The theme of the organization’s 2018 conference is “Strengthening our community: Working together to build scholars, educators and engaged academic citizens.” The conference is in Washington, D.C.
Awards
Associate professor James Kelly will receive the inaugural “Birgit Wassmuth Excellence in Education” Visual Communication Teaching Award.
Assistant professor Danielle Kilgo will receive a $10,000 research grant from the AEJMC Mass Communication and Society Division for her project with Michigan State University’s Rachel Mourao, “News media effects, attitudes toward Black protest movements and the intersections of injustice.”
She will also receive the division’s Top Dissertation Award for her dissertation, “Black, White, and Blue: Media and audience frames from visual news coverage of police use of force and unrest.”
Kilgo also won second place in the Stevenson Open Competition and first place in the Latino/Latin American Communication Research Awards for “Framing the Columbian Peace Process: Between Peace and War Journalism,” authored with Victor García-Perdomo and Summer Harlow.
Assistant professor Jennifer Midberry and doctoral students Ryan Comfort and Joseph Roskos were awarded Top Paper in the Visual Communication Division for their article, “Celebrating Life or Adversity? The Redefinition of Features in the Pictures of the Year International Contest.”
Presentations
The following Media School students and faculty will present at the conference.
Faculty
Assistant professor
“Manifestations of Authoritarianism in 2016 U.S. Primaries: Factors Triggering Innate and Latent Authoritarian Tendencies,” Nicholas Browning, in the paper session, “Political Communication Interest Group.”
“Do Ethics Matter? Investigating Donor Responses to Primary and Tertiary Ethical Violations,” Nicholas Browning, Sung-Un Yang, Young Eun Park, Ejae Lee and Taeyoung Kim, in the paper session, “Ethics and Moral Reasoning.”
Emerging Scholar Project: “Responsibility, Vulnerability and Climate Change: Toward a Model of Influences on Climate Journalism in Developing Countries,” Suzannah Evans Comfort.
“Retreat from the Golden Age: Russian Journalists and Their World, 1992-2000,” Rashad Mammadov and Owen V. Johnson, in the paper session, “International Journalists and Global News.”
Associate professor
Presentation, “Finding a Portfolio in the Weekly Work of a Photojournalism Class,” James Kelly, in the panel, “Hackathon Style of Teaching.”
“Protests, Media Coverage, and a Hierarchy of Social Struggle,” Danielle Kilgo and Summer Harlow, in the paper session, “Newspaper and Online News Division.”
“From the Margins to the Newsfeed: Social Media Audiences’ Disruption of the Protest Paradigm,” Summer Harlow and Danielle Kilgo, in the paper session “Communication Technologies for Social Capital and Social Change.”
Emerging Scholar Project: “Disrupting the Protest Paradigm: Toward a Model of the Sociological Effects, Routines and Norms Influencing Journalistic Coverage of U.S. Protests,” Summer Harlow and Danielle Kilgo.
“Framing the Columbian Peace Process: Between Peace and War Journalism,” Victor García-Perdomo, Summer Harlow and Danielle Kilgo, in the paper session, “Award Winning Papers in International Communication.”
“Media Effects and Marginalized Ideas: Relationships Among Media Consumption,” Danielle Kilgo and Rachel Mourao, in the paper session, “Attitudes Towards Black Lives Matter and Representations of Ferguson.”
“Celebrating Life or Adversity? The Redefinition of Features in the Pictures of the Year International Contest,” Jennifer Midberry, Ryan N. Comfort and Joseph Roskos, in the paper session, “Visual Communication Division Top Papers Session.”
Discussant, Refereed Paper Session, “Narratives: From Fiction to Fact.”
Moderator, Refereed Paper Session, “Media Trust and Credibility.”
“Spoofing Presidential Hopefuls: The Roles of Affective Disposition, Emotions, and Intertextuality in Prompting the Social Transmission of Debate Parody,” Jason Peifer and Kristen Landreville, in the paper session, “Political Communication Interest Group.”
“The Trump Bump: The Influence of Elite Anti-Media Rhetoric and Political Activity on Emotions, Perceptions of News Media Importance, and Public Support for the Press,” Jason Peifer, in the paper session, “Communication Technology, Communication Theory and Methodology and International Communication Divisions.”
“Content Analysis of Music Alcohol-Abusing Women and Controls Associate with ‘Going Out’ versus ‘Staying Home,’” Anastasia Nikoulina, Thomas James, Joshua Sites, Edgar Jamison-Koenig, Glenna Read and Robert Potter, in the paper session “Mass Communication and Society Division.”
“Do Ethics Matter? Investigating Donor Responses to Primary and Tertiary Ethical Violations,” Nicholas Browning, Sung-Un Yang, Young Eun Park, Ejae Lee and Taeyoung Kim, in the paper session, “Ethics and Moral Reasoning.”
“Exploring Attributes and Roles of Presidential Candidates’ Dialogic Communication (PCDC) During the 2017 Presidential Campaign in South Korea,” Bitt Beach Moon and Sung-Un Yang, in the paper session, “KACA Research Session.”
“Exploring the Antecedents of Online Information Seeking and Sharing in a Public Health Crisis,” Bitt Beach Moon, Chang Won Choi and Sung-Un Yang, in the paper session, “SHER Information Processing.”
“Exploring the Antecedents of Online Information Seeking and Sharing in a Public Health Crisis,” Bitt Moon, Chang Won Choi and Sung-Un Yang, in the paper session, “SHER Information Processing.”
“Exploring Attributes and Roles of Presidential Candidates’ Dialogic Communication (PCDC) During the 2017 Presidential Campaign in South Korea,” Bitt Moon and Sung-Un Yang, in the paper session, “KACA Research Session.”
“Celebrating Life or Adversity? The Redefinition of Features in the Pictures of the Year International Contest,” Jennifer Midberry, Ryan N. Comfort and Joseph Roskos, in the paper session, “Visual Communication Division Top Papers Session.”
Doctoral student
Panelist, Special Issue Research Panel Session, “Social Media and Political Campaigning Around the World.”
“Content Analysis of Music Alcohol-Abusing Women and Controls Associate with ‘Going Out’ versus ‘Staying Home,’” Anastasia Nikoulina, Thomas James, Joshua Sites, Edgar Jamison-Koenig, Glenna Read and Robert Potter, in the paper session “Mass Communication and Society Division.”
“Do Ethics Matter? Investigating Donor Responses to Primary and Tertiary Ethical Violations,” Nicholas Browning, Sung-Un Yang, Young Eun Park, Ejae Lee and Taeyoung Kim, in the paper session, “Ethics and Moral Reasoning.”
Master’s student
“Authenticity in Public Relations: The Effects on Organization-Public Relationships,” Ejae Lee, in the paper session, “Building Relationships: Shared Value, Authenticity and Social Capital.”
“Do Ethics Matter? Investigating Donor Responses to Primary and Tertiary Ethical Violations,” Nicholas Browning, Sung-Un Yang, Young Eun Park, Ejae Lee and Taeyoung Kim, in the paper session, “Ethics and Moral Reasoning.”
“Do Ethics Matter? Investigating Donor Responses to Primary and Tertiary Ethical Violations,” Nicholas Browning, Sung-Un Yang, Young Eun Park, Ejae Lee and Taeyoung Kim, in the paper session, “Ethics and Moral Reasoning.”
“Content Analysis of Music Alcohol-Abusing Women and Controls Associate with ‘Going Out’ versus ‘Staying Home,’” Anastasia Nikoulina, Thomas James, Joshua Sites, Edgar Jamison-Koenig, Glenna Read and Robert Potter, in the paper session “Mass Communication and Society Division.”
“Celebrating Life or Adversity? The Redefinition of Features in the Pictures of the Year International Contest,” Jennifer Midberry, Ryan N. Comfort and Joseph Roskos, in the paper session, “Visual Communication Division Top Papers Session.”
“Content Analysis of Music Alcohol-Abusing Women and Controls Associate with ‘Going Out’ versus ‘Staying Home,’” Anastasia Nikoulina, Thomas James, Joshua Sites, Edgar Jamison-Koenig, Glenna Read and Robert Potter, in the paper session “Mass Communication and Society Division.”
“How Chinese and Americans Think About Journalists and the Media – A Comparative Look at Perceived Roles and Values,” Lars Willnat, Shuo Tang, Hongzhing Zhang and Jian Shi, in the paper session, “Communication Patterns and Media Behavior in Chinese Society.”