Word came in last night from Brian Wilson, a Ph.D. student in our department, that Professor Annie Lang was named a Fellow of the International Communication Association at their annual conference in Dresden Germany.
This is a tremendous honor, as Annie joins a very select list of 52 researchers who have been tremendously influential in developing theory in the area of communication.
Congratulations to Annie for a well-deserved acoolade!
Oh, and by the way, if you want to read a good blog about the Dresden trip, here's a link to Brian's.
Thursday, June 22, 2006
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Award-Winning Student Paper!!!
This information just in via email from the ICA conference.
Congratulations to doctoral candidates Seungjo Lee and Byungho Park, who received the top-student paper distinction in the Information Systems division for their work entitled "Effects of Motivational Activation on Processing Positive and Negative Content in Pop-Up Advertising."
That makes three years in a row that a student from the ICR has been recognized with this distinction.
Congratulations to doctoral candidates Seungjo Lee and Byungho Park, who received the top-student paper distinction in the Information Systems division for their work entitled "Effects of Motivational Activation on Processing Positive and Negative Content in Pop-Up Advertising."
That makes three years in a row that a student from the ICR has been recognized with this distinction.
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Scientific Collaboration--How Knowledge is Advanced
Second summer session has begun here at Indiana. I'm teaching T340 --Electronic Media Advertising to 37 students!it seems like a good group of students, and were slowly getting used to one another. I must admit that my perception is that it's difficult for them and me to meet everyday.
Things around the faculty offices here at the Department of Telecommunications are rather quiet these days, as most of my colleagues, are in Dresden Germany at the International Communication Association conference. I was unable to attend the conference this year due to personal reasons, but was involved in a number of research studies that will be presented there by my colleagues and graduate students (to whom I'm very grateful).
One of the studies being presented is entitled Correlating Information Value of Individual Words in Radio Scripts with Physiological Indicators of Arousal. It's a collaboration between me, Seth Finn, and an IU doctoral student named Sungkyoung Lee. Sungkyoung is interested in the impact of individual emotional words on attention and emotional response to audio message. I have posted about some of SungKyoung's previous work here.
The current study began in 2003 actually--at another ICA conference in New Orleans. Academic conferences are often times to reunite with former students and former colleagues. Such was the case when I ran into Sandra Braman, someone I worked with at the University of Alabama who has since moved on to University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. Sandra told me, just in passing, that she had chaired a research panel where someone had cited my work and made interesting connections between it, Shannon's Mathematical Theory of Information and work that this particular researcher had been doing on word choice in written texts.
Now, I'm still young enough in my academic career that having people cite my work is pretty darn exciting. But, because Sandra and I were literally just talking to each other as we were passing in the hallway of the conference hotel, I never heard the name of who had cited me or what the particular connections were. So, I tucked it away in my mind to eventually email Sandra and find out who she'd been talking about.
That day would likely have never come...as like most researchers I have more ideas to "get to someday" than I know what to do with. But, luckily, later that day I had Seth come up to me at a meeting. He was so interested in pursuing his interests in light of my work, that he had tracked me down. That began a collaboration which spanned several years. Like anything, it took awhile to get off the ground. In fact, we only had sporadic emails for an entire year. Then, last year at ICA in New York, Seth and I met face to face again--this time with Sungkyoung--and we began pursuing our question in earnest.
What was the question?
More about that tomorrow...but check back because the data are really intruiging.
Today I wanted to focus on a story of how collaboration happens (eventually) and how brining together curious people is how knowledge is advanced.
Things around the faculty offices here at the Department of Telecommunications are rather quiet these days, as most of my colleagues, are in Dresden Germany at the International Communication Association conference. I was unable to attend the conference this year due to personal reasons, but was involved in a number of research studies that will be presented there by my colleagues and graduate students (to whom I'm very grateful).
One of the studies being presented is entitled Correlating Information Value of Individual Words in Radio Scripts with Physiological Indicators of Arousal. It's a collaboration between me, Seth Finn, and an IU doctoral student named Sungkyoung Lee. Sungkyoung is interested in the impact of individual emotional words on attention and emotional response to audio message. I have posted about some of SungKyoung's previous work here.
The current study began in 2003 actually--at another ICA conference in New Orleans. Academic conferences are often times to reunite with former students and former colleagues. Such was the case when I ran into Sandra Braman, someone I worked with at the University of Alabama who has since moved on to University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. Sandra told me, just in passing, that she had chaired a research panel where someone had cited my work and made interesting connections between it, Shannon's Mathematical Theory of Information and work that this particular researcher had been doing on word choice in written texts.
Now, I'm still young enough in my academic career that having people cite my work is pretty darn exciting. But, because Sandra and I were literally just talking to each other as we were passing in the hallway of the conference hotel, I never heard the name of who had cited me or what the particular connections were. So, I tucked it away in my mind to eventually email Sandra and find out who she'd been talking about.
That day would likely have never come...as like most researchers I have more ideas to "get to someday" than I know what to do with. But, luckily, later that day I had Seth come up to me at a meeting. He was so interested in pursuing his interests in light of my work, that he had tracked me down. That began a collaboration which spanned several years. Like anything, it took awhile to get off the ground. In fact, we only had sporadic emails for an entire year. Then, last year at ICA in New York, Seth and I met face to face again--this time with Sungkyoung--and we began pursuing our question in earnest.
What was the question?
More about that tomorrow...but check back because the data are really intruiging.
Today I wanted to focus on a story of how collaboration happens (eventually) and how brining together curious people is how knowledge is advanced.
Thursday, June 15, 2006
Welcome to T340
Hi Everybody!
I'm looking forward to the next 8 weeks, and I hope you are, too.
It's tough to take classes in the summer--Heck, it's tough to teach in the summer!
Look to the right for the link labeled "My Teaching" to find the syllabus.
rob
I'm looking forward to the next 8 weeks, and I hope you are, too.
It's tough to take classes in the summer--Heck, it's tough to teach in the summer!
Look to the right for the link labeled "My Teaching" to find the syllabus.
rob
Friday, June 09, 2006
More Olives
Sorry I have not been posting much lately.
Trying to get papers and display posters ready to send with associates to the ICA conference in Dresden Germany...and on top of it all I haven't been feeling all that well.
But, earlier in a posting (scroll down...only 2 postings ago), I mentioned that CBS Radio's decision to contract with Arbitron on their Portable People Meter may indicate that others would soon follow suit.
Well, that turned out to be correct.
Read the Radio & Records article here.
Trying to get papers and display posters ready to send with associates to the ICA conference in Dresden Germany...and on top of it all I haven't been feeling all that well.
But, earlier in a posting (scroll down...only 2 postings ago), I mentioned that CBS Radio's decision to contract with Arbitron on their Portable People Meter may indicate that others would soon follow suit.
Well, that turned out to be correct.
Read the Radio & Records article here.
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