JMC faculty provide service and discuss their research at a variety of national conferences.
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Dr. Carol Terracina-Hartman, adviser to the Murray State News, presented her paper “How a pandemic and social justice movement prompted student journalists to rethink the campus magazine” at the AEJMC national convention in Detroit in August 2022.
She also was voted vice chairman of the magazine and media division at AEJMC. She previously served as the PF&R chairman for the division.
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Terracina-Hartman also presented at MediaFest22 in Washington, D.C., in October. She hosted a panel of college magazine editors from Virginia Commonwealth, the University of Miami, Southwestern College and San Diego State. The panelists discussed how their staffs decided to cover racial justice protests and related topics.
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Dr. Melony Shemberger, associate professor of mass communications, recently served as guest editor of the Teaching Journalism and Mass Communication electronic journal of the Small Programs Interest Group in AEJMC.
The journal can be accessed here: https://aejmc.us/spig/journal/current-issue/
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Leigh Landini Wright, associate professor of journalism and journalism curriculum coordinator, and Dr. Melony Shemberger, associate professor of mass communications, both recently published articles in Teaching Journalism and Mass Communication.
TJMC is an electronic journal of the Small Programs Interest Group of AEJMC. The peer-reviewed journal features research and teaching articles.
Wright’s article detailed a lesson she taught in her reporting class about the need for transparency. Her JMC 397 In-Depth Reporting students created audio explainer pieces to describe their reporting process and embedded those on their class website. The exercise was designed to instill the tenets of transparency and drew from lessons learned during a Trusting News online conference. Her article can be found here.
Shemberger’s article focused on her usage of Wikipedia as an experiential learning tool in four journalism and public relations classes. Her students wrote and edited articles for the online encyclopedia.
Shemberger’s article can be found here.
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Dr. Kenneth Kim, assistant professor of advertising, will present research at two international conferences this spring.
His paper “How does the Super Bowl work for political advertising” The third-person effect approach” will be presented March 9-11 at the International Association for Communication and Sport in Barcelona, Spain.
In May, he will present two papers at the International Communication Association conference in Toronto, Canada. His papers are “From an operant choice to an inevitable must: COVID-19 Vaccine Messaging” and “Political Messaging in Sport: Does the Super Bowl make political advertising super.” The COVID-19-themed paper will be presented at the health communication division at ICA while the Super Bowl-themed paper will be presented in the sports communication interest group at ICA.
