The 100th AEJMC Annual Conference

Closing the Gap: Media, Research and the Profession

2017 Paper Call

The Communication Technology Division encourages research submissions where the central focus is technology and changes in the communication process resulting from technology. The division welcomes theoretical and conceptual papers as well as a diversity of methodological approaches from both faculty and students.

Student Paper Competition: Papers solely authored by students are especially encouraged. These papers are eligible to be entered for the Jung-Sook Lee Student Paper competition. The Jung-Sook Lee Award recognizes the best student paper, which makes “a substantial contribution to the substance or method on a topic related to communication technology.” The award honors the division’s 1997-1998 research chair, Jung-Sook Lee of the University of Southwestern Louisiana, who died soon after the 1998 conference. Authors of the top three student papers will receive a cash award. In addition, the author of the best student paper will have his or her conference registration fee paid by the division. For a paper to be considered for this award, ALL authors must be undergraduate or graduate students enrolled during the 2016-2017 academic year. Papers submitted by student-only authors must type “Jung-Sook Lee Competition” on the title page to be considered for the award.

Faculty Paper Competition: The division is pleased to present the annual Gene Burd Top Faculty Research Paper Award, made possible by the generosity of Prof. Burd from the University of Texas – Austin. The $1,000 award recognizes the best faculty paper submitted to the division. For a paper to be considered for this award at least one of the authors must be faculty. To be eligible, authors must indicate “faculty submission” on the title page.

Winners of both awards will receive their prize and be recognized at the conference. Submissions that do not win recognition in the Jung-Sook Lee Award or the Gene Burd Award are still considered for acceptance along with open competition submissions.

Please limit papers to no more than 30 pages (double-spaced) in length, including title page, abstract, tables, figures, references, and notes. Papers should follow the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th edition), have 1-inch margins, and use 12 point Times New Roman, Times or Arial font. Abstracts must be no more than 75 words. The title should be on the first page with page numbers and running heads on each page of text. Be sure that submissions contain no identifying information, such as name, university affiliation, job title, etc., either in the text of the paper or in the document properties. Please be sure to submit a clean paper without author identifying information, otherwise the paper will be disqualified. Please refer to AEJMC’s uniform paper call on how to upload clean papers.

If you have any questions or require more information about the submission process, please contact Pamela Brubaker, CTEC research chair, at pamela_brubaker@byu.edu.

Here are a few guidelines to remember while making your AEJMC submission. If you are submitting using Word, you can check Felicia’s instructions for ensuring blind review. She has clear instructions for many programs/operating systems. Here is the link:

http://www.aejmc.org/home/wp-content/ uploads/2013/12/Ensure-a-Blind-Review.pdf

But if you are uploading a pdf file, it might not very easy to ensure blind review. Remember that your PDF may also have author information. To remove this, take the following step.

• If you have Acrobat Pro: Click “Tools” in the tab on the right, then go down to the “Protection”section, and click “Remove Hidden Information.
• If you do not have Acrobat Pro, but have Safari or Firefox: Open your PDF using your browser. Go to File > Print, and in the Print dialog box, click “PDF” in the bottom left. This will save your file as a new PDF, but allow you to edit the title and author info manually (delete the Author Name here).
• If neither option above works for you (and you still want to submit a PDF), you can download a free third-party PDF creator, and re-create your PDF while saving the information in there.”

Hope this information will be useful for you as you prepare to submit your papers for AEJMC.

The Communication Technology Division encourages research submissions where the central focus is technology and changes in the communication process resulting from technology. The division welcomes theoretical and conceptual papers and a diversity of methodological approaches.

Student Papers:

Papers solely authored by students are especially encouraged and are eligible to be entered for the Jung- Sook Lee Student Paper competition. The Jung-Sook Lee Award recognizes the best student paper, which makes “a substantial contribution to the substance or method on a topic related to communication technology and policy.” The award honors the division’s 1997-1998 research chair, Jung-Sook Lee of the University of Southwestern Louisiana, who died soon after the Baltimore conference in 1998. Authors of the top three student papers will receive a cash award. In addition, the author of the best student paper will have his or her conference registration fee paid by the division. For a paper to be considered for this award, all of the authors must be undergraduate or graduate students enrolled during the 2014-2016 academic year. Authors must type “Jung-Sook Lee Competition” in the upper-right corner of the first page of text to be considered for the award.

Faculty Papers:

The division is pleased to present the annual Gene Burd Top Faculty Research Paper Award, made possible by the generosity of Prof. Burd from the University of Texas – Austin. The $1,000 award recognizes the best faculty paper submitted to the division. For a paper to be considered for this award, at least one of the authors must be faculty. Authors must type “Gene Burd Competition” in the upper-right corner of the first page of text to be considered for the award.

Winners of both awards will receive their prize and be recognized at the San Francisco, CA conference. Submissions that do not win recognition in the Jung- Sook Lee Award or the Gene Burd Award are still considered for acceptance along with open competition submissions. Open Competition: All other papers submitted to the division will be reviewed in an open competition. Please limit papers to no more than 25 pages (doublespaced) in length, excluding tables and references. If you have any questions or require more information about the submission process, please contact Pamela Brubaker, CTEC research chair, at pamela_brubaker@byu.edu

https://aejmcctec.com/call-for-papers/