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UNC’s Donald Shaw

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Professor Donald Shaw of the University of North Carolina will talk on "Connecting Community: How Agenda Setting Reflects Social Melding" at 4 p.m. March 22 in the Maple Room of the Indiana Memorial Union.

The Colloquium on Political Communication Research is co-sponsoring his talk, which also is part of the School of Journalism’s Research Colloquia.

Shaw is Kenan Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, where he has been on the faculty since receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1966.

Roy W. Howard Professor David Weaver said Shaw and Maxwell McCombs of the University of Texas are considered co-founders of agenda-setting research. In 1996, Shaw and McCombs received the Murray Edelman Award of the American Political Science Association in recognition of their 30-year research partnership.

Shaw also is the 2005 recipient of the Paul J. Deutschmann Award for Excellence in Research from the Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication. He is author or co-author of 10 books and many scholarly articles and papers, and is a former editor of Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly.

While visiting, Shaw will speak to students in Weaver’s J660 Topics Colloquium: Agenda Setting class.

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