Women’s Words
Fall 2013
A newsletter for the AEJMC Commission on the Status of Women
In This Issue:
Take a minute for the 2013 CSW summer meeting
Pages 1, 3 and 8 2013 Meeting Minutes Page 2 Chair’s Corner and Meet the 2013 CSW Board Members
Page 4 Wikid GRRLS trains middle school girls to fix online gender gap
Page 5 Professional Promotions
Page 7 Call for Midwinter Conference panels and paper proposals
Page 8 Connect with the CSW online
Left to right: Cory Armstrong, winner of the Mary Ann Yodelis Smith Award for Feminist Research, Tracy Everbach, 2012-2013 chair, and Dunja Antovic, winner of theTop Student Paper Award and Mary Gardner Award for Graduate Student Research recipient. Photo Courtesy of Cory Armstrong
Minutes of the Commission on the Status of Women Business Meeting AEJMC Conference August 9, 2013 President’s Report: Tracy Everbach During the 20122013 year, CSW focused on promoting feminist research, fostering professional development through workshops and the mentoring program, and encouraging teaching through workshops and mentoring. CSW partnered with the Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Center for Women in Communication at Florida International University to host the inaugural Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver “Women Faculty Moving Forward” pre-conference at AEJMC. The pre-conference featured guest
speakers and workshops with the goal of advancing women academics in the fields of communication and journalism. CSW looks forward to hosting another successful “Women Faculty Moving Forward” pre-conference at the next AEJMC conference in 2014. The CSW mentoring program had another successful year. Tracy Everbach will oversee the program starting with the 2013-2014 year. See “Minutes” on page 3
Multimedia workshop teaches professors hands-on skills By Tracy Everbach
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n the high desert of El Paso, on the Texas-Mexico border, I jumped on a horse to ride with a Mexican cowboy. I had become a journalism student again in a multimedia training academy in early June at the University of TexasEl Paso. Sponsored by a grant from the Dow Jones News Fund, the weeklong workshop is designed to train journalism professors from Hispanic-serving institutions to
teach their students multimedia journalism skills. In the Dow Jones Multimedia Training Academy, professors receive hands-on training and produce a multimedia journalism package at the end of the week. Here’s the one my team produced: http:// borderzine.com/2013/06/familycarries-charreria-tradition-throughgenerations. Our assignment was to profile a family that has been involved in charrería, a form of Mexican rodeo, for decades. We hauled our
equipment, including camcorders, SLR cameras, audio recorders, smart phones, microphones and tripods to their ranch outside El Paso in Canutillo, Texas. The family members allowed us to wander the ranch, interview them, photograph them and their horses and other animals. They even performed horse tricks for us. After Pedro Castro, the brother who trains the horses, gave a visitor a riding lesson, he pointed to me and See “Workshop” on page 4
The Commission on the Status of Women encourages research and programming on the status of women in journalism and communication education and seeks to balance inequalities in the academic community. Newsletter for the AEJMC Commission on the Status of Women ~ Page 1
Chair’s Corner: Opportunities springing up for members
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he conversations that have lingered with me since we met in D.C. were about the history and future of CSW. From the panel “Back to the Future” that Judy Cramer and Kim Golimbisky organized to celebrate 40 years of CSW to the rousing member meeting where enthusiastic new officers were elected, from the CSW Happy Hour where pioneering members and Spring Serenity-Duvall officers mingled with award-winning Chair graduate students over sangria to the Mentoring Luncheon’s inspiring conversation about women and media, we all seemed to recognize the need to remember our past while we look toward the future. While members and officers were energized to take on the work of the coming year, there was also some concern that we are not fully communicating to our own members and to the broader AEJMC community the need for CSW to exist, the struggles that created this group, its utility for current members, and its role in AEJMC’s future. Why have CSW? Why do what we do? How to better communicate our mission and purpose? In the coming year, I will lead an effort to address these concerns by archiving information about CSW’s history, pioneering members, and signature achievements. This archive will exist in two important ways. First, archived images, documents, oral
histories, and video footage will be made available on our website as a resource for members and as a way to communicate our history and purpose to potential new members and the entire AEJMC membership. This digital archive will also be backed up on portable devices such as USB drives that can be easily passed from outgoing to incoming officers, so the information cannot be lost in years to come. Finally, hardcopy records (when available) will also be gathered into binders that will be passed down to incoming officers. I will spearhead the task of gathering our history by reaching out to members and especially past officers in the hope that they will share the materials they still have about our history and accomplishments. I also hope to expand the project, begun many years ago, to collect oral histories from pioneering members and officers. Their memories and vision for CSW are valuable and must be preserved. These efforts will be in the service not only of remembering CSW’s history, but also promoting our future. By better recording and communicating our past, we can more effectively convey our current purpose and goals as we reach out to recruit new members. What better way to encourage attendance at our Mentoring Luncheon than to explain the historical need for mentoring women in AEJMC and the continued need for mentoring? What better way to encourage people to attend our business meetings and become officers than to promote our signature accomplishments and the See “Chair’s Corner” on page 8
Meet the Commission’s 2013-2014 elected board
Spring SerenityDuvall, Chair, University of South Carolina, Aiken
Katie Place, Vice Chair, St. Louis University
Jamie Loke, Research Chair, University of Oklahoma
Jennifer VardemanWinter, Midwinter Chair, University of Houston
Ingrid Bachmann, Secretary, University of Texas at Austin
Candi Carter Olson, Newsletter Chair, Utah State University
Stine Eckert, Ad-Hoc Communications Chair, University of Maryland
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Minutes: Award winners and mentoring program announced
Top Paper Award Recipients (L to R) Jaime Loke, Ingrid Bachman, and Dustin Harp. Photo Courtesy of Jamie Loke.
Continued from page 1 Vice Chair’s Report: Spring Serenity Duvall CSW had an excellent slate of panels planned this year. We partnered with various new divisions, such as the PR Division and the LGBT interest group. It is good for CSW to sponsor panels that are diverse and enable us to gain exposure for our programming. AEJMC.net where we host our site was repeatedly hacked. It was unavailable for some time and we could not update it. It has been repaired. We didn’t lose any files. The site is up and running. Spring suggested that CSW add an additional ad hoc member to serve as media person to supervise website, writing for social media, and posting the newsletter and news to the web site. 2013 Awards: We had a record number of paper submissions. The acceptance rate was 49 percent. Individuals recognized at the meeting included: Top Student Paper Award recipient: Dunja Antunovic, Penn State, for her paper entitled, “A
Female in a Man’s World: New Media Discourses around the First Female NFL.” Top Paper Award recipients: Dustin Harp, Texas - Arlington; Jaime Loke, Oklahoma, and Ingrid Bachmann, Catholic University of Chile for their paper entitled, “The Double Bind of Political Women: Coverage of Hillary Clinton’s Performance During the Benghazi Hearings.” Mary Gardner Award for Graduate Student Research recipient: Dunja Antunovich Mary Ann Yodelis Smith Award for Feminist Research recipient: Cory Armstrong Midwinter Chair’s Report: Jennifer Vardeman-Winter We had 14 papers submitted to the 2013 Midwinter Conference. Four were accepted. We had some great papers and 20 people reviewed papers. It was greatly appreciated! If you have any feedback on the process, please notify Jennifer Vardeman-Winter. Mentoring Program Report: Anita Fleming-Rife and Carolyn Byerly Carolyn passed out
a copy of the mentoring program report. It gives information on the background of program. Carolyn commended Dustin Harp on her vision for the program. It speaks to “Lift As We Climb” and it gives senior scholars an opportunity to help junior scholars be successful. We are appreciative of senior faculty’s participation. Thank you for stepping up. Anita added that mentoring helps faculty members navigate the academic landscape and different university and departmental cultures. It also helps us to understand promotion and tenure process and understand the research process. Anita challenged members, “Listen to your mentor; make the relationships worthwhile!” The program is appropriate for mid-career assistant professors or associate professors. CSW had 42 participants in the last two years. Many served as mentors two years in a row. The program has exceeded
our expectations. How the process works: CSW receives applications, then mentor program coordinators consider who will be mentors for junior scholars. It is volunteer service. Mentees should make the first contact with their mentors - They must take initiative. Future consideration: Is there a better way to structure the interactive process? The CSW Mentoring Advisory Committee consists of: Drs. Aldoory, Stevens and Newton. The committee was underutilized this year, but we recommend that the committee continues. Two new co-chairs will take on the mentoring program for the 2013/2014 year: Tracy Everbach and Francis W. Johnson of Minority A. Commission. Co-Chairs should be at least one woman of color and work hand in hand with Commission on the Status of Minorities. See “Minutes” on page 8
Lana Rakow, Radhika Parameswaran, Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez, Linda Florence Callahan, and Carolyn Byerly (moderating), present on the “Insiders’ Guide to the Academy: Understanding Tenure, Academic Freedom and Faculty Governance” panel on Thursday, August 8. Photo by Tracy Everbach.
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Wikid GRRLS: Free curriculum developed to even online gender gap By Stine Eckert
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n spring 2013 I had the valuable opportunity to envision a project that aims to improve the world of information a tiny bit, especially the world of Wikipedia and its dearth of women contributors. Several studies (local and global) have shown a big gender gap for the popular online encyclopedia: only 12 to 15 percent of Wikipedia contributors, i.e. those who write and edit, are women. Other studies showed that because of the dominance of men working on Wikipedia the content has been skewed toward the interests of those contributing. Combine this with the evidence that this online encyclopedia has become a one-stopshop for looking up quick facts and larger concepts and might well be the last encyclopedia. This mix quickly leads to the question: Who gets to define what counts as knowledge and what is not? Why are so few women contributing? How can we help to balance out this gap? Part of the problem, besides lacking time, is the socialization of girls when it comes to using computers and the internet. While girls and women consume computer content, few women work as programmers, software developers or otherwise behind the scenes to produce computer and internet software and content. Somewhere around middle school, girls get the that vibe this is
not for them, that it’s supposedly a “boy’s thing” to tinker with the insides and back sides of the computer and internet. Together with Linda Steiner, professor in the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, I developed the idea to teach middle-school-aged girls how to write articles on a Wiki in an after school program. We wanted to acquaint them with the production side of a Wiki but also make them comfortable to express their own interests in their own words. We developed this idea also to compete in the first seed grant competition of the Future of Information Alliance (FIA) at the University of Maryland (UMD). FIA is a UMD-wide group partnering with other institutions in the Washington D.C. area to make information an “effective resource for everyone.” FIA’s priorities include “InfoEquity,” that is fostering an online environment to close the digital divide and provide opportunities for everyone. In sum, FIA’s goals and ours clicked. It came on the heels of Linda Steiner and I completing two studies on the Wikipedia gender gap. It led us from implementing what we had learnt from studying the gap in theory into trying out how to solve it in practice. We built a team inviting several people to join us as teachers and consultants: Kalyani Chadha, assistant professor in the Philip Merrill College; Joanna Nurmis, Ph.D. student in the Philip Merrill College;
undergraduate students in education and computers science Kristen Sabatini and Angelisa Plane; and Merrill alumna Dr. Jessica Roberts. Together we worked with four different local schools, one of them also an official partner of FIA. All schools were enthusiastic about partnering with us but I could clearly see how schools were limited by the resources they had in terms of human power, technology, and classrooms. While one school had high tech equipment and a beautiful newly built room through which daylight flooded, another school’s classroom for our project initially was dimly lit, without any equipment to play sound or projector to show videos. I quickly learnt we have to adapt our curricula to low tech and high tech schools, to make exercises workable without videos, which require sound and functioning loud speakers. It also took a few weeks to fit an after school spot into the girls’ already busy schedules. For other girls unfortunately an after school program didn’t work at all as the school busses just ran once after classes were over and their schools and working parents could not provide transportation for them later. Small as it might sound, our idea to provide snacks before starting our program became a crucial element for some girls because they came hungry to our workshops. I learnt that any after school See “Wikid GRRLS” on page 7
Workshop: Multimedia storytelling taught through horse riding, media platforms Continued from page 1
Borderzine, see http://borderzine.com/about-us/.
said, “You’re next!” Although I wasn’t dressed in riding clothes, I grabbed the opportunity and mounted the horse. He took me out into the family’s arena, where he and his horse spun around, pranced, and even lay down as I snapped photos with my iPhone and my colleague, Steve Elliott of Arizona State University, grabbed his camcorder and tripod and caught the action. The week was exhausting and fulfilling. We learned to tell a complete story through several different media platforms and got introduced to or reinforced in software. I don’t think I have worked as hard, or had as much fun, since I worked in a newsroom more than a decade ago. I highly recommend the program, which accepts applications in the spring and usually takes place in May or June at UTEP. All stories get posted on the university’s Borderzine. com, a multimedia online magazine aimed at training Latino journalism students. Since El Paso is right across the border from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, both stories posted on the site are in both English and Spanish. For more information about
Tracy Everbach watches Pedro Castro perform a horse trick at his family’s ranch in Canutillo, Texas. Everbach was participating in the Dow Jones Multimedia Training Academy for journalism professors in June at the University of Texas at El Paso. Photo by Steve Elliot.
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Professional Promotions: Publications, activism by CSW members
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unja Antunovic, a Ph.D. “Combating Weight Stigma in Diverse please-do-not-appear-on-the-biggest-losercandidate at Penn State, has had Populations – African Americans,” Binge and-instead-engage-with-the-advocacyher paper “’A Female in a Man’s Eating Disorder Association (BEDA) communities-specializing-in-weight-stigma World’: New Media Discourses around the Annual Weight Stigma Awareness Week After signing the petition, you can call First Female NFL Referee,” accepted for Campaign, September 23-27, 2013, http:// and email the White House to send the publication by the Journal of Sports Media. bedaonline.com/wsaw2013/weight-stigmasame message. Call the White House at 202The paper won the CSW’s Top Student diverse-populations-rev-dr-e-k-daufin/#. 456-1111, and send an email at http://www. Paper Award at the 2013 AEJMC annual UkoBbNJJOPC. whitehouse.gov/contact/submit-questionsconference. “The HAES® Files: The Long Road and-comments. The subject line should read Barbara Gainey, interim chair and Home (to the ASDAH Conference) – Part “First Family.” You can also send a letter to associate professor for the Kennesaw State 2, September 3, 2013. One article featured First Lady Michelle Obama on this issue to University Department of Communication, every week by international organization’s White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, is a new Affiliated Faculty of KSU’s new editorial board, www.healthateverysizeblog. Washington, DC 20500. Be sure to include Women’s Leadership Center in the Coles org/2013/09/page/2. your email address. Finally, you can view the College of Business. “The HAES® Files: The Long Road entire contents of the open letter at https:// The Journal of Communication Home (to the ASDAH Conference) – Part www.sizediversityandhealth.org/content. Inquiry published a study asp?id=34&articleID=234. co-authored by Stine Kim Fox, associate Eckert, Ph.D. candidate at professor of practice at The the University of Maryland, American University in Cairo, and Linda Steiner, professor published an article “Black Talk at the University of Maryland, Radio in the Sphere of Political entitled “(Re)triggering Talk Radio” in the Journal of backlash: Responses to Mass Media Ethics (vol. 28, issue news of Wikipedia’s gender 4, 2013). gap” in its October issue Tracy Lucht, an assistant on ”Contemporary Politics of professor of journalism at Gender in the Media Spotlight.” Iowa State University, recently Appalachian State published a new book: Sylvia University assistant professor Porter: America’s Original Lynette Holman and co-author Dr. Paulette Kilmer, professor of Communication Personal Finance Columnist Sherine El-Toukhy, a post-doc at the University of Toledo and coordinator of UT’s (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse research associate at UNCUniversity Press, 2013). Banned Books Week Vigil, facilitates a discussion Chapel Hill, received the firstLucht’s book, which won the during the 16th annual event. More than 700 atplace faculty paper award from tended the daylong event, which was made possible 2013 Director’s Choice award by 33 sponsors. A total of 44 banned books were the Communicating Science, from Syracuse University Press, Health, Environment and Risk given away as door prizes. Photo courtesy of Paulette details the career of the early Kilmer. Division of the Association twentieth century financial for Education in Journalism writer S.F. Porter, who was 1, August 13, 2013. One article featured and Mass Communication for their paper revealed in the early 1940s to be a woman. every week by international organization’s titled “Exemplifying Risk: Contrast versus The publisher says of the book: editorial board, www.healthateverysizeblog. assimilation effects in risk perception and “Sylvia Porter (1913–1991) was the org/2013/08/page/3/. vaccination intentions.” nation’s first personal finance columnist Daufin was also an original signatory E-K. Daufin, a professor of and one of the most admired women of the and was featured in the YouTube video communication at Alabama State, recently twentieth century. In Sylvia Porter: America’s (which can be found here: http://www. was quoted in Psychology Today regarding Original Personal Finance Columnist, Lucht youtube.com/watch?v=ixeYQi6IBP8) in the traces Porter’s professional trajectory, weight stigma and education and had an campaign to get First Lady Michelle Obama identifying her career strategies and article published about weight stigma in to opt out of appearing again on The Biggest the Black community in a Binge Eating exploring the role of gender in her creation Loser and instead work with professionals to of a once-unique, now-ubiquitous form Disorder Conference. Here are the links end weight stigma (and it’s racist and sexist Daufin’s most recent citations and articles: of journalism. A pioneer for both male harm) as well as weight-based bullying. Psychology Today, “Eating Disorder and female journalists, Porter established a Daufin would appreciate all CSW News: For Students, Perils of Weight Bias, genre of newspaper writing that would last members signing the petition and sending it into the twenty-first century while carving Anti-Obesity Programs,” http://www. psychologytoday.com/blog/eating-disorders- out to all students and others as appropriate. a space for women in what had been an Here’s the petition: http://www.change. news/201309/students-perils-weight-biasalmost exclusively male field. She began org/petitions/first-lady-michelle-obamaanti-obesity-programs-0. See“Promote” on page 6 Newsletter for the AEJMC Commission on the Status of Women ~ Page 5
Promote: Several new books published, professors earn new positions Continued from page 5 as an oddity—a woman writing about finance during the Great Depression—and rose to become a nationally recognized expert, revered by middle-class readers and consulted by presidents. As the first biography of Sylvia Porter, this book makes an important contribution to the history of women and the media.” A new edited book by Cory L. Armstrong, associate professor at the University of Florida, examines gender representations across media platforms in the digital age. With a preface by Gaye Tuchman, Media Disparity: A Gender Battleground (2013: Lexington Books) explores how women are portrayed in areas including sports, advertising, health, video games, reality television, and international news. Diana I. Rios, U Connecticut is part of a team of scholars (faculty and graduate students from different campuses) examining gender, sexuality and violence in international melodramatic serials such as telenovelas. As several women scholars have noted in the literature, there has been a growing tendency to present “empowered,” violent females who use guns, aggression and killing to obtain goals. This kind of representation is what we have been critiquing and examining most recently in “narco-dramas.” Separately, while serving as vicepresident of the UConn chapter of the American Association of University professors, Rios has been involved in collective bargaining on specific topics of interest related to the contract the university has with the faculty union. Collective bargaining is key to a healthy university where the needs, rights of faculty members are protected. Do you have collective bargaining on your campus? For example, do you know who negotiated the health care, retirement benefits on your campus? Are your intellectual property rights protected or are you considered laborers for hire? Find out where you stand. Drs. Mia Moody-Ramirez and Jannette Dates, who met while participating in the CSW mentorship program, have teamed up to write a book titled, The Obamas and Mass Media: Race, Gender, Religion, and Politics (Palgrave Pivot). It is scheduled for release in January of 2014.
Using the cultural prism of race, The Obamas and Mass Media critically examines the images of African Americans that exist in media of the 21st century. Further, the authors assess the ways in which media focused on gender, religion, and politics in framing perceptions of the president and first lady of the United States during the Obama administration. The text draws on a wide range of textual and critical strategies to interpret, criticize, and deconstruct media artifacts. Moody-Ramirez is Graduate Program Director and Associate Professor in the Department of Journalism, Jannette Dates Public Relations, and New Media at Baylor University. Dates is Dean Emerita of the Howard University School of Communications. This spring, Mia Moody-Ramirez, Ph.D., received tenure and was promoted to Graduate Program Director and Mia MoodyAssociate Professor Ramirez of Journalism, Public Relations and New Media at Baylor University. She began teaching at the university 13 years ago as a graduate student. Carolyn M. Byerly, professor at Howard University, recently published The Palgrave International Handbook of Women and Journalism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, ISBN 978-1-137-27323-9,477 pages). The book, an edited collection, is an academic adaptation of the study Global Report on the Status of Women in News Media, a 59-nation study that Byerly conducted earlier under funding by International Women’s Media Foundation. IWMF published the 400-page technical report with the study’s findings in 2011. The new Handbook is the most complete statement to date of women’s employment relationship to traditional news companies across the world. The book includes 29 of the original 59 nations surveyed, with those chapters authored
by the original researchers for each nation, in most cases. Byerly also included an introduction, a theory chapter (feminist political economy), and a conclusion that reflects on what has been learned about women’s place in a profession that is routinely associated with democracy. The aggregated data from the original study had shown that men outnumber women about 2:1 in the profession globally, and to dominate in top management and governance levels about 3:1. The Handbook just published breaks down the statistics for a more nuanced view of individual nations’ situations. In Spain, as in the European nations of Bulgaria, Russia and Estonia, for example, the journalism profession is largely feminized, but for very different reasons politically and historically. Even in these and other nations with significant strides by women into the mid-to-high editorial ranks and even lower levels of management -- e.g., Sweden, Finland and Canada -men still claim the upper management and governance roles for themselves. In all nations, authors ponder the economic, cultural, historical and other factors that have institutionalized sexist practices that thwart women’s advancement into decision making roles. Mexican authors Aimee Vega Montiel and Patricia Ortega Ramirez do a particularly in-depth job of locating women’s lower status in the journalism profession within a masculine political economy of capitalism, the analytical framework that informs the book’s organization and broader concerns for women’s location in the profession. It bears mentioning that nearly all of the authors commented on the extent to which their nations’ media systems have become concentrated in their ownership, and explained ways this has affected women’s entry to the profession, ability to maintain regular employment and advancement in ranks. All regions of the world are included in the book, including North America (Canada, USA, Mexico), South America (Brazil, Chile), Western Europe (France, Spain, UK, Germany), Eastern Europe (Bulgaria, Poland, Estonia, Russia), Nordic Europe (Sweden, Finland, Norway), Asia/South Asia (China, Japan, India, Bangladesh), Oceana (Australia), Africa (Uganda, South Africa, Namibia, Ghana, See“Promote” on page 7
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General Call for papers and panel proposals for midwinter meeting
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he AEJMC Midwinter Conference is an annual forum for the presentation of research and debate in areas relevant to the 10 AEJMC groups (divisions, interest groups and commissions) sponsoring the event. The upcoming conference is scheduled for February 28-March 1, 2014 at the Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication (University of Oklahoma) in Norman, Oklahoma. Paper abstract submissions: Authors are invited to submit research paper abstracts of between 600 and 800 words (word count excludes author information and references). Abstracts should give a clear sense of relevant literature, research objectives, methodological approach, stage of research project (conceptual, data gathering, data interpreting), findings and conclusions. Submissions should be made by e-mail to the midwinter chair, Jennifer VardemanWinter. Note that authors can submit a paper abstract to only one participating group – submitting the same paper abstract to several groups will result in disqualification and withdrawal from the review process. Do not submit full papers.
Authors of accepted papers will be notified by mid-January 2014. Papers presented at the midwinter conference are also eligible for presentation at the AEJMC national convention in August. Authors of accepted abstracts must submit complete papers (not exceeding 30 pages) to the discussant of their conference session at least two weeks before the midwinter conference. At least one author of each accepted paper must register and attend the conference to present the paper. Failure to register by the deadline will result in authors’ names and papers being removed from the program. NO onsite registration will be available. Panel submissions: In addition, the organizers are also inviting panel proposals. These proposals should be sent to the midwinter chair of the particular division or group they wish to present the panel to. Panel submissions should include the panel title, a description of the session’s focus, the issues to be discussed, and a list of panelists (potential and confirmed), including affiliation. Panel proposals should not exceed two double-spaced pages. Submission format: All submissions
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(for paper abstracts and panels) should include the name(s) of the author(s) or panel organizer(s) on the title page only. The title page should also include the author or lead author’s (or organizer’s) mailing address, telephone number and e-mail address. The title should be on the first page of the text and on running heads on each page of text. Authors should e-mail their abstracts or proposals as attachments (saved with the author’s last name as file name) in a standard word-processing format (preferably Word or RTF). Authors must ensure that they remove any identifying information from their document (with the exception of the title page). Deadline: All submissions should be emailed to Jennifer Vardeman-Winter (jvardeman@uh.edu), midwinter chair of the Commission on the Status of Women, by noon, December 1, 2013. Details on conference registration, hotel accommodation and airport transportation will be available at http://www.ou.edu/ gaylord. For more information, please contact Elanie Steyn, Conference Site Host (elanie@ ou.edu).
Promote: Students and professors announce conference acceptances
Continued from page 7 program needs to be in close touch with organizers at participating schools before school starts for the semester to learn specifics about each site. While some schools can afford a point person with ample time to arrange and trouble shoot, others depend on a very dedicated teacher who is already working over time and shouldering other responsibilitiess. Part of our project was to collect feedback from each teaching session on a blog hosted by UMD. Unfortunately, UMD faced trouble online and our blog was taken down without us having a chance to save our content beforehand or knowing if our Wikid GRRLS blog would run again. It’s a stark reminder that technology is fickle and that it is an excellent idea to mirror a project blog on a site hosted by another company. Another alternative is to save reflections from each group member also on a shared document. I also learnt that some group members were more committed to posting regularly and creatively than others and that motivating and appealing can only go so far. Fortunately, our project continues with a newly built blog and a finalized curriculum for everyone to use. The Wikid GRRLS 10-week curriculum is free and available by email from either Stine Eckert at keckert@umd.edu or Joanna Nurmis at jpmg@umd.edu. To watch a video about and find more information on the Wikid GRRLS project, check out our website at http://wikidgrrls.wordpress.com/ and follow the hashtag #wikidgrrls on Twitter. Stine Eckert is a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Maryland.
Continued from page 6 Kenya), and Middle East (Jordan, Israel, Lebanon). Jenny Korn, Ph.D. candidate at the University of Illinois at Chicago, with Peter Murmann and Hagen Worch, has had her paper, “How Fast Can Firms Grow?” accepted for publication in the Journal of Economics and Statistics. Korn has had a paper acceptance on online, gendered cyberplaces by the Organization for the Study of Communication Language and Gender (OSCLG) conference in Michigan in October; a paper acceptance on historic, gendered online communication by the Ada Lovelace conference in New Jersey in October; a paper acceptance on embodied online interactions by the Association of Internet Researchers conference in Colorado in October; a paper acceptance on gendered mobile phone applications by the National Communication Association (NCA) conference in Washington, DC, in November; and a paper acceptance on online rhetoric and a roundtable acceptance on digital tools by the Rhetoric Society of America (RSA) conference in San Antonio in May. She invites AEJMC members to contact her at JenKorn@uic.edu to meet at any of these conferences. Have an achievement you›d like to announce to the world? Send your promotions to ccartero@gmail.com.
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Get Connected, Updated and Promoted with the CSW By Stine Eckert
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e are revamping our social media strategy to better meet your needs to stay connected with CSW and other members. We are on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn and are working to make the website and all channels more useful for your needs to stay in touch with each other and CSW. I will actively work to cross-post across all announcements on all these sites so you don’t miss out on CSW news. Follow us on twitter: @CSW_AEJMC. And equally important, please send us your twitter handle name so that we can follow you with the CSW account to retweet and promote your good links, your work, presentations, and comments! Send us a request on Facebook to join our group “Commission on the Status of Women (AEJMC)” to follow job announcements, find advice on teaching tools, book, and ideas, and share interesting articles and your work. It’s been sparking good exchanges of resources so make sure you take advantage of this pool of information. On LinkedIn, join our group “Commission on the Status of Women, AEJMC.” I will be actively cross posting on the group’s discussion page to make better use of our account. We are working hard to make our CSW social media network flourish and to be of your service! So please let us know how we can better serve you using our social media network and presence. We are also working on revamping the CSW website so watch out for updates on that on facebook, twitter, and LinkedIn! If you have other ideas or suggestions, please e-mail your CSW web mistress Stine Eckert keckert@umd.edu
Chair: Social Media Survey Coming Continued from page 2 battles that past CSW officers have fought while sitting on the AEJMC executive board? When graduate students or members of other Divisions and Interest Groups ask us what, exactly, is this thing called the Commission on the Status of Women, what better way to answer than to direct them to a website full of images and oral histories that tell our story? I hope you will join me in building this archive. You will see, in the coming weeks, a request for you to share any materials you have that might be relevant to the archive, along with information about how to submit that material. I will also reach out to past officers and set in motion a process for collecting oral histories. This will be an ongoing project that may take some time to complete. I don’t mind that and I hope you won’t either. It’s taken 40 years to create the story of CSW – it is a story worth telling and I am looking forward to our history being better preserved for future generations. Social Media Survey In the coming weeks, we will ask members to take a survey about CSW’s social media efforts and how our online presence can better meet members’ needs. Look for an email asking you to take the survey and please let your voice be heard!
Minutes: Members add online communication chair, elect officers Continued from page 3 Male mentors are available, too. It is the largest mentoring program ever undertaken to advance women in the communication field! Certificates of mentees/ mentors were handed out at the end of the report. Open Discussion Among Members: An ad hoc chair for online communications was proposed. Spring Serenity-Duvall shared that CSW can use social media policy from PR Division as a guide. We will consult Natalie Tindall. A social media presence
by CSW is important; therefore, the new position should be a permanent one. It is an opportunity for us to fill our advocacy role, make the most of our social media presence, and have a purpose. It can be used to promoting our members’ work and dialogue while sending out updates about diversity and gender-related issues of importance. Ultimately, it will serve as a resource, clearing house of information for our members. Member comment: Can make lists on Twitter, can follow advocacy organizations, then re-tweet. We would
streamline our information by using HooteSuite, other apps, etc. Member comment: Perhaps we can do research on what platforms our members use most? Our members have different preferences among FaceBook, Linkedin, Twitter. We can research members’ expectations, needs regarding social media platform use and create some baselines? Elections for 20132014 Officers: The membership voted the following officers to CSW: Chair: Spring SerenityDuvall, University of South
Carolina, Aiken Vice Chair: Katie Place, Saint Louis University Midwinter Chair: Jennifer Vardeman-Winter, University of Houston Newsletter Chair: Candi Carter Olson, Utah State University Research Chair: Jaime Loke, University of Oklahoma Secretary: Ingrid Bachmann, University of Texas at Austin Ad Hoc Communications chair: Stine Eckert, University of Maryland The meeting was adjourned.
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