Saturday, March 25, 2006

Newspaper researchers face deadline With spring break over, some of the midnight oil (and bandwidth) being burned at journalism schools this week is in the lamps (and modems) of grad students finishing research papers for the annual AEJMC convention in August. Most contributions are due April 1, including those in the Newspaper Division, whose website I update now and then. For a second year, the newspaper division is accepting research papers filed online, so the division's home page has instructions both for authors and judges at: http://aejmc.net/newspaper Students still looking for a newspaper-related research topic (maybe for next year?), should visit the front page link to the International Newspaper Marketing Association's research suggestions, which industry executives proposed to the division a few years ago. INMA also chose a selection of papers from previous years as good examples. AEJMC, the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, has close to 30 divisions and interest groups, including communication technology, law, history, broadcasting, visual communication, advertising, public relations and more. Abstracts of papers from all AEJMC divisions are available at the association's headquarters site, and full-text copies of many papers are in the AEJMC Archives. As the association's name suggests, papers don't have to be about journalism. (For example, recent archives include both "Conflicting images: Representations of women terrorists in U.S. newspapers" and "The beautiful blonde, blue-eyed virgin: An analysis of adjectives to describe women in pulp romance fiction.") This year's calls for papers all divisions are listed at http://aejmc.org/calls General information about the August 2006 convention in San Francisco is at http://aejmc.org/convention Lawrence Lessig, professor of law, Stanford University and founder of the school[base ']s Center for Internet and Society will be the event's the keynote speaker. 2:47:59 PM

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