AEJMC Sponsors First “National News Engagement Day”

Volume 47 No. 2 | January 2014

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AEJMC Sponsors First “National News Engagement Day”

Imagine a day when everyone engages with news in some form or fashion.That’s the idea behind “National News Engagement Day,” a day to encourage peo-ple of any age to read, watch, like, tweet, post, text, email, listen to, or commenton news. An initiative of AEJMC President Paula Poindexter, “National News En-gagement Day” was created to make engaging with news a priority in societyagain.

For some young people, news is not just a low priority, it’s absent from theirlives. That’s why the most recent Pew Research Center biennial news consumptionsurvey called 29% of young people “newsless.” On a typical day they did not getnews from traditional news platforms, cell phones or social networks. Rather thanremaining on the sidelines observing news’ declining relevance in the lives of Mil-lennials and older generations, AEJMC is leading the effort to elevate the impor-tance of engaging with news. This effort starts with “National News EngagementDay,” which will be Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2014.

“National News Engagement Day” will not only contribute to an informed so-ciety, which is part of AEJMC’s mission, it will encourage people of all ages to ex-plore news and raise awareness about the importance of being informed.Additionally “National News Engagement Day” will help people discover the bene-fits of news, whether giving them something new to talk and tweet about or mak-ing them feel empowered as they learn news can be helpful in their lives.

Planning for “National News Engagement Day” has begun. A steering com-mittee to organize the event has been appointed. A logo design and special AEJMCwebsite are in the works. Activities and videos to encourage engagement withnews and increase awareness of “National News Engagement Day” are being de-veloped. Plus, there is a new AEJMC award that recognizes top research papersthat provide insight into the news audience and its relationship with news (see p.11).

On “National News Engagement Day,” it is hoped that colleges and universi-ties across the country will sponsor one of the many news engagement activitiesthat will be posted on the website created for this event. One activity, for exam-ple, might be finding a news story of interest and “liking” it and encouraging oth-ers to do the same. Campus and local media might “adopt” a middle or high schoolclass and talk about the process of reporting a story. Civic engagement organiza-tions can sponsor town halls and round tables where news stories that enhancecivic participation are discussed. And, of course, everyone can take and tweet aphoto or video of themselves engaging with news.

Through “National News Engagement Day,” AEJMC can expand its reach be-

What’s the “Takeaway” from Working in the Industry?

Arthur Santana, Houston, meets with BrianLamb at C-SPAN in August during his “extern-ship.”

Six AEJMC members each had theopportunity to work for two weeks lastsummer in six different media outlets asmembers of the 2013-14 ScrippsHoward/AEJMC Social Media ExternshipProgram. These “externs” were to seeand experience how the industry is in-corporating new social media into theirnews operations.

What was the most important“takeaway” from their experiences?

Arthur Santana, Houston, spent histwo weeks at C-SPAN in Washington,where he found social media being usedin a variety of ways. Via Tweet, eventsare promoted one day before, duringand after an event, Santana said. C-SPAN alerts reporters via social media

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By Paula Poindexter2013-14 AEJMC PresidentUniversity of Texas at Austin

Fifty years ago, a Journalism & Mass Communication Quar-terly classic “A Profile of the Daily Newspaper Non-Reader” pro-claimed reading a newspaper to be “one of the most thoroughlyinstitutionalized behaviors of Americans.” The authors, whosestudy found that 87% of the population read newspapers, couldnot have envisioned the dramatic decline in newspaper readingover the past half century or that engagement with news couldbecome endangered. More people, of course, are getting newsonline and from social media, but it’s a long way from the 87%who read newspapers in 1964. Twitter, it turns out, can barelyclaim to be a source for news. According to the Pew ResearchCenter, only 8% of Americans go to Twitter for news.

Today news is available on demand 24/7 and it’s neverbeen easier, faster or more convenient to engage with news byreading, watching, listening to, discussing, liking, commenting onor sharing in various ways. Using a news app on a smartphone ortablet to get news literally takes seconds—that is, for people whowant to engage with news. Unfortunately, today, too few peopleare committed to getting news. I hope to change that with myAEJMC presidential initiative, “National News Engagement Day.”

The idea for “National News Engagement Day” came to mewhile writing the final chapter of my book Millennials, News,and Social Media: Is News Engagement a Thing of the Past? Thebook explored news consumption habits and attitudes through agenerational lens. While the primary focus of the book was theMillennial Generation born in the 1980s and 1990s, this younggeneration was also compared with its parents’ generation,Baby Boomers, born between 1946 and 1964. The MillennialGeneration, which is the generation we teach in our journalismand communication classes, is unlike any previous generation.Not only is the Millennial Generation the most educated andmost diverse, it grew up on the Internet and came of age on so-cial media, mobile devices and apps. Engaging with news is sim-ply not a priority in this generation’s lives. Unfortunately, newsalso does not appear to be that important in the lives of someBaby Boomers, the parents of Millennials.

According to survey results reported in my book, the ma-jority of both Baby Boomers and Millennials do not find keepingup with news enjoyable and the two generations do not dependon news to help with their daily lives. Only 44% of Millennials

agreed that it is important to be informed and even fewer (31%)agreed that people who are important to them think being in-formed is important. Perhaps the statistic reported in the bookthat most motivated my wanting to start a day to stress the im-portance of engaging with news was the response to a surveyquestion that equated being informed with being empowered.Only about one-tenth of Millennials and Baby Boomers felt em-powered by being informed.

The most recent Pew Research Center biennial news con-sumption survey report confirms statistics from my book andhelps make the case for a “National News Engagement Day.”Unless we as the largest association of journalism and masscommunication educators, professionals and graduate studentstake a leadership role in trying to address a problem that is cen-tral to who we are and what we teach, this problem mayworsen. This has enormous implications for journalism and com-munication schools, the communications industry, our nation’scivic health and the public good.

Following the news is no longer an institutionalized behav-ior among Americans and ignoring news could become thenorm. In fact, a Pew Research Center report called 29% of youngpeople “newsless,” because on a typical day they did not getnews from traditional news platforms, cell phones or social net-works. Unless something is done, the “newsless” populationcould increase among young people and expand to include allage groups, which would put us on the path to becoming a na-tion of news illiterates. Anyone who doubts news illiteracy maybe in our future should take note of the types of news offeredand the percentage of people following that news. According tothe same Pew report, except for weather, which half of thosesurveyed followed, far fewer than one-third closely follow 10types of news: crime (28%), sports (26%), community (26%),health (23%), local government (21%), politics/Washington(17%), science/technology (16%), business/finance (15%), inter-national affairs (14%), and entertainment (11%).

“National News Engagement Day” is not just about engag-ing with news; it is also an opportunity for the public to betterunderstand journalism’s purpose, principles and process, includ-ing how journalists verify information while gathering and re-porting news. If the public understood that verification ofinformation is a universal principle of journalism, the publicwould be more knowledgeable about what constitutes crediblenews, which could both positively affect news engagement andeven reverse the public’s increasingly negative view of the press.

I encourage you to read the “National News EngagementDay” cover story to learn how you can participate in this daythat encourages engaging with news. By establishing an annualday that makes being informed a national priority, we will con-tribute to an informed society, an important component ofAEJMC’s mission. We will show current and future generationsthat becoming informed is empowering, enjoyable, helpful fordaily life and essential for a healthy democracy.

The first “National News Engagement Day” will be Tuesday,Oct. 7, 2014.

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President-electElizabeth Toth, University of Maryland

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Past PresidentKyu Ho Youm, University of Oregon

PF&R Committee ChairJane B. Singer, City University London

Research Committee ChairDavid Perlmutter, Texas Tech University

Teaching Committee ChairSusan Keith, Rutgers UniversityPublications Committee Chair

Julie Andsager, University of Iowa Council of Divisions Chair

Bob Trumpbour, Pennsylvania State University-Altoona Council of Divisions Vice Chair

Chris Roberts, University of AlabamaCouncil of Affiliates Chair

Sue Porter, Scripps Howard FoundationASJMC President

Don Heider, Loyola University ChicagoASJMC President-elect

Ann Brill, University of KansasCommission on the Status of Minorities Chair

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yond journalism and communication departments. By involving every AEJMC mem-ber, every campus and every state in “National News Engagement Day,” AEJMC canmake a difference today and tomorrow in journalism and communication educa-tion, the media and communications industry, and this democratic society as awhole. For more information about “National News Engagement Day,” please see“From the President,” p. 2.

about events or key quotes from events regularly and endeavors to “engage the au-dience (often via Faceook) with questions or with a poll. #C–SPANCHAT is alsobeing newly used for audience engagement.”

Leigh Wright, Murray State, spent two weeks with Scripps Treasure CoastNewspapers in Fort Lauderdale, FL, and found that, “Students need to know how tocode, even if they fuss about it. I watched several times as the homepage editor hadto get into the website and re-configure the coding for a particular piece of embed-ded social media or interactive content.

“Students also need to know how to use all these social media tools, but theyhave to know how to write and report effectively first. They must be able to pro-duce good content.”

Pam Fine, Kansas, spent her two weeks in New York City with DNAinfo.comand said, “It was helpful to see how routine it has become for editors and reportersto use social media to promote their work and to find information and sources forstories. The staff at DNAinfo.com was particularly skilled and enthusiastic aboutusing Facebook and Twitter for these purposes.

“It was also eye opening to see the editors routinely monitor real-time analy-tics to help them make decisions about story placement, day-parting, Tweeting andother potential coverage and audience-building tactics. I learned about specific soft-ware tools I wasn’t familiar with,” she said. “The externship experience reinforcedthe notion that social media has been firmly inculcated into the work of reportersand editors and that J-schools need to make it an essential part of coursework.”

The class of 2013-14 Scripps Howard/AEJMC Social Media Externs will have apanel discussion of their experiences during AEJMC’s Montreal Conference in Au-gust; date and time will be announced this spring.

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Knight Foundation Offers Free Digital Resource for Journalism Educators

Knight Foundation has just published a freedigital book on the future of journalism, that withone click turns into a teaching tool.

Searchlights and Sunglasses: Field Notesfrom the Digital Age of Journalism has a learninglayer with 1,000 lesson plan ideas, resources andtools for students from high school to the collegelevel.

The book, available at searchlightsandsun-glasses.org, was developed in collaboration withthe University of Missouri’s Donald W. ReynoldsJournalism Institute.


AEJMC Members May Nominate for Hillier Krieghbaum Under-40 Award

AEJMC’s History Division is soliciting entries for its award for the best jour-nalism and mass communication history book of 2013. The award is given annu-ally, and the winning author will receive a plaque and a cash prize at the August2014 AEJMC Conference in Montréal. The competition is open to any author of arelevant history book regardless of whether he or she belongs to AEJMC or theHistory Division. Authorship is defined as the person or persons who wrote thebook, not just edited it. Only those books with a 2013 copyright date will be ac-cepted. Compilations, anthologies, articles and monographs will be excluded be-cause they qualify for the Covert Award, another AEJMC History Divisioncompetition.

Entries must be received by Feb. 3. Submit four copies of each book, alongwith the author’s mailing address, telephone number, and email address, to:

John P. FerréAEJMC History Book Award ChairDepartment of Communication310 Strickler HallUniversity of LouisvilleLouisville, KY 40292

Contact Ferré at 502-852-6490 or [email protected] for questions.

Nominations for AEJMC’s annual Krieghbaum Under-40 Award are now being accepted.The award honors AEJMC members under 40 years of age who have shown outstanding achievement and effort in all

three AEJMC areas: teaching, research and public service. The late Hillier Krieghbaum, former New York University professor emeritus and 1972 AEJMC president, created and funded

the award in 1980. Nominees must be under 40 at the time of the April 1 deadline. They must also be AEJMC members in goodstanding at the time of the nomination and during the preceding year.

AEJMC’s three elected standing committee chairs, or other designees, and AEJMC’s executive di-rector (non-voting) serve as the award’s selection committee. Selection of the nominee is based onthe content of his/her packet of materials. This award does not require the nominee to duplicatehis/her tenure and promotion packet.

The committee reserves the right not to present the award.Nominations should contain:• a letter from an AEJMC member (other than the nominee) describing in detail the candidate’s

professional record in teaching, research and service;• one additional letter of support from a colleague (on or off campus) who is also an AEJMC

member;• a full vita.Additional materials:• no more than five total of any combination of the following: abstracts of research findings, professional papers or pub-

lished articles;• no more than five course outlines or innovative teaching tools;• no more than five teaching evaluations, citations or other recognitions pertaining to the nominee.All entries should be submitted by email in several files (PDF or Word formats) by 5 p.m. (Eastern time) on April 1 to aejm-

[email protected]. Type “Under-40 Award” in the email subject line. For questions, contact Jennifer McGill at the above email address or 803-798-0271.

History Division Seeks Entries for Best JMC History Book Award

Krieghbaum

Apply for Passports for Montreal Conference

AEJMC members are encour-aged to apply now for passportsand/or visas to attend AEJMC’s Aug.6-9 Conference in Montreal,Canada.

For passport information, goto http:// travel.state.gov/pass-port/get/first/ first_830.html

For visa information, go tohttp://www.cic.gc.ca/english/visit/visas.asp?country=United%20States%20citizens%20and%20permanent%20residents

AEJMC can provide memberswith a “letter of invitation” thatsome countries require when issu-ing visas. Contact Janet Harley atAEJMC for more information, [email protected].


Comparison of AEJMC Paper Submissions and Acceptances, 2012-2013 2012 2013

DIVISIONS Submitted Accepted %Accepted Submitted Accepted %Accepted Advertising 109 54 49.5 92 46 50.0 Communicating Science, Health and Risk 123 55 44.7 148 69 46.6 Communication Technology (CTEC) 144 77 53.4 113 57 50.4 Communication Theory & Methodology 95 45 47.3 85 51 60.0 Cultural & Critical Studies 97 43 44.3 87 43 49.4 Electronic News 31 18 58.0 38 19 50.0 History 83 42 50.6 66 34 51.5 International Communication 119 60 50.4 108 56 51.8 Law and Policy 71 32 45.0 60 28 46.6 Magazine 20 9 45.0 13 9 69.2 Mass Communication & Society 149 73 48.9 147 76 51.7 Media Ethics 23 14 60.8 42 23 54.7 Media Management & Economics 37 21 56.7 39 16 41.0 Minorities & Communication 42 21 50.0 54 25 46.2 Newspaper and Online News 86 43 50.0 115 58 50.4 Public Relations 137 61 44.5 137 58 42.3 Scholastic Journalism 16 10 62.5 14 8 57.1 Visual Communication 42 21 50.0 39 22 56.4

TOTALS FOR DIVISIONS 1424 699 49.1 1397 698 49.9 Averages 79.1 38.8 49.0 77.6 38.7 49.8 Minimum 16 9 56.2 13 8 61.5 Maximum 149 77 51.6 148 76 51.3 INTEREST GROUPS/ COMMISSIONS Submitted Accepted %Accepted Submitted Accepted %Accepted Civic and Citizen Journalism 23 9 39.1 16 10 62.5 Community Journalism 12 8 66.6 10 5 50.0 Entertainment Studies 60 29 48.3 63 33 52.3 Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender 15 7 46.6 14 7 50.0 Graduate Student 53 24 45.2 58 22 37.9 Internships and Careers 6 4 66.6 5 3 60.0 Political Communication 75 37 49.3 99 53 53.5 Religion and Media 35 17 48.5 35 18 51.4 Small Programs 8 3 37.5 4 4 100.0 Sports Communication 43 21 48.8 56 24 42.8 Commission/Status of Women 38 20 52.6 44 22 50.0 TOTALS FOR INTEREST GROUPS/COMMISSIONS 368 179 48.6 404 201 49.7 Averages 36.8 17.9 48.6 40.4 20.1 49.7 Minimum 6 3 50.0 4 3 75.0 Maximum 75 37 49.3 99 53 53.5

AEJMC Welcomes New Staffer Kathy Bailey Kathy Bailey started as AEJMC’s new Business Manager/Accountant in mid-December.

Bailey is responsible for our receivables and payables, financial management and analysis, filingfinancial and IRS forms, payroll and honoraria, maintenance of our building, liaison for ourrental space and oversight of our benefits plan.

Bailey has more than 25 years of experience in accounting and finance roles. Before com-ing to AEJMC, she most recently worked for four years as an accountant for an insurance com-pany, and for four years as an acccounts payable supervisor for IAP Worldwide Services, aninternational company specializing in global-scale logistics, facilities management, and ad-vanced professional and technical services

You may contact her at [email protected] or 803-798-0273. Bailey


Did you know AEJMC members receive complimentary online subscriptions to Journalism & Mass Communication Quar-terly, Journalism & Mass Communication Educator, and Journalism & Communication Monographs as a benefit of membership?

You can access the AEJMC journals on the SAGE Journals platform by following the instructions below. Once activated, youwill be able to view all articles and search all online issues.

(1) Go to the SAGE Journals Subscription Activation page.(2) Enter your AEJMC membership number in the field provided. (This number can be

found on your mailing label used for AEJMC News and AEJMC’s journals.)(3) Select “Association for Educators in Journalism & Mass Communication (AEJMC)” from

the drop-down menu list.(4) Click “Submit” and follow the prompts on the screen.(5) On the “Instructions” page, check your personal data and enter a username* and pass-

word* (be sure to write down your selections so you can access your journal in the future).(6) Click “Submit” to confirm the activation.(7) Once complete, return to each journal page (links provided below) and start accessing

content.*If you forget your username or password, please visit http://online.sagepub.com/cgi/

recnamepwd. Then visit the websites of JMCQ, JMCE and Monographs and start reading. Make sure to activate your AEJMC membership today to start reading Journalism & Mass

Communication Quarterly, Journalism & Mass Communication Educator and Journalism & Communication Monographs onlinenow!

AEJMC Members Have Online Access to Journals

History Division Seeks Nominations for Covert Award

Journal Accepting Applications for Editor

AEJMC’s History Division announces the 30th annual competition for the Covert Award in Mass Communication History.The $500 award will be presented to the author of the best mass communication history article or essay published in

2013. Book chapters in edited collections also may be nominated. The award was endowed by the late Catherine L. Covert, professor of public communications at Syracuse University and

former head of the History Division.Nominations, including seven copies of the article nominated, should be sent by March 1 to: Prof. Nancy L. Roberts,

Communication Department, University at Albany, 1400 Washington Ave., SS-351, Albany, NY 12222.For further information, contact Roberts at [email protected].

AEJMC’s International Communication Division is seeking applications for the position of editor of the InternationalCommunication Research Journal, the division’s bi-annual, peer-reviewed international journal.

The position is for a five-year term, which will begin Aug. 15. The journal’s editor is responsible for the prompt processing of all manuscripts, coordinating two issues per year, han-

dling all correspondence and subscriptions, preparing an annual report and presenting the report at the division’s meeting atthe AEJMC annual conference. The editor should be able to write and edit clearly, to communicate effectively with authorsand to have an understanding of and appreciation for a broad range of research methods used in international mass commu-nication scholarship.

It would be helpful if the new editor is able to get the support of his/her academic unit, where the journal will behoused, for help with postage, photocopying, editorial assistance and technical support.

A letter of application, a curriculum vita, a letter of support from a unit head and a list of three references with contactinformation should be sent, in one email, to both ICRJ Editorial Selection Committee Chair Robyn Goodman, Alfred Univer-sity, and ICRJ Editor Zeny Sarabia-Panol, Middle Tennessee, at [email protected]; [email protected].

Application materials must arrive by March 1.

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Bowles Award Recognizes Public-Service Record

AEJMC’s International Communication Division is accepting entries for its student contest in multimedia news story writingfor the year 2013-14.

The contest is open to all undergraduate students. Entries must be nonfiction, journalistic stories with mutimedia supporton a topic related to an international issue. The news story should have an international angle on a local story or it may be an in-ternational story with a local angle. It should be a written story submitted as a class assignment and/or published on the univer-sity website or on a news media website (stories published between April 6, 2013, and April 5, 2014, will be considered). Storieswill be judged based on criteria such as originality, news values, relevance of the story idea, journalistic merit and multimediasupport. The story as well as the multimedia support should have been authored/executed by the same student.

Rules:(1) Students may enter one news story with multimedia support.(2) All elements of the multimedia news story (defined as a journalistic, written, online story supported by multimedia ele-

ments such as Flash, photography, audio and/or video) should be authored/executed by the same student.(3) The completed entry form (one per entry) must be signed by a faculty member attesting to the originality of the multi-

media news story and the accuracy of the information provided. The faculty member will have to attest that the story is postedor had earlier been posted on a website and provide the correct URL.

(4) Submit a printed copy of the story and mention the correct URL or send a disk with the multimedia elements and sendthis along with the completed entry form via regular mail.

Cash awards of $100, $75 and $50 will be given to the top three entries. In addition, the winners will receive certificates.Send entry and completed form to ICD-Student Multimedia News Story Contest, Dr. Sandy Rao, School of Journalism and MassCommunication, 102, Old Main, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX 78666, tel: 512-245-2656/3790, email: [email protected] deadline is April 6.

AEJMC’s International Communication Division Announces Student Contest in Multimedia News Story Writing

AEJMC is accepting nominations for the Dorothy Bowles Award for Outstanding Public Service.This award will recognize an AEJMC member who has a sustained and significant public-service record that has helped

build bridges between academics and professionals in mass communications, either nationally or locally, and been actively en-gaged within the association.

Ideally the award will go to an AEJMC member who has been active in one or more divisions/interest groups, electedstanding committees or other association leadership positions AND who has engaged with other communication industry-re-lated organizations (such as the Student Press Law Center, Society of Professional Journalists, Journalism Education Associa-tion, Public Relations Society of America, National Association of Broadcasters, etc.) OR done other work locally to promoteinteraction between academics and professionals.

This award is designed to recognize someone who has not been recognized or honored for his/her public service in thepast. Members who have served on the AEJMC Board are not eligible to be considered for the award until they have been offthe Board for at least four years. When merited, one award will be presented per year. The recipient will receive $1,000 incash and an award. The award will be presented during the AEJMC Business Meeting at the annual Conference.

Nominees must be fulltime classroom teachers (not administrators) for the previous 10 years; must teach in an area ofjournalism/mass communication; must have been members of AEJMC for the past three years; must have a sustained and sig-nificant record of public service to AEJMC; and must have a sustained and significant record of service to programs or activitiesthat promote connections between the academy and JMC industries (either on his/her home campus, or through other profes-sional-based associations).

Nominations, including self-nominations, should contain a two-page letter that describes the nominee’s service to bothareas of public service; two additional letters of support affirming the nominee’s service (one from each area); a 500-wordstatement from the nominee describing his/her views on how public service activities (in general or his/her particular serviceactivities) complement the traditional teaching, research, and service roles of higher education faculty (the statement from theaward recipient will be published in the September issue of AEJMC News); and full vita of the nominee.

Nominations should be received by March 15. Send nominations via email to Jennifer McGill at [email protected]. Forquestions, contact McGill.


AEJMC is again seeking proposals from its members to de-velop innovative and creative academic applications of proj-ects already funded through the Knight News Challenge.

The goal is to implement these projects in ways that enhancethe education of future journalists for the new media land-scape. This program is funded by the John S. and James L.Knight Foundation.

AEJMC will award two grants of up to $8,000 each. Proposalsmust create an academic application (or a use by collegemedia) of the open source code or platform already createdby one of the Knight News Challenge Grant recipients. Pro-jects where code and platforms have been developed and areready for use include DocumentCloud, SPS, Spot.Us, Ushahidi,Selectricity, Politiwidgets, FeedBrewer and SnagFilms. To seethese and other project products, visit Knightapps.org. Appli-cants should check to make sure that the platform/softwarethey wish to use is still active.

Proposal Guidelines:

• Projects would need to be fully implemented on campuswithin a year of receiving the grant.

• Full-time faculty members (either an individual or a group)would be eligible for a grant. Faculty members must be cur-rent AEJMC members and can be from any country. If yourproposal is selected for funding, you must remain a currentAEJMC member for the duration of the grant.

• Proposals need to be specific, must show innovation andimagination, and must use a software/platform createdthrough a Knight News Challenge grant in a classroom or labsetting or in college media.

• The grants should be for new ideas/uses, not to fund initia-tives already under way.

Proposals should include:

• A three-to-four page proposal outlining the academic appli-cation being developed, the specific Challenge Fund soft-

ware/platform being used, and how this will benefit stu-dents on your campus.

• A one-page letter from your unit chair, director or deanendorsing the proposal.

• A budget outlining cost of development and implementa-tion. Funds may be used for course materials, nominal con-sultant fees forassistance inadapting soft-ware, relevantoutside speak-ers to travel tocampus, sur-veys, graduatestudent assis-tance and website development. Funds may NOT be usedfor equipment, faculty stipends or university administra-tive/overhead fees. All funds must be used solely for theproject.

• A timeline for the project.

• A detailed outline of how the application will be assessedand evaluated.

Grant Timetable:

• Proposals should be in ONE file (either a PDF or Word doc-ument) and are due to AEJMC by 5 p.m. (Eastern time) Sat-urday, Feb. 1, via email to [email protected].

• Grant recipients will be expected to report on their newapplications during the 2014 AEJMC Conference in Mon-treal. (AEJMC will provide each selected project with an ad-ditional $500 in travel assistance to attend that conference.)

• The final report and accounting of the grant funds are dueFeb. 1, 2015. (Funds not used must be returned to AEJMC.)

• Questions? Contact Jennifer McGill, AEJMC executive di-rector, at [email protected] or 803-798-0271.

Knight Foundation Offers News Challenge Grants

The Society of Professional Journalists is accepting submissions for its 2013 Sigma Delta Chi Awards, which recognize thebest in professional journalism.

Submissions must be received by Feb. 7, and works must have been published or broadcast in 2013 to be considered.The contest is open to any U.S. media outlet or international SPJ members; entries may be submited online at awards.spj.org.Winners will be notified in May 2014.

SPJ Seeks Submissions for Sigma Delta Chi Awards


The mid-November session at the AEJMC Headquarters had one goal — schedule the Montreal Conference timeslots forall the divisions and interest groups, as well as CSW, the Council of Affiliates and the Community College Journalism Associa-tion. It was the December “chipping” session, but withoutthe “chips” and without the travel. And it worked.

Normally some 60 division and interest group officerstravel to a location and individually schedule their confer-ence timeslots in a lottery rotation. Each group starts with astack of poker chips. As groups schedule their sessions, theythrow a poker chip into the center of the room to keep trackof the sessions remaining.

This year, only two people traveled to accomplish thesame thing. Council Chair Bob Trumpbour of Penn State Al-toona and Vice Chair Chris (Roll Tide) Roberts of Alabamaflew to Columbia, SC, to orchestrate the new process.

Every programming group sent a prioritized list of ses-sion requests. Central Office staff served as the chippers forfive or six groups. When a group’s name was randomlydrawn the next session on the list was programmed into thenext available time slot.

And so it went round after round. Four hours later, itwas finished.

Tweaks were made along the way so that a group didnot have 8:15 a.m. sessions every day. Where possible, pan-els on similar panel topics were shifted so they did not com-pete in the same timeblock.

As it turned out, this was the perfect year to try this process. The weather in Dallas during our December meeting wasicy, snowy and did not get above freezing for three days. Of the 28 people expected for our smaller meeting, only 11 actuallymade it to Dallas. Kudos to those who persevered and made it to Dallas in spite of the challenging weather: Rick Kenney,Jane Marcellus, Jennifer McGill, Radhika Parameswaran, David Perlmutter, Joe Phelps, Jane Singer, Dan Stout, Elizabeth Toth,Bob Trumpbour and Kyu Ho Youm.

New Conference Programming Process a Success

Bob Trumpbour fills in slots for conference programming as ChrisRoberts and AEJMC staffers assist.

The Advertising Educational Foundation (AEF) invites applications for its 2014 Visiting Professor Program (VPP).The VPP is a two-week fellowship for tenured or tenure-track professors of advertising, marketing, communications and

the liberal arts. In 2013, 13 professors were hosted by advertising agencies in Atlanta, Chicago and New York City. Whether aprofessor is placed with an agency, a marketing or media company depends upon his/her area of expertise. The number ofplacements in the VPP is contingent upon the number of companies willing to host a professor. Preference is given to profes-sors with little or no industry experience and to those who have not already participated in the program. The program is onlyoffered to professors teaching in the United States.

The VPP’s objective is to expose professors to day-to-day operations of an advertising agency, marketing or media com-pany; and to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas between academia and industry. The VPP gives professors a greaterunderstanding of and appreciation for the industry while host companies have an opportunity to develop closer ties to acade-mia.

The program will run from June 2-13 and begins with an orientation followed by individual fellowships. Apply only ifyour academic and personal responsibilities allow you to participate for the full two weeks. Notification will be made inApril. Host companies pay housing and per diem. Professors pay for travel to/from the host city, as well as out-of-pocketexpenses.

Visit the On-Campus section on www.aef.com to apply and submit your CV and statement. Letter of recommendation(on school letterhead) must be mailed and postmarked by Jan. 31. Letter of recommendation is not accepted via fax or email.For more information, contact Sharon Hudson, vice president, program manager, at [email protected] or 212-986-8060.

Advertising Educational Foundation Offers Visiting Professor Program

By Susan Keith, chairAEJMC Standing Committee on TeachingAssociate ProfessorDepartment of Journalism and Media StudiesSchool of Communication and InformationRutgers [email protected]

At the beginning of the fall semester a few years ago, twoyoung women stepped into my office and greeted me warmly.They spoke as if I knew them, though I couldn’t recall meetingeither. Finally, they noticed my confusion and one said, “Oh, Dr.Keith, we were in your Newer Media Law and Policy course!”

They identified themselves and I realized they had, indeed,been in a summer course I had just taught as part of the Mas-ter’s in Communication and Information Studies program at Rut-gers University. I failed to recognize them not because the classhad been so large that I couldn’t learn students’ faces but be-cause the course, like all the offerings in the MCIS program’sDigital Media track, which my department staffs, was fully on-line.

The course management system we used did not displayavatars for students, so although students knew what I lookedlike from the headshot I had placed on the course syllabus, all Ihad seen of them were thumbnail images from their student IDs.In fact, I had thought throughout the summer that one of thewomen, who had a somewhat unusual first name, was male!

The students told me they had enjoyed the course, and Itold them I had enjoyed their questions, comments and final pa-pers. Then one of the students said something like, “I just wishthe course could have been face to face.”

Ah! Had it been, I would not have volunteered to teach thecourse in summer. I commute an hour (by car) to two hours(subway/train) each way. Coming to campus several times aweek in the summer would have seriously cut into researchtime.

The student’s comments, however, implied a legitimateconcern over presence, a frequent issue in asynchronous onlinecourses. Although online courses can give a voice to shy stu-dents or to international students concerned about their spokenEnglish, other students sometimes miss the camaraderie ofclassmates they can see and a professor who is “right there.”

However, if you are teaching fully online courses — a topicthat will be addressed in the plenary session being organized byAEJMC’s Standing Committee on Teaching for our Montreal Con-ference — there are things you can do to make students feelyour presence in the virtual classroom:

Let students see you right away. I put a small mugshot onmy syllabus and have students, before they do anything else,watch a short video of me welcoming them to the course. Al-though I don’t typically lecture straight to the camera in onlinecourses, I think a video showing me explaining course expecta-tions helps make the human connection.

Answer email more rapidly than in a face-to-face course:For students in off-campus, asynchronous online courses, email(or CMS-based message) is the only way to connect with the in-structor. You ignore it at the peril of your teaching evaluationscores.

Encourage cooperative work. As an undergrad, I groanedat the prospect of group work. Now I think at least small groupassignments can help alleviate a sense of isolation in onlinecourses. Encourage students to go beyond email as they plan.If the course management system doesn’t support video chat-ting, have them try Google+ Hangout (http://www.google.com/hangouts/), which allows multiple people to talk and seeeach other.

Think critically about discussion boards: Many onlineinstructors have students post to discussion boards as a wayto simulate in-class discussions. I’m not convinced, however,that most of us use those boards well. Do students see any evi-dence, through your on-board responses or timely feedback,that you are reading their work? Do you work — behind thescenes, through email — with students who make erroneousassertions on the boards to help them publically convey correctinformation? Do you review what students discussed in thelast discussion board assignment before moving on to the nextunit?

Consider some synchronous chats: I offer hourlong syn-chronous group text- or video-based chats eight or 10 times asemester and four times in a five-week summer session. Becausemy online courses are advertised as asynchronous, I cannot re-quire students to take part, but I find that many are hungry forthe connection and join multiple times, especially before big as-signments. (I ask students to look over my planned dates andtimes in the first week of the course, and I adjust if any studentsays he or she cannot make any of the sessions.) I plan a discus-sion topic, usually tied to course content in current events. Thefirst thing I do, however, is ask whether students have questions.Sometimes they have many questions and answering them takesthe full hour!

These are just a few ways to give students a sense of yourpresence in online courses.

What are yours? I would love to hear. Drop a note to [email protected].


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Important Paper Submissions Information

The programming groups within AEJMC’s Council of Divi-sions invite submission of original, non-published, English lan-guage only research papers to be considered for presentationat the AEJMC Conference, Aug. 6 to 9 in Montreal, Canada.Specific requirements for each competition — including limitson paper length — are spelled out in the listing of groups andresearch chairs that appears below. Papers are to be submit-ted in English only.

All research papers must be uploaded through an onlineserver to the group appropriate to the paper’s topic via a linkon the AEJMC website: www.aejmc.org. The following uniformcall will apply to ALL AEJMC paper competitions. Additional in-formation specific to an individual group’s call is available atthe end of the uniform call information.

1. Submit the paper via the AEJMC website link (www.aejmc.org) to the AEJMC group appropriate to the paper’stopic. Format should be Word, WordPerfect, or a PDF. PDF for-mat is strongly encouraged.

2. The paper must be uploaded to the server no laterthan 11:59 p.m. (Central Daylight Time) Tuesday, April 1.

3. Also upload a paper abstract of no more than 75 words.4. Completely fill out the online submission form with au-

thor(s) name, affiliation, mailing address, telephone numberand email address. The title should be printed on the first pageof the text and on running heads on each page of text, as wellas on the title page. Do NOT include author’s name on runningheads or title page.

5. Papers uploaded with author’s identifying informationWILL NOT BE CONSIDERED FOR REVIEW AND WILL AUTOMATI-CALLY BE DISQUALIFIED FROM THE COMPETITION. ALL AEJMCDIVISIONS, INTEREST GROUPS AND COMMISSION PAPER SUB-MISSIONS WILL ABIDE BY THIS RULE WITHOUT EXCEPTION.NOTE: Follow instructions on how to submit a clean paper forblind reviewing.

AEJMC CoNFErENCE PAPEr CAll2014 Uniform Paper Callaejmc.org

6. Papers are accepted for peer review on the understand-ing that they are not already under review for other conferencesand that they have been submitted to only ONE AEJMC groupfor evaluation. Papers accepted for the AEJMC Conference shouldnot have been presented to other conferences or published inscholarly or trade journals prior to presentation at the confer-ence.

7. Student papers compete on an equal footing in open papercompetitions unless otherwise specified by the individual divisionor interest group. Individual group specifications are appended tothis uniform call.

8. Papers submitted with both faculty and student authors willbe considered faculty papers and are not eligible for student com-petitions.

9. At least one author of an accepted faculty paper must at-tend the conference to present the paper. If student authors can-not be present, they must make arrangements for the paper to bepresented.

10. If a paper is accepted, and the faculty author does notpresent the paper at the conference, and if a student author doesnot make arrangements for his/her paper to be presented by an-other, then that paper’s acceptance status is revoked. It may not beincluded on a vita.

11. Authors will be advised whether their paper has been ac-cepted by May 20 and may access a copy of reviewers’ commentsfrom the online server. Contact the paper chair if you are not noti-fied or have questions about paper acceptance.

Special note: Authors who have submitted papers and havenot been notified by May 20 MUST contact the division or interestgroup paper chair for acceptance information. The AEJMC CentralOffice may not have this information available.

12. Authors of accepted papers retain copyright of their pa-pers and are free to submit them for publication after presentationat the conference.

• Upload papers for the AEJMC 2014 Montreal, Canada, Conference beginning Jan. 15. Paper submitters should follow instruc-tions on the front page of the submission site to create your account and complete the information required.• Deadline for paper submissions is April 1 at 11:59 p.m. CDT. Any submissions after this time will not be accepted.• Before submitting your paper, please make certain that all author-identifying information has been removed and that all in-structions have been followed per the AEJMC uniform paper call.• A COVER SHEET or a sheet with the 75-word required ABSTRACT that is included with a paper upload should be EXCLUDEDfrom the page number limits set by all AEJMC Groups.

Papers uploaded with author’s identifying information displayed WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED FOR REVIEW AND WILL AUTOMATI-CALLY BE DISQUALIFIED FROM THE COMPETITION. All AEJMC Divisions, Interest Groups and Commissions will abide by the rulesbelow WITHOUT EXCEPTION.NOTE: Follow online instructions on how to submit a clean paper for blind review at aejmc.org/home/papers. Contact FeliciaGreenlee-Brown with comments, concerns and other Conference Paper Call inquiries at [email protected]

DIVISIONS

Advertising DivisionThe AEJMC Advertising Division in-

vites submissions of original papers thatclearly focus on some aspect of advertis-ing or advertising education. Various theo-retical orientations and methodologicalapproaches are welcome. Individual papersubmissions should not exceed 30 typed,double spaced pages (including all notes,references, tables, and figures) and shouldbe submitted to only one competitivepaper category in the Advertising Division:1) Advertising Research, 2) AdvertisingTeaching, 3) Professional Freedom & Re-sponsibility, 4) Special Topics, or 5) Stu-dent Papers. Papers exceeding 30 pages,or papers submitted to more than onepaper competition within the division, willnot be reviewed for consideration. For2014, the Advertising Division would liketo encourage submissions to the PF&Rcompetition of papers dealing with all as-pects of professional competencies anddevelopment within the advertising indus-try.

Research Papers: Submissionsshould be consistent with the style andformat of the Journalism & Mass Commu-nication Quarterly, the Journal of Advertis-ing or the International Journal ofAdvertising. Research papers that examinevarious aspects of advertising will be con-sidered. The topics for the Research PaperCategory could include advertising effec-tiveness, cross-cultural advertising, globaladvertising issues, advertising ethics, oreconomic, political, social and environ-mental aspects of advertising. For ques-tions, please contact Sela Sar, ResearchPaper Chair, University of Illinois at Ur-bana-Champaign. E-mail: [email protected]. Tel: (217) 244-1229.

Teaching Papers: Teaching papersare invited on any research that addressesteaching: innovations, effective ap-proaches, pedagogy, survey of the field,adoption of new technologies in the class-room, etc. However, keep in mind thiscompetition is for research papers onteaching, rather than teaching tips or per-sonal reflections. The style and format ofthe paper should conform to those in theJournal of Advertising Education or Jour-nalism & Mass Communication Educator.Papers submitted to the teaching compe-tition will be considered for review by the


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Journal of Advertising Education. Forquestions, please contact George Anghel-cev, Teaching Paper Chair, Penn State Uni-versity. E-mail: [email protected]. Tel: (814)865-4354.

Professional Freedom & Responsi-bility (PF&R) Papers: Often referred to asthe conscience of AEJMC, the goal ofPF&R papers is to extend knowledgeabout and understanding of gender, race,ethics, social, and cultural influences; val-ues; and free expression. Submissionsmay take the form of traditional researchpapers, but essays or critical analyses arealso welcome. Historical as well as con-temporary topics are appropriate. Oftenpapers submitted to the research andteaching competitions would nicely fitinto the PF&R category as well. This yearthe Ad Division had just one paper sub-mission in the PF&R category. We’d like tosee more! Examples of advertising topicsrelated to the PF&R mission could includepapers about food and tobacco advertis-ing which address ethical issues; and mi-nority representations in advertisingcontent as well as participation in the ad-vertising business, which ties into theracial, gender, and cultural inclusivenessmission of PF&R. For questions, pleasecontact Kelty Logan, PF&R Paper Chair,University of Colorado at Boulder. E-mail:[email protected]. Tel: (512) 809-5852.

Special Topics Papers: The specialtopics paper competition is a place for pi-oneering subjects, methods, and presen-tations. New approaches, innovation, andcreativity are encouraged. A variety of ad-vertising and advertising education topicsare welcome. For example, we live intimes of unprecedented technological in-novation. This technological revolutionhas created new platforms for the com-munication of brand messages; it has ac-celerated the globalization of brands andaudience segments; it has changed theway people consume media and the wayconsumers interact with one another; andit has changed the way we teach and doresearch in advertising. Papers whichfocus on the challenges posed by these re-cent transformations to the practice of ad-vertising are especially welcome. We alsowelcome exploratory and qualitative ap-proaches, such as case histories, ethno-graphies, critical studies, visual essays,and methodologically innovative research

on more traditional topics. Empirical re-search, critical reviews and conceptualpieces can be submitted. Submissionsmust be full papers (no abstracts or ex-tended abstracts). To be considered, thepapers should be maximum 30 pages inlength (double-spaced, 12 point TimesNew Roman or equivalent font, includingtables and references) and should con-form to the Chicago or APA style. If youhave any questions regarding the fit ofyour paper with this competition, or anyother inquiries, please contact Heidi Hen-nink-Kaminski, Special Topics Paper Chair,University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.E-mail: [email protected]. Tel: (919)962-2555.

Student Papers: Graduate and un-dergraduate students are invited to sub-mit original research dealing with anyadvertising-related topic. All sole- or co-authors of these papers must be students;papers co-authored by students and fac-ulty should be submitted to the ResearchPaper competition. The style and formatof the paper should conform to those inJournalism & Mass Communication Quar-terly, the Journal of Advertising or the In-ternational Journal of Advertising. A cashaward from the division and an additionalaward ($200) sponsored by the Interna-tional Journal of Advertising will be givenduring the Washington conference to thetop student paper. For questions, pleasecontact John Wirtz, Student Paper Chair,University of Illinois at Urbana-Cham-paign. E-mail: [email protected]. Tel:(217) 300-0368.

Communicating Science, Health, Environ-ment, and Risk Division

The Communicating Science, Health,Environment, and Risk Division invitespaper submissions that represent originalresearch related to science, health, envi-ronment, risk, and other topics relevant tothe communication of scientific informa-tion to the general public or specific popu-lations.

ComSHER welcomes papers that fol-low any disciplinary approaches and allmethodological orientations, both quanti-tative and qualitative.

To acknowledge research excellence,ComSHER offers the $1,000 Eason Prizefor the top student paper, which is the


largest paper award given to graduatestudents at AEJMC. Students competingfor top student paper and the accompany-ing $1,000 Eason Prize will be judged to-gether with other ComSHER facultysubmissions. The Eason Prize is awardedin memory of former University of Texasdoctoral candidate Lori Eason (1957-2002). Papers competing for the EasonPrize cannot be co-authored with faculty,and authors must identify their submis-sion as an Eason Prize entry on the coverpage.

In any one year, an individual can ap-pear as author or co-author on a maxi-mum of two (2) submitted researchpapers. If one individual appears as au-thor or co-author on more than two (2)submitted research papers, the ComSHERExecutive Committee will have the rightto disqualify some or all of the papers inquestion from the research competition.

All accepted papers must be pre-sented by a listed author, unless approvedin advance by the Executive Committee.Failure to appear to present can result inauthor(s) losing eligibility to submit to theDivision for one year.

Paper submissions should follow theAEJMC Uniform Paper Call Guidelines (nomore than 25 pages of double-spacedtext, plus references, tables, figures, andappendices). Note that due to policychanges across AEJMC, submissions withany residual identifying information willbe rejected. Before uploading your paper,exercise extra diligence to remove all au-thor identification from the document, in-cluding any file properties or obviousreference to self-citations.See www.aejmc.org/home/papers for tipson keeping your submission anonymous.Direct questions to Research ChairMichael Dahlstrom at [email protected] or608-469-9602.

Communication Technology DivisionThe Communication Technology Di-

vision encourages research submissionswhere the central focus is technology andchanges in the communication process re-sulting from technology. The division wel-comes theoretical and conceptual papersand a diversity of methodological ap-proaches.

Student Papers: Papers solely au-thored by students are especially encour-aged and are eligible to be entered for the

Jung-Sook Lee Student Paper competition.The Jung-Sook Lee Award recognizes thebest student paper, which makes “a sub-stantial contribution to the substance ormethod on a topic related to communica-tion technology and policy.” The awardhonors the division’s 1997-1998 researchchair, Jung-Sook Lee of the University ofSouthwestern Louisiana, who died soonafter the Baltimore conference in 1998.Authors of the top three student paperswill receive a cash award. In addition, theauthor of the best student paper will havehis or her conference registration fee paidby the division. For a paper to be consid-ered for this award, all of the authorsmust be undergraduate or graduate stu-dents enrolled during the 2013-2014 aca-demic year. Authors must type “Jung-SookLee Competition” in the upper-right cor-ner of the first page of text to be consid-ered for the award.

Faculty Papers: The division ispleased to present the third annual GeneBurd Top Faculty Research Paper Award,made possible by the generosity of Prof.Burd from the University of Texas –Austin. The $1,000 award recognizes thebest faculty paper submitted to the divi-sion. For a paper to be considered for thisaward, at least one of the authors must befaculty. Authors must type “Gene BurdCompetition” in the upper-right corner ofthe first page of text to be considered forthe award.

Winners of both awards will receivetheir prize and be recognized at the Wash-ington, D.C., conference. Submissions thatdo not win recognition in the Jung-SookLee Award or the Gene Burd Award arestill considered for acceptance along withopen competition submissions.

Open Competition: All other paperssubmitted to the division will be reviewedin an open competition. Please limit pa-pers to no more than 25 pages (double-spaced) in length, excluding tables andreferences. If you have any questions orrequire more information about the sub-mission process, please contact Bart Woj-dynski, CTEC research chair,at [email protected]

Communication Theory and MethodologyDivision

The CT&M Division accepts originalresearch papers that advance the litera-ture in mass communication theory, re-

search methods, or both. CT&M welcomesboth conceptual and data-based papersand is open to all methodological ap-proaches. Please refer to the Summer2013 CT&M newsletter for a complete listof topics and papers presented last year toget a better idea of the potential “fit” ofyour paper: http://aejmc.net/ctm/wpcon-tent/uploads/2013/06/summer2013.pdf.

Recent CT&M papers include re-search in political communication, healthcommunication, environmental communi-cation, computer-mediated communica-tion, international communication, andbroader media effects.

Paper Competitions: Papers submit-ted to CT&M can be submitted to theopen-call competition or the studentpaper competition. Winners of all awardswill be recognized in the conference pro-gram and/or at the CT&M members’meeting in Montreal.

In addition to the open-call and stu-dent competitions, CT&M recognizes thetop theoretical submission to the divisioneach year. A theory paper may extendwhat is known about the current workingsof a theory by including a data analysissection, or strictly extend the current the-ory literature without including data. Pa-pers submitted in the top theory papercompetition will also be considered forawards in the open-call and student com-petitions, as applicable.

We strongly encourage submissionsby students. Winners of the Chaffee-McLeod Award for Top Student Paper willbe awarded $250; two additional top stu-dent papers will also receive cash prizes.To be considered for the student papercompetition, all authors must be stu-dents, and the author(s) must type “Stu-dent Paper Competition” in the upperright-hand corner of first page of text.

Requirements: Please limit papersto no more than 25-pages (double-spaced)in length, excluding tables and references.Papers should follow APA style, have 1-inch margins, and use 12 point Times NewRoman font. Please limit papers to a totalof 35 pages total (including text, tables,and references). Please refer to theAEJMC general paper call for this year’sonline submission guidelines. Please makesure there is no identifying information inthe body of the paper or in the documentproperties. Co-authors cannot be addedafter a paper has been reviewed. At least


one author of an accepted faculty papermust attend the conference to present thepaper. If student authors cannot be pres-ent, they must make arrangements for thepaper to be presented by someone else.Failure to be present or provide a presen-ter for any paper will result in a one-yearban on the review of papers for all of theauthors involved. Authors of accepted pa-pers are required to forward papers to dis-cussants and moderators prior to theconference.

If you have any questions, please di-rect them to the research chair, KjerstinThorson ([email protected]).

Cultural and Critical Studies DivisionThe Cultural and Critical Studies Divi-

sion welcomes faculty and student sub-mission of original research thatis interdisciplinary in focus, theoreticallygrounded, and contributes to the study ofjournalism and media communication. Pa-pers that do not meet the AEJMC UniformCall for Papers requirements will not beaccepted.

The division invites research on a va-riety of topics and approaches including,but not limited to, historical studies, gen-der, race and class analyses of media,news analysis, audience analysis, politicaleconomy, literary analysis with a mediafoundation, philosophy of communication,ethics, and media criticism in general. CCSalso encourages work that challenges con-ventional approaches to media, examinesparadigmatic assumptions, and exploresinnovative ways of theorizing both newsand entertainment media.

The division presents awards to theauthors of the top-ranking faculty and stu-dent submissions. Only one paper per au-thor is accepted for review andsubmissions must not be under considera-tion elsewhere for presentation or publi-cation.

Faculty and student submissions willundergo separate blind review processesby faculty-only judges. Student authors –undergraduate and graduate students en-rolled during the 2013-2014 school year –should include a cover sheet that clearlystates that the paper is a student submis-sion. Student papers with faculty co-au-thors will be reviewed in the facultycompetition and should not be designatedas student-authored papers.

Preferred paper length is 7,500

words (approx. 25-pages, excluding tables,figures, and references). Abstracts mustbe no more than 75 words. Be sure thatsubmissions contain no identifying infor-mation, such as name, university affilia-tion, job title, etc. either in the text of thepaper or in the document properties. Anyidentifying information found on thesubmission results in an immediate dis-qualification of the paper.

Questions concerning submissionsshould be directed to research co-chairsMadeleine [email protected] or AdinaSchneeweis [email protected].

Electronic News (formally Radio Televi-sion Journalism Division)

The Electronic News Division wel-comes faculty and students to submitoriginal research on any aspect of broad-cast journalism or electronic communica-tion with a journalism emphasis. Thedivision welcomes a variety of subjectsand methodological approaches.

Papers submitted to the 2014 Elec-tronic News Division competition shouldbe no longer than 25-pages of manuscript,excluding tables, figures, references andappendices, and should be submitted inone of the generally approved academicbibliographic styles. Papers should bein12-point, Times New Roman font, dou-ble-spaced and with one-inch margins.

Please be sure to submit a “clean”paper, otherwise it will be disqualified.Please refer to AEJMC’s Uniform PaperCall on how to upload “clean” papers.

The Electronic News Division acceptsonly one paper per author. This is trueeven if you are primary author on onepaper and co-author on another. In thatcase, please submit one of the papers toanother division.

The division offers cash prizes for topstudent and top faculty paper submis-sions. Authors of all selected papers areexpected to present their work in Mon-treal, Canada. Cash awards for winningpapers will only be awarded if the authorspresent their work at the conference.Please note that if your paper is presentedin Montreal it will automatically be for-warded to the editors of Electronic Newsunless you choose to opt out of submit-ting it to that journal. Questions concern-ing submissions should be directed toIndira S. Somani, Howard University.

Phone: 202-806-5118. Email: [email protected].

History Division The History Division invites submis-

sions of original research papers and his-toriographical essays on all aspects ofmedia history for the AEJMC 2014 confer-ence in Montreal, Canada. All researchmethodologies are welcome.

Papers will be evaluated on original-ity and importance of topic; literature re-view; clarity of research purpose; focus;use of evidence to support the paper’spurpose and conclusions; and the degreeto which the paper contributes to the fieldof journalism and mass communicationhistory. The Division presents awards forthe top three faculty papers.

Papers should be no more than 25double-spaced pages, not including notes,references or appendices. Papers shouldhave 1-inch margins, and use 12 pointTimes New Roman font. Authors shouldalso submit a 75-word abstract. Multiplesubmissions to the Division are not al-lowed and only one paper per author willbe accepted for presentation in the His-tory Division’s research sessions. Authorsof accepted papers are required to for-ward papers to discussants and modera-tors prior to the conference.

Papers must be electronically sub-mitted using the services of All-Academic,you can find the link at www.aejmc.org.The deadline is 11:59 P.M. (Central Day-light Time) Tuesday, April 1, 2014. Pleasemake sure there is no identifying infor-mation in the body of the paper or in theelectronic file properties. Papers up-loaded with author’s identifying informa-tion will not be considered for review andwill automatically be disqualified fromthe competition. Please refer to theAEJMC general paper call for this year’sonline submission guidelines especially forhow to submit a clean paper for blind re-view.

Student Papers: Undergraduate andgraduate students enrolled during the2013-14 academic year may enter theWarren Price Student Paper Competition.The Price Award recognizes the History Di-vision’s best student paper and is namedfor Warren Price, who was the Division’sfirst chair. Student papers should include a



separate cover sheet that indicates theirstudent status but omits the author’sname or other identifying information.Students who submit top papers are eligi-ble for small travel grants from the EdwinEmery Fund. Only full-time students notreceiving departmental travel grants areeligible for these grants.

Call for Reviewers: If you are willingto review papers for the History Divisionresearch competition, please contactYong Volz at [email protected] and indi-cate your areas of expertise and/or inter-est. We will need approximately 75reviewers for the competition. Graduatestudents are not eligible to serve as re-viewers and, in general, reviewers shouldnot have submitted their own researchinto the competition.

Contact information: For more in-formation, contact History Division ViceHead and Research Chair Yong Volz (Uni-versity of Missouri) at [email protected] 573-882-2159.

International Communication DivisionRobert L. Stevenson Open Paper

Competition & Markham Student PaperCompetition: The International Communi-cation Division welcomes original, non-published research papers that focusclearly on international aspects of journal-ism and mass communication. We acceptup to two papers per author for review.Papers that merely examine communica-tion phenomena outside of the UnitedStates do not necessarily fit in this divi-sion, and the research committee re-serves the right to transfer papers toother divisions if it determines that thepaper would be better suited for anotherdivision. Any theoretical and methodolog-ical approaches appropriate to communi-cation research are acceptable andencouraged. Papers are submitted eitherto the Robert L. Stevenson open papercompetition (faculty and student-faculty)or the Markham student competition(strictly student-authored papers). All re-search papers must be uploaded throughan online server to the group appropriateto the paper’s topic and author (faculty orstudent) via a link on the AEJMC website.Detailed information will be sent to au-thors with notification that their papershave been accepted. In addition to guide-lines that apply to all AEJMC paper com-petitions, please follow ICD’s specific

guidelines listed below.Guidelines: Format should be Word,

WordPerfect, or a PDF. Researchers alsomust upload a paper abstract of no morethan 75 words. The body of the papershould not exceed 25 pages with 12-pointfont, double-spaced format, and marginsof one inch on all sides (The page countdoes not include notes, references, figuresand/or illustrations). Authors should usethe style appropriate for the discipline, in-cluding APA, Chicago, Harvard, and otherstyles.

Completely fill out the online submis-sion form with author(s) name, affiliation,mailing address, telephone number andemail address. The paper title should beon the first page of the text and on run-ning heads on each page of text, as well ason the title page. Do not include author’sname or other identifying information onrunning heads, the title page, pagesthroughout the document, the propertiesor hidden popup options (specifically onmaterial submitted as PDF). Submissionsthat exceed the guidelines for page limitor with identifying information in theproperties or text of the document willnot be accepted.

For instruction on removing identify-ing information from the document thatyou submit, please use these guidelines:http://www.aejmc.org/home/wp-con-tent/uploads/2013/01/Ensure-a-Blind-Re-view.pdf If an author’s work must becited, use “author citation,” in the text andreferences. For example, in the text, an ac-ceptable reference to your citation is: (Au-thor citation, 2012). In the referencesection, please use this format: Author ci-tation. 2012. Please contact the researchchair before submitting the paper if youhave any questions:[email protected]

Authors are responsible for followingthe guidelines for paper submissions out-lined in the AEJMC uniform paper call andadditional ICD guidelines listed in this call.Papers that do not meet these guidelineswill not be reviewed (Note: Papers submit-ted to the wrong competition, papers con-taining any identifying information, orsubmissions consisting only of abstractswill be disqualified immediately.). Submis-sions will be blind-reviewed by a panel; se-lections are based on merit.

Awards: ICD awards cash prizes forthe top three faculty papers and the top

three student papers. Student winners willalso receive free conference registration.Both The Asian Journal of Communicationand Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Stud-ies also sponsor a “Best Paper Award”with cash prizes. (Cash prizes are forfeitedif an author fails to present the work.) TheLatino/Latin American Research Awardprovided by Florida International Univer-sity School of Journalism and Mass Com-munication will honor three top papers inthe International Communication or Mi-norities and Communication divisions withcash prizes and conference registrationwaivers.

Asian Journal of CommunicationBest Paper Award: The AJC Best PaperAward is presented annually by the AsianJournal of Communication (AJC), a refer-eed international publication of the AsianMedia Information andCommunication Centre (AMIC) and theWee Kim Wee School of Communicationand Information at Nanyang TechnologicalUniversity in Singapore, to an outstandingpaper selected from the AEJMC Interna-tional Communication Division’s OpenPaper Competition. Established in 2003,the award is aimed at promoting masscommunication research concerning theAsia-Pacific region. All papers (with a focuson or relevance to mass communication inthe Asia-Pacific region or an Asia-Pacificcountry) submitted to the annual ICDOpen Paper Competition are eligible forthe AJC Best Paper Award contest and willbe reviewed automatically for the award.All research methodologies are welcome.

Ecquid Novi: African JournalismStudies Best Paper Award for JournalismResearch: The ICD’s “Best Paper Award forJournalism Research” is sponsored annu-ally by Ecquid Novi: African JournalismStudies for the most outstanding paper se-lected from the submissions to the AEJMCInternational Communication Division’sOpen Paper Competition. Established in2003, the award is aimed at promoting re-search in global journalism which will en-hance and enrich our understanding ofissues such as international news flow,news theory, media ethics, media educa-tion, gender, and race, as well as specifictopics, such as the media and AIDS. In linewith the division’s international character,the award is also aimed at promoting re-search that addresses North-South andSouth-South journalism issues.


Latino/Latin American ResearchAward: This is the inaugural year of thisaward, provided by Florida InternationalUniversity School of Journalism and MassCommunication, which honors the topthree research papers submitted to eitherthe International Communication or theMinorities in Communication divisions byHispanic scholars for journalism and massmedia research relevant to their commu-nities in Latin America, the Caribbean, theUnited States, Canada, or the IberianPeninsula, including domestic and interna-tional communication. Topics includeInter-American or Iberian-American com-munication, news media flows, media the-ory, media technology or new media,communication for development and so-cial change, media law and ethics, mediaeducation, ethnic or gender media and in-tegration, media economics, media andthe environment, political communication,critical media studies, popular culture, andcultural studies, among others. The awardwill recognize all research methodologies.Eligible scholars regard themselves asmembers of the Latino, Hispanic or LatinAmerican community. The competition isopen to AEJMC members and non-mem-bers, students and faculty. The firstawards are scheduled for the AEJMC an-nual conference in Montreal and will beadministered by the International Com-munication and the Minorities and Com-munication divisions.

If you have questions about the callor the 2014 ICD research competition,contact: Robert L. Stevenson Open PaperCompetition Chair – Jeannine Relly, TheUniversity of Arizona, [email protected], Markham Student CompetitionChair – Yusuf Kalyango Jr., Ohio Univer-sity, [email protected].

Law and Policy Division The Law and Policy Division invites

submission of original research papers oncommunications law and policy for the2014 AEJMC Conference in Montreal,Canada. Papers may focus on any topic re-lated to communications law and/or pol-icy, including defamation, privacy, FCCissues, intellectual property, obscenity,freedom of information, and a myriad ofother media law and policy topics. Papersoutside the scope of communications lawand policy will be rejected.

The Division welcomes a variety of

theoretical orientations and any methodappropriate to the research question. Apanel of judges will blind-referee all sub-missions, and selection will be basedstrictly on merit. Authors need not beAEJMC or Law and Policy Division mem-bers, but they must attend the conferenceto present accepted papers.

Paper authors should submit via theonline submission process as described inthe Uniform Paper Call.

Law and Policy Division papers mustbe no longer than 50-double-spacedpages with one-inch margins and 12-pointfont, including cover page, appendices, ta-bles, footnotes and/or endnotes, and end-of-paper reference list, if applicable.(Footnotes and/or endnotes and refer-ence list may be single-spaced.) Papersthat exceed 50 total pages or are not dou-ble-spaced will be automatically rejectedwithout review. Although Bluebook cita-tion format is preferred, authors may em-ploy any recognized and uniform formatfor referencing authorities, including APA,Chicago, or MLA styles.

Papers that include author-identify-ing information within the text, in head-ers, or within the embedded electronicfile properties will be automatically re-jected (review the instructions on theAEJMC website for stripping identifying in-formation from the electronic file proper-ties). Authors are solely responsible forchecking the final uploaded version oftheir paper for any and all author identify-ing information. Submitting before theconference deadline will allow you to fullycheck your submissions as they are en-tered into the system so that a resubmis-sion prior to the deadline is possible ifnecessary.

There is no limit on the number ofsubmissions authors may make to the Di-vision. Any paper previously published orpresented at a conference except theAEJMC Southeast Colloquium or theAEJMC Midwinter Conference is not eligi-ble for the competition.

In 2014, the Division will again awardthe Top Debut Faculty Paper. The toppaper accepted by a faculty member whohas never had a paper accepted by the Di-vision will be awarded a prize of $150 andwill receive free conference registration.For papers with multiple authors, multiplefaculty and/or faculty and student, to beeligible none of the authors of the paper

may have previously had a paper acceptedby the Division at the national conference.In addition, only the faculty author pre-senting the paper will be eligible for freeconference registration.

Student authors should clearly indi-cate their student status on the coverpage. Student-only submissions will beconsidered for the $100 Whitney andShirley Mundt Award, given to the top stu-dent paper. Co-authored papers are eligi-ble for the competition so long as allauthors are students. The Law and PolicyDivision will also cover conference regis-tration fees for the top three studentpaper presenters. In the case of co-au-thored student papers, only the studentauthor presenting the paper will be eligi-ble for free conference registration.

If you have questions, please contactDan Kozlowski, Law and Policy Division Re-search Chair, Saint Louis University, De-partment of Communication, 3733 WestPine Blvd., Xavier Hall 300, St. Louis, MO63108. Phone: (314) 977-3734; email:[email protected].

Magazine Division The AEJMC Magazine Division invites

submissions of original research papers onany topic related to magazines for theAEJMC 2014 conference. All researchmethodologies and theoretical frame-works are welcome. Research need not benarrowly focused on print or digital maga-zine media themselves, but may address arange of aspects of these media, such aseditorial or advertising content, produc-tion, or reception among audiences.

Three prizes of $200 will be awardedat the conference in Montreal: best fac-ulty paper, best student paper, and bestpaper related to online or digital maga-zines. You do not need to specify if youwould like to be considered for one ofthese top paper awards. You will be auto-matically entered based on your statusand the topic of your paper.

Preferred paper length is up to 7,500words (about 25 double-spaced pages)plus notes, references, and tables. Au-thors may submit up to two papers forpresentation in the Magazine Division re-search sessions. Multiple submissions ofthe same paper(s) to other divisions arenot allowed.



Papers presented in this division atearlier conferences included, but werenot limited to, content analyses of topicsor advertisements using magazines as thesource of data; qualitative investigationsof business and editing practices at an on-line magazine; historical analyses of spe-cific magazines, genres, or topics;experimental work on page layout andmagazine design; new business modelsfor the industry; and rhetorical analyses ofliterary journalism. For examples of topicscovered by recent research papers, pleasereview the 2013 abstracts atwww.aejmc.org/home/2013/06/mag-2013-abstracts/.

Papers will be evaluated on original-ity and importance of topic; quality of lit-erature review; clarity of researchpurpose; focus; use of original and pri-mary sources and how they support thepaper’s purpose and conclusions; qualityof writing and organization; and extent ofcontribution to the field of magazine re-search.

Follow submission requirements inthe AEJMC Uniform Paper Call. Pay partic-ular attention to the details of removingany identifying information. Per newAEJMC policy, papers uploaded with au-thors’ identifying information displayedwill not be considered for review and willbe automatically disqualified. Follow in-structions for submitting a clean paper forblind reviewing atwww.aejmc.org/home/papers. Early sub-missions are encouraged. The deadlinefor all submissions is April 1, 2014.

Specific questions should be directedto the division’s research chair, Susan Cur-rie Sivek, Linfield College, [email protected] or 503-883-2521.

Mass Communication and Society Divi-sion

The Mass Communication and Soci-ety Division seeks research paper submis-sions from both faculty and students forthe 2014 AEJMC national conference inMontreal, Canada. Submissions to theMass Communication and Society Divisioncan be on any topic related to mass com-munication processes and effects with thegoal of contributing to a theoretical baseof knowledge. The Division accepts re-search submissions from a variety of theo-retical and methodological perspectives.Submissions should be consistent with the

style and format of the journal Mass Com-munication & Society. Papers should besubmitted to only one competitive papercategory in the division: 1) Open Competi-tion, 2) Student Competition, or 3) MoellerStudent Paper Competition. Papers mustnot be under consideration elsewhere forpresentation or publication. Simultaneoussubmission of paper to another AEJMCDivision, another conference or for publi-cation will result in automatic disqualifi-cation of the paper.

Submission Procedures: Individualpaper submissions cannot exceed 30 dou-ble-spaced pages (count and format in-cludes: title page, abstract, notes,references, tables, and figures). Double-space all material including: title page, ab-stract, text, quotations,acknowledgements, references, appen-dices, tables, figure captions and foot-notes (notes should be kept to aminimum). All papers must be submittedin PDF format. Papers must follow thePublication Manual of the American Psy-chological Association (updated 6th ed.),have 1-inch margins, and use 12 pointTimes New Roman, Times or Arial font.Abstracts must be no more than 75 words.The title must be on the first page withpage numbers and running heads on eachpage of text. Hard copy papers or paperssubmitted electronically to the ResearchCo-chairs will not be accepted.

Author-identifying information CAN-NOT appear anywhere in the attachedpaper file. Identifying information in-cludes: (1) listing of authors’ namesand/or affiliations, (2) references to au-thors’ previous work in a way that revealsauthorship of the current work, (3) author-identifying information within the text, inheaders, or within the embedded elec-tronic file properties, and (4) links to au-thors’ websites, email addresses, or socialmedia accounts. Inclusion of identifyinginformation will result in automatic dis-qualification of the paper (review the in-structions on the AEJMC website forstripping identifying information from theelectronic file properties). Authors aresolely responsible for checking the finaluploaded version of their paper for anyand all author identifying information.

Authorship: When submitting co-au-thored papers, permission to submit thepaper should be sought and obtained fromall authors on the paper prior to submis-

sion. Paper authorship cannot be added,deleted, or changed after review of thepaper.

Author Information: In any one year,an individual can appear as author or co-author on a maximum of two (2) submit-ted research papers to the Division. If oneindividual appears as author or co-authoron more than two (2) submitted researchpapers, the Division Executive Committeehas the right to disqualify some or all ofthe papers in question. At least one au-thor of an accepted faculty paper must at-tend the conference to present the paper.If student authors cannot be present, theymust make arrangements for the paper tobe presented by someone else. Failure tobe present or provide a presenter for anypaper will result in author(s) losing eligi-bility to submit to the division for oneyear. The author(s) will also not be eligi-ble to count that presentation on his/hervita. Authors of accepted papers are re-quired to forward papers to discussantsand moderators prior to the conference.

Author Identification: Completely fillout the online submission form with au-thor(s) name, affiliation, mailing address,telephone number and email address. Allauthors and co-authors, their institutionalaffiliations and contact information mustbe included WHEN REGISTERING on theonline system. If there are three co-au-thors, for example, information about allthree must be included in the registration.

Student Competition: Graduate andundergraduate students are invited tosubmit original research regarding anytopic related to mass communication andsociety. For a paper to be considered for astudent paper award, all of the authorsmust be students. The paper must be cor-rectly submitted to the Student Competi-tion category online. A faculty member asco-author automatically moves the paperto the Open Competition. At least one au-thor of each winning paper is asked to at-tend the Mass Communication andSociety Business Meeting to receive theaward.

Moeller Student Paper Compe-tition: Students who submit a paper writ-ten for a class during the previous year areeligible for the Mass Communication andSociety Moeller Student Paper Competi-tion. A faculty member as co-author auto-matically moves the paper to the OpenCompetition. Moeller Competition papers


must be nominated by the faculty mem-ber who taught the class. To nominate astudent paper faculty should send anemail verifying that the paper was com-pleted for a class to the research chair(s).Please note that the Moeller Competitionis separate from our Student Paper Com-petition. The paper must be correctly sub-mitted to the Moeller Competitioncategory online. At least one author ofeach winning paper is asked to attend theMass Communication and Society Busi-ness Meeting to receive the award.

Open Competition: All other paperssubmitted to the Division will be reviewedin the Open Competition. At least one au-thor of each winning paper is asked to at-tend the Mass Communication andSociety Business Meeting to receive theaward.

Top Paper Recognition: To acknowl-edge research excellence, the Divisionprovides cash awards and waives oneAEJMC conference registration fee for thetop three winners in each research papercompetition. All MCS research submis-sions, regardless of faculty or student au-thorship, are judged together as generalpapers. However, the top papers in theOpen, Student and Moeller categories arerecognized separately. At least one authorof each winning paper is asked to attendthe Mass Communication and SocietyBusiness Meeting to receive their awards.

Authors are responsible for followingthe guidelines for paper submissions out-lined in the AEJMC Uniform Paper Call andadditional MCS guidelines listed in thiscall. For questions, please contact re-search co-chairs Jensen Moore atLouisiana State University([email protected], 225-578-6686) orGang (Kevin) Han at Iowa State University([email protected], 515-294-0482).

Media Ethics DivisionFrom ethical issues facing journalists

to questions in sports, entertainment,public relations and advertising, the MediaEthics Division seeks a diverse range offaculty and graduate student paper sub-missions related to ethics. The Divisionencourages submissions of all media-ethics research, regardless of method-ological approach. We encouragesubmissions that use surveys, experi-ments, interviews, or other data-collectionmethods as well as submissions that use a

rhetorical or theory-building essay style.Submissions may use a variety of theoreti-cal approaches, relying on normative ordescriptive theory, using communication,philosophy, sociological, psychological orother theoretical approaches. The Divi-sion is sponsoring a special call in addi-tion to our regular call and our graduatestudent award.

All papers must be no more than 25-pages (excluding bibliography and appen-dices) and must otherwise conform to therules outlined in the AEJMC Uniform Callfor Papers. Submitting a paper to the MEDimplies that the author (or one of the au-thors) intends to present the paper in per-son or will make arrangements for thepaper to be presented by a colleague fa-miliar with the work.

The Division offers recognition inseveral areas. Except for the BurnettAward, all competitions are open to bothfaculty and students. All submissions willbe evaluated in the general paper compe-tition. Authors wishing to be consideredfor the special competitions describedbelow should submit their paper onlyonce.

In addition to supporting the CarolBurnett Award winners, the Media EthicsDivision will offer small travel stipends forthe top student submissions.

Special Call for Sports Media Ethics:In addition to our regular call, the MediaEthics Division is sponsoring a special callfor papers related to sports media ethics.Papers may consider sports media ethicsrelated to amateur (including college) orprofessional sports of any kind and in anymedium such as broadcast, print,digital/online, etc. International sportsmedia topics also are welcome. Papersmay use a variety of methodological ap-proaches such as quantitative, qualitative,rhetorical, etc. Special call papers must bemarked “Special Call” on the title page(and ONLY on the title page).

Carol Burnett Award for GraduateStudents: All graduate students who sub-mit papers to the Media Ethics Divisionare encouraged to enter the Carol BurnettAward competition. The Media Ethics Divi-sion teams with the University of Hawaiiand the Carol Burnett Fund for Responsi-ble Journalism to sponsor this specialpaper competition for graduate students.Students are invited to submit papers onany topic related to media ethics: public

relations, entertainment, journalism, ad-vertising, etc. The winning paper willreceive the Carol Burnett/University ofHawaii/AEJMC Prize, which includes a$350 cash award. The runner-up will re-ceive a $150 cash award. Authors for thetop two submissions will receive a smalltravel assistance stipend and will be in-vited to present their papers at the 2014conference in Montreal, Canada. The win-ner will be invited to accept his or herprize at the KTA Awards Luncheon at theconference. Burnett competition papersmust be marked “Burnett Competition” onthe title page (and ONLY the title page).

Professional Relevance Award: Spe-cial recognition will be given to the paperthat is judged to be the most relevant toworking professionals. The recipient willbe selected from the general paper com-petition.

Top Faculty Paper: Special recogni-tion will be given to the faculty paperjudged to be the best paper submittedamong faculty authors. The recipient willbe selected from the general paper com-petition.

All questions should be directed tothe research chair Jan Leach, Kent StateUniversity, email: [email protected],phone 330-672-4289.

Media Management & Economics Divi-sion

The Media Management & Econom-ics Division invites original research papersubmissions to be considered for presen-tation at the 2014 AEJMC conference inMontreal, Canada, August 6-9, 2014. Re-searchers interested in any aspect ofmedia management or media economicsare encouraged to submit papers. The di-vision welcomes the use of diverse theo-retical and methodological approaches torelevant topics. Papers presented at theMidwinter Conference and then revisedalso are welcome for submission.

Faculty and student papers competeon equal footing. The division gives namedawards to recognize the top three submis-sions from faculty, and the top three fromgraduate students (faculty members can-not be included on student competitionpapers). Top graduate papers also receivemonetary awards to help offset the cost ofattending the conference.



Some examples of relevant topics inmedia management and economics are:analysis of economic or managementquestions affecting media firms; mediaownership, management and economic is-sues from the public-interest perspective(e.g., effects on reporting or content); his-torical discussions of interesting and im-portant developments in the field; policyissues from a legal, regulatory or eco-nomic perspective; technology and its ef-fects on management or economics;media business models; political econ-omy; effects of changes in the environ-ment where media firms operate;international and cross-cultural studies;the sociology and culture of media organi-zations; audience analysis, valuation, ormeasurement; media sales; teachingmedia management and economics; andother related topics.

Paper submissions should be a maxi-mum of 25-pages, excluding referencesand tables. All papers must be submittedelectronically at the AEJMC Web site toaccess the All Academic Web site avail-able via the AEJMC Web site link. Papersmust be uploaded to the All AcademicWeb server no later than 11:59 P.M. (Cen-tral Daylight Time) Tuesday, April 1, 2014.All submissions must follow the guidelinesfor the uniform call for all paper competi-tions.

Please remove all potentially identi-fying author information from submis-sions. Failure to do so will automaticallydisqualify the paper from consideration.Examples of information to be removedinclude citations of the author’s previouswork, individually or with co-authors; re-lated reference list information; and fileproperties. Instructions for how to re-move identifying information from filescan be found on the AEJMC web site.For questions about submissions, pleasecontact Research Chair Amy Jo Coffey,University of Florida, [email protected].

Minorities and Communication Division The Minorities and Communication

Division invites submissions of original re-search on any topic related to minoritiesin communication. Submissions employ-ing any generally regarded scholarlymethod of inquiry are invited. Papersshould include appropriate literature re-views, methodology, findings and discus-

sion. Only one paper per primary authorwill be accepted.

The term “minorities” has been de-fined to include Latinos, African Ameri-cans, Asian Americans, and NativeAmericans. Therefore, papers examininghow these groups present images, newsand/or other information about them-selves, as well as those examining how is-sues and/or perspectives related torace/ethnicity and diversity are featured inmainstream or other specialized media,would generally fall into this division’sarea of interest.

Papers should not be more than 25-pages, excluding references, tables, fig-ures, and other graphics. If it is nothistorical research, APA reference style isrequired.

Student and faculty research will gothrough separate competitions. Studentsmust identify their papers as such (“Stu-dent Paper”) on the title page of their sub-mission. All sole- or co-authors of thesepapers must be students; papers co-au-thored by students and faculty should besubmitted to the Faculty Research Papercompetition. If these rules are not fol-lowed, papers are subject to disqualifica-tion.

Also, follow the instruction in the2014 AEJMC paper competition uniformcall.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Please carefullycheck your manuscript for self-identifyinginformation of any kind, including follow-ing a particular style guide’s directions onmatters of self-citation. Please avoid sub-mitting your paper on the deadline day. Anearly submission will allow you to fullycheck the submission as they are enteredinto the system so that, if necessary, a re-submission prior to the deadline is possi-ble.

Awards: The MAC Division offersawards for top three faculty and top threestudent papers. Certificate along with acheck will be awarded to each of the win-ners.

Questions? Faculty CompetitionContact: Masudul Biswas, Faculty Re-search Chair, Shippensburg University ofPennsylvania. Phone: 717-477-1517.Email: [email protected]; Student Com-petition Contact: Josh Grimm, Student Re-search Chair, Louisiana State University.Phone: 225-578-5198. Email:[email protected].

Newspaper and Online News Division The Newspaper and Online News Di-

vision invites faculty and students to sub-mit original, non-published researchpapers to be considered for presentationat the AEJMC annual conference, August 6to 9, 2014, in Montreal, Canada. We wel-come theoretically based qualitative orquantitative research papers related tonewspaper and online news that investi-gate topics such as the news coverage,ethics, law, history, effects, diversity andfairness issues, social media and news,newsgathering norms and routines, eco-nomic challenges, etc.

Student papers will be consideredfor the MacDougall Student Paper Award.Authors should include “MacDougall Stu-dent Paper Award” on the title page. Pa-pers submitted with both faculty andstudent authors will be considered facultypapers and are not eligible for the studentcompetition. A $200 prize and a certificatewill be given to the author of the top stu-dent paper.

Submission of papers: Papers mustbe submitted electronically in Word orPDF format no later than 11:59 p.m. (EST)April 1, 2014, using AEJMC’s All Academicsystem. No hard copies will be accepted.All entries should follow the guidelines ofthe AEJMC uniform paper competition.Paper length is limited to 25 pages, not in-cluding references, tables, or appendices.All submissions will undergo a blind re-view process by a panel of independentreviewers. Papers are accepted on the un-derstanding that they have not been pre-viously published or presented elsewhereand that they have been submitted to onlyour division for evaluation.

Paper authors must remove identify-ing information from their papers or theywill be automatically disqualified from thecompetition.

If you have any questions, pleasecontact research co-chairs Mitch McKen-ney ([email protected]) or JasmineMcNealy ([email protected]).

Public Relations DivisionSubmitters should carefully review

the specific details and directions for thePublic Relations Division as well as thegeneral requirements contained in theAEJMC Uniform Paper Call.

Submission Categories: A paper maybe submitted in one of the three PRD cat-


egories: (1) open, (2) student or (3) teach-ing.

Submission Limitations: No morethan two papers may be submitted by anyone author or co-author across the threePRD categories. If it is found that one per-son is author and/or co-author of morethan two submissions across the threePRD categories, all of the submissions willbe automatically disqualified.

A paper may NOT be under review:(1) simultaneously with more than one ofthe three PRD categories, (2) simultane-ously with more than one division withinAEJMC, (3) simultaneously with the AEJMCconference and any other conference, or(4) simultaneously with the AEJMC confer-ence and any potential publication, includ-ing refereed journals, book chapters,online, etc.

Authorship: When submitting co-au-thored papers, permission to submit thepaper should be sought and obtainedfrom all authors on the paper. Paper au-thorship cannot be added, deleted, orchanged subsequent to submission of thepaper.

Author Identification: All authorsand co-authors, their institutional affilia-tions and contact information must be in-cluded WHEN REGISTERING on the onlinesystem. If there are three co-authors, forexample, information about all three mustbe included in the registration. Studentpapers must be authored or co-authoredby students ONLY (no faculty co-authors),and all student papers must have theword “STUDENT” on the title page and inthe running head.

Author-identifying informationMUST NOT appear anywhere in the at-tached paper file. Identifying informationincludes (1) listing of authors’ namesand/or affiliations, (2) references to au-thors’ previous work in a way that revealsauthorship of the current work, and (3)links to authors’ websites, e-mail ad-dresses, or social media accounts. Inclu-sion of identifying information will resultin automatic disqualification of thepaper. It is the responsibility of the paperauthor(s) to verify that no identifying in-formation is contained in the paper textor in the document file properties. Pleasefollow the directions for removing youridentifying information from the proper-ties. This will need to be done EACH timeyou submit your paper to All-Academic.

Paper Content: Any recognized re-search method and citation style may beused. Papers should include appropriateliterature reviews, methodology, findingsand discussion. Papers should test, refineor expand public relations theory or prac-tice; critically review issues relevant topublic relations theory and research; orexplore methods of effective public rela-tions practice. Teaching papers shouldtest, refine or expand principles or prac-tices associated with public relations ped-agogy. All submissions should representresearch completed by the conferencesubmission deadline, not research propos-als or reports on research in progress.

Paper Formatting: A paper cannotexceed 30 (thirty) pages, period. The 30pages of the submitted paper shall IN-CLUDE the title page, abstract, appendices(including figures and tables), and refer-ences/citations; no exceptions. Papersmust be typed in a 12-point font, usingTimes New Roman, Times, or Arial font.Paper text must be formatted with doubleline spacing with 1-inch margins on allsides of the document; references may besingle spaced, with a double space be-tween citation entries. All papers mustcontain continuous page numbers; if mul-tiple files are merged for the paper, thenthe author must ensure that the pagenumbers are continuous and do not re-peat or start over from page 1.

Because of past conversion issueswith the All-Academic system that re-sulted in papers being longer than the es-tablished requirement, all papers must besubmitted in PDF format. For those usingthe newest version of Microsoft Word,you can save your paper as a PDF fileusing the “Save As” function. For thosenot using this version, you may use a freeweb service, such as www.freepdfcon-vert.com. Failure to follow these format-ting guidelines will result in an automaticdisqualification of the paper.

Presentation Requirement: At leastone author of an accepted faculty papermust attend the conference to presentthe paper. If student authors cannot bepresent, they must make arrangementsfor the paper to be presented by someoneelse. Failure to be present or provide apresenter for any paper will result in aone-year ban on the review of papers forall of the authors involved. Authors of ac-cepted papers are required to forward pa-

pers to discussants and moderators priorto the conference. Presentations at AEJMCconference may be disseminated via socialmedia; presenters may opt out of socialmedia dissemination by requesting so atthe time of presentation.

Questions? Please contact researchco-chairs, Suman Lee, Iowa State Univer-sity, [email protected] or Eyun Jung Ki,University of Alabama, [email protected].

Scholastic Journalism Division The Scholastic Journalism Division of

AEJMC is accepting submissions of re-search papers for the 2014 conference inMontreal.

Papers can be on any topic related tojournalism education (at all levels); thestudent press; media, news, and civic liter-acy; youth journalism; or related fields.We welcome submissions from all theo-retical and methodological perspectives.

Both faculty and student papers ac-cepted will be eligible for top paperawards to be presented at the AEJMCConference in August. Faculty papers witha student co-author or student paperswith a faculty co-author will be judged inthe faculty competition. The best papersshould be theoretically based, method-ologically rigorous, and clearly relate to anissue in journalism and/or civics educa-tion.

Expectations for all papers: Papersshould be in 12-point type, Times NewRoman, double-spaced. Papers should notexceed 25 pages in length, not countingreferences, tables, and appendices.

Style should follow either the Publi-cation Manual of the American Psycholog-ical Association or the Chicago Manual ofStyle. Include an abstract of no more than75 words. At least one author will be ex-pected to attend the meeting to presentthe paper.

All research papers must be submit-ted online via a link on the AEJMC Website. Do not put the author’s name on thetitle page of the document you upload tothe submission site. Reviews are blind.The site will also ask for author’s name, af-filiation, and e-mail address separately.You will be asked for your abstract, too.

For more information or questions,contact Scholastic Journalism Division Re-search Chair Adam M. Maksl at (812) 941-



2892 or [email protected].

Visual Communication DivisionThe Visual Communication Division

of AEJMC invites faculty and students tosubmit competitive papers devoted totheoretically based studies of visual com-munications and to issues concerning theprofessional practice of visual media pro-duction for presentation at the associa-tion’s annual conference. Visual is broadlydefined and includes photography, film,television, web design, graphic design, il-lustration, and digital imaging, as well asother visual phenomena.

The division encourages submissionof papers that address a broad spectrumof methodology and application, bothqualitative and quantitative, on all typesof visual media—advertising, broadcast,digital imaging, film, graphic design, multi-media and web design, photojournalism,propaganda images, visual images andculture, visual literacy, and visual aspectsof political campaigns, etc. Research inmedia history, law, policy, effects,processes, uses and ethics regarding visu-als are also welcome. All submissions willbe blind refereed by a panel of independ-ent readers. Student papers compete onequal footing with faculty papers. A $100award will be given to the top studentcontribution. The top three faculty paperswill be recognized in the AEJMC annualconference program.

Papers are accepted for peer reviewon the understanding that they are not al-ready under review for other conventionsand that they have been submitted toonly one AEJMC group for evaluation. Pa-pers accepted for the AEJMC Conferenceshould not have been presented to an-other convention or published in scholarlyor trade journals prior to presentation atthe conference. Authors may submit morethan one paper to the Visual Communica-tion Division.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: All re-search papers must be uploaded throughAEJMC’s ALL ACADEMIC website. Makesure to upload through the link markedVisual Communication Division. All papersmust be uploaded to the server no laterthan 11:59 p.m. (Central Standard Time)Monday, April 1, 2014.

All papers must be type-written anddouble-spaced with one-inch margins.Format should be Microsoft Word or a

PDF. The page limit is 30-pages, inclusiveof all references, notes, tables, illustra-tions, and appendices. Manuscripts mustconform to the APA reference style.

Upload an abstract separately of nomore than 75-words. Completely fill outthe online submission form with author(s)name, affiliation, mailing address, tele-phone number, and email address. Thetitle should be printed on the first page ofthe text and on running heads on eachsubsequent page of text. Please makesure not to include author name(s) on titlepage or running heads and confirm that noidentifying information is in the File Prop-erties area of the MS Word file.

All authors will be advised whethertheir paper has been accepted and will re-ceive a copy of the reviewers’ commentsby May 19th, 2014. At least one author ofan accepted paper must attend the con-ference to present the paper. Failure to at-tend the conference will disqualify anauthor from the next year’s competition.For more information on submissions tothe Visual Communication Division, pleasecontact Mary Angela Bock, University ofTexas at Austin,[email protected].

INTEREST GROUPS

Community Journalism Interest Group The Community Journalism Interest

Group (COMJIG) is seeking original, non-published research papers to be consid-ered for presentation at the 2014 AEJMCnational conference in Montreal, Canada.The deadline for paper submissions is April1, 2014.

This theme for this year’s submis-sions will be “The Next 10 Years of Com-munity Journalism.” 2014 represents the10-year anniversary for the communityjournalism interest group.

COMJIG’S goal is to identify and pres-ent original, meaningful research that ad-vances the understanding of the role ofjournalists and news organizations asmembers of communities, geographic ordigital. We emphasize that communityneed not just be defined as within tradi-tional geographical or social boundaries,but that given technological advances itmay also be applied to journalism and itsrelationship to communities of interestonline. Papers could address issues suchas how “community’” is defined or how its

meaning changes in an increasingly digitalmedia environment.

In addition, while the interest groupwill seek to offer a diverse program, wehope to receive some submissions that ad-dress the theme “The Next 10 Years ofCommunity Journalism.” To mark the 10-year anniversary, we will offer a special re-ferred research panel on the future ofcommunity. The top submissions relatingto the theme will have the opportunity tobe considered for submission to the peer-reviewed journal Community Journalism,COMJIG’S official publication.

Paper submissions should include a100- to 150-word abstract and not exceed8,000 words, including references, tablesand notes. All papers should conform toAPA style, Sixth Edition. Graduate stu-dents are encouraged to submit papers.

All research papers must be up-loaded to the group via a link on theAEJMC website. Please see AEJMC’s PaperCompetition Uniform Call for more infor-mation. Additional questions should be di-rected to COMJIG Research CommitteeChair Hans K. Meyer ([email protected]).

Entertainment Studies Interest GroupThe Entertainment Studies Interest

Group invites faculty and graduate stu-dents to electronically submit papers forthe 2014 AEJMC conference. Papers thatdeal with any aspect of mediated enter-tainment, including (but not limited to)narrative film, fictional television, fictionalbooks, popular magazines, music, videogames, new media, genre studies,celebrity studies and fan studies may besubmitted. All methods (qualitative, quan-titative, historical, critical) of inquiry areencouraged. Papers may not exceed 25-pages, excluding tables, figures, and refer-ences. All entries should follow the AEJMCuniform paper competition. All submis-sions will undergo a blind review processby a panel of independent readers.

Although all papers compete on anequal footing, the top-ranked studentpaper(s) sent to ESIG will receive specialrecognition and first author(s) will beawarded free conference registration. Stu-dents who wish to be eligible for thisaward must indicate when submittingelectronically that the paper was writtenexclusively by one or more students. Onlystudents are eligible for this prize; paperswith any faculty co-author(s) are not eli-


gible. The top-ranked faculty paper will berecognized. Authors are not required tobe a member of ESIG to submit a paper.The same author(s) can submit more thanone paper to ESIG.

Specific Guidelines: Papers may notexceed 25-pages [standard margins], ex-cluding tables, figures, and references.APA or MLA are acceptable styles for ref-erences. At least one author of an ac-cepted faculty paper must attend theconference to present the paper. If stu-dent authors cannot be present, theymust make arrangements for the paper tobe presented.

Questions regarding submissionsshould be directed to the research chair,Jason Zenor, e-mail: [email protected]

Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and TransgenderInterest Group

The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans-gender Interest Group of AEJMC seekssubmissions of original research on anytopic specifically related to sexual orienta-tion and mass communication for the2014 AEJMC conference. Both faculty andstudents are invited to submit their work.Papers employing all methods of inquiryand research methods are invited.

In previous conferences, paper top-ics have ranged from a quantitative con-tent analysis of newspaper coverage ofsame-sex marriage to a critical/culturalanalysis of the use of gay-vague images inadvertising. We especially welcome pa-pers dealing with current topics such ascyber bullying, attitudes in professionalsports, hate speech legislation, workplaceprotections like ENDA, social media ac-tivism, marriage equality, anti-gay laws inRussia, representations of GLBT on TV, lifeafter DADT, and gay youth suicides.

Paper submissions must comply withthe AEJMC uniform paper call. In addition,papers may not be longer than 25 pages,excluding tables, figures and references.

Top Student Paper Award: The GLBTInterest Group encourages graduate stu-dent submissions in its Top Student Papercompetition. To be considered for thecompetition, papers must be wholly thework of students. The author(s) of the topstudent paper will receive a $200 awardand a certificate.

Top Faculty Paper Award: The topfaculty paper submitted to the GLBT Inter-

est Group will also receive an award. Pa-pers written solely by faculty member, orpapers co-authored by faculty membersand students, are eligible. The author(s) ofthe top faculty paper will receive a $200award and a certificate.

Questions regarding submissionsshould be sent to the GLBT Interest Groupresearch chair, Lori Blachford, [email protected].

Graduate Student Interest GroupThe Graduate Student Interest

Group (GSIG) invites graduate students tosubmit research papers for the 2014AEJMC conference. Because the interestgroup’s focus is on its student con-stituency and not a topic area, the groupaccepts research by graduate students ad-dressing any topic in journalism, media, ormass communication. We are dedicatedto providing opportunities for graduatestudents to present research in the con-ference setting.

The top-ranked student submissionwill receive the annual Guido StempelAward and will receive an award check, acommemorative plaque, and conferenceregistration reimbursement. Authors ofthe top four papers will have the opportu-nity to present at a special GSIG-spon-sored research panel highlightinggraduate student research. Authors arenot required to be a member of GSIG tosubmit a paper, but those whose papersare accepted are obligated to join the in-terest group (annual membership fee: $7)before presenting their research at theconference in August. Papers with any fac-ulty co-author(s) are not eligible.

All entries should follow the guide-lines of the AEJMC uniform paper compe-tition. Papers should be no more than25-pages, not counting references, tablesor appendices. Authors should use TimesNew Roman in 12-point font, with 1-inchmargins, double-spaced and in APA style.All submissions will undergo a blind re-view process by a panel of independentreaders. Papers are accepted on the un-derstanding that they have not been pre-viously published or presented elsewhere(with the exception of the AEJMC Midwin-ter Conference) and are not under consid-eration by any scholarly journal of tradeorganization.

Questions regarding submissionshould be directed to GSIG Research

Chair, Pamela E. Walck([email protected]).

Internships and Careers Interest GroupThe Internships and Careers Interest

Group (ICIG) of AEJMC is accepting sub-missions of research papers from both fac-ulty and students for the 2014 conferencein Montreal, Canada.

Papers may be on any topic relatedto internships and careers. We are partic-ularly interested in papers on:

* Careers in communications/jour-nalism/advertising/PR

* Internships in communications/journalism/advertising/PR

* New communications/journ-alism/Advertising/PR career trends

* Internship assessment/pedagogypractices

* Communications industry evalua-tion/measurement techniques

The division is offering a free confer-ence registration to the authors (maxi-mum 4) of the top student paper.

Entries should be no longer than 30-pages. On all other requirements, authorsshould follow the AEJMC Uniform Call forPapers.

Questions should be directed to re-search chair, Mary Blue, Tulane Universityat 504-862-3039 or [email protected].

Participatory Journalism Interest Group The Participatory Journalism Interest

Group - PJIG (formerly Civic and CitizenJournalism Interest Group) invites re-search paper submissions for the 2014AEJMC Conference, August 6-9 in Mon-treal, Canada.

The deadline for paper submissionsis April 1, 2014, at 11: 59 p.m. (PST).

Papers must be submitted in accor-dance with all requirements of AEJMC andits uniform paper call and electronic sub-mission process.

Paper length is limited to 25-pages,not including references, tables, figures orappendices. Font size should be 12 pt.,margins at least 1-inch on all sides, andthe researchers should use a style appro-priate to their research goals. Papers areaccepted on the understanding they havenot been published.

All submissions undergo a blind re-view process. Authors should ensure that



their papers do not contain identifyingreferences. For a detailed explanation,please see “submitting a clean paper”under the uniform paper call on theAEJMC website. Submitters: Carefullycheck manuscripts for self-identifying in-formation of any kind, including follow-ing a particular style guide’s directions onself-citation. We urge you to submit atleast two days before the deadline soyou can check your uploaded documentfor self-identifying information and re-submit prior to the deadline. For moreinformation seewww.aejmc.org/home/papers

Papers submitted will be eligible forseparate faculty and student top paperawards of $151. Because of the separatecompetition for students, graduate stu-dents should be careful to identify theirpapers as “student papers” in the submis-sion process. Papers co-authored with fac-ulty members do not qualify for thestudent competition. This year we havetwo new awards: a second-place studentpaper award of $75 and a top posteraward of $100. The poster award will begiven after the conference and is based onthe quality of the research and posterpresentation.

PJIG is interested in research that ex-amines the emergence, practice, suste-nance and/or teaching modes ofparticipatory journalism. Authors areurged to submit papers that generallyconform to this group’s interests. Papersshould make sure to include discussionsof news within the context of participa-tory/civic/citizen journalism. For example,papers that examine the use of blogswithout touching upon news do not auto-matically meet the group’s interests.

Suggested paper topics include: Par-ticipatory/citizen/civic journalism in politi-cal campaigns, citizen media (includingnews consumers as news producers), civicmapping, community conversations,newsroom projects, legal and ethical is-sues in participatory/civic/citizen journal-ism, crowdsourcing versus traditional“gatekeeper” journalism,participatory/civic/citizen journalism in amulticultural environment,participatory/civic/citizen journalism andnew technologies, history/philosophy ofparticipatory journalism and its civic orcitizen components, the changing news-paper industry economy and its effect on

the development of participatory/civic/cit-izen journalism movements, media con-vergence and participatory journalism, themissions and meanings of “participatory,”“civic” or “citizen” journalism, teachingjournalism in those categories, and use ofpolls, focus groups and other methods incivic reporting.

Please direct questions to PJIG Re-search Chair Liz Viall ([email protected]).

Political Communication Interest Group The Political Communication Interest

Group invites submission of original, non-published research papers to be consid-ered for presentation at the AEJMCconference, August 6 to 9, 2013, in Mon-treal, Canada. The deadline for paper sub-missions is April 1, 2014, at 11:59 p.m. Wewelcome both faculty and graduate stu-dent papers of all methodological ap-proaches and levels of analysis. Researchpapers should be directly related to medi-ated political communication, broadly de-fined. Possible relevant topics includeprocesses and effects of mediated politicalcommunication in relation to politicalnews, political journalism, public policy,political figures and candidates; citizen en-gagement and mobilization; public opin-ion; campaigns and political advertising;advocacy; and political economy of themedia. All submitted research papersshould be clearly grounded in theory andmethodology.

The Political Communication InterestGroup has established the McCombs ShawAward for Best Student Paper in PoliticalCommunication with a $100 prize to begiven annually to the best graduate stu-dent paper submission. Student papersmay not include any faculty authors/co-authors and must be clearly labeled as“Graduate Student Paper” on the coverpage. In addition, the interest group annu-ally honors the top three papers in politi-cal communication; both faculty andgraduate student paper submissions areeligible for this honor.

2014 Special Topics Paper Call: BigData

The use of Big Data as a tool to tar-get, reach, and influence increasingly spe-cific and complex segments of thepopulation represents a growing trendwithin the field of political communica-tion. Therefore, the Political Communica-tion Interest Group, as part of a

multi-session exploration of this trend, ex-tends a special call for papers that engagethe use of Big Data within the confines ofpolitical communication, either as thebasis for original academic research orfrom a critical/cultural analysis of thepractice. Please indicate your desire to beincluded within this group on the coverpage of the manuscript.

All entries should follow the guide-lines of the AEJMC uniform paper compe-tition. Paper length is limited to 25-pages,not including references, tables, figures orappendices. All submissions will undergo ablind review process by a panel of inde-pendent reviewers. Papers are acceptedon the understanding that they have notbeen previously published or presentedelsewhere. Paper authors must removeidentifying information from paper. Fail-ure to do so will lead to an automatic dis-qualification.

If you have any questions, pleasecontact research co-chairs Emily Vraga([email protected]) or Jasun Carr([email protected]).

Religion and Media Interest GroupThe Religion and Media Interest

Group (RMIG) invites submission of re-search papers on topics that incorporatethemes related to religion and media.RMIG will consider papers using quantita-tive, qualitative or historical researchmethods and accepts any recognized cita-tion style (although APA is preferred).Please note that essays, commentaries, orsimple literature reviews will not be con-sidered. Possible areas of research focusinclude (but are not limited to): studies ofreligious group members and uses of reli-gious or secular media; exploration ofmedia coverage of religious issues andgroups; analysis of audiences for religiousnews; media strategies of religious organi-zations; religious advertising; religious andspiritual content in popular culture; etc.Papers focusing on historically underrepre-sented religions, denominations and/orgroups as well as religious contexts out-side the U.S. are strongly encouraged. Formore about RMIG and its mission, pleaseseehttp://www.religionandmedia.org/our-mission-and-goals/. Papers will be consid-ered for presentation as traditionalresearch panels and poster sessions.

The maximum length of research pa-


pers is 25-pages, excluding endnotes andtables. The Religion and Media InterestGroup also sponsors a Top Paper compe-tition for both student and faculty papers.(Note: student papers may not have a fac-ulty co-author.) The top student and fac-ulty papers will be awarded $100 each,with the second-place student and facultypapers receiving $50 each. Co-authors willsplit the monetary awards, but each willreceive a plaque. The awards will not begiven if the selected papers are not pre-sented at the conference. In order to beconsidered for the Top Paper competi-tion, please specify either a student sub-mission or a faculty submission on thecover page of the paper. Student papersthat are not clearly identified as studentsubmissions will not be considered for thestudent Top Paper Competition. All papersubmissions must follow the 2014 AEJMCUniform Paper Call.

Questions should be submitted tothe RMIG Research Chair Joel Campbell [email protected]. Type “RMIGResearch Paper” in the subject line whencommunicating via e-mail.

Small Programs Interest Group The AEJMC Small Programs Interest

Group invites submission of original, non-published research papers that focus onthe relationship between teaching and re-search, to be considered for presentationat the AEJMC Conference, August 6 to 9,2014, in Montreal, Canada.

We invite members of all divisionsand interest groups to contribute re-search papers – using any methodology,whether quantitative or qualitative—thatfocus on all aspects of use of smart-phones, tablets, and software applica-tions in journalism and masscommunication. We especially encourageauthors to submit studies on pedagogyapproaches and the effects on studentsand faculty inside and outside of theclassroom. Members of this division areparticularly interested in smaller, teacher-oriented programs.

GUIDELINES: See the AEJMC GeneralPaper Call for instructions to upload toAll-Academic Site. The competition isopen to faculty and to graduate students;no separate student competition is held.

The paper must be formatted in Mi-crosoft WORD or PDF. Authors must com-pletely fill out the online submission form,

including author’s name, affiliation, mail-ing address, telephone numbers (acade-mic, home and cell), and preferred emailaddress. The title must be on the firstpage of the manuscript and on the run-ning heads on every page. However DONOT INCLUDE author’s name or affiliationwithin the running heads or any pop-upoptions that may be contained in PDF sub-missions.

SPIG requests a paper length ofNO MORE than 25-pages (excluding ref-erences) and the document must be dou-ble-spaced and typed in 11-point Arialfont or Times Roman font-and follow APAstyle guidelines. Researchers must alsoupload an Abstract of no more than 75words.

Authors must heed the AEJMC gen-eral paper regulations and deadlines. Forexample, papers submitted to the wrongdivision or that do not meet ALL the aboveguidelines will not be reviewed (for exam-ple, submission of an abstract by thedeadline but a paper AFTER the deadline,will result in the paper NOT being ac-cepted). However, SPIG research co-chairswill make every effort to contact authorswho do not meet guidelines so that theywill be aware as early as possible thattheir paper has not been accepted and thereasons why.

Papers are accepted for peer reviewwith the understanding that they are NOTunder review (or being submitted duringthe AEJMC review period) to a second di-vision or interest group OR to a journal orother publication. Papers submitted to the2014 conference should NOT have beenpresented to another conference and nei-ther should they have been published orbe in the publication process BEFORE thedate of the 2014 Conference in August.

For more information, contact theSPIG Research Co-Chairs: Mia Moody-Ramirez of Baylor University at:[email protected] or PatrickSutherland of Bethany College at:[email protected] Phone: 304829-7716.

Sports Communication Interest The Sports Communication Interest

Group invites faculty and student submis-sion of original research papers that focuson sports. Submissions must contain aclear media dimension such as traditionalmedia (newspapers, TV, radio) or strategic

communication (PR, advertising, or sportsmarketing). Submissions should be theo-retically grounded and offer tangible evi-dence of scholarly rigor. We welcomequalitative and quantitative researchmethods; we encourage a broad spectrumof approaches, including sociological, his-torical, critical, pedagogical, and culturalresearch. Only one paper per author willbe accepted for review. Submissions mustnot be under consideration elsewhere forpresentation or publication.

Please see the AEJMC Uniform Callfor Papers for applicable submission re-quirements and instructions to upload tothe All-Academic site and on how to suc-cessfully remove identifying information.We strongly recommend submitting earlyso you have time to check your uploadeddocument to ensure no identifying infor-mation is included. Our recommendedpaper length is approximately 7,500 words(25-30 pages, including tables, figures andreferences). Papers that do not meet theAEJMC Uniform Call for Papers require-ments will not be accepted.

Faculty and student submissions willundergo separate blind review processesby faculty-only judges. Student papers co-authored by faculty will be inserted intothe faculty pool, regardless of lead authorstatus. Student authors — undergraduateand graduate students enrolled during the2012-2013 school year — should include acover sheet that clearly states the paper isa student submission. Submissions shouldcontain no identifying information, such asname, university affiliation, or job title.Please be certain that any identificationthat may occur via electronic means isfully removed, as the presence of anyidentifying information, whether intendedor unintended, will result in removal fromconsideration.

Please direct questions about sub-missions to Danielle Coombs, Kent StateUniversity, [email protected].

COMMISSIONS

Commission on the Status of Women The Commission on the Status of

Women invites submissions of researchfor competitive paper sessions that arebased on issues of gender and communi-cation. We welcome papers in which gen-



der is a main analytic focus and inviteprojects that use a variety of approachesand research methods, including but notlimited to critical, empirical, ethnographic,historical, legal and semiotic analyses. It isexpected that the research will demon-strate a familiarity with feminist commu-nication theory. Examples of relevanttopics include: representations of womenin the news; the role of gender in news-rooms or classrooms; effects of massmedia on women and girls; feminist ap-proaches to teaching and communication;women’s use of/production of media;gender equality in the profession or the

academy; etc.Suggested paper length is 25-pages

(double-spaced, 12-point type), excludingtables, references, figures or illustrations.We especially encourage submissions bygraduate students. The winner of the topstudent paper will be awarded $100 andthe winner of the second place studentpaper will receive $50. Authors of the toppapers will be recognized in the confer-ence program and at the CSW businessmeeting at the conference.

This paper call is part of the overallAEJMC call for research papers; all submis-sions must adhere to the general guide-

lines put forth by AEJMC. Please consultthe AEJMC 2014 Paper Competition Uni-form Call for information about paper for-matting, submission deadline, creating a“clean” paper, and other guidelines. CSWwishes to stress that papers containingany identifying author information will bedisqualified. CSW STRONGLY encouragesparticipants who need a passport to at-tend the conference in Montreal, Canadato proceed and apply for one immediately.Please forward any questions regardinguploading a “clean” paper or other queriesto Jaime Loke, CSW Research Chair, [email protected].

Urban Communication Foundation Seeks Grant ProposalsThe Urban Communication Foundation (UCF) is extending the deadline for the 2014 Gary Gumpert State-

of-the Field in Urban Communication Award ($2,500). The Gary Gumpert Award is given to the applicant whose proposal shows a clear understanding of the

state of the field of urban communication with respect to a particular issue or question (as specified by theUCF every year the award is given), along with a clear articulation of how “state of the field” paper will be de-veloped.

For 2013-14, the area of focus for the award is Urban Communication and Health Disparities.The successful proposal should focus on pertinent communication concepts, theories and literature, not just on the area

of focus. Proposals are not limited to a particular methodology and may extend to policy areas and applications.The final paper must clearly summarize what is known about the targeted area of urban communication, identify gaps in

the existing literature and suggest directions for future research. In doing so, this paper should feature concepts and theoriesthat have been applied in urban communication research and discuss findings of empirical studies and case studies, as well ascritical essays and analyses.

In a successful proposal (and paper), the link between communication and the urban context must be made clear.A 500 word (max) description of how you would approach this topic, a current vita and a 150 word (max) bio must be

submitted by Feb. 1. Winner will be notified by March 1. Final paper must be submitted by June 1.Send inquiries and grant proposals to Executive Coordinator Peter Haratonik, [email protected].

Education Writers Association to Honor Best Reporting and Commentary of 2013

The Education Writers Association is now accepting entries for the 2013 National Awards for Education Reporting. Allmedia are eligible to enter this prestigious contest, which recognizes high-quality reporting and commentary on educationat all levels. This year’s deadline for submission is midnight on Monday, Jan. 27.

Since last year, four new categories have been added, meaning 27 first-place finishes are at stake, with each winner orset of winners receiving a $200 cash prize. First-place winners are eligible for the Fred M. Hechinger Grand Prize for Distin-guished Education Reporting, which carries a cash award of $1,500.

The contest categories and submission rules can be found on our contest page, which includes a link to the contestportal for uploading your work.

EWA will announce the first, second and special citation winners in March. Winners will be selected by an independentpanel of expert judges. All winners will be honored at EWA’s National Seminar, which will be held at Vanderbilt University,May 18-20. The grand-prize winner will be announced at the National Seminar, as well.

If you have any questions, contact Mikhail Zinshteyn, EWA program assistant and this year’s contest coordinator, [email protected] or 202-452-9830.


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Auburn University – Tenure-Track Assis-tant Professor in Public Relations

Position Number: 116240Position: The School of Communication

and Journalism at Auburn University invitesapplications for a tenure-track position as anAssistant Professor of Public Relations begin-ning fall semester, August 16, 2014. Womenand minorities are encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities: The candidate’s primaryteaching assignment will be within the publicrelations curriculum. The successful candidatewill be expected to demonstrate evidence ofthe ability to integrate digital media elementsand teaching into the curriculum. The candi-date should be able to teach on topics such asdigital media, digital communication, orstrategic digital communication managementas they relate to public relations. The success-ful candidate should also be able to contributeto one or more of the following specific teach-ing areas: content creation, promotional strat-egy, measurement and evaluation. Thecandidate should be committed to outreachwithin the public relations profession.

Tenure-track faculty members are ex-pected to engage in scholarly research or ap-propriate creative work. In addition toteaching five courses per year, responsibilitiesinclude service to the department, college andthe scholastic and professional public relationscommunity; teaching graduate-level coursesand directing theses in the graduate program.

Requirements/Qualifications: The idealcandidate will have a Ph.D., and full-time pro-fessional experience in public relations. Out-standing candidates who are in the finalstages of dissertation writing (ABD) will be

considered. However, appointment to thetenure-track position at the rank of assistantprofessor requires the earned doctorate bythe August 16, 2014 start date. If the candi-date fails to complete the degree by the desig-nated date, the position will revert to aninstructor position. If Ph.D. is not earned byMay 15, 2015 offer will be withdrawn. Appli-cants should have a demonstrated record ofexcellence in teaching public relations coursesand a solid record of scholarly productivity orsubstantive evidence of research potential.Salary is competitive, dependent on qualifica-tions and contingent on funding.

The candidate selected for this positionmust be able to meet eligibility requirementsto work in the United States at the time theappointment is scheduled to begin and con-tinue working legally for the proposed term ofemployment; excellent communication skillsrequired.

Application: Please go to this web site toapply for the position: https://aufacultyposi-tions.peopleadmin.com/

Review of applications will begin Febru-ary 14, 2014, and continue until a candidateis selected.

The last day letters of recommendationwill be accepted is March 3, 2014.

Auburn University is one of the nation’spremier land, sea, and space grant institu-tions. In the 2012 edition of the U.S. News andWorld Report ratings of undergraduate pro-grams, it was ranked 36th among public uni-versities. Auburn is an institution that is bothhighly research-active and committed tomaintaining teaching excellence offeringBachelor’s, First Professional, Master’s, Educa-tional Specialist and Doctoral degrees. Its2011 enrollment of over 25,400 students in-cludes approximately 20,400 undergraduatesand 5,000 graduate students. There are 1,196faculty members distributed across nine Col-leges and three Schools, with degrees offeredin more than 200 academic programs. TheSchool of Communication and Journalism hasfour undergraduate majors and a master’sprogram. (www.cla.auburn.edu/cmjn/journal-ism/)

Auburn University is an Affirmative Ac-tion/Equal Opportunity Employer••••Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Ten-nessee, Department of Communication seeksto fill two tenure-track positions. All positionsare full-time nine-month beginning August 15,2014. Review of applications will begin Feb.15, 2014.

Instructor/Assistant Professor in Journal-ism: The Department of Communication seeksa tenure-track Instructor/Assistant Professorfor a primary teaching assignment of under-graduate and graduate courses in journalismwith an emphasis in multi-media and digitalplatforms.

Required qualifications:• Assistant Professor: Earned doctorate

from an accredited institution in Journalism ora related-discipline or ABD with all require-ments to be completed by date hire.

• Instructor: Master’s Degree in Journal-ism or related-discipline.

• Three (3) years’ experience in print orweb journalism.

• Evidence of potential ability in academicassignment and/or scholarly and creativeachievement, and/or professional contribu-tions and activities.

• Evidence of good character, mature atti-tude, and professional integrity.

A background search will be required ofthe successful candidate.

Responsibilities:• Knowledge and ability to prepare stu-

dents as digital/multimedia specialists fortoday’s highly competitive job marketplace

• Knowledge and skills in the use of videoand audio production, web design, socialmedia, and mobile technologies to achieve ef-fective news and information sharing are es-sential

• Experience in writing in a variety of pub-lications including both traditional and web-based formats including social media andmobile technologies

• Experience in building relationships withnews networks

• Teach multi-platform journalism, com-puter-assisted reporting, desktop publishing(InDesign), copy editing, and other journalism-related courses

Instructor in Radio Broadcasting: The De-partment of Communication at Austin PeayState University is seeking a qualified candi-date to fill a tenure-track position in RadioBroadcasting. The successful candidate willteach a variety of broadcast courses to in-clude, but not limited to: Equipment Opera-tions and Technology, Broadcast NewsWriting, Broadcast Announcing and Audio Pro-duction. The candidate will work with theGeneral Manager of the campus radio stationin developing a variety of on-air entertain-ment, news, sports and public affairs program-


ming. Other duties include advising of broad-cast media students as well as the supervisionof student activities.

Required Qualifications:• Master’s degree in communication with

focus on instructional area • Minimum five (5) years broadcast expe-

rience with demonstrated on-air and produc-tion skills

• Must be familiar with broadcast au-tomation and Abode Audition digital editing

• Demonstrated ability in academic as-signment and/or scholarly and creativeachievement, and/or professional contribu-tions and activities

• College teaching experience preferred• Evidence of good character, mature atti-

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active on and off-campus. The department op-erates a 24/7 radio station and 24/7 cablechannel. The department broadcasts univer-sity events including sports, concerts, publicforums, student productions, and other activi-ties. The department has over 500 undergrad-uate majors and 100+ graduate students. TheMA program in Corporate Communication iscompletely online through 8-week terms. Allfaculty members teach both online and on-campus courses each semester. Each univer-sity instructor/professor is an integral part of alocal, institutional framework for the cultiva-tion, explication, development, and criticismof knowledge and ideas in the applicable disci-pline. Each instructor seeks to teach ably, topursue research and write well, and to engagein public service related directly to the applica-ble discipline or the general good of society.The goal in all these endeavors is to balancetradition and innovation, knowledge and criti-

cism, rationality and sensibility, so as to im-prove the intellectual and cultural lives of stu-dents, colleagues, and the community.Minorities, women and members of otherprotected groups are encouraged to apply.

Applicant review will continue until theposition is filled. Review will begin Feb. 15,2014.

Please refer all questions to [email protected]

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