Goals

The Mass Communication & Society Division remains one of the largest and most active divisions within AEJMC. We provide our members with access to our quarterly research journal, Mass Communication and Society, and offer a competitive research grant and service, teaching, and research awards.

As division head, I’m fortunate to follow the outstanding leadership of those who’ve served previously. They have made my job far easier. Therefore, my goals for the coming year are rather simple: to gain a better understanding of our membership and how we can best serve them and to help ensure the continued smooth evolution of the division.

Specifically, my 2007-2008 goals are as follows:

1. To survey division members to gain a better understanding of their interests, our service to them, and to answer our AEJMC President’s charge to discuss the future of our profession;
2. To continue to maintain a co-chair structure within the Division’s executive committee to allow more diverse and better sustained leadership over time;
3. To highlight membership value by making benefits a key theme in MC&S materials;
4. To work through AEJMC to document and relay guidance to continue the smooth transition to electronic submissions;
5. To secure a stable newsletter production process via an editor with the technical skills and time/support resources to meet deadlines;
6. To work toward establishing a more formal association/affiliation with one of the regional conferences;
7. To continue to work closely with the journal editor and its publisher to ensure a quality and timely product.