Maureen Dowd to speak at UNC Greensboro on Monday, October 25

Greetings!

Just a notice for those who might be interested:

Maureen Dowd, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the New YorkTimes opinion pages, will speak at UNC Greensboro on Monday, October 25 at 7:30 p.m. in the Elliott University Center Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public. Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. Dowd's lecture is co-sponsored by Jackson Library and the American Democracy Project, and will be followed by a question-and-answer session and a book signing. Dowd's new book, Bushworld, was published earlier this year . For more information, see

http://www.uncg.edu/ure/news/stories/2004/oct/MaureenDowd100504.htm

Parking is available in the Walker Avenue Parking Deck.

Best regards,

Barbara

- posted by Barbara @ 11:33 AM

 
Federal and State Election Resources -- Updated

Greetings!

This just in. A new edition of Research RoundUp catalogues federal, state, and U.S. territory sites with election resources. All include some level of basic information about the upcoming ballots, as well as voter registration and filing for office. Many also provide databases of lobbyists, political action committees, and campaign finance disclosure reports. Some even offer online access to vote tallies as they come in on election nights.

Check it out at this URL: http://www.llrx.com/columns/roundup31.htm

You will discover as well links to an election subject guide site and a site for campaign contribution tracking & analysis. Links here include:

Opensecrets.org
Capital Eye
FEC Watch
Follow the Money

And don't forget Eric Gautschi's "JoMC 54 Pathfinder for Campaigns & Elections, 2004" at this URL: http://parklibrary.jomc.unc.edu/politics_pathfinder.htm

Lots of great research resources here. Please alert your students.

Best regards,

Barbara

- posted by Barbara @ 10:51 AM

 
Semonche on the road again

Greetings!

This message is a reminder that I will be out of my office beginning Friday, Oct. 22 and until Monday, Nov. 8. I'll be in Salzburg during this time attending a conference on "Libraries in the 21stCentury." Here is the URL to the conference site:
http://www.schloss-leopoldskron.com/
Jack will join me after the conference for a few days touring in Munich and Bavaria. [Note: as for the election please know that I voted early, but not often, in Durham.]

I'm really fortunate to have such capable staff members willing to take care of our Park Library, its collections, and its users while I'm away. If any of our faculty members or staff have special information needs before I depart, please let me know. Otherwise, I have confidence that our Park Library staffers, Anne Rundell, Meghan McQuellon, Woojung Shin and Damon Murray will be ready and able to help you and your students find the materials and information you all need.

Our Library's computer lab will be in use while I'm gone. Some of the faculty members will want to use the instructor's computer as well as the overhead digital projector. A password is necessary to access the instructor's computer. Please ask one of the Park Library staffers on duty to open the computer for you. They have the password. Students can send a print request from this computer lab to the UniPrinter in our Library's reading area. They will need to use their UNC OneCards. Cost is $.10 per page.

Please remind your students that food and/or drinks or water arenot permitted anywhere, anytime in the Park Library.

If you have any questions at all about our Park Library's collections, services, or equipment, please contact me before I leave.

I'm looking forward to this trip and meeting 45 librarians from nearly as many countries, but I know I'll be happy to return. Since I'll have access to email, count on my brief, periodic dispatches from Europe.

Best regards,

Barbara

- posted by Barbara @ 2:37 PM

 
AEJMC Conference Papers submitted in 2004 (partial list)

Greetings!

Below is a partial list compiled by one of our Park Library staffers from the AEJMC conference advance list. Please review it and report to me any additional papers submitted by our faculty members and students so we can have a complete list.

And, as always, if there are any errors spotted in this list, please let me know ASAP.

Best regards,

Barbara

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ADVERTISING DIVISION: Research

"Affective and Cognitive Effect of Humor in Advertisement: Role of Brand Familiarity."
Xinshu Zhao (2nd author).

"Quarter Position Effect during Super Bowl Broadcast: How advertising effectiveness changes as a game goes on." Yoing-Ick Jeong; Koang-Hyub Kim, and Xinshu Zhao.


COMM TECHNOLOGY AND POLICY DIVISION

"Same Problem, Different Solutions: An Analysis of College and University Responses to Music Piracy." Erica Gregory.

"Saving E-Mail: An Evaluation of the Constitutionality of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003." Martin Kuhn.

"Internet Technology and Long-Arm Jurisdiction: Are New Standards Required?" Robert Magee.

"Rethinking Interactivity: An Examination of Interactivity in Early Broadcast Radio." Charlene Simmons.

"How to Compete with Free: College Students’ Views on Copy Right Debate over P2P Music File Sharing." Dongkyu Sung; Minjeong Kim, Koang-hyub Kim.


COMMUNICATION THEORY AND METHODOLOGY DIVISION

"Worldview in message perception and processing: Epistemological assumptions as a construct in mass communication theory." Robert Magee.

"Grasping at Straws: Newspapers and their Three Rationalizations." Anne Rundell.

"What Gets Voters to the Polls? Employing logistic regression and an innovative new model to settle the debate." W. Joann Wong.


LAW DIVISION

"In the Interest of Security: The Impact of 9-11 on State Access-to-Information Laws." Suzanne Horsley.

“More Likely to Withhold Information?: Comparison of Implementation of FOIA Policies under the Clinton and Bush Administrations." Minjoeng Kim.

"An Analysis of BCRA 201’s Disclosure Provisions for Electioneering Communications." Barbara M. Miller.


MASS COMMUNICATION AND SOCIETY DIVISION

"The television as nanny or nuisance: The relationship between attitudes toward television’s effects on children and parental efficacy." Stacey Hust.


MINORITIES AND COMMUNICATION DIVISION

"Fitting the pieces together: The puzzle of newspaper coverage of Hispanics in emerging immigrant communities." Lisa M. Paulin.


PUBLIC RELATIONS DIVISION

"From liftoff to landing: How NASA’s crisis communications affected media coverage following the challenger and Columbia tragedies." Ryan M. Martin and Lois Boynton.

"Ending a chapter of their lives: A study of disaffiliation in college sororities." Jessalynn Strauss.


RADIO-TELEVISION JOURNALISM DIVISION

"How do we select them and then what do we teach them? A survey of success factors for student broadcast journalism award winners." Dale. Edwards, C.A. Tuggle and Dan Kozlowski.

"A lopsided deal: The recent application of the equal opportunities doctrine." W. Joann Wong.


SCHOLASTIC JOURNALISM DIVISION

"Must we print both sides? The viewpoint neutrality quagmire in public school-sponsored forums." Dan Kozlowski.


ENTERTAINMENT STUDIES INTEREST GROUP

"Still a man’s game: Gender representation in online video game review content." James D. Ivory.

- posted by Barbara @ 1:00 PM

 
Peer-Reviewed Journal: First Monday

Greetings!

I thought our School's faculty members and students might be interested in exploring this web site. It is titled "First Monday: Peer-Reviewed Journal on the Internet." You can view it at this URL

http://www.firstmonday.org/

First Monday is one of the first peer–reviewed journals on the Internet, solely devoted to the Internet. Since its start in May 1996, First Monday has published 549 papers in 100 issues; these papers were written by 652 different authors. First Monday is indexed in Communication Abstracts, INSPEC, LISA, PAIS and other services. In the year 2003, users from 816,912 distinct hosts around the world downloaded 5,385,649 contributions published in First Monday. In the month of September, 2004, users from 88,387 distinct hosts around the world downloaded 633,539 contributions.

First Monday offers its papers' archive (1995 to the present) in full text.

First Monday also offers a search engine, an author and article index, and a listing of most frequently accessed papers in 2003 and 2004. You will find guidelines for authors to submit papers as well as preferred style and citation formats.

Best regards,

Barbara Semonche

- posted by Barbara @ 10:49 AM