September 06, 2019

Ideas to help brainstorm topics for panel submissions for AEJMC2020


Hello, all.

Conference panel submissions are now being accepted for the Community Journalism Interest Group for AEJMC 2020. To help get your creative/research ideas flowing, I’ve compiled a list of COMJIG panel topics presented over the past five AEJMC conferences. Here are those topics as well as possible ideas for potential collaboration with other interest groups and divisions:

2019
(PCIG, COMJ) PF&R Panel Session: "Understanding Trust in Local vs. National News"
(PJIG, COMJ) Research Panel Session: "Committing Acts of Journalism: The Role of Regular Actors and Strangers in (Community) Journalism Practice"
(COMJ, PCIG) Teaching Panel Session: "Filling Information Voids in News Deserts with Student-Produced News"
(EEND, COMJ) Teaching Panel Session: "Career Ready: Not Just A Lecture"

2018
(COMJ, RMIG) PF&R Panel Session: "Faith in the Beltway: Creating and Maintaining Community Bonds through Religious-Themed News Organizations"
(COMJ, HIST) Teaching Panel Session: "Innovating Ideas that Foster a Community and Its History"
(NOND, COMJ) Teaching Panel Session: "Journalists in the Hot Seat: Staying Safe in a Hostile Political Climate"
(MMEE, COMJ) PF&R Panel Session: "Working Conditions for Women in Digital Workplaces"

2017
(COMJ, MMEE) Teaching Panel Session: Teaching the Business of Community Journalism in the 21st Century
(COMJ, CCJA) Teaching Panel Session: Helping Students Build Community Outside and Inside Campus Newsrooms
(COMJ, PJIG) Research Panel Session: Defining Community and Participatory Journalism in the Social Media Era

2016
(COMJ, NOND) PF&R Panel Session: Imagining Digital Community: The Importance of Geography and Niche Focus to Entrepreneurial and Community Journalists
(COMJ, CCJA) Workshop Session: Putting the "Hyper" in Hyperlocal: Teaching Students to Get Excited About and Involved in Community Journalism
(COMJ, NOND) PF&R Panel Session: Imagining Digital Community: The Importance of Geography and Niche Focus to Entrepreneurial and Community Journalists

2015
(COMJ, Knight Foundation) Teaching Workshop Session: THIS HAS BEEN CANCELLED: Saving Community Journalism: What Journalism Professors Need to Know About the Business of Local News in the Digital Age
(ETHC, CJIG) PF&R Panel Session: Journalists in Fear: Covering the News Ethically Despite Death Threats, Terrorism, and Dangerous Stories
(GLBT, CJIG) PF&R Panel Session: San Francisco and the Heart of the LGBT Movement
(MAGD, CJIG) Research Panel Session: Creation of Community in the Magazine Form: Legacy to Online
(CCSD, CJIG) PF&R Panel Session: Resistance Journalism: Expression, Self-Empowerment, and the Creation of Counternarratives on Poverty Through Community Media

If you are interested in submitting a panel proposal, please visit the following link, which includes a template for panel submissions: https://comjig.blogspot.com/2019/08/panel-proposal-call-for-aejmc-2020.html.

Cheers. Happy brainstorming!!!

Christina Smith
Georgia College and State University
COMJIG Research Chair
christina.smith1@gcsu.edu

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