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School of Journalism researchers, including faculty, alumni and students, will present their work at the 2010 International Association for Media and Communication Research conference in Braga, Portugal, July 18-22.

Roy W. Howard Professor David Weaver and doctoral candidate Lindita Camaj will present a paper, "Need for Orientation and Attribute Agenda Setting During a U.S. Election Campaign." Weaver will present the paper to the Political Communication Section.

Professor Lars Willnat will present "How Germany Sees America: Anti-Americanism before and after Obama" to the Political Communication Section July 22. Co-authors professor Thorsten Quandt of the University of Hohenheim, Germany, and Ph.D. student Eike Rinke of the University of Mannheim, Germany.

Associate professor Jim Kelly will present "Reporting on HIV/AIDS from within a Cross-Cultural Educational Classroom." This paper, co-authored with W. Okumu-Bigambo of Moi University, examines the cultural change experienced by the 24 IU and MU students in his J460 Reporting on HIV/AIDS in Africa class that traveled to Kenya this summer.

Debbie Goh, PhD ’10, will present two papers. The first, "Who We Are and What We Want: A feminist standpoint approach to defining effective ICT use for West Virginian women," has won a Top Student Paper Award in the Feminist Scholarship Division. This paper is based on her dissertation research, chaired by Professor Emerita Christine Ogan.

The second, "Teachers’ Attitudes Toward Using Web 2.0 in Teaching," will be presented at an Instructional and Development Communication Division panel.

Goh begins a new faculty position in July at the Nanyang Technological University’s Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information in Singapore.

Doctoral student Jessica Birthisel will present her paper, "Glee goes global: The intersection of corporate promotion and fan culture in Fox Italy’s flash mob." 

Doctoral student Li Shi has two papers accepted for presentation. “A Textual Reading of the People’s Daily: How state discourse on women changed in China, 1976-1979” will be presented in the Gender and Communication section. “The April Fifth Movement: Birth of China’s citizen photojournalism and new social documentary tradition” will be presented in the History section.

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