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Summer 2019 Newsletter

#CTEC30: Celebrating CTEC’s 30th Anniversary

#AEJMC19 marks the 30th anniversary of CTEC. What started out as a Communication Technology and Policy Interest Group in 1989-1990, soon became a Division in 1992-1993. Later, in 2005-2006 the division changed its name to Communication Technology.
 
Join us in celebrating #CTEC30 in Toronto at a social on Thursday, Aug. 8, at 8:30 p.m., directly following the member’s meeting. Closer to the conference, a separate message will be sent giving details about where to join us.
 
I’m looking forward to connecting with you at #AEJMC19 as the conference gives us all (CTEC members and friends) an opportunity to reconnect, meet for the first time, and engage in stimulating conversations about research and the future of communication technology.
 
Even if you can’t attend the conference, check out the newsletter below to learn more about 1) what’s going on at the conference, 2) how you can get involved in the division, and 3) who was recently appointed as the journal’s (JoCTEC) associate editors. 
 
I hope to see you in Toronto!

Pamela Brubaker
#CTEC30thDivisonHead


Table of Contents
1. Call for 2019-2020 CTEC Officers
2. Newly Appointed JoCTEC Associate Editors
3. Summary of 2019 Papers
4. Check Out These Cool CTEC Panels at AEJMC 2019!
5. Introducing the Winners of 2018 AEJMC BoW/BoD part II: Multiple Classes/Institutions for Website category.
 
1. Call for 2019-2020 CTEC Officers

There are multiple opportunities for faculty and graduate students to get involved in the Communication Technology Division in 2019-2020. This year we created FOUR new positions on the communications committee. These committee members will help manage the division’s website, newsletter, social media, and listserv.
 
If you’re interested in becoming an officer, and serving within the division, don’t hesitate to reach out to Pamela Brubaker (pamela_brubaker@byu.edu), 2018-2019 division head, to express interest or obtain more information. Officers will be finalized at the members’ meeting, Thursday, Aug. 8 at 6:45 p.m.
  
Below is a list of 2019-2020 division officers and open positions:
 
Division Head – Cindy Vincent
Vice Head – Mike Horning
Research Chair – Hyosun Kim

Midwinter Chair – POSITION OPEN
The midwinter chair oversees the division’s involvement in the Midwinter Conference research competition. After serving as the midwinter chair, this person begins their rotation into the executive leadership positions: research chair, vice head, and division head.

Best of Digital (BoD) Competition Chair – POSITION OPEN
The BoD Chair is responsible for the BoD competition co-sponsored by the Visual Communication Division. The competition is an annual web and app design content. Winners are selected based on how much they advance education or research in journalism and mass communication with the use of visually appealing and creative web or app design.

Communications Committee Chair – Devin Knighton

Website Manager – NEW POSITION OPEN
The committee member responsible for the website is expected to update the website at after the annual conference and continue to update it at least three additional times throughout the year.

Newsletter Manager – NEW POSITION OPEN
The committee member responsible for the newsletter is expected to create at least three newsletters - Fall, Winter, and Spring. The person will collect content from other division officers and members, edit the content, and format the content for the newsletter.

Social Media Manager – NEW POSITION OPEN
The committee member responsible for social media is expected to develop an editorial calendar based upon the annual communication plan, which includes news from other officers, the website, newsletter, and other AEJMC items. The person can also post stories about technology, teaching, any of the PF&R areas as they intersect with technology, as well as publicize calls and newsletter content.

List Serve Manager – NEW POSITION OPEN
This committee member is expected to develop the division’s list serve with a new set of rules and regulations that explain what is expected by members who participate on the list serve. The member will also use the list serve to communicate to members the content from the newsletter, website, and other AEJMC items.

Teaching Chair – POSSIBLE OPENING, if someone is interested
The teaching chair is in charge of our division's focus on teaching. This includes teaching panel ideas, teaching content for the division’s communication channels, etc.

PF&R Chair – POSSIBLE OPENING, if someone is interested
The PF&R chair is in charge of our division's focus on PF&R, which encompasses free expression, ethics, media criticism and accountability, diversity and inclusion, and public service.

 

2. Newly Appointed JoCTEC Associate Editors

Congratulations to Theo Plothe, Linwan Wu, James D. (Jimmy) Ivory, and Cory Robinson who were appointed as associate editors of the Journal of Communication Technology (www.joctec.org).
 


Theo Plothe (Ph.D., American University)
I am an Assistant Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication at Savannah State University. Currently, I explore research on interfaces between users and technology, specifically digital games.
 
I get most excited about my work when…
I ask theoretical questions that require a triangulation of both quantitative and qualitative methods.  


As an associate editor, I want to…. 
Give a forum to scholarship in interdisciplinary areas that might have difficulty finding a home in other scholarly journals, i.e., haptic interfaces, media convergence, and content distribution methods.
 
Favorite quote:
While my favorite quote is "Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm," by Emerson, one could say that it certainly infuses my personal motto, "Go big, or go home."
 
 

Linwan Wu (Ph.D., University of Florida)
I am an assistant professor at the University of South Carolina.
My research is about advertising psychology and digital media effects.

I get most excited about my work when…
I see my students achieve something or get their dream jobs.
 
As an associate editor, I hope to…
Make JoCTEC a renowned forum of discussing theories and practices pertaining to communication technology and digital media. I will do my best to optimize the reviewing process for both the authors and reviewers.
 
I enjoy... 
Going hiking and exploring nature with my family during weekends. 



James D. (Jimmy) Ivory (Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) 
I am a professor in the Department of Communication at Virginia Tech. My research has primarily dealt with social dimensions of popular digital media, particularly the content and effects of entertainment media such as video games. Of late, I have been particularly interested in meta-scientific work dealing with introspection about the validity, replicability, and transparency of existing research knowledge in this area.
 
I am excited to be working with JoCTEC because…
A journal structured around the very strong AEJMC CTEC leadership and community has been a long time coming. Additionally, it is an exciting time to explore not only the newest scholarship, but new opportunities to revisit how we communicate research findings and how we conduct the peer review and publication process.

I am a professor because…
Outside of work, I enjoy spending most of my time learning about the world through the perspective of my three children, as well as working part-time as a boxing instructor at a local gym and volunteering as a part-time rugby union coach at my university. 



Cory Robinson (Ph.D., Colorado State University)
I am currently an Assistant Professor of Communication Design at Linköping University in Sweden. Presently, I’m exploring areas of co-owned health data, specifically how the entry of Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple in the e-health arena may ultimately lead to increases in discrimination and abuse of personal health data. Also, the research foci of trust and privacy in artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and how ethical frameworks for AI can be created are fascinating and extremely critical for today’s digitally connected citizen and society.

As an associate editor, I hope to…
Increase the visibility of the journal and look forward to being a part of the excellent editorial team the journal has recruited. I fully believe that JoCTEC will become a premiere outlet for interdisciplinary research in the field of communication technologies, which is very exciting to be a part of.

On Saturdays, you will find me…
Enjoying the break from work, exploring the lovely nature in Sweden, and polishing up on my Swedish language skills.

My motto is...
Surround yourself with like-minded, adventurous, humorous and humble colleagues. In a world of bibliometrics and “publish or perish”, being a “decent human being” is overlooked too often or lost – reputation is crucial, so be dependable and many opportunities will organically come forth.

 

3. Summary of 2019 Papers

The Communication Technology Division saw another year of interesting and forward-thinking papers.
 
This year, 109 papers were submitted to the Division with 51 papers accepted for presentation at the conference. The paper review process could not happen without the help of the 81 reviewers. On average each reviewer, reviewed 3 papers for our Division along, and their efforts are much appreciated.
 
This year’s papers covered a wide variety of topics relevant to communication technology. Several papers explored the ways in which social media continues to influence individual and group behaviors and attitudes. Other papers, explored newly emerging topics of relevance to the field. For example, some papers examined the adoption of smart home devices and the use of artificial intelligence. Others papers examined various aspects of virtual reality including it’s use in journalism. The Division also saw several papers on topics related to health and communication technology as well as papers that explored the influence communication technologies have on democracy and politics. 
 
Of those papers that were accepted, Top Faculty Paper awards were presented to Dr. Desiree Schumuck and Dr. Christian von Sikorski for their first-place paper titled Social Bots as Threat for Digital Democracy? How News Coverage Can Empower Media Users. Dr. Nicole O’Donnell and Dr. Jeanine Guidry received the second place Top Faculty Paper for her paper titled #BeTheMatch: Assessing How Testimonial Narratives on Reddit Promote the Importance of Donating Bone Marrow. Finally, Dr. Ah-Ram Lee, Dr. Eunice Kim, Dr. Linda Hon and Dr. Yoo Jin Chung received third place for their paper titled How Age-Morphed Images Make Me Feel: The Role of Emotional Responses in Building Support for the Elderly Among Millennials
and Generation Xers.
 
Each year, the Division also awards papers for its student competition. This year, David Silva received first place in the Jung-Sook Leek Student Paper Competition for his paper titled Majority or Success: How Other’s Online Behaviors Shape Perceptions of Descriptive Incivility Norms. In addition, Yu-Jin Heo received second place for the paper titled Real-world Relationships Matter: Attachment Theory as a Framework for Explaining Loneliness on Social Media. Third place was awarded to Lewen Weir and Wanying Zhao for their work titled Conspicuous Donation and Strategic Self-Presentation on Social Media: Prosocial Fitness App as a Double-Edged Sword.


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Mike Horning
CTEC Research Chair


 

4. Check Out These Cool CTEC Panels at AEJMC 2019!
 
This year we are co-sponsoring three great panels with the Visual Communication Division. Our annual Best of Digital Competition will showcase the winners of this year’s competition and will be Thursday at 11:45 am. We are also co-sponsoring two Professional Freedom and Responsibilities (PF&R) with VISCOM this year. The first, The Pedagogy of Coding for Media Production, will be Wednesday at 10 am. This panel will bring together best practices in teaching coding for the purpose of producing media and practicing data journalism, and will include theoretical overviews about teaching coding within the liberal arts along with specific examples of how coding can be taught effectively to non-computer science students, with an emphasis on students studying communication, journalism, and the media. The second PF&R panel, Visual Technology Changes Us, will be Saturday at 9:15 am and will examine the observable transition in the production and presentation of pictorial messages from specialized innovators, journalists, advertisers, and artists, to the general public as visual recording technologies change over time. Panelists will discuss the historical roots, ethical quandaries, and cultural values of these changing technologies.
 
Other research panels we will be co-sponsoring are Digital Methodologies: Merging Culture and Technology with the Cultural & Critical Studies Division on Wednesday at 1:30 pm and Video Games as Research: Discussing Upcoming Research and Methods with the Entertainment Studies Interest Group on Wednesday at 3:15 pm. The first panel will explore the use of digital methodologies in social and cultural research as well as issues relating to doing research digitally. The second panel will discuss how video games are being used in contemporary communication research and how video games could be used in future research.

CTEC is also co-sponsoring three teaching panels with the Graduate Student Interest Group (GSIG), the Electronic News Division (EEND), and the Media Management, Economics, & Entrepreneurship Division (MMEE). Our co-sponsored panel with GSIG, You’re Teaching A Class—Now What? Curriculum Development, Textbook Adoption, and Optimizing Technology to Engage Undergraduate Students, will be Thursday at 3:15 pm. This panel will go over various strategies for preparing an exciting new course—as painlessly as possible. From the nitty gritty details, such as wading through seemingly endless textbook options to determining one’s own broader pedagogical perspective on such things as technology in the classroom and teaching style in an online vs. traditional classroom, this discussion will have something for everyone and set a foundation for sharing of resources for outside-the-box, engaging, student-centered learning.

Our co-sponsored panel with EEND, J*4: Four Views of the Next Generation of News, will be Friday at 1:15 pm. In this session, panelists will attempt to peer over the horizon, identifying four trends in journalism that we need to consider as we teach journalism at every level: MyJournalism, Omnijournalism, Neojournalism, and UGJournalism. Our third teaching panel with MMEE, Social Media Management: Teaching Data Analytics, Social Media Marketing, and Content Strategy, will be Friday at 3 pm. This panel is aimed at sharing ideas, skills, and knowledge of teaching social media management and will address how to teach social media analytics, social media marketing, and content strategy.
 
We look forward to seeing everyone at these amazing panels!


________

Cindy S. Vincent, Ph.D.
CTEC Vice Head


 

5. Introducing the Winners of 2018 AEJMC BoW/BoD part II: Multiple Classes/Institutions for Website category.

This is the second part of the two-part series on the winners of the 2018 Best of Digital competition. In the last newsletter, I introduced the winners of the Individual/Team/Single Class for Website category. This time, I will talk about the winners of the Multiple Classes/Institutions for Website category. Please note that we did not have entries for the app categories last year.

The first-place winner of the Multiple Classes/Institutions for Website category was the City Blocks team from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University. The entry, http://mag.syr.edu/syracuse-blocks, is a digital-only publication launched over the spring 2017 semester. The students enrolled in the Multimedia Projects reported, wrote, edited all the stories and collaborated with students from the Advanced Web Design course, who developed the customized WordPress-based website. The landing page shows nine city blocks, the areas the team covered as part of this project, and by scrolling through them, readers will find a main character profile, a visual fixture that documents the block’s history and present, a building profile, a timeline of the block’s history, an object, a short question-and-answer, a photo gallery, a soundscape, a special fixture, and a data overview of the area’s demographics.

The second-place winner was the Broke Plate project, a collaboration of students and faculty between Morgan State University School of Global Journalism & Communication and the WVU Reed College of Media. Their entry, http://www.brokenplate.net, is the outcome of the collaborative reporting initiative that brings together student reporters from different sides of the nation’s racial and geographic divides. Two journalism programs, one from a historically black urban institution, and the other, a predominately white, rural land-grant university, joined in a collaborative partnership to report on food insecurity in rural West Virginia and urban Baltimore. Students connected with activists, farmers, experts and government officials in local communities to paint a picture of Baltimore and West Virginia’s food systems.

The third-place winner was “They wear blue (http://theywearblue.com),” a collaboration between journalists, photographers, videographers, and designers at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University. The website takes you inside the lives of the chief and several officers in Syracuse, N.Y., showing the force is truly a collection of individuals. This project is intended to be an honest and powerful look at this complex issue with the hope it improves police and community relations. Writers and photojournalists were paired on a team during a 15-week course to tell the different stories highlighted on the website. Throughout the documentation process they collaborated with designers, who developed and customized the site working on the user interface, user experience, infographics, and motion design.

The winners of the BoW/BoD competition are selected based on how much their entry advances education or research in journalism and mass communication with the use of visually appealing and creative web or app design. Each entry is evaluated based on visual presentation, use of technology, efficient coding (or the amount of customization), accessibility, informational value of content, and functionality.

Please check out this year’s winners here: https://aejmcbestofweb.wordpress.com/2019-winners/. The winners will give a brief presentation about their entry and get awarded at the BoD panel session scheduled on Thursday, August 8th, from 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. (location: TBD). Hope to see you there!


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Su Jung Kim & Michael Fagans
Best of the Web/Best of Digital Competition Chairs
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