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Volume 49 No. 2 | January 2016

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The Newsletter of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication

By Paula Poindexter and Ingrid Bachmann

October 15, 2015, added a new chapter to AEJMC’s history: Scholars, profession-als, students and special guests descended on the School of Communications atPontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago for AEJMC’s first internationalmeeting in this region of Latin America. The three-day, tri-lingual regional confer-ence continued some of AEJMC’s finest traditions and established new traditionsfor future regional conferences around the world.

In addition to 10 research paper sessions, including a scholar-to-scholar session,there were 11 thought-provoking panels that addressed issues of interest and con-cern across our field, including journalism, public relations, advertising, teaching,publishing, administration, news literacy, social media, politics and law. One par-ticularly provocative panel addressed the “Impact of the Right to be Forgotten onthe Practice and Meaning of Journalism.” Two special workshops on investigativejournalism were organized by Teresa Correa of the Universidad Diego Portales. Athird special workshop moderated by Sebastián Valenzuela of Pontificia Universi-dad Católica de Chile focused on mobile and wearable news and virtual reality inthe rapidly changing media landscape.

The international regional conference opened with welcomes from conference co-chairs Paula Poindexter, 2013-14 AEJMC president, Texas at Austin, and Ingrid

AEJMC Sponsors International Regional Conference in Santiago

AEJMC heads to Minneapolis for its 99thannual conference that will run Thursday,Aug. 4, through Sunday, Aug. 7, at theHilton Minneapolis. Pre-conference day isWednesday, Aug. 3.

Conference attendees will be able to re-serve rooms at a special conference rate:$179 single/double + tax. For more infor-mation, please refer to AEJMC’s Confer-ence microsite that will be available inlate January.

AEJMC to Convene 99th AnnualConference in Minneapolis

Features ...3 Krieghbaum Under-40 Award

4 Teaching Committee Competition

5 Stonecipher, Bowles Award Calls

6 Carey Award Call

7 MC&S Awards, JAE Call

10 Conference Uniform Paper Call

11 Conference Group Paper Calls

26 Placement

Pablo Boczkowski delivers keynote speech Oct. 15 during AEJMC’s Santiago internationalregional conference. (Photo by Luis Barriga)

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Bachmann, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Poindextertold conference attendees: “With the start of the AEJMC Interna-tional Regional Conference in Santiago, we have just added animportant new chapter to AEJMC’s 103-year-old storied history.”

Opening session greetings were extended by Ignacio Sánchez,president of Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Dean ofCommunications Silvia Pellegrini and AEJMC Immediate PastPresident Elizabeth Toth, Maryland.

Keynote conference speaker Pablo J. Boczkowski, professor anddirector of the Program in Leadership for Creative Enterprises,Northwestern, gave a timely and engaging presentation: “TheNews Gap: When the Information Preferences of the Media andthe Public Diverge.”

The opening reception and wine tasting provided an opportunityto take in one of the most beautiful and important historic sitesin Santiago: Castillo Hidalgo, which was built in 1816 at the topof the Santa Lucia hill. Attendees tasted some of Chile’s bestwines and sampled an array of delicious Chilean foods at the re-ception; another highlight was a drawing for 13 copies of HéctorTobar’s book Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 MenBuried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free,the 2015 AEJMC-Knudson Latin American Prize Winner.

Winners of AEJMC’s top conference research paper awards wereannounced by AEJMC President-elect Paul Voakes during theclosing reception sponsored by David Perlmutter, dean of theCollege of Media & Communication, Texas Tech. Certificates andcash prizes of $300, $200 and $100 were given to the first-, sec-ond- and third-place winners of the top faculty and student pa-pers. One award was reserved for the AEJMC Latin AmericaRegional Conference Top Paper Award, recognizing the paperthat most contributed to understanding journalism and commu-nication in Latin America, and was won by Summer D. Harlow,Florida State, for her paper “Beyond Representation: ExploringParticipation in and through Technology at an Alternative News-paper in El Salvador.”

The recipient of the First-Place Top Faculty Paper was “Televisióny ‘Engagement’: Visión Corporativa, Contenidos y Valoración delas Audiencias. Análisis del Caso RCN Televisión” [Television andEngagement: Corporate Vision, Content and Audience Valoriza-tion. A Case Analysis of RCN Television] written by ManuelGonzález, Germán Arango, Enrique Uribe and Sergio Roncallo,Universidad de La Sabana (Colombia).

The First-Place Top Student Paper was awarded to Carmina Ro-dríguez, University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands) for herpaper titled, “The Social Sharing of Emotion (SSE) in LiveJournal:Assessing the Role of Non-verbal Features.”

The impact of AEJMC’s Santiago international regional confer-ence extends far beyond the 165 scholars, professionals, stu-

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dents and invited guests at the conference. With attendees fromMexico, El Salvador, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil,Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Puerto Rico, the United States, Spainand The Netherlands, the conference not only establishedAEJMC as an innovative player on the international stage, it builtbridges to Latin America by introducing AEJMC to scholars inLatin America who had never come in contact with AEJMC, itsmembers, leadership, or the editor of Journalism & Mass Com-munication Quarterly, who participated on the “Meet the Edi-tors” panel with editors from Cuadernos.Info and Comunicar.Plus, the research presented at the conference will have abroader audience because the editors of Cuadernos.Info pub-lished five of the conference research papers in the journal’s De-cember 2015 issue.

Twitter also helped extend the conference’s impact. Journalismand communication scholars, professionals and students wereable to follow the conference via 333 original tweets in Spanish,English and Portuguese using the official hashtag, #aejmcSCL.Summer Harlow’s final tweet no doubt captured what manywere thinking as AEJMC’s International Regional Conference inSantiago came to an end: “It was a hit! Fue un éxito!”

Summer Harlow, Florida State, receives AEJMC Latin America RegionalConference Top Paper Award. (From L) Ingrid Bachmann, conference co-chair, Paul Voakes, AEJMC president-elect, Summer Harlow, award recipi-ent, Paula Poindexter, conference co-chair. (Photo by Luis Barriga)

Interested in being a fellow in the secondclass of AEJMC’s Institute for Diverse Leader-ship? Look for application information onAEJMC’s website, aejmc.org, during the lastweek of January.

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AEJMC PresidentLori Bergen, University of Colorado

President-electPaul Voakes, University of Colorado

Vice PresidentJennifer Greer, University of Alabama

Past PresidentElizabeth Toth, University of Maryland

PF&R Committee ChairDeb Aikat, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Research Committee ChairJisu Huh, University of Minnesota

Teaching Committee ChairChris Roush, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Publications Committee ChairJane Marcellus, Middle Tennessee State University

Council of Divisions ChairChris Roberts, University of Alabama

Council of Divisions Vice ChairHeloiza Herscovitz, California State University, Long Beach

Council of Affiliates ChairSteve Geimann, Bloomberg News

ASJMC PresidentBrad Rawlins, Arkansas State University

ASJMC President-electJan Slater, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Commission on the Status of Minorities ChairKyle Huckins, Azusa Pacific University

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Texas Tech University to Conduct JMC SurveysThe Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication (ASJMC) willbe overseeing the three JMC surveys that were formerly conducted by Dr. LeeBecker of the University of Georgia. The new research team for the surveys isfrom Texas Tech University. The head PI is Dr. Glenn Cummins. The team hasrevised the first survey questionnaire with feedback from ASJMC officers. Re-sults will be reported at the AEJMC Minneapolis Conference.

Due to limited funding, each survey will now be conducted once every threeyears. The new schedule for the release of the survey data is:

Summer 2016 — JMC Enrollment/Graduates ReportSummer 2017 — JMC Faculty Salaries ReportSummer 2018 — JMC Placement/Compensation Survey

Nominations for AEJMC’s annual Krieghbaum Under-40 Award are now being ac-cepted.

The award honors AEJMC members under 40 years of age who have shown out-standing achievement and effort in all three AEJMC areas: teaching, research andpublic service. The late Hillier Krieghbaum, former New York University professoremeritus and 1972 AEJMC president, created and funded the award in 1980.

Nominees must be under 40 at the time of the April 1 deadline. They must also beAEJMC members in good standing at the time of the nomination and during the pre-ceding year.

AEJMC’s three elected standing committee chairs, or other designees, and AEJMC’sexecutive director (non-voting) serve as the award’s selection committee. Selectionof the nominee is based on the content of his/her packet of materials. This awarddoes not require the nominee to duplicate his/her tenure and promotion packet.

The committee reserves the right not to present the award.

Nominations should contain:

• a letter from an AEJMC member (other than the nominee) describing in detail thecandidate’s professional record in teaching, research and service;• one additional letter of support from a colleague (on or off campus) who is also anAEJMC member;• a full vita.Additional materials:• no more than five total of any combination of the following: abstracts of researchfindings, professional papers or published articles;• no more than five course outlines or innovative teaching tools;• no more than five teaching evaluations, citations or other recognitions pertainingto the nominee.

All entries should be submitted by email in several files (PDF or Word formats) by 5p.m. (Eastern time) on April 1 to [email protected]. Type “Under-40 Award” in theemail subject line. For questions, contact Jennifer McGill at the above email addressor 803-798-0271.

Nominate Now for Krieghbaum Under-40 Award


Best Practices in Ethics in an Emerging Media EnvironmentA teaching competition sponsored by the AEJMC Elected Committee on Teaching

Deadline: Entries should be received by 5 p.m. Eastern Time, March 20.

For the 11th year, AEJMC’s Elected Committee on Teaching is looking to honor innovative teaching ideas from our colleagues.Each year, the committee selects three winners in a themed competition highlighting different areas across the journalism andmass communication curriculum.

The 2016 Best Practices competition will focus on Ethics in an Emerging Media Environment; we seek entries that explain howyou have used innovative learning techniques and systems to teach ethics in this ever-changing media world with new deliveryformats and content. This area is broad, and ideas are welcomed from all disciplines represented among our membership.Teaching areas appropriate for this competition include, but are not limited to, media and society; print, broadcast, reportingand editing; public relations; advertising; media law; media ethics; visual communication; and photojournalism.

The committee will select winning entries for publication in our ninth annual AEJMC Best Practices in Teaching competition thatwill be published in an e-booklet. Winners are required to share their entries during a teaching session at the AEJMC annualconference in Minneapolis on Aug. 4-7. Winners also will receive certificates and a cash prize: First: $300, Second: $200, Third:$100. Honorable mentions may also be awarded, but no cash will be provided for those entries.

Submission GuidelinesYour entry must be in one single Word file (.doc or .docx) or Text (.txt) file. PDFs will not be accepted as we need text files to fa-cilitate publication of the e-booklet containing the winning ideas. The first page of your entry should be a cover sheet withname, affiliation, contact information, entry title and a 125-word bio (written in third person). We will delete this cover sheetwhen we combine entries to facilitate blind judging. Do not include author name or any other identifying information in the de-scription section of your entry.

The description section of your entry should be a TWO-PAGE executive summary and should include:Title100-word abstractExplanation of the teaching practice or activityRationaleOutcomes

Under no circumstances should the description exceed two pages in 12-point type with one-inch page margins. You may in-clude up to two additional pages in the Word or Text document with examples of student work or other supporting materials.However, the entire entry should not exceed five pages and must be in a single Word file with no identifying information otherthan on the title page. Submit your entry as an attachment by email to Chris Roush at [email protected]. (The subject lineshould be “2016 AEJMC Online Teaching (YOUR NAME).”) Copy the email entry to yourself as proof of submission. Confirmationof entry receipt will be sent via email within 48 hours of your submission. If you do not receive this, please call Chris Roush at919-962-4092.

Criteria for JudgingThe criteria to evaluate entries are outlined below:

Relevance of entry to the theme of Ethics in an Emerging Media Environment (10 points).Creativity or innovation (30 points).Real-world applications of relevant teaching theories, concepts and principles (15 points).Interactivity and evidence of active and collaborative learning techniques (25 points).Compliance with format in Call for papers (10 points): (i). Explanation of teaching/methodology, (ii). Rationale, and (iii).

OutcomesOverall impression or assessment (10 points)

JudgingThe AEJMC Teaching Committee’s panel of judges will decide the winners. All entries will be blind judged. Judges will not haveaccess to any identifying information about entrants. The judges reserve the right not to award prizes. Competition results willbe announced by April 30.

AEJMC’s Law and Policy Division Seeks Nominations for Stonecipher Award


AEJMC is accepting nominations for the Dorothy Bowles Award for Outstanding Public Service.

This award recognizes an AEJMC member who has a sustained and significant public-service record that has helped buildbridges between academics and professionals in mass communications, either nationally or locally, and been actively engagedwithin the association. Ideally the award will go to an AEJMC member who has been active in one or more divisions/ interestgroups, elected standing committees or other association leadership positions AND who has engaged with other communica-tion industry-related organizations (such as the Student Press Law Center, Society of Professional Journalists, Journalism Edu-cation Association, Public Relations Society of America, National Association of Broadcasters, etc.) OR done other work locallyto promote interaction between academics and professionals.

This award is designed to recognize someone who has not been recognized or honored for his/her public service in the past.Members who have served on the AEJMC Board are not eligible to be considered for the award until they have been off theBoard for at least four years. When merited, one award will be presented per year. The recipient will receive $1,000 in cashand an award. The award will be presented during the AEJMC Business Meeting at the Minneapolis Conference.

Nominees must be fulltime classroom teachers (not administrators) for the previous 10 years; must teach in an area of jour-nalism/mass communication; must have been members of AEJMC for the past three years; must have a sustained and signifi-cant record of public service to AEJMC; and must have a sustained and significant record of service to programs or activitiesthat promote connections between the academy and JMC industries (either on his/her home campus, or through other pro-fessional-based associations).

Nominations, including self-nominations, should contain a two-page letter that describes the nominee’s service to both areasof public service; two additional letters of support affirming the nominee’s service (one from each area); a 500-word state-ment from the nominee describing his/her views on how public service activities (in general or his/her particular service activ-ities) complement the traditional teaching, research and service roles of higher education faculty (the statement from theaward recipient will be published in the September issue of AEJMC News); and full vita of the nominee.

Nominations should be received by April 1. Send nominations via email to Jennifer McGill at [email protected]. For ques-tions, contact McGill.

The Stonecipher Award Selection Committee of AEJMC’s Law and Policy Division is seeking nominations for the 2015 Harry W.Stonecipher Award for Distinguished Research on Media Law and Policy.

The award honors the legacy of Harry W. Stonecipher. Stonecipher, who died in 2004, was an acclaimed and influential FirstAmendment educator. He nurtured a number of media law scholars during his 15-year career at Southern Illinois University,Carbondale, beginning in 1969.

The Stonecipher Award for Distinguished Research on Media Law and Policy is open to all journalism and communicationscholars within and outside AEJMC. The award will be presented to the research that most broadly covers freedom of expres-sion as a whole. The award is not limited to research that centers on media-specific issues. In addition, the successful nomi-nation will ideally be global in scope, rather than U.S.-centric, given that media law and policy as a research topic isinextricably intertwined with the rest of the world in the 21st century. Preference will be given to research with a strong theo-retical component that demonstrates the potential to have a lasting influence on freedom of expression scholarship. Nomina-tions may be for articles, monographs, peer-reviewed journal articles, law review articles or other scholarly publications.Self-nominations are welcome.

In order to be considered for the award, the research must have been first published between January 1, 2015, and December31, 2015. Nominations should be sent to [email protected] before Feb. 28.

Nominate Now for Bowles Award for Public Service


CALL FOR AWARD APPLICATIONS

James W. Carey Media Research Award 2016Sponsored by the Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research

http://www.cccsir.com/

The Carl Couch Center invites nominations or self-nominations for works to be considered for its annual James W. Carey Media

Research Award. Welcome are works on topics that were central to Carey’s scholarship. Submissions might focus on technol-

ogy, time, space and communication, the nature of public life, the relation between journalism and popular

culture – among others – taking these themes in new or different directions. Applications will be evaluated based

on engagement with Carey’s approaches and concepts, originality and advancement of knowledge. Evaluation will be adminis-

tered by a Review Committee of:

Prof. Stuart Adam, Carleton University

Prof. John Pauly, Marquette University

Prof. Jeff Pooley, Muhlenberg College

Prof. Linda Steiner, University of Maryland

Both single and multiple authored works will be accepted. All submissions must be works that have been published or have

been accepted for publication in a book or journal. To be considered for the 2016 award, works should have been published or

accepted in 2015.

Submitted works should be sent to Mark D. Johns, executive director of CCCSIR, at the address below, according to the follow-

ing directions: Works may be submitted electronically in plain text, Microsoft Word or PDF format. If a book is submitted,

please send a copy of the table of contents and front matter electronically, along with a brief author statement (500 words

maximum) describing how the book relates to Carey’s thought. Then ask your publisher to furnish six review copies for consid-

eration by the committee.

The application deadline is April 1. Notification of award application will be sent out by June 15.

The Award winner will receive the Carey Award plaque to be presented at the winner’s choice of the 2016 annual convention

of AEJMC, the International Communication Association (ICA) or National Communication Association (NCA).

For questions and comments about the Carey Award, please contact:

Mark D. Johns

Communication Studies

Luther College

Decorah, IA 52101 USA

E-mail: [email protected]


The Journal of Advertising Education is seeking relevant, high quality research papers for publica-tion in the 20th Anniversary special double-edition of the journal, which will be published in August2016.

Volume 20, Nos. 1-2, ideally will feature new research examining macro-issues in advertising edu-cation, analyses of the journal and its contribution to the academy, retrospective pieces on advertisingpedagogy and professors, as well as essays and reprints of classic JAE papers from the last 20 years.

Founded in 1996 by AEJMC’s Advertising Division under the editorship of the late Keith Johnson,the Journal of Advertising Education is a peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to research andcommentary on instruction, curriculum and leadership in advertising education.

Research papers for the anniversary issue will be peer-reviewed and may pertain to any aspect ofadvertising education, students or teaching. Topics of interest for this issue may include but are notlimited to: content analysis of 20 years of JAE; meta-analysis of some aspect of advertising education(e.g. the role of theory, teaching creativity, what professionals want from our students, curriculum, etc.); surveys or in-depthinterviews among advertising students, professors and/or practitioners; histories of advertising education, programs and/orpeople; methods pieces on best practice for conducting student-based research in advertising classes.

We also invite thought pieces and essays about advertising education past and future, which will be published at the dis-cretion of the editors based on merit and relevance to the journal.

Send papers according to JAE specifications to Jami Fullerton, [email protected]. Papers must be received byMarch 1 for full consideration. See journalofadvertisingeducation.org for submission guidelines.

Journal of Advertising Education Seeks Papers for Anniversary Issue

AEJMC’s Mass Comm and Society Division Offering More Than $40,000 in Awards This YearAEJMC’s Mass Communication and Society Division (MCS) seeks nominations for several awards in the next year. This yearMCS will provide more than $40,000 in travel funds, research awards, teaching awards and PF&R awards to MCS members.MCS reserves the right not to grant any award in any given year.

Travel Awards• Graduate Travel Awards – Midwinter Conference ($1,000, 2 awards)• Graduate Travel Awards – AEJMC Conference ($4,000, 4 awards)

Research Awards• Dissertation Award ($3,000)• Research Awards ($20,000, 2 awards faculty; $5,000, 1 award grad student)• Moeller Competition Awards ($475, 3 awards for student papers completed for class)

Teaching Awards• Distinguished Educator Award ($500)• Promising Professors Awards ($950, 3 awards faculty, 3 awards grad students)• Adjunct/Instructor Awards ($475, 3 awards)• Teaching Ideas Competition ($475, 3 awards)• Service-Learning Competition ($1,000, 2 awards)

PF&R Awards• Trayes Service Award ($500)• PF&R Award ($250)• Professional Award ($250)

Information on awards is posted on the MCS website, http://aejmc.us/mcs/. Send nominations and direct questions to MCSAwards Chair Michel Haigh, [email protected].


The Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) at Princeton University and the Media Innovation Lab (MiLab) at the Uni-versity of Vienna are pleased to announce their second annual Doctoral Workshop to be held April 27th to April 29th at theUniversity of Vienna.

The workshop will be led by Nick Feamster, professor of computer science and acting director of CITP at Princeton University,and Homero Gil de Zúñiga, who holds the Medienwandel Professorship in the Department of Communication and leads theMiLab at the University of Vienna.

The goal of the workshop is to provide a forum for leading doctoral students to present their late-stage research to experts inthe field, receive feedback and advice, and gain exposure to related work in other disciplines. The workshop seeks to provide ahelpful, interactive experience for students, to highlight the work of rising stars in this area and to foster interdisciplinary col-laboration.

Participants will be selected through a competitive review process with the expectation that eight doctoral students will be se-lected to attend. Support for travel and lodging (up to 500 EUR per attendee) will be provided. Students are encouraged tosubmit dissertation relevant work; abstracts and shorter proposals will not be accepted.

Research topics should focus on the interplay between information and communication technologies and the social, political,civic and governmental spheres. Applications are welcome from doctoral students doing relevant work in any discipline, in-cluding communication studies, computer science, economics, political science and sociology. Possible topics include, but arenot limited to, the following:

• Citizen journalism• Civic engagement and digital technology• E-voting security• Internet governance• Open government data• Privacy technologies for democratic ends• Social media and political expression• State-sponsored internet freedom programs

Submission process: submit manuscript, along with CV and full contact information, to Laura Cummings-Abdo ([email protected]) and Meike Muller ([email protected]) no later than Feb. 7. For more information, visit these websites:CITP (citp.princeton.edu) and MiLab (milab.univie.ac.at).

AEJMC’s History Division Announces 32nd Annual Competition for Covert AwardAEJMC’s History Division announces the 32nd annual competition for the Covert Award in Mass Communication History.

The $500 award will be presented to the author of the best mass communication history article or essay published in 2015.Book chapters in edited collections also may be nominated.

The award was endowed by the late Catherine L. Covert, professor of public communications at Syracuse University and for-mer head of the History Division. Last year’s Covert Award was won by Katherine Fink, Pace, and Michael Schudson, Colum-bia, for their article, “The Rise of Contextual Journalism, 1950s-2000s,” published in Journalism, vol. 15, no. 1 (2014).

Nominations, including seven copies of the article nominated, should be sent by March 1 to Professor Nancy L. Roberts, Com-munication Department, University at Albany, 1400 Washington Ave., SS-351, Albany, NY 12222.

Doctoral Workshop Offered at the University of Vienna

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Nominations are now being taken for the third annual Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Award honoring a woman junior scholar whodemonstrates outstanding research and potential for future scholarship.

Sponsored by The Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Center for the Advancement of Women in Communication at Florida InternationalUniversity and the AEJMC Commission on the Status of Women, this recognition is designed to honor junior faculty re-searchers and encourage them as they pursue their research agendas in the academy.

The 2015 winner was Nikki Usher, an assistant professor at George Washington University’s School of Media and Public Af-fairs.

To nominate a scholar, please send a letter outlining her qualifications, a one-page summary of her research agenda and a cur-riculum vita. Self-nominations are accepted.

The winner will be honored with a check for $250 and a plaque at a reception on Aug. 3 at the AEJMC Conference in Min-neapolis. Kopenhaver, dean emeritus and professor at Florida International University’s School of Journalism and Mass Com-munication, will present the award.

Please send any questions and award nominations by June 1 to Tracy Everbach, [email protected].

The Advertising Educational Foundation (AEF) invites applications for its 2016 Visiting Professor Program (VPP).The VPP is a two-week fellowship for tenured or tenure-track professors of advertising, marketing, communications and

the liberal arts. In 2015, 13 professors were hosted by advertising agencies in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas and New York City.Whether a professor is placed with an agency, a marketing or media company depends upon his/her area of expertise. Thenumber of placements in the VPP is contingent upon the numberof companies willing to host a professor. Preference is given toprofessors with little or no industry experience and to those whohave not already participated in the program. Professors who areplaced should know that programs will differ; no two programswill be alike. The program is only offered to professors teachingin the United States.

The VPP’s objective is to expose professors to day-to-dayoperations of an advertising agency, marketing or media company; and to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas betweenacademia and industry. The VPP gives professors a greater understanding of and appreciation for the industry while host com-panies have an opportunity to develop closer ties to academia.

The program will run from June 5-17 and begins with an orientation followed by individual fellowships. Apply only if youracademic and personal responsibilities allow you to participate for the full two weeks. Notification will be made in April.Housing is provided to professors who are traveling from another state.

Professors who reside in the host city (Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas or New York City) are expected to provide their own hous-ing. All professors will receive a per diem. Professors pay for travel to and from the host city, as well as out-of-pocket ex-penses.

Those selected to participate in the program must have a conversation with the host company to discuss mutual objec-tives prior to the program.

Visit the On-Campus section on www.aef.com to apply and for additional details. Deadline for applications is Jan. 31. Formore information, contact Sharon Hudson, vice president, program manager, at [email protected] or 212-986-8060.

Advertising Educational Foundation InvitesEducators to Apply for Summer Fellowships

Nominations Open for Third AnnualKopenhaver Outstanding Junior Scholar Award


2016 AEJMC Minneapolis Conference Uniform Paper Call

Important Paper Submissions Information• Upload papers for the AEJMC 2016 Minneapolis, MN, Conference beginning Jan. 15. Paper submitters should follow instruc-tions on the front page of the submission site to create their accounts and complete the information required.• Deadline for paper submissions is April 1 at 11:59 p.m. CDT. Any submissions after this time will not be accepted.• Before submitting your paper, please make certain that all author-identifying information has been removed and that allinstructions have been followed per the AEJMC uniform paper call. • A COVER SHEET or a sheet with the 75-word required ABSTRACT that is included with a paper upload should be EXCLUDEDfrom the page number limits set by all AEJMC Groups.

Papers uploaded with author’s identifying information displayed WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED FOR REVIEW AND WILL AUTO-MATICALLY BE DISQUALIFIED FROM THE COMPETITION. All AEJMC Divisions, Interest Groups and Commissions will abide bythe rules below WITHOUT EXCEPTION. NOTE: Follow online instructions on how to submit a clean paper for blind review at aejmc.org/home/papers. Contact FeliciaGreenlee Brown with comments, concerns and other Conference Paper Call inquiries at [email protected].

The programming groups within the Council of Divisions ofthe Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communi-cation invite submission of original, non-published, English lan-guage only research papers to be considered for presentation atthe AEJMC Conference, Aug. 4 to 7, 2016, in Minneapolis, MN.Specific requirements for each competition — including limits onpaper length — are spelled out in the listing of groups and re-search chairs that appear below. Papers are to be submitted inEnglish only.

All research papers must be uploaded through an onlineserver to the group appropriate to the paper’s topic via a link onthe AEJMC website: www.aejmc.org. The following uniform callwill apply to ALL AEJMC paper competitions. Additional informa-tion specific to an individual group’s call is available at the end ofthe uniform call information.

1. Submit the paper via the AEJMC website link(www.aejmc.org) to the AEJMC group appropriate to the paper’stopic. Format should be Word, WordPerfect or a PDF. PDF formatis strongly encouraged.

2. The paper must be uploaded to the server no later than11:59 P.M. (Central Daylight Time) Friday, April 1, 2016.

3. Also upload a paper abstract of no more than 75 words.4. Completely fill out the online submission form with au-

thor(s) name, affiliation, mailing address, telephone number, andemail address. The title should be printed on the first page of thetext and on running heads on each page of text, as well as on thetitle page. Do NOT include author’s name on running heads ortitle page.

5. Papers uploaded with author’s identifying informationWILL NOT BE CONSIDERED FOR REVIEW AND WILL AUTOMATI-CALLY BE DISQUALIFIED FROM THE COMPETITION. ALL AEJMC DI-VISIONS, INTEREST GROUPS AND COMMISSION PAPERSUBMISSIONS WILL ABIDE BY THIS RULE WITHOUT EXCEPTION.NOTE: Follow instructions on how to submit a clean paper forblind reviewing.

6. Papers are accepted for peer review on the understand-ing that they are not already under review for other confer-ences and that they have been submitted to only ONE AEJMCgroup for evaluation. Papers accepted for the AEJMC Conferenceshould not have been presented to other conferences or pub-lished in scholarly or trade journals prior to presentation at theconference.

7. Student papers compete on an equal footing in openpaper competitions unless otherwise specified by the individualdivision or interest group. Individual group specifications are ap-pended to this uniform call.

8. Papers submitted with both faculty and student authorswill be considered faculty papers and are not eligible for studentcompetitions.

9. At least one author of an accepted faculty paper must at-tend the conference to present the paper. If student authors can-not be present, they must make arrangements for the paper tobe presented.

10. If a paper is accepted, and the faculty author does notpresent the paper at the conference, and if a student authordoes not make arrangements for his/her paper to be presentedby another, then that paper’s acceptance status is revoked. Itmay not be included on a vita.

11. Authors will be advised whether their papers have beenaccepted by May 20 and may access a copy of reviewers’ com-ments from the online server. Contact the paper chair if you arenot notified or have questions about paper acceptance.

Special note: Authors who have submitted papers andhave not been notified by May 20, MUST contact the divisionor interest group paper chair for acceptance information. TheAEJMC Central Office may not have this information available.

12. Authors of accepted papers retain copyright of their pa-pers and are free to submit them for publication after presenta-tion at the conference.


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2016 MINNEAPOLISPAPER COMPETITION GROUP CALLS

DIVISIONS

Advertising DivisionThe AEJMC Advertising Division in-

vites submissions of original papers thatclearly focus on some aspect of advertis-ing or advertising education. Various theo-retical orientations and methodologicalapproaches are welcome. Individual papersubmissions should be a maximum of 30pages in length (including tables and refer-ences), double-spaced, and 12 point TimesNew Roman or equivalent font. Eachpaper can be submitted to only one com-petitive paper category in the AdvertisingDivision, including 1) Advertising Research,2) Advertising Teaching, 3) ProfessionalFreedom & Responsibility, 4) Special Top-ics, or 5) Student Papers. Papers exceeding30 pages or papers submitted to morethan one paper competition within the di-vision will not be reviewed for considera-tion. For 2016, the Advertising Divisionwould like to encourage submissions tothe PF&R competition of papers dealingwith all aspects of professional competen-cies and development within the advertis-ing industry.

Research Papers: Research papersthat examine various aspects of advertis-ing will be considered.

Such topics include – but are not lim-ited to – advertising effectiveness, cross-cultural advertising, global advertisingissues, advertising ethics, or economic, po-litical, social and environmental aspects ofadvertising. Submissions should be consis-tent with the style and format of the Jour-nalism & Mass Communication Quarterly,the Journal of Advertising or the Interna-tional Journal of Advertising. For ques-tions, please contact Kelty Logan, ResearchCommittee Chair, University of ColoradoBoulder. Email: [email protected]: 303-492-2224.

Teaching Papers: Teaching papersare invited on any research that addressesteaching: innovations, effective ap-proaches, pedagogy, survey of the field,adoption of new technologies in the class-room, etc. However, keep in mind thiscompetition is for research papers onteaching, rather than teaching tips or per-sonal reflections. The style and format ofthe paper should conform to those in the

Journal of Advertising Education or Jour-nalism & Mass Communication Educator.Papers submitted to the teaching competi-tion will be considered for review by theJournal of Advertising Education. For ques-tions, please contact John Wirtz, TeachingPaper Chair, University of Illinois at Ur-bana-Champaign. Email:[email protected]. Tel: 217.300.0368.

Professional Freedom & Responsi-bility (PF&R) Papers: Often referred to asthe conscience of AEJMC, the goal of PF&Rpapers is to extend knowledge about andunderstanding of gender, race, ethics, so-cial, and cultural influences; values; andfree expression. Submissions may take theform of traditional research papers, butessays or critical analyses are also wel-come. Historical as well as contemporarytopics are appropriate. Many of the pa-pers that were submitted last year to theresearch and teaching competitions wouldhave been eligible for the PF&R category.Examples of advertising topics related tothe PF&R mission could include papersabout food and tobacco advertising whichaddress ethical issues, minority represen-tation in advertising content, as well asthe degree of diversity in the advertisingbusiness, which ties into the racial, gender,and cultural inclusiveness mission ofPF&R. The style and format of the papershould conform to those in the Journal ofAdvertising or Journalism & Mass Commu-nication Quarterly. Paper submissionsshould be maximum 30 pages in length, 12point Times New Roman or equivalentfont, including tables and references). Be-fore uploading your paper, remove all au-thor identification from the document,including any file properties. Authors areencouraged to submit at least a day or twobefore the deadline because, in the eventof the inclusion of self-identifying informa-tion, an early submission will allow resub-mission prior to the deadline. Forquestions, please contact Debbi Yount,PF&R Paper Chair, University of Oklahoma.E-mail: [email protected], Tel: (405-325-5278).

Special Topics Papers: The specialtopics paper competition is a place for pio-neering subjects, methods, and presenta-tions. New approaches, innovation, andcreativity are encouraged. A variety of ad-vertising and advertising education topicsare welcome. The top special topics paperwill be recognized at the conference.

We live in times of unprecedentedtechnological innovation. This technologi-cal revolution has created new platformsfor the communication of brand messages;it has accelerated the globalization ofbrands and audience segments; it haschanged the way people consume mediaand the way consumers interact with oneanother; and it has changed the way weteach and do research in advertising. Pa-pers which focus on the challenges posedby these recent transformations to thepractice of advertising are especially wel-come. We also welcome exploratory andqualitative approaches, such as case histo-ries, ethnographies, critical studies, visualessays, and methodologically innovativeresearch on more traditional topics. Empir-ical research, critical reviews and concep-tual pieces can be submitted. Submissionsmust be full papers (no abstracts or ex-tended abstracts). To be considered, thepapers should be maximum 30 pages inlength (double-spaced, 12 point TimesNew Roman or equivalent font, includingtables and references) and should conformto the Chicago or APA style. If you haveany questions regarding the fit of yourpaper with this competition, or any otherinquiries, please contact Padmini Patward-han, Special Topics Paper Chair, WinthropUniversity. Email:[email protected] Tel:803.323.4526

Student Papers: Graduate and un-dergraduate students are invited to submitoriginal research dealing with any advertis-ing-related topic. All sole- or co-authors ofthese papers must be students. Papers co-authored by students and faculty shouldbe submitted to the Research Paper com-petition. The style and format of thepaper should conform to those in Journal-ism & Mass Communication Quarterly, theJournal of Advertising or the InternationalJournal of Advertising. Paper submissionsshould be a maximum of 30 pages inlength, double-spaced, 12 point TimesNew Roman or equivalent font, includingtables and references. Before uploadingyour paper, remove all author identifica-tion from the document, including any fileproperties. Authors are encouraged tosubmit at least a day or two before thedeadline because, in the event of the in-clusion of self-identifying information, anearly submission will allow resubmission


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prior to the deadline. For questions,please contact Karie Hollerbach, StudentPaper Chair, Southeast Missouri State Uni-versity. Email: [email protected],Tel: 573-651-2174.

Communicating Science, Health, Environ-ment, and Risk Division

The Communicating Science, Health,Environment, and Risk Division(ComSHER) invites paper submissions thatrepresent original research related to sci-ence, health, environment, risk, and othertopics relevant to the communication ofscientific information to the general publicor specific populations.

ComSHER welcomes papers from alldisciplinary approaches and methodologi-cal orientations, including quantitativeand qualitative methods.

To acknowledge research excellence,ComSHER offers the $1,000 Eason Prizefor the top student paper, which is thelargest paper award given to graduate stu-dents at AEJMC. Students competing fortop student paper and the accompanying$1,000 Eason Prize will be judged togetherwith other ComSHER faculty submissions.The Eason Prize is awarded in memory offormer University of Texas doctoral candi-date Lori Eason (1957-2002). Papers com-peting for the Eason Prize cannot beco-authored with faculty, and authorsmust identify their submission as an EasonPrize entry on the cover page.

In any one year, an individual can ap-pear as author or co-author on a maxi-mum of two (2) submitted researchpapers. If one individual appears as authoror co-author on more than two (2) sub-mitted research papers, the ComSHER Ex-ecutive Committee will have the right todisqualify some or all of the papers inquestion from the research competition.

All accepted papers must be pre-sented by a listed author, unless approvedin advance by the Executive Committee.Failure to appear to present can result inauthor(s) losing eligibility to submit to theDivision for one year.

Paper submissions should follow theAEJMC Uniform Paper Call Guidelines (nomore than 25-pages of double-spacedtext, plus references, tables, figures, and

appendices). Note that due to policychanges across AEJMC, submissions withany residual identifying information will berejected. Before uploading your paper, ex-ercise extra diligence to remove all authoridentification from the document, includ-ing any file properties or obvious refer-ence to self-citations. Seewww.aejmc.org/home/papers for tips onkeeping your submission anonymous. Di-rect questions to Research Chair AveryHolton, University ofUtah, [email protected] · Phone:801-585-1067.

Communication Technology DivisionThe Communication Technology Divi-

sion encourages research submissionswhere the central focus is technology andchanges in the communication process re-sulting from technology. The division wel-comes theoretical and conceptual papersand a diversity of methodological ap-proaches.

Student Papers: Papers solely au-thored by students are especially encour-aged and are eligible to be entered for theJung-Sook Lee Student Paper competition.The Jung-Sook Lee Award recognizes thebest student paper, which makes “a sub-stantial contribution to the substance ormethod on a topic related to communica-tion technology and policy.” The awardhonors the division’s 1997-1998 researchchair, Jung-Sook Lee of the University ofSouthwestern Louisiana, who died soonafter the 1998 conference. Authors of thetop three student papers will receive acash award. In addition, the author of thebest student paper will have his or herconference registration fee paid by the di-vision. For a paper to be considered forthis award, all of the authors must be un-dergraduate or graduate students enrolledduring the 2015-2016 academic year. Au-thors must type “Jung-Sook Lee Competi-tion” in the upper-right corner of the firstpage of text to be considered for theaward.

Faculty Papers: The division ispleased to present the annual Gene BurdTop Faculty Research Paper Award, madepossible by the generosity of Prof. Burdfrom the University of Texas-Austin. The$1,000 award recognizes the best facultypaper submitted to the division. For apaper to be considered for this award, atleast one of the authors must be faculty.

Authors must type “Gene Burd Competi-tion” in the upper-right corner of the firstpage of text to be considered for theaward.

Winners of both awards will receivetheir prize and be recognized at the Min-neapolis conference. Submissions that donot win recognition in the Jung-Sook LeeAward or the Gene Burd Award are stillconsidered for acceptance along withopen competition submissions.

Open Competition: All other paperssubmitted to the division will be reviewedin an open competition. Please limit pa-pers to no more than 25 pages (double-spaced) in length, excluding tables andreferences. If you have any questions orrequire more information about the sub-mission process, please contact JessicaSmith, CTEC research chair,at [email protected].

Communication Theory and MethodologyDivision

The CTAM Division invites submis-sions of original research papers that ad-vance the literature in masscommunication theory, research methods,or both. CTAM welcomes both conceptualand empirical papers and is open to allmethodological approaches, quantitativeand qualitative.

Recent CTAM papers include re-search in political communication, healthcommunication, environmental communi-cation, computer-mediated communica-tion, international communication, andbroader media effects. Please refer to theSummer 2015 CTAM newsletter for a com-plete list of topics and papers presentedlast year to get a better idea of the poten-tial “fit” of your paper:http://aejmc.us/ctm/wp-content/up-loads/sites/21/2015/08/CTMConcepts_summer2015.pdf

Paper Competitions – CTAM spon-sors three paper competitions. Papers canbe submitted to the open-call competitionor the student paper competition. Anypaper can also be considered for the the-ory paper competition.

CTAM strongly encourages submis-sions by students. Winners of the Chaffee-McLeod Award for Top Student Paper willbe awarded $250; two additional top stu-dent papers will also receive cash prizes.To be considered for the student papercompetition, all authors must be stu-



dents, and the author(s) must type “Stu-dent Paper Competition” in the upperright-hand corner of the first page of text.

In addition to the open-call and stu-dent competitions, CTAM recognizes thetop theoretical submission to the divisioneach year. A theory paper may extendwhat is known about the current workingsof a theory by including a data analysissection, or strictly extend the current the-ory literature without including data. Pa-pers submitted to the theory papercompetition will also be considered forawards in the open-call and student com-petitions, as applicable. To be consideredfor the theory paper competition, the au-thor(s) must type “Theory Paper Competi-tion” in the upper right-hand corner ofthe first page of text.

Winners of all awards will be recog-nized in the conference program and/or atthe CTAM members’ meeting in Min-neapolis. Requirements: Please limit pa-pers to no more than 25-pages(double-spaced) in length, excluding tablesand references. Papers should follow APAstyle, have 1-inch margins, and use 12point Times New Roman font. Please limitpapers to a total of 35 pages total (includ-ing text, tables, and references). Pleaserefer to the AEJMC general paper call forthis year’s online submission guidelines.Please make sure there is no identifyinginformation in the body of the paper or inthe document properties. Co-authors can-not be added after a paper has been re-viewed. At least one author of an acceptedfaculty paper must attend the conferenceto present the paper. If student authorscannot be present, they must makearrangements for the paper to be pre-sented by someone else. Failure to bepresent or provide a presenter for anypaper will result in a one-year ban on thereview of papers for all of the authors in-volved. Authors of accepted papers are re-quired to forward papers to discussantsprior to the conference.

If you have any questions, please di-rect them to the research chair, MelissaGotlieb ([email protected]).

Cultural and Critical Studies Division The Cultural and Critical Studies Divi-

sion welcomes faculty and student sub-missions of original research thatcontributes to the study of journalism andmedia communication from a cultural and

critical perspective. The Division acceptssubmissions that include critical inquirythat cuts across theoretical and method-ological boundaries. Papers that do notmeet the AEJMC Uniform Call for Papersrequirements will not be accepted.

The Division invites research on a va-riety of topics and approaches including,but not limited to, historical studies, gen-der, race and class analyses of media,news analysis, audience analysis, politicaleconomy, literary analysis with a mediafoundation, philosophy of communication,ethics, and media criticism in general. CCSalso encourages work that challenges con-ventional approaches to media, examinesparadigmatic assumptions, and exploresinnovative ways of theorizing both newsand entertainment media.

The Division presents awards to theauthors of the top-ranking faculty and stu-dent submissions. Only one paper per au-thor is accepted for review andsubmissions must not be under considera-tion elsewhere for presentation or publi-cation.

Faculty and student submissions un-dergo separate blind review processes byfaculty-only judges. Student authors – un-dergraduate and graduate students en-rolled during the 2015-2016 school year –should include a cover sheet that clearlystates that the paper is a student submis-sion. Student papers with faculty co-au-thors are reviewed in the facultycompetition and should not be designatedas student-authored papers.

Paper length should not exceed 25-pages excluding tables, figures, and refer-ences. Abstracts must be no more than 75words. Be sure that submissions containno identifying information, such as name,university affiliation, job title, etc. either inthe text of the paper or in the documentproperties. Any identifying informationfound on the submission results is an im-mediate disqualification of the paper.

Questions concerning submissionsshould be directed to research co-chairsSuman Mishra ([email protected]) orPeter Gloviczki ([email protected])

Electronic News Division This year the Electronic News Divi-

sion (formally the Radio Television Journal-ism Division) is celebrating 50 years ofleading broadcast news education and re-search at AEJMC conferences. The Elec-

tronic News Division invites faculty andstudents to submit original research onany aspect of broadcast journalism orelectronic communication with a journal-ism emphasis. We welcome studies thatemploy qualitative, quantitative, or experi-ment methodologies.

Special Call: 50 Years – As part of our50-year celebration, we are particularly in-terested in papers that explore the historyor future of the broadcast news industryand practices. Possible themes may in-clude:

• The impact of mobile technologieson broadcast news

• Global perspectives on televisionnews formats

• The impact of new technologiessuch as Periscope on Campaign 2016

• Fifty years of TV News anchors –Are they still relevant?

• Historical perspectives on the tra-ditional TV news format

• Historical perspectives on the evo-lution of organizational practices

• Gender balance or imbalance inthe newsroom

• The impact of social media on con-sumers’ viewing habits

• TV news in the era of YouTube• The role of the broadcast journalist

in the evolving media landscapeAuthors of papers accepted for the

conference will be encouraged to submittheir manuscript for possible publicationin a special January 2017 issue of Elec-tronic News, the official journal for theElectronic News Division. The issue will becalled “Celebrating 50 Years of ElectronicNews Research,” and will include paperspresented at the 2016 AEJMC conferencein Minneapolis, MN. Papers accepted forthe conference are not guaranteed publi-cation in the journal.

Papers submitted to the ElectronicNews Division competition should be nolonger than 25-pages of manuscript, ex-cluding tables, figures, references and ap-pendices, and should be submitted in oneof the generally approved academic biblio-graphic styles. Papers should be in 12-point, Times New Roman font,double-spaced and with one-inch margins.Additionally, a separate page consisting ofa 75-word abstract is required.

Please be sure to submit a cleanpaper without author identifying informa-



tion, otherwise the paper will be disquali-fied. Please refer to AEJMC’s uniformpaper call on how to upload cleanpapers.

The Electronic News Division acceptsonly one paper per author. This is trueeven if you are the primary author on onepaper and co-author on another. In thatcase, please submit one of the papers toanother division. The division offers cashprizes for top student and top facultypaper submissions. Please note the stu-dent papers must be completely authoredby students. Students with a faculty mem-ber as a co-author will not be judged as astudent paper.

Authors of all selected papers are ex-pected to present their work in Min-neapolis. Cash awards for winning paperswill only be awarded if the authors pres-ent their work at the conference.

Questions concerning conferencepaper submissions to AEJMC should be di-rected to the division’s research chair, Re-becca Nee. Email: [email protected] regarding submissions to the di-vision’s journal, Electronic News, shouldbe directed to the editor, AnthonyMoretti. Email: [email protected]

All papers must be uploaded throughthe AEJMC website. Once you have cre-ated an account on the AEJMC All Aca-demic site, you will be able to choose theElectronic News Division prior to submit-ting your paper.

History Division The History Division invites submis-

sions of original research papers and his-toriographical essays on all aspects ofmedia history for the AEJMC 2016 confer-ence in Minneapolis, MN. All researchmethodologies are welcome.

Papers will be evaluated on original-ity and importance of topic; literature re-view; clarity of research purpose; focus;use of evidence to support the paper’spurpose and conclusions; and the degreeto which the paper contributes to the fieldof journalism and mass communicationhistory. The Division presents awards forthe top three faculty papers.

Papers should be no more than 25-double-spaced pages, not including notes,

references or appendices. Papers shouldhave 1-inch margins, and use 12 pointTimes New Roman font. Authors shouldalso submit a 75-word abstract. Multiplesubmissions to the Division are not al-lowed and only one paper per author willbe accepted for presentation in the HistoryDivision’s research sessions. Authors of ac-cepted papers are required to forward pa-pers to discussants and moderators priorto the conference.

Papers must be electronically submit-ted using the services of All-Academic; youcan find the link at www.aejmc.org. Thedeadline is 11:59 P.M. (Central DaylightTime) Wednesday, April 1, 2015. Pleasemake sure there is no identifying informa-tion in the body of the paper or in theelectronic file properties. Papers up-loaded with author’s identifying informa-tion will not be considered for review andwill automatically be disqualified fromthe competition. Please refer to theAEJMC general paper call for this year’sonline submission guidelines especially forhow to submit a clean paper for blind re-view.

Student Papers: Undergraduate andgraduate students enrolled during the2014-15 academic year may enter theWarren Price Student Paper Competition.The Price Award recognizes the History Di-vision’s best student paper and is namedfor Warren Price, who was the Division’sfirst chair. Student papers should include aseparate cover sheet that indicates theirstudent status but omits the author’sname or other identifying information.Students who submit top papers are eligi-ble for small travel grants from the EdwinEmery Fund. Only full-time students notreceiving departmental travel grants areeligible for these grants.

Call for Reviewers: If you are willingto review papers for the History Divisionresearch competition, please contact Kim-berly Voss at [email protected] indicate your areas of expertiseand/or interest. We will need approxi-mately 85 reviewers for the competition.Graduate students are not eligible to serveas reviewers and, in general, reviewersshould not have submitted their own re-search into the competition.

Contact information: For more infor-mation, contact History Division Vice Headand Research Chair Michael Sweeney(Ohio University) at [email protected].

International Communication DivisionRobert L. Stevenson Open Paper

Competition & Markham Student PaperCompetition: The International Communi-cation Division welcomes original, unpub-lished research papers that focus clearlyon international aspects of journalism andmass communication. Papers that merelyexamine communication phenomena out-side of the United States do not necessar-ily fit in this division. Any theoretical andmethodological approaches appropriate tocommunication research are welcomed.Papers are submitted either to the RobertL. Stevenson open paper competition (fac-ulty and student-faculty) or the Markhamstudent competition (strictly student-au-thored papers). All submissions must beuploaded through the AEJMC conferencewebsite. Be sure to note whether you aresubmitting to the Stevenson open papercompetition or the Markham studentpaper competition. Authors will be noti-fied about acceptance in early May. In ad-dition to guidelines stated in AEJMC’suniform call, please note ICD’s specific in-structions below.

Guidelines: Papers should be submit-ted in Word or PDF format. Do not includeany identifying information about the au-thors anywhere in the paper or in the doc-ument properties. Papers with identifyinginformation of any kind will be automati-cally disqualified. Papers must include anabstract of no more than 75 words. Thetitle should be clearly presented on thefirst page of text and on running headsthroughout the document. ICD accepts pa-pers of up to 25-pages, exclusive of refer-ences, tables, and figures. Tables andfigures should be placed at the end of thedocument as reviewers will be instructedto stop reading text after page 25. Fontshould be 12-point, text should be double-spaced, and margins should be no lessthan one inch on all sides. Authors shoulduse a style appropriate for the discipline,including APA, Chicago, and Harvard. Wewill review up to two papers per author,whether the author appears as a single au-thor or as one of several authors.

Consult AEJMC’s Uniform Paper Callfor specific instructions on removing iden-tifying information from the documentthat you submit. Please contact the re-search chair, Mohammed Al-Azdee<[email protected]>, before sub-



mitting the paper if you have any ques-tions.

Authors are responsible for followingthe guidelines for paper submissions out-lined in the AEJMC uniform paper call andthe additional ICD guidelines listed here.Papers that do not meet guidelines willnot be reviewed. Submissions will beblind-reviewed. Selections are based onmerit.

Awards: ICD awards cash prizes forthe top three faculty papers (Stevensoncompetition) and the top three studentpapers (Markham competition). First au-thors of student winners also will receivefree conference registration. Both TheAsian Journal of Communication andAfrican Journalism Studies also sponsor a“Best Paper Award” with cash prizes.(Cash prizes are forfeited if an author failsto present the work at the conference.)The Latino/Latin American ResearchAward sponsored by Florida InternationalUniversity School of Journalism and MassCommunication will honor three top pa-pers in the International Communicationor Minorities and Communication divi-sions with cash prizes and conference reg-istration waivers. All winners of all theaforementioned awards will be notified inadvance and all awards will be presentedat the ICD business meeting during theconference.

Asian Journal of CommunicationBest Paper Award: The AJC Best PaperAward is presented annually by the AsianJournal of Communication (AJC), a refer-eed international publication of the AsianMedia Information and CommunicationCentre (AMIC) and the Wee Kim WeeSchool of Communication and Informationat Nanyang Technological University in Sin-gapore, to an outstanding paper selectedfrom the AEJMC International Communi-cation Division’s Open Paper Competition.Established in 2003, the award is aimed atpromoting mass communication researchfocused on the Asia-Pacific region. All pa-pers submitted to ICD’s Stevenson openpaper competition are eligible for the AJCBest Paper Award and will be reviewed au-tomatically for the award. All researchmethodologies are welcome.

African Journalism Studies BestPaper Award for Journalism Research:The ICD’s “Best Paper Award for Journal-ism Research” is sponsored annually byAfrican Journalism Studies for the most

outstanding paper selected from the sub-missions to the AEJMC International Com-munication Division’s Open PaperCompetition. Established in 2003, theaward is aimed at promoting research inglobal journalism which will enhance andenrich understanding of issues such as in-ternational news flow, news theory, mediaethics, media education, gender, and race,as well as specific topics, such as themedia and AIDS. In line with ICD’s interna-tional character, the award is also aimed atpromoting research that addresses North-South and South-South journalism issues.

Latino/Latin American ResearchAward. Sponsored by Florida InternationalUniversity School of Journalism and MassCommunication since 2014, this awardhonors the top three research papers sub-mitted to either the International Commu-nication or the Minorities inCommunication divisions by Hispanicscholars for journalism and mass media re-search relevant to their communities inLatin America, the Caribbean, the UnitedStates, Canada, or the Iberian Peninsula,including domestic and international com-munication. Topics include Inter-Americanor Iberian-American communication, newsmedia flows, media theory, media technol-ogy or new media, communication for de-velopment and social change, media lawand ethics, media education, ethnic orgender media and integration, media eco-nomics, media and the environment, polit-ical communication, critical media studies,popular culture, and cultural studies,among others. The award recognizes all re-search methodologies. Eligible scholars re-gard themselves as members of the Latino,Hispanic or Latin American community.

All the competitions in ICD are opento AEJMC members and non-members,students and faculty. If you have questionsabout the call or the 2016 ICD researchcompetition at any time please contact:Robert L. Stevenson Open Paper Competi-tion Chair – Mohammed Al-Azdee, Univer-sity of Bridgeport,[email protected] or MarkhamStudent Competition Chair – LinditaCamaj, University ofHouston, [email protected] and Policy Division

The Law and Policy Division invitessubmission of original research papers oncommunications law and policy for the2016 AEJMC Conference in Minneapolis,

MN. Papers may focus on any topic relatedto communications law and/or policy, in-cluding defamation, privacy, FCC issues, in-tellectual property, obscenity, freedom ofinformation, and a myriad of other medialaw and policy topics. Papers outside thescope of communications law and policywill be rejected.

The Division welcomes a variety oftheoretical orientations and any methodappropriate to the research question. Apanel of judges will blind-referee all sub-missions, and selection will be basedstrictly on merit. Authors need not beAEJMC or Law and Policy Division mem-bers, but they must attend the conferenceto present accepted papers.

Paper authors should submit via theonline submission process as described inthe Uniform Paper Call. Law and Policy Di-vision papers must be no longer than 50-double-spaced pages with one-inchmargins and 12-point font, including coverpage, appendices, tables, footnotesand/or endnotes, and end-of-paper refer-ence list, if applicable. (Footnotes and/orendnotes and reference list may be single-spaced.) Papers that exceed 50 total pagesor are not double-spaced will be automati-cally rejected without review. AlthoughBluebook citation format is preferred, au-thors may employ any recognized and uni-form format for referencing authorities,including APA, Chicago, or MLA styles.

Papers that include author-identify-ing information within the text, in headers,or within the embedded electronic fileproperties will be automatically rejected(review the instructions on the AEJMCwebsite for stripping identifying informa-tion from the electronic file properties).Authors are solely responsible for checkingthe final uploaded version of their paperfor any and all author identifying informa-tion. Submitting before the conferencedeadline will allow you to fully check yoursubmissions as they are entered into thesystem so that a resubmission prior to thedeadline is possible if necessary.

There is no limit on the number ofsubmissions authors may make to the Divi-sion. Any paper previously published orpresented at a conference except theAEJMC Southeast Colloquium or theAEJMC Midwinter Conference is not eligi-ble for the competition.

The Division again will award a Top



Debut Faculty Paper. The top paper ac-cepted by a faculty member who hasnever had a paper accepted by the Divi-sion will be awarded a prize of $150 andwill receive free conference registration.For papers with multiple authors, multiplefaculty and/or faculty and student, to beeligible none of the authors of the papermay have previously had a paper acceptedby the Division at the national conference.In addition, only the faculty author pre-senting the paper will be eligible for freeconference registration.

Student authors should clearly indi-cate their student status on the coverpage. Student-only submissions will beconsidered for the $100 Whitney andShirley Mundt Award, given to the top stu-dent paper. Co-authored papers are eligi-ble for the competition so long as allauthors are students. The Law and PolicyDivision will also cover conference regis-tration fees for the top three studentpaper presenters. In the case of co-au-thored student papers, only the studentauthor presenting the paper will be eligi-ble for free conference registration.

If you have questions, please contactJason Martin, Law and Policy Division Re-search Chair, DePaul University, College ofCommunication, 1 E. Jackson Blvd.,Chicago, IL 60604. Phone: (312) 362-7396; email: [email protected]

Magazine DivisionThe Magazine Division invites sub-

missions of original research papers andtheoretical essays that advance magazinescholarship or scholarly knowledge aboutthe production, distribution, promotionand/or reception of “magazine media,”broadly defined. All methodologies andtheoretical frameworks are welcome. Au-thors need not be AEJMC or Magazine Di-vision members, but if their paper(s)is/are accepted, they must attend the con-ference to present their research.

Scope. Submissions may address arange of aspects of magazine media –whether online (including social network-ing sites), on mobile platforms, or print –including editorial and advertising con-tent, production, audience reception, andreadership communities. Submissions that

deal with lifestyle and literary journalismoutside the confines of mainstream maga-zine media – such as fashion blogs andlong-form online publications – arestrongly encouraged. Magazine Divisionpapers presented at past conferences haveincluded content or discourse analyses ofmagazine editorial or advertising content(including native advertising/content mar-keting); ethnographies of magazine news-rooms, with an emphasis on their digitaltransitions; historical analyses of individ-ual magazines or magazine coverage ofcontroversial topics over time; rhetoricalanalyses of literary journalism; and experi-ments investigating the effects of page lay-out and other magazine content features.

Special Call. In addition to our regu-lar submissions, we are also soliciting pa-pers for our 2016 special topic of“Magazine Media for Health and Well-ness.” Indeed, from the rise of wearabletechnologies to debates about the phar-maceutical industry, discussions abouthealth and wellness have been thrust tothe fore of the public consciousness. Thepurpose of this special call for papers is toaddress the role of magazine media—in-cluding print, online, and mobile apps—inproviding information, advice, and adver-tising messages related to health, well-ness, and/or medicine. Submissions mayinclude (but are not limited to): studies ofthe function of magazine media in provid-ing guidance on diet/nutrition, exercise,family health, mental health and wellness,medicine, and disease management/pre-vention; analyses of direct-to-consumerpharmaceutical advertisements in maga-zines; research on the rise of fitness-track-ing apps reviewed in/recommended bymagazine media; and discussions aboutthe significance of magazine media to thefields of risk communication and publichealth campaigns.

Awards. Prizes of $200 will beawarded at the conference in Minneapolisfor (a) Best faculty paper and (b) Best stu-dent paper. Papers will be evaluated onmethodology, theoretical framework, im-portance and originality of topic; literaturereview; significance of findings and howthey support the paper’s conclusions;focus, writing, and organization; and over-all contribution to magazine research. Au-thors will be automatically entered in theaward competitions based on their rankand paper topic.

Submissions. Preferred paper lengthis up to 8,000 words, not including notes,references, and tables. There is no limit onthe number of papers authors may submitfor presentation in the Magazine Divisionresearch sessions. Multiple submissions ofthe same paper(s) to other divisions willbe disqualified. Please follow the submis-sion requirements in the AEJMC UniformPaper Call, and be sure to remove all iden-tifying information. Papers that containauthors’ identifying information will notbe considered for review and will be auto-matically disqualified. Early submissionsare encouraged. The deadline for all sub-missions is April 1, 2016.

Please direct any questions to the di-vision’s research chair, Brooke Erin Duffy,Temple University, [email protected] or267-210-3886.

Mass Communication and Society Divi-sion

The Mass Communication and Soci-ety Division seeks research paper submis-sions from both faculty and students forthe 2016 AEJMC annual conference inMinneapolis, MN. Submissions to theMass Communication and Society Divisioncan be on any topic that advances masscommunication theory, especially at thesocietal or macrosocial level. The Divisionaccepts research submissions from a vari-ety of theoretical and methodological per-spectives as well as research that drawsheavily from other disciplines including so-ciology, psychology, anthropology, law andhistory. Submissions should be consistentwith the style and format of the journalMass Communication & Society. Papersshould be submitted to only one competi-tive paper category in the division: 1)Open Competition, 2) Student Competi-tion, or 3) Moeller Student Paper Compe-tition. Papers must not be underconsideration elsewhere for presentationor publication.

Submission Procedures: Individualpaper submissions should not exceed 30-double-spaced pages (count and formatincludes title page, abstract, notes, refer-ences, tables, and figures). Double spaceall material including title page, abstract,text, quotations, acknowledgements, ref-erences, appendices, tables, figure cap-tions and footnotes. All papers must besubmitted in .doc format through theAEJMC website link (www.aejmc.org) to



the Division. Papers should follow the Pub-lication Manual of the American Psycho-logical Association (updated 6th ed.), have1-inch margins, and use 12 point TimesNew Roman, Times or Arial font. Abstractsmust be no more than 75 words. The titleshould be on the first page with pagenumbers and running heads on each pageof text. Hard copy or electronic version ofpapers submitted individually to the Re-search Committee will NOT be accepted.

Author-identifying informationMUST NOT appear anywhere in the at-tached paper file. Identifying informationincludes (1) listing of authors’ namesand/or affiliations, (2) references to au-thors’ previous work in a way that revealsauthorship of the current work, (3) keep-ing author-identifying information withinthe text, in headers, or within the embed-ded electronic file properties and (4) linksto authors’ websites, email addresses, orsocial media accounts. Inclusion of identi-fying information will result in automaticdisqualification of the paper (please re-view the instructions on the AEJMC web-site for stripping identifying informationfrom the electronic file properties). Au-thors are solely responsible for checkingthe final uploaded version of their paperfor any and all author identifying informa-tion.

Authorship: When submitting co-au-thored papers, permission to submit thepaper should be sought and obtained fromall authors on the paper prior to submis-sion. Paper authorship cannot be added,deleted, or changed after review of thepaper.

Two-paper limit: In any one year, anindividual can appear as author or co-au-thor on a maximum of two (2) submittedresearch papers to the Division. If one in-dividual appears as author or co-author onmore than two (2) submitted research pa-pers, the Division Research Committee hasthe right to disqualify the third or moresubmitted paper.

Author Information: Completely fillout the online submission form with au-thor(s) name, affiliation, mailing address,telephone number and email address. Allauthors and co-authors, their institutionalaffiliations and contact information mustbe included WHEN REGISTERING on thepaper submission system. If there arethree co-authors, for example, informationabout all three must be included in the

registration. Student Competition: Graduate and

undergraduate students are invited tosubmit original research regarding anytopic related to mass communication andsociety. For a paper to be considered for astudent paper award, all of the coauthorsmust be students. The paper must be cor-rectly submitted to the Student Competi-tion category online. Papers submitted forthe Student Competition must clearly notethe competition on the title page. A fac-ulty member as co-author automaticallymoves the paper to the Open Competi-tion. At least one author of the winningpaper is asked to attend the Mass Com-munication and Society Business Meetingto receive the award.

Moeller Student PaperCompetition: Students who submit apaper written for a class during the previ-ous year are eligible for the Mass Commu-nication and Society Moeller StudentPaper Competition. Moeller Competitionpapers must be nominated by the facultymember who taught the class. To nomi-nate a student paper faculty should sendan email verifying that the paper wascompleted for a class to the Division Re-search Committee. Papers submitted forthe Moeller Competition must clearly notethe competition on the title page. Pleaseremember that the Moeller Competition isseparate from our Student Paper Competi-tion. The paper must be correctly submit-ted to the Moeller Competition categoryonline. At least one author of the winningpaper is asked to attend the Mass Com-munication and Society Business Meetingto receive the award.

Open Competition: All other paperssubmitted to the Division will be reviewedin the Open Competition. At least one au-thor of the winning paper is asked to at-tend the Mass Communication andSociety Business Meeting to receive theaward.

Top Paper Recognition: To acknowl-edge research excellence, the Division pro-vides cash awards and waives one AEJMCconference registration fee for the topthree winners in each research papercompetition. All research paper submis-sions, regardless of faculty or student au-thorship, are judged together as generalpapers. However, the top papers in theOpen and Student categories are recog-nized separately.

Presentation obligation: At least oneauthor of an accepted faculty paper mustattend the conference to present thepaper. If student authors cannot be pres-ent, they must make arrangements for thepaper to be presented by someone else.Failure to be present or provide a presen-ter for any paper will result in author(s)losing eligibility to submit to the divisionfor one year. The author(s) will also not beeligible to count that presentation onhis/her vita. Authors of accepted papersare required to forward papers to discus-sants and moderators prior to the confer-ence.

At least one author of each toppaper is asked to attend the Mass Com-munication and Society Business Meetingto receive their awards. Authors are re-sponsible for following the guidelines forpaper submissions outlined in the AEJMCUniform Paper Call and additional Divi-sion’s guidelines listed in this call. Forquestions, please contact Chair- JayHmielowski ([email protected], 509-335-5455), Associate chair- Nan Yu([email protected], 701-321-7300), Com-mittee member- Masahiro Yamamoto([email protected], 608-785-6703),Committee member- Chang Sup Park([email protected], 570-317-0849).

Media Ethics DivisionThe AEJMC Media Ethics Division

seeks a diverse range of original facultyand graduate student paper submissionsrelated to ethics. The division encouragessubmission of papers that address a broadspectrum of ethics-related topics and con-cerns, which may include, but are not lim-ited to, the relationship betweenjournalism and democracy, the empower-ment of multiple stakeholders, advocacymodels and the TARES test, persuasionand responsibility, media accountabilitysystems, ethical decision-making, moralityand moral development, truth-telling anddeception, privacy, credibility, the impactof technology and economics on ethics,newsroom norms and routines, and therelationship between law and ethics. Thedivision also encourages submission of re-search papers (e.g. not teaching tips orpersonal reflections) on teaching innova-tions, effective approaches, pedagogy, sur-vey of the field, and the adoption of newtechnologies in the classroom.



The division is open to the broadestpossible range of scholarship, looking atethics across a range of communicativecontexts (e.g., journalism, advertising,public relations, entertainment media,new media, social media, etc.), from arange of theoretical/paradigmatic ap-proaches (e.g., philosophical, critical, soci-ological, psychological, etc.) and using arange of methods (e.g., qualitative, quan-titative, mixed-method, etc.)Theoretical/normative essays grounded inethics theory are also welcome, as aremanuscripts related to the teaching ofethics.

All papers must be no more than 25-pages (excluding title page, references,figures, illustrations, and/or appendices)and must otherwise conform to the rulesoutlined in the AEJMC Uniform Call for Pa-pers. Papers that do not conform to theserules, or which contain information identi-fying the author(s), will be disqualified.Authors should use APA style (6th ed.).

Submitting a paper to the MediaEthics Division implies that the author (or,one of the authors or a proxy) intends topresent the paper in person.

Carol Burnett Award for GraduateStudents: The Media Ethics Division iscommitted to supporting and promotingpromising graduate students with an in-terest in media ethics. All graduate stu-dents who submit papers to the MediaEthics Division are encouraged to enterthe Carol Burnett Award competition. TheMedia Ethics Division teams with the Uni-versity of Hawaii and the Carol BurnettFund for Responsible Journalism to spon-sor this special paper competition forgraduate students. Students are invited tosubmit papers on any topic related tomedia ethics, from any theoretical ap-proach, using any method or combinationof methods.

The winning paper will receive theCarol Burnett/University of Hawaii/AEJMCPrize, which includes a $350 cash award.The runner-up will receive a $150 cashaward. Authors for the top two submis-sions will also receive a small travel assis-tance stipend. The winner will be invitedto accept his or her prize at the Kappa TauAlpha Awards Luncheon at the AEJMC

conference. Burnett competition papersmust be marked “Burnett Competition” onthe title page.

In addition to supporting the CarolBurnett Award winners, the Media EthicsDivision will offer small travel stipends forthe top student submissions.

The Burnett Award is reserved forgraduate students; papers containing fac-ulty members as co-authors are ineligible.

Professional Relevance Award: Spe-cial recognition will be given to the paperthat is judged to be the most relevant toworking professionals (journalists, adver-tisers, etc.). The recipient will be selectedfrom the general paper competition.

Top Faculty Paper: Special recogni-tion will be given to the faculty paperjudged to be the best paper submittedamong faculty authors. The recipient willbe selected from the general paper com-petition.

All questions should be directed tothe Media Ethics Division research chairChad Painter, Eastern New Mexico Univer-sity, email: [email protected],phone 575-562-2415.

Media Management, Economics, and En-trepreneurship Division

The Media Management, Economics,and Entrepreneurship Division (MMEE) in-vites original research paper submissionsto be considered for presentation at the2016 AEJMC conference in Minneapolis,MN August 4-7, 2016. Researchers inter-ested in any aspect of media manage-ment, media economics orentrepreneurship are encouraged to sub-mit papers. The division welcomes the useof diverse theoretical and methodologicalapproaches to relevant topics. Papers pre-sented at the Midwinter Conference andthen revised also are welcome for submis-sion.

Faculty and student papers competeon an equal footing. The division givesnamed awards to recognize the top threesubmissions from faculty, and the topthree from graduate students (facultymembers cannot be included on studentcompetition papers). Top graduate papersalso receive monetary awards to help off-set the cost of attending the conference.

Some examples of relevant topics inmedia management and economics are:analysis of economic or managementquestions affecting media firms; media

ownership, management and economic is-sues from the public-interest perspective(e.g., effects on reporting or content); his-torical discussions of interesting and im-portant developments in the field; policyissues from a legal, regulatory or economicperspective; technology and its effects onmanagement or economics; political econ-omy; effects of changes in the environ-ment where media firms operate;international and cross-cultural studies;the sociology and culture of media organi-zations; teaching media management andeconomics; and other related topics.

In 2015 the division changed itsname to expand its focus on a new relatedarea: entrepreneurship. We also encour-age and welcome submissions within thefollowing topics: opportunities and chal-lenges for media startups; intrapreneur-ship and innovation within legacy mediacompanies; role of higher education in thecontext of media entrepreneurship; andother media entrepreneurship related top-ics.

Please note that advertising and/orpublic relations companies are not consid-ered ‘media firms’ by MMEE Division;therefore, papers on the management ofadvertising agencies and/or public rela-tions agencies should be submitted to theAdvertising Division or Public Relations Di-vision. Papers not appropriate for theMMEE Division will be disqualified beforejudging.

Paper submissions should be a maxi-mum of 25-pages, excluding referencesand tables. All papers must be submittedelectronically at the AEJMC Web site to ac-cess the All-Academic Web site availablevia the AEJMC Web site link. Papers mustbe uploaded to the All-Academic Webserver no later than Friday, April 1, 2016,11:59 P.M. (CDT). All submissions must fol-low the guidelines for the uniform call forall paper competitions.

Please remove all potentially identi-fying author information from submis-sions. Failure to do so will automaticallydisqualify the paper from consideration.Examples of information to be removed in-clude citations of the author’s previouswork, individually or with co-authors; re-lated reference list information; and fileproperties. Instructions for how to removeidentifying information from files can befound on the AEJMC web site.

For questions about submissions,



contact MMEE Research Chair GeoffreyGraybeal, Texas Tech University,[email protected]

Minorities and Communication Division The Minorities and Communication

Division invites submissions of original re-search on any topic related to minorities incommunication. Submissions employingany generally regarded scholarly methodof inquiry are invited. Papers should in-clude appropriate literature reviews,methodology, findings and discussion.Only one paper per primary author will beaccepted.

The term “minorities” has been de-fined to include Latinos, African Ameri-cans, Asian Americans, and NativeAmericans. Therefore, papers examininghow these groups present images, newsand/or other information about them-selves, as well as those examining how is-sues and/or perspectives related torace/ethnicity and diversity are featured inmainstream or other specialized media,would generally fall into this division’s areaof interest.

Papers should not be more than 25-pages, excluding references, tables, fig-ures, and other graphics. If it is nothistorical research, APA reference style ispreferred. Student and faculty researchwill go through separate competitions.Students must identify their papers assuch (“Student Paper”) on the title page oftheir submission. All sole- or co-authors ofthese papers must be students; papers co-authored by students and faculty shouldbe submitted to the Faculty ResearchPaper competition. If these rules are notfollowed, papers are subject to disqualifi-cation. Also, follow the instruction in the2015 AEJMC paper competition uniformcall.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Please carefullycheck your manuscript for self-identifyinginformation of any kind, including follow-ing a particular style guide’s directions onmatters of self-citation. Please avoid sub-mitting your paper on the deadline day. Anearly submission will allow you to fullycheck the submission as they are enteredinto the system so that, if necessary, a re-submission prior to the deadline is possi-ble.

Awards: The MAC Division offersawards for top three faculty and top threestudent papers. A certificate along with a

check will be awarded to each of the win-ners.

Questions? Faculty CompetitionContact: Mia Moody-Ramirez, Faculty Re-search Chair, Baylor University. Phone:254.710.7247. Email: [email protected]; Student Competition Contact: RivaBrown, Student Research Chair.

Newspaper and Online News Division The Newspaper & Online News Divi-

sion invites original, unpublished researchpapers for the AEJMC Annual Conference,Aug. 4-7, 2016, in Minneapolis, MN withthe usual submission deadline of April 1.The division welcomes all theoretical ori-entations and methodologies that investi-gate newspaper and online news, broadlydefined, including (but not limited to):

• Agenda-setting • Bias, credibility and partisan per-

ception• Blogging• Business models of news produc-

tion and dissemination• Communication inequalities, digital

divide and news illiteracy • Convergent newsrooms, produc-

tion and distribution• Cross-media and digital regulation,

and whistle-blower prosecutions• Digital, mobile, streaming and so-

cial news – platforms, technology andmodels

• Diversity and fairness issues• Effects research• Framing • Global journalism and foreign news• Market-driven journalism and pub-

lic relations subsidies • Native advertising, infomercials,

advertorials and PR subsidies• Network analysis • News content and coverage• Newsroom practices, routines, pro-

fessional norms and “sacred cows” • Non-profit and community news

outlets• Ownership, management and cor-

porate consolidation of news media• Participatory communication and

citizen journalism • Policy issues • Readership and audience analytics• Sourcing • Usability and access issues and

concerns • User-generated content, audience

agenda building and grassroots journalism • Uses and gratifications The top three papers are recognized

with a monetary award (1st, $100; 2nd,$75; 3rd, $50). The division is again part-nering with the American Copy Editors So-ciety to encourage research related tocopy-editing. Papers on copy editing topicswill be considered for this award, whichcomes with a $100 prize. To be consideredfor this award, authors should include“ACES Award” on the top of the submis-sion.

Students may apply for the Mac-Dougall Student Paper Award. Paperswith faculty co-authors are not eligible forthis award. It is possible, however, to applyfor both the ACES and MacDougallawards. Authors should include “Mac-Dougall Student Paper Award” on the topof the submission. MacDougall winnerswill be awarded $200 and a certificate ofrecognition during the conference.

To submit: Interested authors mustsubmit their papers using the All AcademicSystem. All Academic requires that au-thors re-register each year. Thedivision does not accept hard copies. Allpapers must follow the AEJMC uniformpaper competition guidelines. Papersshould be no more than 7,500 words, in-cluding tables, references, and appen-dices. All submissions undergo a blindreview process by a panel of independentreviewers. Papers are accepted on the un-derstanding that they have not been previ-ously published or presented elsewhereand that they have been submitted only tothe Newspaper & Online News Division forevaluation. Authors must remove all iden-tifying information from their papers orthey will be automatically disqualifiedfrom the competition. Authors will be re-quired to submit an abstract of theirpaper, which is no more than 75 wordsand which must include: 3-5 keywords andthe kind of methodology used (qualitative,quantitative or mixed). Papers are due by11:59 p.m. (CDT), Friday, April 1, 2016.

Questions? Please contact: FrederickSchiff, University of Houston,[email protected] or Jan Lauren Boyles, IowaState University, [email protected].

Public Relations DivisionThe Public Relations Division invites

submissions of original papers that ad-



vance the theories and practices of publicrelations. Submitters should carefully re-view the specific instructions for the Pub-lic Relations Division as well as the generalrequirements contained in the AEJMC Uni-form Paper Call.

Submission Categories: A paper maybe submitted in one of the three PRD cat-egories: (1) the open competition, (2) theteaching competition, or (3) the student-only competition.

Top Papers in Open, Teaching, andStudent-Only Competition: Monetaryawards are given for the top three papersin each of the three categories. Thanks toa generous gift from Dennis Wilcox, Pro-fessor Emeritus, San Jose State University,top papers in the open and teaching cate-gories will be awarded: $500 for the toppaper, $300 for the second-place paper,and $200 for the third-place paper. Topteaching papers will also receive expe-dited review in the Journal of Public Rela-tions Education, provided they aresubmitted by December 31, 2016.

Thanks to the generous support ofThe Plank Center for Leadership in PublicRelations at the University of Alabama,the first author of each of the top threestudent-only research papers will receive$300, $200, and $100, respectively.

In addition, the Doug NewsomAward, created in honor of Doug New-som, Professor Emeritus, Texas ChristianUniversity, will be given for the first timein 2016. The award in the amount of $250is for the top paper that fits the theme ofglobal ethics or global diversity. For thecontext of this award, global ethics pro-motes the free flow of accurate informa-tion, open communication and informeddecision-making, protection of confiden-tial information, and fair competitionwhile avoiding conflict of interest acrossthe world. Global diversity encompassesracial, ethnic, national identity, gender,sexual orientation, and cultural diversityas a matter of fairness and justice in theglobal public relations workforce. Thosewho wish to compete for this awardshould clearly label their papers for con-sideration of this award. A special DougNewsom Award Committee will evaluatethe papers and choose a finalist.

Submission Limitations: No morethan two papers may be submitted by anyone author or co-author across the threePRD categories. If it is found that one per-son is author and/or co-author of morethan two submissions across the threePRD categories, all of the submissions willbe automatically disqualified.

A paper may not be under review:(1) simultaneously with more than one ofthe three PRD categories, (2) simultane-ously with more than one division withinAEJMC, (3) simultaneously with the AEJMCconference and any other conference, or(4) simultaneously with the AEJMC confer-ence and any potential publication, includ-ing refereed journals, book chapters, etc.

Authorship: When submitting co-au-thored papers, permission to submit thepaper should be sought and obtained fromall authors on the paper. Paper authorshipcannot be added, deleted, or changedafter submission of the paper.

Author Identification: All authorsand co-authors, their institutional affilia-tions and contact information must be in-cluded when registering on the onlinesystem. If there are three co-authors, forexample, information about all three mustbe included in the registration. Papers en-tered into the student-only competitionmust be authored or co-authored by stu-dents only (no faculty co-authors), and allof these papers must have the word “Stu-dent” on the title page and in the runninghead.

Author-identifying information mustnot appear anywhere in the attachedpaper file. Identifying information includes(1) listing of authors’ names and/or affilia-tions, (2) references to authors’ previouswork in a way that reveals authorship ofthe current work, (3) links to authors’ web-sites, e-mail addresses, or social media ac-counts, and (4) identifying information inthe file properties. Inclusion of identifyinginformation will result in automatic dis-qualification of the paper. It is the respon-sibility of the paper author(s) to verifythat no identifying information is con-tained in the paper text or in the docu-ment file properties. Please follow thedirections for removing your identifying in-formation from the properties. This willneed to be done each time you submityour paper to All-Academic.

All submitters are strongly encour-aged to submit at least a day or two before

the deadline so they can check to makesure that the uploaded document doesnot contain any personal identifying infor-mation in its properties. When a clean Mi-crosoft Word document is converted to aPDF file, the PDF file typically adds thepersonal identifying information back in,so you will need to remove it from theProperties area (under “File”) after youhave converted your document to a PDF.

Paper Content: Any recognized re-search methodology and citation stylemay be used. Papers should include ap-propriate literature reviews, methodology,findings and discussion. Papers shouldtest, refine, expand or critically reviewpublic relations theories, research or prac-tices; or explore methods of effective pub-lic relations practices. Teaching papersshould enhance principles or practices as-sociated with public relations pedagogy.All submissions should represent researchcompleted by the conference submissiondeadline, not research proposals or re-ports on research in progress.

Paper Formatting: A paper cannotexceed 25 pages, excluding abstract, refer-ences, figures and tables. Papers must betyped in a 12-point font, using Times NewRoman, Times, or Arial font. Paper textmust be formatted with double line spac-ing with one-inch margins on all sides ofthe document. All papers must containcontinuous page numbers; if multiple filesare merged for the paper, then the authormust ensure that the page numbers arecontinuous and do not repeat or startover from page 1.

All papers must be submitted in PDFformat. For those using the newest ver-sion of Microsoft Word, you can save yourpaper as a PDF file using the “Save As”function. For those not using this version,you may use a free web service, such aswww.freepdfconvert.com. Failure to fol-low these formatting guidelines will re-sult in an automatic disqualification ofthe paper. Again, remember to removeyour name from the Properties area of thedocument after converting it to a PDF.

Presentation Requirement: At leastone author of an accepted faculty papermust attend the conference to present thepaper. If student authors cannot be pres-ent, they must make arrangements for thepaper to be presented by someone else.Failure to be present or provide a presen-ter for any paper will result in a one-year



ban on the review of papers for all of theauthors involved. Authors of accepted pa-pers are required to forward papers to dis-cussants and moderators prior to theconference. Presentations at the AEJMCconference may be disseminated via socialmedia; presenters may opt out of socialmedia dissemination by requesting so atthe time of the presentation.

Questions? Please contact our re-search chairs, Weiwu Zhang, Texas TechUniversity, [email protected] or LanNi, University of Houston, [email protected].

Scholastic Journalism Division The Scholastic Journalism Division of

AEJMC is accepting submissions of re-search papers for the 2016 conference inMinneapolis, MN.

Papers can be on any topic related tojournalism education (at all levels); thestudent press; media, news, and civic liter-acy; youth journalism; or related fields.We welcome submissions from all theoret-ical and methodological perspectives.

Both faculty and student papers ac-cepted will be eligible for top paperawards to be presented at the AEJMC Con-ference in August. Faculty papers with astudent co-author or student papers witha faculty co-author will be judged in thefaculty competition. The best papersshould be theoretically based, method-ologically rigorous, and clearly relate to anissue in journalism and/or civics education.

Expectations for all papers: Papersshould be in 12-point type, Times NewRoman, double-spaced. Papers should notexceed 25-pages in length, not countingreferences, tables, and appendices.

Style should follow either the Publi-cation Manual of the American Psychologi-cal Association or the Chicago Manual ofStyle. Include an abstract of no more than75 words. At least one author will be ex-pected to attend the meeting to presentthe paper.

All research papers must be submit-ted online via a link on the AEJMC Website. Do not put the author’s name on thetitle page of the document you upload tothe submission site. Reviews are blind. Thesite will also ask for author’s name, affilia-tion, and e-mail address separately. Youwill be asked for your abstract, too.

For more information or questions,contact Scholastic Journalism Division Re-search Chair Genelle Belmas at (785) 864-

7667 or [email protected].

Visual Communication DivisionThe Visual Communication Division

of AEJMC invites faculty and students tosubmit competitive papers devoted totheoretically based studies of visual com-munications, and to issues concerning theprofessional practice of visual media pro-duction, for presentation at the associa-tion’s annual conference. Visual is broadlydefined as and includes photography, film,television, web design, graphic design, il-lustration, and digital imaging, as well asother visual phenomena.

The division encourages submissionof papers that address a broad spectrumof methodology and application, bothqualitative and quantitative, on all typesof visual media: advertising, broadcast,digital imaging, film, graphic design, multi-media and web design, photojournalism,propaganda images, visual images and cul-ture, visual literacy, and visual aspects ofpolitical campaigns, etc. Research inmedia history, law, policy, effects,processes, uses and ethics regarding visu-als are also welcome. All submissions willbe blind refereed by a panel of independ-ent readers. Student papers will be as-sessed along with faculty papers. A $100award will be given to the top studentcontribution. The top three faculty paperswill be recognized in the AEJMC annualconference program.

Papers are accepted for peer reviewon the understanding that they are not al-ready under review for other conventionsand that they have been submitted to onlyone AEJMC group for evaluation. Papersaccepted for the AEJMC Conferenceshould not have been presented to an-other convention or published in scholarlyor trade journals prior to presentation atthe conference. Authors may submit morethan one paper to the Visual Communica-tion Division.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: All re-search papers must be uploaded throughAEJMC’s ALL ACADEMIC website. Makesure to upload through the link marked Vi-sual Communication Division. All papersmust be uploaded to the server no laterthan 11:59 p.m. (Central Daylight Time)Friday, April 1, 2016, and should complywith all of the AEJMC submission guide-lines.

All papers must be type-written and

double-spaced with one-inch margins. Thepage limit is 30-pages, inclusive of all ref-erences, notes, tables, illustrations, andappendices. Manuscripts must conformto one of the four listed reference styles:APA, Chicago, MLA, or Turabian for confe-rence submissions.

All authors will be advised whethertheir paper has been accepted and will re-ceive a copy of the reviewers’ commentsby May 20, 2016. At least one author of anaccepted paper must attend the confer-ence to present the paper. Failure to at-tend the conference will disqualify anauthor from the next year’s competition.For more information about submissionsto the Visual Communication Division,please contact Nicole S. Dahmen, Univer-sity of Oregon, [email protected].

INTEREST GROUPS

Community Journalism Interest Group The Community Journalism Interest

Group (COMJ) seeks original, non-pub-lished research papers to be consideredfor presentation at the 2016 AEJMC na-tional conference in Minneapolis, Min-nesota. The deadline for papersubmissions is April 1, 2016.

COMJIG’s goal is to identify and pres-ent original, meaningful research that ad-vances the understanding of the role ofjournalists and news organizations asmembers of communities, be they geo-graphic, topical, or digital. Communitiesare multifaceted, and community as a fieldof study may be understood in differentways: It may be defined as a geographi-cally bounded place, a group defined bysocial boundaries, or a collective that ex-ists in the online world. Papers presentedin COMJIG’s research sessions reflect thediverse approaches to understanding theways various types of communities inter-act with and/or exist through media, andhow journalism formats and productscater to those communities. Possible re-search topics could include the ways com-munity formation affects the process ofjournalism, how journalists take advantageof community to build audience and/or toimprove journalism, or the ways newscompanies and individual journalists en-courage community among readers, listen-ers, or viewers. The interest group is alsointerested in research that extends our un-



derstanding of “community” in new direc-tions: Papers could address such issues ashow community is defined or how itsmeaning changes in an increasingly digitalmedia environment. All methodologiesand theoretical frameworks are welcome.

The interest group recognizes annu-ally the top faculty paper and top studentpaper submitted for presentation. The au-thors of top papers will have the opportu-nity to be considered for publication inthe peer reviewed journal CommunityJournalism, COMJIG’s official publication.

Paper submissions should include a100 to 150 word abstract and should notexceed 8,000 words, including references,tables and notes. All papers should con-form to APA style, Sixth Edition. Graduatestudents are encouraged to submit pa-pers. Student authors should clearly marktheir papers as student submissions inorder to be considered in the studentpaper competition.

All research papers must be up-loaded to the group via a link on theAEJMC website. Please see AEJMC’s PaperCompetition Uniform Call for more infor-mation. All submissions undergo a blindreview process. Authors should ensurethat their papers do not contain identify-ing references. For a detailed explanation,please see “submitting a clean paper”under the uniform paper call on theAEJMC website. Failure to remove identi-fying references from papers will result inautomatic disqualification.

Additional questions may be di-rected to COMJIG Research CommitteeChair Clay Carey at [email protected] (205) 726-2167.

Entertainment Studies Interest GroupThe Entertainment Studies Interest

Group invites faculty and graduate stu-dents to electronically submit papers forthe 2016 AEJMC conference. Papers thatdeal with any aspect of mediated enter-tainment, including (but not limited to)narrative film, experimental cinema, fic-tional books, fictional television, gameshows, new media, popular magazines,sports, and tabloid/celebrity journalismmay be submitted. All methods (qualita-tive, quantitative, historical, critical) of in-

quiry are encouraged. Papers may not ex-ceed 25-pages, excluding tables, figures,and references. All entries should followthe AEJMC uniform paper competition. Allsubmissions will undergo a blind reviewprocess by a panel of independent readers.

Although all papers compete on anequal footing, the top-ranked studentpaper(s) sent to ESIG will receive specialrecognition and first author(s) will beawarded free conference registration. Stu-dents who wish to be eligible for thisaward must indicate when submittingelectronically that the paper was writtenexclusively by one or more students. Onlystudents are eligible for this prize; paperswith any faculty co-author(s) are not eligi-ble. The top-ranked faculty paper will berecognized. Authors are not required to bea member of ESIG to submit a paper. Thesame author(s) can submit more than onepaper to ESIG.

Specific Guidelines: Papers may notexceed 25-pages, excluding tables, figures,and references. APA or MLA are accept-able styles for references. At least one au-thor of an accepted faculty paper mustattend the conference to present thepaper. If student authors cannot be pres-ent, they must make arrangements for thepaper to be presented.

Questions regarding submissionsshould be directed to the research chair,Paul Alonso, e-mail: [email protected]

Graduate Student Interest GroupThe Graduate Student Interest Group

(GSIG) invites graduate students to submitresearch papers for the 2016 AEJMC an-nual convention in Minneapolis. GSIG isdedicated to providing opportunities forgraduate students to present research inthe conference setting. Author(s) may beat any point in their graduate education,from Master’s through Ph.D.

GSIG accepts research from a varietyof theoretical and methodological per-spectives that address any topic in journal-ism, media, or mass communication. Thetop-ranked submission will receive the an-nual Guido Stempel Award and will re-ceive a cash prize, award plaque, andconference registration reimbursement forthe lead author. Authors of the top fourpapers will have the opportunity to pres-ent at a special GSIG-sponsored researchpanel highlighting graduate student re-

search. In addition, the top student posterwill receive the Carson B Wagner Award,which includes a cash prize and award cer-tificate. To be considered for GSIG awards,author(s) must be graduate students atthe time of submission.

Authors are not required to be amember of GSIG to submit a paper, butauthors of accepted papers must be mem-bers before presenting their research atthe convention in August. Our member-ship fee is one of the most affordable of allAEJMC divisions and interest groups at $7per year.

Papers should be submitted to theAEJMC site in Word, WordPerfect or PDFformat (PDF preferred). An abstract of 75words should also be uploaded at the timeof submission. Papers should be no morethan 25 pages, not counting references,tables or appendices. Authors should useTimes New Roman in 12-point font, with1-inch margins, double-spaced and in APAstyle. According to AEJMC submissionsguidelines, the manuscript title should beprinted on the title page, the first page ofthe text, and on running heads on eachpage of text. Do NOT include author’sname anywhere in the document. Papersuploaded with author’s identifying infor-mation displayed WILL NOT BE CONSID-ERED FOR REVIEW AND WILLAUTOMATICALLY BE DISQUALIFIED FROMTHE COMPETITION. Please refer to theAEJMC uniform paper call for more infor-mation.

All submissions will undergo a blindreview process by a panel of independentreviewers. Papers are accepted on the un-derstanding that they have not been previ-ously published or presented elsewhere(with the exception of the AEJMC Midwin-ter Conference) and are not under consid-eration by any scholarly journal or tradeorganization. Only one paper per primaryauthor will be accepted.

Questions regarding submissionshould be directed to GSIG Research ChairNicholas Hirshon([email protected]).

Internships and Careers Interest GroupThe ICIG of AEJMC is accepting sub-

missions of research papers from both fac-ulty and students for the 2016 conferencein Minneapolis, MN. Papers may be onany topic related to internships and ca-reers. We are particularly interested in pa-


pers on:• Careers in communications/jour-

nalism/advertising/PR• Internships in communications/

journalism/advertising/PR• New communications/journalism/

Advertising/PR career trends• Internship assessment/pedagogy

practices• Communications industry evalua-

tion/measurement techniquesThe interest group is offering a free

conference registration to the authors(maximum 4) of the top student paper.Entries should be no longer than 30-pages. On all other requirements, authorsshould follow the AEJMC Uniform Call forPapers. Questions should be directed toresearch chair, Michele Fogg, College ofSouthern Nevada at 702-651-5618 [email protected].

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender andQueer Interest Group

AEJMC’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) InterestGroup seeks submissions of original re-search on any topic related to sexual ori-entation, gender identity, or genderorientation, and journalism or mass com-munication for the 2016 AEJMC nationalconference. Both faculty and students arestrongly encouraged to submit their un-published work, and papers employing allmethods of inquiry and theoretical frame-works are welcomed. Monetary awardsare provided for exceptional scholarship asdetailed below.

We especially welcome scholarshipdealing with – but not limited to – topicssuch as:

1) LGBTQ content, consumption, andproduction across traditional and newmedia platforms;

2) transgender, queer, and/or gen-derqueer individuals and communities;

3) LGBTQ activism and advocacy, in-cluding local, state, and/or federal legisla-tive (in)action (i.e., marriage equality,ENDA, safe schools initiatives, immigra-tion, post-DADT, hate crimes, etc.);

4) sexual and gender identity withininstitutions (academia, collegiate and pro-fessional sports, the military, etc.).

In previous conferences, papers in-cluded quantitative analyses pertaining tonews coverage of same-sex couples’health insurance benefits and professional

athletes’ coming out stories, as well ascritical/cultural analyses of LGBTQ imagesin strategic communication campaigns andhistorical analyses of LGBTQ individualsand media institutions. Given Minnesota’sunique role in the LGBTQ movement (in-cluding the push for marriage equality),communication scholarship with ties tothe 2016 AEJMC Conference site, Min-neapolis, is particularly encouraged.

Paper submissions must comply withthe AEJMC uniform paper call; may be nolonger than 25 pages, excluding tables, fig-ures, and references; and contain no iden-tifying information. Please refer tohttp://www.aejmc.org/home/scholar-ship/submit-clean-paper/ for detailed in-formation on submitting papers for blindreview.

The LGBTQ Interest Group is pleasedto provide monetary awards and recogni-tion for top student and faculty papers:

Top Student Paper Award: TheLGBTQ Interest Group encourages gradu-ate student submissions in its Top StudentPaper competition. To be considered forthe competition, papers must be whollythe work of students. The author(s) of thetop student paper award will receive $200and a certificate in recognition of theirwork.

Top Faculty Paper Award: The topfaculty paper submitted to the LGBTQ In-terest Group will also receive an award.Papers written solely by faculty, or papersco-authored by faculty members and stu-dents, are eligible. The author(s) of thetop faculty paper award will receive $200and a certificate in recognition of theirwork.

Additional information about theLGBTQ Interest Group can be found athttp://LGBTQaejmc.wordpress.com/.Questions regarding submissions shouldbe e-mailed to the LGBTQ Interest GroupResearch Chair, Jessalynn Strauss ([email protected]).Participatory Journalism Interest Group

The Participatory Journalism InterestGroup, PJIG, invites research paper sub-missions for the 2016 AEJMC Conference,August 4-7 in Minneapolis, MN.

The deadline for paper submissionsis April 1, 2016, at 11: 59 p.m. (CDT).

PJIG is interested in research that ex-amines participatory journalism broadlydefined as the use of digital tools andtechniques to involve members of the

public, sometimes called “citizens,”“users,” or “participants” in the produc-tion, dissemination, and sharing of news.If your paper concerns social media inter-secting with news, comments on newssites, bricolage in the production of newscontent, entrepreneurial media productswhere public contributions are involved,and/or independent publishing on theboundaries of “old-school” institutionalnews, PJIG is the place for your paper.Quantitative and qualitative methods arerespected equally, and we accept peda-gogical papers.

Papers submitted will be eligible forfour separate awards: top faculty paper($150), top poster ($100), first- and sec-ond-place student paper awards ($150and $75 respectively). The poster awardwill be given after the poster session andis based on the combined quality of theresearch and poster presentation. Stu-dents should clearly identify their papersas “student papers” in the submissionprocess. Papers co-authored with facultymembers do not qualify for the studentcompetition.

Suggested paper topics include: Par-ticipatory journalism in political cam-paigns, indy/citizen media, civic mapping,community conversations, newsroom proj-ects involving user content, entrepreneur-ial journalism with collaborative elements,legal and ethical issues in participatoryjournalism, crowdsourcing versus tradi-tional “gatekeeping” models of journalismpractice, participatory journalism in a mul-ticultural and/or multinational environ-ment, participatory journalism andmobile/wearable/immersive technologies,history/philosophy of participatory media,the changing newspaper industry econ-omy and its relationship to participatoryjournalism movements, the mission andmeaning of “participatory” media, teach-ing journalism and media production inparticipatory contexts, and the use ofpolls, focus groups and other methods toreport the news in a manner that engagesthe public deeply in processes of contentproduction.

Papers must be submitted in accor-dance with all requirements of AEJMC andits uniform paper call and electronic sub-mission process. Paper length is limited to30-pages, not including references, tables,figures or appendices. Font size should be




12 pt. with margins at least 1-inch on allsides. We accept papers in any academicformatting style. Papers should not havebeen published.

Please direct questions to PJIG Re-search Chairs Mark Poepsel([email protected]) and Avery Holton([email protected]).

All submissions undergo a blind re-view process. Authors should ensure thattheir papers do not contain identifying ref-erences. For a detailed explanation,please see “submitting a clean paper”under the uniform paper call on theAEJMC website. Submitters: Carefullycheck manuscripts for self-identifying in-formation of any kind including self-cita-tion. We urge you to submit at least twodays before the deadline so you cancheck your uploaded document for self-identifying information and resubmitprior to the deadline. For more informa-tion, see www.aejmc.org/home/papers.

Political Communication Interest Group The Political Communication Interest

Group invites submission of original, non-published research papers to be consid-ered for presentation at the 2016 AEJMCconference, August 4 to 7, 2016, in Min-neapolis. The deadline for paper submis-sions is April 1, 2016, at 11:59 p.m (CDT).We welcome both faculty and graduatestudent papers of all methodological ap-proaches and levels of analysis. Graduatestudents are particularly encouraged toapply.

Research papers should be directlyrelated to mediated political communica-tion, broadly defined. In particular, as partof our bi-annual exploration of the Ameri-can electoral process, the Political Com-munication Interest Group invites thesubmission of manuscripts that focus onthe 2014 or upcoming 2016 U.S. Elections.Possible relevant topics include processesand effects of mediated political commu-nication in relation to political news, polit-ical journalism, public policy, politicalfigures and candidates; political entertain-ment; citizen engagement and mobiliza-tion; public opinion; campaigns andpolitical advertising; advocacy; and politi-cal economy of the media. All submitted

research papers should be clearlygrounded in theory and methodology.

The Political Communication InterestGroup has established the McCombs ShawAward for Best Student Paper in PoliticalCommunication with a $250 prize and freeconference registration to be given annu-ally to the best graduate student papersubmission, along with up to 3 graduatestudent conference registrations andawards for our top student papers. Stu-dent papers may not include any facultyauthors/co-authors and must be clearly la-beled as “Graduate Student Paper” on thecover page. In addition, the interest groupannually honors the top three papers inpolitical communication; both faculty andgraduate student paper submissions areeligible for this honor.

All entries should follow the guide-lines of the AEJMC uniform paper compe-tition. Paper length is limited to 25-pages,not including references, tables, figures orappendices. All submissions will undergo ablind review process by a panel of inde-pendent reviewers. Papers are acceptedon the understanding that they have notbeen previously published or presentedelsewhere. Paper authors must removeidentifying information from paper. Failureto do so will lead to an automatic disquali-fication.

If you have any questions, pleasecontact research co-chairs Amy BreeBecker ([email protected]) or BryanMcLaughlin ([email protected]).

Religion and Media Interest GroupThe Religion and Media Interest

Group (RMIG) invites submission of re-search papers on topics that incorporatethemes related to religion and media.RMIG will consider papers using quantita-tive, qualitative or historical researchmethods and accepts any recognized cita-tion style (although APA is preferred).Please note that essays, commentaries, orsimple literature reviews will not be con-sidered. Possible areas of research focusinclude (but are not limited to): studies ofreligious group members and uses of reli-gious or secular media; exploration ofmedia coverage of religious issues andgroups; analysis of audiences for religiousnews; media strategies of religious organi-zations; religious advertising; religious andspiritual content in popular culture; etc.Papers focusing on historically underrepre-

sented religions, denominations and/orgroups as well as religious contexts out-side the U.S. are strongly encouraged. Formore about RMIG and its mission, pleasesee http://www.religionandmedia.org/our-mission-and-goals/. Papers will beconsidered for presentation as traditionalresearch panels and poster sessions.

The maximum length of research pa-pers is 25-pages, excluding endnotes andtables. The Religion and Media InterestGroup also sponsors a Top Paper competi-tion for both student and faculty papers.(Note: student papers may not have a fac-ulty co-author.) The top student and fac-ulty papers will be awarded $100 each,with the second-place student and facultypapers receiving $50 each. Co-authors willsplit the monetary awards, but each willreceive a plaque. The awards will not begiven if the selected papers are not pre-sented at the conference. In order to beconsidered for the Top Paper competition,please specify either a student submissionor a faculty submission on the cover pageof the paper. Student papers that are notclearly identified as student submissionswill not be considered for the student TopPaper Competition. All paper submissionsmust follow the 2015 AEJMC UniformPaper Call.

Please pay particular attention tothe following section of that call:

Before submitting your paper,please make certain that all author-iden-tifying information has been removedand that all instructions have been fol-lowed per the AEJMC uniform paper call.Papers uploaded with author’s identify-ing information displayed WILL NOT BECONSIDERED FOR REVIEW AND WILL AU-TOMATICALLY BE DISQUALIFIED FROMTHE COMPETITION. ALL AEJMC DIVI-SIONS, INTEREST GROUPS AND COMMIS-SION PAPER SUBMISSIONS WILL ABIDE BYTHIS RULE WITHOUT EXCEPTION.

Questions should be submitted tothe RMIG Research Chair Joel Campbell [email protected]. Type “RMIGResearch Paper” in the subject line whencommunicating via e-mail.

Small Programs Interest Group The AEJMC Small Programs Interest

Group invites submission of original, non-published research papers that focus onthe relationship between teaching and re-search, to be considered for presentation


at the AEJMC Conference, August 4 to 7,2016 in Minneapolis, MN.

We invite members of all divisionsand interest groups to contribute researchpapers – using any methodology, whetherquantitative or qualitative—that focus ontelling a story across many platforms (con-vergence) in journalism and mass commu-nication. We especially encourage authorsto submit studies on pedagogy approachesand the effects on students and faculty in-side and outside of the classroom. Mem-bers of this division are particularlyinterested in smaller, teacher-orientedprograms.

GUIDELINES: See the AEJMC GeneralPaper Call for instructions to upload to All-Academic Site. The paper must be up-loaded to the server no later than 11:59p.m. (Central Daylight Time) Friday, April1, 2016. The competition is open to facultyand to graduate students; no separate stu-dent competition is held.

The paper must be formatted in Mi-crosoft WORD or PDF. PDF format isstrongly encouraged. Authors must com-pletely fill out the online submission form,including author’s name, affiliation, mail-ing address, telephone numbers (acade-mic, home and cell), and preferred emailaddress. The title must be on the first pageof the manuscript and on the runningheads on every page. However DO NOTINCLUDE author’s name or affiliationwithin the running heads or title page orany pop-up options that may be containedin PDF submissions. Papers uploaded withauthor’s identifying information WILL NOTBE CONSIDERED FOR REVIEW AND WILLAUTOMATICALLY BE DISQUALIFIED FROMTHE COMPETITION. Follow instructions onhow to submit a clean paper for blind re-viewing.

SPIG requests a paper length of NOMORE than 25-pages (excluding refer-ences) and the document must be double-spaced and typed in 11-point Arial font orTimes Roman font-and follow APA styleguidelines. Researchers must also uploadan Abstract of no more than 75 words.

Authors must heed the AEJMC Gen-eral Paper Regulations and Deadlines. Forexample, papers submitted to the wrongdivision or that do not meet ALL the aboveguidelines will not be reviewed (for exam-ple, submission of an abstract by thedeadline but a paper AFTER the deadline,will result in the paper NOT being ac-

cepted). However, SPIG research co-chairswill make every effort to contact authorswho do not meet guidelines so that theywill be aware as early as possible thattheir paper has not been accepted and thereasons why.

Papers are accepted for peer reviewwith the understanding that they are NOTunder review (or being submitted duringthe AEJMC review period) to a second di-vision or interest group OR to a journal orother publication. Papers submitted to the2016 conference should NOT have beenpresented to another conference and nei-ther should they have been published orbe in the publication process BEFORE thedate of the 2016 Conference in August.

For more information, contact theSPIG Research Co-Chairs: John Jenks, Do-minican University [email protected] Jackie S. Incollingo, Rider University [email protected]

Sports Communication Interest Group The Sports Communication Interest

Group invites faculty and student submis-sion of original research papers that focuson sports. Submissions must contain aclear media dimension such as traditionalmedia (newspapers, TV, radio), digital orsocial media or strategic communication(PR, advertising, or sports marketing).Submissions should be theoreticallygrounded and offer tangible evidence ofscholarly rigor. We welcome qualitativeand quantitative research methods; weencourage a broad spectrum of ap-proaches, including sociological, historical,critical, pedagogical, and cultural research.Only one paper per lead author will be ac-cepted for review. Submissions must notbe under consideration elsewhere forpresentation or publication.

Please see the AEJMC Uniform Callfor Papers for applicable submission re-quirements and instructions to upload tothe All-Academic site and on how to suc-cessfully remove identifying information.We strongly recommend submitting earlyso you have time to check your uploadeddocument to ensure no identifying infor-mation is included. Papers should be nolonger than 25-pages, double-spaced (notincluding tables, figures and references),using a standard 12-point font. Papers thatdo not meet the AEJMC Uniform Call forPapers requirements will not be accepted.

Faculty and student submissions will

undergo separate blind review processesby faculty-only judges. Student papers co-authored by faculty will be inserted intothe faculty pool, regardless of lead authorstatus. Student authors — undergraduateand graduate students enrolled during the2015-2016 school year — should include acover sheet that clearly states the paper isa student submission. Submissions shouldcontain no identifying information, such asname, university affiliation, or job title.Please be certain that any identificationthat may occur via electronic means isfully removed, as the presence of anyidentifying information, whether intendedor unintended, will result in removal fromconsideration.

Please direct questions about sub-missions to John Carvalho at Auburn Uni-versity ([email protected]) or AnneOsborne at Syracuse University ([email protected]).

COMMISSIONCommission on the Status of Women

The Commission on the Status ofWomen invites submissions of research forcompetitive paper sessions that are basedon issues of gender and communication.To take advantage of the unique momentof the 2016 election cycle, the Commis-sion particularly seeks papers related towomen, power and politics. These paperscan cover a variety of topics and method-ological approaches. Examples of relevanttopics could include, but are not limitedto: women running for the presidency,gender differences in campaign coverage,historiographies of women’s issues in themedia, women of color in politics, contem-porary media coverage of women’s repro-ductive health issues, intersectionality andpolitical coalitions, gender differences inpolitical campaign strategies, gendereduse of social media to advance politicalcauses, or gendered discourses about aparticular issue. Special call papers shouldbe submitted to the All-Academic link setup for the call.

In addition to the special call, theCommission welcomes papers in whichgender is a main analytic focus and inviteprojects that use a variety of approachesand research methods, including but notlimited to critical, empirical, ethnographic,historical, legal and semiotic analyses. It isexpected that the research will demon-



strate a familiarity with feminist communi-cation theory. Examples of relevant topicsinclude: representations of women in thenews; the role of gender in newsrooms orclassrooms; effects of mass media onwomen and girls; feminist approaches toteaching and communication; women’suse of/production of media; genderequality in the profession or the academy;how gender influences or matters inhealth, risk, and crisis public relationscampaigns, etc.

Suggested paper length is 25-pages(double-spaced, 12-point type), excluding


tables, references, figures or illustrations.We especially encourage submissions bygraduate students. The winner of the topstudent paper will be awarded $100, andthe winner of the second place studentpaper will receive $50. Authors of the toppapers will be recognized in the confer-ence program and at the CSW businessmeeting at the conference.

This paper call is part of the overallAEJMC call for research papers; all submis-sions must adhere to the general guide-lines put forth by AEJMC. Please consultthe AEJMC 2016 Paper Competition Uni-form Call for information about paper for-matting, submission deadline, creating a“clean” paper, and other guidelines. TheCSW wishes to stress that papers contain-ing any identifying author information will

be disqualified. Instructions for blind re-view can be found at aejmc.org/home/pa-pers. Please forward any questionsregarding uploading a “clean” paper orother queries to Candi Carter Olson, CSWResearch Chair, [email protected].

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Candidates should demonstrate provenadministrative and leadership ability, stronginterpersonal and problem-solving skills, fac-ulty and staff management experience,budget management expertise, successful de-velopment experience, and effective alumnirelations. Candidates should evidence a com-mitment to high standards of scholarship, fac-ulty engagement, and education at theundergraduate and graduate levels.

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