Scholarship for the 2010 ICPSR Summer Program

A scholarship fund has been established in honor of Warren E. Miller for participation in the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) 2010 Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research. The fund will provide financial support to outstanding pre-tenure scholars (assistant professors and advanced graduate students) in the social and behavioral sciences so they may attend one or two four-week sessions of the ICPSR Summer Program, held at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Recipients of the Miller Scholarship will receive a fee waiver to cover Program enrollment and a stipend to help with expenses while staying in Ann Arbor.

Applicants to the Warren E. Miller Scholarship should have professional interests in one or more of the following areas of research (or in related fields):

Developing a common approach to understanding electoral behavior within or across nations

1. Understanding the process of democratization in electoral systems
2. Understanding the link between global politics and local electoral behavior
3. Understanding how context influences political behavior
4. Understanding how globalization causes change in political behavior

An application for the Warren E. Miller Scholarship should include:

1. A completed Summer Program application form, submitted through the online registration system on the Summer Program web site.
2. A vita
3. A cover letter from the applicant, explaining his or her scholarly interests, background, and future research plans.
4. Two letters of recommendation. For applicants who are faculty members, one of these letters should come from his or her Department Chair. For graduate student applicants, one of the letters should come from his or her faculty advisor.
5. An official transcript (for graduate student applicants only)

Application materials should be submitted electronically. The e-mail address for doing so is: sumprog@icpsr.umich.edu

Please be sure to put “MILLER SCHOLARSHIP AWARD” in the subject line of the message.

If necessary, hard-copy applications for the award also can be mailed to:

Miller Scholarship Award

ICPSR Summer Program

P.O. Box 1248

Ann Arbor, MI 48106

The deadline for applications is May 7, 2010.

Information about the 2010 ICPSR Summer Program, including the Program application form, is available on the ICPSR Summer Program webpage: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/sumprog/

Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions about the Warren E. Miller Scholarship or the ICPSR Summer Program. E-mail: sumprog@icpsr.umich.edu

Political Communication-related Conference Calendar

Month	Paper Deadlines	Conferences
January
February	NCA/Polnet
March		ISA
April	AEJMC	MPSA
May		ICA (in US)
		AAPOR/WAPOR
June	MAPOR/ISA	Polnet/ICA (International)
July
August		AEJMC
September		APSA
October	MPSA
November	ICA	NCA
	AAPOR/WAPOR	MAPOR
December	APSA

NCA Papers Accepted

Several COPS graduate students recently received the good word that their papers have been accepted for presentation at the upcoming annual meeting of the National Communication Association to be held in San Francisco (November). The COPS members include alumnus Heather LaMarre, now at the University of Minnesota, Kristen Landreville, who will soon be departing for a new position at the University of Wyoming, and current doctoral students Jay Hmielowski and Jayeon Lee. Congrats!

Garrett, R. K., Carnahan, D., & Lynch, E. A turn toward selectivity? Changes in Americans’ exposure to cross-cutting political outlets online. In Selective Exposure and Political Communication panel. Political Communication Division.

Landreville, K., D., Holbert, R. L., & LaMarre, H. L. The influence of late-night TV comedy viewing on political talk: A moderated-mediation model. Political Communication Division.

Hmielowski, J. D., Holbert, R. L., & Lee, J. Predicting the consumption of political TV satire: Affinity for political humor, The Daily Show, and The Colbert Report. Political Communication Division.

Fishkin at Mershon

Wednesday April 14^th from 12:00-1:30 at the Mershon Center (1501 Neil Ave., Columbus, OH 43201)

“Deliberative Democracy and Public Consultation”

There is no paper for the talk.

Prof. Fishkin holds the Janet M. Peck Chair in International Communication at Stanford University. He is also professor of political science and communication, director of Stanford's Center for Deliberative Democracy, and chair of the Department of Communication. Fishkin is author of a number of books including Democracy and Deliberation: New Directions for Democratic Reform (Yale University Press, 1991), The Dialogue of Justice (Yale University Press, 1992 ), and The Voice of the People: Public Opinion and Democracy (Yale University Press, 1995). He is co-author with Bruce Ackerman of Deliberation Day (Yale University Press, 2004), and his most recent book When the People Speak: Deliberative Democracy and Public Consultation was published by Oxford University Press in 2009. Fishkin is best known for developing Deliberative Polling and has conducted them in the United States, Britain, Australia, Denmark, Bulgaria, China, Greece and other countries.

To sign up for this event, please contact Beth Russell at russell.16@osu.eduby Monday, April 12, 2010.

Myiah Hutchens Accepts Faculty Position at Texas Tech

Congratulations to COPS member Myiah Hutchens, who just yesterday decided to accept an assistant professor position at Texas Tech University! This is a terrific position at a doctoral-granting institution that has really been "on-the-move" in recent years and making very solid hires. Way to go Myiah!

Latest Issue of Journal of Communication

The OSU School of Communication is well represented in the March 2010 issue of Journal of Communication. First, Lance Holbert, Kelly Garrett, and doctoral student Laurel Gleason published "A New Era of Minimal Effects? A Response to Bennett and Iyengar." Later in the issue School of Communication Director Carroll Glynn and former COPS member (and Andrew Hayes M.A. advisee) Mike Huge published "Hostile Media and the Campaign Trail: Perceived Media Bias in the Race for Governor." Congrats!

Course on Habermas in Poli Sci by Neblo

Mike Neblo from Political Science has asked that I convey some information about his Spring 2010 graduate course (T/Th 3:30-6:18) on Habermas:

After several years here, I am finally getting to teach a course on Habermas (PS766), and wanted to reach out to any interested grad students in communications. I have not finalized the syllabus, but it is worth noting that I intend the course as an overview of his whole system of thought, not just his political philosophy. So we will be spending some time on his epistemology, theory of modernity and communication, and discourse ethics, before finishing up with his political thought and applications. If you think that this would be a good fit for any of your students, I would be eager to have them!

NSF awards $10 million for American National Election Studies

The American National Election Studies (ANES) is one of the most important tools for political communication research in the United States.  The project has collected data on voting, political behavior, and public opinion in every presidential election since 1948, as well as most midterm elections.  The NSF just awarded $10 million to the project for the 2010 midterm and 2012 presidential elections which will allow the project to futher expand its data collection capabilities. This is great news for political communication researchers!

TODAY: Talk by democratic theorist Mark Warren

Democratic theorist Mark Warren is giving a talk at 2:30 this afternoon (2/19) titled "Two trust-based uses of minipublics in democratic systems". The talk is sponsored by the Department of Political Science and will be held in Derby 2030. More information about Professor Warren is available here: http://www.politics.ubc.ca/index.php?id=2516 and a paper on the same subject is here: http://psweb.sbs.ohio-state.edu/intranet/poltheory/papers-2010/warren-Dec-2009.pdf

COPS ICA Achievements

COPS members obtained a 100% acceptance rate for papers submitted for presentation at the upcoming annual meeting of the International Communication Association (ICA) to be held this June in Singapore. The acceptance rate for the conference as a whole was substantially lower, 54%. Congrats to all COPS authors! Outstanding work! COPS members Holbert, Garrett, Geidner, and Hill will be attending the conference, and it appears that they will be quite busy during their time abroad.

Here is the list of accepted works (alphabetical order):

Garrett, R. K. (2010). The troubling consequences of online election rumoring. Paper accepted for presentation at the upcoming annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Singapore.

Geidner, N. W. (2010). Perceived network connection: Measuring individual-level connection to voluntary groups. Paper accepted for presentation at the upcoming annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Singapore.

Holbert, R. L. & Geidner, N. W. (2010). A theory of political campaign media connectedness (PCMC), part II: Clarifying the roles of debate viewing and online media. Paper accepted for presentation at the upcoming annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Singapore.

Holbert, R. L., & Hill, M. R. (2010). The promotion of the American cable TV news personality and its influences. Paper accepted for presentation at the upcoming annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Singapore.

Kline, S., & Hill, M. R. "Editorial Inkblots: A Comparative Analysis of Presidential Election Cartoons from 1960, 1980, and 2008." Paper accepted for presentation at the upcoming annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Singapore.

Matthes, J., Hayes, A. F., Rojas, H., Shen, F., Min, S. J., & Dylko, I. (2010). Testing the spiral of silence theory in nine countries: An individual difference perspective. Paper accepted for presentation at the upcoming annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Singapore.

Slater, M. D., & Gleason, L. S. (2010). Theory Development Strategies in Communication Science. Paper accepted for presentation at the upcoming annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Singapore.

Sohn, D. & Geidner, N. W. (2010). Collective dynamics of the spiral of silence: The role of quasi-statistical monitoring. Paper accepted for presentation at the upcoming annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Singapore.

COPS Alum Lindsay Hoffman Making Her Mark at University of Delaware

OSU COPS alumnus Lindsay Hoffman was recently named the Coordinator of Research in Politics and Technology for the new Center for Political Communication just established at UD (www.udel.edu/cpc). She will be coordinating research funding for faculty and students, as well as organizing scholarly and public presentations of research associated with the Center. Moreover, Dr. Hoffman is co-P.I. on a $50,000 grant from the University of Delaware Interdisciplinary Humanities Research Center for a project titled: “Political Communication and Engagement in the 21st Century.” http://www.udel.edu/udaily/2010/dec/ihrc121409.html

COPS Winter 2010 Schedule of Events

1-8 Teresa Myers Job Talk

1-22 Erik Nisbet, “Anti-Americanism as Media Effect? Media selection, exposure and public opinion about the United States in the Middle East”

2-5 Ivan Dylko, “Explicating Political User-Generated Content and Theorizing About Its Effects on Democracy Using Mix-of-Attributes Approach”

2-19 Discussion of series of Journal of Communication works on the future of political communication effects research:

• Bennett, W. L., & Iyengar, S. (2008). A new era of minimal effects? The changing foundations of political communication. Journal of Communication, 58, 707-731.
• Holbert, R. L., Garrett, R. K., & Gleason, L. S. (2010). A new era of minimal effects? A response to Bennett and Iyengar. Journal of Communication, 60, 15-34.
• Bennett, W. L., & Iyengar, S. (2010).The shifting foundations of political communication: Responding to a defense of the media effects paradigm. Journal of Communication, 60, XX-XX.

3-5 Jay Hmielowski, “Developing a Measure of Affinity for Political Humor” and Megan Hill, “Striking Similarities: Making the Match between Cable TV News Personalities and Interpersonal Communication Style”

3-12 Visitation Day for Prospective Graduate Students for Incoming 2010-2011 class

Recent COPS Alumnus Heather LaMarre Inaugural AEJMC Scholar

Congratulations to Heather LaMarre (Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota; PhD, OSU, 2009) for being among the inaugural recipients of the AEJMC Scholars Program. LaMarre's project, "Citizen Journalism and Social Media in the 2010 Election: A Multi-Method Approach to Understanding Emerging Trends and Innovations in Mass Communication Campaigns" has been funded with $2500 through the program.

Landreville accepts University of Wyoming position

I am pleased to announce that PhD candidate and COPS member Kristen Landreville has accepted a tenure-track assistant professor position in the Department of Communication and Journalism at the University of Wyoming. Kristen will continue with us at The Ohio State University as she finishes up her dissertation through the upcoming Winter and Spring quarters, but will then be heading out West to begin her career. Please join me in offering Kristen our best wishes. Congrats, Kristen!

Poli Comm @ AEJMC

AEJMC tweeted the following last night:

"AEJMC has also approved the creation of a Political Communication Interest Group to start in October 2010."

A sport communication interest group was also created.