College of Media at Illinois

21 College of Media faculty and graduate students participate in AEJMC Conference

The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) will hold its annual conference August 8 – 12 in Chicago. The College of Media is well represented by faculty and graduate students participating through the presentation of papers, panel discussions and more.

 

 The sessions involving the College of Media include:

 

Advertising Teaching Workshop Session:  Preparing Our Students for a Brave New Digital World

Moderating/Presiding:  Jan Slater, Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Sheri Broyles, North Texas

 

Expanding Your Program’s Brand: Adding Value with Boot Camps, Seminars and Other Creative Ideas Rhiannon Clifton, Illinois

 

 

Advertising Division

High Density Refereed Paper Research Session

Topic I  — Advertising Effects and Effectiveness

Sex Sells? A Meta-analysis of the Effect of Sexual Content in Advertisements on Persuasive Outcomes 

John Wirtz, Illinois; Johnny Sparks, Central Michigan University; and Kelli Lyons, Texas Tech

 

Topic II — New Media/Old Media

Advertising enjoyment and time perception in multitasking

Brittany Duff, Illinois; Sela Sar, Iowa State and Sydney Chinchanachokchai, Illinois 

 

 

Media Ethics Division

Refereed Paper Research Session: Exploring Theoretical Models and Approaches to Enhance Scholarship in Media Ethics

Anthropological Realism for Global Ethics**

Clifford Christians, Illinois and Stephen Ward, Wisconsin-Madison (Top Paper, Open Competition)

 

 

Newspaper and Online News Division

Refereed Paper Research Session: What is News and What is Journalism?

Discussant: Eric Meyer, Illinois

 

 

Community College Journalism Association, Small Programs Interest Group and Scholastic Journalism Division

Refereed Paper Research Poster Session: Great Ideas For Teaching (G.I.F.T.)

Twitter Tweeting Twaining - Brian K. Johnson, Illinois

 

 

Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication

ASJMC Presidential Panel: Putting the “Ad” in Administration: JMC Leadership Opportunities and Challenges for those from Advertising and Public Relations Backgrounds

Fundraising-Jan Slater, Illinois 

 

 

Media Ethics and International Communication Divisions

Teaching Panel Session: Global Ethics: International Contexts and their Implications for Pedagogy 

Clifford G. Christians, Illinois

 

 

Award Panel Session: 2012 James Tankard Book Award Finalists

Radio Utopia: Postwar Audio Documentary in the Public Interest 

Matthew C. Ehrlich, Illinois 

 

 

Media Management and Economics Division

Refereed Paper Research Session: The Media Corporation:  Research on Corporate  Structures in 21st Century Media

Corporations as Indispensable Entities to the Media: How Interlocking Board of Directors  Influence Media Coverage*

Jun Ho Lee and Michael Bednar, Illinois (First Place Faculty Paper)

 

 

History and Cultural and Critical Studies Divisions

PF&R Panel Session: Theorizing Journalism in Time

How Journalism History Matters to Journalism Studies

John Nerone, Illinois 

 

 

Scholar-to-Scholar Refereed Paper Research Session

Communication Technology Division

Doing It All: An Exploratory Study of Personality Predictors of Media Multitasking

Gunwoo Yoon, Zongyuan Wang, Jun Ha Lee, Jen Moss and Brittany Duff, Illinois

 

 

Refereed Paper Research Session: Scholar-to-Scholar

Advertising Division

Discussant  Brittany Duff, Illinois 

 

Cultural and Critical Studies Division

Ain’t 3-D Women Hot?: The Female Body in Three-Dimensional Film, Avatar

Jungmin Kwon, Illinois at Urbana Champaign

 

Visual Communication Division

Discussant: Erik Meyer, Illinois

 

 

Communication Theory and Methodology Division

Refereed Paper Research Session: Methods and Analysis

Tradeoffs Between Webcam, Chat and Face-to-face Focus Groups 

Katie Abrams, Illinois; Sebastian Galindo, University of Florida; Yoo Jin Song, Illinois; Glenn Wang, Illinois;

ChanJu Lee, Illinois

 

 

Visual Communication and Communication Technology Divisions

Teaching Panel Session: The Best of the Web

Individual Innovation

First Place: Overtown: Inside/Out

Charles “Stretch” Ledford, Illinois/Miami

 

 

Graduate Student Interest Group

Refereed Paper Research Session: Media and Mass Communication Across the Globe:  International Perspectives 

Spectacularizing Queers: How Young Females are Embraced by the Media Industry in South Korea

Jungmin Kwon, Illinois

 

 

Panel Session: Bringing the Knight News Challenge Apps to Life in the Classroom

Moderating/Presiding: Jan Slater, Illinois and Paul Parsons, Elon 

 

 

Political Communication Interest Group

Refereed Paper Research Session: Campaigns and Elections 

Parent-Child Communication Patterns, School Political Discussions, News Media Use and Adolescent Knowledge and Political Interest in the 2008 Presidential Election

Chang-Dae Ham, Illinois-Urbana Champaign; Joonghwa Lee, Middle Tennessee State, and Esther Thorson, Missouri

 

 

Mass Communication and Society Division

Refereed Paper Research Session: Top Papers

Why Share in the Social Media Sphere: An Integration of Uses and Gratification and Theory of Reasoned Acton (Fourth place top faculty paper)

Chang-Dae Ham, Illinois-Urbana Champaign; Joonghwa Lee, Middle Tennessee State