Presentation equipment: A reminder that we're only providing overhead transparency projectors for paper presentations. However, you are welcome to bring your own laptop and projector, and all the rooms have free wireless access.
Thursday, March 2
5:30 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Conference participants will
be shuttled from the Sheraton to the Bama Belle riverboat landing
(5-7 minute drive).
Please note: To make it
in time for the Thursday evening reception, you should get to the hotel
by 4:30 or 5 p.m. at the latest. If you're flying, you'll need to allow
time for a 70-minute drive from the
Birmingham Airport to Tuscaloosa. See shuttle service and lodging info
on this Web
site's travel/lodging
info page.
6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
BBQ dinner reception aboard the "Bama Belle" riverboat -- the cruise down the Black Warrior River will last two hours.
Friday, March 3
8 to 9:15 a.m.
Law Division
Refereed paper session
Moderating: Kyun Soo Kim, Alabama
- Helping or Hurting:
Healthy Lifestyles and Prevention Act & FTC
Regulation of Food Advertising To Children. An Examination of the Constitutional
Constraints for FTC Rulemaking, Implementation & Enforcement.
Joshua H. Godwin, North Carolina at Chapel Hill - First Amendment
Analysis of Possible Temporary Restrictions on Direct to Consumer
Advertising
of Newly Approved Prescription Drugs
Terri Ann Bailey, North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Direct Broadcast
Satellite (DBS) and Multicast Must-Carry: The Implementation of Section
210 of
the Satellite Viewer Extension and
Reauthorization Act of 2004
Michael McNiven, Georgia
Discussant: Anthony
L. Fargo, Indiana
History Division
Refereed paper session: Advocacy through the press
Moderating: Meg Lamme, Alabama
- No Gods. No Masters.
Margaret Sanger, Propaganda and the Birth Control Movement
Vanessa Murphree, South Alabama - The Adventurous
Hand of Empiricism: Duff Green and the Washington Institute, 1834
Arthur J. Kaul, Southern Mississippi - Political and Promotional
Conceptions in Woody Guthrie’s People’s
Daily World Cartoons
Matthew Blake, Florida
Discussant:
Joseph Bernt, Ohio
Open Division: Content analysis of the Web and the printed page
Moderating: Joanna Worrell, North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Portrayals of “Cyber Tigers” in
U.S. Web Advertising
Daechun An, North Texas - Moving the Bottom Line: The Relationship Between Profits and Losses
and Their Prominence in Earnings Press Releases
Chris Roberts and Lindsey Morrow, South Carolina - Maybe “The Daily Show” should not get all the credit: “George” magazine
merges celebrity, humor, and politics
Rachel Davis Mersey, North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Discussant: Leara Rhodes, Georgia
9:30 to 10:45 a.m.
History
Division
Refereed paper session: Creating the pictures in our
heads
Moderating: Tom Terry, North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Journalists’ Role
in Creating Golf’s First Hero: Francis Ouimet and the 1913
U.S. Open
Rob Hardin, Tennessee - Arthur Godfrey:
The Broadcaster as Salesman for Aviation, 1929-1979
Jodie M. Peeler, Newberry College - From honor to
intrusion: How the press presented Utah's national parks,1919-1971
Matthew Baker, Utah
Discussant: Caryl Cooper, Alabama
Law Division
Refereed paper session
Moderating: Chandra Clark, Alabama
- The Scope of Common
Law Reporter’s Privilege: The Teachings
of Jaffee v. Redmond and its Progeny
Paul McAdoo, Florida - Could the
Supreme Court Support a Common-Law Privilege for Journalists?
Anthony L. Fargo, Indiana - A Survey
of the Public’s Right of Access
to Criminal Discovery Records in States That Comprise the 1st, 2d,
3d and 4th Federal Circuits
Brian Pafundi, Florida - The Silent
Treatment: Can the Government Bar Access to Public Officials?
Kyung Bok Cho, North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Discussant: Edward L. Carter, Brigham Young
Open Division
Panel session:
Hurricane in the news: A critical evaluation of
Katrina coverage from those who lived through it
Moderating: Dave Davies, Southern Mississippi
- Lawrence N. Strout, Xavier
- Marilyn Ellzey, Southern Mississippi
- Laura Walton, Mississippi State
- Nancy DuPont, Loyola
University
Newspaper Division
Refereed paper session: All news is local: From Little Rock to
West Virginia to around the world
Moderating: Kathleen Wickham, Mississippi
- How to lose a newspaper
war: A look at the battle of Little Rock
Mary Jane Pardue, Missouri State - Newspaper framing
of mountaintop removal mining in W. Virginia
Marc Seamon, Marshall - International news:
What makes readers want to keep reading?
Lynn Corney, North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Discussant: Jin Yang, Memphis
11 to 12:15 p.m.
Open Division:
Refereed paper session: Open . . . WIDE open
Moderating: Terri Bailey, North Carolina
- Identifying
a Theoretical Origin for Public Relations: The Case for Symbolic
Interactionism
Sandra Braun, Alabama - Violent movies
and their effects on attitude accessibility and extremity
Brian Brantley, Texas/Permian Basin, John Davies, North Florida, and Barry Smith, Alabama - Claimsmaker
Framing of Mountaintop Removal Mining in West Virginia
Marc Seamon, Marshall - Researching “invisible
communicators”: techniques for identifying and contacting
under-studied media workers
Susan Keith, Rutgers and Leslie-Jean Thornton, Arizona State
Discussants: Marc Seamon, Marshall and Barry Smith, Alabama
Law
Division
Refereed paper session
Moderator/Discussant: Sam Terrili, Miami
- Two Decades Later:
The Rehnquist Court and the Marketplace of Ideas
Amy Kristen Sanders, Florida - Fairly
Complicated: Does Google’s
Print Library Project constitute a “fair use” under
U.S. Copyright Law?
Tanuja Coletta, Memphis - Guarding
the walls: The implications of
anti-graffiti ordinances on graffiti
artists’ First Amendment
Rights
Anne Hillman, North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Expanding
scope of privacy: A legal analysis
of relational privacy
Erin Kathryn Coyle, North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Magazine Division
Panel
session: Journalism's worst-kept secret: The problem with sources
Moderating: David Sumner, Ball State
- David Abrahamson, Northwestern
- Joesph Bernt, Ohio
- Karla K. Gower, Alabama
- Rachel Davis Mersey,
North Carolina at Chapel Hill
History
Division
Refereed paper session: Lives and times of journalists
Moderating: Matthew Blake, University of Florida
- Ink and blood:
Dueling as an occupational hazard in Southern journalism
Doug Cumming, Washington & Lee - Another Cuban
story: R. Hart Phillips, Times Havana correspondent, 1937-1961
Christina Locke, Florida - Defending against
contempt by publication: Seven cases from the late nineteenth
century
Butler Cain, Alabama
Discussant: Fred Blevens, Oklahoma
12:30 to 2 p.m.
LUNCHEON
Keynote speaker: Kenny Irby, the Poynter Institute's visual journalism
expert, will give a presentation on news photos from Hurricane Katrina
coverage.
2:15 to 3:30 p.m.
Magazine Division
Refereed paper session: Magazine research:
Contemporary and historical
Moderating: Derigan Silver, North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Black American
Representation in Magazine Advertisements 1950 to 2005
Leeann Harney and David Sumner, Ball State - Time, Life and
the Diffusion of LSD
Stephen Siff, Ohio - The Portrayal of
Female Athlete in Advertisements: A Comparison of 1984 and 2004 Olympic
Issues of Sports Illustrated
Courtney Carpenter and Aimee Edison, Alabama - The Effects of
the Internet on the Economics of Magazine Publishing
David Sumner, Ball State
Discussant: Joesph
Bernt, Ohio
RTVJ Division
Refereed paper session: Research issues in broadcasting and film
Moderating: Katherine A. Bradshaw, Bowling Green
- A nightmare
scenario: Fear messages in the network television news pre-Hurricane
Katrina
Nancy Mckenzie DuPont and Mary Blue, Loyola - Conceptualizing
continuous coverage: A strategic model for wall-to-wall local
TV weather broadcasts
George Daniels and Ginger Miller Loggins, Alabama - Video Remix:
An overview of the fair use defense in documentary films
Jason Heinz, North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Discussant: Denise
Dowling, Montana
Newspaper Division
Panel Session: Teaching
editing in a new media world
Moderator: Susan Keith, Rutgers
- Rick Kenney, Central Florida
- Leslie-Jean Thornton, Arizona State
- Doug Fisher, South
Carolina
Law Division
Refereed paper session
Moderating: Jenn Burleson Mackay, Alabama
- The environment
vs. military: Can public inquiry via the FOIA penetrate the wall
of national
security?
Scott Wells, Tennessee - Judicial Deference
or Acquiescence?: The Use of FOIA Exemption 7(A) as a New National
Security Exemption in Center for National Security Studies v. U.S.
Department of Justice
Cheryl Ann Bishop, North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Doing infinite
mischief: The remains of constitutional media access to the
battlefield after Flynt
v. Rumsfeld
Thomas C. Terry, North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Patriot
II and privacy: What to expect when Congress reauthorizes
Jonathan Mason, Florida
Discussant: Matthew D. Bunker, Alabama
3:30 to 4 p.m.
10-minute walk to campus from Sheraton (view campus on the
way). Van will be available for those who cannot walk,
or in case of bad
weather.
4 to 5 p.m.
Tour of The College of Communication and Information Sciences in Reese-Phifer
Hall, including the commercial station WVUA-TV,
the Center for Public Television and Radio, the Institute for Communication
and Information Research facilities
and
campus media.
5 p.m.
Guided walking tour of campus available
Conference participants are free to explore Tuscaloosa/Northport and to take dinner on their own. Here are some entertainment/dining options.
Saturday, March 4
8:30 to 9:45 a.m.
Open Division: Internet and society
Moderating: Rachel Mersey, North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Health Information
and Hurricane Katrina: A Mental Models Approach to Health Related
Articles
Katherine Hart LaVail, Iowa - The Role of
Internet Dependency Relations in Explaining Internet News Segments
Jin Yang, Memphis - Alumni giving
and the Internet: A gender and age comparison of direct-mail
and online donors
Joanna R. Worrell and Tom Kelleher, North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Discussant: Susan Keith, Rutgers
Law Division
Refereed paper session
Moderator/discussant: Sam Terilli
- Where First Amendment
Ends: Free Speech Concerns Governing the Regulation of Online Incitement
of Terrorist Activity
Claire Hermann, North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Protecting Children’s Privacy on the Internet: COPPA’s
First Five Years and Beyond
Erin L. Ryan, Georgia - Market Definition,
Merger Review and Media Monopolization: Congressional Approval
of the Corporate Voice through the Newspaper Preservation
Act
Amy Kristen Sanders, Florida
Newspaper
Division
Panel session:
Classroom on Wheels: Pushing the comfort
zone, an NABJ reporting project
Moderator: D. Michael
Cheers, Mississippi
History Division
Refereed paper session: Politics and the press
Moderating: Erika Pribanic-Smith, Alabama
- William Howard
Taft and the Press, 1909 to 1913
R. Harrison Sheffield III, Alabama - Thomas Jefferson
and Freedom of the Press
Tiffany J. Shoop, Tennessee - An Examination
of the 1924 Immigration Act and Japanese Exclusion from a Magazine
Perspective
David Schreindl, Ohio
Discussant: Doug Cumming, Washington & Lee
10 to 11:15 a.m.
Law Division
Refereed paper session
Moderating: Amanda Brozana, Alabama
- The Sky is Falling,
or Is It? Recent Secondary and post-secondary scholastic press cases
signify the tenuous line between regulation and censorship
Laurie Lattimore-Volkmann, Georgia State - Applying Hazelwood
to the College Press: Forum Doctrine and Government Speech in the
U.S. Courts of Appeals
Edward L. Carter, Brigham Young - Free
Speech or Free Reign to Censor: Hosty v. Carter’s Threats
To the University Press: How Editors and Advisers Can Fight
Back
Deborah Luehrs, Memphis - Policy, Practice,
and Intent: Forum Analysis and the Student Press at Public Colleges
and Universities
Derigan A. Silver, North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Kincaid and Hosty
Meet Hazelwood: The debate over college speech
Ellis Harman, Memphis
Discussant: Sig
Splichal, Miami
Newspaper Division
Refereed paper session:
Whom are we
talking to and why? Ethics and sources
Moderating: D. Michael Cheers, Mississippi
- When children become
news sources
Jenn Burleson Mackay, Alabama - Journalism ethics
codes and appellate courts
Chris Roberts, South Carolina - Censorship v. Fairness:
Investigating third-person effects in criminal trials
Douglas S. Campbell, Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania
Discussant: Susan
Keith, Rutgers
Open Division: Advertising on different delivery systems and different continents
Moderating: Dianne Bragg, Memphis
- Fear Appeals, Sensation Seeking, and Drunk Drivers: A Segmentation
Approach to Social Marketing Advertising
Jie Xu, Alabama - Communicating Culture: Reflections on Cultural Values in Algerian
TV Commercials
Farid Mouzai and Fei Xue, Southern Mississippi - Accepting Text Advertising Via Cellphone: A study of American Consumers
Alexander Muk, Wisconsin-Whitewater
Discussant: Brian Brantley, Texas/Permian Basin
11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Video presentation: The new Knight community journalism masters program at the University of Alabama (30 minutes)
Chris Waddle, Alabama, director of the Knight Community Journalism Fellows
Behind
Closed Doors: A panel of members of the Alabama Center
for Open Government discuss challenges facing journalists in
Alabama
and the
region in
ensuring open records and proceedings. (60 minutes)
Moderating: Dale Harrison, Auburn
- Bob Blalock, The Birmingham News
- Gregory Enns, The Tuscaloosa News
- Gilbert E. Johnston, Jr., Johnston Barton Proctor & Powell, LLC, Birmingham, Ala.
- Ed Mullins, Alabama
1:15 to 2:15 p.m.
Colloquium business meeting
