2011 Convention
The Annual Convention for 2011 will be held in St. Louis this year and is in the early planning stages. Any questions you may have regarding the convention are sure to be answered by visiting the official convention website at http://www.aejmc.com/home/events/annual-convention/
Please visit our Special Calls tab to find information about our $5000 research award, the Trayes Award for distinction in service, the Promising Professors Awards for faculty and graduate students demonstrating excellence in teaching, and the Distinguished Educator Award for distinction in teaching and mentorship. The general research competition call is below.
2011 Research Paper Call
The Mass Communication and Society Division seeks research paper submissions from both faculty and students for the 2011 AEJMC national conference in St. Louis, MO. Papers may be on any topic related to the general field of mass communication and society.
Moeller Student Paper Competition: Students who submit a paper written for a class during the previous year are eligible for the Mass Communication and Society Moeller paper competition. Moeller competition papers must be nominated by the faculty member who taught the class, who must send a letter or e-mail verifying that the paper was completed for a class. Papers submitted for the Moeller competition must clearly note the competition on the title page.
Winners will be recognized at the division business meeting at the national conference. Recognition includes a plaque for first place, in addition to monetary awards of $100 for first place, $75 for second place, and $50 for third place.
Top Paper Recognition: The division provides cash awards for both student and faculty top papers. AEJMC waives one conference registration for each of the four top student papers. For a paper to be considered for a student paper award, all of the authors must be students. A faculty member as co-author moves the paper to the open competition. Faculty and student papers (and any special call papers) are judged together as general papers, but the top papers for each competition are recognized separately.
Any recognized research method and citation style may be used, and all text and supporting materials should not exceed 30 double-spaced pages. Papers that have been previously presented or published, that are currently being considered for publication, or that have been submitted to another AEJMC division are not eligible.
Authors may submit no more than two papers to the Mass Communication and Society competition. If a submitter's name appears on more than two papers, including as co-author, only the first two submitted will be reviewed.
All papers must be submitted through the AEJMC on-line process by deadline. Please see the 2011 AEJMC Uniform Call for Papers for submission instructions. All MC&S submissions must also adhere to the AEJMC submission guidelines to receive full consideration. Hard copy papers or papers submitted electronically to the research co-chairs will not be accepted.
Winners will be recognized at the division business meeting at the national conference. For open competition winners (faculty or faculty/student), recognition includes a plaque for first place, in addition to monetary awards of $250 for first place, $150 for second place, and $75 for third place. For student competition winners, recognition includes a plaque for first place, in addition to monetary awards of $100 for first place, $75 for second place, and $50 for third place.
For questions, contact one of the Mass Communication and Society research co-chairs: Vincent Cicchirillo at v.cicchirillo@mail.utexas.edu, telephone 512-471-2469, or Heather LaMarre at hlamarre@umn.edu, telephone 612-625-9388.