Another winner!

The winner of ICA Political Communication division's "Best Paper in Political Communication" award for 2005 has just been announced. Two were chosen this year, one of them being from COPS's own Chip Eveland, for his collaborative effort with Dhavan Shan, Jaeho Cho, and Nojin Kwak:

Shah, D. V., Cho, J., Eveland, W. P., & Kwak, N. (2005). Information and expression in a digital age: Modeling internet effects on civic participation. Communication Research 32, 531-565.

Congratulations to Chip!

Survey Research Colloquium

Dr. Amy Ferketich of the School of Public Health will be discussing her recent survey research projects among Ohio's Amish population this Friday, 1:30-2:45 in the Journalism Hall of Fame Room. The title of her talk will be Barriers to Sampling an Isolated Population: The Ohio State University Amish Population Study Experience.

While this talk does not deal with public opinion or politics, it will deal with some interesting interdisciplinary issues in survey research and will be an opening into that world of research. Particularly if you are interested in the Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization in Survey Research, I hope to see you Friday at this talk.

Kirill Glebov Coming to OSU

Kirill Glebov has decided to join us at OSU for his MA, and will, I suspect, be joining our COPS group in short order. Kirill currently works for a Russian news agency in Washington, DC and should provide some interesting perspective for the COPS group, especially as it related to international communication. Welcome, Kirill!

Another Welcome is in Order!

Let's also welcome Greg Richey to the COPS group. Greg is currently finishing up his BA in Psychology and Political Science here at OSU, and will join the School of Communication's MA program in the fall.

Excited to be a Buckeye!

Thanks for the welcome to the COPS group at OSU. I'm very excited to be a Buckeye now! If any grad students are interested, I'd like to work on an abstract for MAPOR, since I've never been to that conference. My e-mail is KrisLand@gmail.com in case you all have any ideas. See you in fall quarter!

Kristen

Welcoming New COPS Members

As some of you may know, we already know that we'll have at least two new COPS members starting our PhD program next year: Myiah Hively (currently getting her MA at Washington State) and Kristen Landreville (currently getting her MA at U of Florida). And, with two weeks remaining before the universal deadline for accepting funding offers, we expect to be making more announcements in the weeks to come. For now, welcome Myiah and Kristen!!!

ANES Online Commons

The ANES has created an Online Commons to encourage the submission of new ideas from individual investigators about ways to measure relevant concepts and relationships on their election surveys.

The Online Commons can be viewed by anyone, although registration is required if you want to post.

For information about registering, go to http://www.electionstudies.org/onlinecommons.htm

More MAPOR photos

Here are some newly released photos taken at MAPOR 2005. There is a nice picture of OSU COPS members Jason Rieneke and Lindsay Hoffman accepting the top student paper award from Rick Perloff.

Two COPS Members Win Major Public Opinion Award!

The World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR) has acknowledge the top quality of the work of two COPS members, Andrew Hayes and Carroll Glynn, by awarding them the Worcester Prize for Best Article appearing in the journal International Journal of Public Opinion Research for 2005.

The papers (a one-two punch in the 3rd and 4th issues of 2005) put forth the concept of Willingness to Self-Censor and present evidence for the validity of its measurement. The articles can be downloaded from an OSU computer at:
Willingness to Self-Censor: A Construct and Measurement Tool for Public Opinion Research
and
Validating the Willingness to Self-Censor Scale: Individual Differences in the Effect of the Climate of Opinion on Opinion Expression

Jim Shanahan of Cornell University was a co-author on the papers.

Congratulations Andrew and Carroll!!!

New ANES Website

The American National Election Studies has announced a new website address:
www.electionstudies.org.

According to the ANES, the new site suggests that that the project is "an asset of the entire scientific community" and run by scholars from many universities. Some of the material has been rearranged and updated.

New Data Archive Links

I have added a new set of data archive links to the right side of this page. Use the COPS blog as your one-stop-shop for accessing public data for research purposes. This list will grow as you let me know which links should be added.

Searching the Daily Me

Seems that if searching Google exposes you to too much information that doesn't fit your political biases, you've got an alternative -- a search engine that divides results into ideological leanings!
Read more here.

Web-based Reseach Tool for Linking Media Markets to People

COPS group members might find a new web page useful that is currently being developed. It maps media markets to the people in those markets and provides information about who controls what media in those markets. They are still working on U.S., but Canada and some of the South American countries are up and running. For details, go to the web page here.

Matt Nisbet speaks out

COPS member Matt Nisbet recently presented some of his research and thinking revelant to the stem cell debate and proposition 71 in California. For a nice picture, click here.

Reminder About Grants in Broadcasting

Don't forget that the deadline for the NAB Grants for Research in Broadcasting is coming up (January 31st). This is a particularly good opportunity for senior graduate students, especially those close to dissertating, to get some money to do research on a topic related to broadcasting. In 2005, it appears that at least one graduate student won an award for a solo project.

Follow this link for information:
http://www.nab.org/Research/Grants/grants.asp