Congrats to Osei and Troy for a Top-4 NCA Paper!

At the recent National Communication Association conference in Chicago, Troy Elias presented his co-authored paper with Osei Appiah and Li Gong in the Top Papers in Intercultural Communication session. The paper was titled "See Minorities Through the Lens of Ethnic Identity: Reflected onto Racial Representations of Real Humans and Virtual Humans." This is an impressive accomplishment, given that this division, one of NCA's largest, had 140 paper submissions this year. Congrats Troy and Osei!

Holbert, Chair of NCA Mass Communication Division

Lance Holbert assumes Chair position of the National Communication Association's Mass Communication Division. The Division's Web site is located at : http://www.clarion.edu/ncamass/index.shtml. The Mass Communication Division is one of NCAs largest divisions and exists to advance the study and teaching of mass communication media, their languages, images, codes, uses, roles, functions, effects, and audiences, and to bring to bear on the mass media the critical/analytical insights provided through academic study; and to provide a forum in which scholars and teachers with diverse interests and approaches can come together to contribute to the study of mass communication. Please visit the Division's Web site and get involved with the organization.

Welcome to ATM -- All Things Media

Welcome to the new ATM blog. Although you won't be able to get cash out of this blog, hopefully you will get ideas for research and access to resources related to the empirical study of mass communication processes and effects. Also, we hope you will take advantage of the ability to post on the blog -- making deposits, so to speak -- so that this becomes an interactive space for the ATM group.