once we get the broadcast television news viewer on the web, how do we get them back?". Broadcast Education Association. Las Vegas, NV. April, 2003.
• Gregson, K. (2002). "Broadcast Television News: On-Line Promotion of the On-Air Newscast", Broadcast Educators Association, 2002
• Gregson, K. (2001). "The Effects of Color and Emotion on Viewer Responses to Horror Movies", International Communication Association, May, 2001.
• Bucy, E. & Gregson, K. (2000). "Degrees of Involvement: User Perceptions of Online News and Campaign Web Sites in the 2000 Presidential Election", National Communication Association, November, 2000, Seattle, WA.
• Grabe, M., Lang, A., Cai, X., Wise, K. Zhao, X., Lee, S., Gregson, K. Wang, X., Shin, M., & Schwartz, N. (2000, June). "Packaging arousing and boring television news: The effects of tabloid on information processing". International Communication Association, J une, 2000, Acapulco, Mexico.
• Bucy, E. & Gregson, K. (1999). "The Impact of Media Coverage on the Cognitive and Rhetorical Style of a Populist Candidate for President", poster session, National Communication Association, November,1999, Chicago, IL.
• Gregson, K. (1999). "Online Discussion Groups: The Potential for Political Participation", APSA Annual Conference, September 1999, Atlanta, GA. Online version: gregson_apsa_paper1999.html
• Bucy, E. & Gregson, K. (1999). "Public Confidence Lost & Found: Opportunities for Interactivity and Citizenship on the WWW", APSA Annual Conference, September 1999, Atlanta, GA.
• Gregson, K. (1998). "Conversations & Community or Sequential Monologues: An Analysis of Politically Oriented Newsgroups", ASIS 1998 Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL. Online version: asis_1998.html
• Gregson, K. & Ford, C. (1998). "Evaluation of Community Networks", ASIS 1998 MidYear Meeting, San Diego, CA.
• Gregson, K. (1997). "Community Network and Political Participation: Developing Goals for System Developers", ASIS 1997 Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.

Service

Department/School	College	Field
2005
created website about students participating in academic conferences to put on department webpage organized students to create podcasts to promote the Television-Radio department Park Scholar Selection Committee chair of a TVR Search committee faculty advisor IMPrint (student run online magazine)	Steering committee for the Ithaca College First Year Seminars faculty advisor Anime Society of Ithaca College faculty advisor IC Comics (comic book club)	reviewed papers for the Popular Communication division of ICA reviewed 2 books for Sage Publications (quantitative methods and qualitative research)
2004
help with department web site Park Scholar Selection Committee TVR Search committee faculty advisor IMPrint (student run online magazine)	Steering committee for the Ithaca College First Year Seminars faculty advisor Anime Society Ithaca College	reviewed papers for the Popular Communication division of ICA
2003
Park Scholar Selection Committee, Pendleton Grant committee, OCLD search committee	faculty advisor Anime Society Ithaca College

Professional Experience

• Indiana University, September 1994 to 1997, Web Programmer & Office Assistant
• Washington University Medical School, Department of Pediatrics, Pediatric Computing Facilities, December, 1991 to 1994, Programmer Analyst II
• Desktop Schooling, Owner, September, 1991 - March 1993, Created and published newsletter and workbooks for children about computers
• Edward D. Jones & Co., June 1986-July 1991, Programmer & Computer Based Training Developer
• St. Louis Board of Education, September 1984 - May 1986, Instructor (Math, Computer Programming, Russian) in Gifted High School
• New Haven, Missouri Board of Education, September 1983 - May 1984, Instructor, Taught entire math curriculum from remedial math to trigonometry, and computer science.