Published: Aug. 5, 2022

Moderators, Discussants, Panelists and Workshop Leaders

  • Kathleen Alaimo (Dayton, JRNL PhD alum)
  • Angie Chuang (associate professor, JRNL)
  • Patrick Ferrucci (associate professor, JRNL)
  • Harsha Gangadharbatla (professor, APRD)
  • Fahad Humayun (PhD student, JRNL)
  • Ross Taylor (assistant porfessor, JRNL)
  • Paul Voakes (professor Emeritus, JRNL)

Students and faculty in the College of Media, Communication and Information traveled to Detroit, Michigan, this month for the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference.

Scholars from around the country returned to AEJMC in person this year after two years of remote programming during the coronavirus pandemic. The conference, held Aug. 3鈥�6, featured 20 peer-reviewed papers from CMCI scholars, including seven papers that earned top awards.

The award-winning scholarship from CMCI and its alumni spanned topics like job satisfaction in journalism, market models for digital newspapers in Africa, the evolution of media ethics, and communicating about health literacy on social media.

Of note, Assistant Professor Ross Taylor received a first place award for his documentary on Colorado refugees, Mango House. PhD student Sima Bhowmik and Assistant Professor Jolene Fisher also received first place for their paper, 鈥淔raming the Israel-Palestine Conflict 2021: Investigation of CNN鈥檚 Coverage From a Peace Journalism Perspective.鈥�

In total, 24 CMCI faculty members and students from three departments joined the conference. They participated as moderators, discussants, panelists and workshop leaders in 16 of the conference鈥檚 divisions, interest groups and panels.

Founded in 1912, AEJMC is the oldest and largest alliance of journalism and mass communication educators and administrators at the college level. Today, the nonprofit organization includes thousands of educators, students and practitioners from around the globe.

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); Information Science (INFO); Journalism (JRNL); and Media Studies (MDST).

Broadcast and Mobile Journalism Division

  • 鈥淔raming the Israel-Palestine Conflict 2021: Investigation of CNN鈥檚 Coverage from a Peace Journalism Perspective鈥�: Sima Bhowmik (PhD student, JRNL) and Jolene Fisher (assistant professor, APRD) 鈥� First Place Faculty Paper Award

Communicating Science, Health, Environment Risk Division

  • 鈥淐ommunicating Health Literacy about Pharmaceutical Medication on Social Media: 鈥業t Works for Me, but May Not For You鈥欌��: Erin Willis (associate professor, APRD), Kate Friedel (PhD student, APRD), Mark Heisten (PhD student, APRD) and Melissa Pickett (PhD student, APRD) 鈥� Third Place Faculty Paper Award

  • 鈥淭he Political Economy of Freelance Climate Journalists鈥�: Mushfique Wadud (PhD student, JRNL)

Critical and Cultural Studies Division

  • 鈥淲hat Actually is Peace Journalism? Uncovering Its (Lack of) Definition and Related Practices鈥�: Sima Bhowmik (PhD student, JRNL) and Patrick Ferrucci (associate professor, JRNL)

Entertainment Studies Interest Group

  • 鈥淎 Theoretical Model for Understanding Journalism and Film鈥�: Patrick Ferrucci (associate professor, JRNL)

  • 鈥淏uilding Boundaries: The Depiction of Digital Journalists in Popular Culture鈥�: Chad Painter (Dayton) and Patrick Ferrucci (associate professor, JRNL)

Graduate Student Interest Group

  • 鈥淰isual Framing of Panic Buying during the Pandemic鈥�: Sima Bhowmik (PhD student, JRNL) and Saima Kazmi (PhD student, APRD)

International Communication Division

  • 鈥淎ssessing Influences on Pakistani Journalists鈥� Use of Twitter for News Sourcing and Verification鈥�: Fahad Humayun (PhD student, JRNL)

  • 鈥淒efensive Digital Journalism in Bangladesh: Consequences of the Digital Security Act鈥�: Sima Bhowmik (PhD student, JRNL) and Jolene Fisher (assistant professor, APRD)

  • 鈥淢oral Foundations and Brown Envelope Journalism Among Ghanaian Student Journalists: An Exploratory Study鈥�: Kwaku Botwe (PhD student, APRD) 鈥� Third Place Student Paper Award

  • 鈥淭he Role of News Fixers in the International Reporting of the Rohingya Genocide: Postcolonial and Critical Political-Economic Perspective鈥�: Mushfique Wadud (PhD student, JRNL)

Media Ethics Division

  • 鈥淎 Comparative Approach to Understanding the Challenges and Opportunities Public Interest Journalism Faces in the New Media Economy鈥�: Nicola Redl (PhD student, JRNL)

Media Management, Economics and Entrepreneurship听Division

  • 鈥淎 Comparative Approach to Understanding the Challenges and Opportunities Public Interest Journalism Faces in the New Media Economy鈥�: Nicola Redl (PhD student, JRNL)

Minorities and Communication Division

  • 鈥淔rom Take a Knee to 鈥楽.O.B.鈥�: How Trump鈥檚 Performative Speech Compounded the Protest Paradigm and Hijacked Colin Kaepernick鈥檚 Protest鈥�: Angie Chuang (associate professor, JRNL) and Autumn Tyler (PhD student, MDST)

Newspaper and Online News Division

  • 鈥淐OVID-19 as a Contributing Factor to Job Satisfaction and Alienation Among Journalists鈥�: Kathleen Alaimo (Dayton, JRNL PhD alum) and Miles Davis (Miami University, JRNL PhD alum) 鈥� Second Place Student Paper Award
  • 鈥淒igital Newspapers in Africa: Examining Market Models, Audience Engagement, and Ethics in Tanzania鈥�:听 Gregory Gondwe (California State, San Bernardino, JRNL PhD alum) and Adenife Modile (PhD student, SOCY) 鈥� Second Place Top Faculty Paper Award
  • 鈥淭he Impact of a Journalist鈥檚 and Audience Members鈥� Involvement in Comment Sections on the Perceived Credibility of the Journalist, the Story, and the News Organization鈥�: Kirsten Johnson, (Elizabethtown) and Burton St. John (professor, APRD)

Public Relations Division

  • 鈥淧rimal Indigenous Wisdom for a Postmillennial Future: A Forgotten Inspiration for CSR鈥�: Raaj Chandran (PhD student, APRD)

Scholastic Journalism Interest Group

  • 鈥淢oral and Communicative Ecology in College Newspapers: How Student Journalists Navigate the Questions of Ethics鈥� Gregory Gondwe (California State, San Bernardino, JRNL PhD alum) and Sima Bhowmik (PhD Student, JRNL)

Visual Communication Division

  • 鈥淢ango House鈥�: Ross Taylor (assistant professor, JRNL) 鈥� First Place Faculty Creative Research Award
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