You can find photos from the history division’s AEJMC activities posted in our Facebook group.
We hope to see you in 2020 in San Francisco!
By Will Mari, Louisiana State University, Vice Chair/Program Chair, wtmari@gmail.com
It’s already time to start submitting AEJMC 2020 conference panel proposals. If you have an idea for a panel, please send Will Mari an email at wtmari@gmail.com with:
1. The title of the proposal
2. Whether the panel is teaching, research or PF&R
3. A brief summary of what the panel is about
4. The potential co-sponsor (another AEJMC division/interest group/commission)
5. Whom you propose to be on the panel, including a short bio of each panelist and a short description of what each panelist would discuss.
The deadline for panel proposals is noon Central Time on Friday, Sept. 20. The final selection of panels and panelists will be determined after negotiations with the other AEJ divisions/interest groups/commissions.
By Rachel Grant, University of Florida, Membership Co-Chair, rgrant@jou.ufl.edu
Erin Coyle (Louisiana State University) published an article in Communication Law & Policy with Stephanie L. Whitenack. The article uses legal analysis to explore how states assess relational privacy rights and public rights to access 911 recordings involving death. The article is now available online via Taylor & Francis. Here is the citation and link to the abstract: Erin K. Coyle & Stephanie L. Whitenack (2019) Access to 911 Recordings: Balancing Privacy Interests and the Public’s Right to Know about Deaths, Communication Law and Policy, 24:3, 307-345, DOI: 10.1080/10811680.2019.1627796.
Kristin Gustafson (University of Washington-Bothell) and Amy Lambertwere awarded one of the top three out of about 60 posters presented at the University of Washington’s 15th Annual Teaching & Learning Symposium in Seattle. The Gustafson-Lambert poster, “Team Teaching Models for Professional Development and Peer Learning,” was judged one of three winners based on appearance, content and presentation. The poster shared two outcomes of their team-teaching experience with first-year students. They identified how the experience functioned as faculty development, and shared a new peer-observation model that builds on the expertise and insight gained through team teaching.
Nick Hirshon (William Paterson University) was selected for one of the highest honors that can be afforded to a journalism educator in the United States, the 2019 David Eshelman Outstanding Campus Adviser Award as the nation’s top adviser of a campus chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. Hirshon’s students nominated him for the award. In its 41-year history, the award has almost exclusively been granted to advisers at universities with enrollments at least double William Paterson’s, and largely to the nation’s most prestigious journalism programs, such as Columbia University, the University of Missouri, Ohio University, the University of Maryland, the University of Central Florida, and the University of Iowa. No educator from the New York metropolitan area has received the award since a professor at Columbia University in 1998. The award will be presented at SPJ’s annual Excellence in Journalism conference in September in San Antonio, Texas.
Will Mari (Louisiana State University) has signed a contract with Routledge for a sequel to “A Short History of Disruptive Journalism Technologies 1960-1990,” part of Routledge’s “Disruptions” series. The follow-up project will be titled, “Newsrooms and the Disruption of the Internet,” covering the period from c. 1990-2010, with an expected release date in late 2021 or early 2022.
Cayce Myers (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University) received tenure and promotion to Associate Professor at Virginia Tech’s Department of Communication.
By Teri Finneman, University of Kansas, History Division Chair, teri.finneman@ku.edu
Creating a greater sense of community among the History Division throughout the year has been a priority of mine since I joined the leadership team as a membership chair four years ago.
Initiatives like #MediaHistoryEngagementWeek, e-Clio and the Journalism History podcast have aimed to bring more multimedia to the division, to have more frequent communication and connections among members, and to open our work to a broader audience to illustrate the importance of media history.
Therefore, one of my first initiatives as your chair this year also fits this theme with the launch of a new virtual conference consisting of a series of History Division webinars throughout the school year.
Continue readingMadeleine Liseblad, Middle Tennessee State University, Membership Co-Chair, Madeleine.Liseblad@mtsu.edu
Mark Arbuckle
Where you work: I’m a Professor in the Department of Communication at Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, Kansas.
Where you got your Ph.D.: I earned my Ph.D. (2001) from the School of Journalism at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.
Current favorite class: A tie between History of Mass Communication and Law of Mass Communication. I also greatly enjoy teaching my Free Speech graduate seminar class.
Current research project: I have a manuscript under review at a law journal that chronicles the numerous warnings from lawmakers, FCC commissioners, and the courts, over the decades, against excessive media ownership consolidation. The manuscript concludes that current-day regulators should heed the warnings from the past and return to a regulatory philosophy that promotes ownership diversity and, thus, protects the public interest, journalism and democracy.
Fun fact about yourself: I was a Maytag repairman for 10 years in my parents’ appliance business before going back to school to complete my B.S. in journalism at the University of Central Missouri. I’m also a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist and have been writing and recording songs in my home studio, playing all the instruments myself, for 35 years.
Continue readingBy Rachel Grant, University of Florida, Membership Co-Chair, rgrant@jou.ufl.edu
Dr. Patrick C. File, an assistant professor of media law at the Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno, recently wrote a book titled “Bad News Travels Fast: The Telegraph, Libel, and Press Freedom in the Progressive Era.”
Q: Please describe the focus of your book.
A: The book demonstrates how law and technology intertwined at the turn of the twentieth century to influence debates about reputation, privacy, and the acceptable limits of journalism. It does this by examining a series of fascinating libel cases by a handful of plaintiffs—including socialites, businessmen, and Annie Oakley—who sued newspapers across the country for republishing false newswire reports.
Q: How did you come across this subject? Why did it interest you?
A: When digging through journalism trade publications of the 1880s and 1890s as a Ph.D. student, I found coverage of the infamous Tyndale Palmer and Annie Oakley libel crusades, and wondered why I hadn’t read about them in journalism history scholarship since they seemed like a really big deal to journalists at the time. There appeared to be an interesting parallel to present day issues related to mass communication technology, the careless or wanton spreading of false, harmful information, and questions about how the law should try to keep up. I got to thinking about the relationship among professional practices and ethics, communication technology, and the social construction of the concept of press freedom, and a dissertation and book were born.
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