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Vol. 20, No. 2
June/July 2015
 Published three times annually by the Mass Communication Division of NCA.
Publications/Web Editor - Nicholas David Bowman, West Virginia University

Sponsored by:

In this issue:

Welcome from the Chair

College Station, Texas -- A warm welcome to another issue of The Gatekeeper!

Thanks to everyone who submitted their papers and panels to the 101st annual connection in November! By now, you have received acceptance notices on your submissions. We are excited about the innovative and diverse slate of competitive papers and panels that will be presented at this year’s convention, whose theme is “Embracing Opportunities.” Kudos and thanks to the MCD Research Committee and the Vice Chair for working hard on putting together a compelling program for NCA 2015 in Las Vegas from November 19-22.

This year NCA is introducing something called the “unit fair” where each division is invited to share an interactive display about their division. This is an opportunity for members to learn about the various units across NCA. Our division will be participating and is in the process of brainstorming ideas for the best way to represent our division. We would love to hear about any ideas you might have for us regarding the unit fair interactive display.

One of the best parts of my job as a MCD officer is recognizing stellar scholars, teachers, and mentors in our field through our annual awards. I encourage you to please nominate yourself or a colleague for the MCD teaching and service awards. Please also consider getting involved in the division by serving as an officer. I have found it to be a great way to make new friends beyond my campus and to learn about our field as a whole.

We look forward to seeing you in Las Vegas!

SriDr. Srividya Ramasubramanian, Ph.D.
Chair, Mass Communication Division
Texas A&M University
srivi@tamu.edu

 


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2015 NCA Doctoral Honors Seminar Participants

Columbia, Mo. -- For 2015, the University of Missouri Department of Communication is hosting the annual National Communication Association's Doctoral Honors Seminar. This year's seminar theme is “Solving Social Problems through Communication Research" and this year's mass media facilitators were Lissa Behm-Morawitz (University of Missouri), Travis Dixon (University of Illinois), and Kristen Harrison (University of Michigan). For this year's seminar, 10 Doctoral students were invited to study with our mass media professors, including:

  • Drew Cingel (Northwestern University)
  • Hilary Gamble (Arizona)
  • Traci Gillig (University of Southern California)
  • Joshua Hawthorne (University of Missouri)
  • Robin Hoecker (Northwestern University)
  • Daniel Lane (University of Michigan)
  • LeeAnn Sangalang (University of Southern California)
  • Julie Snyder-Yuly (University of Utah)
  • Ashton Speno (University of Missouri)
  • Kira Varava (University of Illinois)

Doctoral Honors Seminar

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MCD seeking officer nominations

Louisville, Ky. -- Preparing for our 2015 meeting in Las Vegas, the Mass Communication Division is actively seeking nominations for several of our different administrative and executive positions. Complete details are below, but specific directions and/or nominations (including self-nominations) should be directed to Nominations Chair Siobhan Smith (siobhan.smith@louisville.edu).

  • Vice-Chair Elect (4 years of service):
    • In the first year of service the Vice-Chair Elect will oversee the teaching and service awards.
    • In the second year the Vice-Chair Elect becomes the Vice-Chair and he/she must attend the program planning meeting at NCA, distribute the call for papers, and plan the program (with assistance from others in the organization). The Vice-Chair must also represent the MCD on the Legislative Council.
    • The Vice-Chair Elect then becomes the Chair and must preside over MCD business meetings and at Executive Committee meetings and represent the MCD on the Legislative Council.
    • In the final year of service he/she will serve as Immediate Past-Chair and represent the MCD on the Legislative Council and act as an adviser to the Chair.

  • Secretary Elect (2 years of service):
    • The Secretary Elect records notes and election results during the MCD business meeting. He/she is also responsible for distributing these notes after they have been approved.
    • The Secretary Elect then becomes the Secretary who is responsible for distributing notes at the MCD meeting and formally presenting the notes at the meeting.

  • Vice Chair Elect of Research Committee / First Year Member of Research Committee (4 years of service, 3 year term on Research Committee, one year on Nominating Committee):
    • The Research Committee's Vice-Chair elect will serve as Vice Chair in his/her second year and Chair in his/her third year.
    • Additionally after the third year (the year after which they serve as Chair of the Research Committee), this person will become a member of the Nominating Committee.
    • The purpose of the research committee is to coordinate the evaluation of competitive papers submitted to the Division for the annual convention, to plan the section meetings of the annual convention that are devoted to research in Mass Communication and to coordinate and promote the research activities of the Division.

  • Graduate Student Representative (1 year term): The Graduate Student Representative will represent the Division at any meetings held by the Association in which graduate student interests are discussed and in which graduate students are invited to participate.

  • Representative to NCA Nominating Committee(1 year term): This person will represent the MCD on the Association's Nominating Committee which prepares a slate consisting of two or more nominees for the office of Second Vice President and two or more nominees for each at-large position vacant on the Legislative Assembly and the Committee on Committees. NCA officers and members who have served on the NCA Nominating Committee during the previous five years are not eligible to serve in this position.

  • Legislative Assembly Representative (2 year term): This person will attend the Association's annual Legislative Assembly meetings and represent the interests of the Division at those meetings, record the proceedings from these meetings, and report a summary of those proceedings at the annual business meeting.

  • Nominating Committee of the Division (2 positions, 2 year terms):
    • This committee is responsible for presenting a slate of potential candidates to the membership during the business meeting.
    • They also hand out, collect, and count ballots.
    • The nominee who receives the most votes will be chair of the committee and therefore a member of the Executive Committee.

  • The Publications/Web Editor (3 year term): maintains the Division’s website, assembles and distributes the Division’s electronic newsletter (The Gatekeeper) and other communication from the Executive Committee, maintains the Division’s e-mail membership list, and transmits news of the Division’s activities to Spectra.

NOTE: Names submitted for Vice-Chair Officer Elect and Secretary Elect are not nominations, they are for the consideration of the committee which will make the final nominations for these positions. Also, several positions are members of the Executive Committee, please note the additional requirements of these positions: Executive Committee Positions, Vice-Chair Elect of Research Committee in three years, Vice-Chair Officer Elect.

SiobhanSmithCommittee Chair
Siobhan Smith
siobhan.smith@louisville.edu

 

 

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MCD Teaching & Service Award Nominations

Lubbock, Texas -- Nominations for the MCD Teacher and Scholar awards are now being accepted by the Division. We encourage nominations, including self-nominations, for both of these awards from the membership. Nomination information about each award can be found using the following links:

Start Applications Here
Deadline: Wednesday, September 30, 2015

A list of past award winners can be viewed here, and further questions about the awards or the nomination process should be directed to Narissa Punyanunt-Carter, using the contact information below.

Vice Chair-Elect
Narissa Punyanunt-Carter
n.punyanunt@ttu.edu

 

 

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Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture seeks submissions

Pasadena, Calif. -- The IJPC Journal, an online academic journal on the image of the journalist in popular culture that adheres to the highest standards of peer review, is open to receiving manuscripts for its sixth volume.  Deadline is December, 2015.

You can submit manuscripts or questions by e-mail to one of the three founding editors: Matthew C. Ehrlich  mehrlich@illinois.edu, Sammye Johnson sjohnson@trinity.edu, or Joe Saltzman saltzman@usc.edu.

The IJPC Journal publishes articles on the image of the journalist in every area of popular culture from films and television to fiction and video games.  For more information, we invite you to go to the IJPC Web site – www.ijpc.org   The IJPC Database is especially useful for organizing research for IJPC topics.

The IJPC Journal’s editorial Board members are: Maurine H. Beasley, University of Maryland; Bonnie S. Brennen, Marquette University; Mary-Lou Galician, Arizona State University; Loren Ghiglione, Northwestern University; Howard Good, SUNY New Paltz; Norma Fay Green, Columbia College Chicago; Brian McNair, Queensland University of Technology; Richard R. Ness, Western Illinois University; Radhika Parameswaran, Indiana University; Karen Miller Russell, The University of Georgia; Barbie Zelizer, University of Pennsylvania.

Read more about IJPC by consulting the journal's fact sheet (.pdf).

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CONFERENCES AND CALLS

Have a conference or call you'd like to add to The Gatekeeper? Volume 20(1) will be online through to June/July 2015. Send your information to Webmaster Nick Bowman (Nicholas.Bowman@mail.wvu.edu) and we'll get it posted (and shared to the MCD Facebook group).

Call for Participation
NCA Institute for Faculty Development @ Hope College
Deadline TBD

Please consider joining colleagues from across the country for the NCA Institute for Faculty Development, July 19-25, at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. This small, intensive, week-long conference focuses on discussion of current research, pedagogy, and the essential undergraduate Communication curriculum.

The Institute provides opportunities to solicit feedback on scholarship, build collaborative relationships, and learn about new directions in theory and pedagogy. As well, attendees may enroll in two different seminars by top scholars in the Communication field:

  • Tamara Afifi: Interpersonal Communication
  • Carole Blair: Rhetoric
  • Barry Brummett: Rhetoric of Popular Culture
  • Stanley Deetz: Organizational Communication
  • Srividya Ramasubramanian: Media & Cultural Identities
  • Andrew Wolvin: Listening
  • Barbara Biesecker: Scholar in Residence

Seminar size is limited to facilitate participation and discussion. Register soon [here] to reserve your spot. A printable brochure [.pdf] can be found here, or click here to visit the conference website for more information.


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Call for Participation
MediaRise 2015
Deadline TBD

RISE WITH US.

Media Rise is a global nonprofit volunteer-driven alliance that connects people and ideas to promote meaningful media. You are invited to the Media Rise 2015 Festival, September 28 - October 4 in Washington, D.C.

THEMES

This year's festival will explore how media can build trust through individual voices & community systems.

VOICES

  • Race, ethnicity & indigenous issues
  • Gender & sexuality

SYSTEMS

  • Governance, accountability & transparency
  • Environmental sustainability

Website: www.mediarisenow.org
Email: info@mediarisenow.org
Twitter: @mediarisenow
Facebook: /mediarisenow
Instagram: @mediarisenow

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Call for Papers
Conflict Dynamics: Communication and Emotions
Editors: Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, Paul Wilson and Stephen Croucher
Deadline: 30 June 2015

The aim of the volume is to investigate the role of communication and emotions in conflict contexts. It is proposed that the scope of this academic endeavour will cover the broadest sense of this field. In addition to the fundamental importance of communication in the various aspects of conflict, which has been widely reported in the literature, the book offers a prominent position to the inherent part played by the effects of a wide range of emotions. This inter- and multi-disciplinary project invites submissions from a diverse range of disciplines including communication studies, public relations, philosophy, psychology, linguistics, literature, business studies, political science, education, cultural studies, gender studies, and
others.

Submissions are invited on the following topics that investigate the role of communication and emotions in conflict, but are not limited to these:

  • Individuals or groups in conflict
  • Online vs. face-to-face conflict situations and their dynamics
  • Cross-cultural influences on conflict dynamics
  • Influence of gender/age differences on conflict dynamics
  • Immigrant and host populations in conflict
  • Corporate conflict dynamics
  • Conflict and international relations
  • Theoretical bases to conflict dynamics
  • Theoretical bases to cross-cultural emotion dynamics
  • Role of media reporting in conflicts
  • Conflict and decision making

Submissions of abstracts (up to 500 words, with a bibliography that is not included in the word count) are invited by 30th June, 2015. These should be clear about the claim, materials, methods and conclusions, and provide a sample of the analysis. Acceptance of these will be based on scholarly merits and relevance to the thematic scope of the volume.

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Call for Papers
3rd Indonesian International Conference on Communication (IndoICC) 2015
Deadline: 28 August 2015

IndoICC invites scholars studying issues on communication and media from various fields of discipline to attend our international and national conference which be held in 10-11 December 2015. The theme of conference is Communication and Collaboration which has concern to rethink the role of media and communication in these settings of rapid social transformation. Another concern is to explicate the paradox of old and new media, structuration and agency and to have better understanding of what might seem as developments heading in contradictory direction. By this theme, participants are encouraged to send in panel abstracts that fall within the theme. The conference will feature Prof. David T. Hill, Prof. Zaharom Nain, Prof. Brenda Cherednichenko, and Dr. Shuang Liu as keynote speakers. 

There will be two kinds of conference participants: international and national. In the international conference participants are invited to submit and present paper for a global academe, while national conference facilitates Indonesian professional researchers and academics to submit and present papers for an Indonesian audience. 

Important dates: 
Paper Submission Deadline: August 28th 2015 
Selected Paper Announcement: September 28th 2015 
Early Registration: September 28th - October 11th 2015 
Late Registration: October 12th - November 3rd 2015 

More information: 
Department of Communication 
Faculty of Social and Political Science Universitas Indonesia 
contact@indoicc2015.org 
registration@indoicc2015.org (for paper submission only) 
http:// www.puskakomui.or.id/ konferensi/indo-icc.html (for information regarding submission)

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Promotions, Awards, and Published Books

Nicholas David Bowman (West Virginia University) was promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies. Recently, Bowman co-hosted with Mary Beth Oliver (The Pennsylvania State University) recently hosted a Reddit.com AMA (Ask Me Anything) based on the research topic of experiencing meaningfulness within the context of video games called "Elevating Video Games to Meaningful Entertainment Experiences."

Norma Jones and Bob Batchelor have edited their latest book, Aging heroes: Growing old in popular culture. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield (2015). 

Valerie Kretz (PhD Candidate, University of Wisconsin) has accepted an Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Studies position at Saint Norbert College in De Pere, WI.

In "Journalism and Human Rights: How Demographics Drive Media Coverage” (Routledge, 2015) media sociologist John C. Pollock (The College of New Jersey) compares cross-national coverage of human trafficking, HIV/AIDS treatment, water handling/contamination, child labor; and US cross-city reporting on same-sex marriage, detainee rights at Guantanamo, immigration reform, and posttraumatic stress, illuminating the critical role of variations in both female empowerment and “vulnerability” demographic measures.

Arthur Raney (Florida State University), Mary Beth Oliver (The Pennsylvania State University), Sophie Janicke (University of Arkansas), and Robert Jones (Public Religion Research Institute) were collectively awarded over $1.95 million by the John Templeton Foundation for their grant, "Your Daily Dose of Inspiration: Exploring How People Use and Are Impacted by Media Content that Elicits Self-Transcendent Emotions." News of their grant was reported by FSU's press office (here) as well as Penn State University (here).

 

Publications and Presentations

Banks, J. (2015). Object, Me, Symbiote, Other: A social typology of player-avatar relationships. First Monday, 20(2): http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/5433/4208

Behm-Morawitz, E., Lewallen, J., & Miller, B. (2015). Real Mean Girls? Reality Television Viewing, Social Aggression, and Gender-Related Beliefs Among Female Emerging Adults. Psychology Of Popular Media Culture, doi:10.1037/ppm0000074

Boyan, A., Grizzard, M., & Bowman, N. D. (2015). “A massively moral game? 
Mass Effect as a case study to understand the influence of players’ moral intuitions on adherence to hero or antihero play styles.” Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds. doi: 10.1386/jgvw.1.41_1.

Hayes, M. T., Gibson, D. M., Hill, M., McCollough, C., & Webb, L. M. (2015). Stardom on the fan blogs: A case study of Mad Men dot com. In J. C. Dunn, J. Manning, & D. Stern, Eds. Lucky strikes and a three-martini lunch: Thinking about television's Mad Men, 2nd ed. (p. 269-284). Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. [ISBN-13: 978-1443875455  ISBN-10: 1443875457]

Oliver, M. B., Bowman, N. D., Woolley, J. K., Rogers, R., Sherrick, B., & Chung, M-Y. (2015). Video games as meaningful entertainment experiences. Psychology of Popular Media and Culture. doi: 10.1037/ppm0000066 

Ortiz, M., & Behm-Morawitz, E. (2015). Latinos’ perceptions of intergroup relations in the United States: The cultivation of group-based attitudes and beliefs from English- and Spanish-language television. Journal Of Social Issues, 71(1), 90-105. doi:10.1111/josi.12098

Pennell, H., & Behm-Morawitz, E. (2015). The Empowering (Super) Heroine? The Effects of Sexualized Female Characters in Superhero Films on Women. Sex Roles, 72(5/6), 211. doi:10.1007/s11199-015-0455-3

Webb, L. M., Gibson, D. M., Wang, Y. X., Chang, H. C., & Thompson-Hayes, M. (2015). Selecting, scraping, and sampling big data sets from the Internet: Fan blogs as exemplar. SAGE Research Methods Cases [19 pages].  Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/978144627305014558403

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Position Announcements
[Don't forget to check out the latest job openings on our Facebook page, updated frequently under the "Docs" menu]

Have a faculty search ongoing? Contact Nick Bowman (Nicholas.Bowman@mail.wvu.edu) to have your position advertised here and on our other social media sites. There is no charge for this service.

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NCA's RFP Tracker - Opportunities for Mass Communication Research

NCA's RFP Tracker identifies funding opportunities (including research grants, residential fellowships, travel funds, awards, etc.) for communication scholars. There are many grant opportunities for those interested in mass communication research. The RFP Tracker lists funding and fellowship opportunities for graduate students, post-docs, faculty, and people outside of the academy. Check out the RFP Tracker website at http://www.natcom.org/index.asp?bid=10977 and download the most recent report.

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NCA looking for Subject Matter Experts for national database

Julie Driver of the National Communication Association main office is looking for MCD members interested in serving as Subject Matter Experts to be contacted by news media organizations. If you are interested in this opportunity, please e-mail Julie (jdriver@natcom.org) with the following information:

  • Name and affiliation
  • Email address 
  • Telephone number
  • Brief 300 word biography
  • Names of any relevant publications (3-5)
  • Names of any relevant courses you teach

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NCA MCD OFFICERS

2014-2015 MCD Officers
SriChair
Srividya Ramasubramanian
Texas A&M University
Department of Communication
211 Bolton Hall
College Station, TX 77843
srivi@tamu.edu		 SumanaVice-Chair
Sumana Chattopadhyay
Marquette University
Diederich College of Comm.
403 Johnston Hall
Milwaukee, WI 53233
sumanach@gmail.com

Vice Chair-Elect
Narissa Punyanunt-Carter
Texas Tech University
Department of Communication Studies
1015 Media & Communication
Lubbock, TX 79409
n.punyanunt@ttu.edu

 AubreyPast Chair
Jennifer Stevens Aubrey
Department of Communication
University of Arizona
219 Communication Building
Tucson, AZ 85721
jlsa@email.arizona.edu

LaramieSecretary
Laramie Taylor
Department of Communication
University of California-Davis
394 Kerr Hall
Davis, CA 95616
lartaylor@ucdavis.edu

Secretary-Elect
Elizabeth Behm-Morawitz
Department of Communication
University of Missouri
215 Switzler Hall
Columbia, MO 65211
behmmorawitze@missouri.edu

BowmanPublications & Web Editor (expires '15)
Nicholas David Bowman
 West Virginia University
Communication Studies
108 Armstrong Hall
Morgantown, WV 26501
Nicholas.Bowman@mail.wvu.edu

Graduate Student Rep.
Valerie Kretz
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Department of Communication Arts
6051 Vilas Hall
Madison, WI 53706
vkretz@wisc.edu
Research Committee
MeaganSandersVice-Chair ('15)
Megan Sanders
Louisiana State University
Manship School of Mass Communication
217A Journalism Building
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
msand@lsu.edu		 HPCVice-Chair ('16)
Hugh Phillips Curnutt
Montclair State University
Communication Studies
Life Hall 225A
Montclair, NJ 07043
curnutth@mail.montclair.edu

DurbinVice Chair-Elect ('17)
James Durbin
University of Akron
School of Communications
Akron, OH 44325
jmd16@uakron.edu

WorrellVice Chair-Elect ('18)
Tracy Worrell
Rochester Institute of Technology
3041 Eastman Hall
Rochester, NY 14623-5604
Tracy.Worrell@rit.edu
Nominations Committee
SiobhanSmithCommittee Chair (expires '15)
Siobhan Smith
University of Louisville
Department of Communication
siobhan.smith@louisville.edu		 SYoungNominations Committee (expires '15)
Stephanie Young
University of Southern Indiana
Department of Communications
8600 University Boulevard
Evansville, IN 47712
slyoung@usi.edu
Nominations Committee (expires '16)
Lisa Glebatis Perks
Nazareth College
Department of English
495 GAC
Rochester, NY 14618
lperks3@naz.edu

Nominations Committee (expires '16)
Shane Semmler
University of South Dakota
Communication Studies
414 Clark St.
Vermillion, SD 57069
Shane.Semmler@usd.edu

Nominations Committee (expires '16)
Omotayo Banjo
University of Cincinnati
Department of Communication
137 McMicken Hall
Cincinnati, OH 45221
banjooouc@gmail.com

AdamRepresentative to the NCA Nominations Committee
Adam Earnheardt
Youngstown State University
Department of Communication
1 University Plaza
Youngstown, OH  44555
acearnheardt@ysu.edu
Representatives to NCA General Assembly
StanLegislative Assembly
Stan Tickton
Norfolk State University
Mass Communication/Journalism
700 Park Ave., Unit 3249
Norfolk, Virginia 23504
stickton@nsu.edu		 ShaneTiltonLegislative Assembly
Shane Tilton
Ohio Northern University
Assistant Professor of Multimedia Journalism
Freed PAC 137
Ada, OH 45810
740.610.0424
s-tilton@onu.edu

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