COLLEGE PARK (6/8/20) — Several University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism Ph.D. students and faculty have been invited to present their peer-reviewed research at the national virtual conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) from Aug. 6-9.
Twelve papers from Merrill College faculty and students were selected.
“All of these papers completed a rigorous peer-review process to be shared at what is an increasingly competitive conference,” said Ron Yaros, Merrill College’s director of Ph.D. studies. “Our Ph.D. students can be very proud of their excellent work this past year and the well-deserved recognition.”
Ph.D. student Carolina Velloso’s paper, “A True Newspaper Woman: The Career of Sadie Kneller Miller,” won the Top Student Award and the History Division Diversity Award. For winning the Diversity Award, Velloso will receive a cash prize and will be featured on AEJMC’s Journalism History podcast to discuss her work.
“Covering a complicated legacy with a sledgehammer: Metajournalistic and audience discourse after Kobe Bryant’s death,” a paper from Velloso, Weiping Li, Nohely Alvarez, Shannon Scovel, Md Mahfuzul Haque and Merrill College Professor Linda Steiner, won the Professional Relevance Award.
Li’s paper, “What are anti-disinformation laws for? Analyzing anti-disinformation laws from an ‘information disorder’ perspective,” took second place in the Student Paper Award competition.
AEJMC is a nonprofit, educational association of journalism and mass communication educators, students and media professionals. AEJMC’s mission is to advance education, foster scholarly research, cultivate better professional practice and promote the free flow of communication.
Here is the full list of papers from Merrill College students and faculty that will be presented at the AEJMC conference:
Author: Shannon Scovel
Paper: “Complaining, Campaigning, and Everything in Between: Media Coverage of Pay Equity in Women’s Tennis in 1973 and 2007”
Division: History Division
Author: Shannon Scovel
Paper: “Women in wrestling: The representation of Olympic athletes in traditional media and on personal social media accounts in 2016”
Division: Commission on the Status of Women
Author: Bobbie Foster
Paper: “Plagues, Cults, Wars & Apocalypses: Difficult heritage rhetoric and popular culture in COVID-19 memes”
Division: Graduate Student Interest Group
Author: Carolina Velloso
Paper: “A True Newspaper Woman: The Career of Sadie Kneller Miller”
Division: History Division
Author: Carolina Velloso
Paper: “Angry Gymnastics: Representations of Simone Biles at the 2019 National and World Championships”
Division: Commission on the Status of Women
Author: Weiping Li
Paper: “What are anti-disinformation laws for? Analyzing anti-disinformation laws from an ‘information disorder’ perspective”
Division: Law and Policy Division
Authors: Hoa Nguyen, Sara Browning
Paper: “Framing Media Disinformation in a Time of Crisis: Social Media’s Response to COVID-19”
Division: Newspaper and Online News Division/Student Papers
Author: Kate Yanchulis
Paper: “The paper of record of the women’s movement: The national identity of ‘off our backs’
Division: History Division
Author: Kate Yanchulis
Paper: “So F***ing Glad We Got Osuna!: Feminist world building in sports journalism”
Division: Cultural and Critical Studies Division
Authors: Carolina Velloso, Weiping Li, Nohely Alvarez, Shannon Scovel, Md Mahfuzul Haque, Linda Steiner
Paper: “Covering a complicated legacy with a sledgehammer: Metajournalistic and audience discourse after Kobe Bryant’s death”
Division: Media Ethics Division
Authors: Ronald Yaros, Hoa Nguyen
Paper: “Six months of media and COVID-19: A national longitudinal study tracking risk perceptions and trust in government since the first U.S. death”
Division: Communication of Science, Health & Risk Division
Authors: Ronald Yaros, Md Mahfuzul Haque, Md Main Uddin Rony (iSchool), Naeemul Hassan
Paper: “Varying amounts of information in health news headlines can affect user selection and interactivity”
Division: Newspaper and Online News Division
For more information, contact:
Josh Land
joshland@umd.edu
301-405-1321