TCF News and Notes
- August 23rd, 2013
- in TCF Faculty, TCF News & Notes, TCF Students
STUDENT NEWS:
Four TCF majors (plus one recent alum) started the fall semester as paid crew for the American Idol try-outs. This was great experience for them, and great exposure for our program. They are Alex Beatty, Kyerra Dexter, Hunter Barcroft, Rhys Butler, and Tiffany Reese (TCF alum).
Chandra Clark has a team of students on the ground in Los Angeles for the SPJ/RTDNA conference. They will also have the chance to network with some TCF alums while in LA.
RESEARCH:
Andy Billings and Yonghwan Kim both had very productive summers of publications and presentations. Please congratulate them on their successes.
Yonghwan Kim:
Two Publications:
- Kim, Y., Chen, H.-T., & Gil de Zúñiga, H. (2013). Stumbling upon news on the Internet: Effects of incidental news exposure and relative entertainment use on political engagement. Computers in Human Behavior, 29, 2607-2614.
- Kim, Y., Hsu, S.-H., & Gil de Zúñiga, H. (2013). Influence of social media use on discussion network heterogeneity and civic engagement: The moderating role of personality traits. Journal of Communication, 63, 498-516.
A book chapter:
Kim, Y. (2013). Contingent factors of agenda-setting effects: How need for orientation, issue obtrusiveness, and message tone influence issue salience and attitude strength. In T. Johnson (Ed.), Agenda Setting in a 2.0 World (pp. 65-81). New York: Routledge.
Two conference papers:
- Kim, Y. (2013). Knowledge vs. Stereotype: Exploring the Mediating Mechanisms of the Relationship Between Selective Exposure, Attitudinal Polarization, and Political Participation. Paper presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.
- Lee, J. K., Choi, J., Kim, C., & Kim, Y. (2013). Investigating the Relationship Between Social Media Use and Opinion Polarization. Paper presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.
Andy Billings:
New Book out this week:
Billings, A.C, & Ruihley, B.J. (2014). The fantasy sport industry: Games within games. London: Routledge.
Three new publications out over the summer:
- Licen, S., & Billings, A.C. (2013). Cheering for ‘our’ champs while watching ‘sexy’ female throwers: Representation of nationality and gender in Slovenian 2008 Summer Olympic television coverage. EuropeanJournal of Communication, 28(4), 379-396.
- Angelini, J.R., Billings, A.C., & MacArthur, P.J. (2013). The Vancouver “big six” gender-framed: NBC’s primetime coverage of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. Sport in Society, 16(9), 1176-1197.
- Ruihley, B.J., & Billings, A.C. (2013). Infiltrating the boys club: Motivations for women’s fantasy sport participation. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 48(4), 435-452.
Five new pieces accepted for publication over the summer:
- Billings, A.C., Angelini, J.R., MacArthur, P.J., Bissell, K., & Smith, L.R. (2014, in press). (Re)calling London: The gender frame agenda within NBC’s primetimebroadcast of the 2012 Olympiad. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly.
- Bie, B., & Billings, A.C. (2014, in press). ‘Too good to be true?’: U.S. and Chinese media coverage of Chinese swimmer Ye Shiwen in the 2012 Olympic Games. International Review for the Sociology of Sport.
- Angelini, J.R., Billings, A.C., MacArthur, P.J., Bissell, K., & Smith, L.R. (2014, in press). Competing separately, medalling equally: Racial depictions of athletes in NBC’s primetime broadcast of the 2012 London Olympic Games. The Howard Journal of Communication, 25(2).
- Devlin, M.B., Brown, N.A., Billings, A.C., & Bishop, S. (2014, in press). ‘Ultimate’ sponsorship: Fan identity, brand congruence, and the Ultimate Fighting Championship. International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing.
- Billings, A.C., Brown, N.A., Brown, K.A., Guo, Q., Leeman, M., Licen, S., Novak, D., & Rowe, D. (2013, in press). From pride to smugness and the nationalism between: Olympic media consumption effects on nationalism across the globe. Mass Communication & Society, 16(6).
SIDEWALK FILM FESTIVAL
If you’re attending the Sidewalk Film Festival this weekend, TCF is well represented! Congratulations to our students and faculty who were competitively selected for screening:
Faculty:
Adam Schwartz: Company Havanabama: Bridging the Gulf, is screening as part of the AL Documentary Shorts.
Rachel Raimist is speaking on a panel called, “The Punk Singer: Feminism and Punk Music”
Students:
Rise, a short narrative by Alex Beatty
Portraits, a documentary short by William Mason
William also edited a documentary called Turkey Man and scored a narrative short, Piety of Passion, both of which are screening.
Student films from Doc Justice class (Andy Grace, faculty)
- Moving for Midtown, by Madalyn Vaughn and Brass Bralley
- Reasonable Doubt, by ShaMyra Sylvester and Caitlin Trotter
- The Straight and Narrow, by Hunter Holt and Heath Kinzer
- Today and Tomorrow, by Bre Swims and Okha Patel
- Unsettlement, by Ellie Campbell, Abbot Henderson and Elizabeth Blair
- What it Means to Know, by Mary Scott Hodgin
- Hale County Gorilla, by Ben Voigt and Amy Reisch
Check out the full schedule here: http://sidewalkfilmfest2013.