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Tuesday, August 17, 2010

AEJMC 2010 Conference Report

COPS was well represented in Denver at the 2010 Association for Education in Mass Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Convention.  Below is a list of conference presentations COPS members.

  • Beam, M. A. (2010). Modeling time in multilevel models. A paper to be presented at the the Communication Theory and Methodology Division at the Association for Education in Mass Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Convention. Denver, CO
  • Geidner, N. W. (2010). Group involvement and the spiral of silence: Using agent-based modeling to understand opinion expression. Paper presented at the Communication Theory and Methods Division of the 2010 annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Denver, CO Top Student Paper!
  • Hill, M. R. (2010). Fictional minds and symbolic interaction: How the act of communication facilitates understanding between characters. Paper presented at the Entertainment Studies Interest Group of the 2010 annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Denver, CO
  • Hoplamazian, G. and S. Knobloch-Westerwick. (August, 2010). Social Self-Esteem Responses to Race Representation in Advertising: Downward Social Comparison and White Guilt. Paper presented at the Advertising Division of the 2010 annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Denver, CO
  • Hoplamazian, G., & Holbert, R. L. (2010, August). Structural Equation Modeling and the Study of Advertising, 2004-2009. Paper to be presented at the Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication. Denver, CO.
  • McCluskey, M. Kim, Y.M. (2010, August). Polarization or Moderaterism? Activist Group Ideology in Newspapers. Paper presented at the Newspaper Research Division of the 2010 annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Denver, CO
  • Nisbet, E.C. and Meyers, T. (2010, August) Anti-Americanism as a media effect? Arab media, prior cognitions, and public opinion in the Middle East. Paper presented at the Communication Theory and Methods Division of the 2010 annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Denver, CO
 In addition, Myiah Hutchens won the Promising Professors competition in the Mass Communication and Society Division and gave a presentation on her teaching philosophy at the conference.

Lastly, several past and present COPS members were elected to leadership positions within AJEMC for the 2011 annual convention.  Former COPS member and OSU alumni Heather LaMarre was elected to be co-research chair of the Mass Communication and Society Division.  Jason Reneike, another former COPS member and alumnus, was elected research chair of the Communication Theory and Methods (CT&M) division. Myiah Hutchens, who recently graduated and is now at Texas Tech, was also elected as an officer-at-large to CT&M. Erik Nisbet, a current COPS member, was elected to be the co-research chair for the new Political Communication Research Group at AEJMC.

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