Several Newhouse School faculty members and students will participate in the annual conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Aug. 6-10, at the Marriott Marquis in Washington, D.C. Their involvement includes paper presentations, panel appearances and roles as panel moderators and/or paper session discussants.
Note: This is a working list; for the most updated information, including time and event locations, visit the AEJMC conference website.
Teaching Ideas Competition Presentations and Michael Hoefges Graduate Student Research Fund Presentations
Kyla Garrett-Wagner (moderator)
Law and Policy Teaching Ideas Competition, Second Place for: “Transform This!”
Nina Brown (presenter)
Taming the Shrew: How Freedom of Expression Subjugates Women
Kyla Garrett-Wagner
Whom Do You Want to Be Friends With An Extroverted or an Introverted Avatar? Impacts of the Uncanny Valley Effect and Conversational Cues
Heejae Lee, Shengjie Yao and Makana Chock
Institute for Diverse Leadership in Journalism and Communication Workshop
Online Incivility and News Framing
Brad Gorham (discussant)
Symbolic Power on the Line: US News Coverage of Brittney Griner’s Detainment
Kandice Green and Carol Liebler
Ethical Issues for a Digital Age
Greg Munno (discussant)
Sippin’ on Some Sizzurp: A Qualitative Framing Analysis of National Opioid Abuse Coverage in Nigerian Newspapers
Installing Updates: Reconciling Research on VR and Immersive Media Over Time
Nick Bowman (panelist)
The Gig Economy: How Freelancing Has Become the New Norm and How We Can Teach It
Rawiya Kameir (panelist)
Legal and Ethical Implications of AI and Education (and they’re not all bad)
Kyla Garrett-Wagner (panelist)
News Coverages of Sports, Pollution and Environmental Risk
Greg Munno (discussant)
Community Activists as Agents in the Journalistic Field: An Exploration of Community Organizing in the Online Comment Sections of Local Newspaper Facebook Pages
High-Density Refereed Research Paper Session
Roy Gutterman (moderator)
Making DEIB More than Checking a Box: The Landscape of New Administrative Initiatives
Rockell Brown Burton (panelist)
We’re All in This Together: Self-Transcendent Social Media and the Eudaimonic Media Experience
David Peters and Carol Liebler
Too Many Cases, Too Little Support: How the Debate Over What Instructors Teach in Media Law Courses is a Symptom of Institutional Changes in Mass Communication Education
Kyla Garrett-Wagner
Use of an Interactive Care Coordination Assistant (ICCA) for Diabetes Management
Moon Lee, Jeongwon Yang, Shengjie Yao, Heejae Lee, Nalae Hong and Xi Liu
I Am Not My Hair (CROWN): The Critical Agenda Setting Role of Celebrities and Influencers in the Movement to End Natural Hair Discrimination
Coping with Negative Moods Using Mobile Media Among Young Adults
The Value of Entertainment Scholarship for Theory and Research
Nick Bowman (moderator) and Charisse L’Pree Corsbie-Massay (panelist)
Promoting Coaches on Instagram: A Content Analysis of Posts Featuring NCAA Division I Coaches of Women’s Sports
Examining the Role of News-Finds-Me Perceptions in Vulnerability to Fake News Through Third-Person Perception
Yu Tian and Lars Willnat
Norms, Routines and Boundaries of Data Journalism in US Public Radio Newsrooms
Stan Jastrzebski, Keren Henderson, Jocelyn McKinnon-Crowley and Kevin Crowston
Open Science in Communication Research
Nick Bowman (panelist)
Conducting International Research: Experiences from African and Latin American PhD Students and Professors
Raiana Soraia De Carvalho (moderator) and Benjamin Tetteh (panelist)
Black Culture, White Audiences: How Magazines Transmit Ideas
Aileen Gallagher and Qi Ni (panelists)
Taking the Next Step: Strategies for Advancing Your Academic Career Post-Tenure
Makana Chock (panelist)
Innovations in Teaching Competition
Milton Santiago (recipient)
CPRE Editorial Meeting
Maria Russell (moderator)
From Celebrity Politics to Political Fandom: An Exploration of Political Engagement during Brazil’s Presidential Election
Raiana Soraia De Carvalho
Teaching Small-Group Facilitation Skills to Journalism Students
Greg Munno
Challenging AI in the PR classroom
Top Teaching Papers and GIFTS
Regina Luttrell (respondent)
A Critical Evaluation of AI’s Detection and Attribution Capabilities Using the Theory of Content Consistency
Jason Davis, Regina Luttrell, Phoebe Smith and Nalae Hong
Media During Polarized Times
Raiana Soraia De Carvalho (moderator)
Dobbs Makes for Strange Bedfellows: How the Overturning of Roe v. Wade Threatens, but Binds Free Speech and Health Communication
Kyla Garrett-Wagner (moderator) and Rebecca Ortiz (panelist)
The Assumptions, Ethical Implications and Unobserved Effects of PR Research
Erika Schneider (moderator)
Does Eye Contact Matter: Emotional Responses to Candidate’s Direct and Indirect Address in Political Advertisements
Jocelyn McKinnon-Crowley
Media Management, Economics and Entrepreneurship, Law and Policy and Communicating Science, Health, Environment and Risk Divisions
Tully Center for Free Speech (sponsor)
How Much is Too Much?: Examining Self-Disclosure in Social Media Influencers
Rose Verchot, Bryce Whitwam and Tiara Johnson
The following awards will be formally presented on Thursday:
First Place in Website Category (individual / team / single class): Syracuse Salt City Harvest Farm
Renée Stevens (faculty advisor)
Second Place in Website Category (individual / team / single class): The 5 O’Clock Project
Adam Peruta (faculty advisor)
Third Place in Website Category (individual / team / single class): Orange Television Network Website
Haytham Saqr (recipient), Madelyn Geyer (recipient), Julianna Poirier (recipient) and Adam Peruta (faculty advisor)
First Place in APP Category (individual / team / single class): Say Yes to Less
Adam Peruta (faculty advisor) and Renée Stevens (faculty advisor)
First Place in Website Category (multiple class / institution): Infodemic
Seth Gitner (recipient), Jon Glass (recipient), Greg Munno (faculty advisor), Shelvia Dancy (faculty advisor), Milton Santiago (faculty advisor) and Adam Peruta (faculty advisor)