With academic conference season in full swing and AEJMC around the corner, a revisit to this lengthy and thoughtful post (also read the comments) is worth our time ...
http://www.ivacheung.com/2017/10/academic-conference-posters-suck/
Showing posts with label research sessions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label research sessions. Show all posts
July 12, 2019
March 04, 2013
Paper Reviewers Needed
Dear Community Journalism Interest Group members,
We would like to invite you to participate as a conference paper and poster session reviewer for the AEJMC Community Journalism Interest Group this year. We greatly need your assistance and appreciate your willingness to judge papers and poster proposals. You will not receive more than THREE manuscripts or proposals to review. Also, participation in the review process does not disqualify you from submitting papers to the paper competition. We expect that you should receive manuscripts in early April to review.
Please go now to the All-Academic site through the AEJMC website (or to this address http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/aejmc/aejmc13/) and create an account (username and password). Each year is unique, and if you created an account last year, you will need to do so again this year. Creating your user name and password now will allow you to submit, judge and download papers from the same account. Go to the right side of the page and scroll down until you see “Click here to create new username and password.”
Thank you for assisting the Community Journalism Interest Group of AEJMC. Your input is invaluable. If you are able to serve as a reviewer or have any questions or concerns, please contact me at garyantes@rowan.edu.
Dianne Garyantes, Ph.D.
Research Chair
Community Journalism Interest Group
AEJMC
June 06, 2012
Sked redux
Want some good news? The lineups are all set for COMJIG's offerings at the conference this August in Chicago. Can you hear Crosby, Stills and Nash (and sometimes Young) asking you, pleading with you, to come to Cha-ka-go? If you do, then I have more good news: You can sleep in since all of COMJIG's panels and presentations are in the afternoons or evenings.
There is more info -- such as who will be presenting -- but to paraphrase Hall of Fame Buffalo Bills coach Marv Levy, where else would you rather be than right there in August? So you'll have to be there to find out the 5 Ws.
Our own research panel will begin at 5:15 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 11. The top faculty and student paper certs will be handed out to (aww, I ain't gonna tell now, it would be like saying "The butler did it."). Come on over and see. The title of the session is "From Shoe Leather to Cyberspace: Evolving Community Journalism."
As a reminder, the rest of COMJIG's sked is below (repeated from Feb. 12). Kudos to John Hatcher and Eileen Gilligan for all their hard work. See you in Chi-town, that toddling town that somehow manages to keep its feet since it's also hog butcher to the world, stacker of grain and wheat, etc., etc., etc. Ewww, can you imagine if it didn't keep its feet as it toddled along with all that on its broad shoulders? Anyway, see you there.
Here is the final version of events that the Community Journalism Interest Group is involved in at the AEJMC Convention this August in Chicago. There has been one change to this schedule: We will now be hosting our own, sole-sponsored research panel and will not be doing a high density session. This change had to occur because we were double booked during the high density session, which is not permitted. The new research panel will happen on Saturday, immediately before the COMJIG members meeting. We have requested these two events occur in the same room.
Date: Wednesday, August 8
Time: 1-5 p.m.
Session: "Legal Issues for Journalism Schools As News Providers: Challenges and Opportunities"
Description: This event will consist of three panels on best practices for journalism schools in their increasingly vital role as community news providers to help them sensibly address and mitigate legal risk in support of the journalism they are producing and in support of their education of students.
Sponsors: Law and Policy Division (lead), Community Journalism Interest Group, Civic & Citizen Journalism Interest Group
Date: Thursday, August 9
Time: 3:15-4:45 p.m.
Session: "African Media, the Arab Spring & Democratization: The 'un-seen' and 'un-mentioned' Social Side of the News Revolution"
Description: This panel focuses on the social issues of international news reporting about countries and their peoples in sub-Saharan Africa and the way these issues interact with the media and the process of democratization.
Sponsors: Civic & Citizen Journalism Interest Group, Community Journalism Interest Group
Date: Thursday, August 9
Time: 5-6:30 p.m.
Session: "The Tragedy of Today's GLBT Journalism"
Description: At a time when journalism of, by, and for the GLBT community could be excellent and comprehensive, the situation is instead bad and getting worse. So where do we go from here?
Sponsors: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Interest Group (lead), Community Journalism Interest Group
Date: Friday, August 10
Time: 1:30-3 p.m.
Session: Scholar-to-scholar research
Description: Presentation of peer-reviewed COMJIG research papers
Date: Friday, August 10
Time: 3:15-4:45
Session: "Mobile Me, Mobile We: Building and Bridging Communities With Media"
Description: This panel looks at the some of the diverse attributes of mobile in a changing media landscape at the hyperlocal and community level.
Sponsors: Community Journalism Interest Group (lead), Civic & Citizen Journalism Interest Group
Date: Friday, August 10
Time: 5-6:30 p.m.
Session: "Social Media and Ethnic Press"
Description: This panel probes the trends showing that young people, the dominant media audience of tomorrow, are using social media to communicate with those in their ethnic culture.
Sponsors: Small Programs Interest Group (lead), Community Journalism Interest Group (lead), Civic & Citizen Journalism Interest Group
Date: Saturday, Aug. 11
Time: 12:15-1:30 p.m.
Session: "The Rise of University Entrepreneurial News Startups" (J-Lab Luncheon)
Description: Around the country, journalism programs are launching news websites to cover their communities, state capitals, or public issues on a day-to-day basis. These are genuine news initiatives that take many forms and they are quite different from the blogs or websites that house student assignments for a particular class. We examine different models and how they operate.
Sponsors: Civic & Citizen Journalism Interest Group (lead), Community Journalism Interest Group
Date: Saturday, August 11
Time: 3:30-5 p.m.
Session: "Startling Startups in the Business of Journalism"
Description: This panel will disprove the death of entrepreneurship in journalism. Community journalism – and other – start-ups comprise the ideal AEJMC panel for the centennial convention in Chicago.
Sponsors: Community Journalism Interest Group (lead), Media Management and Economics Division
Date: Saturday, Aug. 11
Time: 5:15 p.m.
Session: Research panel session
Description: Panel presentation of peer-reviewed COMJIG research papers
Date: Saturday, August 11
Time: 7-8:30 p.m.
Session: COMJIG membership meeting
Date: Saturday, August 11
Time: 8:45 p.m.
Session: COMJIG executive board meeting
There is more info -- such as who will be presenting -- but to paraphrase Hall of Fame Buffalo Bills coach Marv Levy, where else would you rather be than right there in August? So you'll have to be there to find out the 5 Ws.
Our own research panel will begin at 5:15 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 11. The top faculty and student paper certs will be handed out to (aww, I ain't gonna tell now, it would be like saying "The butler did it."). Come on over and see. The title of the session is "From Shoe Leather to Cyberspace: Evolving Community Journalism."
As a reminder, the rest of COMJIG's sked is below (repeated from Feb. 12). Kudos to John Hatcher and Eileen Gilligan for all their hard work. See you in Chi-town, that toddling town that somehow manages to keep its feet since it's also hog butcher to the world, stacker of grain and wheat, etc., etc., etc. Ewww, can you imagine if it didn't keep its feet as it toddled along with all that on its broad shoulders? Anyway, see you there.
Here is the final version of events that the Community Journalism Interest Group is involved in at the AEJMC Convention this August in Chicago. There has been one change to this schedule: We will now be hosting our own, sole-sponsored research panel and will not be doing a high density session. This change had to occur because we were double booked during the high density session, which is not permitted. The new research panel will happen on Saturday, immediately before the COMJIG members meeting. We have requested these two events occur in the same room.
Date: Wednesday, August 8
Time: 1-5 p.m.
Session: "Legal Issues for Journalism Schools As News Providers: Challenges and Opportunities"
Description: This event will consist of three panels on best practices for journalism schools in their increasingly vital role as community news providers to help them sensibly address and mitigate legal risk in support of the journalism they are producing and in support of their education of students.
Sponsors: Law and Policy Division (lead), Community Journalism Interest Group, Civic & Citizen Journalism Interest Group
Date: Thursday, August 9
Time: 3:15-4:45 p.m.
Session: "African Media, the Arab Spring & Democratization: The 'un-seen' and 'un-mentioned' Social Side of the News Revolution"
Description: This panel focuses on the social issues of international news reporting about countries and their peoples in sub-Saharan Africa and the way these issues interact with the media and the process of democratization.
Sponsors: Civic & Citizen Journalism Interest Group, Community Journalism Interest Group
Date: Thursday, August 9
Time: 5-6:30 p.m.
Session: "The Tragedy of Today's GLBT Journalism"
Description: At a time when journalism of, by, and for the GLBT community could be excellent and comprehensive, the situation is instead bad and getting worse. So where do we go from here?
Sponsors: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Interest Group (lead), Community Journalism Interest Group
Date: Friday, August 10
Time: 1:30-3 p.m.
Session: Scholar-to-scholar research
Description: Presentation of peer-reviewed COMJIG research papers
Date: Friday, August 10
Time: 3:15-4:45
Session: "Mobile Me, Mobile We: Building and Bridging Communities With Media"
Description: This panel looks at the some of the diverse attributes of mobile in a changing media landscape at the hyperlocal and community level.
Sponsors: Community Journalism Interest Group (lead), Civic & Citizen Journalism Interest Group
Date: Friday, August 10
Time: 5-6:30 p.m.
Session: "Social Media and Ethnic Press"
Description: This panel probes the trends showing that young people, the dominant media audience of tomorrow, are using social media to communicate with those in their ethnic culture.
Sponsors: Small Programs Interest Group (lead), Community Journalism Interest Group (lead), Civic & Citizen Journalism Interest Group
Date: Saturday, Aug. 11
Time: 12:15-1:30 p.m.
Session: "The Rise of University Entrepreneurial News Startups" (J-Lab Luncheon)
Description: Around the country, journalism programs are launching news websites to cover their communities, state capitals, or public issues on a day-to-day basis. These are genuine news initiatives that take many forms and they are quite different from the blogs or websites that house student assignments for a particular class. We examine different models and how they operate.
Sponsors: Civic & Citizen Journalism Interest Group (lead), Community Journalism Interest Group
Date: Saturday, August 11
Time: 3:30-5 p.m.
Session: "Startling Startups in the Business of Journalism"
Description: This panel will disprove the death of entrepreneurship in journalism. Community journalism – and other – start-ups comprise the ideal AEJMC panel for the centennial convention in Chicago.
Sponsors: Community Journalism Interest Group (lead), Media Management and Economics Division
Date: Saturday, Aug. 11
Time: 5:15 p.m.
Session: Research panel session
Description: Panel presentation of peer-reviewed COMJIG research papers
Date: Saturday, August 11
Time: 7-8:30 p.m.
Session: COMJIG membership meeting
Date: Saturday, August 11
Time: 8:45 p.m.
Session: COMJIG executive board meeting
February 12, 2012
Final schedule for COMJIG in Chicago
Here is the final version of events that the Community Journalism Interest Group is involved in at the AEJMC Convention this August in Chicago. There has been one change to this schedule: We will now be hosting our own, sole-sponsored research panel and will not be doing a high density session. This change had to occur because we were double booked during the high density session, which is not permitted. The new research panel will happen on Saturday, immediately before the COMJIG members meeting. We have requested these two events occur in the same room.
Date: Wednesday, August 8
Time: 1-5 p.m.
Session: "Legal Issues for Journalism Schools As News Providers: Challenges and Opportunities"
Description: This event will consist of three panels on best practices for journalism schools in their increasingly vital role as community news providers to help them sensibly address and mitigate legal risk in support of the journalism they are producing and in support of their education of students.
Sponsors: Law and Policy Division (lead), Community Journalism Interest Group, Civic & Citizen Journalism Interest Group
Date: Thursday, August 9
Time: 3:15-4:45 p.m.
Session: "African Media, the Arab Spring & Democratization: The 'un-seen' and 'un-mentioned' Social Side of the News Revolution"
Description: This panel focuses on the social issues of international news reporting about countries and their peoples in sub-Saharan Africa and the way these issues interact with the media and the process of democratization.
Sponsors: Civic & Citizen Journalism Interest Group, Community Journalism Interest Group
Date: Thursday, August 9
Time: 5-6:30 p.m.
Session: "The Tragedy of Today's GLBT Journalism"
Description: At a time when journalism of, by, and for the GLBT community could be excellent and comprehensive, the situation is instead bad and getting worse. So where do we go from here?
Sponsors: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Interest Group (lead), Community Journalism Interest Group
Date: Friday, August 10
Time: 1:30-3 p.m.
Session: Scholar-to-scholar research
Description: Presentation of peer-reviewed COMJIG research papers
Date: Friday, August 10
Time: 3:15-4:45
Session: "Mobile Me, Mobile We: Building and Bridging Communities With Media"
Description: This panel looks at the some of the diverse attributes of mobile in a changing media landscape at the hyperlocal and community level.
Sponsors: Community Journalism Interest Group (lead), Civic & Citizen Journalism Interest Group
Date: Friday, August 10
Time: 5-6:30 p.m.
Session: "Social Media and Ethnic Press"
Description: This panel probes the trends showing that young people, the dominant media audience of tomorrow, are using social media to communicate with those in their ethnic culture.
Sponsors: Small Programs Interest Group (lead), Community Journalism Interest Group (lead), Civic & Citizen Journalism Interest Group
Date: Saturday, Aug. 11
Time: 12:15-1:30 p.m.
Session: "The Rise of University Entrepreneurial News Startups" (J-Lab Luncheon)
Description: Around the country, journalism programs are launching news websites to cover their communities, state capitals, or public issues on a day-to-day basis. These are genuine news initiatives that take many forms and they are quite different from the blogs or websites that house student assignments for a particular class. We examine different models and how they operate.
Sponsors: Civic & Citizen Journalism Interest Group (lead), Community Journalism Interest Group
Date: Saturday, August 11
Time: 3:30-5 p.m.
Session: "Startling Startups in the Business of Journalism"
Description: This panel will disprove the death of entrepreneurship in journalism. Community journalism – and other – start-ups comprise the ideal AEJMC panel for the centennial convention in Chicago.
Sponsors: Community Journalism Interest Group (lead), Media Management and Economics Division
Date: Saturday, Aug. 11
Time: 5:15 p.m.
Session: Research panel session
Description: Panel presentation of peer-reviewed COMJIG research papers
Date: Saturday, August 11
Time: 7-8:30 p.m.
Session: COMJIG membership meeting
Date: Saturday, August 11
Time: 8:45 p.m.
Session: COMJIG executive board meeting
Date: Wednesday, August 8
Time: 1-5 p.m.
Session: "Legal Issues for Journalism Schools As News Providers: Challenges and Opportunities"
Description: This event will consist of three panels on best practices for journalism schools in their increasingly vital role as community news providers to help them sensibly address and mitigate legal risk in support of the journalism they are producing and in support of their education of students.
Sponsors: Law and Policy Division (lead), Community Journalism Interest Group, Civic & Citizen Journalism Interest Group
Date: Thursday, August 9
Time: 3:15-4:45 p.m.
Session: "African Media, the Arab Spring & Democratization: The 'un-seen' and 'un-mentioned' Social Side of the News Revolution"
Description: This panel focuses on the social issues of international news reporting about countries and their peoples in sub-Saharan Africa and the way these issues interact with the media and the process of democratization.
Sponsors: Civic & Citizen Journalism Interest Group, Community Journalism Interest Group
Date: Thursday, August 9
Time: 5-6:30 p.m.
Session: "The Tragedy of Today's GLBT Journalism"
Description: At a time when journalism of, by, and for the GLBT community could be excellent and comprehensive, the situation is instead bad and getting worse. So where do we go from here?
Sponsors: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Interest Group (lead), Community Journalism Interest Group
Date: Friday, August 10
Time: 1:30-3 p.m.
Session: Scholar-to-scholar research
Description: Presentation of peer-reviewed COMJIG research papers
Date: Friday, August 10
Time: 3:15-4:45
Session: "Mobile Me, Mobile We: Building and Bridging Communities With Media"
Description: This panel looks at the some of the diverse attributes of mobile in a changing media landscape at the hyperlocal and community level.
Sponsors: Community Journalism Interest Group (lead), Civic & Citizen Journalism Interest Group
Date: Friday, August 10
Time: 5-6:30 p.m.
Session: "Social Media and Ethnic Press"
Description: This panel probes the trends showing that young people, the dominant media audience of tomorrow, are using social media to communicate with those in their ethnic culture.
Sponsors: Small Programs Interest Group (lead), Community Journalism Interest Group (lead), Civic & Citizen Journalism Interest Group
Date: Saturday, Aug. 11
Time: 12:15-1:30 p.m.
Session: "The Rise of University Entrepreneurial News Startups" (J-Lab Luncheon)
Description: Around the country, journalism programs are launching news websites to cover their communities, state capitals, or public issues on a day-to-day basis. These are genuine news initiatives that take many forms and they are quite different from the blogs or websites that house student assignments for a particular class. We examine different models and how they operate.
Sponsors: Civic & Citizen Journalism Interest Group (lead), Community Journalism Interest Group
Date: Saturday, August 11
Time: 3:30-5 p.m.
Session: "Startling Startups in the Business of Journalism"
Description: This panel will disprove the death of entrepreneurship in journalism. Community journalism – and other – start-ups comprise the ideal AEJMC panel for the centennial convention in Chicago.
Sponsors: Community Journalism Interest Group (lead), Media Management and Economics Division
Date: Saturday, Aug. 11
Time: 5:15 p.m.
Session: Research panel session
Description: Panel presentation of peer-reviewed COMJIG research papers
Date: Saturday, August 11
Time: 7-8:30 p.m.
Session: COMJIG membership meeting
Date: Saturday, August 11
Time: 8:45 p.m.
Session: COMJIG executive board meeting
December 05, 2011
COMJIG research sessions
We're trying something new this year with our research sessions at the AEJMC conference in Chicago. Along with ComTECH, we're participating in a high-denisty research session from 5 to 6:30 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 10.
Because we want to increase our visibility and try to bring in more research papers, we can have up to 10 research presentations at the Chicago conference. of teh 10, five can be presented at the high-density session and we can have up to five posters at the Scholar-to-Scholar session (also on Friday afternoon, from 1:30 to 3). Please see teh sked in a previous posting.
Now it's up to us to spread the word to kith and kin that COMJIG can be THE place to get their research noticed.
The HD guidelines are directly below from AEJMC:
Rationale:
The high-density format may be thought of as a cross between a traditional paper presentation panel and a scholar-to-scholar session. The hybrid allows more individuals to be placed on the panel (thus the name “high-density”). The key is that the individual presentations must be SHORT to allow for individual discussion with members of the audience. To insure this, your chair and discussant will be strictly enforcing the timelines discussed below. This format allows the audience members to hear the detail on those research projects that interest them the most.
Format:
Presenters will be given 4 minutes to provide an overview or summary of their paper. This time limit will be strictly enforced. You will be stopped if you exceed the time limit. No questions are taken between presentations. Since you have a short time for presentation, you are encouraged to limit audio-visual and lengthy discussions. Think of this as an executive summary or an extended abstract.
The discussant for the panel will not comment on the individual papers. The discussant’s function is to facilitate discussions between the presenters and the audience members. To achieve this goal, presenters are asked to spread out in the room so that individuals who would like to speak to them may do so. Audience members will then be able to spend some time hearing more about or asking questions about those research presentations that most interest them. To help the audience members find the proper presenter, a sign will be made with your paper title and authors. These will be taped to the walls around the room (or at tables, if available). After all the presentations are over, you must go to the area with your sign.
Presenters should prepare handouts containing outlines, key points, executive summaries, etc. for their study to distribute to the audience members. This one-page handout will help the members of the audience to comprehend your brief presentations and to select those papers they would like to hear more about. Since there will be many presenters and only one LCD projector, do not prepare materials for the discussion with individuals. It is suggested that you have limited projected material for your 4-minute presentation.
If the guidelines outlined here are followed correctly, there will be nearly 30 minutes for individual discussion. This will allow audience members to get more information on several papers.
Because we want to increase our visibility and try to bring in more research papers, we can have up to 10 research presentations at the Chicago conference. of teh 10, five can be presented at the high-density session and we can have up to five posters at the Scholar-to-Scholar session (also on Friday afternoon, from 1:30 to 3). Please see teh sked in a previous posting.
Now it's up to us to spread the word to kith and kin that COMJIG can be THE place to get their research noticed.
The HD guidelines are directly below from AEJMC:
Rationale:
The high-density format may be thought of as a cross between a traditional paper presentation panel and a scholar-to-scholar session. The hybrid allows more individuals to be placed on the panel (thus the name “high-density”). The key is that the individual presentations must be SHORT to allow for individual discussion with members of the audience. To insure this, your chair and discussant will be strictly enforcing the timelines discussed below. This format allows the audience members to hear the detail on those research projects that interest them the most.
Format:
Presenters will be given 4 minutes to provide an overview or summary of their paper. This time limit will be strictly enforced. You will be stopped if you exceed the time limit. No questions are taken between presentations. Since you have a short time for presentation, you are encouraged to limit audio-visual and lengthy discussions. Think of this as an executive summary or an extended abstract.
The discussant for the panel will not comment on the individual papers. The discussant’s function is to facilitate discussions between the presenters and the audience members. To achieve this goal, presenters are asked to spread out in the room so that individuals who would like to speak to them may do so. Audience members will then be able to spend some time hearing more about or asking questions about those research presentations that most interest them. To help the audience members find the proper presenter, a sign will be made with your paper title and authors. These will be taped to the walls around the room (or at tables, if available). After all the presentations are over, you must go to the area with your sign.
Presenters should prepare handouts containing outlines, key points, executive summaries, etc. for their study to distribute to the audience members. This one-page handout will help the members of the audience to comprehend your brief presentations and to select those papers they would like to hear more about. Since there will be many presenters and only one LCD projector, do not prepare materials for the discussion with individuals. It is suggested that you have limited projected material for your 4-minute presentation.
If the guidelines outlined here are followed correctly, there will be nearly 30 minutes for individual discussion. This will allow audience members to get more information on several papers.
August 12, 2011
COMJIG rewards best faculty, student research
May 24, 2010
Top papers announced
Congratulations to Steve Smethers of Kansas State University and Tracy Loope of the University of Florida. Each authored the top COMJIG paper in their various categories for this summer's AEJMC conference in Denver.
Smethers wrote the top faculty paper, "After the Storm: Greensburg Residents Discuss An Open Source Project As A Source of Community News."
Loope's paper was "Heart Disease In The Rural South: A Content Analysis Of The Community Newspaper Coverage."
Their papers will be two of the three presented at the COMJIG refereed research session from 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 5, at the AEJMC conference in Denver.
Smethers wrote the top faculty paper, "After the Storm: Greensburg Residents Discuss An Open Source Project As A Source of Community News."
Loope's paper was "Heart Disease In The Rural South: A Content Analysis Of The Community Newspaper Coverage."
Their papers will be two of the three presented at the COMJIG refereed research session from 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 5, at the AEJMC conference in Denver.
March 01, 2010
call for papers
The Community Journalism Interest Group (COMJIG) is interested in research focused on any and all aspects of community journalism. We emphasize that community need not just be defined as within traditional geographical or social boundaries, but that given technological advances it may also be applied to journalism and its relationship to communities of interest online.
Our goal is to identify and present original, meaningful research that advances the understanding of the role of journalists and news organizations as members of communities, geographic or digital. We have particular interest in issues unique to those situations where as a function of geography or technology the community and news organization tend to be or have the potential to become highly engaged. Quantitative and qualitative methods are equally welcomed, as are attempts at mixed methodology. Theoretical groundings are appreciated. Only serious and complete research-based studies will be considered. Do not submit opinion essays, incomplete pilot studies, literature reviews, or other incomplete or unscholarly works.
Papers should be a maximum of 7,500 words long (about 25 pages, double-spaced) and adhere to APA or Chicago citation style. Please provide a running title on each page and include an abstract of no more than 75 words.
In evaluating papers for research presentations, COMJIG makes no distinction between faculty and graduate student work.
COMJIG encourages graduate student submissions in its Top Student Paper competition. To be considered for the competition, papers must be wholly the work of students. The author(s) of the top student paper will receive a $100 award and a certificate.
Likewise, COMJIG encourages faculty submissions in its Top Faculty Paper competition. To be considered for the competition, papers must be wholly the work of faculty. The author(s) of the top faculty paper also receives a $100 award and a certificate.
Information concerning submissions: Contact COMJIG Research Chair Joe Marren by e-mail (marrenjj@buffalostate.edu) or telephone (716-878-3794).
Our goal is to identify and present original, meaningful research that advances the understanding of the role of journalists and news organizations as members of communities, geographic or digital. We have particular interest in issues unique to those situations where as a function of geography or technology the community and news organization tend to be or have the potential to become highly engaged. Quantitative and qualitative methods are equally welcomed, as are attempts at mixed methodology. Theoretical groundings are appreciated. Only serious and complete research-based studies will be considered. Do not submit opinion essays, incomplete pilot studies, literature reviews, or other incomplete or unscholarly works.
Papers should be a maximum of 7,500 words long (about 25 pages, double-spaced) and adhere to APA or Chicago citation style. Please provide a running title on each page and include an abstract of no more than 75 words.
In evaluating papers for research presentations, COMJIG makes no distinction between faculty and graduate student work.
COMJIG encourages graduate student submissions in its Top Student Paper competition. To be considered for the competition, papers must be wholly the work of students. The author(s) of the top student paper will receive a $100 award and a certificate.
Likewise, COMJIG encourages faculty submissions in its Top Faculty Paper competition. To be considered for the competition, papers must be wholly the work of faculty. The author(s) of the top faculty paper also receives a $100 award and a certificate.
Information concerning submissions: Contact COMJIG Research Chair Joe Marren by e-mail (marrenjj@buffalostate.edu) or telephone (716-878-3794).
February 27, 2010
Two great resources for community journalism research at Illinois
Last year I was doing some searching for research produced by Phillip Tichenor when I stumbled across something called the Phillip Tichenor Collection. I was surprised to find the collection was not at the University of Minnesota, where Tichenor is an emeritus professor, but instead is housed at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana.
This discovery led me to two wonderful resources. The first is the Agricultural Communications Document Center; the second is Dr. James Evans, the man who overseas this vast collection of resources.
The collection has more than 30,000 documents, with its main focus, on agricultural communications, but the overlap to things useful and relevant to community journalism are natural and strong, with a vast collection of both work on journalism in the United States and on media globally, with a lot of very important research on media in rural communities and developing nations. Look through the database and you'll find much of the work produced by Al Cross and company at the University of Kentucky as well as many of the conference papers presented at COMJIG's research sessions at AEJMC.
In my two day visit, Dr. Evans proved to be an amazing resource. He spends his days souring the Web looking for research relevant to the center he has created and is very interested in sharing this resource with the world. He set me up with two research assistants and I left with more ideas than I know what to do with.
This discovery led me to two wonderful resources. The first is the Agricultural Communications Document Center; the second is Dr. James Evans, the man who overseas this vast collection of resources.
The collection has more than 30,000 documents, with its main focus, on agricultural communications, but the overlap to things useful and relevant to community journalism are natural and strong, with a vast collection of both work on journalism in the United States and on media globally, with a lot of very important research on media in rural communities and developing nations. Look through the database and you'll find much of the work produced by Al Cross and company at the University of Kentucky as well as many of the conference papers presented at COMJIG's research sessions at AEJMC.
In my two day visit, Dr. Evans proved to be an amazing resource. He spends his days souring the Web looking for research relevant to the center he has created and is very interested in sharing this resource with the world. He set me up with two research assistants and I left with more ideas than I know what to do with.
February 04, 2010
Special call: Social Justice in the Clasroom
As a service to the Small Programs Interest Group, we are sharing this research call:
We teach techniques and technology, law and theory, but how should we handle questions of social justice?
Advocacy for the poor and powerless is nothing new to journalism. Muckrakers and crusaders through the decades have lived by the motto: “afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted.” Many of us teach students about America's strong tradition of the alternative press that still thrives today. Additionally, many colleges and universities have social justice as part of their mission.
But what should this mean to journalism educators? How does a commitment to social justice square with journalists’ ideals of fairness, accuracy, impartiality and truth? Here’s a chance to explore. SPIG invites critical essays, qualitative papers, and quantitative research on the issues and questions involved in pursuing justice through the journalism classroom.
We already have a slot reserved for this research panel during the Denver convention – 5 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 5. This is in addition to our regular research showcase at the scholar-to-scholar session.
Submit your papers through the standard All Academic on-line process by April 1. (Details available at: http://aejmc.org/_10call.php) Make sure you use the phrase “social justice” somewhere in the title.
If you have any questions, please contact either of us:
Research Co-Chairs
John Jenks (jjenks@dom.edu)
Teresa Housel (housel@hope.edu)
We teach techniques and technology, law and theory, but how should we handle questions of social justice?
Advocacy for the poor and powerless is nothing new to journalism. Muckrakers and crusaders through the decades have lived by the motto: “afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted.” Many of us teach students about America's strong tradition of the alternative press that still thrives today. Additionally, many colleges and universities have social justice as part of their mission.
But what should this mean to journalism educators? How does a commitment to social justice square with journalists’ ideals of fairness, accuracy, impartiality and truth? Here’s a chance to explore. SPIG invites critical essays, qualitative papers, and quantitative research on the issues and questions involved in pursuing justice through the journalism classroom.
We already have a slot reserved for this research panel during the Denver convention – 5 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 5. This is in addition to our regular research showcase at the scholar-to-scholar session.
Submit your papers through the standard All Academic on-line process by April 1. (Details available at: http://aejmc.org/_10call.php) Make sure you use the phrase “social justice” somewhere in the title.
If you have any questions, please contact either of us:
Research Co-Chairs
John Jenks (jjenks@dom.edu)
Teresa Housel (housel@hope.edu)
July 20, 2009
Boston Convention Research Paper Sessions
As you prepare to head to Boston for the AEJMC convention, pay special attention to the COMJIG paper sessions:
Wednesday 5-6:30 p.m. Refereed Papers Session
Reasserting Radio: An Exploratory Survey of Staff and Volunteers at U.S. Community Radio Stations, Dean Graber, Texas at Austin
Journalism's Role in Bridging Fragmented Community: The Case of College Sports Communities Chang Wan Woo, Wilson Lowrey, Jung Kyu Kim, Hyuksoo Kim
and Hyonjin Ahn, Alabama
Community Journalism and Community History: A Call for Stories of the Storytellers
Janice Hume, Georgia
Thursday 1:30-3 p.m., Scholar-to- Scholar session
Community Newspapers and Their Use of Newspaper Design Technology
Jennifer Wood Adams, Auburn
Community News Editors as Citizens: Individual Level Predictors of Social Capital and Community Engagement Seungahn Nah and Deborah Chung, Kentucky
Wednesday 5-6:30 p.m. Refereed Papers Session
Reasserting Radio: An Exploratory Survey of Staff and Volunteers at U.S. Community Radio Stations, Dean Graber, Texas at Austin
Journalism's Role in Bridging Fragmented Community: The Case of College Sports Communities Chang Wan Woo, Wilson Lowrey, Jung Kyu Kim, Hyuksoo Kim
and Hyonjin Ahn, Alabama
Community Journalism and Community History: A Call for Stories of the Storytellers
Janice Hume, Georgia
Thursday 1:30-3 p.m., Scholar-to- Scholar session
Community Newspapers and Their Use of Newspaper Design Technology
Jennifer Wood Adams, Auburn
Community News Editors as Citizens: Individual Level Predictors of Social Capital and Community Engagement Seungahn Nah and Deborah Chung, Kentucky
December 06, 2008
Live from Louisville - your AEJMC schedule!
(Updated with new times on preconference session)A little live blogging today from inside the closely guarded chip room and cranberry juice bar at the AEJMC winter meeting. We now have a tentative program for you for the Boston convention, Aug. 5-8. We think it's a great selection of panels:
Tuesday Aug. 4
1-4 p.m.: A preconference session with CCJIG on the Mumbai terrorist attacks, citizen journalism and media literacy.
Wednesday Aug. 5
10 a.m.: COMJIG and CCJIG - We kick off with Helping rural journalists better serve their communities. This panel explores university-based training programs and projects designed to help rural journalists better serve their communities. Several could become prototypes for programs across the country.
11:45 a.m.: CCJIG and COMJIG - We follow that great panel with Reinventing Journalism: Anatomy of a One-Year Applied Field Experiment. This panel takes a look at the one-year Representative Journalism field experiment in Northfield, Minn.
3:15 p.m.: COMJIG, International, Religion. Mini-plenary on normative theories of the media, including the special role community journalism plays in helping democracies flourish.
5 p.m.: COMJIG - Our refereed research session. Be sure to be there for some great papers!
And, of course, don't forget the keynote speech and opening reception Wednesday night.
Thursday Aug. 6
11:45 a.m.: Newspaper and COMJIG - A great teaching panel on Pushing Students Outside Their Comfort Zones: The Challenges of Teaching the Sheltered Student Generation. How do we get those sheltered students to deal with people who aren't like them?
1:30 p.m.: Our scholar-to-scholar paper presentations.
6:45 p.m.: Don't miss our always engaging members meeting, which once again will be held partly in conjunction with the Civic and Citizen Journalism Interest Group.
Friday Aug. 7
After the AEJMC business meeting, don't forget that J-lab will be having its citizen journalism luncheon. It's always a fascinating presentation.
1:45 p.m.: COMJIG and Minorities and Communication: Ethnic news organizations as community media, their health and future role in an evolving media world. Boston is rich in ethnic media. Come talk with publishers, editors and those who study the ethnic media about their health and their future roles.
3:30 p.m.: COMJIG and Newspaper - Research opportunities in community journalism. A great research panel. You need to come if you have or are planning a research agenda in community media. And remember, we define community not just as geographical, but social as well.
We'll let you know more as the convention approaches.
- Liz and Doug
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