THE AGE OF MURDOCH

The latest issue of The Atlantic Monthly (Sept. 2003) just arrived in our Park Library. Featured is an profile by James Fallows on Rupert Murdoch. Here is AM's lead:

"Many see him as a power-mad, rapacious right-wing vulgarian. Rupert Murdoch has indeed been relentless in building a one-of-a-kind media network that spans the world. What really drives him, though, is not ideology but a cool concern for the bottom line -- and the belief that the media should be treated like any other business, not as a semi-sacred public trust. The Bush Administration agrees. Rupert Murdoch has seen the future, and it is him."

I'm keeping this issue on file. Check with me if you are interested in reading it. This article is not yet available full-text online but doubtless will be next month.

Fallows is a national correspondent for The Atlantic. His Atlantic cover story last November, "The Fifty-first State?," about Iraq, won the 2003 National Magazine Award for Public Interest. [This article can be found fulltext online in InfoTrac Web database.] Noteworthy also is a 1996 book by Fallows titled, "Breaking the News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy." Our Park Library has this book: call number is

BIA.F196 1996

I'm keeping this issue on file. Check with me if you are interested in reading it.

- posted by Barbara @ 4:33 PM

 
NEW PHD DISSERTATIONS

Six bound volumes of our PhD dissertations completed in 2003 have just arrived at our Park Library. Here is the list of our newly-minted PhDs, their dissertation titles, and the advisers who helped charter their intellectual journeys:

1. Victoria Ekstrand. "Publishers, Pirates, and the Public Domain: Origins of the Hot News Doctrine and the Legacy of INS v. AP." [Adviser: Cathy Packer]


2. Hsuan-Yuan Huang. "Effects of Interactivity and Expressiveness on Perceived Social Presence, Memory and Persuasion in Interactive Health Communications." [Advisers: Frank Biocca and Xinshu Zhao]


3. Susan Keith. "Ethics and Newspapers' Final Gatekeepers: Work Conditions and Copy Editors' Role Perceptions." [Adviser: Ruth Walden]


4. Carol Stiff. "Cuba's 'Gently Bred Revolutionary:' Perspectives of the Spanish-Language Press, A Study of U.S., Cuban, and Spanish Coverage of
the 1897 Prison Escape of Evangelina Cosio Y Cisneros." [Adviser: Donald Shaw]


5. Francis M. Ward. "`Get Out of My Hair!' The Treatment of African American Hair Censorship in America's Press and Judiciary from 1969 to
2001." [Adviser: Dulcie Straughan]


6. Elizabeth Witherspoon. "A Case Study of Agenda Building Efforts of the Natiional Asthma Education and Prevention Program and National Media's
Agenda-Setting and Framing of Asthma, 1989-1999." [Adviser: Pat Curtin]


These volumes will be catalogued, labeled, and shelved shortly. Look for them soon to be listed on our Park Library's dissertation web page.

- posted by Barbara @ 4:31 PM

 
FALL 2003 JOMC TEXTBOOK REQUESTS

The target date for ordering your textbooks for Fall Semester 2003 has passed for all but a few of our JoMC faculty. Do take time to complete these textbook requests quickly; no one really wants to start the semester without textbooks or cope with late-arriving texts.

Textbook requests can be filled by moving very quickly. Forms have been placed in faculty mail boxes.

Note bene: even if you do not have a textbook request for your course(s), you must inform Student Stores, 962-2432 or 962-2429, that no textbook is required. Otherwise, it is assumed that you have neglected to complete your request form(s).

Printed Forms
Yellow textbook request forms for courses you'll be teaching this fall are in your mail boxes. If you need extras, please photocopy the yellow forms. These forms should be sent ASAP to: Student Stores Textbooks Dept., CB #1530, Daniels Bldg., UNC-CH Campus.

Email, Web, Fax
If you prefer to place your orders online, you can do so either by sending an e-mail request to or by visiting the Student Stores Textbook Department on the web at http://store.unc.edu/textbooks/. You may also submit your order by fax at 962-3334.

Please call Student Stores at either 962-2432 or 962-2429 if you have questions (or any problems ordering on-line).

- posted by Barbara @ 3:31 PM

 
CATALOG UPDATED

By the end of August, our entire book and serial collection will be fully cataloged and searchable via UNC's Online Catalog. A salute to Park Library staffer Dale Edwards for finally eliminating the backlog we've been coping with for years. [Note: now all we have to do is keep current with the cataloging of new materials that come in.] We estimate that between 15 - 20 percent of our holdings are unique to our collection, that is they are *not* duplicated in the UNC-CH library system.

The 2003 bound volumes of student papers have arrived in our
Library. This year's tally:

Undergraduate honors theses. . . . 11
MA theses . . . . . . . . . . . . .19
PhD dissertations. . . . . . . . . [Note: none arrived in this delivery.]

They will be cataloged, labled and shelved shortly. You will be able to search MA theses via the online UNC catalog and our Park Library web site.

The undergrad honors theses are searchable only via our Park Library web page.

Note that our Park Library web page for the undergrad honors theses lists the advisors for these theses. That means they are searchable by faculty
name. Searching by advisors' names is not offered via UNC's Online Catalog.

- posted by Barbara @ 3:28 PM

 
AEJMC Papers

Here is a compilation of our UNC-CH JoMC faculty and student contributed papers for AEJMC's 2003 conference. This list is compiled from the AEJMC web site. It is arranged by AEJMC division or group. Be aware that this list is probably not complete. Please let me know what I've neglected to include and if there are any edits.

At the end of this list I'll include directions on how to search for previous AEJMC conference papers.

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AEJMC 2003 Conference Papers Abstracts

ADVERTISING DIVISION:

Proactive and Retroactive Position Effects And a System for Evaluating Pod Positions (SEPP) -- Koanghyub Kim, W. Joann Wong, Xinshu Zhao, North Carolina at Chapel Hill

When Patients Influence Physicians: Empowerment of Fine-Print Readers by Direct-To-Consumer Drug Advertising and Implications to the Two-Step Flow Model -- Annisa Lee, North Carolina


COMM TECHNOLOGY and POLICY DIVISION

The Interplay of Old and New Media: How the Traditional News Agenda Affected Web Searches Before and After September 11, 2001 -- Cary Roberts Frith and Debashis "Deb" Aikat, North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Bridging the Digital Divide? A National Survey of the Integration of Internet-based Technologies in Undergraduate Journalism and Mass Communication Classes -- Cassandra Imfeld and Koang- Hyub Kim, North Carolina


HISTORY DIVISION:

The Black Press, The Black Metropolis and the Founding of the Negro Leagues -- Brian Carroll, North Carolina

Pricking the National Conscience: The Early Radio Career and Thematic Interests of Charles Kuralt -- Johanna Cleary, North Carolina-Chapel Hill

The Pulitzer and the Klan: Horace Carter, The Pulitzer and How a Weekly Editor Stood up to the Klan and Won -- Thomas T. Terry, North Carolina-Chapel Hill


INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION DIVISION

Globalization through Global Brands: Purely an American-Made Phenomenon? -- Daniel Marshall Haygood, North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Cultural Profiles of Global and Local Advertising on Primetime Chinese Television: A Comparative Content Analysis -- Yuan Zhang, North Carolina-Chapel Hill


LAW DIVISION:

Websites and Incitement to Violence: A Case Study of the Application of the Brandenburg Standard to Planned Parenthood v. American Coalition of Life Activists -- Juanita J. Covert, North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Can the Effect of Richmond Newspapers Stretch Even Further? An Analysis of the Right of the Press to Cover Immigration Hearings -- Dale L. Edwards, North Carolina-Chapel Hill

How Masson v. New Yorker Has Shaped the Legal Landscape of Narrative Journalism -- Kathy Roberts Forde, North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Protecting Kids or Attacking the First Amendment? Video Games, Regulation and Protected Expression -- James D. Ivory, North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Faculty Copyright in International Online Distance Education: Case of U.S. and Mexico -- Lisa M. Paulin, North Carolina-Chapel Hill


MAGAZINE DIVISION:

Henry Luce's Anti-Communist Legacy: A Qualitative Content Analysis of U.S. News Magazines' Coverage Of China's Cultural Revolution -- Daniel Marshall Haygood, North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Working Women in Mainstream Women's Magazines: A Content Analysis -- Juanita J. Covert, North Carolina-Chapel Hill


MINORITIES and COMMUNICATION DIVISION:

Performing the Watchdog Function: An Investigation of the Status of Freedom Of Expression Within Native American Tribal Courts-- Stacey J. T. Hust, North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Lifting as we Climb: The Role of the National Association Notes in Furthering the Issues Agenda of the National Association of Colored Women, 1897-1917 -- Dulcie M. Straughan, North Carolina-Chapel Hill


NEWSPAPER DIVISION:

Under Construction: Measures of Community-Building at Newspaper Web Sites -- Cassandra Imfeld and Glenn Ward Scott, North Carolina

Quantifying Newspaper Quality "I Know It When I See It" -- Philip Meyer and Koang-Hyub Kim, North Carolina


PUBLIC RELATIONS DIVISION:

The Gray Areas of Ethical Decision-making The Emergence of an Ethical Action Continuum Among Public Relations Practitioners -- Lois A. Boynton, North Carolina

Nation Building, Branding, and Boosterisim in Cyberspace: A Quantitative Content Analysis of Sub-Saharan Africa Presidential Websites -- T. Kenn Gaither, North Carolina

Using Celebrity Endorsers to Increase Publicity Effects of Marketing Communications -- Xinshu Zhao, North Carolina; Hyun Seung Jin and Soontae An, Kansas State


RADIO-TELEVISION JOURNALISM DIVISION:

Gays in the Military: A Second-Level Agenda-Setting Analysis of TV News Coverage -- Rhoda Gibson and Joe Bob Hester, North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Connecting TV and Newspapers in Political Gain -- W. Joann Wong, North Carolina


ENTERTAINMENT STUDIES INTEREST GROUP:

Rise and Fall of News and Entertainment: The Impact of 9/11 Terrorist Attacks on Uses and Gratifications of Web Searchers -- Debashis "Deb" Aikat and Cary Roberts Frith, North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Media Tools in Adolescents' Bedrooms -- Stacey J.T. Hust, North Carolina-Chapel Hill


RELIGION and MEDIA INTEREST GROUP:

Appalling Sin or Despicable Crime: An Exploration of Media Frames Surrounding the Catholic Church Priest Sexual Abuse Scandal -- Lois A. Boynton and Dulcie M. Straughan, North Carolina-Chapel Hill



COMMISSION on the STATUS of WOMEN:

ESPN SportsCenter and Coverage of Women's Atheletics: "It's a Boys Club" -- Terry Adams and C. A. Tuggle, North Carolina-Chapel Hill

She May Be Fit, But She Must Be Fashionable: Women's Sports and Fitness Marketing through the Lens of French Feminist Theory -- Tara M. Kachgal, North Carolina-Chapel Hill


[Note: former UNC-JOMC students presenting at the 2003 AEJMC include:
W. Joseph Campbell (American University)
Stacey Cone (Iowa University)
Mark Feldstein (George Washington)
Melissa A. Johnson (North Carolina State)
Glen L. Bleske (California State-Chico)
Karla Gower (Alabama)
Kim Walsh-Childers (Florida)

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Searching for Online AEJMC Convention Research Papers

2002 Convention papers are now available online. Hard copies of most papers are also available from the AEJMC Central Office. Cost is $3.50 per paper to cover the copying an mailing costs. Contact Pam Price at pam@aejmc.org to check on the availablity of specific titles.

More than 2,000 research papers from past AEJMC conventions are available online. The papers on the site go back to the 1993 convention. Papers are
only available if the authors gave permission for online dissemination and provided the paper on disk.

The papers are on a website at Michigan State University where they are being stored. Visit that site at http://list.msu.edu/archives/aejmc.html
- posted by Barbara @ 4:33 PM

 
MISSING VIDEOS

Park Library staffer, John Kuka, has completed an "audit" of our video collection. John notes that 14 videos are missing. A list is provided below. Your help in locating these errant videos will be rewarded. No questions asked. Many of these videos cannot be replaced.

TITLES: CALL NUMBERS:

* "Ranly on Grammar" AV 90016
* "The Polls and the Media" AV 92005
* "World War II" (tapes 3&4) AV 94010
* Several tapes from the "News Writing" series (AV 95015)
- missing tapes 3 and 5 from copy 1 (1995)
- missing tapes 2 and 4 from copy 2 (1995)
* "The Ad and the Ego" AV 96005 (1996)
* Two tapes from "Writing the News: A Basic Guide to a Career in Journalism" (AV 96010)
- missing tapes 4 and 5 (1996)
* "Headlines - The Ultimate Short Story" AV 97015 (1997)
* Exploring Editorial Excellence" AV 97018 (1997)
* Missing one tape from "The Dawn of The Eye: The History of Film and TV News AV 97043
- missing tape 5 (1997)
* "Dan Glickman at the National Press Club" AV 98011 (1998)
* "Pat Buchanan Announces His Candidacy (NPC) AV 99002 (1999)
* "Queen Noor: National Press Club" March 8, 2001 AV 01003 (2001)

Thanks for your help.

- posted by Barbara @ 4:33 PM

 
NEWS ADDITIONS TO THE LIBRARY COLLECTION

1. Book: "Creative Nonfiction." Diversity Dialogues 19, 2002. This is a collection of 16 essays recognizing the value of unique strengths and experiences that individuals bring to the workpace. These essays feature new emerging and established writers. Cover art by Romare Bearden, elebrated African-American artist from North Carolina. [Note: Park Library call # : LIT. C912 2002]

2. Videos: "Consumer Sedution: From Romance to Reality;" and "Selling Addiction: A Workshop Kit on Tobacco and Alcohol Advertising." Both videos from the Center for Media and Values. 1992 [Note: will be added soon to our video index.]

3. Book: "Key Concepts in Communication." Edited by John Fiske. Published by Methuen, 1983. Although a "vintage" book, it offers an introduction to contemporary research in communication. Further, it is a convenient multi-disciplinary glossary of communication concepts.

4. Bibliography: "Marginality in the Information Ages: reasons for non-and low adoption of digital applications." This is a selected bibliography compiled by Eggermont, Broos, and Roe from the Department of Communication Science in Leuven, Germany. 2000.

5. Book: "LIFE: The Second Decade, 1946-1955." Published by Time, Inc.,1984. This is an impressive collection of photos during the post WWII period.
- posted by Barbara @ 4:32 PM