SCHOLARSHIP & ENGAGEMENT
FACULTY NEWS Colin Agur
COLIN AGUR, along with two Hubbard
Sid Bedingfield
MATT CARLSON (with Seth Lewis and
School grad students, published “Conceptualizing the roles of involvement and immersion in persuasive games” in Games and Culture. The article studied how students responded to a digital game about refugees.
Sue Robinson) wrote “News After Trump: Journalism’s Crisis of Relevance in a Changed Media Culture,” which was published by Oxford University Press in October.
SID BEDINGFIELD, with Kathy
ence Cafe project for the University of Minnesota’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute. The research team also published two articles in the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved and Journal of Clinical and Translational Science on their research. Find the project at hsjmc.umn.edu/science-cafe.
Roberts Forde (University of Massachusetts Amherst), co-edited “Journalism and Jim Crow: White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America,” which was published by the University of Illinois Press and centers the press as a crucial political actor shaping the rise of the Jim Crow South.
VALERIE BÉLAIR-GAGNON (with Dr.
Nikki Usher) co-edited “Journalism Research That Matters,” which was published with Oxford University Press. The book includes academics and practitioners’ contributions on most pressing and exciting areas for journalism research, from news and data literacy to changing news audiences to shifting business models for news. It provides a blueprint for overcoming the research-practice gap.
DANIELLE BROWN worked with the
University of Texas at Austin’s Center for Media Engagement to build a report titled “A Better Way to Tell Protest Stories.” She also won the Vaccine Confidence Fund Grant, in partnership with Indiana University, to find ways social media messaging can help vaccine uptake in communities disproportionately facing disparities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Brown also interviewed CNN’s Abby Phillip during a live, virtual conversation for the College of Liberal Arts.
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ELISIA COHEN, along with Milton Eder and SARA QUINN, worked on a Sci-
In November, RUTH DEFOSTER, along with DANIELLE BROWN, spoke at an Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources (IJNR) workshop titled “Environmental Racism + Indigenous Communities.” It was a workshop to teach working journalists to avoid perpetuating bias in coverage of protest and indigenous communities. In September, CRAIG FLOURNOY was quoted in “White people in the US have long controlled public institutions. Racial progress has paid the price,” one story from a USA Today multimedia series titled Seven Days of 1961, which highlighted pivotal protests during the Civil Rights Movement. The story revealed how educators, lawmakers and the news media have repeatedly blocked racial progress.
GAYLE GOLDEN served on a College of
Liberal Arts committee on Recognizing and Rewarding Teaching. She also participated on a panel discussing “What is good teaching and what does it look like?” for the University of Minnesota’s Academy of Distinguished Teachers.
Valerie Belair-Gagnon
Danielle Brown
Matt Carlson
JISU HUH spoke at the Duke Margolis
Center for Health Policy Virtual Public Workshop “Informing and Refining the Prescription Drug Promotion Research Agenda,” which was held on Nov. 19, 2021. She discussed emerging trends in online drug promotion, her research on prescription drug promotion on emerging digital media platforms and future research directions and considerations. She also gave a virtual keynote speech to the Annual International Conference of Intelligence Science and Advertising Development, which was held in Shanghai, China, in November. Her speech discussed key trends in computational advertising practice and research and future directions in emerging artificial intelligence advertising. In December, she gave a keynote speech at the Korean Association of Advertising and Public Relations Special Seminar on Media Audience and Advertising Measurement, held in Seoul, Korea. She discussed the current trends, issues and challenges in media audience and advertising measurement in today’s increasingly complex and fragmented and constantly changing media environment, and proposed best practice recommendations.
Last fall, MARK JENSON’s Campaigns class client was Totino’s Pizza Rolls from General Mills. Four teams worked since early September and presented their final presentations to the client on Dec. 13. The challenge was to develop a complete IMC plan to help Totino’s Pizza Rolls reach their young target audience. The client, Alyx Svatek (B.A. ’14), said, “I was so excited for this experience because it was an opportunity to give back to and be involved with the School while working with the next class of creative marketers on a fun, real-life project. I was so impressed with the
Elisia Cohen
Ruth DeFoster
Craig Flournoy
Gayle Golden
Jisu Huh
