CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Pruden, M.L., Vitek, A. & Kitzgerald, K. (2025). Watching the Watchlist: Turning Point USA’s Right-Wing Media Ecology. International Communication Association, Denver, Colorado.

Shugars, S., Lukito, J., Pruden, M.L., Dahlke, R., Suk, J., Zhang, Y., Yang, Y., Zhong, W., Chen,B. & Brown, M. (2025). An Ecosystem Divided? Cross-Platform Election Information Flows in Alt-Tech and Mainstream Media Platforms. International Communication Association, Denver, Colorado.

Suk, J., Zhong, W., Zhang, Y., Pruden, M.L., Yang, Y., Mao, C. & DiFranzo, D. (2025). Unveiling Engagement and Platform Algorithmic Biases in Social Media Data Collection and Analysis: An Experimental Study. International Communication Association, Denver, Colorado.

Lukito, J., Zhang, Y., Chen, B., Prochaska, S., Pruden, M.L., Yang, Y., Zhong, W., Brown, M., Dahlke, R., Greenfield, J., Suk, J. & Borah, P. (2025). Cross-Platformization: How US Right-Leaning Media Curate Their Posts on Twitter and Truth Social. International Communication Association, Denver, Colorado.

Pruden, M.L. (2023). Burn After Reading: Research-Related Trauma, Symbolic Violence, and the Need for Structural Solutions. Blue Sky Panel. International Communication Association, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. * Presenter & Co-Organizer

Pruden, M.L. (2023). Coercive Populist Surveillance: Organized Far-Right Documentation and Harassment of Teachers Online. International Studies Association, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Pruden, M.L. (2022). ‘Maintaining Frame’: A Critical Computational Approach to U.S. News Media Coverage of Involuntary Celibates. National Communication Association Critical Cultural Division, New Orleans, LA. *Presenter & Co-Chair

Pruden, M.L. (2022). Black Pills & the Beta Uprising: Thematically Mapping Incels.co. International Communication Association Feminist Scholarship Division (Paris, France). *Chair

Freelon, D., Pruden, M.L., Eddy, K.A. & Kuo, R. (2022) Inequities of Race, Place, and Gender Among the Communication Citation Elite. International Communication Association Political Communication Division (Paris, France).

Ophir, Y., Walter, N., Walter, D., Lokmanoglu, A., Pruden, M.L., & Velho, R.M. (2002). Vaccine Hesitancy Under the Magnifying Glass: A Systematic Review of the Uses and Misuses of an Increasingly Popular Construct. International Communication Association Health Communication Division (Paris, France).

Pruden, M.L., Lokmanoglu, A., Peterscheck, A. & Veilleux-Lepage, Y. (2021). Birds of a Feather: A Comparative Analysis of White Supremacist and Violent Male Supremacist Discourses. National Communication Association Peace and Conflict Division [Top Papers panel], Seattle, WA.

Pruden, M.L. (2021). When the “Shit Hits the Fan:” Secessionist Rhetoric on Stormfront. National Communication Association Rhetorical and Communication Theory Division, Seattle, WA.

Pruden, M.L. (2021). Watching Awakening: Rhetorics of White Masculinity in Cuck. The Conference on Right-Wing Studies/Conference for Research on Male Supremacism, Berkeley, CA.

Pruden, M.L. (2021). Maintaining Frame: Mainstream News Media Coverage of Involuntary Celibates. International Communication Association Feminist Scholarship Division (virtual).

Walter et al. (2021). Ideologize Globally, Mobilize Locally: The Internationalization of Far- Right Online Discourse. International Communication Association Political Communication Division (virtual). 

Pruden, M.L. (2020). Black Pills and the Beta Uprising: Men’s Rights Discourses in the Daily Stormer. National Communication Association Peace and Conflict Division, Indianapolis, IN (virtual). ** Outstanding Student Paper Award ** 

Pruden, M.L. (2020). The Apex Fallacy: Online Constructions of Incels as Marginalized Hybrid Masculinity. National Communication Association Feminist and Gender Studies. Indianapolis, IN (virtual).*Panel organizer and Chair

Pruden, M.L. (2020). The Visual Culture of Incels: Anarchic Videos as Image Events. International Communication Association Visual Representation and Marginality pre-conference in the Visual Communication Studies division, Gold Coast, Australia (virtual).

Pruden, M.L. (2020). Constructing Red Tide: News Frames of Florida’s ‘Rotting Marine Graveyard.’ International Communication Association Journalism Studies division, Gold Coast, Australia (virtual).

Pruden, M.L. (2019). A Journal of Impossible Things: Audience Responses to the Thirteenth Doctor. International Communication Association Popular Communication division, Washington DC.

Pruden, M.L. (2019). Digital Media Literacy in the Era of ‘Fake News.’ International Critical Media Literacy Conference, Savannah, GA.

Pruden, M.L. (2019). ’Nuts,’ ‘Kooks’ and ‘Deplorables:’ Media Coverage of Conservative Populist Campaigns. 1st Lisbon Winter School for the Study of Communication: Media and Populism, Lisbon, Portugal.

Pruden, M.L. (2018). Public Memory and Play at Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park. National Communication Association Visual Communication division, Salt Lake City, UT. *Panel co-organizer

Pruden, M.L. (2018). Colonizing Twitter: Trump’s Tweets and the Discourse of Gendered Subjectivity. Global Media Studies Network International Communication Association pre-conference on Global Populism at Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.

Pruden, M.L. (2018). Flashback: Tattoos as Image Icons of the Cultural Archive. International Communication Association Visual Communication division pre-conference Visual Expression of Voice Young Scholars, Prague, Czech Republic.

Pruden, M.L. (2018). Between the Fold: ‘Pornified’ Visual Metonymy in Advertising. Popular Culture Association, Indianapolis, IN.