Announcements

Our next meeting will be on May 29 at 2:30 p.m. in Derby Hall 3116

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The OSU School of Communication is ranked #1 in the country in the areas of Broadcasting & Media based on a quantitative study of faculty productivity by CIOS!

We are also ranked in the top five in the study of Media and Children, Cognition, and Race and Ethnicity! Way to go ATM members!

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Sohn and Pingree join ATM












ATM welcomes Ray Pingree and Dongyoung Sohn, both assistant professors, to ATM and OSU! Ray studies the relationships among mass communication, interpersonal discussion, reasoning and decision quality. Dongyoung studies media and new technologies. Welcome!

Monday, September 15, 2008

Moyer-Guse receives NCA top paper award

Congratulations to Professor Emily Moyer-Guse for receiving a 2008 top paper award from the Mass Communication Division of the National Communication Association! The award was for her submission, co-authored with Professor Robin Nabi of the University of California at Santa Barbara, entitled, "Explaining the Persuasive Effects of Entertainment Education Programming: An Empirical Comparison of Three Theories." Professor Moyer-Guse will receive the award at the annual meeting of the association this November in San Diego, CA. Well done!

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Faculty, Students Win Top AEJMC Paper Awards

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.