Announcements

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Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Dr. Kelly Garrett Receives ASCoR Denis McQuail Award 2009

Our fellow COPS member Kelly Garrett was recently awarded the 2009 ASCoR Denis McQuail Award and was named a 2010-2011 ASCoR Honorary Fellow by the Amsterdam School of Communication Research. The award is based on the best research paper advancing communication theory to be published in an international journal in the previous year. An international jury selected Kelly's 2009 paper in the Journal of Communication entitled "Politically motivated reinforcement seeking: Reframing the selective exposure debate" for the award.

Thursday, September 09, 2010

COPS at MAPOR 2010

The Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research (MAPOR) annual meeting and conference is held every year in Chicago. COPS always has a strong showing at this conference and many of our students have come away with honors and awards in the annual student research paper competition.

This year, COPS continues to be well represented at this conference with seven papers being presented by COPS members:

Eveland, W. P., Jr., & Kleinman, S. B. (2010, November). Differentiating the general and political discussion networks of bounded groups using social network analysis. Paper accepted at the Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research. Chicago, Il.

Eveland, W. P., Jr., Morey, A. C., Tchernev, J., & Landreville, K. (2010, November). The who, what, when, where, how, and why of informal political conversations in the United States. Paper accepted at the Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research. Chicago, Il.

Pingree, R. (2010, November). A novel method of correlation network visualization introduced and applied to mapping political space. Paper accepted at the Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research. Chicago, Il.

Quenette, A. & Kleinman, S. (2010, November). Revisiting the knowledge gap hypothesis: The influence of media content on political knowledge gaps. Paper accepted at the Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research. Chicago, Il.

Stoycheff, E. (November 2010). Let the People Speak: Citizens' Perceptions of a Free Press. Paper accepted at the Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research. Chicago, Il.

Tchernev, J. M., Holbert, R. L., & Hill, M. (2010, November). Comparing Landline versus Cellular Phone Samples: Focusing on Audience, Political Media Use, and the Prediction of Political Media Use. Paper accepted at the Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research. Chicago, Il.

Walther, W. O., Holbert, R. L., & Hmielowski, J. D. (2010, November). Studying how and why young viewers are turning to politicla TV satire: Assessment of a moderated-mediation model. Paper accepted at the Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research. Chicago, Il.