AEJMC 2018 in Washington DC

SEMI-ME lab members (from left to right) Rebecca Frazer, Daniel Sude, Jessica McKnight, and George Pearson presented their research at the AEJMC conference 2018. The works were co-authored with Emily Schutz, Melissa Robinson, Axel Westerwick, and Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick. GO TEAM!

 

 

 

ICA Fellow

Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick named ICA fellow at the annual conference in Prague.

This distinction honors outstanding scholarly achievements and service.

Picture taken before the awards ceremony, with Dr. Rene Weber (UC Santa Barbara) to the left and Dr. Elihu Katz in the background.

AEJMC submissions accepted

All three submissions to the AEJMC conference in Washington/DC were accepted — yay!

 

*Pearson, G., *Sude, D., & Knobloch-Westerwick, S. (2018). Thumbs up! Impacts of interactive news voting affordances on selective exposure, voting and persuasion. Paper to be presented at the annual conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Washington/DC.

Knobloch-Westerwick, S., Robinson, M., *Frazer, R., & *Schutz, E. (2018). “Affective News” Extended Model (ANEM)”: A multi-topic study of narrative persuasion from political messages. Paper to be presented at the annual conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Washington/DC.

Westerwick, A., *Sude, D., Robinson, M., & Knobloch-Westerwick, S., (2018). Peers versus pros: Confirmation bias in selective exposure to user-generated versus mass media messages. Paper to be presented at the annual conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Washington/DC.

Mattox Award

Silvia is the first two-time winner of the Mattox Award for research this year, at the OSU School of Communication. The Sarah Evans Mattox Faculty Research endowment provides support on a competitive basis for a faculty member’s research.  Specifically this award is to be given to a highly productive, innovative faculty member who conducts research on “the impact of media on public opinion and/or society,”  and is based on articles that have been published during 2017. Silvia’s nine publications in 2017 appeared in Human Communication Research, Journal of Communication, Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, Health Communication, Journal of Communication in Healthcare, and Communication Monographs.

Presentations Accepted for International Communication Association conference in Prague/Czech Republic

  • Luong, K. T., Knobloch-Westerwick, S., & Niewiesk, S. (2018). Superstars are within reach: The role of perceived attainability & role congruity in media role models on women’s social comparison.
  • Sarge, M., & Knobloch-Westerwick, S. (2018). Examining selective exposure to weight management articles as a danger control response.
  • Sude, D., Knobloch-Westerwick, S., Westerwick, A., & Robinson, M. (2018). Prey to peers’ postings: Mass media versus blended communication impacts on confirmation bias, attitude change.
  • Tao, C.-C., Shen, Y., Knobloch-Westerwick, S., & Potter, R. (2018). The selective exposure paradox: Prior attitude, eye movements, and attitude polarization.

Two new publications ‘in press’

Pearson, G., & Knobloch-Westerwick, S., (in press). Perusing pages and skimming screens: Exploring differing patterns of selective exposure to hard news and high credibility sources in online and print news. New Media & Society.

Wilson, B., Knobloch-Westerwick, S., & Robinson, M. (in press). Picture yourself healthy–How users select mediated images to shape health intentions and behaviors. Health Communication.