2023 AEJMC Conference Faculty and Student Presenters

ComArtSci faculty and students will travel to Washington, D.C. to discuss their work at the 106th annual Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Conference. The four-day conference will occur August 7–10 at the Marriott Marquis. This year’s theme is Fostering Freedom and Defending Democracy: AEJMC’s Impact Over 100 Years and Beyond.

Sunday, Aug. 6 (Pre-Conference) 
Monday, Aug. 7 | Tuesday, Aug. 8 | Wednesday, Aug. 9 | Thursday, Aug. 10

ComArtSci and MSU faculty and students featured at the 2023 AEJMC conference are italicized. For the full program schedule, visit the AEJMC conference website. All times listed are in EDT.

Sunday, August 6, 2023

1–5 p.m.

Cultural and Critical Studies Division

• Workshop Session: Fostering Financial Literacy for Media Scholars

• Panelists: Jesus Ayala, Jon Bekken, Danielle K. Brown, Ruth DeFoster, Pallavi Guha, Joy Jenkins, Susan Keith, Minjie Li, Jessica Maddox, Nick Matthews, Nathian Rodriguez, Natalie Tindall, Nikki Usher

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Monday, August 7, 2023

8:30–10 a.m.

Communicating Science, Health, Environment and Risk Division

• Refereed Paper Session: Addressing Misinformation About Science

  • Debunking Misinformation to Facilitate Caregivers’ COVID-19 Vaccine Intentions: Integrating Message Concreteness and Corrective Information Source
    Qi Zheng, Chuqing Dong, Fashina Alade
  • Factors Influencing Debunking Messages’ Effectiveness: Comparing Hong Kong, the Netherlands, and the United States
    Xinzhi Zhang, Winson Peng, Qinfeng Zhu

Communication Theory and Methodology Division

• Refereed Research Paper Session: Revisiting Communication Theories for Emerging Topics

• Discussant: Anastasia Kononova

Media Management, Economics and Entrepreneurship Division

• Refereed Research Paper Session: Understanding News Consumption and Paying Intent

  • Comparing Effects of News Subscription Motivation and News Lifestyle and Their Impact on Subscription Retention
    Weiyue Chen, Esther Thorson

Community Journalism Interest Group

• Refereed Research Paper Session: Redefining the Scope, Value, and Influence of Community Journalism

  • Seeing After Believing: Exploring the Role of Personal Values in Civic News Use and Community Participation
    Emily Zhan, Esther Thorson, Weiyue Chen

12:30–2 p.m.

Mass Communication and Society and Minorities and Communication Divisions; Community Journalism Interest Group

• Topic VII – Mediated Advocacy and Collective Action

  • When the Right Riots: How Ideology, Protest Tolerance, Authoritarianism and News Consumption Affect Perceptions of the US Capitol Insurrection
    Rachel Mourão, Danielle K. Brown

• Topic IX – Identity, Privacy and Communication Technology

  • Structure, and Dasein: Qualitative Exploration of Adults’ Experiences with Digital Information and Communication Technologies in the Context of Aging
    Anastasia Kononova, Barikisu Issaka, Moldir Moldagaliyeva, Lin Li, Vladislava Sukhanovskaya, Fei Sun

Minorities and Communication Division

• Topic – MAC Make(s) History

  • A Different Side: How World View Impacted News Coverage of Massive Resistance in a Black-Owned Newspaper in Charlottesville, VA
    Manuel Chavez, Michele Joseph

  Topic – Social Media/Media Portrayals

  • Andscape, “Where Blackness is Infinite:” A Critical Race Analysis of Brian Flores’ NFL Lawsuit Coverage
    Christina Myers

Media Ethics Division

• Refereed Research Paper Session: Ethical Issues for a Digital Age

  • Virtue Ethics for Leadership and Governance of the Digital Future
    Prabu David, Sanjay Gupta, Preeti Shroff

2:30–4 p.m.

History and Cultural and Critical Studies Division

• Research Panel Session: 'Not a Melting Pot but a Beautiful Mosaic': Diverse Histories of Resistance and Struggle in South America

• Panelists: Susan McFarlane-Alvarez, Lori Amber Roessner, Claire Rounkles, Edward Timke

Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication; News Engagement Day Committee

• 2023 News Audience Research Paper Award Presentation

  • Comparing Effects of News Subscription Motivation and News Lifestyle and Their Impact on Subscription Revenue
    Weiyue Chen, Esther Thorson

4:30–6 p.m.

Communicating Science, Health, Environment and Risk Division

• Topic VI — Communicating Science

  • Science Communication “Pockets of Belonging”: Inviting in a Plurality of Science Identities
    Nic Bennet, Anthony Dudo, John Besley

Newspaper and Online News Division

• Topic II — News Coverage of Sports, Pollution and Environmental Risk

  • Neutrality in Midwestern U.S. Newspapers: How Journalists in Rural States Report on Water Pollution
    Jessica Walsh, Serena Miller, Mimi Perreault, Endurance Lawrence

• Topic IV — Framing and Audience Effects

  • Collective Memory: An Analysis of News Frames in the MSU Mass Shooting
    Sevgi Baykaldi, Linda R. White, Soo Young Shin, Marisa Smith
  • Exploring the Congruence of Audience and Media Frames: The Impact of Political Leaning on Media Effects
    Austin Hubner, August Grant, Jeffrey Wilkinson, Serena Miller, Colin Piacentine

• Topic VI — Metajournalistic and Theoretical Discourses

  • The Illusio Paradox: Metajournalistic Discourse in Columns and Editorials about the Nobel Peace Prize of 2021
    Enrique Núñez-Mussa

Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication

• Panel Session: The Long-term Sustainability and Relevance of JMC Education and Programs

• Panelists: Jim Brady, Liz Carter, Teresa Mastin, Paul Mihailidis

   

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Tuesday, August 8, 2023

10:30 a.m.–12 p.m.

History Division

• Refereed Research Paper Session: Gender, Race, and Class: Marginal Identities and Media Ambivalence

• Discussant: Perry Parks

12:30–2 p.m.

Communication Technology Division

• Topic — Social Media, Disclosure, and Privacy

  • Acceptance of Facial Recognition Technology in Surveillance: Role of Trust, Security, and Privacy Perceptions
    Hyesun Choung, Prabu David, Tsai-Wei Ling

International Communication Division

• Topic III — Media and Global Events

  • Collectivist Culture, Individualism, Media Fragmentation, and COVID-19 Response in South Korea
    Eunjin Kim, Esther Thorson, Eunseon Kwon, Chang-Hoan Cho

Minorities and Communication Division

• Topic — Minorities’ Identities and Higher Education

  • Minoritized Scientists in the United States: An Identity Perspective to Science Communication
    Leilane Rodrigues, Bruno Takahashi, Leigh Ann Tiffany, Evelyn Valdez-Ward, Sunshine Menezes

Political Communication Division

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  • “Racist Equity and Unjust Policies:” Examining Anti-Black Disinformation in Partisan News about Critical Race Theory
    Marisa Smith, Deja Rollins, Leilane Rodrigues, Victoria Fields, Sue Lim, Christina Myers, Meredith Clark, Miyoung Chong, Wanjiru Njonge

Community Journalism Interest Group

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  • The News Sourcing Practices of Solutions Journalists in Africa, Europe, and the U.S.
    Jennifer Cox, Serena Miller, Son Young Shin

Mass Communication and Society Division; Commission on the Status of Minorities

• Teaching Panel Session: Fair Chance Diversity Sourcing & Reporting

• Moderating/Presiding: Joe Grimm
  Panelists: Lucinda Davenport, Peter Bhatia, Marissa Martinez, Laura Soto Barra

2:30–4 p.m.

Commission on Graduate Education and International Communication Division

• Research Panel Session: Conducting International Research: Experiences from African and Latin American Ph.D. Students and Professor

• Panelists: Marialina Antolini, Maria Celeste Wagner, Benjamin Tetteh, Nana Kwame Osei Fordjour

Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication

• Research Panel Session: Paul J. Deutschmann Award

• Moderating/Presiding: Melissa Tully, Esther Thorson
  Panelists: Steve Reese, Dave Weaver, Linda Steiner, Tim Vos

4:30–6 p.m.

Advertising Division

• Research Panel Session: Researching Advertising through Material Culture

• Moderating/Presiding: Edward Timke

Visual Communication and Magazine Media Divisions

• Teaching Panel Session: Innovations in Teaching Competition

• Recipients: T.J. Mesyn, Andrea Hudson, David Stephenson, Enrique Núñez-Mussa, David Grewe, Milton Santiago, Shannon Zenner, Robin Hoecker, Adriane Grumbien

6:30–8:30 p.m.

Communication Theory and Methodology Division

• Refereed Research Top Paper Session: Best of CTAM

  • Users as Naïve Scientists: Decoding the Networked Authenticity of Political Information
    Taewooo Kang (Chafee-McLeod Top Student Paper)
  • Michigan State A Framework for Evaluating and Creating Formal Conceptual Definitions: A Concept Explication Approach for Scale Developers
    Serena Miller (Top Theory Paper)

Media Ethics Division

• Refereed Research Top Paper Session: Moral Epistemologies, Affect, and Character Building 

  • Affective Ethics: Toward a More Comprehensive Definition of Journalism
    Perry Parks (Second place faculty paper)

8:30–10 p.m.

Michigan State University, Washington State University, University of Tennessee at Knoxville 

• Social

  • Hosting: Bruce Pinkleton, Tim Vos, Courtney Childers

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Wednesday, August 9, 2023

8:30–10 a.m.

Advertising and Minorities and Communication Divisions

• Research Panel Session: Closing the Disconnect: Exploring Racial Equity in PR and Advertising

• Facilitators: Elliot Lum, Robert Sellers, Teresa Mastin, Sydney Dillard, Sheryl Jonson

GIFT Scholar-to-Scholar (Poster) Session

• ESC Best Practices G.I.F.T. Competition Recognitions

  • The DIY, DEI Choose-Your-Track Publishing Hack
    Joe Grimm
  • Editors of Collective Memory
    Enrique Núñez-Mussa
  • My First Election: Students Innovate and Pivot
    Lucinda Davenport, Joe Grimm, Jeremy Steele

12–1:30 p.m.

Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication

• Participatory Journalism Interest Group

  • The Problem-Solving Solutions Journalism Model: Treating News Audiences as Problem Solvers in Solutions Journalism
    Serena Miller

Advertising Division

• Refereed Research Paper Session: AI and Computational Advertising 

  • Artificial Intelligence for Advertising Creativity: Advances and Implications 
    Nan Zhang, Hairong Li

International Communication Division

• High-Density Refereed Research Paper Session: Topic III – Media and Democracy

  • News Repertoires, Military Interventionism, and Support for Anti-democratic Movements in Brazil
    Rachel Mourao, Marialina Antolini, Marcos Paulo da Silva, Tim Vos, Leilane Rodrigues 
    (Second Place, Latin America Communication Research and Researchers Award)

Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication

• The Pursuit of Research Excellence: Eight Essays by Deutschmann Award Recipients in J&C Monographs

• Facilitators: David Weaver, S. Shyam Sundar, Esther Thorson

2–3:30 p.m.

Advertising Division

• Refereed Research Paper Session: DEI in Advertising and Brand Communication

• Moderating/Presiding: Saleem Alhabash

Cultural and Critical Studies Division

• Refereed Research Paper Session: Media During Polarized Times

  • Learning from Indigenous Journalism: A Case for Standpoint Journalism
    Gisele Souza Neuls, Ava Francesca Battochio, Marcos Paulo de Silva 

4–5:30 p.m.

Cultural and Critical Studies; Communication Theory and Methodology Divisions

• Scholar-to-Scholar (Poster) Refereed Research Paper Session: Topic II – Understanding Contentious Issues and Topics through Communication Theories

  • Conflict Frames in Ghana and the US: Towards a Theory of Media Frame Building in Liberal African Democracies
    Prosper Senyo, Tim Vos

 

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Thursday, August 10, 2023

9:30–11 a.m.

Advertising Division

• Refereed Research Paper Session: Influencer Marketing

• Discussant: Saleem Alhabash

11:30–1 p.m.

Political Communication Division

• Refereed Research Paper Session; Politics and Gender

• Discussant: Esther Thorson

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