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Three faculty members and seven graduate students head to Chicago Friday and Saturday to attend the 2009 Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research conference in Chicago.

Roy W. Howard Professor David Weaver said this is the highest number of journalism researchers to attend the conference in his 33 years of participation.

Here's the line up:

• Weaver is one of the judges of the MAPOR Fellows Student Paper Competition and is attending the meeting.
• Professor Lars Willnat will present a paper entitled “How the World Sees America: Political and Cultural Dimensions of Anti-Americanism.”
• Assistant professor Joann Wong will present a paper entitled “How Newspapers and Voter Contact Impact Voters: Testing a Model of Political Knowledge and Voter Turnout.”
• Doctoral student Jason Martin's paper is "Predicting Political Knowledge from Online Media Use and Discussion." He also will moderate a paper session on political participation and public opinion that includes Wong’s paper.
• Doctoral student Lanier Holt will present two papers: “Ladies First? Did Gender and Incumbency Make a Difference in the Newspaper Coverage of Two 2006 Senate Elections?” and “Black Like Me? Comparing and Contrasting How the Media Framed the Campaign Coverage of Jesse Jackson and Barack Obama.” He also will moderate a research paper session on views of country, home and abroad that includes papers by Willnat and Yunjuan Luo.
  
• Doctoral students Seong Choul Hong and ChangHee Choi will present a jointly authored paper, “Inter-Media Frame Building: The U.S. Beef Import Case in South Korea.”
• Doctoral student Mohammed al-Azdee’s paper is "Agenda-Setting Theory in 2008 when President Bush was in His Last Year in Office."
  
• Doctoral student Yunjuan Luo’s paper is "International News Exposure and the American Public's Perceptions of China." Yunjuan Luo also is moderating a paper session on international public opinion.
• Master's student Shin Haeng Lee’s paper is "Selective Exposure to News Media: Individual Predispositions and Online News Consumption." The paper was based on a final paper for J660 Public Opinion. Lee said professor Lars Willnat’s comments on the paper helped shape the final product.

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