SJMC Faculty and Students Present Research, Receive Awards at 2021 AEJMC Conference

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From August 4-7, 2021, the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) will hold its 104th annual conference. The virtual event features research presentations, panel discussion and more from some of the world’s top communications scholars, including faculty and graduate students from UW-Madison’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

On Wednesday, Professor Kathleen Bartzen Culver will be presented with the 2020 Scripps Howard Journalism & Mass Communication Teacher of the Year Award.

Additionally, two SJMC faculty and one graduate student have also been recognized with awards for their research, including:

Professor Kathleen Bartzen Culver, lead author on “Student Activism vs. Student Journalism: Racial Justice, Free Speech, and Journalism Ethics in College Newspapers”, which received a Top Faculty Paper award.

Professor Emerita Sharon Dunwoody, a co-author on “Examining Antecedents to Accuracy- and Defense-Motivated Information Insufficiency in the COVID-19 Pandemic”, which tied for a Top Faculty Paper award.

PhD student Danny Parker, whose paper “The Politics of Resistance: An Ethnographic Examination of Political Alienation and Radical Disengagement of the Rural Underclass” received a First Place Student Paper award.

Here’s a look at all sessions featuring SJMC students and faculty:

Tuesday

1:30 to 2:30 p.m. – Increasing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Media Law and Ethics Curricula

Moderating/Presiding Kathleen Bartzen Culver

1:30 to 3 p.m. – Participatory Journalism Interest Group Preconference Workshop Session

Engaged Journalism Exchange: Toward an Antiracist Journalism Education

Panelist: Sue Robinson

Wednesday

11a.m. to 12:30 p.m. – Mass Communication and Society Division Refereed Paper Session

On Misinformation and Fact-checking: An Empirical and Theoretical Imperative

Who Conducts Fact Checking and Does It Matter?: Examining the Antecedents and Consequences of Fact-checking Behavior in Hong Kong

Stella Chia and Fangcao Lu, City University of Hong Kong and Al Gunther, Wisconsin-Madison

1 to 2:30 p.m. – International Communication Division High Density Refereed Paper Session

Media Matter: From Pandemic to Social Movements

Topic II — Ethics and Perception about Media

[EA] Two Side of the Same Coin: How Violent Incidents Have Opposing Media Coverages

Carlos Dávalos

1 to 2:30 p.m. – Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Business Session

AEJMC Presidential Council of Affiliates Taskforce

Panelist: Lucas Graves

3 to 4:30 p.m. – Commission on the Status of Women, Graduate Student Interest Group and Communication Technology Division Scholar-to-Scholar Refereed Paper Poster Session

Topic VI — Digital Media & Civic Engagement

Parasocial Interactions with Live Streamers, Social Capital, and Political Participation

Heysung Lee, Yibing Sun and Hernando Rojas

7 to 8:30 p.m. – Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Keynote Session

2020-21 AEJMC President Award(s) Recognitions

Presentation of Scripps Howard Awards

2020 Scripps Howard Journalism & Mass Communication Teacher of the Year Award Recipient: Kathleen Bartzen Culver

Thursday

9 to 10:30 a.m. – Mass Communication and Society Division High Density Refereed Paper Session

Politics and Mass Communication Theories in Contemporary Context

Theme II — Priming, Framing, and Agenda-setting in New Context

When Does the Past Colonial Memory Plug into Nationalism? Information and Media’s Priming of Anti-Japan Nationalism in South Korea and China

Jisoo Kim, Gaofei Li, Xining Liao, and Hernando Rojas

9 to 10:30 a.m. – Political Communication and Communication Technology Divisions

Research Panel Session: Mixed Methods Public Scholarship in Political Communication

Panelist: Mike Wagner

9 to 10:30 a.m. – Walter Cronkite School of Journalism & Mass Communication, Arizona State University Teaching Panel Session

Grappling with Culture in Journalism and Mass Communication Education

Panelist: Sue Robinson

11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. – Communicating Science, Health, Environment and Risk Division Refereed Paper Session: Motivations Behind Health Behaviors

Examining Antecedents to Accuracy- and Defense-Motivated Information Insufficiency in the COVID-19 Pandemic*

Timothy Fung and Po Yan Lai, Hong Kong Baptist and Robert Griffin, Marquette and Sharon Dunwoody, Wisconsin

* Top Faculty Paper (Tied)

11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. – Scripps Howard Foundation Teaching Award Panel Session

Ignite Your Teaching and Launch Your Career

Moderating/Presiding: 2020 Scripps Howard Foundation Teacher of the Year Recipient: Kathleen Bartzen Culver

3 to 4:30 p.m. – Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Scholar-to-Scholar Refereed Paper Poster Session

Communicating Science, Health, Environment and Risk Division

Topic VII — Information Dissemination and Connection

[EA] Who am I Connected with? Community Detection and Effects in an Online Peer-to-Peer Support Forum

Ellie F. Yang, Wisconsin and Yini Zhang, Buffalo and Shifan Zhang, Wisconsin

5 to 6:30 p.m. – Public Relations and Communicating Science, Health, Risk, and Environment Divisions

PF&R Panel Session – Misinformation, Racism, and the Magnification of Health Inequities: Research Informing Publics and the Practice (and Vice Versa)

Panelist: Ellie Yang

7 to 8:30 p.m. – International Communication, Political Communication and Communicating Science, Health, Environment and Risk Divisions Scholar-to-Scholar Refereed Paper Poster Session

Communicating Science, Health, Environment and Risk Division

Topic VII — Misinformation, Disinformation, and Conspiracy

Conspiracy vs Debunking: The Role of Emotion on Public Engagement with YouTube

Sang Jung Kim, Kaiping Chen and Lynette Gao, Wisconsin

Political Communication Division

Topic II – Political Participation on Social Media

Social media engagement against fear of restrictions and surveillance: The mediating role of Privacy Management

Macau K. F. Mak, Alex Zhi Xiong Koo, and Hernando Rojas

Topic V – Misinformation and Covid-19

Behavioral Effects of Partisan URLs sharing on Social Media Users: How Partisan Coverage of Vaccines receives differential Networked Sharing and Interaction on Facebook

Shreenita Ghosh, Wisconsin; and Porismita Borah, Washington State

Topic VII – Political Attitudes

How Fans Become Nationalists in China? Effects of Idol Adoration and Online Fan Community Engagement

Xining Liao and Alex Zhi Xiong Koo

Friday

9 to 10:30 a.m. – History Division Refereed Paper Session: Journalism and Public Relations: Practices and Ethics

[EA] A Socially Responsible Trade: An Analysis of Ethical Discourse in Editor & Publisher, 1930-1934

Max Fuller

3 to 4:30 p.m. – Communicating Science, Health, Environment and Risk Division High Density Refereed Paper Session: Communicating Science, Health, Environment and Risk Information in Digital Spaces

Topic I – Substance Use

[EA] Understanding the Nature of Communication in a Smartphone-based Peer Support Group for Alcohol Use disorder

Tae-Joon Moon, Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and Dhavan Shah and David Gustafson, Wisconsin

Topic III – Environment and Science

Discussant – Sharon Dunwoody

3 to 4:30 p.m. – Community Journalism Interest Group Refereed Paper Session: Expanding Out Perspectives on Media’s Role in a Community

Pride and Protest: Intersectional work of Queer Community Media

Yidong Wang, Wisconsin and Avery Holton, Utah

5 to 6:30 p.m. – Communicating Science, Health, Environment, and Risk and Media Ethics Divisions PF&R Panel Session

New Normal for Journalism Ethics in 2020: Journalists’ Responsibility in Addressing Misinformation in the Year of Coronavirus, Social Protests, and Natural Disasters

Panelist – Kathleen Bartzen Culver

7 to 8:30 p.m. – Political Communication Refereed Paper Session: Best of Political Communication

The Politics of Resistance: An Ethnographic Examination of Political Alienation and Radical Disengagement of the Rural Underclass*

Danny Parker

* First Place Student Paper

7 to 8:30 p.m. – Scholastic Journalism Division Refereed Paper Session: Conceptualizing Journalism

Student Activism vs. Student Journalism: Racial Justice, Free Speech, and Journalism Ethics in College Newspapers*

Kathleen Bartzen Culver, Wisconsin and Jason Shepard, California State, Fullerton

* Top Faculty Paper

Saturday

12:30 to 2 p.m. – Scholastic Journalism Division PF&R Panel Session

Publishing Classroom Work to Public Audiences: Legal and Ethical Considerations

Panelist: Kathleen Bartzen Culver