24 Media School faculty, grad students attend 2026 AEJMC conference
The Media School Report
August 31, 2026
Assistant professor Taeyoung Lee (right) was part of the team to win the inaugural Top Poster Award. Co-authors of the study included Shitemi Khamadi, Media School doctoral student, and Umer Farooq, Media School master’s student. Junghyun Moon, PhD’25, (left) is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Public Health at IU. (Courtesy photo)
Several Media School faculty and graduate students attended the 109th annualAssociation for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference held in New Orleans Aug. 5-8 serving as discussants, committee members, panelists, and presenters of their research.
Doctoral student Haruna Mohammed Salisu received third place for the Student Paper Award and doctoral candidate Ahmed Tahsin Shams was named an AEJMC & MCSD Diversity & Inclusion Career Development Fellow.
Assistant professor Taeyoung Lee, Junghyun Moon, Shitemi Khamadi, and Umer Farooq of The Media School received a Top Poster Award for their Scholar-to-Scholar presentation, “Bypassing the Gate: How Google’s AI-Generated Summaries Reshape News Distribution and Consumption.” The inaugural award recognized the team’s knowledge of the project, clarity and organization of the presentation, responses to questions, and overall presentation presence.
Find the full list of presenters and panelists below:
Faculty
“Balancing Efficiency and Legitimacy: Organizational Factors Influencing AI Adoption in Local Newsrooms”
Panelist, “Historical Perspectives on Environmental and Climate Communication: Lessons for the Present”
Panelist, “Bloomington Indigenous Research is Not Relevant to Me… and Other Misconceptions
“Balancing Efficiency and Legitimacy: Organizational Factors Influencing AI Adoption in Local Newsrooms”
Executive committee, Large Programs/XL Programs
“Bypassing the Gate: How Google’s AI-Generated Summaries Reshape News Distribution and Consumption”
Panelist, “Teaching and Supporting International Students (in Uncertain Times)”
“A Cross-National Study of News Disintermediation, Audience Media Valuations, and the Epistemic Costs of Social Media Reliance”
Moderator, “Visual Journalists, GAI, Third-Party Images, and Copyright Issues”
Moderator, “Living History: Journalism Lessons of America 250 for the Future”
Panelist, “Taste Structures: Lifestyle, Promotion, and Practice”
“Making Sense of Realistic Beauty Nudges: An exploratory Study of Beauty Ideals and Body Image Experiences on Instagram”
Panelist, “‘Trolling’ Media: Deconstructing Press Freedoms and Responsibilities in Trump 2.0”
“Parsing the Puzzle called Padma Lakshmi: Culinary Celebrity, Diaspora, and Feminist Politics in the Popular Imaginary”
“A Cross-National Study of News Disintermediation, Audience Media Valuations, and the Epistemic Costs of Social Media Reliance”
“Politicization vs. Pragmatism: Divergent Climate Narratives in U.S. National and Regional Newspapers”
Students
“Narrating Withdrawal: How Ghanaian News Media Framed the Dissolution of USAID”
“How Media Systems in the Global South Mediate Episodic Environmental Crises: Case Study of the Desert Locust Invasion in the Horn of Africa”
“AI Chatbot Message Framing in Healthcare Crisis Communication: Effects on Attitude, Perceived Behavioral Control, and Subjective Norm”
“Bypassing the Gate: How Google’s AI-Generated Summaries Reshape News Distribution and Consumption”
“AI Chatbot Message Framing in Healthcare Crisis Communication: Effects on Attitude, Perceived Behavioral Control, and Subjective Norm”
“Bypassing the Gate: How Google’s AI-Generated Summaries Reshape News Distribution and Consumption”
“Examining Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in Journalism Education: Insights from Journalism Educators in Kenya”
“How Media Systems in the Global South Mediate Episodic Environmental Crises: Case Study of the Desert Locust Invasion in the Horn of Africa”
“Journalism at the Crossroads of Culture and Climate: Journalists and Indigenous Perspectives on Environmental Reporting”
“Balancing Efficiency and Legitimacy: Organizational Factors Influencing AI Adoption in Local Newsrooms”
“Politicization vs. Pragmatism: Divergent Climate Narratives in U.S. National and Regional Newspapers”
“Bypassing the Gate: How Google’s AI-Generated Summaries Reshape News Distribution and Consumption”
“A Cross-National Study of News Disintermediation, Audience Media Valuations, and the Epistemic Costs of Social Media Reliance”
“A Concept Mapping Approach to the Effects of Climate Narratives: Moral Reconfiguration in Climate Mental Models and Climate Action Intentions”
“Making Sense of Realistic Beauty Nudges: An exploratory Study of Beauty Ideals and Body Image Experiences on Instagram
“Borrowing Shields: Lessons from Anti-SLAPP Laws in California and Ontario for Nigerian Civil Procedure Reform”
“Before the Click: Anticipated Affordances and AI Adoption Among Chinese Journalists”
“Balancing Efficiency and Legitimacy: Organizational Factors Influencing AI Adoption in Local Newsrooms”
“Before the Click: Anticipated Affordances and AI Adoption Among Chinese Journalists”
“Politicization vs. Pragmatism: Divergent Climate Narratives in U.S. National and Regional Newspapers”
“AI Chatbot Message Framing in Healthcare Crisis Communication: Effects on Attitude, Perceived Behavioral Control, and Subjective Norm”
