Six JMS faculty members made research presentations at the 95th annual conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). The conference was Aug. 9-12 in Chicago.

David Dozier, Rebecca Nee, Bey-Ling Sha, Amy Schmitz Weiss, Hongmei Shen and Tim Wulfemeyer participated in the conference, which marked the 100th anniversary of the organization.

Here is a list of the JMS faculty presentations: (more…)

Peter Lang Publishing Co. has just published The Mobile Media Reader, an anthology co-edited by JMS faculty member Noah Arceneaux and by Anandam Kavoori, professor in the Grady School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia.

This academic collection, which builds on a previous anthology, includes essays on various forms of mobile content and critical perspectives on the rapidly growing technology. The book, part of the publisher’s Digital Formations series, also includes a number of chapters with historical perspectives, including a chapter by Dr. Arceneaux titled, “CB radio: Mobile social networking in the 1970s.”

According to the publisher’s description, “The Mobile Media Reader provides a road map for both scholars and beginning students to examine the social, cultural, and commercial implications of media that is available anywhere at any time.”

Here is a link to more information about the publication: http://www.peterlang.com.

JMS faculty member Amy Schmitz Weiss has been named one of 10 U.S. scholars to receive a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation for a special project with the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. The project is called, “Building a Bridge Between the Knight News Challenge and JMC Programs. (more…)

The scholarly Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media has published an article by JMS faculty member Noah Arceneaux in its September 2011 issue (Volume 55, Number 3).

The article, “Radio Facsimile Newspapers of the 1930s and ‘40s,” documents a form of media that has been almost entirely forgotten. In the years before and after World War II, dozens of radio stations and newspapers collaborated to produce “radio-faxpapers.” (more…)

The scholarly journal, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, has published an article by JMS faculty member Hongmei Shen. The article, “Organization-employee relationship maintenance strategies: A new measuring instrument,” was published in the Summer 2011 issue of the journal (Volume 88, Issue 2).

The purpose of Dr. Shen’s study was twofold: (1) to develop a valid and reliable new way to measure relationship-maintenance strategies as they relate to organization-employee relationships, and (2) to explore how organizations build relationships with internal publics. The study found that organizations utilized four factors – openness, assurances of legitimacy, networking, and compromising – to a larger extent than they used “distributive negotiation” and “avoiding” to build relationships with their employees.

Five JMS faculty members presented their research at the 94^th annual conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication in St. Louis in August.

The faculty members – David Dozier, Rebecca Coates Nee, Amy Schmitz Weiss, Bey-Ling Sha and Hongmei Shen – presented refereed papers or served as panelists during several different sessions during the four-day conference: (more…)