Library Tutorials

Hello. For those who area interested in a research refresher or who have not used the UCF library, links to the tutorials are below.

UCF Library Tutorials: Literature Review, Creating a Search Strategy and Focusing the Information Search. There are also other tutorials that you may be interested in taking. The tutorials are available here.

Conference paper to journal article

In class I gave you the conference paper, Bachelor Dinner. Here is a link to the journal article that it became.

Thinking about framing ...

Frames are organizing principles that are socially shared and persistent over time that work symbolically to meaningfully structure the social world.

From the 1940s:

From 2012:

UCF Communication Conference

As you may know, the Nicholson School of Communication will be be hosting the second annual International Crisis & Risk Communication Conference (ICRC) March 5-7th at the Fairwinds Alumni Center at UCF. If you are free these dates, we encourage you to support NSC (and Dr. Kimiko Akita as she is a featured speaker) in its efforts to offer this unique opportunity to Central Florida as well as learn from the industry's leading professionals and scholars.

This year, the 2012 ICRC Conference: Cultivating Trust in Uncertain Times will bring together leaders, researchers, and experts from private industry, government and the academy to facilitate an international dialogue about how we can collectively understand, adapt and respond to the significant crisis communication challenges we face in the wake of growing skepticism, suspicion and erosion of public trust.

This conference is for public and private sector communication practitioners as well as researchers, scholars and policy-makers who are interested in exploring the challenges for risk and crisis communication in the context of diminished credibility and trustworthiness in the mind of the public for public and private sector entities, agencies, businesses and corporations. Participants will have the opportunity to learn from and interact with leading experts. Participants can discuss lessons learned and emergent best practices from professionals who have dealt with significant crisis and risk communication episodes and participate in proposing practical recommendations for effective crisis communication in this changing environment.

Higher Education & Communication Resources

If you are new to graduate school, you may want to read the Chronicle of Higher Education - the newspaper for higher education. You may also want to read the Chronicle's graduate student forum.

The leading research organizations for mass communications are: Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC); National Communication Association (NCA); and the International Communication Association (ICA). Each of these organizations sponsor conferences and publish academic journals.

Funny look at getting a PhD

Julia Child

Here is a link to a well-known parody of Child's program.

National Communication Association

Hello all. The Call for Papers, or CFP, for the National Communication Association was posted today. Here is the link.

There are many opportunities for graduate students through NCA. Its 2012 convention - always held in November - is in Orlando.

We will discuss submitting conference papers in class.

Welcome!

Welcome to Communication and Society. This semester we will focus on food and media coverage - centered around framing theory. You will produce your own original research paper along the way.

This blog will include links to readings, some videos to watch and reminders about deadlines.

Feel free to offer suggestions about posts that would be helpful as you conduct your research.