SoJ Web Report | July 10, 2011
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Jason Martin, PhD'11, Jihyang Choi, Jaesik Ha, Mohammed Al-Azdee and Bill Hornaday won Top Student Paper awards in their divisions, and Ha also won the MacDougall Student Paper award in the newspaper division.
Participants and presentations include:
- Roy W. Howard Professor David Weaver will speak at an AEJMC Thursday luncheon honoring professor Maxwell McCombs upon his retirement from the University of Texas, and on a Friday afternoon panel honoring IU doctoral graduate Sharon Dunwoody for receiving the 2011 Paul J. Deutschmann Award for Excellence in Research.
- Professor Jack Dvorak is on the AEJMC program twice this year.
Aug. 11, Dvorak will be the discussant for a session featuring “Innovative Outreach to Scholastic Journalism.” First-place winner is Xavier University of Louisiana’s “Current Events Via the ‘College-to-High School News Exchange’ and Drill Session.” Second place winner is the University of Oklahoma, “Oklahoma Scholastic Journalistic Initiative.”
He also is an invited panelist for a session Aug. 13 titled “Advancing Theory and Methods in Scholastic Journalism Research.” - Associate professor Jim Kelly is co-author with Yung Soo Kim of the University of Kentucky of "Documenting Africa: The life and death of Kevin Carter and his 1994 Pulitzer-winning photograph." It will be presented in the International Communication Division.
- Associate professor emerita Holly Stocking will moderate a panel of science scholars, "Top-10 Syllabus Favorites of Senior Scholars," co-sponsored by the Communicating Science, Health, Environment and Risk and Communication Theory and Methodology divisions.
Panelists include alumna Sharon Dunwoody and Kim Bissell, Dennis Davis, Esther Thorson and Dhavah Shah. - “Hostile Media Perceptions: Coloring the (new) media red or blue,” has been accepted by the Communication Technology Division. It was produced collaboratively in the School of Journalism's Communication Research Group started in this spring. The paper’s authors are doctoral student Ammina Kothari, doctoral candidate Seong Choul Hong, doctoral student Shuo Tang and professor Lars Willnat.
- Assistant professor Lesa Hatley Major will present her research paper, “ The Effect of Psychological Reactance and Framing on Attribution of Solution Responsibility for Health Problems," to the Communication Theory and Methodology Division.
She also will serve as moderator for the Minorities and Communication Division panel, “Sound and fury: Mediated racial discourse and the case of Shirley Sherrod, USDA’s former Director of Rural Development in Georgia,” and as a panelist for the plenary panel session, “Lake Wobegon Meets Grade Inflation: Are All Our Students Above Average?”: Finally, she will be a discussant for the research paper session, “Health and Prosocial Communication Issues Among Minorities." - Assistant professor Joann Wong’s paper, "How Blog Use Affects Voter Behavior: Engagement, Expressiveness and Voting," has been accepted for presentation by the Political Communication Interest Group.
Wong will moderate a teaching workshop, "Teaching Panel Session: Promising Professors and Distinguished Educators," for the Mass Communication and Society Division, and she’ll moderate the panel, "Teaching Political Communication Using Social Media" for the Political Communication Interest Group. - Jason Martin, PhD'11, has three papers accepted for the AEJMC conference in St. Louis in August.
“Understanding the Internet’s Impact on International Knowledge and Engagement: News Attention, Social Media Use, and the 2010 Haitian Earthquake” was accepted by the Mass Communication and Society division. This paper has been honored as the first place winner in the student category in that division.
“Mixing Strategy and Issues: Campaign Coverage and Candidate Communications in the 2010 U.S. Senate Midterm Election” was accepted into the inaugural group of papers in the Political Communication Interest Group.
And “Issue Information and Technological Choice in a Senate Election Campaign: News, Social Media, Candidate Communications, and Voter Learning” was accepted by the Communication Technology Division.
He also will preside over a panel co-sponsored by the Political Communication Interest Group and the Communication Technology Division. "The Impact of Digital Media on Political and Civic Engagement: Do Digital Media Matter?" will look at developments around the world, and includes Jacob Groshek PhD’08, now of Erasmus University in the Netherlands. - Jenny Porter Tilley's paper, "Gender: The Next Generation: Representations of transgender teens in fictional media," has been accepted by the GLBT interest group. Tilley, MA’11, developed the paper during professor Radhika Parameswaran's J574 Gender and Media course last fall.
- Doctoral candidate Ammina Kothari’s paper, “Globalization in Africa: A 10-Year Critical Literature Review of Communication Scholars’ Research Agenda,” has been accepted for presentation in the International Communication Division. This paper was developed in during professor Radhika Parameswaran's J614 Globalization, Media and Social Change course last year.
- Doctoral student Rosemary Pennington is lead author of “Cultivating, or alleviating, fear? How religion and media influence feelings about terrorism,” which been accepted for presentation in the Religion and Media Interest Group. A secondary analysis of data collected for the 2008 General Social Survey, it was produced in the School of Journalism's Communication Research Group. Other authors are doctoral candidate Ammina Kothari, doctoral student Stacie Meihaus Jankowski and assistant professor Jae Kook Lee.
- "Mass communication Research on China from 2000 to 2010: A meta-analysis," written by doctoral students Li Shi and Shuo Tang, has been accepted by the International Communication Division.
- Doctoral student Mohammed Al-Azdee’s paper, “The Salience-Setting Function,” has been accepted for presentation at the Communication Theory and Methodology Division. He is the recipient of the Top Paper First Author in this division for his work on this paper.
- Doctoral student Jihyang Choi's paper, “The Effects of Questionnaire Frames on Indicators of Data Quality,” has been accepted by the Communication Theory and Methodology Division. The paper also was selected as the Top Student Paper of the section. It was developed and completed during assistant professor Joann Wong's J660 Journalism and Mass Communication Statistics last fall.
- Doctoral student Jaesik Ha's paper, “Ronald Reagan in Heels: How Tea Party “Mama Grizzlies” framed gender and public issues in the 2010 U.S. midterm election,” was selected as the Top Student Paper in the Commission on the Status of Women research competition for the conference.
Ha's paper examined how female Tea Party candidates attacked both the “femininity” of male candidates and President Obama’s policies, such as immigration and health care. It was developed and completed in associate professor Radhika Parameswaran's J574 Gender and Media last fall.
Ha’s paper, "Press Independence in the Guantanamo Controversy: Effects of The New York Times’ coverage on public opinion during the Bush and Obama administrations," has been accepted for presentation at the Newspaper Division, where it also won the MacDougall Student Paper Competition. This paper was developed in professor David Weaver's J500 Introduction to Mass Media Research in the fall 2009. - Two research papers by doctoral student Bill W. Hornaday have been accepted for presentation. “Tweeting the Police Scanner: The rediscovered liabilities,” was selected as Top Student Paper in the conference's Law and Policy Division. The paper examines potential legal issues and uncertainties involved when professional or citizen journalists use Twitter to divulge information overheard on police radio scanners. It also suggests strategies to reduce the risk of potential litigation, or inadvertently compromising the safety of emergency personnel, media and the public. The paper was produced last fall in associate professor Anthony Fargo’s J572 The Press and the Constitution course.
His second work, "Ethical Attitudes of Male and Female Students Concerning Academics and Journalism," was accepted for presentation in the conference's Media Ethics Division. The paper addressed a secondary analysis of data collected by IU’s School of Journalism since the fall of 2004 under the supervision of associate professor The ongoing project measures attitudes of incoming and outgoing mass communication students concerning journalistic ethics, with a focus on plagiarism and fabrication. - Doctoral student Kioko Ireri’s paper, "Newspaper Visibility of Members of Parliament in Kenya," has been accepted for presentation at the International Communication Division. The paper examines variables that predicted news coverage of 219 Members of Parliament in Kenya by four national newspapers in 2009.
The paper's proposal was developed in Weaver's J500 Introduction to Mass Media Research in the fall of 2009. The research culminating in the paper was carried out in the summer of 2010 in Nairobi, Kenya, and was partially funded by Graduate and Professional Student Organization Research Award for spring 2010. - Doctoral student Sangwon Park’s paper, “Framing Kim Jong-Il in American Political Cartoons,” has been accepted for presentation at the Visual Communication Division.
- Doctoral student Emily Ehmer will present her paper, "Far from Home: How and why transnational audiences use mass media to visit homeland,” during a panel in the Graduate Education Interest Group, "The Present and Future State of News and Entertainment News Media Around the World." The paper was developed in professor David Nord's J651 Qualitative Methods in Mass Communications Research class.
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