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esearch notesJune–December 2007BooksInformation and Emotion: The Emergent Affective Paradigm inInformation Behavior Research and Theory by Diane Nahland Dania Bilal was recently published by ASIS&T.Refereed journal articlesElizabeth Avery’s paper “Public relations practitioners’relationships with media and each other as moderatorsof excellent health information and the localpublic health agenda” has been published in Public RelationsJournal. Avery coauthored the paper with RuthannWeaver Lariscy.Ben Bates’s paper “Value and digital rights management:A social economics approach,” has been publishedin the Journal of Media Economics.Mark Harmon’s research article “Papers endorseincumbents four-to-one over challengers” was publishedin the summer 2007 edition of Newspaper ResearchJournal. His article coauthored with Dan Foley, “Meetthe press congressional guests: 1947–2004,” was publishedin Electronic News, a journal of the Radio TelevisionJournalism Division of AEJMC.Mariea Hoy’s article, “Disclosures exposed: Bannerad disclosure adherence to FTC guidance in the top100 U.S. websites,” has been published in the Journal ofConsumer Affairs. Hoy coauthored the article with MayO. Lwin of the Nanyang Technological University,Singapore.Barb Kaye and Tom Johnson, Texas Tech, had theirpaper, “Every blog has its day: Politically interestedinternet users’ perceptions of blog credibility,”published in the Journal of Computer MediatedCommunication.Mike Kotowski’s coauthored paper “Using the EPPMto create and evaluate the effectiveness of brochures toincrease the use of hearing loss protection in farmersand landscape workers” has been published in the Journalof Applied Communication Research.Eric Haley and Yoon-Joo Lee were coauthors for doctoralstudent Sora Kim’s paper “Does consumers’product-related involvement matter when it comes tocorporate ads?” The paper has been published by theJournal of Current Issues and Research in Advertising.Ken Levine and coauthors Cynthia Hoffner and RizaToohey have had their manuscript, “Socialization towork in late adolescence: The role of television andfamily,” published in the Journal of Broadcasting and ElectronicMedia.“Breast health education for working women in Appalachia:Insights from focus group research” by SallyMcMillan, Eric Haley, and Elizabeth Johnson Averywas published in the July 2007 issue of Cancer Control:Journal of the Moffitt Cancer Center. The faculty memberscoauthored the study with Paige Zollman-Huggler,Melissa G. Winchenbach, and John L. Bell MD of UTMedical Center.Bharat Mehra’s paper “The library-community convergenceframework for community action: Libraries ascatalysts of social change” has been published in Libri:International Journal of Libraries and Information Services.Mehra coauthored the paper with R. Srinivasan.Michael J. Palenchar and Robert L. Heath’s (Universityof Houston) journal article “Strategic risk communicationcampaigns: Insights from a decade of publicrelations research” has been published in the Journal ofPublic Relations Research.Margaret Morrison was lead author on the study“Under the radar: Smokeless tobacco advertising inmagazines with substantial youth readership,” whichhas been published in an early online issue of the AmericanJournal of Public Health. The study also appeared inthe March 2008 print version of the journal. Morrisonwas a coauthor for the paper “Behind the smile: Readingcultural values in Thai advertising,” which has beenpublished in the latest issue of Asian Journal of Communication.Chompunuch Punyapiroje (MS/CCI ’97, PhD/CCI ’02), Burapha University in Chomburi, Thailand,was the lead author.Book ChaptersBharat Mehra’s book chapter “Affective factors in informationseeking during cross-cultural learning of internationaldoctoral students in library and informationscience (LIS) education” has been published in Informationand Emotion: The Emergent Affective Paradigm in InformationBehavior Research and Theory. The book is edited byDiane Nahl and SIS Professor Dania Bilal.Suzy Prentiss has published “Parenting in the interracialfamily: More alike than different,” a chapter in thebook “Family Communication: Theory and Research.” Thebook is edited by Lorin Arnold.ExhibitsRob Heller’s “Living On” exhibit was displayed at theEast Tennessee State University Reece Museum in fall2007.Other publicationsMark Littmann’s article “From Chaos to the KuiperBelt” is the lead feature story in the September 2007 issueof Sky & Telescope magazine. The issue also included a sidebarby Littmann, “Planetary slingshots.” The November2007 issue of Sky & Telescope included Littmann’s featurestory “Dark beasts of the Trans-Neptunian zoo” andsidebar “From theory to reality.”PresentationsElizabeth Avery presented three papers at the 2007National Communication Association Convention:“Time to warn the Surgeon General? Public informationofficers’ and journalists’ perceived barriers to providingexcellent health information,” “Impact of politicaladvertising message sponsorship, strategy, and valenceon perceptual bias of members of the young electorate,”and “Videostyle analysis of music and its relationshipswith sponsorship and valence in the 2006 TennesseeSenate race advertising.” Avery served as coauthor withdoctoral student Antoneta Vanc for the third paper.Ben Bates presented two papers this summer at theInternational Association for Mass CommunicationResearch: “Driving under the influence: The role ofpolicy in media convergence,” coauthored with PhD studentScott Wells, and “Shifting power through expandingfocus: The social economics approach to informationand media policy research.” Bates also presented “Copyrightand convergence: Enabling, limiting, motivatingand/or inhibiting. Implications of current trendsin intellectual property law and policy on a convergingsociety” at the Convergence and Society: Media Ownership,Control, and Concentration conference.Naeemah Clark, Ken Levine, and Dan Haygoodpresented their coauthored paper, “Too late to makeit right? Country music, patriotism, and the DixieChicks,” at the 2007 Association for Education inJournalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC)Convention.Ed Cortez presented the paper “Sustaining economicdevelopment through knowledge management practicesin the Caribbean region: Challenges and opportunities”at the Association of Caribbean University, Research andInstitutional Libraries (ACURIL). Cortez also presented“Forging Partnerships across the world: International collaborativeinitiatives between library and informationsciences programs” at the International Federation ofLibrary Associations and Institutions conference.Lisa Fall presented two papers at the 2007 Associationfor Education in Journalism and Mass Communication(AEJMC) Convention. The first paper, “Knowledge ispower: Examining how general public relations traininginfluences non-major graduate students’ attitudesabout our profession,” was coauthored with graduatestudent Jeremy Hughes. The second paper, “Strengtheninginternal relations among the United States ArmyNational Guard Soldiers: Testing predictors of employeesatisfaction,” was coauthored with Lt. Col. Erich Randall,U.S. Army National Guard. Fall and Randall alsopresented the research paper “Andragogy comes to life:Examining adult student satisfaction of a three-weekendaccelerated format” at the annual Lilly Conference onCollege and University Teaching in October 2007.John Haas presented his paper “Negotiating unit survivalduring organizational downsizing: A case study”at the 2007 National Communication AssociationConvention.Eric Haley, Margaret Morrison, and Ronald Taylorpresented “Excellent account planning: What awardwinning planning cases tell us about planning’s utilityin advertising” at the 2007 Association for Educationin Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC)Convention. Haley, along with Robyn Blakeman, alsopresented “Advertising educators’ advice about guestspeakers: Making the most of visits by ad professionals”at AEJMC.“A comparative perspective of online disclosure presentationfrom websites in United States and Singapore,” byMay O. Lwin, Nanyang Technological University, andMariea Grubbs Hoy, was presented at the Cross CulturalResearch Conference.Barb Kaye and Tom Johnson, Texas Tech, presentedtheir paper, “Choosing is believing? How web gratificationsand reliance affect internet credibility amongpolitically interested users,” to the 2007 Association forEducation in Journalism and Mass Communication(AEJMC) Convention. The pair also presented “Stillcruising and believing? An analysis of online credibilityover three presidential campaigns” to the 2007 MidwestAssociation for Public Opinion Research annualconvention.Mike Kotowski presented three papers at the 2007National Communication Association Convention:“Using the EPPM to create and evaluate the effectiveness20 UT College of Communication and Information Full circle Spring 2008