AEJMC MIDWINTER CONFERENCE 2010
Janet Bridges
Midwinter Chair
jabridges@shsu.edu
It’s time to think about participating in the 2010 AEJMC Midwinter Conference. Mass Communication and Society is accepting submissions of abstracts and proposals for this year’s annual Conference. The Midwinter Conference is scheduled March 5-7, again at the University of Oklahoma campus in Norman – which provided an excellent environment last year. Eleven divisions and interest groups plus one commission are participating. |
Papers presented at the Midwinter Conference are eligible for presentation at the National AEJMC Convention. Submitters at the Midwinter conference are encouraged to use reviewer feedback to improve and finalize work for the national conference.
Please do not submit completed papers for Midwinter Conference review. Submissions should be abstracts or proposals and will be blind reviewed.
Proposal Formats: Your research or panel proposal should be in the form of a 300-to-500-word abstract. Research proposals should give a clear sense of the scope of the research, the hypothesis or research question(s) tested, and the method of inquiry used. If you have completed your work by the submission deadline, you should highlight your conclusions in your abstract. A bibliography would be helpful to the reviewers but is not required. You may not submit the same abstract to more than one participating group.
For panel proposals, submitters should indicate the panel title, a description of the focus of the proposed session and the issues to be discussed. Also include a list of panelists – potential and confirmed - and their university or professional affiliations.
Accepted Papers: Accepted papers may not exceed 30 pages and must be available to discussants two weeks before the conference. Please make certain you can meet the discussant deadline if your proposal is accepted.
Submissions: Proposals or abstracts should be sent to Janet A. Bridges at jabridges@shsu.edu by December 1, 2009. Please put “MC&S Midwinter Submission” in the subject line.
Submit your abstract or proposal as an attachment saved as a standard Word or RTF document. However, (1) please do NOT save your proposal/abstract file either as MC&S Midwinter Submission or with your name visible. Save it under a short descriptive title.
Also, (2) please do NOT save your proposal/abstract file as a .docx file. These have been difficult to open for reviewers working away from their own campus.
The Midwinter Conference uses a blind review. Therefore, your abstract or proposal must identify the author or organizer on the title page only and must include the mailing address, telephone number and e-mail address of the primary contact person, plus the names and affiliations of all authors. The author information will be used for the conference program. The title should also be on the first page of the text and on running heads on each page of the text. Except for the title page, you MUST remove any identifying information from the document.
Notification: Submitters should be notified of acceptance by January 15, 2010. The submitter contacted will be the primary contact person listed on the title page.
For questions about the Mass Communication and Society Midwinter competition, please contact Janet Bridges. Conference registration, hotel accommodations and travel details will be available at http://www.ou.edu/gaylord and, if available by deadline, in the Mass Communication and Society fall Newsletter. Norman is about 45 minutes south of the Oklahoma City airport.