Category Archives: Faculty

Dr. Park’s solo article accepted for publication in the journal “Mass Communication & Society”

Dr. Sung-Yeon Park’s essay “Mediated intergroup contact: Concept explication, synthesis, and application” is accepted for publication in “Mass Communication & Society.” The article is based on her earlier ICA Top paper (2009) and elaborates the concept of mediated intergroup contact by synthesizing media stereotype research and intergroup contact theory in social psychology.

Dr. Gi Woong Yun to serve on editorial advisory board for the Asian Journal of Communication

Dr. Gi Woong Yun has been asked to serve on the editorial advisory board for the Asian Journal of Communication. Launched in 1990, AJC is jointly run by the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and the Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC). It is published by Taylor & Francis, which handles its production and marketing.

AJC
is a refereed international publication that provides a venue for high-quality communication scholarship. It focuses on the systems and processes of communication in the Asia-Pacific region and Asian communities around the world. AJC brings to its readers the latest, broadest and most important findings in Asian communication research. It follows a rigorous procedure of double-blind peer review to maintain its high standard of scholarship. The journal has been listed in the Thomson Reuters Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) since 2008.  It is the only communication journal from Asia that has been included in the index.

Dr. Sandra Faulkner had papers accepted for publication

Sandra Faulkner had the following papers accepted for publication:

Faulkner, S. L. & Hecht, M. L. (in press). The Negotiation of Closetable Identities: A Narrative Analysis of LGBTQ Jewish Identity. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships.

Croucher, S., Faulkner, S. L., Long, B., & Oomen, D. (in press). Demographic and religious differences in the dimensions of self-disclosure among Hindus and Muslims in India. Journal of Intercultural Communication.

Faulkner, S. L. (in press). Poetry as/in Research: Craft connections between poets and qualitative researchers. In S. Thomas, A. Cole & S. Stewart (Eds.), The art of poetic inquiry. Nova Scotia: Backalongbooks.

Faulkner, S. L. (in press). Gandules and Rice: Sexual Talk in Latina Families. In C. Noland (Ed.), Case Studies in Communication About Sex. Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Cambridge.

Dr. Gajjala to give invited talk at University of Sussex

Dr. Gajjala will be travelling to Europe in October and presenting at the ECREA conference on her most recent projects related to her in-progress

book length project on Affect and Placement in online networks. Following her participation in that conference, she will be travelling to University of

Sussex to give an invited talk at the Media, Film and Music Research Seminar Series , on October 20, 2010.

TV Instructor Opening 2010-2011 Department of Telecommunications

TV Instructor Opening 2010-2011

Department of Telecommunications

Bowling Green State University

The Department of Telecommunications, School of Media and Communication, Bowling Green State University, is inviting applications for a one-year full-time instructor position in television/video production for 2010-2011 academic year.  This position is not renewable.   The course load is four courses per semester.  The position will be required to teach Video I:  Fundamentals of Video Production, Video II  Field Production and Editing Fundamentals,  and Introductory course in Mass Media.   In addition to teaching courses, the instructor will advise a student media organization called BG Reel Productions and may help in student academic and career advising.  Professional experience in television production and a master’s degree are preferred for this position.   Candidates with over 15 years of television production experience with a bachelor’s degree may also be considered.  The individual will receive full benefits as a full-time employee of the university.

Send your current curriculum vita with three original letters of references (including at least one from the candidate’s current employer),  and OFFICIAL transcript(s) showing the highest degree earned and any subsequent coursework to the TV Instructor Search Committee, Department of Telecommunications, Bowling Green State University, West Hall 302, Bowling Green, Ohio 43403.  Application materials must be postmarked by June 7, 2010.

For more information about the Department of Telecommunications, please visit the website at http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/tcom/.

BGSU is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer which encourages application from minorities, women, veterans and individuals with disabilities.

Dr. Gajjala hosts Research Seminar May 20, 2010

RESEARCH SEMINAR

Thursday 20th May 2010

14:00-16:00, Room U103 (First floor, Tower 2)

“Laboring to Produce Agency:
Marketing Empowerment through Online Networks”

Professor Radhika Gajjala

Bowling Green State University

Presentation Abstract: Online Social networking tools in recent times are increasingly being used by non-profits and NGOs who are reaching out globally to find connections and networks to empower various marginalized groups in specific locales. This leads to advocacy issues being taken into global spaces where the local context is displaced and re-presented in an effort to garner material and social support for the causes that are taken up by the non-profits. Individuals who train in “social entrepreneurship” skills, mostly using online networking tools, work in these non-profits thus labor continuously  to communicate across diverse contexts. The individuals form a particular kind of labor force in these online settings that are in a sense both “IT professionals” and  “social workers” that perform “communicative labor” (Dempsey, 2009).  In my presentation I will discuss the notions of “empowerment”, “voice” and “agency” that emerge in these online spaces.

About Professor Radhika Gajjala: Radhika Gajjala is Director of Women’s Studies and Professor of Communication and Cultural Studies at Bowling Green State University, Ohio. Her book Cyberselves: Feminist Ethnographies of South Asian Women (2004) was published by Altamira Press. She co-edited South Asian Technospaces and Webbing Cyberfeminist Practice and is currently working on a couple book length projects – one is on “Technocultural Agency: Production of Identity at the Interface” and the other examines “Affect and Placement in Indian Digital Diasporas.”

Url: http://personal.bgsu.edu/~radhik

Essays on Politics and Baseball by Michael Butterworth and Raymond Schuck Published

Drs. Michael Butterworth and Raymond Schuck from the School of Media and Communication have essays appearing in the volume The Politics of Baseball: Essays on the Pastime and Power at Home and Abroad, which was edited by Ron Briley and was just released by McFarland Press. Dr. Schuck’s essay is titled “Bob Dole and the Brooklyn Dodgers.” Dr. Butterworth’s essay is titled “Major League Baseball, Welcome Back Veterans, and the Rhetoric of ‘Support the Troops.’”