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Tweet About First Amendment Win $5K Scholarship

December 15, 2011 By AEJMC Leave a Comment

By Meranda Watling on 10,000 Words, Dec. 14 –

“Student journalists should know by now, you likely won’t start out earning an enormous salary. And that money will seem even scarcer if you’ve got student loans to pay back. So Thursday is your chance to both support the First Amendment — that’s the one with freedom of the press and freedom of speech, which I really hope you already knew — and to potentially earn a $5,000 scholarship. It’s as easy as exercising your right to tweet — by tweeting about why you love that right (or any of the others in that near sacred amendment). For those who’ve gone through other scholarship competitions, that’s a scholarship essay of 140 characters instead of 1,400 words or so. And with 22 available awards, your odds may be better than many national winner-take-all competitions.”

Read the full post on 10,000 Words for more information about the scholarship

Filed Under: Hot Topics Tagged With: First Amendment, scholarship

Book Review – The Restructuring of Scholarly Publishing in the United States, 1980-2001

May 17, 2011 By AEJMC Leave a Comment

The Restructuring of Scholarly Publishing in the United States, 1980-2001: A Resource-Based Analysis of University Presses. Barbara G. Haney Jones. Lewiston, ME: Edward Mellen Press, 2009. 452 pp.

Of interest to serious researchers who may be seeking to get their monographs accepted by a good academic press, this study may open some eyes, for all is not well in the world of scholarly publishing. But it must be said at the outset that to some extent this is a book of history.

Note the dates in the title—most of the discussion here predates the full impact of the Internet on publishing. Further, many of the trends described here have greatly expanded over the years since—the decline in library book-buying, for example. So the detailed discussion, based on data largely from the mid-1990s, has a rather quaint feel to it a decade and more later. Add in the recent economic slump, and the book seems even more outmoded. That is not to say, however, that it has little value.

Book Review – Doing News Framing Analysis: Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives

May 16, 2011 By AEJMC Leave a Comment

Doing News Framing Analysis: Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives. Paul D’Angelo and Jim A. Kuypers, eds. New York, NY: Routledge, 2010. 376 pp.

I admit I found it a bit strange to be reviewing this book, especially in light of several references to the 2003 volume I co-edited as “the bible of news framing analysis.” I wondered whether extending the metaphor would make any sense. Clearly, this volume is far more than an update or an extension of those original contributions. Indeed, only two authors, Stephen Reese and Dhavan Shaw, have chapters in both volumes. I finally decided that Paul D’Angelo and Jim Kuypers have provided something of a user’s guide, something akin to a “Joy of Framing” as seen from the perspective of some of the most active and engaged practitioners of the craft of news framing analysis.

Book Review – The Routledge Companion to News and Journalism

May 11, 2011 By AEJMC Leave a Comment

The Routledge Companion to News and Journalism. Stuart Allan (ed.) (2009). Abingdon, England: Routledge. pp. 704.

Stuart Allan’s weighty book is 56 chapters over 704 pages, and this bulk is a mixed blessing. The book includes numerous authors of prominence, but it also relies too much upon the reputation of its contributors. The back cover of the book states it is for “scholars and students,” but scholars are likely to find the chapters conservative and too familiar. The benefit of this book is precisely with that student audience, who will find many accessible insights into contemporary issues and can rely on the topic diversity as a resource for learning more about journalism.

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Filed Under: Educator Spring 2011, Reviews Tagged With: aejmc educator, Journalism, News, routledge, scholarship, Stuart Allan

Book Review[s] – Funding Journalism in the Digital Age & Vanishing Act

May 11, 2011 By AEJMC Leave a Comment

Funding Journalism in the Digital Age: Business Models, Strategies, Issues and Trends. Jeff Kaye and Stephen Quinn (2010). New York: Peter Lang. pp. 185.

Vanishing Act: The Erosion of Online Footnotes and Implications for Scholarship in the Digital Age. Michael Bugeja and Daniela V. Dimitrova (2010). Duluth, MN: Litwin Books. pp. 86.

In a dazzlingly short time, our communication and research habits have dramatically changed. Thanks to technology and the Internet, we’ve found new ways to share, store, connect, search, and inform. In so doing, we’ve damaged, outgrown, or abandoned systems that supported “old” ways—as is plainly seen in the news industry’s turmoil of the past decade. Some functions those old ways served, however, need protecting. These books address two such challenges. The difficulty of finding new economic underpinnings for the production of journalism has been the focus of heated attention. The need to be able to consistently retrieve what has been shared online has not. Both areas deserve explication, which the books’ authors ably provide.

Book Review – Vanishing Act: The Erosion of Online Footnotes and Implications for Scholarship in the Digital Age

May 11, 2011 By AEJMC Leave a Comment

Vanishing Act: The Erosion of Online Footnotes and Implications for Scholarship in the Digital Age. Michael Bugeja and Daniela V. Dimitrova. Duluth, MN: Litwin Books, 2010. 86 pp.

This book addresses an emerging issue in scholarship with some solid research by the authors, not speculation. Bugeja is director and Dimitrova a faculty member in the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication at Iowa State University.

The issue is what happens to citations of online sources in journal articles. The title suggests many disappear. The authors address the question in two ways. They checked all the online sources mentioned in ten communication journals between 2000 and 2003. They also interviewed the editors of these journals about the question of vanishing cited sources. They asked about how often editors thought online sources were cited, how important they thought they were, and how much of a problem they thought vanishing sources were.