UNC at NCA and MAPOR 2019 | UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media

A vibrant and collaborative interdisciplinary research culture at the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media creates new knowledge, advances scholarship and helps reinvent media.

Below is a list of recently presented scholarship by UNC Hussman faculty and students, including Park doctoral fellow Jordan Morehouse (right), who presented an award-winning paper at the NCA Convention.

National Communication Association

The National Communication Association 105th Annual Convention took place Nov. 14-17, in Baltimore, Maryland. This year’s theme was “Communication for Survival.” UNC Hussman faculty and student activities at NCA 2019 included:

Assistant Professor Adam Saffer presented “Surviving and being heard in crowded social media networks: Toward a network model of public attention.”
Jordan Morehouse (Ph.D. candidate) presented and won a Top Student Paper award for “Examining Lay-Led Leadership Roundtable: How stakeholders utilize post-crisis discourse of renewal.”
Assistant Professor Lucinda Austin presented “Intercultural disaster communication and community resilience: Examining post-hurricane communication in communities with limited English-speaking proficiency.”
Work co-authored by Professor Seth Noar, “Black college women’s interpersonal communication in response to a health communication intervention: A mixed methods study,” was presented.
Assistant Professor Spencer Barnes participated in the spotlight session “Visual communication scholars spotlight discussion: The state of the field.”
Yan Qu (Ph.D. student) presented “Communicating stakeholder engagement and its quality: Analyzing the CSR reports of the leading Chinese companies.”

Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research

The Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research Annual Conference took place Nov. 22-23, in Chicago, Illinois. This year’s theme was “Where Methods and Substance Meet: Reflecting the Present and Shaping the Future of Public Opinion and Survey Research.” UNC Hussman faculty and student activities at MAPOR 2019 included:

Ashley Fox (J.D./M.A. student) presented “Exploring media framing of the confirmation process of justices to the United States Supreme Court.”
Deborah Dwyer (Ph.D. student), Richard Cole Eminent Professor Daniel Riffe and Martin Kifer presented “Gender uprising? Populism, anger, political efficacy, and information seeking in Trump’s America.”
Justin Kavlie (Ph.D. student) and Richard Cole Eminent Professor Daniel Riffe presented “The opioid abuse epidemic and setting the news media agenda nationally and in four Appalachian states.”
Kyla Wagner (’19) and Richard Cole Eminent Professor Daniel Riffe presented “Freedom of expression: Another look at how much the public will tolerate.”