Top 10 ways to get your paper disqualified by Pat Curtin

http://www.aejmc.org/home/2013/03/10-ways-disqualified/

Understanding AEJMC

The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication

• Divisions and interest groups
• Call for papers
• Paper acceptance rates

Sample Experimental Study mentioned by the NY Times

http://cn.tmagazine.com/health/20131017/t17desk/en-us/

Big Data

What is big data?

What's the implication for research methods?

An interesting/scary application --
http://cn.tmagazine.com/education/20131024/t24workscience/en-us/

Determining Sample Size

http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/pd006

The Pros & Cons of Amazon Mechanical Turk for Scientific Surveys

Sounds like a fairly promising online survey service option:
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guilty-planet/2011/07/07/the-pros-cons-of-amazon-mechanical-turk-for-scientific-surveys/

Writing an Online Survey Questionnaire

Using the guidelines discussed in class and your readings for writing valid survey questions and response categories, write at least 10 questions about a topic of interest to you. Your survey questionnaire should also include the following:

a.  Specify the title that reflects specific focus of your questionnaire, and include a short description of your sampling frame.

b.  An opening paragraph introducing your survey.

c.  At least one contingency question.

d.  At least one matrix question.

e.  At least one open-ended question.

f.  At least one nominal level question.

g.  At least one ordinal level question.

h.  At least one ratio level question.

i.  Demographics. 

k. Questionnaire closing. 

You may use the survey questionnaire in Appendix A2 as a guide for a correct questionnaire format.  Please label the following in your questionnaire:

(1).  Open-ended question.

(2).  Contingency question.

(3).  Matrix question.

(4).  Ordinal question.

(5).  Ratio question.

Labels should be placed adjacent to the question referred to.

                                                                                                                       

Proofread your questionnaire so it will be free of errors.

You are encouraged to use your free account on Qualtrics to complete this assignment. Sign up at: http://www.qualtrics.com/academic-solutions/university-of-texas-college-of-communication/

Turn in a hard copy in class on Thursday, Oct. 3.

Research Ethics

Two most unethical experiments (in the pre-IRB era): The Milgram experiment (1964)


The Stanford Prison experiment (Zimbardo, 1971):
 

 Another experiment about obedience and social norms:

Ethical guidelines for researchers

“Recommended Ethical Research Guidelines for AEJMC Members,”

http://www.aejmc.org/home/2011/03/ethics-research/

“Faculty Council Research Policy Committee’s Recommended Standards of Ethical Research at UT Austin,”

http://www.utexas.edu/faculty/council/2009-2010/legislation/ethical_rsch_stnds.html


Plagiarism checkers
http://smallseotools.com/plagiarism-checker/

http://churnalism.sunlightfoundation.com/

Let's try the checker --
https://online.journalism.utexas.edu/papers.php

Why social science research?

What do we mean by "asking important questions?"

 

Let's read this piece by Prof. Robert Jensen and continue our discussion.

http://www.austinpost.org/university-texas/truce-ut-factory-time-face-tough-choices

"In the social sciences, researchers can easily advance careers not by asking important questions about how systems of power work, but by constructing complex models and methodologies that are, again, so allegedly sophisticated that they have to be important. Students also find most of this kind of work annoying, especially when faculty members have a hard time explaining why the articles being assigned are worth plodding through."

"Instead of investing time in your building status in academic cliques—where you spend a lot of energy reminding each other how smart you are—wade out into the world and let your work be guided by a simple question: How are we humans going to save ourselves and save the planet from ruin? We live in an unsustainable system that was created by systems that concentrate wealth and power. Do we care?"

Invitation to publish

From: journalism

Date: 2013-07-23 17:29

To: chyi

CC: shellyshen_29

Subject: Call for paper -- 13th International Symposium on Online Journalism 2012

 

 

From Knowledge to Wisdom

Journalism and Mass Communication

Print ISSN: 2160-6579                            Current Volume: 3/2013

 

Dear Dr. Hsiang Iris Chyi,

This is the Journal of Journalism and Mass Communication (ISSN 2160-6579), an international academic journal published across the United States by David Publishing Company. I am pleased to learn you have submitted the paper titled

Are digital natives dropping print newspapers? A national survey of college newspaper advisers to the 13th International Symposium on Online Journalism 2012.

We are very interested in your research, if the paper mentioned has not been published in other journal or you have other unpublished papers in hand, please feel free to send electronic version to us. If you are interested in our journal, we also want to invite some people to be our reviewers or become our editorial board members. You can send your CV to us. Expect to get your reply soon.

The below is more information on our journal and some guidelines for you and you can know our journal at http://www.davidpublishing.com/journals_info.asp?jId=418

Descriptions

The Journal of Journalism and Mass Communication, a professional scholarly peer-reviewed academic journal, commits itself to promoting the academic communication about recent developments on Journalism and Mass Communication, covers all sorts of research on journalism, radio and television journalism, new media, news ethics and regulations, the integration of media and culture and other relevant areas, and tries to provide a platform for experts and scholars worldwide to exchange their latest findings.

The Journal of Journalism and Mass Communication is collected and indexed by the Library of U.S. Congress, on whose official website (http://catalog.loc.gov), an on-line inquiry can be triggered with their publication numbers, ISSN2160--6579 respectively, as keywords in “Basic Search” column. In addition, the journal is retrieved by some renowned databases:

★ Database of EBSCO, Massachusetts, USA

★ Chinese Database of CEPS, American Federal Computer Library center (OCLC), USA

★ Chinese Scientific Journals Database, VIP Corporation, Chongqing, P. R. China

★ Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory, USA

★ Pro Quest Social Science Collection, Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS), USA

★ Summon Serials Solutions, USA

★Universe Digital Library S/B, Malaysia

★Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD), Norway

Guidelines for Authors

1. Submission of Manuscript: The manuscript should be original, and has not been published previously. Do not submit material that is currently being considered by another journal. The manuscript should be in MS Word format, submitted as an email attachment to our email address: journalism@davidpublishing.org; journalism@davidpublishing.com

2. Some requirements : Manuscripts may be 3000-12000 words or longer if approved by the editor, including an abstract, texts, tables, footnotes, appendixes, and references. The title should be on page 1 and not exceed 15 words, and should be followed by an abstract of 100-200 words. 3-5 keywords or key phrases are required.

3. Transfer of Copyright Agreement: Authors of the articles being accepted are required to sign up the Transfer of Copyright Agreement form.

4. Hard Copies: Author will receive 2 hard copies of the journal containing their articles.

5. Publication Fee: We will charge some fee if the paper is published in our journal.

Editorial Procedures

All papers considered appropriate for this journal are reviewed anonymously by at least two outside reviewers. The review process usually takes two to three weeks. Papers are accepted for publication subject to no substantive, stylistic editing. The editor reserves the right to make any necessary changes in the papers, or request the author to do so, or reject the paper submitted. A copy of the edited paper along with the first proofs will be sent to the author for proofreading. They should be corrected and returned to the editor within seven days. Once the final version of the paper has been accepted, authors are requested not to make further changes to the text.

 

Let's blog!

This blog is the platform for us to exchange interesting ideas in this seminar!

A few things to do here:

1. Respond to readings

Please post a short response to selected assigned readings (as early as possible but no later than 3 p.m. the day before class).

The purpose is to make sure you read the readings as well as to provoke analytical/critical/creative thinking on issues to be discussed in class.

You should first read through the reading and then share your thoughts/questions/examples with us. If you have an online example, please include the link in your post.

Please label your posts using both "your screen name" (no need to use your real name, but be consistent throughout the semester) and the last name of the first author.

Feel free to comment on your classmates' posts.

Please write in short paragraphs so that it is easy to read online and in class.

2. If you come across any interesting/relevant news stories/websites worthy of our attention, please post the link here. We expect everyone to share at least one story every month (i.e., at least 3 stories per semester). Briefly explain why you think the story is important.

3. You may post some of the assignments here. 

(If you have questions about the technical side of blogging, please let me know.)

Thank you and have a wonderful semester!