The Mary Junck Research Colloquium Series

Fall 2008

 

 

 

 

School of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The colloquia meet 2-3:30 p.m. on Thursdays in the Freedom Forum Conference Center (3rd floor)
in Carroll Hall
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Date

Speaker

Title

Abstract

Sept. 4

Dr. David Weaver
Professor

School of Journalism

Indiana University

Journalism Research in an Age of Globalization

The past few decades have witnessed a definite upsurge in studies of journalism and journalists, not only in the U.S. but also in many other countries.

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Sept. 11

Dr. Megan Lewis &
Dr. Lauren McCormack

Senior Research Scientist &
Director, Health Communication Program

Research Triangle Institute

Tailored Health Messages for Couple-based Chronic Illness Management
&
Advancing Research Methodology for Measuring and Monitoring Patient-Centered Communication in Cancer Care

Tailored health communication has been proven as an effective way to deliver health information and enhance motivation for behavior change for a variety of health behaviors. It has never been used to educate couples about ways to work together to manage health risks....

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Sept. 18

Dr. Ruth Walden

Professor

School of Journalism and Mass Communication

UNC-Chapel Hill

Deciphering Dun & Bradstreet: Does the First Amendment Matter in Private Figure-Private Concern Defamation Cases?

In Dun & Bradstreet v. Greenmoss Builders, 1985, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that private figure plaintiffs defamed during the discussion of matters of private concern do not have to prove

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Sept. 25

Dr. Joe Walther

Professor

Department of Communication

Michigan State University

Multiple-Agent Interfaces and the Influence Sources Who Comprise Them: A Communication-Theoretic Agenda for Web 2.0

Web 2.0 -- the "participatory web" -- frequently presents multiple agents simultaneously, e.g., videos and commentaries, sellers and customers, profile owners and their friends....

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Oct. 2

Dr. Barbara Wildemuth

Professor

School of Information and Library Science

UNC-Chapel Hill

What Patients Want from Their Personal Health Records

Personal health records (PHRs) have the potential to empower people in managing their long term healthiness and in communicating effectively with their health care providers. Currently we have only...

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Oct. 9

Dr. Richard Petty

Professor

Department of Psychology

Ohio State University

Self-Validation: The role of thought confidence in persuasion

Prior research on persuasion has focused on several ways that variables such as a person’s emotional state could affect whether or not they were influenced. For example, one’s emotions could serve as a simple cue...

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Oct. 23

Dr. Ron Rice

Professor

Department of Communication

University of California-Santa Barbara

Unusual Routines: Dysfunctional Organizational Feedback Systems

Unusual routines are contradictory and frustrating subprocesses that inherently generate negative consequences for some organizations, system users...

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Nov. 6

Dr. Mary Frances Luce

Professor

Fuqua School of Business

Duke University

Contagion, Other's Risks, and HIV: Downsides of Locus of Control

This research asks how perceptions of control over one's health influence processing of communications about health risks and protection. In our experiments...

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Nov. 13

Dr. Chris Beaudoin

Associate Professor

School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
Tulane University

The Mass Media and Social Capital in the Context of Health: Developing and Testing Theoretical Rationales

Prior research on media campaigns has commented on the difficulty of influencing health outcomes via the dissemination of health behavioral recommendations....

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Nov. 20

Dr. Jean Folkerts

Professor

School of Journalism and Mass Communication

UNC-Chapel Hill

Southern Newspapers and the Ideology of Reform

This project explores the nature of Southern newspaper treatment of antebellum reform to develop an understanding of the reform function of the newspaper...

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To see videos of previous colloquium presentations, load iTunes on your computer. Within the iTunes Store, click on "iTunes U." Under "Find Education Providers," click on "Universities and Colleges." Click on "UNC-Chapel Hill," and then click on "School of Journalism and Mass Communication." You will see a logo for the Mary Junck Colloquium Series, and clicking on that will lead to a list of available presentations.

For a more direct route to the videos, search for "Mary Junck" from the iTunes store home page.

 

If you would like additional details or information
about the colloquium series or have any suggestions,
please contact
Sriram "Sri" Kalyanaraman
E-mail: sri@unc.edu
Phone: 919-843-5858