UNC at the virtual Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication 2021 conference
July 27, 2021
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Nine graduate students, nine faculty members and various alumni will represent the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media Aug. 4-7, 2021, at the 104th Annual for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, held in a virtual format. These scholars will participate in panel sessions and present authored or co-authored papers.
UNC Hussman faculty and student activities at AEJMC include:
Awards and honors
- Ph.D. alumna Karen McIntyre '15 (Virginia Commonwealth) earned the Hillier Krieghbaum Under-40 Award.
- Ph.D. student Autumn Linford won a top student paper award and the Diversity in Journalism History Research Award for her paper "Perceptions of Progressive Era Newsgirls: Framing of Girl Newsies by Reformers, Newspapers, and the Public.”
- Ph.D. student Pablo Miño won the Susanne A. Roschwalb Grant for International Study and Research.
- Ph.D. student Madhavi Reddi won the Barrow Minority Scholarship.
- Ph.D. alumna Alexis Romero Walker ’21 won a top student paper award for her paper "Converging Theory with Practice in the Media Skills Classroom.”
- Ph.D. alumna Brooke Weberling McKeever '11 (South Carolina) was selected for the AEJMC Collaborative Scholar Research Program.
- Ph.D. alumna Lisa Farman '14 (Ithaca) won the Mass Communications & Society division's Teaching Ideas award.
Tuesday, Aug. 3 – Afternoon
- Deen Freelon will serve on the panel "Securing Grant-Funding for Collaborative Research in JMC."
Wednesday, Aug. 4 – Morning
- Ph.D. student Andrea Lorenz will present "Post-Ghosting: The Depletion of Local Government Coverage After a County’s Newspapers Became ‘Ghosts’.”
Wednesday, Aug. 4 – Afternoon
- Deb Aikat and colleagues will host the workshop "SPJ-Google News Initiative Workshop on Effective Storytelling."
- Ph.D. student Madhavi Reddi will present "Shared Identity Endorsement Narratives in Political Campaigns: A Framework for Studying Celebrity Endorsements of Minority Politicians.”
- Ph.D. student Shanetta Pendleton and Rhonda Gibson will present "The long-term value of networking and diverse professional experience in online communication master’s program cohorts.”
- Ph.D. candidate Deborah L. Dwyer will serve on the panel "Unpublishing the News Beyond Text: Facing Unique Challenges of Visual and Multimedia Content."
- Ph.D. students Heesoo Jang and Madhavi Reddi will present "Intimacy and Connections: Celebrity Culture in Indian and South Korean Television Shows."
Thursday, Aug. 5 – Morning
- Ph.D. student Teresa Tackett and Lucinda Austin will present "Examining Employee Reception of Corporate Social Advocacy Communicated by Leadership: Effects on Employee-Organization Relationships and Work Engagement.”
- Shannon McGregor will serve on the panel "Mixed Methods Public Scholarship in Political Communication."
- Rhonda Gibson and Joe Bob Hester will present "The social identities of Pete Buttigieg: How Twitter addressed counter-stereotypical attributes of a presidential candidate.”
- Heidi Hennink-Kaminski will serve on the panel "Experiential Online Learning: Creatively and Interactively Working with Curriculum and Technology."
Thursday, Aug. 5 – Afternoon
- Deb Aikat will moderate the panel "Turning the Page: Media Research on South Asia and Its Diaspora Worldwide I.”
- Ph.D. student Autumn Linford will present "Perceptions of Progressive Era Newsgirls: Framing of Girl Newsies by Reformers, Newspapers, and the Public.”
- Suman Lee and colleagues will present "When Do People Wear a Mask in Pandemic? An Integration of TPB and EPT.”
- Ph.D. student Meredith Collins, Allison Lazard, Ph.D. alumna Ashley Hedrick ’21 and B.A. student Tushar Varma will present "It's Nothing Like Cancer: Young Adults with Cancer Reflect on Memorable Entertainment Media.”
Friday, Aug. 6 – Morning
- Deb Aikat and colleagues will present "The Influence of Personality on Motivations: Comparing Uses and Gratifications of Social Media Users in the US and Kuwait.”
- Ph.D. alumna Alexis Romero Walker ’21 will present "Converging Theory with Practice in the Media Skills Classroom.”
Friday, Aug. 6 – Afternoon
- Ph.D. alumna Ashley Hedrick ’21 will present "'When Thousands and Thousands Are Asking for It, It’s Hard to Put It Off': Wattpad.com’s Technological Affordances and Teens’ Experiences Writing Erotic One Direction Fanfiction.”
- Suman Lee and colleagues will present "How Does Ethical Ideology Affect Behavioral Intention to Wear a Mask in Pandemic?”
- Deb Aikat will moderate the panel “Turning the Page: Media Research on South Asia and Its Diaspora Worldwide II.”
- Ph.D. student Hailey Grace Steele and colleagues will present "Swapping Insults, Neglecting Policy: How U.S. Presidential Candidates Communicate About Mental Health."
Saturday, Aug. 7 – Morning
- Ph.D. candidate Deborah Dwyer will moderate the panel "Moral and Ethical Orientations in Murky Media Contexts.”
Numerous other school alumni will also participate in the conference. A full schedule and more details about this conference can be found on AEJMC’s website.