Civic Journalism Interest Group
Conference papers
Last updated: 19 August 2002
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Abstracts of research papers presented at the annual AEJMC conventions
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List of research papers presented at AEJMC conventions
2000
Campbell, Kathryn B. (2000, August). Engaging the literature: A civic approach. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Phoenix.
Campbell, Kathryn B. (2000, August). Resolving public conflict: Civic journalism and civic society. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Phoenix.
Coleman, Renita. (2000, August). Civic journalism and the right side of the brain: How photographers and graphic designers visually communicate the principles of civic journalism. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Phoenix.
Frantzen, Guido, & Griswold, William F. (2000, August). Public journalism and criticism of the press. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Phoenix.
Haas, Tanni, & Schroll, Christopher J. (2000, August). Educating for a more public journalism: Public journalism and its challenges to journalism education. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Phoenix.
Loomis, David. (2000, August). A tale of two cities: Do small-town dailies practice public journalism without knowing it? Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Phoenix.
McDevitt, Michael, Gassaway, Bob, & Perez, Frank. (2000, August). The making and unmaking of civic journalists: Influences of classroom and newsroom socialization. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Phoenix.
Morris, John L. (2000, August). Citizen-based journalism: A study of attitudes toward audience interaction in journalism. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Phoenix.
Seow, Ting Lee. (2000, August). Public journalism and the use of nonelite sources and actors. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Phoenix.
Windborne, Janice. (2000, August). Civic journalism: One possible tool for building new democracies and civic society. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Phoenix.
1999
Campbell, Kathryn. (1999, August). Civic journalism and community policing: Potential for partnership. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, New Orleans, LA.
Lloyd, Carla V., & Slater, Jan S. (1999, August). Being a better neighbor: A look at how the Syracuse newspapers listened to readers to improve neighborhood news coverage. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, New Orleans, LA.
Loomis, David, & Meyer, Philip. (1999, October). Opinion without polls: Finding a link between corporate culture and public journalism. Paper presented to the meeting of Public Opinion Research, Raleigh, NC.
Massey, Brian L. (1999, August). Civic journalism and gender diversity in news-story sourcing. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, New Orleans, LA.
Morris, Jack. (1999, August). Constructing meaning: The role of the audience in news writing. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, New Orleans, LA.
Payne, Rebecca. (1999, August). Following their first steps: A lesson in launching public journalism. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, New Orleans, LA.
Rosen, Jay. (1999, August). Actor vs. outsider: The Washington Post on public journalism. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, New Orleans, LA.
Selber, Gregory. (1999, August). Resurrecting critical theory: Public journalism. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, New Orleans, LA.
Shah, Dhavan V., Holbert, R. Lance, & Kwak, Nojin. (1999, August). Expanding the "virtuous circle" of social capital: Civic engagement, contentment, and interpersonal trust. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, New Orleans, LA. [Does not examine explicit civic-journalism effort; rather, looks at issues of great relevance to civic reporting.]
Trumpbour, Robert. (1999, August). Media coverage of sports and politics: An examination of the press' role in campaigns for professional sports stadium construction. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, New Orleans, LA.
1998
Bowers, James R., Clafin, Blair, & Walker, Gary. (1998). A case study from Rochester, New York: The impact of civic journalism projects on voting behavior in state-wide referendums. Paper presented to the meeting of the New England Political Science Association, May, Worcester, MA.
Coleman, Renita. (1998, August). The visual communication of public journalism: A content and textual analysis. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Baltimore, MD.
Coleman, Renita. (1998, August). Design characteristics of public journalism: Integrating visual and verbal meaning. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Baltimore, MD.
Holbert, R. Lance, & Zubric, Stephen J. (1998, August). A comparative analysis of objective and public journalism as techniques. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Baltimore, MD.
Iorio, Sharon Hartin. (1998, August). Public discourse, economic/fiscal policy issues, and civic journalism. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Baltimore, MD.
Kurpius, David D. (1998, August). Public journalism and commercial local television news: In search of a model. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Baltimore, MD.
Loomis, David O. (1998, August). Is public journalism cheap journalism? Putting public journalists' money where their mouths are. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Baltimore, MD.
Maier, S., & Potter, D. (1998, August). Public journalism through the television lens: How did the broadcast media perform in Campaign '96? Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Baltimore, MD.
Rhodenbaugh, Eric J. (1998, August). Missing the link: Citizen-based journalism intent rather than election coverage content affects public trust in media. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Baltimore, MD.
Roberts, Robert, Eksterowicz, Anthony, & Clark, Adrian. (1998, August). Civic journalism, political awareness and the university. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Baltimore, MD.
Verykoukis, Andrea. (1998, August). A journalism less ordinary: The inspirational tone of public journalism. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Baltimore, MD.
1997
Chaffee, S., McDevitt, M., & Thorson, E. (1997, August). Citizen response to civic journalism: Four case studies. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Chicago, IL.
Coleman, Renita. (1997, August). The treatment of public journalism in three media review journals. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Chicago, IL.
Engelhardt, James. (1997, August). The language of public journalism: An analysis of the movement's appropriation of the terms "public," "civic," "deliberative dialogue," and "consensus." Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Chicago, IL.
Gade, Peter, Abel, Scott, Antecol, Michael, Hsueh, Hsiao-Yin, Willey, Susan, Fraser, Nancy, & Sanders, Keith. (1997, August). Civic journalism: The practitioner's perspective. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Chicago, Illinois.
Meyer, Philip, & Potter, Deborah. (1997, August). Effects of citizen-based journalism in the 1996 national elections. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Chicago, Illinois.
Newby, Christina. (1997, August). Issues and agendas: The case of Wichita, Kansas, revisited. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Chicago, Illinois.
Reynolds, Amy. (1997, August). The 1996 presidential campaign, civic journalism and local TV news: Does "doing civic journalism" make any difference? Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Chicago, Illinois.
Thorson, E., Mendelson, A., Ognianova, E., & Friedland, L. (1997, August). Affective and behavioral impact of civic journalism. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Chicago, Illinois.
1996
Coleman, Renita. (1996, August). The Intellectual antecedents of public journalism. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Anaheim, CA.
Dykers, Carol Reese. (1996, August). Defining "public journalism" by analyzing the news discourses of one "public journalist." Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Anaheim, CA.
Gunaratne, Shelton. (1996). Old Wine in a new bottle: Public journalism movement in the United States and the erstwhile NWICO debate. Presented to the meeting of the International Association for Communication Research, Sydney, Australia.
Jones Patterson, Maggie. (1996, August). Abortion, moral maturity, and civic journalism. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Anaheim, CA.
McMillian, Sally, Guppy, Macy, Kunz, Bill, & Reis, Raul. (1996, August). A defining moment: Who says what about public journalism. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Anaheim, CA.
McMillian, Sally J., Guppy, Macy, Kunz, Bill, & Reis, Raul. (1996, August). Public journalism: What difference does it make to editorial content? Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Anaheim, CA. 
Riede, Paul. (1996, August). Public journalism and constraints on news content: A case study of the people project. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Anaheim, CA.
Shafer, Richard. (1996, August). Journalists as reluctant interventionists: Comparing development and civic journalism. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Anaheim, CA.
Willey, Susan. (1996, August). Civic journalism in practice: Case studies in the art of listening. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Anaheim, CA.
Wyatt, Lisa. (1997, August). Framing the National Issues Convention. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Anaheim, CA. [Only mentions civic journalism.]
Yin, Jiafei. (1996, ,August). A trend, imagined or real? A comparative study of development journalism and public journalism. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Anaheim, CA.
1995
Denton, Frank, Thorson, Esther, & Coyle, James. (1995, August). Effects of a multimedia public journalism project on political knowledge and attitudes. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Washington, DC.
Dykers, Carol Reese. (1995, August). A critical review: Re-conceptualizing the relation of "democracy" to "news". Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Washington, DC. [Addresses an issue of relevance to civic journalism.]
Parisi, Peter. (1995, August). Toward a "philosophy of framing": Narrative strategy and public journalism. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Washington, DC.
Thorson, Esther, & Lambeth, Edmund. (1995, August). An evaluation of the cognitive, attitudinal and synergistic effects of a multimedia civic journalism project. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Washington, DC.
Weichelt, Ann. (1995, August). Public journalism: Leadership or readership? A look at the media entry into community activism. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Washington, DC.
Zang, Barbara. (1995, August). Missing voices in the civic/public journalism debates: "I never thought a newspaper could ask 'What if?'" and other citizen-reader observations. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Washington, DC.

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