2009 Call for Reseach

CMA's Nordin Award for Research – Austin, Texas

CMA will sponsor a competitive, peer-reviewed research paper session at the fall 2009 National College Media Convention in Austin, Texas. The top paper will receive the Ken Nordin Award for CMA Research. It could also qualify to be published in College Media Review.

Papers are being solicited on all research topics related to college media. The research may be either qualitative or quantitative. Possible research areas include the following:

Case studies of student media
Analysis of student media coverage
Audience analysis
Pedagogy for student media coursework
Converging media for student media
Independence and student media
Advisers’ roles
Financial aspects of college media

Graduate students are also invited and encouraged to submit papers.

Deadline for submissions: July 1, 2009.

Authors will be notified by Aug. 1, 2009 if their papers have been accepted.

Papers should be submitted by email to david.swartzlander@doane.edu.

Please note: Papers should include a title page that has the author’s name, school, and e-mail address. The subsequent pages should not have the author’s name in headers or footers to allow for blind review.

If you have any questions, please contact David Swartzlander, Research Chairman, at david.swartzlander@doane.edu.

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