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April, 2008 - Asta Zelenkauskaite, a first year Ph.D. student to present at two upcoming conferences. Asta Zelenkauskaite is going to give a presentation entitled "Media convergence: Old medium, New applications - Lithuanian iTV SMS" in a 'Media, Communication' panel at the conference entitled 'Baltic Crossroads:Examining Cultural, Social, and Historical Diversity' organized by Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies 21st Conference on Baltic Studies at Indiana University May 29 to June 1, 2008. She will also present a paper along with Professor Susan Herring (SLIS) entitled "Gender Differences in Personal Advertisements in Lithuanian iTV SMS," which was accepted to the peer-reviewed conference Cultural Attitudes Towards Technology and Communication 2008 (CATaC'08). Asta will give the presentation in Nîmes, France, June 24-27 where the conference will take place. March, 2008 - Two Top Paper Awards Among Seventeen Departmental Papers Accepted for Presentation at International Communications Association Annual Meeting in Montreal, May 22-26. Information Systems Division Seth Finn, Robert F. Potter & Sungkyoung Lee--Every Word Matters: Correlating Word Information Value In Persuasive Messages with Physiological Arousal Responses. Satoko Kurita, Sungkyoung Lee, Zheng Wang & Annie Lang --How
much is too much?: Media Structure, Content, and Cognitive
Load, and Overload Robert F. Potter, Paul D. Bolls, Jacob Koruth, Kevin Wise, Rachel Bailey & Annie Lang, Heart Rate Variability Analysis Suggests a Reinterpretation of Cardiac Responses During Media Messages. P.G. Nadorff, Sungkyoung Lee, Brian Wilson, Annie Lang, Bernice Pescosolido & Jack Martin-- Mass Media and Stigma: How portrayals of mental illness impact social stigma. Andrew Weaver, Soyoung Bae & Robert F. Potter--Physiological Responses to Manipulation of Violence in a Primetime Drama. Brian Wilson & Julia R. Fox-- Exploring the Effects of Audience
Laughter on Information Processing Law & Policy Division Betsi Grabe, Narine Yegiyan & Rasha Kamhawi-- Experimental evidence of the knowledge gap: Message arousal, motivation, and time delay. Sojung C. Kim & Erik P. Bucy-- International Crisis News
and the Evaluation of Threat: Viewer Responses to News Coverage
of the North Korean Nuclear Test Journalism Studies Division November 26, 2007 - Current
Issue of Media Psychology Features
Four Articles with The latest issue of the academic journal Media Psychology (Volume 10, Issue 3) contains seven peer-reviewed articles, four of which were authored by scholars with ties to Indiana University’s Department of Telecommunications and the Institute for Communication Research. The lead article, written by Annie Lang (Professor and Associate Dean of Research for The College of Arts & Sciences) and four graduate students is entitled “Cognition and Emotion in TV Message Processing: How Valence, Arousing Content, Structural Complexity, and Information Density Affect the Availability of Cognitive Resources.” It explores the common psychological measurement tool, secondary task reaction time (STRT), and shows that STRT measures cognitive resources available at during the task of encoding information, and that this remains consistent when the information is particularly emotional. Rob Potter (Assistant Professor and Director of the Institute for Communication Research) is a co-author with Francesca Dillman Carpentier on the article “Effects of Music on Physiological Arousal: Explorations into Tempo and Genre.” The article reports results from two experiments validating the concept of tempo (measured as average beats-per-minute) as an index of auditory structural complexity. Faster tempo was associated with increased activation of the sympathetic nervous system as measured through skin conductance levels during music exposure. Also featured in the issue are articles by two IU Department of Telecommunications doctoral program graduates. Samuel D. Bradley (Ph.D., 2005) authored “Neural Network Stimulations Support Heuristic Processing Model of Cultivation Effects.” Bradley is currently an Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University. Ron Tamborini (Ph.D., 1983) is a co-author with Paul Skalski on “The Role of Social Presence in Interactive Agent-Based Persuasion.” Tamborini is currently a Professor and Director of Doctoral Programs in the Department of Communications at Michigan State University. Media Psychology is published quarterly by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates and describes itself as “an interdisciplinary journal devoted to publishing theoretically-oriented empirical research at the intersection of psychology and mass communication.” Questions regarding Lang’s work can be sent via email at anlang@indiana.edu. November 5, 2007 - Three Telecom to Teach Intensive Freshmen Seminars in 2008 Mike McGregor, Rob Potter, and Andrew Weavers have each been selected to teach courses for the Intensive Freshman Seminar (IFS) program in August of 2008. The IFS provides new IU students with a concentrated classroom experience focusing on interesting topics for the three weeks prior to the fall semester. McGregor, who is returning for his fourth summer as an IFS faculty member, will be teaching Freedom of Speech in the United States. The course studies the philosophical underpinnings and rationales for allowing and stimulating free expression, considers the various arguments formulated in favor of and against extending free speech, and theorizes about how free speech precedents might be extended to new situations. Potter’s course, This is Your Brain on Media: How TV, Computer Games, and Radio Capture Your Attention & Play with Your Emotions, exposes students to concepts central to the field of cognitive psychology such as attention, emotion, attitude, and memory. It does so through readings of published research in the areas of both cognitive psychology and media processes & effects. Students will also be exposed to research methods employed in cognitive psychology such as secondary task reaction time, continuous response measurement and psychophysiological measures such as heart rate, skin conductance, and facial electromyography. Weaver’s course, Human Aggression: Causes and Consequences uses a multidisciplinary approach to examine the topic of human aggression. Students will journey through biological, psychological, and sociological explanations for the root of aggressive behavior, addressing questions like: Are humans, by nature, aggressive beings? What causes people to go on violent crime sprees, or abuse their spouse or children, or fight with strangers at a bar? Is the media to blame? Is the responsibility on the shoulders of parents? What can we, as a society, do to reduce aggressive behavior? Incoming freshmen interested in these courses should contact the professors directly, as well as the IFS (ifs@indiana.edu). September 2007 - Mark Deuze's new book, Media Work published - Mark Deuze’s Media Work focuses on the working lives of professionals in the global media industries, and shows that careers in the media industry are not open, inclusive, or a ‘free for all’ as often suggested in the popular press. It is a cut-throat and precarious business where the ‘feminine’ qualities you need to get in – excellent communication and social skills, a talent for team work – are the same that will keep you from moving to the (male-dominated) top. Furthermore, digital media – think YouTube, Wikipedia, Ohmynews – threaten to make the work and role of media professionals obsolete, as creative production gets increasingly outsourced to consumers. What makes this research relevant on a broader scale is the fact that the working lives of media professionals are looked at by all other industries as pioneer-models for the management and organization of labor in the global cultural economy. (download information - PDF)Spring semester 2007—Students in the Department of Telecommunications course T461 "Advanced Interactive Transmedia Design" were asked to design a promotional web animation for the IU Alumni Association (IUAA). The project was co-coordinated by Norbert Herber (Lecturer, IU Dept. of Telecommunications) and Rachael Crouch (Assistant Director, IUAA Membership). Students were asked to conceptualize, design, and deliver a multimedia presentation suitable for integration within the IUAA’s new graduate web site. The project was required to generate interest in the IU Alumni Association and a complimentary one year membership presented to first time graduates; to engage graduating students from all eight IU campuses, and to encourage exploration of the IUAA home page. Twelve students in the class submitted project ideas in March of 2007. Staff at the IUAA narrowed these to the three projects they thought had the most potential, and the class was then divided into three teams of four. Each team consisted of the student who developed the original idea (as "project leader") and three of their classmates. Teams were selected by pairing each student's skills and expertise with the project to which they could make the most helpful contribution. In the end, the Alumni Association chose the project "Benny" by Joey Reinisch, project leader (BA Telecommunications '07) with Bill Boese (BA Telecommunications '08), Max Crawford (BA Telecommunications, BA Communication & Culture '07), and Stephanie Zuroff (BA Telecommunications, BA East Asian languages & Cultures '07).
The winning project is hosted at the Alumni Association site: http://alumni.indiana.edu/membership/grads/message2007.shtml In reference to all of the projects that were submitted, Rachael Crouch of the IUAA noted, "how impressed we were with your creativity, professionalism, and enthusiasm surrounding the T461 IUAA project. Each member of our focus group (composed of graduating seniors, staff members, and recent graduates) couldn't believe these were student-made projects." Some of the comments from the focus group include:
The other submissions are also available at the T461 class web site.
April, 2007 - Associate
Professor Erik Bucy has received continuation funding for his Colloquium
on Political Communication Research (CPCR) speakers series through
a Multidisciplinary Ventures & Seminars Fund award from the
office of the Vice Provost for Academic Affairs. The theme for
the next few years will be "politics and the life sciences," in
an effort to build bridges and make connections between social
science and life science approaches. This will not exclude more
conventional political communication scholarship but will, at least
a few times each semester, incorporate presentations on political
phenomena that are broadly informed by life sciences perspectives. February 1, 2007 - IU Dept. of Telecommunications
Research Accepted for Presentation at International Communications
Association Annual Meeting in San Francisco, May 24-28. # # # # Daily Show Study Which would you think has more substantive news coverage, broadcast television
network newscasts or The Daily Show with Jon Stewart? Would you believe the
answer is neither? Julia A. Fox, assistant professor of telecommunications
at Indiana University, isn't joking when she says the popular "fake
news" program is just as substantive as network coverage. While much
has been written in the media about the Daily Show's impact, Fox's study
is the first scholarly effort to systematically examine how the comedy program
compares to traditional television news as sources of political information.
She and two graduate students at IU, Glory Koloen and Volkan Sahin, analyzed
coverage of the 2004 national political conventions and the first presidential
debate by the networks and Stewart's program. Not surprisingly, a second-by-second
analysis of The Daily Show's audio and visual content found considerably
more humor than substance -- Stewart himself has insisted that he is a comedian
and not a journalist. A similar analysis of network coverage found considerably
more hype than substance in broadcast newscasts. Examples of such hype included
references to polls, political endorsements and photo opportunities. "Interestingly,
the average amounts of video and audio substance in the broadcast network
news stories were not significantly different than the average amounts of
visual and audio substance in The Daily Show with Jon Stewart stories about
the presidential election," they wrote in the paper. # # # #
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