Student Publications and Presentations » Indiana University School of Journalism

Graduate students at the School of Journalism have high rates of publication in scholarly journals. They attend conferences all over the world, where they present their work to colleagues and scholars. Their work has garnered many top prizes from journalism education and research groups.

Here's an overview of recent publications and presentations by doctoral students at the School of Journalism:

Shuo Tang

Tang Shuo. "Actor, Communicator, or Savior? Natural Disaster News and Nonverbal Leader Response." Paper presented at the International Communication Association (ICA) Political Communication Preconference, Boston, May 2011.
Tang Shuo and Li Shi. "The Rise of China in the Mass Communication Academy: A Meta-analysis of Research 2000-2009." Paper presented at the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), Istanbul, Turkey, July 2011.
Tang Shuo and Li Shi. "Mass Communication Research on China from 2000 to 2010: A Meta-analysis." Paper presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) International Communication Division, St. Louis, August 2011.
Ammina Kothari, Hong Seong Choul, Tang Shuo and Lars Willnat. "Hostile Media Perceptions: Coloring the (New) Media Red or Blue." Paper presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Communication Technology Division, St. Louis, August 2011

Jenny Porter Tilley

Jenny Porter Tilley. "Gender: The Next Generation: Representations of transgender teens in fictional media." Paper presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) GLBT Interest Group, August 2011.

Stacie Meihaus Jankowski

Rosemary Pennington, Ammina Kothari, Stacie Meihaus Jankowski and Jae Kook Lee. "Cultivating, or Alleviating, Fear? How Religion and Media Influence Feelings about Terrorism." Paper scheduled for presentation at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Religion and Media Interest Group, St. Louis, August 2011.
Stacie Meihaus Jankowski, Lesa Hatley Major and Jessica Gall Myrick. "Framing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Look at 20 Years of Television News Coverage." Paper presented at the International Communication Association (ICA) Health Communication Division, Boston, May 2011.
Jessica Gall Myrick, Lesa Hatley Major and Stacie Meihaus Jankowski. "Who Gets to Tell the Story: National Television News Sources and Frames in Mental Illness Stories." Paper presented at the National Conference on Health Communication, Marketing, and Media, Sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Ga., August 2010.
Stacie Meihaus Jankowski. "Amy Juergens Has a Bun in the Oven: Sex and Consequences in The Secret Life of the American Teenager." Paper presented at the midwinter meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Entertainment Studies Interest Group, Norman, Okla., March 2010.
Stacie Meihaus Jankowski. "Jesus the Healer Radio Files: Faith Healing and Internet Evangelism." Paper presented at the midwinter meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Religion and Media Interest Group, Norman, Okla., March 2010.
Stacie Meihaus Jankowski. "Problems, Solutions, and Obesity: Intermedia Agenda-Setting in a Heavy-Weight World." Paper presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Mass Communication and Society Division, Boston, August 2009.
Stacie Meihaus Jankowski. "Scandal is a Sin: How Church and Victims Framed the Boston Catholic Priest Abuse Scandal." Paper presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Religion and Media Interest Group, Chicago, August 2008.

Ammina Kothari

Kothari, A. (In press). “Media Constructed Muslim Identity: 1999 – 2009”. Editors: America Rodriguez and Dominic Lasorsa." Chapter in Social Identity and Media: New Agendas in Communication Research. New York, NY: Routledge.
Kothari, A. (2010). "The framing of the Darfur conflict in the New York Times: 2003 – 2006." Journalism Studies, 11 (2), 209-224.
Kothari, A. (2008). "When rape victims become symbolic representations of war: A textual analysis of The NY Times reporting on the use of 'rape as weapon of war' in Darfur." Global Media Journal: Mediterranean Edition 3(2), 21-29.
Kothari, A. (In press). The Geopolitics of Representation in Foreign News: Explaining Darfur, by Bella Mody, Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism.
Kothari, A. (Spring 2011). "The Political Economy of Communication by Vincent Mosco," Global Media Journal, 11(18).
Kothari, A. (2011). "Globalization in Africa: A 10-Year Critical Literature Review of Communication Scholars’ Research Agenda.” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Convention, St. Louis, Mo.
Kothari, A., Hong, S., Tang, S., & Willnat, L (2011). "Hostile Media Perceptions: Coloring the (New) Media Red or Blue.” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Convention, St. Louis, Mo.
Pennington, R., Kothari, A., Jankowski, S., & Lee, J. K. (2011). "Cultivating, or alleviating, fear? How religion and media influence feelings about terrorism.” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Convention, St. Louis, Mo.
Kothari, A. (2011). "International Aid Agencies and Tanzanian Media: Constructing HIV/AIDS Epidemic." The South Eastern Regional Seminar on African Studies (SERSAS) and the South East Africanist Network (SEAN) conference-University of Florida and co-sponsored by University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
Kothari, A. (2010). "Media discourse on burqa/niqab ban in France: A critical discourse analysis." National Communication Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, Calif.
Kothari, A. (2010). “Media constructed Muslim identity: 1999-2009.” New Agendas in Communication, University of Texas, Austin, TX.
Kothari, A. (2010). "Feminization of HIV/AIDS in Tanzania." Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Convention, Denver, Colo.
Kothari, A. (2009). "A Study of NY Times Coverage of Darfur: July 2003 – 2006." Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Convention, Boston, Mass. (Second place Markham Student Paper Award — AEJMC/ICD).
Kothari, A. (2008). "When Rape Victims Become Symbolic Representations of War: A Textual Analysis of The NY Times Reporting on the Use of 'Rape as Weapon of War' in Darfur." Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Convention, Chicago. (Third place Student Paper Award — AEJMC/CSW).
Kothari, A. (2007). “The U.S. Reporting on the War in the Democratic Republic of Congo.” Critical Themes in Media Studies 7th Annual Conference. New School University, New York.

William Gillis

William Gillis (2009). "Rebellion in the Kingdom of Swat: Sportswriters, African-American Athletes, and Coverage of Curt Flood’s Lawsuit against Major League Baseball,” American Journalism 26 (2): 67-97.
William Gillis (2010). "Say No to Busing and the Liberal Media: Backlash against the Louisville Courier-Journal and Louisville Times, 1975–76," Journalism History 35 (4): 216-228.
William Gillis (2010). Review of Richardson, Peter, A Bomb in Every Issue: How the Short, Unruly Life of Ramparts Magazine Changed America. In The Sixties: A Journal of Politics and Culture 3 (2): 239-242.
William Gillis, “Media Criticism, Media Power.” Review of McPherson, James Brian, The Conservative Resurgence and the Press: The Media's Role in the Rise of the Right. In Jhistory, H-Net Reviews (July 2010).
William Gillis, "The Only Honest Paper in Detroit: The Northeast Detroiter, the Voice of the White Homeowner in the Fight against 1970s Liberalism and Civil Rights." Presented at 2011 Media and Civil Rights History Symposium, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, March 19, 2011.
William Gillis, "Say No to Busing and Binghamism: Backlash against the Louisville Courier-Journal and Louisville Times, 1975-76." Presented at American Journalism Historians Association 2008 annual conference, Seattle, Wash., Oct. 3, 2008.
William Gillis, "Censors in the Shop: A Militant Black Newspaper Inspires a Printing Worker Walkout, 1970." Presented at American Journalism Historians Association 2007 annual conference, Richmond, Va., Oct. 13, 2007.
William Gillis, "Rebellion in the Kingdom of Swat: How Sportswriters Covered Curt Flood’s Lawsuit against Major League Baseball." Presented at Association for Education in Mass Communication and Journalism (History Division) 2007 annual conference, Washington, D.C., Aug. 9, 2007.
William Gillis, "The Scanlan’s Monthly Story (1970-1971): How One Magazine Infuriated a Bank, an Airline, Unions, Printing Companies, Customs Officials, Canadian Police, Vice President Agnew and President Nixon in 10 Months." Presented at Association for Education in Mass Communication and Journalism (History Division) 2004 annual conference, Toronto, Ontario, Aug. 4, 2004.

Jeffrey Cannon

Jeffrey Cannon. "Warriors, Legends, and Icons: the Philosophy and Analysis of Sports Media Narrative." Paper to be presented at the National Communication Association Sports Communication Division, New Orleans, November 2011.
Jeffrey Cannon. "The Dialogism of News." Paper presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Cultural and Critical Studies Division, Boston, August 2009.
Jeffrey Cannon. "Narrative News Frames in the Changing Times: New York Times Coverage of Space Disasters in Three Eras." Paper presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Newspaper Division, Boston, August 2009.
Jeffrey Cannon. "Advertising in the Alternative Media Field of Production." Paper presented at the International Communication Association Journalism Studies Division, Chicago, May 2009.
Jeffrey Cannon. "Story Branding in the News: Recurring Folio Banners and the Visual Grouping of Persistent Disaster Stories." Paper presented at the International Communication Association Visual Communication Studies Division, Chicago, May 2009.
Jeffrey Cannon. "School Board Campaigns and the Media Agenda: Information Subsidies and Local Election Coverage." Paper presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Newspaper Division, Chicago, August 2008.
Jeffrey Cannon. "Professionalizing Artistic Expression: Governmentality and the American Street Performer." Paper presented at the International Communication Association Communication Law and Policy Division, Montreal, May 2008.
Jeffrey Cannon. "Barbie as Feminine Icon: The Subversion Narrative Gets a Second Run on Film." Paper presented at the International Communication Association Communication Popular Communication Division, Montreal, May 2008.

Jihyang Choi

David H. Weaver & Jihyang Choi (in press). The media agenda: Who (or what) sets it? In Kate Kenski and Kathleen Hall Jamieson (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Political Communication. Oxford University Press.
Young Jun Son, Sung Tae Kim & Jihyang Choi (2012). Korean journalists in the 21st century. In David H. Weaver and Lars Willnat (Eds.), The Global Journalist in the 21st Century (pp. 66-77). New York: Routledge.
Jihyang Choi (2009). "Diversity in foreign news in US newspapers before and after the invasion of Iraq." International Communication Gazette, 71(6), 525-42.
Jihyang Choi (2011). “In the arena of competing frames: Framing and counterframing in the media’s coverage of global warming, 2000-2009.” Paper presented at Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research (MAPOR). Chicago, November 2011.
Seong Choul Hong & Jihyang Choi (2011). “The spiral of silence in online communication: A test for Internet users’ quasi-sense of majority opinions.” Paper presented at Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research. Chicago, November 2011.
Jihyang Choi (2011). "The effects of questionnaire frames on indicators of data quality." Paper presented at Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. St. Louis, August 2011. (Chaffee-McLeod Top Student Paper)
Jihyang Choi. "The Effects of Questionnaire Frames on Indicators of Data Quality." Paper presented at Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Communication Theory and Methodology section, St. Louis, August 2011.

Jaesik Ha

Jaesik Ha. (2010). "Framing dictators as ‘Enemy’ vs. ‘Friend’: Comparing Prevez Musharraf and Kim Jong-il in U.S. newspapers." Communication Science, 27: 65-91.
Jaesik Ha. "Ronald Reagan in Heels: How Tea Party “Mama Grizzlies” Framed Gender and Public Issues in the 2010 U.S. Mid-Term Elections." Paper presented at the Association for Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) the Status of Women research Commission, St. Louis, Mo., August 2011. (Top Student Paper)
Jaesik Ha. "Press Independence in the Guantanamo Controversy: Effects of The New York Times’ Coverage on Public Opinion During the Bush and Obama Administrations.” Paper presented at the Association for Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), St. Louis, Mo., August 2011. (Top Student Paper)
Jaesik Ha and Sei-Hill Kim. "Healthcare Reform and Presidential Evaluation: Attribute Agenda-Setting and Priming.” Paper presented at the International Communication Association (ICA), Boston, Mass., May 2011.
Jaesik Ha. (2011, May). "Potential and Limitations of E-mail as a Learning-Enhancing Medium in the Classroom: Comparing ‘E-mail’ and ‘Face-to-Face’ Contact Between Teachers and Students." Paper presented at the International Communication Association (ICA), Boston, Mass., May 2011.
Jaesik Ha and Uche Onyebadi. "Horse Race or Policy? An analysis of South Korean newspaper coverage of the 2008 U.S. presidential election." Paper presented at the International Communication Association (ICA), Boston, Mass., May 2011.
Jaesik Ha and Shin Haeng Lee. "Grilling rogue state leaders: Triangular frame competition of U. S. officials, U.S. journalists, and rogue state leaders during the 2009 U.N. General Assembly." Paper presented at the National Communication Association (NCA), San Francisco, Calif., November 2010.
Shin Haeng Lee and Jaesik Ha. "Who Gets Their News Online and Why? Exploring the Role of Selective Exposure in the Consumption of Internet News." Paper presented at the Association for Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), Denver, Colo., August 2010.
Jaesik Ha and Uche Onyebadi. "Racial perspectives in framing reality: Comparing Virginia Tech shooting reports in US and South Korean newspapers." Paper presented at the Association for Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), Boston, Mass., August 2010.
Jaesik Ha. "Framing dictators as ‘Enemy’ vs. ‘Friend’: Comparing Prevez Musharraf and Kim Jong-il in U.S. newspapers." Paper presented at the Association for Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), Boston, Mass., August 2009.
Jaesik Ha. "Comparative Study of the 2008 U.S. Election Coverage Focusing On Newspapers of South Korea and the U.S.” Presented at the Global Fusion conference, Athens, Ohio, August 2008.

Fatima Al-Salem

Fatima Al-Salem. "Public Opinion toward Arab Governments as Communicated through Online Newspapers’ Comments: A Study of Content Analysis." Paper presented at the 9th Annual International Conference on Communication and Mass Media, Greece, May 2011.

Anas Alahmed

Anas Alahmed. "Cyberactivism and the Challenges of Social and Political Change: The Case of Saudi Arabia." Paper presentation at the Social Media and Communication Symposium, at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Rochester, N.Y., September, 2011.
Anas Alahmed. "Voice of the Arabs Radio: Its Effects and Political Power during the Nasser Era (1953-1967)." Paper presented at Joint Journalism Historians Conference sponsored by the American Journalism Historians Association and the AEJMC History Division. New York, March 2011.
Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, Anas Alahmed and Mohammed Korayem. "Linguistic features, language variety, and sentiment in Arabic comments on Aljazeera and Alarabiya YouTube videos." Paper presented at Georgetown University’s Discourse 2.0: Language and New Media conference. Washington, D.C., March 2011.

Emily Ehmer

Emily Ehmer. “Far from Home: How and Why Transnational Audiences Use Mass Media to Visit Homeland.” Paper to be presented at Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Graduate Education Interest Group, Panel Discussion: The Present and Future State of News and Entertainment Media Around the World, St. Louis, August 2011.
Emily Ehmer. “Revolution in Egypt: A Feminist Analysis of Social Media Use and Mainstream Mass Media Coverage.” Paper to be presented at Global Fusion Conference: A Global Media and Communication Conference. Hosted by the School of Communications, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa., October 2011

Rosemary Pennington

Ogan Christine, Bashir Manaf, Camaj Lindita, Gaddie Brian, Pennington Rosemary, Rana Sonia, Salih Mohammed (2009). "Development communication: The state of research in an era of ICTs and globalization." International Communication Gazette, 71(8), 655-670.
Pennington Rosemary (pending). Review of The Trouble with Culture: How Computers are Calming the Culture Wars by F. Allan Hanson. The Information Society.
Rosemary Pennington, Ammina Kothari, Stacie Meihaus Jankowski, Jae Kook Lee Jae. "Cultivating, or alleviating, fear? How religion and media influence feelings about terrorism." Scheduled for presentation in the Religion and Media Interest Group of Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), St. Louis, August 2011.
Christine Ogan, Lars Willnat, Rosemary Pennington, Manaf Bashir. "The Rise of Anti-Muslim Prejudice: Media and Islamophobia in Europe and the United States." Scheduled for presentation in the Islam and the Media Working Group of International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), Istanbul, July 2011.
Rosemary Pennington. "Science, faith and news: How religion and media influence what Americans believe about science." Presented in Open Division of Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Southeast Colloquium March 2011.
Rosemary Pennington. "Say I am You, or not — Narratives of the 'Other' in children's illustrated atlases." Presented in the Cultural and Critical Studies Division of Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Midwinter Conference, Norman, March 2010.
Rosemary Pennington. "Chips and curry, Kraut and kebabs: Exploring multiculturalism through comedy." Presented in International Communication Division of Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) annual conference, Chicago, August 2008.

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