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Communication Resume Workshop

COMM

Mark your calendars! AWC organized resume workshop specifically for COMM majors.

What: Communication Resume Workshop hosted by the Association for Women in Communications.
Where: Bowen-Thompson Student Union 306
When: Tuesday, January 27, 2015, 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 pm

Workshop will be lead by Heather Golden, Assistant Director of Career Services.
Communication alumni will also be present during this session to share their experiences.

Topics that will be covered during this workshop: (1) Understanding How to Sell Your Communication Degree; (2) Marketing Your Communication Skills to Employers:   Resume and Cover Letters.  If you don’t have a resume, bring your laptop and craft it right then and there!

Questions? E-mail brittmm@bgsu.edu or post to our Facebook group www.facebook.com/groups/AWCBGSU

Resume Workshop

“Beauty pageants objectify women” Dr. Faulkner quoted in The Miami Herald

COMM, Faculty, Graduate Program

Dr. Sandra Faulkner, director of Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies at Bowling Green State University in Ohio (department of communication faculty member), argues that beauty pageants objectify women. “The focus is on youth and looking good and, in many ways, these are impossible standards. They reinforce comfortable notions on what being feminine and what being a woman should be all about.”

Read more here:

http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/article7972452.html

Lack of reciprocity and low confidence in talking about cancer predict topic avoidance in couples

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Drs. Maria Venetis (Purdue), Kathryn Greene (Rutgers), Maria Checton (College of Saint Elizabeth), and Kate Magsamen-Conrad (BGSU) have a new publication out in the Journal of Health Communication. 

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In this article, the authors use the Disclose Decision-Making Model to explore cancer-related topic avoidance among cancer patients and their partners. Participants include 95 dyads in which 1 partner had been diagnosed and/or treated for cancer. Variables of interest include death-, future-, sexuality-, and burden-related topic avoidance and dimensions of the Disclosure Decision-Making Model including information assessment, receiver assessment, relational quality, and discloser efficacy. Data were analyzed using linear regressions. Findings suggest that lack of reciprocity and efficacy are predictors of topic avoidance. The authors discuss implications of findings and suggests direction for future research.

 

Full text is available here: http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/zs6uPVWTseC96YPkhj6c/full#.VL_H61ptTt4

 

Venetis, M. K., Greene, K., Checton, M. G., & Magsamen-Conrad, K. (2015, online first). Decision making in cancer-related topic avoidance. Journal of Health Communication. doi: 10.1080/10810730.2014.96536

 

Attention Undergraduate Students: Spring Walk-In Advising Hours

COMM

If you have a quick question about course selection, adding/dropping the class, major/minor declaration, transfer credit, major change or any quick BGSU policy and procedure question try College of Arts and Sciences Walk-In Advising hours Monday-Friday, 8:30-10:00am in 205 Administration Building. No appointment needed. Junior audits still need an appointment as before. Spring 2015 Semester Walk-inAdvising Hours Flier

TOP PAPER AWARD for docmc and SMC graduate students Wang, Tettah, and Lee (Univ. GA)

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Dr. Magsamen-Conrad (dept. of communication) and SMC graduate students Fang Wang and Dinah Tettah, and University of Georgia graduate student Yen-I Lee received a Top Paper Award from the Communication and Technology Interest group. They will present the paper in April at the annual meeting of the Eastern Communication Association.

Their research discovered support for the ability of components of the Unified Theory of Adoption and Use of Technology to predict New Communication Technology intention and use (42%, controlling for age and gender), with facilitating conditions alone accounting for 26% of the variance. They were also able to explain more than 50% of the variance in e-health literacy combining UTAUT variables and CEW Fluency (computer-email-web fluency, performance expectancy, and effort expectancy explained 54% variance of e-health literacy). Finally, they found significant difference between generational groups across all variables, further explaining generational effects on attitudes towards NCTs and e-health literacy, which may have implications for health self-management. Results underscore a need to highlight the broader benefits of NCT literacy as opposed to representing it as a generational phenomenon to improve e-health literacy of older generations.

Magsamen-Conrad, K., Wang, F, Tettah, D., & Lee, Y-I. (2015, April). Generational differences in NCTs: An intergroup investigation of UTAUT determinants, computer-email-web fluency, and e-health literacy. Paper to be presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Communication Association (Communication and Technology Interest Group Submission), Philadelphia, PA.

SMC Graduate students Abuljadail, Wang, & Yang, and TCOMM Professor Dr. Ha have a new book chapter in press

Faculty, Graduate Program, TCOM

Mohammad Abuljadail, Dr. Louisa Ha, Fang Wang & Liu Yang’s co-authored paper, “What Motivates Online Shoppers to “Like” Brands’ Facebook Fan Pages?” was accepted to be published as a refereed book chapter in the book Human Behavior, Psychology and Social Interaction in the Digital Era.

Hot off the Press! Dr. Yamaguchi publishes book on Japanese American Women

COMM, Graduate Program

Dr. Precious Yamaguchi, Phd 2010 from the School of Media and Communication at Bowling Green State University has published her research (conducted during her time here as graduate student under the supervision of Dr. Gajjala, with SMC committee members Dr. Dixon and Dr. Ha) as a book.

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Details of her book are available at – https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780739192429

 

 

Dr. Stafford’s Research Published in Recent Issue of Journal of Family Issues

COMM

Dr. Laura Stafford, SMC Director, with co-author Prabu David has published  “A Relational Approach to Religion and Spirituality in Marriage The Role of Couples’ Religious Communication in Marital Satisfaction” in recent issue of Journal of Family Issues. Using a relational model of religion and spirituality in marriage, the study examined the role of individual relationship with God, couple’s joint religious communication, and forgiveness as predictors of marital satisfaction. Here is the direct link to this article  http://jfi.sagepub.com/content/36/2/232.abstract

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docmc honored in Ohio Magazine

Alumni, COMM, Current Students, Faculty, Graduate Program

Dr. Magsamen-Conrad was honored in Ohio Magazine’s annual Excellence in Education section as a Memorable Educator. Each year Ohio Magazine recognizes “remarkably talented and passionate teachers” from Ohio’s colleges and universities who engage students in “real-world learning experiences that are vital to a well-rounded education.”

docmc honored in Ohio Magazine
docmc honored in Ohio Magazine

Dr. Hanasono & the ADVANCE Research Team receive a major grant from the Building Strength Research Program

COMM, Faculty, Graduate Program

The Office of the Vice Provost for Research and Economic Development and the Office of Sponsored Programs and Research recently awarded Dr. Lisa Hanasono and the ADVANCE Research Team a major grant from the Building Strength Program. The grant ($10,000) will fund an interdisciplinary research project that examines how cultural, institutional, individual, and communication factors support and inhibit the career advancement of women faculty in STEM disciplines.

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