It looks like another great year at MAPOR 2006 for OSU COPS

Well folks, it looks like we'll be hard to ignore again this year in Chicago at MAPOR 2006. The group submitted 20 proposals from 15 different COPS members.

Ohio Politics in the National Media

Once again Ohio is becoming ground zero in the national political wars, with several major articles focusing on recent events in our state.

Rolling Stone magazine has been getting a lot of attention with its recent cover story by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., asking "Was the 2004 Election Stolen?" While this particular piece adds little new information to the ongoing blogger-debate about the 2004 election problems in Ohio, it does seem to pull together the main sources and threads of previous conversations and allegations and put them in one place. You can find this piece at

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10432334/was_the_2004_election_stolen

RedState.org has wasted no time offering a nasty attack on the Kennedy article.

http://steven-foley.redstate.com/story/2006/6/28/10506/2427

For those who prefer their controversies prospective rather than retrospective, Andrew Gumbel, writing in The Nation, weighes in on what he sees as continuing election integrity issues in Ohio that he claims will affect the 2006 race for governor. The fact that the Republican candidate for governor is the supervising official for his own election is causing some concern.

http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20060717&s=gumbel

Finally, there is a growing shelf of books on the issue of Ohio's role in the 2004 election:

Bleifuss, Joel & Freeman, Steven F. (2006). Was the 2004 Presidential Election Stolen? Seven Stories Press.

Miller, Mark Crispin (2005). Fooled Again. Basic Books.

Conyers, John (2006). What went wrong in Ohio: The Conyers Report on the 2004 Presidential Election. Academy Chicago Publishers.

Rogue Scientist Has Own Scientific Method

A little end of quarter humor. Check out this article...

MAPOR 2006 call for proposals

It is already time to start thinking about MAPOR. The 2006 call for proposals has just been made. Go to the MAPOR web page and select the "conference" link. Proposals (no more than two pages) are due at the end of June.

...and again!

Yet still another congratulations is in order! Jason Reineke has won the top student paper award in the AEJMC Law Division this year for his submission to the 2006 conference titled "The Politics of Censorship: A Curved Explanation for a Contentious Phenomenon." As a sole-authored submission, this is an especially significant and impressive accomplishment. Congratulations to Jason!

When Will it Ever End?

And, we have yet another award winner in our midst. Andrew Hayes' paper with Kris Preacher, "Bootstrapping specific indirect effects in multiple mediator models of media effects" was ranked as a Top Three Faculty Paper by the Communication Theory and Methodology division of the Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication. Congrats Andrew! This marks the FOURTH CONSECUTIVE YEAR that a political communication/public opinion faculty member or graduate student from the School of Communication has had an award-winning paper in this division.

Still more awards

Since congratulations abound recently, why stop now? Young Mie Kim's submission to the political communication division of ICA received a top faculty paper award. She'll be presenting it in Germany in June:

Kim, Y. M., & Vishak, J. (2006, June). Just laugh! You don't need to remember: The effects of the entertainment media on political information acquisition and processing. Paper submitted to the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Dresden, Germany.

Congratulations Young Mie! (John Vishak, by the way, is an M.A. student in the communication program here, but not a COPS member).

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.