2009 Convention
Your MC&S colleagues are busy preparing for the upcoming conference in Boston. The schedule of research, teaching and PF&R panels and workshops offered this year are outstanding, and I encourage you to attend as many you can squeeze into your schedule.
This year, there are two teaching workshop sessions lead by the division – one pre-conference Tuesday evening at 5:30 on Teaching the Introductory Mass Communication course, and the second our annual Promising Professors Workshop on Friday morning at 8:15 where top teachers discuss tactics for improving classroom teaching. The PF&R panels range from issues of agenda setting (Wednesday at 5:00) to difference training (Friday at 3:30), and almost every topic in between (check the full schedule attached). In addition, MC&S helped coordinate a mini-plenary session on the Issues and Agendas of Campaign 2008 that will be held Wednesday afternoon at 3:15.
The MC&S Division Member’s Meeting will be held on Thursday, August 6 at 6:45 p.m. Please attend, if at all possible. Your participation in the division is what makes it one of the strongest in the association!
At that meeting, you will have the opportunity to:
- Vote on all nominees for next year ’s officer slate (if you are interested in serving as an officer next year and have not yet done so, please contact Past Division Head Diana Martinelli at Diana.Martinelli@mail.wvu.edu ).
- Vote to confirm the Mass Communication and Society journal editor nominee (reminder: applications for the journal editor remain open until July 15, 2009 and should be e-mailed to me at jennifer.henderson@trinity.edu).
- Vote on the following proposed amendment to the division bylaws:
“The journal editor may appoint up to three Associate Editors to serve concurrently, who will each be paid an annual stipend of $1,000 from journal funds after satisfactorily performing their assigned duties through submission of proof copy edits to the publisher for an entire volume of the journal. Associate Editors who serve less than a full year may have their stipend prorated based on the proportion of issues in the volume that were completed during their time of service.”
- Discuss the merits/pitfalls of an electronic newsletter system.
- Hear about the strength of the Mass Communication and Society journal, including submission numbers, circulation rates, a page number increase, and the status of access to electronic issues.
- Congratulate this year’s outstanding research and teaching award winners.
- Thank the outgoing MC&S officers who have made outstanding contributions to the division this past year.
Oh! And to show our pride in MC&S and let other attendees see our strength and diversity, MC&S stickers will be available in the registration area and throughout the conference. Pick one up! Stick it on your badge! Show AEJMC how many, how active and how amazing our members are!
See you in Boston!
Jennifer Henderson
MC&S Division Head
Click here for Boston Convention Schedule