Congratuations to
Osei Appiah and
Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick for winning a top-3 paper award from the Communication Theory & Methodology division of AEJMC last month. Their paper,
A Selective Exposure Experiment on Social Identity Theory: Effects of News Valence, Character Race, and Recipient Race on Selective News Reading, was very well received.
OSU Ph.D. students also won two of the three top student paper awards in the Mass Communication & Society division of the same conference --
LaMarre,
Beam, and
Landreville (the #1 student paper) for
The Irony of Satire: People See What They Want To See in The Colbert Report (now in press at the journal
Press/Politics) and
Shen (the #2 student paper) for
Staying Alive: The Impact of Media Coverage on Candidacy Attrition in the 1980-2004 Primaries (also now in press in the journal
Press/Politics). LaMarre and Shen are both working on their dissertations and are actively on the job market now.