SoJ Web Report | Aug. 4, 2008
The work of several faculty and graduate students was represented at the annual Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications conference last week in Chicago. Some also participated on panels, led discussions and presented papers. For information about AEJMC, check out its Web site.
Here’s a listing those whose work was featured:
Roy Howard Professor David Weaver and recent doctoral graduate Yue Tan are authors of “Local Media, Public Opinion, and State Legislative Policies: Agenda Setting at the State Level,” the second place winner in this year’s Mass Communication and Society faculty paper award.
Professor Jack Dvorak was a moderator for a research session titled "Controversy and Censorship in Scholastic Media," and he was a panelist for a research session, "What Research Tells Us About Hazelwood." With doctoral student Changhee Choi, he presented "Academic Comparisons Between Students With and Those Without High School Newspaper or Yearbook Experience.”
Professor David Nord presented "The History of Journalism and the History of the Book: An Unconsummated Marriage," a talk sponsored by the History Division.
Associate professor Tony Fargo served as a panelist for First Life Potential and Liability When
Using Second Life in Academe, a teaching panel organized by recent Ph.D. graduate Jacob Groshek, who will be a professor at Iowa State this fall. Fargo also was a discussant for a Law and Policy paper session, Libel, Privilege and the FCC: Old Legal Doctrines with New Applications.
Associate professor Radhika Parameswaran’s research paper, "Moral Dilemmas of an Immoral Nation: Gender, Sexuality, and Journalism in the film Page 3," was accepted for presentation in the Cultural and Critical Studies division of the 2008 AEJMC conference. A research panel she organized and chaired, "Thinking Historically about Contemporary Media," also was accepted for presentation in a joint session co-sponsored by the History and Cultural and Critical Studies Divisions. She served as a moderator for a high-density research panel in the Cultural and Critical Studies Division and as a discussant for a research panel of the Commission on the Status of Women Division.
Associate professor Jim Kelly served as a discussant at a Visual Communication Division Research Paper Session, “Challenges in the Age of Visual Media.”
Assistant professor Mike Conway served on the panel, From the Past to the Present: What Would Murrow Do? in the Radio-Television Journalism & Cultural and Critical Studies Divisions.
Assistant professor Joann Wong’s paper, "If it’s good enough for me, it’s good enough for my children: frequency of television viewing as a predictor of parental television monitoring," co-authored with Stacey Hust and Yvonne Chen, was accepted by the Mass Communication and Society Division.
“Frame and Blame,” an analysis of how national and local newspapers framed the Jena Six controversy by doctoral student Lanier Frush Holt and assistant professor Lesa Hatley Major, was accepted for AEJMC.
Doctoral student Jason Martin had four papers accepted for presentation at August’s AEJMC
national convention in Chicago. He is the sole author of two of the selections. "Patterns of Visibility: Source Selection Habits of Newspaper and Wire Sports Journalists" was accepted by the Newspaper Division and "At ‘The Office’: Media Images of Gender in the Workplace" was accepted by the Entertainment Studies Interest Group. Also, Martin worked with fellow doctoral student Gerry Lanosga on two other papers, both accepted by the Mass Communication & Society Division. Martin is lead author of "Blogging the Horse Race: New Media and the Presidential Primary Campaign." Lanosga was the lead author of "The Investigative Reporting Agenda in America: 1979-2007."
Doctoral student Spring-Serenity Duvall’s paper, “Perfect Little Feminists? Young Girls Interpret Gender, Violence and Friendship in the Powerpuff Girls,” was named the top student paper in the Commission on the Status of Women at AEJMC.
Doctoral student Jeff Cannon’s paper, "School Board Campaigns and the Media Agenda: Information Subsidies and Local Election Coverage," was accepted for presentation in the Newspaper Division.
Doctoral student Lindita Camaj’s paper, “Media Framing through Stages of a Political Discourse: International News Agencies’ Coverage of Kosovo’s Status Negotiations," was accepted for presentation at International Communication division.
Graduate student Rosemary Pennington’s paper, "Chips and curry; kraut and kebabs: Exploring multiculturalism through comedy," was accepted in the student competition for the International Communication Division of AEJMC.
Graduate student Stacie M. Jankowski’s paper, “Scandal is a Sin: How church and victims framed the Boston Catholic priest abuse scandal,” was accepted for the Religion and Media Interest Group.
