Awards Nominations Deadline Extension: May 18th

 

1) 2018 Robert Picard Book Award

Know of a book or monograph published in the last year that has contributed to the field of media management, economics or entrepreneurship? Nominate it for the 2018 Robert Picard Award.

The Media Management, Economics & Entrepreneurship (MMEE) division of AEJMC is seeking nominations for the 2018 Robert Picard Award. The award honors the author(s) of a book or a monograph published during the previous year (2017) that makes a significant contribution to the field of media management, economics, or entrepreneurship.

Nominations must be submitted by May 18, 2018, to Immediate Past Head Axel Roepnack.  Each nomination must specify why the book or work is outstanding (outside reviewer statements will be considered along with nominator statements).

The award is named in honor of the MMEE division member and senior scholar Robert Picard of Oxford University. Last year the recipient was “Who Owns the World’s Media? Media Concentration and Ownership around the World” by Eli Noam and the International Media Concentration Collaboration.

AEJMC members are invited to nominate books or monographs for the award. Self-nominations are acceptable. To nominate a work, provide the following:

• A written nomination with a complete citation (title, author, publisher, and year of publication of the book) and a short statement on the book’s contribution to the field of media management, economics, or entrepreneurship. (Nomination may be emailed to aroepnack@fordham.edu
• Three copies of the work, whether book or monograph needs to be delivered by post.

The winners of the awards will be notified before the AEJMC annual convention in Washington, in August 2018. The award will be presented at the Media Management, Economics and Entrepreneurship Division’s annual members’ meeting.

Please send nominations by e-mail to aroepnack@fordham.edu

Please mail nomination packets to:

Axel Roepnack, PhD
Fordham University
Gabelli School of Business
140 W 62nd Street, Suite 350
1023 New York, NY

2) 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 Axel Roepnack by May 18, 2018. 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 Washington in August 2018, and the award will be presented at the Media Management, Economics and Entrepreneurship Division’s annual members’ meeting.

Please send nominations by e-mail to aroepnack@fordham.edu

Or by post to:

Axel Roepnack, PhD
Fordham University
Gabelli School of Business
140 W 62nd Street, Suite 350
1023 New York, NY

3) Professional Freedom and Responsibility Award 

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 Washington area that you think deserves recognition at our annual conference in August 2018? 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 Washington, the host city of the 2018 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, Axel Roepnack, by the deadline of May 18, 2018. 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 e-mail to aroepnack@fordham.edu

Or by post to:

Axel Roepnack, PhD
Fordham University
Gabelli School of Business
140 W 62nd Street, Suite 350
1023 New York, NY

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CALL for EMMA’s annual conference in Cyprus June 2019!

The European Media Management Association (emma) is currently accepting paper and poster submissions for their annual conference which will take place in Limassol, Cyprus  from 5–7 June, 2019. The theme for the conference is “Media Management and Actionable Knowledge: The Relationship between Theory and Practice”. To review the official call please click here. Abstracts are due January 31st, 2019 with acceptance notifications being sent out February 28th and full papers due April 20th.

Applications are also being accepted for the “Early Career Researcher emma Annual Conference Grant 2019.” To review the official grant application please click here. If you have any questions regarding the conference, please contact the conference host: Prof. Dr. Stavros Georgiades, bus.gs@frederick.ac.cy

CALL FOR CHAPTERS

Media and Misogyny to explore mediated misogyny in today’s culture

Misogyny, and not just sexism, has infused inequities for women in contemporary cultural, media, political, legal, educational and economic spheres. The edited volume, Misogyny and Media, aims to explore media representations of misogyny across a variety of industries and cultural domains.

Misogyny and power inequities are at the root of sexual assault, harassment and bullying. Media stories have proliferated and have been amplified by social media in the United States in the case of the Ford-Kavanaugh allegations and the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, the sexual harassment allegations against incumbent President Donald J. Trump, and by the #MeToo movement. Other countries, too, have had stories rooted in misogyny and power inequities.

This call for chapters to be included in a proposed book on Media and Misogyny is to examine misogyny and to capture media representations of misogyny, for example, in:

• Media industries
• Academia
• Politics
• Sport
• Business
• High Tech/Silicon Valley
• Law
• Hollywood and Bollywood
• Radio and Television (e.g., the return of “Murphy Brown”)
• Religious and Non-profit Institutions

Contributors should examine misogyny and power inequities from the perspective of critical/cultural studies; political communication; feminism; race, gender and class; and other relevant perspectives. Papers (chapters) should be 25 double-spaced typed pages with citations in APA style.

Deadlines:

Abstracts of no more than 400 words, outlining the theme(s) of the proposed chapter, key literature, and the method of exploration, should be submitted to the editor of the proposed volume no later than January 31, 2019. The deadline for chapters will be June 30, 2019.

Submissions:

Abstracts should be submitted via email to Dr. Maria Marron, College of Journalism and Mass Communications, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, at mmarron2@unl.edu.

UNC looking for Assistant Professor in media studies

The Department of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte invites applications for a tenure-track position in media studies at the rank of Assistant Professor beginning August 15, 2019. Required qualifications include a Ph.D. in Communication Studies or a related area, along with the demonstration of:

–  An active research agenda that can lead to significant publications and external grants commensurate with a department affiliated with interdisciplinary Ph.D. programs

–  An ability to teach courses in the theory, research, and practice of media studies

–  A commitment and ability to work with diverse undergraduate and graduate student populations

Ideally, the successful candidate would have familiarity with qualitative, quantitative, mixed or emerging methodologies to advance a critical understanding of media studies and technologies. The pursuit of external funding is a requirement for success. The department seeks a versatile scholar who excels in an interdisciplinary environment. The candidate will thrive when interacting with colleagues who employ varied theoretical, methodological, and topical approaches. UNC Charlotte’s Data Science Initiative, for instance, makes available big data resources and brings together scholars interested in analytics and quantitative studies in a plurality of contexts.

Successful candidates will conduct research, teach B.A. and M.A. students in the Department of Communication Studies, and perform service. The standard teaching load for pre-tenured faculty is 2-2 (two classes per semester). Depending upon scholarly interest, candidates may affiliate with doctoral programs in Organizational Science and Health Psychology. The successful candidate may also have the opportunity to participate in an interdisciplinary Ph.D. program in Digital Cultures and Communication, a collaboration between the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences and the College of Computing & Informatics, currently in the planning stages.

UNC Charlotte is committed to cultivating diversity and inclusion throughout the campus. Our institution strives to celebrate and leverage the benefits of this diversity, and to sustain an inclusive and welcoming environment for all students, faculty, and staff. The successful candidate must showcase evidence of a commitment to promote diversity as a value in the department, college and university. Finalists will be asked during their screening interview to discuss how the topics of diversity and inclusion are incorporated into their teaching and research.

UNC Charlotte is a rapidly growing doctoral-granting urban university located in the largest metropolitan area between Washington DC, and Atlanta. The University is a Carnegie Foundation Community Engagement campus. Close to 30,000 culturally diverse students currently are enrolled at the University. As the largest college at UNC Charlotte, the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences houses 20 departments in the humanities, social and behavioral sciences, and natural sciences, as well as 25 applied research centers and interdisciplinary programs. It offers eight doctoral degrees, 36 master’s degrees and graduate certificates, and 34 undergraduate degrees.

The Department of Communication Studies (http://www.communication.uncc.edu) has 30 full-time faculty with areas of emphasis in Media Studies, Health Communication, Organizational Communication, Public Relations, and Rhetoric. The department serves approximately 1,600 majors and minors and 25 M.A. students. The department’s primary mission is to provide high-quality instruction to its undergraduate and graduate students, and to contribute significantly to the understanding of communication issues as they affect people’s lives, especially in the Charlotte metropolitan region. Through its teaching, scholarship and service, the department is committed to serving diverse populations.

The review of applications will begin November 2, 2018 and continue until the position is filled. To apply for the position, access an application online at http://jobs.uncc.edu, position #003730. Please upload a cover letter responding to the qualifications listed above, a current CV, evidence of teaching excellence, one to three examples of conference papers or publications that demonstrate a range of work in media studies, and official or unofficial graduate transcripts. Also, three letters of recommendation (signed and on letterhead) should be sent directly to Dr. Jason Edward Black, Chair, Department of Communication Studies, University of North Carolina at Charlotte at commstudiesjobs@uncc.edu.

As an EOE/AA employer and an ADVANCE Institution that strives to create an academic climate in which the dignity of all individuals is respected and maintained, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte encourages applications from all underrepresented groups.

The candidate chosen for this position will be required to provide an official transcript of their highest earned degree and submit to a criminal background check.

Job Alert: Saint Louis University looking for Assistant Professor of Journalism

Saint Louis University: Assistant Professor of Journalism

Saint Louis University, a Catholic, Jesuit institution dedicated to student learning, research, health care, and service, is seeking applicants for a tenure-track position in Digital News Writing and Journalism. We are seeking a candidate with expertise in news writing and writing for digital environments and applications. The position is at the assistant professor level in the Department of Communication, to begin in Fall 2019.

Duties include teaching introductory news writing and other undergraduate courses in the Journalism and Media Studies concentration, along with courses in the department’s core curricula and in our graduate program. Candidates are expected to participate in service and maintain an active program of published research. Tenure-track faculty with active research programs in our department teach two courses each semester.

Requirements: Earned doctorate by August 1, 2019, documented teaching experience and excellence, and record or promise of published scholarly research. Candidates with professional experience are preferred.

Communication is a thriving department in the College of Arts and Sciences, with 170 undergraduate majors, 20 minors, 20 M.A. students, and 14 full-time faculty members. We have an undergraduate curriculum that stresses both the theoretical understanding and professional application of communication research within three different concentrations: advertising and public relations; communication studies; and journalism and media studies. We stress proficiency in production/technology across our curriculum. We also emphasize cultural competence and ethical reflection. Our master’s program includes courses in the areas of media studies, strategic communication, and communication studies. The department has a Communication Media Center, Studio Production Suite, and several computer labs to support student learning related to technology and production.

Saint Louis University serves approximately 13,000 students. The main campus is in an ethnically diverse city neighborhood that features a major performing-arts district and a wide array of cultural institutions. The university’s benefits package includes a generous university retirement plan and a comprehensive tuition benefit for employees, spouses, and dependent children.

All applications must be made online at http://jobs.slu.edu. Applicants should include the following materials: 1) a cover letter; 2) a resume/curriculum vitae; 3) a teaching statement with evidence of teaching effectiveness; and 4) a list with names, phone numbers, and email addresses of at least three professional references. For additional information, contact Dr. Amber Hinsley, the search chair, at amber.hinsley@slu.edu.

Review of applications will begin October 9, 2018, and will continue until the position is filled.

Saint Louis University is a private, Catholic, Jesuit University and an Affirmative Action/ Equal Opportunity employer (AA/EOE), committed to excellence through diversity and equity. In support of this commitment, we strongly encourage and welcome applications from women, minorities, and members of other historically underrepresented groups.

Panel Proposal Deadline: Sept 30

Dear all, this is just a friendly reminder that the deadline for panel proposal is this Sunday, September 30th. For more info, see: https://mmedivision.wordpress.com/2018/09/09/call-for-mmee-panel-proposals-aejmc-2019-national-convention/

Job announcements?

Dear all — if you have any job announcement that you’d like to circulate among our members, please don’t hesitate to contact Angela Lee, our communication chair, at angela.lee@utdallas.edu.

Thank you and have a great day!

Call for MMEE Panel Proposals: AEJMC 2019 National Convention

The Media Management, Economics and Entrepreneurship Division welcomes panel proposals for the 2019 AEJMC convention in Toronto, Canada. Panel proposals can be on any topic relevant to media management, economics and entrepreneurship (with an emphasis on media topics). Proposals can also be for mini-plenary and off-site sessions, or for pre-convention workshops (Scheduled for Tuesday, August 6). All MMEE members are encouraged to submit proposals in any area of expertise and interest.

The deadline for submitting all proposals is Sunday, September 30, 2018. Proposals will be reviewed and ranked by the division’s executive board. Please follow these guidelines when submitting a proposal:

• Identify your convention panel as addressing one of three areas: research, professional freedom and responsibility, or teaching.
• Panels and other sessions are encouraged to be co-sponsored with other divisions. Co-sponsorship increases MMEE’s ability to schedule sessions during the best available times, which broadens the appeal of the sessions. So be sure to identify divisions or interest groups that might be interested in co-sponsoring your proposals. It would be preferable if you have spoken with someone from the division about your proposal, but not necessary.
• Panels can include members who work at media companies, universities, and other organizations near the Toronto area. Potential panelists who work in the area should be identified in the proposal.
• The convention will be at the Sheraton Centre Toronto, August 7-10, 2019.

PROPOSAL SUBMISSION VIA GOOGLE FORM
All proposal submissions should be made using the Google form located at:
https://goo.gl/forms/UGQXnenuKB5SJ2V63

This template includes sections for all the information required by AEJMC. The standardization ensures each proposal receives the same consideration.

PANELISTS

Please try to provide a complete list of potential panelists. If changes are necessary, they can be made later. Try to bring together the best speakers for your topic by drawing from a broad and inclusive list of possibilities. We strongly urge you to embrace the diversity of AEJMC’s growing membership and of other organizations where you may find panelists. Remember to include the diversity information in the space provided.

PROPOSAL ASSESSMENT
The MMEE Executive Board will review panel proposals and rank them. A final slate of the division’s proposals will be submitted to AEJMC in mid-October. You will be notified of the results.

DEADLINE & QUESTIONS

Please submit your panel proposals via the Google form located at https://goo.gl/forms/UGQXnenuKB5SJ2V63 by September 30, 2018. If you have any questions about preparing your panel proposal, please email Ronen Shay, 2019 MMEE Conference Program Chair at shayr@wit.edu

MMEE Presidents at the Academy of Management in Chicago

From AEJMC in D.C. straight to AOM in Chicago, our Presidents Sabine Baumann (Current) and Geoffrey Graybeal (Immediate Past) sure have had a busy summer!

A few spots left for WAMU!

We still have a few spots left for the MMEE/Participatory Journalism off-site tour of WAMU, the public radio station in DC! We’ll meet with staff and learn about their audience engagement efforts. Registration is required for this free tour because space is limited to 25 people. We will meet in the hotel lobby at 9:45 a.m. Aug. 8 and take the metro to the station, so some walking will be involved and you will purchase your own metro ticket. We will return by 12:15 p.m.

The Complete MMEE Schedule @ AEJMC

Come join us!:  Click here for MMEE Schedule