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Seventeen faculty members and an ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈ student in the School of Communications participated in the 2013 conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication in Washington, D.C., Aug. 7-11.

Faculty participants were Dean Paul Parsons; Associate Deans Don Grady and Kenn Gaither; Associate Provost and professor Brooke Barnett; associate professors Rich Landesberg, Byung Lee, Barbara Miller, Glenn Scott, Amanda Sturgill and Frances Ward-Johnson; assistant professors Lucinda Austin, Vanessa Bravo, Dan Haygood, Julie Lellis, Phillip Motley and Qian Xu; and adjunct professor Dan Shaver. The student was Rajat Agarwal of Knoxville, Tenn., a rising sophomore in the Media Arts & Entertainment major.

Here are conference highlights involving Elon:

• Four faculty members became leaders of AEJMC divisions and interest groups for 2013-14. Byung Lee is Head of the Visual Communication Division, Amanda Sturgill is Vice Head of the Communication Technology Division, Frances Ward-Johnson is Vice Head of the Minorities and Communication Division, and Glenn Scott is Vice Head of the Participatory Journalism Interest Group (formerly known as Civic and Citizen Journalism).
• Lucinda Austin received first place for outstanding research poster from the Public Relations Division and the division’s “SuPRstar Award” for outstanding ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈ.
• Amanda Sturgill and Phillip Motley received second place from AEJMC’s Standing Committee on Teaching for research on ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈ for their paper on cultivating a professional ethic in covering marginalized populations by learning about the poor through service learning.
• Student Rajat Agarwal and Amanda Sturgill presented their research on microblogging the news when Twitter is the only option. Sturgill also presented a paper in the Great Ideas for Teaching session.
• Barbara Miller, Qian Xu and Brooke Barnett presented a research paper on the persuasion knowledge model and electronic word-of-mouth.
• Vanessa Bravo presented research on communicating voting rights to Diaspora communities in El Salvador and Costa Rica.
• Dan Haygood presented research on the story behind the early broadcasting and sponsoring of Atlantic Coast Conference basketball.
• Qian Xu and a colleague from Nanjing University in China presented research on the use of social network sites, political efficacy and civic engagement among Chinese college students.
• Barbara Miller and Julie Lellis presented research on marketplace advocacy messages by corporations and industry trade groups.
• Lucinda Austin and colleagues from Maryland and Virginia Commonwealth presented research on how senior crisis communicators define organizational crisis recovery.
• Paul Parsons participated in a panel on assessment of student learning and, as a member of the Accrediting Council, presented an accreditation report at the business meeting of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication.
• Rich Landesberg was a panelist during a workshop on best practices for student-produced news.
• Barbara Miller was a panelist in a session on ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈ integrated marketing communications within a communications curriculum.
• Dan Shaver was a panelist of a Professional Freedom & Responsibility session on the business model of the future newspaper that he predicts will include multiplatform ad sales and subscriptions on mobile devices.
• Don Grady participated in a session on the future of the journalism and mass communication surveys of program enrollment, faculty hiring and employment of new graduates.
• Byung Lee presided at a workshop on Q methodology, Amanda Sturgill presided at a research session of the Religion and Media Interest Group, and Lucinda Austin moderated a ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈ panel on ethics in a changing media climate.

Seven Elon faculty members served as discussants in research sessions: Vanessa Bravo, Dan Haygood, Phillip Motley, Glenn Scott, Amanda Sturgill, Frances Ward-Johnson and Qian Xu.