Internships and Careers Interest Group
The Internships and Careers Interest Group (ICIG) of AEJMC is accepting submissions of research papers from both faculty and students for the 2013 conference in Washington, DC.
Papers may be on any topic related to internships and careers. We are particularly interested in papers on:
• Careers in communications/journalism/advertising/PR
• Internships in communications/ journalism/advertising/PR
• New communications/ journalism/Advertising/PR career trends
• Internship assessment/pedagogy practices
• Communications industry evaluation/measurement techniques
The division is offering a free conference registration to the authors (maximum 4) of the top student paper.
Entries should be no longer than 30-pages. On all other requirements, authors should follow the AEJMC Uniform Call for Papers.
Questions should be directed to research chair, Mary Blue, Tulane University at 504-862-3039 or .
Graduate Student Interest Group
(updated 1.28.13)
The Graduate Student Interest Group (GSIG) invites graduate students to submit research papers for the 2012 AEJMC convention in Washington D.C.
Because the interest group’s focus is on its student constituency and not a topic area, the group accepts research by graduate students addressing any topic in journalism, media, or mass communication. We are dedicated to providing opportunities for graduate students to present research in the conference setting. We also accept research conducted using numerous and varied methodological approaches, both qualitative and quantitative. We strive to offer the highest level of feedback on submitted and accepted work.
The top-ranked student submission will receive the annual Guido Stempel Award and will receive a $100 award check, a commemorative plaque, and conference registration reimbursement. Authors of the top four papers will have the opportunity to present at a special GSIG-sponsored research panel highlighting graduate student research. Authors are not required to be a member of GSIG to submit a paper, but those whose papers are accepted are obligated to join the interest group (annual membership fee: $7) before presenting their research at the conference in August.
GSIG is also pleased to announce the second-annual Carson B Wagner Scholar-to-Scholar Award for the best poster presentation submitted to GSIG at the conference. Recipients of the award will receive a $100 check.
Papers with any faculty co-author(s) are not eligible and will be rejected.
All entries should follow the guidelines of the AEJMC uniform paper competition. Papers should be no more than 30 pages, not counting references, tables or appendices. All submissions will undergo a blind review process by a panel of independent readers. Papers are accepted on the understanding that they have not been previously published or presented elsewhere (with the exception of the AEJMC Midwinter Conference or AEJMC Southeast Colloquium) and are not under consideration by any scholarly journal of trade organization.
Questions regarding submission should be directed to J.J. De Simone, Research Chair, at .
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Interest Group
The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Interest Group of AEJMC seeks submissions of original research on any topic specifically related to sexual orientation and mass communication for the 2013 AEJMC conference. Both faculty and students are invited to submit their work. Papers employing all methods of inquiry and research methods are invited. In previous conferences, paper topics have ranged from a quantitative content analysis of newspaper coverage of same-sex marriage to a critical/cultural analysis of the use of gay-vague images in advertising. We especially welcome papers dealing with current topics such as social media issues, Prop. 8 in California and other same-sex marriage initiatives, Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, hate speech legislation, and gay youth suicides. Paper submissions must comply with the AEJMC uniform paper call. In addition, papers may not be longer than 25 pages, excluding tables, figures and references.
Top Student Paper Award: The GLBT IG encourages graduate student submissions in its Top Student Paper competition. To be considered for the competition, papers must be wholly the work of students. The author(s) of the top student paper will receive a $200 award and a certificate.
Top Faculty Paper Award: The top faculty paper submitted to the GLBT IG will also receive an award. Papers written solely by faculty member, or papers co-authored by faculty members and students, are eligible. The author(s) of the top faculty paper will receive a $200 award and a certificate.
Questions regarding submissions should be sent to the GLBT IG research chair, Genelle Belmas, at .
Entertainment Studies Interest Group
The Entertainment Studies Interest Groupinvites faculty and graduate students to electronically submit papers for the 2011 AEJMC conference. Papers that deal with any aspect of mediated entertainment, including (but not limited to) narrative film, experimental cinema, fictional books, fictional television, game shows, new media, popular magazines, sports, and tabloid/celebrity journalism may be submitted. All methods (qualitative, quantitative, historical, critical) of inquiry are encouraged. Papers may not exceed 25-pages, excluding tables, figures, and references. All entries should follow the AEJMC uniform paper competition. All submissions will undergo a blind review process by a panel of independent readers.
Although all papers compete on an equal footing, the top-ranked student paper(s) sent to ESIG will receive special recognition and first author(s) will be awarded free conference registration. Students who wish to be eligible for this award must indicate when submitting electronically that the paper was written exclusively by one or more students. Only studentsare eligible for this prize; papers with any faculty co-author(s) are not eligible. The top-ranked faculty paper will be recognized. Authors are not required to be a member of ESIG to submit a paper. The same author(s) can submit more than one paper to ESIG.
Specific Guidelines: Papers may not exceed 25 pages, excluding tables, figures, and references. APA or MLA are acceptable styles for references. At least one author of an accepted faculty paper must attend the conference to present the paper. If student authors cannot be present, they must make arrangements for the paper to be presented.
Questions regarding submissions should be directed to the research chair, Cynthia Nichols, e-mail: .
Community Journalism Interest Group
The Community Journalism Interest Group (COMJIG) is seeking original, non-published research papers to be considered for presentation at the 2013 AEJMC national conference in Washington, D.C. The deadline for paper submissions is April 1, 2013.
COMJIG’S goal is to identify and present original, meaningful research that advances the understanding of the role of journalists and news organizations as members of communities, geographic or digital. We emphasize that community need not just be defined as within traditional geographical or social boundaries, but that given technological advances it may also be applied to journalism and its relationship to communities of interest online. Papers could address issues such as how “community’” is defined or how its meaning changes in an increasingly digital media environment. In addition, while the interest group will seek to offer a diverse program, we hope to receive some proposals that make a thematic connection to AEJMC’s continued centennial celebration in 2013.
The interest group’s top student and faculty papers from the conference will have the opportunity to be published in the peer-reviewed journal Community Journalism, COMJIG’S official publication.
Paper submissions should include a 100- to 150-word abstract and not exceed 8,000 words, including references, tables and notes. All papers should conform to APA style, Sixth Edition. Graduate students are encouraged to submit papers.
All research papers must be uploaded to the group via a link on the AEJMC website. Please see AEJMC’s Paper Competition Uniform Call for more information. Additional questions should be directed to COMJIG Research Committee Chair Dianne Garyantes ().
Civic and Citizen Journalism Interest Group
The Civic and Citizen Journalism Interest Group (CCJIG) invites research paper submissions for the 2013 AEJMC Conference, August 8-11, in Washington D.C.
Papers must be submitted in accordance with all requirements of AEJMC and its uniform paper call and electronic submission process. Authors should ensure that their papers do not contain identifying references. For a detailed explanation, please see “submitting a clean paper” under the uniform paper call on the AEJMC website.
Papers submitted will be eligible for separate faculty and student top paper awards of $151. Because of the separate competition for students, graduate students should be careful to identify themselves as such in the submission process. Papers co-authored with faculty members do not qualify for the student competition.
CCJIG is interested in research that examines the emergence, practice, sustenance and/or teaching modes of participatory journalism such as in civic or citizen journalism. Authors are urged to submit papers that generally conform to this group’s interests. Papers should make sure to include discussions of news within the context of participatory/civic/citizen journalism. For example, papers that examine the use of blogs without touching upon news do not automatically meet the group’s interests.
Suggested paper topics include: Participatory/citizen/civic journalism in political campaigns, citizen media (including news consumers as news producers), civic mapping, community conversations, newsroom projects, legal and ethical issues in participatory/civic/citizen journalism, crowdsourcing versus traditional “gatekeeper” journalism, participatory/ civic/citizen journalism in a multicultural environment, participatory/civic/citizen journalism and new technologies, history/philosophy of participatory journalism and its civic or citizen components, the changing newspaper industry economy and its effect on the development of participatory/civic/citizen journalism movements, media convergence and participatory journalism, the missions and meanings of “participatory,” “civic” or “citizen” journalism, teaching journalism in those categories, and use of polls, focus groups and other methods in civic reporting.
Please direct questions to CCJIG Research Chair Liz Viall ().
Visual Communication Division
The Visual Communication Division of AEJMC invites faculty and students to submit competitive papers devoted to theoretically based studies of visual communications and to issues concerning the professional practice of visual media production for presentation at the association’s annual convention. Visual is broadly defined and includes photography, film, television, web design, graphic design, illustration, and digital imaging, as well as other visual phenomena.
The division encourages submission of papers that address a broad spectrum of methodology and application, both qualitative and quantitative, on all types of visual media—advertising, broadcast, digital imaging, film, graphic design, multimedia and web design, photojournalism, propaganda images, visual images and culture, visual literacy, and visual aspects of political campaigns, etc. Research in media history, law, policy, effects, processes, uses and ethics regarding visuals are also welcome. All submissions will be blind refereed by a panel of independent readers. Student papers compete on equal footing with faculty papers. A $100 award will be given to the top student contribution. The top three faculty papers will be recognized in the AEJMC annual convention program.
Papers are accepted for peer review on the understanding that they are not already under review for other conventions and that they have been submitted to only one AEJMC group for evaluation. Papers accepted for the AEJMC Conference should not have been presented to another convention or published in scholarly or trade journals prior to presentation at the convention. Authors may submit more than one paper to the Visual Communication Division.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: All research papers must be uploaded through AEJMC’s ALL ACADEMIC website. Make sure to upload through the link marked Visual Communication Division. All papers must be uploaded to the server no later than 11:59 p.m. (Central Standard Time) Monday, April 1, 2013.
All papers must be type-written and double-spaced with one-inch margins. Format should be Microsoft Word or a PDF. The page limit is 30-pages, inclusive of all references, notes, tables, illustrations, and appendices. Manuscripts must conform to the APA reference style.
Upload an abstract separately of no more than 75-words. Completely fill out the online submission form with author(s) name, affiliation, mailing address, telephone number, and email address. The title should be printed on the first page of the text and on running heads on each subsequent page of text. Please make sure not to include author name(s) on title page or running heads and confirm that no identifying information is in the File Properties area of the MS Word file.
All authors will be advised whether their paper has been accepted and will receive a copy of the reviewers’ comments by May 22, 2013. At least one author of an accepted paper must attend the conference to present the paper. For more information on submissions to the Visual Communication Division, please contact Mary Bock, Kutztown University at 484-646-4319 or e-mail: .
Scholastic Journalism Division
The Scholastic Journalism Division of AEJMC is accepting submissions of research papers for the 2013 conference in Washington, D.C.
Submission deadline is April 1, 2013. Those papers selected by peer review will be presented during the annual AEJMC conference in August. Faculty and student papers should involve an area of mass communication research applied to student journalism and expression, both scholastic and collegiate, as well as journalism education in order to be considered for presentation in this Division.
Both faculty and student papers accepted will be eligible for top paper awards to be presented at the AEJMC Conference in August. Faculty papers with a student co-author or student papers with a faculty co-author will be judged in the faculty competition. Some possible paper topics include:
• legal issues of the student press
• ethical issues of the student press
• administrative relationships: journalism education school and community support for high school journalism education
• journalism and mass communication in language arts
• preparation, certification and credentialing of publication advisers and journalism educators in secondary school
• multicultural and diversity issues in secondary school journalism
• content or production of high school publications
• the role of college journalism education in secondary education
• historical perspectives of secondary school/high school journalism education
• the role of high school press associations and other media organizations
• recruiting and retaining journalism students
• educational issues applicable to scholastic journalism
• certification and/or accreditation issues related to the high school or collegiate press
• news and/or media literacy at the secondary or collegiate level
Special Hazelwood call: It’s been 25 years since the landmark Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier Supreme Court decision. Given that an entire generation of students has grown up during this time of relatively low student expression rights, the Scholastic Journalism Division invites papers specifically addressing issues relating to this decision and its effects on students, schools, advisers, etc… Like the general Scholastic Journalism Division call, papers can use any method. If you choose to enter your paper via this special call, please indicate so on your paper’s title page by clearly including the words “Special Hazelwood Call.”
Expectations for all papers: Papers should be in Microsoft Word, 12-point type, Times New Roman, double-spaced. Papers should not exceed 25-pages in length, not counting references, tables, and appendices.
Style should follow either the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association or the Chicago Manual of Style. Include an abstract of no more than 75 words. At least one author will be expected to attend the meeting to present the paper.
All research papers must be submitted online via a link on the AEJMC Web site. Do not put the author’s name on the title page of the document you upload to the submission site. Reviews are blind. The site will also ask for author’s name, affiliation, and e-mail address separ- ately. You will be asked for your abstract, too.
The principal author should e-mail the SJD research chair (see below) with the title of your paper and contact information (as well as whether he/she is entering the paper via the special call) once he/she has uploaded his/her paper to the AEJMC site.
For more information for submissions to the Scholastic Journalism Division, contact Adam M. Maksl of the Department of Journalism at Indiana University Southeast at (812) 941-2892 or .
Public Relations Division
Submitters should carefully review the specific details and directions for the Public Relations Division as well as the general requirements contained in the AEJMC Uniform Paper Call.
Submission Categories: A paper may be submitted in one of the three PRD categories: (1) open, (2) student or (3) teaching.
Submission Limitations: No more than two papers may be submitted by any one author or co-author across the three PRD categories. If it is found that one person is author and/or co-author of more than two submissions across the three PRD categories, all of the submissions will be automatically disqualified.
A paper may NOT be under review: (1) simultaneously with more than one of the three PRD categories, (2) simultaneously with more than one division within AEJMC, (3) simultaneously with the AEJMC conference and any other conference, or (4) simultaneously with the AEJMC conference and any publication.
Authorship: When submitting co-authored papers, permission to submit the paper should be sought and obtained from all authors on the paper. Paper authorship cannot be added, deleted, or changed subsequent to submission of the paper.
Author Identification: All authors and co-authors, their institutional affiliations and contact information must be included WHEN REGISTERING on the online system. If there are three co-authors, for example, information about all three must be included in the registration. Student papers must be authored or co-authored by students ONLY (no faculty co-authors), and all student papers must have the word “STUDENT” on the title page and in the running head.
Author-identifying information MUST NOT appear anywhere in the attached paper file. Identifying information includes (1) listing of authors’ names and/or affiliations, (2) references to authors’ previous work in a way that reveals authorship of the current work, and (3) links to authors’ websites, e-mail addresses, or social media accounts. Inclusion of identifying information will result in automatic disqualification of the paper.
Paper Content: Any recognized research method and citation style may be used. Papers should include appropriate literature reviews, methodology, findings and discussion. Papers should test, refine or expand public relations theory or practice; critically review issues relevant to public relations theory and research; or explore methods of effective public relations practice. Teaching papers should test, refine or expand principles or practices associated with public relations pedagogy. All submissions should represent research completed by the conference submission deadline, not research proposals or reports on research in progress.
Paper Formatting: A paper cannot exceed 30 (thirty) pages, period. The 30 pages of the submitted paper shall INCLUDE the title page, abstract, appendices (including figures and tables), and references/citations; no exceptions. Papers must be typed in a 12-point font, using Times New Roman, Times, or Arial font. Papers must be formatted with double line spacing with 1-inch margins on all sides of the document. All papers must contain continuous page numbers; if multiple files are merged for the paper, then the author must ensure that the page numbers are continuous and do not repeat or start over from page 1.
Because of past conversion issues with the All-Academic system that resulted in papers being longer than the established requirement, all papers must be submitted in PDF format. For those using the newest version of Microsoft Word, you can save your paper as a PDF file using the “Save As” function. For those not using this version, you may use a free web service, such as www.freepdfconvert.com. Failure to follow these formatting guidelines will result in an automatic disqualification of the paper.
Presentation Requirement: At least one author of an accepted faculty paper must attend the conference to present the paper. If student authors cannot be present, they must make arrangements for the paper to be presented by someone else. Failure to be present or provide a presenter for any paper will result in a one-year ban on the review of papers for all of the authors involved. Authors of accepted papers are required to forward papers to discussants and moderators prior to the conference. Presentations at AEJMC conference may be disseminated via social media; presenters may opt out of social media dissemination by requesting so at the time of presentation.
Questions? Please contact research co-chairs, Bey-Ling Sha, San Diego State University, or Suman Lee, Iowa State University, .
Newspaper and Online News Division
The Newspaper and Online News Division invites faculty and students to submit original, non-published research papers to be considered for presentation at the AEJMC annual conference, August 8 to 11, 2013, in Washington, D.C. We welcome theoretically-based qualitative or quantitative research papers related to newspaper and online news that investigate topics such as the news coverage of the 2012 election, ethics, law, history, effects, diversity and fairness issues, social media and news, newsgathering norms and routines, economic challenges, etc.
Student papers will be considered for the MacDougall Student Paper Award. Authors should include “MacDougall Student Paper Award” on the title page. Papers submitted with both faculty and student authors will be considered faculty papers and are not eligible for the student competition. A $200 prize and a certificate will be given to the author of the top student paper.
Submission of papers: Papers must be submitted electronically in Word or PDF format no later than 11:59 p.m. (EST) April 1, 2013, using AEJMC’s All Academic system. No hard copies will be accepted. All entries should follow the guidelines of the AEJMC uniform paper competition. Paper length is limited to 25 pages, not including references, tables, or appendices. All submissions will undergo a blind review process by a panel of independent reviewers. Papers are accepted on the understanding that they have not been previously published or presented elsewhere and that they have been submitted to only our division for evaluation.
Paper authors must remove identifying information from their papers or they will be automatically disqualified from the competition. Full instructions on submitting papers are posted on the AEJMC website at http://www.aejmcchicago.org/papers/.
If you have any questions, please contact research co-chairs Raluca Cozma () or Carol Schlagheck ().
