As an academic, I try to attend several conferences each year. They’re a great way to network with other scholars, to see friends who have graduated, and to learn the new ideas that are informing the field. And while no one would dispute the importance of attending these conferences, I worry that the regional, smaller …
For anyone who has undergone the process of having an article face peer-review – at a conference or at a journal – it should come to no surprise to them that there is some randomness in the process. We’ve all heard the stories: a paper that is rejected from one conference wins a top paper …
Last week, Brian Ekdale made a really important post on his blog about the value of poster sessions, prompting me to add my own insights to this very valuable topic. I also went through the same changes in perspective that Brian describes about poster sessions – from feeling like it is a dismissal of my …
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Hey everyone! I have arrived in Denver, Colorado, for the 2010 conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication! It will be a busy couple of days – I will be presenting our paper entitled “The Correspondent, the Comic, and the Combatant: How moderator style and guest civility shape news credibility” at …