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MARAL ABDOLLAHI presented two papers at the International Conference on Research in Advertising (ICORIA) conference as the lead author: “How real is virtual? Can virtual influencers compete with humans?” and “What determines consumers’ attitudes toward synced ads in different contexts? Examining mood, relevance, and creepiness as underlying mechanisms.” She was also one of the two recipients of the ICORIA Grant 2021. In March, she presented a paper at the American Academy of Advertising (AAA) conference as the lead author, titled “Evoking empathy, seeking solidarity, or aspiring normalcy: Which appeals better to SMI followers during the pandemic?” She also received the 2021 American Academy of Advertising Student Travel Grant.

JONATHAN ANDERSON workshopped the paper “The Paradox of Public Records Litigation: An Empirical Analysis” at the 2021 Media Law and Policy Scholars Conference in January. He was also invited to participate in the Systematic Content Analysis of Litigation EventS Open Justice Research Workshop in May. of her papers were accepted for presentation at ICORIA 2021 in June, including “Intentional ad-viewing to support video creators on digital video-sharing platform” with Professor Jisu Huh. Kim received the American Academy of Advertising (AAA) Graduate Student Scholarship and presented two of her first-authored papers at AAA in March: “I’m watching this ad so you can make more money that you deserve!: Voluntary ad-viewing on YouTube,” and “Consumer responses to gender-targeted advertising: Computational research analyzing the 2020 Super Bowl Commercials.”

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JONATHAN ANDERSON, MARISA ERICKSON, INES GUANCHEZ, and CLARA JUAREZ MIRO presented their paper “Critical information needs and local news deserts: Considerations for future research” at the International Communication Association conference in May.

ROWAN MCMULLEN CHENG will present her work “Distributed newsrooms: The place and relationships of news production,” at the Cardiff Future of Journalism Conference September 23-24, 2021. She also presented her work “Busking the news: Metajournalistic discourse and author-audience relationship on Substack” at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Conference August 4-7, 2021.

EUNAH KIM was selected as one of the recipients of the International Conference on Research in Advertising (ICORIA) Grant, and two EUNAH KIM and ASMA SIFAOUL, along with Assistant Professor Claire Segijn, presented “When realizing that Big Brother is watching you: How informing consumers affects synced advertising effectiveness” at ICORIA 2021 in June.

NICK MATHEWS earned the No. 1 top student paper in the Journalism Studies Division of the International Communication Association for the second consecutive year for his paper “Weekly newspapers and the community caretaker role.”

He also won the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) No. 1 top paper in the Open (Faculty) Category of the Mass Communication and Society Division for a paper with colleague Christopher Ali from the University of Virginia titled “Informational, infrastructural and emotional labor: The extra work in a news and broadband desert.” For the third consecutive year, he earned the AEJMC top student paper in the Community Journalism Interest Group for his paper titled “Print imprint: The connection between the physical newspaper and the self.” He also had a new publication in Journalism Studies based on the aforementioned research titled “The community caretaker role: How weekly newspapers shielded their communities while covering the Mississippi ICE raids.”

CLARA JUAREZ MIRO and JONATHAN ANDERSON had a paper accepted at the Future of Journalism Conference in the United Kingdom titled “Correcting disinformation: Journalistic practices during the 2016 and 2020 U.S. elections.” CLARA JUAREZ MIRO published an article in the Annals of the International Communication Association journal titled “Who are the people? Using fandom research to study populist supporters.” She also presented her research at the University of Minnesota Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change’s Democracy Under Threat in Times of Populism and Racial Nationalism Conference in March.

MICHAELE D. MYERS, along with Jay D. Hmielowski (University of Florida) published “Laugh, but don’t seek: A re-assessment of the gateway hypothesis” in the International Journal of Communication.

SARAH KAY WILEY was named a Knight News Innovation Fellow at Columbia University. Her project “Big Tech philanthropy: The dynamics of charitable partnerships between Google, Facebook, and news Organizations” researches news organizations’ relationships to the giving and training networks of major technology firms. She also published “The grey area: How regulations impact autonomy in computational journalism” in Digital Journalism. Sarah Kay Wiley

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