Twenty College of Media, Communication and Information faculty and graduate students are presenting 15 peer-reviewed research papers at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference in Toronto today through Saturday, Aug. 10.
CMCI faculty and students are presenting in 10 different divisions or interest groups on topics including the implications of children watching online unboxing videos, visual framing of the opioid epidemic,听and the effects of corporate ownership on local media coverage.听Seven faculty members also are serving as discussants or moderators at the conference, which more than 2,000 journalism and mass communication scholars are expected to attend.
Below is a complete list of this year鈥檚 papers and participants from CMCI, including from the Departments of Advertising, Public Relations and Media Design (APRD); Communication (COMM); Information Science (INFO); Journalism (JOUR); and Media Studies (MDST).
Advertising
- 鈥淐hildren and Unboxing Videos Online: Implications for Advertisers and Policy Makers鈥�: Deepti Khedekar (PhD student, COMM) and Harsha Gangadharbatla (associate prof., APRD)
- 鈥淭he Influence of Beauty-Related YouTube Content on Consumers鈥� Purchase Intentions鈥�: Kyungji Lee (PhD student, APRD)
Cultural and Critical Studies
- 鈥淭he Dewey Problem: Public Journalism, Engagement and More than Two Decades of Denigrating Discourse鈥�:听 Patrick Ferrucci (assistant prof., JRNL), Jacob Nelson (Arizona State University) and Miles Davis (PhD student, JRNL)
Electronic News
- 鈥淭he Effects of Corporate Media Ownership on Depth of Local Coverage and Issue Agendas鈥�: Justin Blankenship (Auburn University) and Chris Vargo (assistant prof., APRD)
Entertainment Studies
- 鈥淐orporate Affirmations of the True Self and Mutual Self Help: Transmedia Rhetorics of Marvel Rising鈥�: Burton St. John (professor, APRD) and J. Richard Stevens (associate prof., MDST)
International Communication
- 鈥淒igital Games and Democracy in Africa: Examining the Use of Games as Tools for Internal and External Influence鈥�: Jolene Fisher (assistant prof., APRD)
- 鈥淔or Whom Do We Do This Work and in Whose Voice? Examining the Role of International Communication in Africa鈥�: Greg Gondwe (PhD student, JRNL) and Rachel van-der-Merwe (PhD student, MDST)
Mass Communication and Society
- A Crisis in Pictures: Visual Framing of the Opioid Epidemic by the Cincinnati Enquirer: Matthew J. Haught (University of Memphis), Erin Willis (associate prof., APRD) and Kathleen I. Alaimo (PhD student, JRNL)
- 鈥淪haring Native Advertising on Twitter: Evidence of the Inoculating Influence of Disclosures鈥�: Michelle Amazeen (Boston University) and Chris Vargo (assistant prof., APRD)
Media Ethics
- 鈥淢oral Reasoning and Development Across Industries of Mass Communication鈥�: Patrick Ferrucci (assistant prof., JRNL), Erin Schauster (assistant prof., APRD), Edson Tandoc (Nanyang Technological University) and Marlene Neill (Baylor University)
Political Communication
- 鈥淭he Rationalization of Anti-intellectualism: News as A Recursive Regime in Political Communication鈥�: Michael McDevitt (professor, JRNL)
Public Relations
- 鈥淎ssessing the Relationship between Self-Benefit and Other-Benefit Message Framing,
- Perceived Transparency Effectiveness, and Organizational Trust鈥�: Jolene Fisher (assistant prof., APRD) and Toby Hopp (assistant prof., APRD)
- 鈥淧ersonal Influence in Public Relations鈥�: Krishnamurthy Sriramesh (professor, APRD) and Jolene Fisher (assistant prof., APRD)
Visual Communication
- 鈥淥n the Boundaries: Professional Photojournalists Navigating Identity in an Age of Technological Democratization鈥�: Patrick Ferrucci (assistant prof., JRNL), Ross Taylor (assistant prof., JRNL) and Kathleen I. Alaimo (PhD student, JRNL)
- 鈥淧lastics and Polar Bears: Measuring Environmental Framing Effects on Perceived Distance and Sense of Motivation鈥�: Danielle Quichocho (PhD student, APRD) and Kathleen I. Alaimo (PhD student, JRNL)
Moderators/Discussants/Panelists
- Patrick Ferrucci (assistant prof., JRNL)
- Casey Fiesler (assistant prof., INFO)
- Harsha Gangadharbatla (associate prof., APRD)
- Erin Schauster (assistant prof., APRD听)
- Ross Taylor (assistant prof., JRNL)
- Paul Voakes (professor emeritus, JRNL)
- Erin Willis (associate prof., APRD)