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AWARDS
NCA's Mass Communication Division
Invites Nominations for 2011 Teaching and Service Awards
Deadline: September 30, 2011
Each year, the Mass Communication Division recogizes two colleagues for their excellence in teaching and service. We encourage nominations, including self-nominations, for both of these awards from the membership. Nomination information about each award can be found using the following links:
Further questions about the awards or the nomination process should be directed to:
Dana Mastro
University of Arizona
Department of Communication, Building 25
Tucson, AZ 85721
mastro@email.arizona.edu
Past Award Winners
2010 - San Francisco
MCD Teaching and Service Awards
- MCD Teaching Award Recipient - David Tewksbury, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- MCD Service Award Recipient - Rebecca Ann Lind, University of Illinois at Chicago
Top Four Papers (in
order of presentation):
- Srividya Ramasubramanian (Texas A&M University): "The Effect of Media Celebrity Exemplars on Racial Attitudes, Causal Attributions, and Support for Affirmative Action"
- Nicole Martins (Indiana University), Dmitri Williams & Rabindra Ratan (University of Southern California), & Kristen Harrison (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): "Virtual Masculinity: A Three-Dimensional Content Analysis of Male Video Game Characters"
- Rene Weber & Cynthia Bates (University of California - Santa Barbara), & Katharina-Maria Behr (University of Zurich): "Developing a Metric of Interactivity in Video Games"
- Matthew Lapierre (University of Pennsylvania), Esther Rozendaal, Moniek Buijzen, & Eva van Reijmersdal (Amsterdam School of Communication Research): "Rethinking Cognitive Defenses and Children's Responses to Advertising: A New Theoretical Approach"
Top Four Student Papers (in
order of presentation):
- Lindsay Fullerton (Northwestern University): "Web 2.0: Framing a Technological Concept"
- Lucy Popova (University of California - Santa Barbara): "The Extended Parallel Processing Model: A Critique of Theory and Research"
- Charles Reed (University of Nebraska - Omaha): "Hero Contra Villian Cum Hero: Bridging the Hero/Villian Discourse in Modern Superhero Films"
- Su Jung Kim (Northwestern University): "Reconceptualizing Audience Fragmentation and Polarization from a Network Analytic Perspective"
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| Rabindra Ratan and Lindsay Fullerton pose with their NCA 2010 Top Paper Awards. |
Top student paper panelists (from left to right): Su Jung Kim, Lucy Popova, Lindsay Fullerton, and Charles Reed. |
2009 - Chicago
Top Four Papers (in
order of presentation):
- Emily Moyer-Guse (Ohio State University): "Selective Exposure to Sexual Television Content: The Role of Genre and Perceived Message Intent"
- Jakob Jensen, Jennifer Bernat, Kari Wilson, & Julie Goonewardene (Purdue University): "Mass Communication and the Sleeper Effect: Further Evidence that Fictional Narratives Can Be More Persuasive Over Time"
- Allison Eden (Michigan State University), Mary Beth Oliver (Penn State University), Ron Tamborini (Michigan State University), Julia Woolley (Penn State University), & Anthony Limperos (Penn State University): "Perceptions of Moral Violations Among Media Characters"
- Maria Kopacz & Bessie Lawton (West Chester University): "The YouTube Indian: Portrayals of Native American on a Viral Video Site"
2008 - San Diego
Top Four Papers (in
alphabetical order):
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Beverly A Bondad-Brown (University of California, Santa Barbara), Katy Elizabeth Pearce (University of California, Santa Barbara), Ronald E. Rice & John D'Ambra (University of New South Wales): “Motivations and Sources for
Traditional and Internet Television by US and Australian Students”
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Serena Carpenter (Arizona State University): “Mobilizing the Online Public: An Examination of How Well U.S. Online Newspaper and Citizen Journalists Promote Community Engagement”
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Emily Moyer-Gusé (Ohio
State University) & Robin L. Nabi (University of California, Santa
Barbara): “Explaining the Persuasive Effects of Entertainment Education
Programming: An Empirical Comparison of Three Theories”
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Victor W. Pickard (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign): “The FCC’s Blue Book and the
Postwar Struggle for the People’s Airwaves, 1945-1948"
2007 - Chicago
MCD Teaching and Service Awards
- MCD Teaching Award Recipient - Cindy Lont, George Mason University
- MCD Service Award Recipient - Mehdi Semati, Eastern Illinois
University
Top Four Papers (in presentation order):
- Zack Stiegler (University of Iowa): "Conceptualizing the Small-Scale Public Sphere"
- Andrew Billings (Clemson University): "Conveying the Olympic Message: NBC Producer and
Sportscaster Interviews Regarding the Role of Identity"
- Barbara Wilson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) & Kristin Drogos (University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): "Preschoolers’ Attraction to Media
Characters"
- Jeremy Osborn (Albion
College): "The Influence of Television Viewing on Expectations for and
Assessments of Romantic Relationships"
2006 - San Antonio
Top Three Papers:
- Kristen Hoerl (Auburn University): "The Rhetoric of Objectivity in the Documentaries
Berkeley in the Sixties and The Weather Underground"
- Chad Mahood & Dan Linz (University of California, Santa Barbara): "Video Game Play and the Role of
Frustration: How Playing Non-Violent Video Games Can Lead to Aggressive
Effects"
- Catherine Squires (University of Michigan), Travis L. Dixon (Univ of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Kai McKeever Bullard (University of Michigan), Nicole Martins (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), & James S.
Jackson (University of Michigan): "Post-soul Media Consumption: Documenting Age
Differences in African Americans' Consumption of Black-oriented Media"
Top Three Student Papers:
- Ted Coopman (University of Washington): "Indymedia: Emergent Global Media Infrastructures"
- Kim McCann (Bowling Green State University: "Media Diversity: The Analysis of The Search Engines and Source
Diversity in The Internet"
- Karyn
Elizabeth Riddle (Univ of California, Santa Barbara): "Developing a Scale for Measuring Past Television Exposure"
2005 - Boston
MCD Teaching and Service Awards
- MCD Teaching Award Recipients - Mary Beth Oliver, Pennsylvania State University & Joshua Meyrowitz, University of New Hampshire
Top Three Papers:
“The Implications of Aversive Racism and Social
Identity on the Influence of Television Exposure on Evaluations of
Latinos,” Dana Mastro, University of Arizona and Maria Kopacz, University
of Arizona. “Reassessing Communications Research’s
Potential Contribution to Communications Policy: The Case of Media
Owndership and the Diversity Index,” Philip Napoli, Fordham University and
Nancy Gillis, Fordham University. “Minorities in Prime
Time: A Look at Occupations and Occupational Prestige,” Nancy Signorielli,
University of Delaware.
Top Three Student Papers:
“The Nouveau ‘Reach’: An Ideological Analysis of
Class and Consumerism in reality Television,” Lisa Glebatis, University of
Texas-Austin. “’The Daily Show’ with Jon Stewart: A
Citizen’s Guide to Journalism and Politics in the 21st Century,” Karen
McCullough, Pennsylvania State University. “Action
Movie Arabs and the National Interest or ‘How I Learned to Stop Worrying
and Love American Empire: US Popular Culture and US Foreign Policy,”
Nessim Watson, University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
2004 - Chicago
Top Three Papers:
- Joshua D. Atkinson (University of Missouri): “Feedback, Mythic Figures, and Alternative Media”
- Andrew C. Billings (Clemson University), James R. Angelini (Indiana University), & Susan Tyler Eastman (Indiana University): “The Hidden Gender Biases in Televised Golf Announcing”
- Amal G. Ibrahim, Jiali Ye & Cynthia A. Hoffner (Georgia
State University): “Diffusion of News of
the Shuttle Columbia Disaster: The Role of Emotional Responses and Motives
for Interpersonal Communication”
- Marie Hardin (Pennsylvania State
University) "Sex Roles in Color: Racialized Females
in Sports/Fitness Magazine Advertising"
Top Student Paper:
- Jakob D. Jensen & Ryan J. Hurley (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): "Environmental Conflict in the Media: Measuring Presumed Influence, Presumed
Behavior, and Behavioral Intention"
2003 - Miami
Top Three Papers:
- Yariv Tsfati & Jonathan Cohen (University of Haifa): “On the effect of the “third person effect”: Perceived influence of media
coverage and residential mobility intentions”
- Cynthia A.
Hoffner (Georgia State University) & Kenneth A. Levine (University of
Tennessee): “Enjoyment of Mediated Horror and Violence: A Meta-Analysis”
- Travis L. Dixon (University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) & Keith L. Maddox (Tufts University): “Skin Tone, Crime News, and Social Reality Judgments: Priming the Schema of
the Dark and Dangerous Black Criminal”
2002 - New Orleans
Top Papers:
- Kenneth S. Zagacki (North Carolina State University) & Dan Grano (Louisiana
State University): "Sport, Culture, and Identity: A Fantasy Theme Analysis of Sport's Talk"
- Travis L. Dixon (University of Michigan): "Psychological Reactions to the Race of Perpetrators and Officers on
Television News"
- Sharon R. Mazzarella (Ithaca College) & Norma Pecora (Ohio State University): "Girls in Crisis: Newspaper Coverage of Adolescent Girls"
- Cynthia Hoffner, Yuki Fujioka, Amal Ibrahim, & Jiali Ye (Georgia
State University): "Responses to the Events of September 11th: News Diffusion, Emotion, and
Coping"
Top Student Papers:
- Jennifer M. Proffitt, Hyeseung Yang,
& Joonho Hwang, (Pennsylvania State University): "What is the Message: News Perceptions of Sensationalism and Medium"
- Toby J. Arquette (Northwestern Univesity): "Indications of the Digital Development Divide: A Meta-Analytic Framework
for Assessing the Global Digital Divide"
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