Archives for December 2010

There are currently special interest divisions, each admitted in accordance with qualifications set out in the AEJMC Constitution. Heads of divisions and the Head of the Council of Affiliates are members of the Council of Divisions.

The 18 divisions are: Advertising, Communicating Science, Health, Environment and Risk, Communication Technology, Communication Theory and Methodology, Cultural and Critical Studies, History, International Communications, Law & Policy, Magazine, Mass Communication and Society, Media Ethics, Media Management and Economics, Minorities and Communication, Newspaper, Public Relations, Radio-Television Journalism, Scholastic Journalism and Visual Communication.

Requirements for Forming
The following statement is applicable to any group of Regular AEJMC members wishing to form a division.

Three requirements must be met before submitting a petition for division status to the Executive Committee of AEJMC:

1.            Ten percent of the regular members, or 200, whichever is less, must petition the Executive Committee for creation of this new division. At least 50 of the petitioners must state in writing their intent to join the particular division. The person in charge of organizing should keep these statements.

2.            A $50 check made out to AEJMC must be submitted at the time of the petitioning, to cover initial office costs in connection with the new division.

3.            A proposed program of performance in teaching, research, and public service must be drawn up and agreed to by the petitioners, and submitted with a list of petitioners and the $50 check. The proposed program should not be more than 500 words in length and may be shorter.

For a group seeking divisional status in a given fiscal year, the deadline for submitting the above material is November 1 of that year. A copy of the proposal, the $50 check and the list of petitioners should be sent to the AEJMC central office.

If the petition for divisional status meets the approval of the Executive Committee at its December meeting, it will recommend that the AEJMC Conference vote approval at the next August AEJMC Conference. If the Executive Committee asks for changes in the petition, it will do so far enough in advance of the convention to permit the petitioners to act.

Annual Reports
All divisions are required to make an annual report of their division’s activities to the Elected Standing Committees not later than June 15. One copy of these reports are to be mailed to the executive director. The executive director distributes them to the Board of Directors, the Elected Standing Committees, and the new division heads. A supplemental report is due in early September.

The executive director will send a reminder notice along with a copy of the format for division reports to each division head in early May.

The Elected Standing Committees will send a written report of its findings to the Central Office by October 15. The office will then distribute the report to the division and interest group heads. The reports are published in the January issue of the newsletter.

Constitutional Requirements for Division Performance
Article I, Section 3, of the AEJMC Constitution states:

“The functions of teaching, research, and public service recognized in Section 2 shall be undertaken by each division of this association.

“The elected standing committees shall … evaluate the divisions’ annual reports on a basis of clearly established criteria, and they shall report their evaluations, with recommendations, to the Executive Committee, to the divisions, and to the membership at large. In their evaluations of divisions, they shall consider the issues of diversity in participation and programming.”

Board of Directors and Elected Standing Committees
While the AEJMC Executive Committee has final authority in the review of division performance, it needs help in performing the review. The detailed study of 18 divisions’ performance across the three academic functions of teaching, research and service is more work than it can add to its other duties. AEJMC agencies exist, however, whose assigned work specifically applies to the divisional responsibilities in the three aforementioned functions: AEJMC’s “horizontal” committees, each with authority in one academic function and each cutting across the “vertical” or special interest divisions.

These are the Elected Standing Committees, chosen by AEJMC members to represent them in these functions:
Teaching – Committee on Teaching
Research – Committee on Research
Public Service – Committee on Professional Freedom and Responsibility

Each of these committees has special knowledge and expertise in its own function, and each can and should study the performance of the divisions with respect to that function and of AEJMC as a whole, and make appropriate recommendations to the Board of Directors.

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1. The head of a division or interest group is the only person authorized to approve charges to your group’s accounts.  Newsletter editors may, also, be approved but only with your authorization.  Please inform the central office of this arrangement.  For safety sake, keep authorizations to a few.
2. Check requests should be mailed to the attention of the Business Manager at the central office in South Carolina.  A signed payment voucher should be accompanied by the supporting documentation for the charge.
   With mailing times, you should allow a little over a week’s time for payment of bills.  We try to pay bills the day that we receive them, but sometimes it takes several days.
3. Certain divisions and commissions are responsible for Endowment Accounts that award individual awards.  These accounts are the only ones that draw any interest.  The principle on these accounts may not be drawn upon.  Award checks and plaques can only draw upon the interest that is earned for the year.  If this amount is exceeded, the division, commission or interest group funds will be charged the difference.  Division, commissions and interest groups accounts earn no interest and are charged no maintenance fees.
4. Each quarter you will receive a copy of your group’s account and any other accounts that you are responsible for.
5. Please try to have all your conference check requests for next year in as close to the deadline as possible.  No checks will be written during the conference.  Checks cannot be cut to the recipient of your awards unless you inform us of the person’s name and the amount.
6. Conference speaker funding is available to all groups as defined in the constitution.  The Chair of the Council of Divisions will go into more detail about this with you.  Only outside speakers (non AEJMC members) are eligible for this funding.  No speaker can have any bills paid, unless a Conference Speaker Expense Form is filed on that individual.  The central office will supply you with this form once the President of AEJMC has approved your funding.  This form shows the breakdown of how this money is to be spent.  You will, also, be provided with guidelines (which were developed by the Council of Divisions) for the spending of these funds.
7. Once funding is approved, you will need to file a similar form with the AEJMC central office.  Once again, there is a deadline for submitting these forms.  If these forms are not submitted, your speaker will not be able to have their expenses reimbursed promptly.
8. Most groups award monetary prizes to their respective paper winners.  Some divisions and commissions are, also, responsible for Endowment awards.  These requests need to be turned into the office so that these checks are available at the conference.  If you so desire, checks will be brought to the conference and you will be able to pick them up at the registration desk.
9. Each group is allowed to award four (4) complimentary registrations to its student paper winners.  A list of these individuals needs to be turned into the AEJMC office.  You need to inform the individuals that are involved that they will receive complimentary registrations.  AEJMC underwrites these registrations.
10. A list of your invited outside speakers needs to be turned into the AEJMC Office.  We need this list so that badges can be made up for your invited guests.
11. No AEJMC member is eligible to receive complimentary speaker registration or funding for the conference.  Only outside (non-AEJMC members) speakers are granted this privilege.

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Journalism & Mass Communication Educator seeks contributions that support a community of faculty and student discovery, the acquisition of knowledge and skills, and their creative application to issues of import, both within and beyond classroom and web site. The journal focuses on learning and teaching, curriculum, educational leadership, and related exploration of higher education within a context of journalism and mass communication. Articles draw from a variety of theoretical approaches and methodological perspectives and should introduce readers to new questions, new evidence, and effective educational practices. Scholarship is encouraged that is grounded in knowledge about the complexity of learning and respectful of student needs for multiple paths toward understanding; rooted in the disciplinary content of the professional and academic specialties we ask our students to master; and cognizant of the discipline’s long-standing commitment to the arts of liberty, not through vague aphorisms, but as solutions to educational, civic, and public needs.

1. Submissions. Submit your manuscript, which should be no more than 4,000 words long (excluding tables, charts, graphs, and endnotes), at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jmce.
2. Abstract and Author. An abstract of no more than 100 words must accompany each submission. Author identification should appear only on the title page and should include academic rank or professional title and applicable university and departmental affiliation.
3. Style. For final acceptance, use Chicago Manual of Style guidelines. For law manuscripts, Chicago refers you elsewhere for certain citations. Do not use in-text references, i.e., (Weston, 1972). Do not use op. cit., ibid., or bc. cit. In ordinary text, whole numbers from one through ninety-nine are spelled out. However, when normally spelled numbers cluster in a sentence or paragraph, use figures. Use % instead of percent in reference to statistics; for rounded percentages write the word. Underline or italicize names of cities when using newspaper names, i.e., New York Times. In endnotes and in book review headings, use postal code abbreviations for states; in regular copy, use traditional abbreviations.
4. Heading Styles. First-level headings are typed in bold italic and justified left. Second-level headings are indented and typed in bold italic. Third-level headings are indented and typed in italic. Note this example:
   Method
   Sample. A random sample…
   Sampling Techniques. These techniques are useful when…
5. Tables. When creating tables, use the WordPerfect table feature, MacIntosh Word using the “Insert Table” command, or PageMaker with tabs. Do not duplicate material in text and tables. Tables and figures should be used only when they substantially aid the reader, not merely because computers make tables easy to create.

Basic Endnote Style:

1. Todd Gitlin, Inside Prime Time (NY: Pantheon, 1985), 82. [Note that page numbers do not carry the pp. or p. prefix.]
2. Joseph R. Dominick, “Children’s Viewing of Crime Shows and Attitudes on Law Enforcement,” Journalism Quarterly 51 (spring 1974): 5-12.
3. Robert K. Manoff and Michael Schudson, eds., Reading the News (NY: Pantheon Books, 1986), 8.
4. Leon V. Sigal, “Sources Make the News,” in Reading the News, ed. Robert Karl Manoff and Michael Schudson (NY: Pantheon Books, 1986), 9-37.
5. “Nicaragua’s Bitter Harvest: War in Coffee Fields,” New York Times, 23 December 1983, sec. A, p. 2, col. 4.

World Wide Web Citations:

Citations to the Web must include: author’s name, title of document in quotation marks, title of complete work or journal (if relevant), in italics, date of publication or last revision, URL in angle brackets, date of access in parentheses.
Examples:
Article in an online/electronic journal:
Rachael Smolkin, “Binded by History,” American Journalism Review, January/February 2003, <http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=2747> (19 January 2003).
Professional site:
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, AEJMC Online, January 2003, <http://www.aejmc.org/index.html> (22 January 2003).

For a complete guide to Chicago style for online documents, see <http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/cite7.html>.

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Journalism & Communication Monographs

Following the practice common for book publication, a scholar must first submit a five to ten page proposal to start the review process.

Although work can be based on previously published articles (full disclosure to the editor is ethically required), accepted manuscripts must be previously unpublished.

The submission procedure is completed in five steps:

1. Peer review of proposal. A proposal must contain the title and abstract, 3-5 keywords, and seven brief sections: Thesis and Central Argument, Significance of Research, Major Arguments and Premises, Illustration Ideas with Sources, Potential Audience, Qualifications of the Scholar (without identification), and Bibliography.
2. Accepted proposals receive a deadline for completion of the manuscript. Once submitted, the original proposal reviewers will consider the manuscript.
3. If the original reviewers advise further revisions (almost always), authors will submit two files: One that answers and/or addresses all of the comments from the reviewers plus the revised manuscript.
4.  A final publication decision is made and your work will be scheduled for publication.
5. Authors will work with the editor to secure permissions for any illustrations and help arrange social media publicity for the work.

Start the process. Click here.

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Teaching in an Age of Entitlement

2008 Convention • Chicago, IL

Teaching Resources (PDFs)

• Gigi Carroll’s PowerPoint: Choice generation: A closer look at millennials
• Cynthia Frisby’s PowerPoint: It’s all about me: Narcissism and entitlement among college students
• Cynthia Frisby’s cover page to her syllabus
• Cynthia Frisby’s extensive syllabus with her Netiquette Issues and other policies
• Recommended resources from the session

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