SWECJMC 2008
We're in Las Cruces, NM Friday and Saturday, October 24-25, 2008. On the first day, I heard about research like 'A Content Analysis of Leading Newspapers During the 2008 Democratic Primary' from Thomas Christie and Ivana Segvic-Boudreaux of Texas at Arlington, 'How Newspapers Covered a 1915 Lynching Story in Waco' from Lisa McCollough of the University of North Texas, and a case study on 'Education and Public Life at the Virginian-Pilot' by Leslie-Jean Thornton of Arizona State.
I presented "Socialization and Acculturation Through Interaction with New Media Narratives" in a session that also included the top paper at the conference: "The News That's Fit to Click: An Analysis of Online News Values and Preferences Present in the Most-Viewed Stories on AZCentral.com" by Serena Carpenter and Sky Schaudt of Arizona State.
We ended the day Friday with an awards dinner that also included a mariachi performance from a group made up of students at New Mexico State University. During that dinner, the group conducted an official vote to change the organization's name from Southwest Education Council for Journalism and Mass Communication (SWECJMC) to Southwest Mass Communication Council. The motion failed, so the discussion focused on potential future proposals for a name change, like Southwest Mass Communication Association.
Saturday morning, while a poster sessions goes on next door, we're hearing about 'Black Images in Cinema' from Oklahoma Ph.D. student Cristal Johnson, 'Feminist Magazines in the 1970s,' from Sammye Johnson, and 'Online Identities of Overseas Chinese' from Aimai Yang, also of Oklahoma.
By the way, after I started doing this blog, I discovered how quickly the spammers were able to start posting irrelevant, self-promoting stuff--so that's why I changed the settings to moderate comments. If you study Journalism and Mass Communication, I'd love to use this blog to share and discuss ideas and research projects. So, offer a relevant comment and I'll let it through.
I presented "Socialization and Acculturation Through Interaction with New Media Narratives" in a session that also included the top paper at the conference: "The News That's Fit to Click: An Analysis of Online News Values and Preferences Present in the Most-Viewed Stories on AZCentral.com" by Serena Carpenter and Sky Schaudt of Arizona State.
We ended the day Friday with an awards dinner that also included a mariachi performance from a group made up of students at New Mexico State University. During that dinner, the group conducted an official vote to change the organization's name from Southwest Education Council for Journalism and Mass Communication (SWECJMC) to Southwest Mass Communication Council. The motion failed, so the discussion focused on potential future proposals for a name change, like Southwest Mass Communication Association.
Saturday morning, while a poster sessions goes on next door, we're hearing about 'Black Images in Cinema' from Oklahoma Ph.D. student Cristal Johnson, 'Feminist Magazines in the 1970s,' from Sammye Johnson, and 'Online Identities of Overseas Chinese' from Aimai Yang, also of Oklahoma.
By the way, after I started doing this blog, I discovered how quickly the spammers were able to start posting irrelevant, self-promoting stuff--so that's why I changed the settings to moderate comments. If you study Journalism and Mass Communication, I'd love to use this blog to share and discuss ideas and research projects. So, offer a relevant comment and I'll let it through.
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