Media School students, faculty participate in AEJMC conference
Several Media School students and faculty will attend the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication’s annual conference Aug. 4-7 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
This year’s theme is Innovate, Integrate, Engage. The annual conference features workshops, presentations and poster sessions. AEJMC also honors individuals and research with a variety of awards.
Media School awards:
Associate professor Jim Kelly was a finalist for the 2015 Scripps Howard Journalism & Mass Communication Teacher of the Year Award. As a finalist, Kelly will present “Creating a Unique Learning Environment for Educating Global Journalists” to the panel Teaching Means Breaking Down Walls.
The school’s 812: The Magazine of Southern Indiana won a number of honors in AEJMC’s student magazine competition. Offered each semester, the class produces an issue of the print magazine and website updates, including reporting, photography, videography and design. Allison Chaplin, BAJ’16, and students Liz Meuser and Ellen Glover are among those recognized for their work.
Doctoral student Cheonsoo Kim was awarded first place student paper for “Social Media Use for Information and Political Participation: An Investigation of Moderation Effect of Social Media Type,” in the Jung-Sook Lee Student Paper competition.
Doctoral student Minchul Kim’s paper, “Testing Intergenerational Transmission of News Content Preference: A South Korean Case,” was awarded third place student paper in the Communication Theory and Methodology Division.
Doctoral student Yanquin Lu’s paper, “Mediated Public Diplomacy: Foreign Media Coverage of Sochi Olympics,” was awarded third place student paper in the International Communication Division’s Markham Paper competition.
Media School presentations:
Assistant professor Nick Browning
- Moderator, “The 1 Percenters of Public Speech: Citizens United and Speech Inequality in a Democracy.”
- “Does the ‘Public’ Voice Still Exist? A Critical Theory Extension of the Citizens Unites and Hobby Lobby Rulings” for the panel, “The 1 Percenters of Public Speech: Citizens Unites and Speech Inequality in a Democracy.”
Associate professor Tony Fargo
- Panelist, “Innovate, Integrate, Engage: State of the Media in Our Digital Age,” with the AEJMC Elected Standing Committee on Professional Freedom and Responsibility.
- Introduction, “AEJMC First Amendment Award Panel” with the AEJMC Elected Standing Committee on Professional Freedom and Responsibility.
- Panelist, “The Internationalization of Media Law and Policy.”
Associate Professor Emeritus Owen Johnson
- “Russian Journalists and the Great Patriotic War” for the paper research session, “Wartime Journalism.”
Assistant professor Minjeong Kang
- “The Roles of Distrust and Media Use on Risk-Associated Affects, Efficacy, and Activism: The 2015 Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) Outbreak Crisis in South Korea,” Minjeong Kang, Jangyul Kim of Colorado State University and Heewon Cha of Ewha Woman’s University for the paper research session, “Crisis Communication.”
Associate professor Jim Kelly
- “Creating a Unique Learning Environment for Educating Global Journalists” for the panel, “Teaching Means Breaking Down Walls.”
- Moderator, “Visual Media Coverage of Significant Global Events.”
Doctoral student Cheonsoo Kim
- “Social Media Use for Information and Political Participation: An Investigation of Moderation Effect of Social Media Type,” in the paper research session, “Top Student Papers in CTEC (Jung-Sook Lee Competition).”
Doctoral student Minchul Kim
- “Testing Intergenerational Transmission of News Content Preference: A South Korean Case,” for the paper research session, “Pushing the Boundaries of Selective Exposure Research.”
- “Learning Politics From Facebook Friends? The Impact of Structural Characteristics of Facebook Friend Network on Political Knowledge Gain,” Minchul Kim, Yanquin Lu and Jae Kook Lee for the paper research session, “Learning and Political Knowledge.”
Lecturer Bonnie Layton
- Panelist, “Technical Thoughts: Making Purchase and Teaching Decisions in a Fast-Changing Technological World.”
Associate professor Jae Kook Lee
- “Learning Politics From Facebook Friends? The Impact of Structural Characteristics of Facebook Friend Network on Political Knowledge Gain,” Minchul Kim, Yanquin Lu and Jae Kook Lee for the paper research session, “Learning and Political Knowledge.”
Doctoral student Yanqin Lu
- “Mediated Public Diplomacy: Foreign Media Coverage of Sochi Olympics,” for the paper research session, “Social Media, International News, and Public Diplomacy.”
- “Learning Politics From Facebook Friends? The Impact of Structural Characteristics of Facebook Friend Network on Political Knowledge Gain,” Minchul Kim, Yanqin Lu and Jae Kook Lee for the paper research session, “Learning and Political Knowledge.”
Associate professor Lesa Hatley Major
- “Obesity News: The Effects of Framing and Uncertainty on Policy Support and Civic Engagement Intentions,” for the paper research session, “Frames, Blames, and Applications of Health Communication.”
- “Thematic/Episodic and Gain/Loss Framing in Mental Health News: How Combined Frames Influences Support for Policy and Civic Engagement Intentions,” for the paper research session, “Frames, Blames, and Applications of Health Communication.”
Doctoral student Rashad Mammadov
- “Russian Journalists and the Great Patriotic War” for the paper research session, “Wartime Journalism.”
Associate professor Emily Metzgar
- “Uses of Risk and Crisis in Public Diplomacy Research (U.S. and North American focus)” for the panel, “Risk and Crisis in Journalism and Communication: Research Applications.”
- Moderator, “Globalization, Interaction, Journalism and Social Media.”
Assistant professor Jessica Gall Myrick
- “Making the Environment Healthy: An Experimental Test of the Effects of Framing Climate Change as Public Health Issue,” as part of the AEJMC Senior and Emerging Scholars panel. Myrick completed this research with the help of a grant she received as a 2016 Emerging Scholar.
- “Beyond the Worried Well: Emotional States and Education Levels Predict Online Health Information Seeking,” Jessica Gall Myrick and Jessica Willoughby of Washington State University for the paper research session, “Frames, Blames, and Applications of Health Communication.”
- “Pills and Power Ups: How In-Game Substance Shapes Players’ Attitudes and Real-Life Substance Abuse Intentions” (poster session), Ryan Rogers of Marist College and Jessica Gall Myrick for the paper research session, “Technology and Health Communication.”
- “Acknowledging the Silly Alongside the Severe: Mediated Portrayals of Mental Illness as Trivializing Versus Stigmatizing,” Jessica Gall Myrick and doctoral student Rachelle Pavelko for the paper research session, “Media Portrayals of Health, Policy, and Symbols.”
- “How Young Uninsured Americans Respond to News Coverage of Obamacare: An Experimental Test of Emotional and Cognitive Predictors,” Jason Martin, PhD’11, Jessica Gall Myrick and Kimberly Walker, PhD’09, for the paper research session, “Media Use, Effects, and Audience Characteristics.”
- Moderator, “New (Theoretical) Considerations of Environment and Risk.”
Professor Radhika Parameswaran
- “‘Jamming’ the South Asian Color Line: Comedy, Carnival, and Contestations of Commodity Colorism,” for the paper research session, “Race and Entertainment.”
- “Creating Pathways for Merging Globalization Theory with Critical Cultural Media Studies” for the panel, “Wedding Globalization Theory to Critical Cultural Media and Journalism Studies: Issues and Approaches to Research.”
- Moderator, “Culture and Identity in a Time of Shifting Representations.”
Doctoral student Young Eun Park
- “The Evidence of Expectancy Violation Induced by Inconsistent CSR Information,” Hyejoon Rim of the University of Minnesota and Young Eun Park for the paper research session, “Effects of Corporate Social Responsibility.”
- “Crowdsourcing Corporate Responsibility” for the paper research session, “Pioneering Public Relations and Advertising.”
Doctoral student Rachelle Pavelko
- “Acknowledging the Silly Alongside the Severe: Mediated Portrayals of Mental Illness as Trivializing Versus Stigmatizing,” assistant professor Jessica Gall Myrick and Rachelle Pavelko for the paper research session, “Media Portrayals of Health, Policy, and Symbols.”
Assistant professor Jason Peifer
- “Shaping Media Trust: News Parody, Media Criticism, and Valuations of the Press,” for the paper research session, “Entertainment and Soft News.”
Doctoral candidate Edo Steinberg
- “People Power and Media Through the Eyes of Late Night Comedy Viewers” for the paper research session, “Entertainment and Soft News.”
Doctoral student Zachary Vaughn
- “Race, Media, Nation: American Sniper and the Construction of the Racio-Religioscape,” for the paper research session, “Race and Entertainment.”
- “The Spectacular Mo’Ne Davis: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in U.S. Belonging,” for the paper research session, “Examining Race and Culture: Past and Present.”
Associate professor Sung-Un Yang
- Discussant in the paper research session “The Best of PCIG.”