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BOOKS AND CHAPTERS:
David Guth and Charles Marsh published the third edition of “Public Relations, A Values-Driven Approach,” with 24 new case studies.
David Perlmutter had three books accepted for publication. They are:
--“Picturing China in the American Press: The Visual Portrayal of Sino-American Relations in Time Magazine, 1949-1973”:
--“Blogwars,” including the effects of blogs on the 2006 mid-term elections; and
--“New Technology and Foreign Affairs Reporting: News and Policy in the Digital-Satellite-Internet Age,” co-edited with Dean John Hamilton, Louisiana State University.
Marsh will have an essay on rhetoric and philosophy in the book, “The Upside of Ignorance: Prospecting for An Alternative Worldview.”
Peggy Kuhr wrote a chapter on “Teaching Credibility” in the handbook, “Building Trust in the News,” published by the Associated Press Managing Editors.
ARTICLES:
David Perlmutter:
--“If I Break a Rule, What Do I Do, Fire Myself? Ethics Codes of Independent Blogs,”
in The Journal of Mass Media Ethics, co-authored with Mary Schoen;
--“Is Your Spouse Hurting Your Career,” how an academic career can be affected by a spouse who is not on an academic track, The Chronicle of Higher Education, June, 2007;
--“Your 50-Year Career Plan,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, April;
--“Managing Up: What every new assistant professor…should know about getting along with others,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, January;
--“Advising the New Adviser,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, September, co-authored with Diana Carlin;
--“How Will the Clintons Harness the Political Force of the Blog?” op ed, USA Today, October;
--“For Mideast Peace: Both sides must swallow poison,” in English language edition,
Asharq Alawsat, Arabic international daily published in London, co-author, John Burgess, retired state department official.
Barbara Barnett:
--“Medea in the Media: Narrative and myth in newspaper coverage of women who kill their children,” in Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, November;
-- “A Picture of Health: A pilot study on how women’s magazines frame medical news and femininity,” was accepted for publication in the journal Women and Language.
Charles Marsh:
--“Aristotelian Causal Analysis and Creativity in Copywriting” was published in the journal Written Composition;
--“Aristotelian Ethos and the New Orality: Implications for media literacy and media ethics,” was published in The Journal of Mass Media Ethics.
Kristen Swain had two articles accepted for publication in summer 2007. They are:
--“Outrage Factors and Explanation in News Coverage of the Anthrax Attacks” in Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly; and
--“Sourcing Patterns in News Coverage of the Anthrax Attacks” in the International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters.
Max Utsler:
--“Is Stereotypical Coverage of African American Athletes ‘Dead as Disco?’” was accepted for publication in The Journal of Sports Media, co-authored with Jennifer Byrd.
Douglas Ward:
--“The Geography of The Ladies Home Journal: An analysis of a magazine’s audience, 1911-1955,” was accepted for publication in the journal Journalism History.
Jimmy Gentry:
-- “Prying Open Private Firms’ Financials” and other articles appeared on the Web site of the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism, www.businessjournlism.org.
Bob Basow:
--“Measure Advertising with Three Questions,” appeared in Ingram’s magazine and on ingramsonline.
ACADEMIC PAPERS:
Barbara Barnett:
--“More Contradictions: A Framing Analysis of Health, Aging and Femininity,” International --Communication Association, May 2007.
--Good Sports? A feminist framing analysis of public relations strategies in the Duke University lacrosse crisis,” to the Commission on the Status of Women of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication convention, August 2007.
Mugur Geana:
--“A Media Influence Comparative Analysis…on Knowledge about Colonoscopy as a Primary Screening Method for Colon Cancer,” Conference on Building the Evidence Base in Cancer Communication, May 2007;
--“Penetration of Innovation,” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
(AEJMC) Midwinter Conference.
--Is first author of “Commonly Used and Preferred Sources of Information by Persons with Lymphedema: Findings from an Online Survey,” that will be presented at the 21st International
Conference on Lymphedema in Shanghai, China.
Tien-Tsung Lee: 3 papers at AEJMC convention, August 2007.
--“Why They Don’t Trust the Media: An examination of factors predicting trust,” to the Mass Communication and Society Division;
--“The Impacts of Declining Newspaper Readership on Young Americans’ Political Knowledge and Participation: A longitudinal analysis,” to the Newspaper Division, co-author Lu Wei, Washington State University;
--“The Ethics of Outing in the 21st Century: Two case studies,” to the Media Ethics Division,
co-author Gary Hicks, Southern Illinois University.
Charles Marsh:
--“Postmodernism, Symmetry, and Cash Value: An Isocratean Model for Modern Practitioners,”
to the AEJMC Public Relations Division, August 2007;
--“Episteme and Doxa: The battle of religion, philosophy and rhetoric in the works of Plato and Isocrates,” was accepted for the International Society for the History of Rhetoric conference in France, but he was unable to attend.
David Perlmutter: 2 papers at AEJMC convention, Communication Theory and Methodology Division, August 2007:
--“Blogosphere and Participatory Democracy: Hostile media perception, information selection, and political participation,” with others;
--“Expression to Influence: Understanding the change in blogger motivations over the Blogspan,”
with others.
Kristen Swain: 5 papers at AEJMC convention August 2007:
--“Uncertainty Framing in News Coverage of a Non-Conventional War Disaster” to the Communication Theory and Methodology Division, top faculty paper award;
--“Sourcing Patterns in the Crisis Phases of a Bioterror Attack” to the Science Communication group;
--“Public Relations in a Non-Conventional War Disaster: Advice framing during the Anthrax attacks,” to the Public Relations Division;
--“News Sourcing in a Bioterror Disaster,” to the Newspaper Division;
--“Risk Framing in News Coverage of the Environmental Justice Movement,” to the Minorities and Communication Division.
Other papers by Swain:
--“Risk and Moral Development Framing in News Coverage of the Environmental Justice Movement” at the Globalization, Environmental Ethics and Environmental Justice Conference at Michigan State University.
--“Uncertainty and Comparability Factors in Bioterrorism Coverage” at the National Readiness Communications Conference at Kansas State University.
Max Utsler:
--“Sports Talk Radio and Its Relationship with Sources,” to the Popular Culture Association.
--“The $2.5 Million Bargain: Super Bowl ads and added value” to the Conference on Advertising, Audience and Culture at the University of South Carolina.
Tom Volek:
--“Print, Radio and Television in the Urals: Russian media respond to the audience,” to the
European Studies Conference in Omaha.
Douglas Ward:
“Mapping Women’s Magazines of the Early 20th Century: A geographic analysis of Ladies Home Journal Readers, 1911-1955, to the American Journalism Historians Association.
PRESENTATIONS TO ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL GROUPS:
Academic:
Barbara Barnett was one of 32 participants from 10 countries at the International Symposium on Women and News: Exploring research and social change agendas, in June 2006 in Germany.
Linda Lee led a seminar on marketing communications in Latin America and the Hispanic market in the U. S. at Negocia School of Business in Paris in April 2007.
David Perlmutter:
--moderated a panel on “The New Political Machine: Power and unity on the Web” at the 2007 Politics Online conference in March at George Washington University.
--presentation on panel on “Seeing Is Not Believing. Can anyone ever trust images again?” AEJMC Visual Communications Division, August 2007.
--presentation on panel on “Eroding Press Freedoms” for AEJMC Mass Communication and Society, and Law and Policy Divisions, August 2007.
--presentation of “Anti-Anti-War Warriors on the World Wide Web” on a panel on “Creating Alternative Channels of Discourse on Iraq” for Visual Communications Division, International Communication Association, May 2007.
--served on a panel on political blogging in the presidential race at the Dole Institute of Politics in February.
David Guth, chair of Public Relations Division research session, AEJMC, August 2007.
Rick Musser:
-- panelist on “Experience from On-Campus” Multimedia Reporting” at AEJMC. Faculty members from seven universities shared their experiences teaching and practicing media convergence.
Kristen Swain:
-- moderator of a Communication Theory and Methodology Division research session at AEJMC.
Max Utsler:
--was a panelist on taking television news lessons into the classroom at the Broadcast Education Association convention in April.
--was a panelist on the relationship between college and professional sports teams and sports talk radio at the Popular Culture Association.
--led a workshop on developing a convergence curriculum at the University of Central Oklahoma in February.
Tien-Tsung Lee spoke on media effects on politics to journalism students at Shih-Hsin University in Taiwan in December.
John Hudnall conducted a session on interviewing at the Journalism Education Association Convention in Denver in April.
National Professional Activities:
Douglas Ward led workshops for the American Copy Editors Society on “People Editing” and “Embracing Innovation” at the national convention in Miami in April, and was on the panel “So You Want to Teach.”
Peggy Kuhr:
--moderated two panels for the Associated Press Managing Editors association;
--participated in the Knight Foundation Learning to Change Conference in Washington in March;
--was one of 40 participants in the Journalism That Matters, national think-tank series of conversations on the future of news and news organizations with educators, community activists and journalists in January in Memphis.
Jimmy Gentry:
--presented “Financial Statements: The Cliff Notes version in five steps” at the international conference of the International Association of Business Communicators June 25 in New Orleans.
--presented “The Business of the News Business” at the national convention of the Society of Professional Journalists;
--Conducted workshops for journalists in several cities under the sponsorship of the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism;
--Conducted a Web seminar on finances for Non-Financial Communicators for the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC).
--Presented two workshops, on financial statements for public companies and for private companies and nonprofits, to the National Association of Hispanic Journalists June 13.
Rick Musser:
-- made a presentation on the role and use of the School’s Multimedia Newsroom at the Society of Professional Journalists national convention.
--Participated in the national conference of the Association of Healthcare Journalists in March in Los Angeles.
Regional and State Professional Activities:
Mugur Geana spoke to the Kansas Association of Healthcare Communicators on how to develop integrated marketing communications plans and how to measure strategic outcomes in April.
Musser:
--led a panel on citizen journalism and the Virginia Tech shootings at the Missouri-Kansas Associated Press Broadcasters annual meeting in May;
--was a panelist on “Improving Water Quality Through Service Learning” at the Kansas WaterLINK conference in March.
Kuhr:
-- spoke on credibility to the Missouri-Kansas Associated Press Publishers and Editors in December;
--keynoted the Kansas Press Association convention in April, speaking on “Citizen Journalism: How newspapers can connect with communities to engage readers.”
Gentry presented “Accounting, the Cliff Notes Version in 10 Steps” to the state IABC convention.
Bob Basow presented a session on “Applying Civilian Marketing Concepts to Information Operations” at Fort Leavenworth in February.
Patty Noland was a panelist on interviewing for the United Minority Media Association fall conference in Kansas City.
Faculty interviewed:
Perlmutter was interviewed about blogging and politics by The Kansas City Star, Agence-France Press, ABC.com, Lawrence.com, KLWN and KCUR.
David Guth was interviewed for a February MSN Money article on recent public relations disasters of national companies; by The Kansas City Business Journal on the effect of viral advertising, fiction presented as fact; and by KBBZ, Kansas City about the Don Imus controversy.
Max Utsler appeared on “Kansas City: Your Community” public affairs program on KSMO-TV in September.
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:
Dean Ann Brill:
--Chaired the journalism Accrediting Council review of Washington and Lee University;
--Conducted an academic program review of journalism at the University of North Carolina;
--Was appointed to the Hearst Foundation Steering Committee;
--Participated in the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communications meetings and other ACEJMC and AEJMC events;
--Participated in the Gannett Journalism Educators Symposium in McLean, Virginia in April;
--Is on the board of the Advertising Icon Museum in Kansas City;
--Presented “Gordon Parks, the last interview” as part of the annual Friends of Gordon Parks celebration in Fort Scott in October.
Peggy Kuhr:
--Served on New Voices Advisory Board that selects projects to receive seed money for innovative, local, alternative news products, funded by the Knight Foundation;
--Ayres Institute for Community Journalism advisory board associated with the University of Alabama and The Anniston Star;
--Member, AEJMC convention planning committee.
David Perlmutter:
--Member, Blogworld and New Media Expo advisory council, organizing convention for November 2007;
--National Law Enforcement Museum advisory committee;
--Represented School of Journalism at Board of Regents Tilford Conference on Diversity and Multiculturalism at Wichita State University, 2006.
Susanne Shaw:
--Member, Council for Higher Education Accreditation;
--Inter American Press Association, attended conference in Mexico in September;
--As executive director of the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, she works with schools and departments of journalism around the country and the world;
--Selection committee for recipients of NCAA sports journalism scholarships
Bob Basow:
--served on the national screening committee for student Fulbright applications for South Korea
Taiwan and Hong Kong;
--hosted two guests from CETV Chinese Educational Television in Beijing on June 6. Dr. Zhi jun Zhang, director of CETV’s research office, and Dr. Chen Li, vice president and editor in general, were visiting the U. S. to learn about educational television and its role in American media. They also visited The Confucius Institute at the Edwards Campus and KTWU in Topeka.
Jimmy Gentry is on the research committee of the International Association of Business Communicators.
Max Utsler:
--Is a board member for the Broadcast Education Association;
--Chaired the BEA Student News Festival, a showcase session and presented awards to winners.
--Conducts annual workshops on newsletter writing and media relations for the Golf Course Superintendents of America.
Dean Brill, Professors Kuhr and Musser taught in five-week Citizens Journalism Academies with The Lawrence-Journal World and 6 News each semester.
Judging:
Peggy Kuhr, first National Ethnic Media Awards, sponsored by New America Media.
Malcolm Gibson:
--editorials for Inland Press Association Awards;
--editorial writing for Oklahoma Collegiate Press Association.
Patty Noland, for CORO Foundation public service internships.
Carol Holstead coordinates the annual AEJMC National Student Magazine competitions.
John Hudnall coordinated judging of the Pivotal Moments essay project sponsored by the Kansas Press Association and Kansas Scholastic Press Association (KSPA) of which he is executive director. There were 293 entries.
Hudnall and Terry Bryant judged in the Journalism Educators of Metropolitan Kansas City
high school competitions.
Twelve faculty and staff judged the KSPA state contests in May. There were 1,020 entries in 17 categories, from 852 students representing 123 high schools. Area professionals also judged.
Twenty-one faculty and staff judged the KSPA regional contests in Lawrence in February. There were 653 entries in 17 categories from 445 students representing 23 Northeast Kansas high schools. Professionals also judged.
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