New SCS Newsletter (Feb, 2009) has been released
Dr. Stephen Croucher’s recent publications and awards
Stephen Croucher in the Department of Interpersonal Communication had an article published in the Journal of International and Intercultural Communication: “French-Muslim Reactions to the Law Banning Religious Symbols in Schools: A Mixed Methods Analysis.”
Croucher also had an article published in Communication Education along with current doctoral students (Bridget Long, Michael Meredith, Deepa Oommen and Matthew Lamb) and former MA student (Emily Steele): “Factors predicting organizational identification with intercollegiate forensics teams.”
Croucher was also awarded a top paper award by the Language and Social Interaction Division of the 2009 International Communication Association for this year’s conference for the following paper: “How limiting linguistic freedoms influences the cultural adaptation process: An analysis of the French-Muslim population.” He will present this paper at the ICA convention in Chicago in May.
Dr. Oliver Boyd-Barrett’s recent publications and invitations
Oliver Boyd-Barrett: Publications
Dr. Oliver Boyd-Barrett published the following articles towards the close of 2008:
Boyd-Barrett, O. (2008) News agency majors: Ownership, Control and Influence Revisited, Journal of Global Mass Communication, Vol. 1, No.1, pp. 57-71
Boyd-Barrett, O. (2008) News agencies, history of, in Wolfgang Donsback (Ed), Blackwell International Encyclopedia of Communication, Wiley-Blackwell
Boyd-Barrett, O. (2008) Jeremy Tunstall: The media were American: US mass media in decline, Global Media and Communication, Volume 4(2): 201-207
Rantanen, T. and Boyd-Barrett, O. (2008) Global and national news agencies , in A. De Beer and J. Merrill (eds) Global Journalism: Topical Issues and Media Systems, 5th Edition, pp. 33-47
Oliver Boyd-Barrett: Invitations
Oliver Boyd-Barrett is invited by the News Agency of Catalonia (ACN), Spain, to publish an edited volume on the future of national and regional news agencies, in recognition of the tenth anniversary of this predominantly internet news agency, covering the most prosperous region of Spain. The book will be published by EADOP (Generalitat de Catalunya).
Oliver Boyd-Barrett is invited Keynote Speaker at the Conference on Communication Technologies and Social Change, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in March.
Oliver Boyd-Barrett is invited to offer a video-conference presentation to graduate students of the International Communication program at UNITEC, in Auckland, New Zealand in April.
Oliver Boyd-Barrett and Srinivas Melkote are invited by the Assistant Direct General of Communication and Information, UNESCO, to proceed with a suitable collaborative arrangement with an African partner to be identified among UNESCO-designated Potential Centres of Excellence in Journalism.
Education about DTV transition lacking in Ohio
BGSU Falcon Forensics & Debate Wins 8th CFA Tournament in Montreal
BGSU Falcon Forensics & Debate Wins 8th CFA Tournament in Montreal http://www.bgsu.edu/offices/mc/monitor/02-09-09/page61055.html
Dr. Gorsevski’s application approved for funding
Dr. Gorsevski’s application to the FRC for the Faculty Mentoring and Enrichment Program has been funded. – congratulations!
Dr. Raymond I. Schuck’s essay published
Dr. Raymond I. Schuck’s essay “Babe’s in Tourland: How Babe Ruth was Well-Suited for Barnstorming” was published in the edited volume Baseball and the ‘Sultan of Swat’: Babe Ruth at 100, which was released in fall of 2008. Also in the fall of 2008, two other of Dr. Schuck’s manuscripts were accepted for publication. His essay “Bob Dole and the Brooklyn Dodgers” was accepted for publication in an edited volume on politics and baseball and his essay “From Politics to Personal Expression: Representations of Sport in Walter Dean Myers’ Young Adult Works” was accepted for publication in an edited volume on young adult literature. Additionally, in October 2008, Dr. Schuck gave a presentation on “Ancient Greece and the Origins of Rhetoric” as part of the Western Civilization Speaker Series at Ohio Northern University and he presented the paper “When ‘Mazings converge: Contextualizing ‘Mazing Man’s trip to Shea Stadium” at The Comic Book in Popular Culture Conference at Bowling Green State University.
Dr. Ha attendee for Competitive Summit
Dr. Louisa Ha will attend an invitation-only Competitive TV Summit by Broadcasting and Cable Magazine with 36 TV, industry leaders on the future of TV business in Orlando, Florida, March 4-5. She is one of two invited academic attendees of the summit.
Dr. Park’s paper ranked 1st in Conference
Telecommunications Professor Dr. Sung-Yeon Park received first place for her paper in the Intergroup Communication Interest Group of the International Communication Association 2009 Conference in Chicago last May.
Her paper, “Explicating Mediated Intergroup Contact: A synthesis of the intergroup contact theory and media stereotype research,” came from her Peace Conference presentation last Fall.
Yoon Paper Selected for AEJMC Conference
Ki sung Yoon will present his paper on Catholic priests’ participation on a social movement in Korea, at a conference this March.
It was selected by the Religion and Media Interest Group, and will be presented at the Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication’s Midwinter Conference. The paper had been written for Dr. Gorsevski’s “Rhetoric for Globalization” class.
Congratulations, Ki sung!