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Examining Trends in Parent-Child Communication in Europe Over 12 Years
Authors: Tabak Izabela , Mazur Joanna , Granado Alcón Maria del Carmen , Örkenyi Ágota , Zaborskis Apolinaras , Aasvee Katrin , Moreno Carmen
Published: December 2011

The aim of this study was to analyze changes in communication with parents about matters of concern to 11- and 13-year olds. Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) surveys conducted in Austria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Norway, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden, and Switzerland in 1993/94, 1997/98, 2001/02, and 2005/06 were analyzed by means of cluster analysis and analysis of variance. The results show that in most countries, the percentages of adolescents reporting difficulties in communication with parents increased from 1993/94 to 1997/98, and decreased afterwards. Analyses divided the countries into three groups with similar parent-child communication changes. These groups were neither related to the East-West division, nor to family structure differences. The confirmed cultural convergence between countries implies that family policy allowing parents of teenagers to devote more time to them should get the same priority in Eastern as in Western European countries.
British Chinese Children
Authors: Clayton Carmen Lau
Published: December 2011

The assumption that Chinese young people are passive beings with little or no agency is a dominant theme within the academic literature. However PhD research findings demonstrate how British Chinese adolescents (aged 11-14) do exhibit varying degrees of agency in their lives. Here, agency is understood as individuals having the capacity to act, to interact, to make choices, to influence, and shape one’s life, especially in matters that concern the individual and the lives of others. Based on the accounts of 12 British Chinese adolescents, using repeat interviews over a 9-month period, this article adds to the current but limited understanding of British Chinese adolescence.
Chaos, Order, and Collaboration
Authors: Newmahr Staci
Published: December 2011

Stephen Lyng’s concept of edgework represents a crucial shift in understanding particular kinds of risk taking, as intrinsically and phenomenologically rewarding. Although it has been widely and usefully used since then, scholars have observed limitations in its applicability across class, race, and gender lines. A good deal of recent work has endeavored to address this problem. However, a critical feminist perspective reveals the levels on which this issue is not merely one of scope but a paradigmatic issue. I offer a deconstruction of the edgework concept in order to illustrate this, and an expansion of the model in order to render it more applicable for a wider range of thrill-seeking behaviors. Drawing on four years of ethnographic field work in an SM (sadomasochism) community, I provide an empirical example of the applicability of this amendment for the study of voluntary risk taking across gender boundaries.
Friction stir welding of aluminum alloy with varying tool geometry and process parameters
Authors: Biswas P , A Kumar D , Mandal N R
Published: December 2011

The present investigation had two objectives: first, to study the effect of the geometry of the tool pin, and second, the effect of tool rotation and welding speeds on the mechanical properties of friction stir welded joints made for samples of commercial grade aluminium alloys. The results obtained from the performed experiments showed that tools with tapered pins created superior mechanical properties for the friction stir welded joints. It was also found that overall mechanical response depended on the ratio of the tool rotation speed to the tool traverse speed. Suitable values for this ratio were isolated that lead to high quality mechanical properties for the created joints.
Optimum blank shape design using shape error and deformation path length of boundary nodes
Authors: Fazli A , Arezoo B
Published: December 2011

The initial blank geometry plays an important role on the quality of deep drawn parts. The present paper develops a new approach for optimizing the blank shape. In this approach the three-dimensional model of the final part is used to design an initial blank geometry for the given part. The deep drawing process is simulated using the initial blank shape. The blank is optimized in an iterative process based on the shape error and the deformation path length of the boundary nodes of the blank in the previous iteration. Optimum blank shapes for four case studies are determined. The results of the presented method are compared with some other methods in the literature and the presented method is found to be more efficient.
The unequal benefits of activation: an analysis of the social distribution of family policy among families with young children
Authors: Ghysels Joris , Van Lancker Wim
Published: December 2011

In the last few decades, measures to reconcile work and family life have risen in mutual interaction with a rising rate of dual earnership. However, dual earnership has (to date) been adopted in a socially uneven way in most European societies. Therefore, one may wonder whether the activation measures have brought about a loss of vertical redistribution in welfare states. We address this question by focusing on the interaction of three measures of family policy and their overall distributional effect in Europe, with the Belgian region of Flanders as the case in point. We develop a fine-grained analysis to reveal the budgetary impact of the variation in use and generosity, and find that today in Flanders the redistributive effect of child benefits is largely undone by subsidized childcare and parental leave benefits. If parents’ employment is to be generalized, this case study suggests that more attention is required regarding the universal use of reconciliation measures.
Escaping welfare? Social assistance dynamics in Sweden
Authors: Bäckman Olof , Bergmark Åke
Published: December 2011

The article analyses temporal patterns in social assistance receipt in Sweden in the 2000s by looking at which circumstances facilitate versus reduce the possibilities of a person ceasing to be a recipient of social assistance. The analysis is guided by the following questions: What conditions lead people to terminate periods of social assistance receipt? Which factors are central to exits with different subsequent income patterns? How do these explain the different situations of recipients prior to termination? We focus particularly on income maintenance prior to spells of social assistance. We use event history data on monthly social assistance take-up covering the total adult Swedish population for the years 2002–2004. We adopt a gamma mixture model to control for unobserved heterogeneity. The results suggest that previous experience of both employment and social assistance receipt are important determinants for all types of exits from social assistance recipiency. A negative duration dependence is found also when unobserved heterogeneity is controlled for.
A robust adaptive hybrid force/position control scheme of two planar manipulators handling an unknown object interacting with an environment
Authors: Mohajerpoor R , Rezaei M , Talebi A , Noorhosseini M , Monfaredi R
Published: December 2011

This paper presents a robust hybrid force/position control scheme of two cooperative manipulators handling an unknown object interacting with an unknown environment. The uncertainty of the object is considered in the weight, length, and the position of centre of mass (COM). The environment is assumed to have an unknown but high stiffness. A hybrid force/position control algorithm is designed for the known system and environment case. The exponential convergence of the position and the interaction force with the environment is proved using the Lyapunov direct method. Similarly, in the unknown object and environment case, and in the presence of bounded disturbances on the robots and the object, an adaptive sliding mode hybrid force/position control scheme is designed. The asymptotic convergence of the object’s position and the constraint force is guaranteed using the proposed control methodology. The internal forces and moments between the object and robots are controlled independently of the object’s motion and environmental interaction forces. Simulation results confirm the performance and effectiveness of the suggested control methodologies.
Getting Behind the Scenes of Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours
Authors: Comer Debra R. , Holbrook Robert L.
Published: December 2011

The authors present an efficient and easy-to-implement experiential exercise that reinforces for students key concepts about task groups (i.e., group cohesiveness, conflict within groups, group effectiveness, group norms, and group roles). The exercise, which uses a documentary about the making of Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours album to demonstrate the complexity of an ongoing group that created a high-caliber product even in the face of substantial interpersonal issues, combines film and music in a new way in the management classroom.
Student Well-Being Interventions
Authors: Flinchbaugh Carol L. , Moore E. Whitney G. , Chang Young K. , May Douglas R.
Published: December 2011

Student well-being in the management classroom is of concern to both educators and managers. Well-being is conceptualized here as students’ reduction in stress, enhanced experienced meaning and engagement in the classroom, and, ultimately, heightened satisfaction with life. The authors investigated whether purposeful semester-long classroom interventions could influence these dimensions of student well-being. Specifically, the authors examined the impact of stress management techniques, gratitude journaling, a combination of stress management and journaling, and a control condition on students in four different sections of a required management course. At the end of the semester, students in the both the combined intervention and gratitude journaling treatment conditions showed a heightened level of meaningfulness and engagement in the classroom. The implications of these findings for management education research and practice as well as strengths and limitations of the research are discussed.
Should We Venerate That Which We Cannot Love? James Madison on Constitutional Imperfection
Authors: Bailey Jeremy D.
Published: December 2011

Scholars have long pointed to James Madison’s argument for constitutional veneration in Federalist No. 49 to illustrate what they see as Madison’s fear of democratic politics and frequent constitutional reform. This article challenges that consensus, first, by showing that Madison said the opposite several years earlier and, second, by revisiting the historical and textual context of Federalist No. 49. It argues that even as Madison praises veneration he offers serious reasons to be wary of it.
The Anti-Federalist Strand in Progressive Politics and Political Thought
Authors: Lim Elvin T.
Published: December 2011

In this article, the author argues that the Progressives can be as much characterized as the antistatists of the nineteenth century as the statists of the twentieth century because their overriding goal was the destruction of the party state and not, directly, the creation of the bureaucratic state. They found in Anti-Federalist political thought a general antistatist template that they used to articulate their specific objection to the nineteenth-century party state. This template comprised a mutual commitment to simple government, the common good as a preinstitutional reality, democracy, direct and responsive government, fear of elite rule, civic education, and cultural homogeneity.
Confining Ethnic Territorial Autonomy in Colombia
Authors: Velasco Marcela
Published: December 2011

To rein in violence and address issues of social justice and environmental sustainability, the 1991 Constitution reconfigured Colombia’s territorial regimes, decentralized politics, and formalized ethnic-political autonomy. However, uneven implementation of the reforms and armed conflict are limiting local decision making. To evaluate the effects of these processes in one region, the article studies the Naya River basin located in Colombia’s Pacific littoral. There, Eperara-Siapidaara and Nasa Indians, traditional Afro-Colombians and Black and mestizo peasants are losing territorial control as a result of violence, a growing coca economy, and government failure to offer security and formalize collective land titles. Locally devised interethnic governance agreements were accorded as a strategy to address these problems but were constrained by (a) the violent alteration of land use practices, (b) overlapping legislations on ethnic rights that encourage differing intermediation strategies, and (c) uncoordinated nongovernmental organization involvement in local affairs.
Hemostatic Abnormalities in Cirrhosis and Tumor-Related Portal Vein Thrombosis
Authors: Alkim Huseyin , Ayaz Selime , Sasmaz Nurgul , Oguz Perihan , Sahin Burhan
Published: December 2011

In order to investigate the relationship between hemostatic abnormalities and portal vein thrombosis (PVT) in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), platelets, prothrombin time (PT), activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT), thrombin time, fibrinogen, d-dimer, fibrinogen degradation products (FDPs), protein C, protein S, antithrombin, plasminogen, antiplasmin, coagulation factors (CFs) V, VII, VIII, IX, XI, and XIII, von Willebrand factor (vWF), prothrombin fragment 1 + 2 (PF 1 + 2), tissue-type plasminogen activator (tPA), and plasminogen activator inhibitor 1 (PAI-1) were studied in patients with HCC, cholangiocarcinoma, and metastatic liver tumors and in cirrhosis patients with or without PVT. Platelet, antithrombin, protein C, plasminogen, and CFs V, VII, IX, XI, and XIII levels of HCC group were found lower and PT, aPTT, thrombin time, vWF, FDPs, PF 1 + 2, tPA, and PAI-1 levels were higher than the control group. Our findings suggested that the abnormalities of coagulation and fibrinolysis systems have some role in provoking thrombosis of portal veins in HCC, in addition to the invasion of portal veins by hepatoma cells.
Foolproof or Foolhardy? Ethical Theory in Beginning Reporting Texts
Authors: Peck Lee Anne
Published: December 2011

A content analysis examines what contemporary news-writing textbooks offer in the way of “ethics”—especially “philosophical works,” or classical ethical theory. Using the quantitative analysis as its foundation, the author then explores whether the inclusion of ethical theory in beginning reporting textbooks adds to the discussion of ethics as journalism students begin their studies. The paper concludes with an explanation of the dangers of teaching philosophical theory incorrectly and offers suggestions for ethics instruction in the beginning news-writing course.
Searching for the “Ideal” Graduate Public Relations Curriculum
Authors: Childers Linda , Fitzpatrick Kathy R. , Hall Margarete Rooney
Published: December 2011

Is there an “ideal” curriculum for a public relations master's program housed in a traditional college of journalism and communications? A review of previous studies on graduate education in communication and public relations, interviews with public relations graduate students and industry professionals, and focus groups conducted with students and leading public relations educators suggest a need to balance curricular coverage of mass communication with public relations.
A Fifteen-Year Census of Gender and Journal Productivity
Authors: Blake Ken , Bodle John V. , Adams Edward E.
Published: December 2011

A census of refereed articles (N=6,535) in ten primary journalism and mass communication journals from 1986 to 2000 indicates that over the time period, women produced 28.6% of the journal scholarship. In recent years (1996 to 2000) women have produced 38.5% of journal scholarship. Women were found to collaborate on research at rates similar to men. Among women, assistant professors produced the most journal scholarship. “Non-faculty” women produced more than either female associate or full professors.
The Role of Clients in the Public Relations Campaigns Course
Authors: Benigni Vince , Cheng I-Huei , Cameron Glen T.
Published: December 2011

Extending Benigni and Cameron (1999), this study provides a current review of teaching methods for the public relations campaigns course based on a national survey. In addition to offering up-to-date descriptions of how the campaigns course is constructed and valued in public relations programs, this study analyzed what may be important factors that influence the course outcomes. Clients' satisfaction, implementation of plan books that are developed by students, and job/internship opportunities that students receive based on their performance in the campaigns course are all indicators for the effectiveness of teaching campaigns courses. Certain course features, client involvement in class, and clients' payment for services rendered also contribute to more positive course outcomes.
Sponsored-Research Activities in Journalism and Mass Communication Programs
Authors: Beard Fred K.
Published: December 2011

The extent to which the nation's J/MC programs and their faculty participate in extramural sponsored-research activities had received little research attention prior to the national survey of J/MC administrators reported in this article. Findings reveal that more than 60% of the respondents' programs had produced at least one proposal for sponsored research during the year prior to the survey. Other results show (1) varying degrees of access to resources and training, (2) significant differences among J/MC programs based on institutional classification, and (3) that a variety of research services and resources significantly discriminate between J/MC programs that do and do not participate in sponsored research.
To Give or Not to Give: Factors Determining Alumni Intent to Make Donations as a PR Outcome
Authors: Tsao James C. , Coll Gary
Published: December 2011

The study identifies several variables associated with the intent of journalism and mass communication alumni to financially support their department or program. The results are consistent with previous studies that show communication and involvement with alumni, satisfaction with the quality of their journalism education, and personal income contribute to the intent of alumni giving. The study suggests that successful fund raising requires a long-term investment of time and cultivating a positive relationship with individual alumni. Implications for alumni relations are discussed.
Building a Case for Convergence Journalism Curriculum
Authors: Kraeplin Camille , Criado Carrie Anna
Published: December 2011

This paper examines the growth of convergence journalism training in the academy. It suggests that currently most programs with convergence curricula have implemented what could best be described as a multidisciplinary approach, which represents a lower level of integration across media. For instance, only two in ten heads of journalism divisions said they had substantially altered their curriculum to reflect the industry trend toward convergence, and most required students to specialize in a print, broadcast, or online track. It presents an interdisciplinary model, which is at a higher level of integration, as a better alternative for teaching convergence journalism.
Assessing the Impact of Ethics Instruction on Advertising and Public Relations Graduates
Authors: Gale Kendra , Bunton Kristie
Published: December 2011

Based on a survey of recent alumni from two different institutions, this study indicates that media ethics instruction corresponds with ethical awareness and ethical leadership. Graduates who took media ethics courses were significantly more likely than those who did not to consider ethical issues in their profession important. They were more likely to value ethics highly, to be able to identify ethical issues, and to have discussed unethical practices with professional colleagues. They were also more likely to view personal and professional ethics as indistinguishable. This study suggests longer-term effects on ethical attitudes than have previous studies and reinforces the need for better and more courses in media ethics.
Multicultural Journalism Education in the Netherlands: A Case Study
Authors: Deuze Mark
Published: December 2011

Most of the studies on multicultural journalism education tend not to go much further than issues of representation, counting the number of diversity-related courses in a curriculum, the number of minority students and faculty, the number of student projects on multicultural issues, and the number of readings regarding diversity. Although these are all important issues, they tend to ignore the ways in which multiculturalism is given meaning in the everyday praxis of a school of journalism: classroom discussions, comments and level of support by faculty, consensual social arrangements among students, and deliberate location (“embedding”) of the school in society. The comprehensive approach taken in the study at hand in a typical multicultural society (The Netherlands) offers a more complex understanding of the issues, taking the contextualization of knowledge and social responsibilities of journalists and journalism students into account.
Teaching Literary Journalism: A Diverted Pyramid?
Authors: Abrahamson David
Published: December 2011

There is ample evidence that the last decade or so has seen a new emphasis on more writerly forms in journalism. As a result, this is perhaps the appropriate time to re-examine the issue of literary/writerly influences on the construction of journalistic writing: the ways in which the present mirrors similar forms from the past, their status as journalistic genres, and their power to both convey information and inform argument. Most important, it explores the pedagogical ramifications of the phenomenon, addressing the special and somewhat undefined aspects of teaching this kind of journalism.
The Impact of Instructional Methods on Medium-based Bias and Convergence Approval
Authors: Filak Vincent F.
Published: December 2011

An examination of students in twelve sections of an introductory team-taught convergence course (n = 140) found that students taught continuously by an individual instructor across media lines were more likely to view print and broadcast media positively and demonstrate positive attitudes toward the benefits of convergence than students taught through “mini-courses” by print and broadcast specialists. Students taught by a consistent instructor also were less likely to demonstrate cynical attitudes about convergence, more likely to value the course, and more positive toward the instructional approach to the course. Implications for pedagogy and future studies are discussed.
The New “Podagogy”: Incorporating Podcasting into Journalism Education
Authors: Huntsberger Michael , Stavitsky Alan
Published: December 2011

This report documents the results of a pilot study of the use of podcasting technology in a lower division course at the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication. Based on a survey of 209 undergraduate students, the study reports high levels of usage and satisfaction with content and delivery, and suggests the technology added value to class content for students.
Assessing Efforts and Policies Related to the Recruitment and Retention of Minority Faculty at Accredited and Non-accredited Journalism and Mass Communication Programs
Authors: Subervi Federico , Cantrell Tania H.
Published: December 2011

Accredited and non-accredited journalism and mass communication programs participated in a nation-wide Web survey (45% completion rate) designed to assess minority faculty recruitment; retention structures, plans, or programs; promotion efforts and policies; and day care/child care support topics. Results indicate stark differences persist between accredited and non-accredited units regardless of state compositions and university size/composition. Recommendations orbit policy motions. More directives in efforts to increase, retain, and promote minority faculty should exist; various governing bodies should work together on establishing and helping enforce those directives to enhance faculty member diversity; and reward systems for minority faculty recruitment and retention efforts should be expanded.
The Effects of Self-determined Motivation and Autonomy Support on Advisers and Members of a Journalism Student Organization
Authors: Filak Vincent F. , Pritchard Robert S.
Published: December 2011

This study examined the self-determined motivation and autonomy support reported by student members and advisers of a journalism organization. At the student level, self-determined motivation and autonomy support predicted psychological need-satisfaction, which predicted students' ratings of the organization and the adviser. At the adviser level, higher levels of autonomy support and self-determined motivation predicted the advisers' ratings of how positively they thought their students would rate the organization, the adviser, and the students' psychological need-satisfaction. However, an examination of 357 adviser-student dyads found that advisers were overestimating how their students felt about their experiences in the organization.
When Do Journalists Learn about Ethics? An Examination of Introductory and Graduating Students' Ethical Perceptions
Authors: Reinardy Scott , Moore Jensen
Published: December 2011

A survey (n = 212) of broadcast and print journalism students at a large Midwestern university compared ethical perceptions of introductory journalism students to graduating students. Results generally indicate that introductory students appear more ethically grounded than graduating students, who through practical newsroom experience were able to move from ethical theory to practice. It appears the more student journalists gain practical experience the less absolute their ethical perceptions, which is consistent with moral and ethical development theory. Practical experiences of internships and course lab work provide graduating students a more complex approach to ethical decision making and generate alternative viewpoints that go beyond ethical codes.
Preparing for the Worst: Making a Case for Trauma Training in the Journalism Classroom
Authors: Dworznik Gretchen , Grubb Max
Published: December 2011

This study is an attempt to build support for including trauma training in the journalism classroom. Qualitative interviews with students who covered a death-penalty murder trial and results from a quantitative survey of journalism students are combined to show that preparing students for the emotional reactions they may experience while covering the news is not only needed but wanted by the students themselves. Implications and directions for future research are also discussed.
Uses and Perceptions of Blogs: A Report on Professional Journalists and Journalism Educators
Authors: Chung Deborah S. , Kim Eunseong , Trammell Kaye D. , Porter Lance V.
Published: December 2011

As journalism educators prepare their students to succeed professionally, whether professional journalists and educators see eye-to-eye on emerging trends that influence current journalism practice is worth examining. A national online survey of journalism professionals and educators found that professionals use blogs significantly more than educators. Educators had similar views of blogs, but professional journalists' uses and perceptions of blogs varied depending on type of organization they worked for and occupational position in their news organizations. Educators are quick to catch on to national trends in journalism even though they do not routinely use blogs, as they are trained to assess the impact of critical trends in the discipline.
Did Graduate Journalism Education Make a Difference? A Study of British Journalism Students' Views on News Media Roles
Authors: Hanna Mark , Sanders Karen
Published: December 2011

Journalism educators in democracies aim to produce journalists motivated to scrutinize the powerful. This study of British journalism students in graduate programs considers whether their views on the news media's societal roles changed during that education. Students grew more adversarial as regards public officials, but became less likely—in an era when media audiences are fragmenting—to see journalism's role as addressing the widest possible audience. Students' views differed by gender and by whether they were in print or broadcast specialties. Their views are compared with those of experienced British journalists. Findings are contextualized with those of international studies.
An Evaluation of Team-teaching Models in a Media Convergence Curriculum
Authors: Auman Ann , Lillie Jonathan
Published: December 2011

This article evaluates team teaching models of new media convergence curriculum at a small, undergraduate journalism program. In the models, degrees of faculty collaboration vary depending on course level and goal. Students in first-year, basic journalism classes benefited from a lower level of collaboration than those in second-year classes where advanced cross-platform, integrated knowledge, and skills were needed. We suggest that team teaching and teaching media convergence go hand-in-hand; however, a successful program depends on administrative support and the willingness of instructors to collaborate and learn new skills and knowledge across media platforms.
Ethics Gaps and Ethics Gains: Differences and Similarities in Mass Communication Students' Perceptions of Plagiarism and Fabrication
Authors: Conway Mike , Groshek Jacob
Published: December 2011

Survey data on journalism students' perceptions of plagiarism and fabrication indicate an ethics gap in which students interested in journalistic areas (newspaper, magazine, broadcast, photojournalism, and online) are more concerned about journalistic ethics than students interested in nonjournalistic areas (public relations, advertising, graphic design, others). Students interested in journalistic areas also suggested harsher penalties for plagiarism and fabrication. Further analyses, however, found that the ethics gain among nonjournalistic students increased to a nearly equivalent amount as journalistic students over the course of their respective university educations and training experiences, including student media work and internships. While ethics gaps do exist between journalistic and nonjournalistic students, ethics gains by all students from across levels of concern and severities of penalties indicate that students' ethical beliefs are malleable and show considerable growth during university education.
Enrollments Increase, with Slightly Higher Percentages of Male Students
Authors: Becker Lee B. , Vlad Tudor , Vogel Megan , Wilcox Donna , Hanisak Stephanie
Published: December 2011

Enrollments at journalism and mass communication programs showed significant growth in the autumn of 2007, following a year of almost no growth. The growth in enrollments at the schools closely aligned with the traditional journalism occupations as well as advertising and public relations largely reflected the growth in the overall population of communication programs around the country. While journalism and mass communication remains a field that is attractive to women, there is evidence that the growth in the percentage of students who are female has halted. The percentage of students who are labeled as racial or ethnic minorities also is not changing dramatically. The students enrolled in journalism and mass communication programs play an important role in the evaluation of the faculty in those programs. Student evaluation of teaching and publication in peer-refereed journals are the two most important criteria for promotion and tenure decisions by administrators of those programs
A Study of Burnout and Job Satisfaction among High School Journalism Advisers
Authors: Reinardy Scott , Maksl Adam , Filak Vincent
Published: December 2011

Using the three-component Maslach Burnout Inventory (emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, personal accomplishment), results indicate that high school journalism advisers (N = 563) are not experiencing burnout on any level. Journalism advisers are not experiencing high levels of wear and tear from the job, they enjoy working closely with their students, and they feel a great deal of success and achievement in their work. Previous studies have found that journalism teachers are more satisfied with their jobs than other educators, and this study shows that they also experienced burnout to a lesser degree.
The Response Ability Project: Integrating the Reporting of Suicide and Mental Illness into Journalism Curricula
Authors: Skehan Jaelea , Burns Lynette Sheridan , Hazell Trevor
Published: December 2011

The Response Ability Project is a collaboration between mental health professionals and journalism educators in Australia. It seeks to influence the pre-professional education of journalists so that graduates of university courses will be aware of, and are able to respond appropriately to, issues relating to suicide and mental illness. Importantly, the project situates this learning in the context of the core skills of journalism such as news writing, research, and interviewing. Multi-media resources were developed from pilot resources in 2001 and disseminated to Australian universities. This essay explores key achievements of the project, proposing a place for these issues in journalism curricula internationally.
The Value of Accreditation: An Overview of Three Decades of Research Comparing Accredited and Unaccredited Journalism and Mass Communication Programs
Authors: Seamon Marc C.
Published: December 2011

Several studies have investigated various differences between journalism and mass communication programs accredited and unaccredited by the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism & Mass Communications (ACEJMC), but none discovered evidence that accredited programs are strongly or clearly superior in major ways to unaccredited programs. In fact, studies generally find many more similarities than differences. A review of literature comparing accredited and unaccredited J&MC programs seems to suggest that ACEJMC accreditation is a credential whose reputation exceeds its actual benefit. Although the idea of a formal process by which programs can be evaluated and “certified” as high quality is well intentioned, operationalization of that idea has proved to be difficult. Some accreditation standards ACEJMC has deemed most important (diversity and liberal arts curriculum) have resulted in controversial chapters in accreditation's history.
GIFTed Teaching: A Content Analysis of 253 Great Ideas for Teaching Awards in Journalism and Mass Communication Education
Authors: Cuillier David , Schwalbe Carol B.
Published: December 2011

A content analysis of all 253 Great Ideas for Teaching (GIFT) awards presented 2000–2009 at Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conventions found that exercises containing the most effective teaching elements identified in the educational literature were team-based and used in courses involving visual communication, such as photography, online, and advertising. Relatively few ideas incorporated technology or elements of diversity. This exploratory study also introduces a measure for assessing the number of teaching elements in classroom exercises, based on theory from the education field. Other findings and implications for journalism and mass communication education are discussed.
The Attributes for Career Success in the Mass Communication Industries: A Comparison of Current and Aspiring Professionals
Authors: Cooper Roger , Tang Tang
Published: December 2011

This study explored the attributes for career success in mass communication industries. Forty-two attributes were assessed by current media professionals (N = 1,122) and upper-level mass communication majors (N = 268). T- tests revealed significant differences between current and aspiring professionals on twenty of the forty-two attributes measured, including nine of eleven attributes rated highest by professionals. These findings offer insights into the abilities needed to navigate dynamic mass communication industries, while positioning future inquiry on enhancing preparation for future professionals.
Pretest/Posttest Assessment: The Use of an Entry/Exit Exam as an Assessment Tool for Accredited and Non-accredited Journalism and Mass Communication Programs
Authors: Weir Tom
Published: December 2011

Assessment of student learning outcomes has become a preoccupation of higher education in all disciplines, including journalism and mass communication. A number of good assessment measures exist, but most seem to be indirect rather than reliable direct measures of learning. This article describes a case study of how one program accredited through the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications has attempted to meet this need partially through an entry/exit examination administered to incoming and graduating students. The exam has reflected learning along the dedicated learning outcomes and provided a reliable direct measure to be used in combination with other direct and indirect measures.
Journalism Teachers Building a Global Community
Authors: Berger Guy
Published: December 2011

Momentum has been building toward the international networking of journalism educators, as evidenced by, among other events and trends, the second World Journalism Education Congress in South Africa, July 5–7, 2010. Previously, there were “parachute professors” and “the transfer of an ideology” from global journalism centers outward. The example of long-standing global journalists' and publishers' organizations provides a model for educators; the success of two World Journalism Education Congresses (and strong interest in a third), fundraising opportunities, and other factors suggest further progress is possible and likely. An international organization such as the existing World Journalism Education Council could even help overcome local resource limits and job stresses by helping to link journalism educators on a national or regional basis to those agencies who have resources.
Equipping the Entrepreneurial Journalist: An Exercise in Creative Enterprise
Authors: Hunter Anna , Nel François P.
Published: December 2011

The need for journalism curriculum reform is widely acknowledged in the United Kingdom, yet the wheels of the academy turn slowly. How are its journalism educators to resolve this dichotomy and meaningfully prepare their students for the realities of a fast-changing profession? This essay critically reviews an intervention designed to complement and inform the process of curriculum development, while equipping journalism students with the additional skills and attributes that they will need in order to break into an industry that is, by all accounts, changing its shape and shifting its expectations of its workforce.
Tomorrow's Journalists: In-Groups, Out-Groups, and News Topic Preference
Authors: Netzley Sara Baker , Banning Stephen A.
Published: December 2011

This study explored whether student journalists believed they shared news topic preferences with the public. Previous research suggests journalists are very different from the audiences they serve, which may influence their perceptions of audience story preferences because of the social identity theory and the social distance corollary. A national random sample of students working at campus newspapers showed that student journalists believed that their preferences were quite different from the public's preferences. Thus, student journalists could define their social identity as “in group” apart from the public; this has implications for gatekeeping and journalism education.
The Public Broadcast Laboratory
Authors: Westin Av
Published: December 2011

In Introducing new professional character and more dollars to educational television, the FBL may produce a unique journalistic concept. Mr. Westin, its director, here calls for assistance from journalism schools and departments.
Patient Computer Relieves Writing Instructor's Tedium
Authors: Marzolf Marion
Published: December 2011

The writer describes successful use of a computer to check student papers in a basic reporting class. She made a similar presentation to the 1971 AEJ convention.
Missouri Economics Course is Specifically for J-Majors
Authors: Auten Gerald E.
Published: December 2011

EDITOR'S NOTE: Journalism graduates are often criticized for their failure to understand economic systems and for their inability to relate business developments and problems to readers, listeners and viewers. The criticism becomes more pointed when journalism graduates are promoted to administrative and management positions in the media.

The specialized economic analysis course described here by Prof. Auten of the University of Missouri-Columbia Department of Economics is aimed at this problem. The course description won the International Paper Company Foundation Award in Economic Education in a program co-sponsored by the Joint Committee on Economic Education.

As reported late in the article, the course has proved popular with journalism students, too. A student evaluation score placed the course in the 99th percentile among all courses at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

Among those who contributed significantly to the development of the course were Dean Roy M. Fisher of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and Richard Wallace, Lyle Harris and Janet Auten.
How to Break the Barriers of Getting a Book Published
Authors: Wolseley Roland E.
Published: December 2011

The writer is professor emeritus of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. He has published extensively in the field of journalism and journalism education, including Critical Writing for the Journalist, The Journalist's Bookshelf, Understanding Magazines, The Changing Magazine, The Black Press U.S.A., and How to Report and Write the News (with L. R. Campbell).
Learning Literary Style Develops News Students
Authors: Jandoli Russell J. , Cardinale Anthony
Published: December 2011

To teach so-called literary journalism in a more practical vein, taking into account Wolfe's New Journalism but going beyond it, St. Bonaventure University's Department of Mass Communication called in a professional newsman who's been working successfully with advanced writing techniques. Anthony Cardinale is an investigative and feature writer for The Buffalo (N.Y.) News. Prof. Russell J. Jandoli, his former teacher, heads the university's Department of Mass Communication.
Students, Reporters Benefit from 3-Part Records Project
Authors: Kunerth William F.
Published: December 2011

“The first commandment of investigative reporting is this: get the record.” Paul Williams, Investigative Reporting and Editing (Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1978)

“My college didn't prepare me for the kind of experience I had when I walked into that courthouse on the first day. Nobody prepared me to read a budget that was six inches thick. Nobody taught me to read financial reports or decipher an environmental impact statement.” Reporter at Conference on Reporting Local Government, St. Petersburg, Fla., Feb. 4, 1978. (From Gannett Foundation videotape).
Wide Variety of Texts, Aids Employed in Theory Courses
Authors: Stephens Lowndes F.
Published: December 2011

The author chaired the 1976–77 teaching committee of the AEJ Theory and Methodology Division which was given the responsibility of assessing communications theory instruction. Other members of the committee participating in the project were Thomas F. Gordon, Temple University; Gerald L. Grotta, then of the University of Oklahoma; Roy L. Moore, Georgia State University, and Michael Ryan, West Virginia University. Assisting in the project as a research aide was Donald Fremont.

For another survey of courses and textbooks dealing with theory and methodology, see: Brenda Dervin and Michael Banister, ‘“Theory’ has many definitions in journalism education,” Journalism Educator, Vol. 31, No. 3, October 1976, pp. 10–15, 44.
Search for New PR Instructors Getting Tougher
Authors: Hoskins Bob
Published: December 2011

WANTED: Full-time public relations teacher to carry 9 to 12 hours a semester and serve as liaison to the local public relations community, as a general adviser to public relations majors, as adviser for the PRSSA chapter and as coordinator of public relations internship program. Terminal degree in journalism/mass communications and 5 or more years of professional public relations experience required. Salary negotiable, but around $20,000 for nine months.
Teaching the Big Class
Authors: Moore Roy L.
Published: December 2011

Survey by AEJ's Mass Communication and Society Division reveals how many teachers respond to the challenge of facing “all those faces out there.”
News Agencies, National Images, and Global Media Events
Authors: Giffard C. Anthony , Rivenburgh Nancy K.
Published: December 2011

One strategy used by nations to enhance their image is to host global media events. This study examines Associated Press, Reuters, and Inter Press Service coverage of six major U.N. summit meetings for their presentation of the host nations. Three of the conferences took place in western capitals; three were held in the developing world. While hosting a summit resulted in a nation getting a higher profile than it would if only a participant, western hosts received more overtly positive coverage than those from the developing world. The topic of the U.N. summit also influenced how news agencies portrayed a host nation.
Making a Difference: U.S. Press Coverage of the Kwangju and Tiananmen Pro-Democracy Movements
Authors: Kim Sung Tae
Published: December 2011

This study examined New York Times and Washington Post news coverage and U.S. government responses and foreign policy decisions concerning two similar East Asian political movements in the 1980s—the Kwangju movement in South Korea and the Tiananmen movement in China. The study was grounded in the interdependent relationship between the U.S. media and government. Based on a content analysis of news reports, supplemented with U.S. government documents, the study found that U.S. elite newspapers used news sources and symbolic terms in a diametrical manner to report the two events. The events were reported in a manner that coincided with the U.S. government definitions. Findings are discussed in relation to news source indexing and journalistic accessibility.
New York Times and Network TV News Coverage of Foreign Disasters: The Significance of the Insignificant Variables
Authors: Van Belle Douglas A.
Published: December 2011

This article analyzes U.S. news media coverage of foreign disasters, using a new data set on disasters, and incorporates variables representing several possible contextual influenceson the amount of coverage. The most notable aspect of the results produced in this analysis is that when the magnitude of the event is controlled for, the only contextual influence that demonstrates the expected relationship with the amount of coverage is the distance from the United States. Several of the other contextual factors that have been argued to be significant determinants of international flows of news are not significant in the analysis.