2017 Television Academy Foundation’s Faculty Seminar

The Television Academy Foundation invites you to apply
for its week-long Faculty Seminar. Those who are accepted will travel to Los Angeles from Nov. 6th – Nov. 10th to meet with showrunners, production teams and other industry innovators. You will also visit sets and state-of-the-art production facilities. The deadline for applications is June 30, 2017, and travel and accommodations are included. The application can be accessed by visiting:
http://www.emmys.com/foundation/programs/faculty-seminar

PF&R Award Nominations Are Due May 1st

Do you know of an individual or institution that deserves to be recognized for their efforts in the promotion of professional freedom and responsibility? Is there a company or organization in the Chicago area that you think deserves recognition at our annual conference in August? The Media Management, Economics & Entrepreneurship (MMEE) division of AEJMC is seeking nominations for the division’s Professional Freedom and Responsibility Award (PF&R).

The PF&R award recognizes excellence in the promotion of free expression; ethics; media criticism and accountability; racial, gender, and cultural inclusiveness; and public service, as it pertains to media management, economics, and entrepreneurship. The award is open to any person or institution–professional or academic–that makes significant contributions to public advocacy or has by their actions encouraged management practices that promote excellence in any of these five areas. The award recognizes actions by working management professionals, research, teaching or service activities, or any other relevant work.

 

The division is particularly interested in nominations of people or institutions with connections to Chicago, the host city of the 2017 annual conference, where the award will be presented.

The award may be granted to significant contributions made in the preceding year or over a lifetime, at the discretion of the Named Awards Committee. If the nominee is a not a member of the MMEE Division, preference will be given to nominees from the region of each year’s annual convention. At its discretion, the Named Awards Committee may choose not to make a PF&R award in any year, if no suitable nominee is put forward. Self-nominations are not accepted for the PF&R award.

 

Nominations, along with any available supporting material, must be received (via mail or email), by the Division’s Immediate Past Head, Amy Jo Coffey, by the deadline of May 1, 2017. In addition to materials supplied by nominators, nominees might also be contacted and asked to submit supporting any material as quickly as possible after that date. Supporting materials may include, but are not limited to documents and texts pertaining to research, media advocacy or expert testimony, media coverage, and peer acknowledgment. The winner of the award will be notified well before this year’s AEJMC annual conference in Chicago, and the award will be presented at MMEE Division’s Members’ Meeting during the conference.

 

Please send nominations by email to acoffey@jou.ufl.edu .

 

Or by post to:

Amy Jo Coffey, Ph.D.

College of Journalism and Communications

University of Florida

P.O. 118400

Gainesville, FL 32611-8400

Deadline for Barry Sherman Teaching Award is May 1st

The Media Management, Economics & Entrepreneurship (MMEE) division of AEJMC is now seeking nominations for the Barry Sherman Teaching Award. This award recognizes excellence and innovation in the teaching of media management, economics, or entrepreneurship. Any division member is eligible for the award but may not nominate himself or herself. Nominations must be sent to Immediate Past Chair Amy Jo Coffey by May 1, 2017. Nominees will be contacted and asked to submit supporting material by May 26. Supporting materials will include:

 

• Syllabi from one or two courses (graduate or undergraduate) devoted primarily to media management, media economics, or media entrepreneurship.

• Up to three examples of supporting instructional materials in media management, economics, or entrepreneurship. The supporting materials should demonstrate evidence of teaching excellence or innovation.

The award honors the memory of Barry Sherman, who was Lambdin Kay Professor in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia at the time of his death in 2000. He served as director of the prestigious Peabody Awards from 1991-2000. During his 19 years at Georgia, the university honored Sherman twice for teaching excellence. In 1995, the International Radio and Television Society Foundation named him a Stanton Fellow for his “outstanding contribution to electronic media education.” The winner of the award will be notified before the AEJMC annual convention in Chicago in August 2017, and the award will be presented at the Media Management, Economics and Entrepreneurship Division’s annual members’ meeting.

 

Please send nominations by email to acoffey@jou.ufl.edu

Or by post to:

Amy Jo Coffey, Ph.D.

College of Journalism and Communications

University of Florida

P.O. 118400

Gainesville, FL 32611-8400

Reminder: AEJMC Deadline Approaching

We are quickly approaching the AEJMC paper deadline, and I wanted to gently remind paper submitters to please take the extra time to clean your papers of any self-identifying information. We want to enjoy the benefit of everyone’s research, so let’s try not to have any papers disqualified this year! One way to ensure this is to finish the paper 1-2 days before the deadline, providing enough time to double check before submission. Here are some additional resources and tips:

1) See the AEJMC website link with instructions on how to clean your papers and convert them to PDF files: http://www.aejmc.org/home/resources/research-resources/. Also FYI…double check the file’s identifying properties AFTER converting to PDF as well, as sometimes PDFs mysteriously “keep” identifying properties after conversion (I can attest to this from past personal experience).

2) Some of you will also understandably cite your own work, or that of co-authors, in your papers. Here is a recommended way to cite without self-identification:

For in-text citation: (Cite withheld for blind review, 2014)

References at end: Cite withheld for blind review (2014). Remaining reference information will be added pending paper acceptance.

(Can list all of these under “C” alphabetically in Reference list.) 

3) As usual, you must submit your paper to the All Academic system. Detailed information on how to submit your paper, and the full paper call can be found here: http://aejmc.org/events/chicago17/paper-call/

If you have any other questions about self-identification or how to clean your paper that is not covered in the above, please do not hesitate to contact me directly at sabine.baumann@jade-hs.de. Thanks for everyone’s participation in the process, and let’s make sure each paper receives full consideration. I look forward to your submissions.

All the best,

Sabine Baumann
2017 Research Chair
Media Management, Economics and Entrepreneurship Division
AEJMC

MMEE Job Board Reminder & Faculty Openings

A friendly reminder that if you are looking for a job in MMEE, or looking to recruit for a job in MMEE our blog now has a job board section. Positions specific to MMEE teaching and research will be posted in our “Jobs in MMEE” section as they are shared. If you are looking to recruit, please share your job posting with us by clicking here. Our most recent posting comes courtesy of the NCTU, Taiwan who are recruiting two open rank faculty positions in the field of communication and technology. For more information on these specific positions please click here.

PF&R Award Nominations Are Now Open

Do you know of an individual or institution that deserves to be recognized for their efforts in the promotion of professional freedom and responsibility? Is there a company or organization in the Chicago area that you think deserves recognition at our annual conference in August? The Media Management, Economics & Entrepreneurship (MMEE) division of AEJMC is seeking nominations for the division’s Professional Freedom and Responsibility Award (PF&R). 

 

The PF&R award recognizes excellence in the promotion of free expression; ethics; media criticism and accountability; racial, gender, and cultural inclusiveness; and public service, as it pertains to media management, economics, and entrepreneurship. The award is open to any person or institution–professional or academic–that makes significant contributions to public advocacy or has by their actions encouraged management practices that promote excellence in any of these five areas. The award recognizes actions by working management professionals, research, teaching or service activities, or any other relevant work.

 

The division is particularly interested in nominations of people or institutions with connections to Chicago, the host city of the 2017 annual conference, where the award will be presented.

The award may be granted to significant contributions made in the preceding year or over a lifetime, at the discretion of the Named Awards Committee. If the nominee is a not a member of the MMEE Division, preference will be given to nominees from the region of each year’s annual convention. At its discretion, the Named Awards Committee may choose not to make a PF&R award in any year, if no suitable nominee is put forward. Self-nominations are not accepted for the PF&R award.

 

Nominations, along with any available supporting material, must be received (via mail or email), by the Division’s Immediate Past Head, Amy Jo Coffey, by the deadline of May 1, 2017. In addition to materials supplied by nominators, nominees might also be contacted and asked to submit supporting any material as quickly as possible after that date. Supporting materials may include, but are not limited to documents and texts pertaining to research, media advocacy or expert testimony, media coverage, and peer acknowledgment. The winner of the award will be notified well before this year’s AEJMC annual conference in Chicago, and the award will be presented at MMEE Division’s Members’ Meeting during the conference.

 

Please send nominations by email to acoffey@jou.ufl.edu .

 

Or by post to:

Amy Jo Coffey, Ph.D.

College of Journalism and Communications

University of Florida

P.O. 118400

Gainesville, FL 32611-8400

Seeking Nominations for the Barry Sherman Teaching Award

The Media Management, Economics & Entrepreneurship (MMEE) division of AEJMC is now seeking nominations for the Barry Sherman Teaching Award. This award recognizes excellence and innovation in the teaching of media management, economics, or entrepreneurship. Any division member is eligible for the award but may not nominate himself or herself. Nominations must be sent to Immediate Past Chair Amy Jo Coffey by May 1, 2017. Nominees will be contacted and asked to submit supporting material by May 26. Supporting materials will include:

• Syllabi from one or two courses (graduate or undergraduate) devoted primarily to media management, media economics, or media entrepreneurship.
• Up to three examples of supporting instructional materials in media management, economics, or entrepreneurship. The supporting materials should demonstrate evidence of teaching excellence or innovation.

The award honors the memory of Barry Sherman, who was Lambdin Kay Professor in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia at the time of his death in 2000. He served as director of the prestigious Peabody Awards from 1991-2000. During his 19 years at Georgia, the university honored Sherman twice for teaching excellence. In 1995, the International Radio and Television Society Foundation named him a Stanton Fellow for his “outstanding contribution to electronic media education.” The winner of the award will be notified before the AEJMC annual convention in Chicago in August 2017, and the award will be presented at the Media Management, Economics and Entrepreneurship Division’s annual members’ meeting.

 

Please send nominations by email to acoffey@jou.ufl.edu

Or by post to:

Amy Jo Coffey, Ph.D.

College of Journalism and Communications

University of Florida

P.O. 118400

Gainesville, FL 32611-8400

 

Extension on Deadline for AEF Visiting Professor Program

Great news!  If you were planning to apply to the 2017 Visiting Professor Program (VPP) or if you were planning to encourage a colleague to apply…you still have time!  The VPP application deadline has been extended to Friday, February 17, 2017.   We encourage you to take advantage of this extension.

The VPP is a seven-day fellowship for professors teaching in the liberal arts, advertising, marketing and communications. The VPP provides a forum for the exchange of ideas between academia and the industry.

Program dates for the 2017 VPP are June 8-16.   If interested, fill out and submit an application online by clicking here.  Letter of recommendation (on school letterhead) must be emailed to me at sh@aef.com on or before February 17, 2017.  When making your two-minute video, please hold your cell phone horizontally.  Note the VPP is for professors who teach in the United States.

The AEF appreciates your consideration of the VPP and look forward to receiving your application soon.

MMEE 2017 Call for Reviewers

The Media Management, Economics, and Entrepreneurship Division (MMEE) of AEJMC needs your help judging papers for this year’s annual conference in Chicago.

If you volunteer to be a judge, you will be assigned 3-5 papers to read and evaluate in mid- to late April. The judging process is blind and conducted online using the All Academic Web site. The number of papers assigned to each judge will depend on the number of papers submitted and the number of volunteer judges.

MMEE policy states people who submit papers cannot serve as judges for the division. If you are not sure whether you will be submitting a paper this year, please consider volunteering as a judge now because I can always remove your name later if you decide to submit a paper. As always, judges for the MMEE division are free to submit papers to other divisions.

If you are willing to volunteer as a judge, please complete the Call for MMEE Paper Reviewers online at:

https://goo.gl/forms/J50kZC9AkxV1msPd2

If you know others with expertise in media management, economics, and entrepreneurship who would make great judges, please feel free to forward this information to them.

Thank you in advance for supporting the MMEE division. If you have any questions about the judging process, please contact me at sabine.baumann@jade-hs.de

Here’s to a great conference in Chicago!

Sabine Baumann
2017 Research Chair
Media Management, Economics and Entrepreneurship Division

Postdoctoral Researcher in Audiovisual Industry and Policy

The postdoctoral researcher will participate in the work of the digital creative industries research group of the Tallinn University Centre of Excellence in Media Innovation and Digital Culture (MEDIT). The researcher will study the evolution of audiovisual media policies in the European Union and their impact on the media industries and markets in smaller EU member states. The research will be part of the research project “Digital era complexities for audiovisual industries of small countries in the European Union”.

Job requirements
The candidate must fulfill all general requirements of the position of a research fellow stipulated in annex 9 of the Employment Relations Rules of Tallinn University. A doctoral degree defended outside of TU is required in the case of a post-doctoral fellow.

Candidate’s previous research needs to be related to at least one of the following research fields or topics: media economics and management, audiovisual industry and audiovisual policy in European countries and in the European Union.

Job responsibilities
According to annex 1 and annex 9 of TLU Employment Relations Rules. Guidelines for the research design and its practical execution will be provided by supervisor of the research project. The postdoctoral researcher position includes teaching in the volume of at least 7-10 ECTS credits during an academic year.

Load: 1,0 FTE.
Salary: To be agreed, according to Tallinn University Remuneration Regulation.
Location: Tallinn.
Language skills: Fluent English for teaching and research.

This academic position is a temporary position from September 1st 2017 to August 31st 2019.

Additional information
Practical questions on the competition should be directed to konkurss@tlu.ee, questions about the research project and the nature of the work should be sent to Indrek Ibrus (indrek.ibrus@tlu.ee)

More information: http://www.tlu.ee/en/personnel-office/Vacancies/Academic-job-offers/postdoctoral-researcher-in-audiovisual-industry-and-audiovisual-policy

Timeline
25 January – Announcement of the competition
20 February – Deadline for the applications
Until 5 March – Assessment of compliance with the job requirements of the candidates
(Personnel Office, Research Administration Office, and Election Committee)
27 March – The Rector decides whether a candidate will be allowed to participate in the competition or not (on the basis of the documents submitted by the candidate and the opinion of the election committee)
Until 2 May – II phase of assessment (expert assessments, meetings with the candidates, etc.)
The election of academic staff will be held in academic units according to the timetable of the meetings (latest on 22 June)