SoJ Web Report | July 23, 2010
The conference features sessions and panels on the latest research, teaching issues and public service in the various areas of journalism and mass communication.
Here are the School of Journalism participants:
Roy W. Howard Professor David Weaver will be recognized as part of a panel coordinated by the Communication Theory and Methodology division of the AEJMC. Weaver will talk about the rewards and challenges of his research and teaching experience during the “Celebrating Scholarly Life” panel.
Associate professor Claude Cookman will be honored as the first place winner in the 2010 Best Practices in Teaching of Critical Thinking Competition sponsored by the AEJMC's Teaching Committee. Cookman will present his entry, “Fostering generic and discipline-specific critical thinking in large courses through oppositional readings and Web-based pedagogy,” at the conference.
Associate professor Mike Conway’s book, The Origins of Television News in America: The Visualizers of CBS in the 1940s, is one of three nominated for the Tankard Book Award, an annual prize given by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. The book, published last year, looks at development of the television newscast, specifically the people who experimented with the medium in its earliest years, developing what became the modern-day TV newscast.
Professor David Nord is a panelist for "The History of Free: How free (or cheaper) content have challenged media."
Associate professor Tony Fargo is a panelist for "Federal News Shield Law: To Be or Not to Be" and will moderate a panel discussion on "Regulating Tobacco Advertising in the Current Constitutional Landscape: Thirty Years Post-Central Hudson." He also is the discussant for a research paper session, "Law of the Press: Legal Challenges for Newspapers and Journalists."
As part of a teaching panel, "Communicating Policy, Pandemics and Pink Ribbons,” sponsored by the Magazine Division and AEJMC interest group on Communicating Science, Health, Environment and Risk, Associate Professor Emerita S. Holly Stocking will talk about covering medical science using perspectives from her new book, The New York Times Reader: Science & Technology.
Associate professor Owen V. Johnson will serve as the discussant for the AEJMC panel, "The Fall of the Soviet Union and its Aftermath."
Assistant professor Jae Kook Lee’s paper, “Learning from incidental exposure: An investigation of the causal relationship between unintended news encounters online and awareness of public affairs information,” has been accepted by the Communication Theory and Methodology Division.
Alumnus Shin Haeng Lee’s research paper, "Who Gets Their News Online and Why? Exploring the Role of Selective Exposure in the Consumption of Internet News," has been accepted for presentation in the Communication Technology/Open Competition. Shin Haeng Lee received his master’s degree this May.
Doctoral student Ammina Kothari planned and will present a joint research panel for the International Communication Division and Commission on Status of Women at AEJMC. She’ll serve as moderator for “Feminization of HIV/AIDS and Media: Responses and Case Studies” based on her research in Tanzania this summer. Kothari also will serve as a discussant for a session, “Exploring culture, questioning identity.”
Doctoral student Lindita Camaj will present her paper, "Media Freedom and Corruption: Media effects on governmental accountability in 133 countries," in an International Communication Division session. This study looks at the relationship between media freedom and corruption around the world.
Doctoral student Yunjuan Lily Luo’s paper, "Mapping agenda-setting research in China—A meta-analysis study," has been accepted for presentation.
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