The Political Communication Interest Group held its first inaugural meeting last night at AEJMC. The group elected Tom Johnson, of the University of Texas-Austin, as our new Head. In the course of the meeting, I have been elected the new graduate student liaison for the group. I will be keeping my readers updated on developments …
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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 …
For anyone who’s been a J201 TA, this comic (thanks to Hans for sending me this link) speaks to what we spend the first few weeks of the course discussing – and what our students write their first paper on (or at least they did when I taught the class). I really enjoyed the distilling …
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This will probably come to no surprise to anyone who’s taught an introductory university course that requires students to do research, but for all the time they spend online, students remain uncertain about how to find credible information. A new study by Northwestern University researchers demonstrates that when performing a wide range of information-seeking activities …
It’s unusual for MTV to get praise for its television programming. But while other outlets and channels are getting criticized for their lack of positive portrayals of gay and lesbian characters, MTV has received the first-ever “Excellent” rating for their programming from GLAAD, or the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. And the primary source …