NIAAA grant to OSU Comm Researchers

Congratulations to Dr. Michael Slater and co-investigators Drs. Andrew Hayes, David Ewoldsen, and Russ Fazio for getting The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism grant this past summer. They were awarded a 4-year, $2.28 million grant to study news and advertising effects on alcohol risk perceptions. The study includes use of innovative experimental designs and data collection methods to probe mechanisms underlying news and advertisement effects.

CHASSIS AU 09

We had our first meeting this Friday, 9/25/09 in the newly renovated Hall of Fame conference room, JR106, on the ground floor of the Journalism Building.

Along with faculty introductions we discussed the agenda for the quarter. The presentations are scheduled as follows:

10/2 Dave Ewoldsen

10/9 Stacie Powers

10/16 Job talk: Nori Comello

10/23 Jennifer Kam

10/30 Chul-joo Lee

11/6 NCA Practice Sessions (Nori, Parul, Jennifer)

11/13 NCA: No CHASSIS Meeting

11/20 Michelle Ortiz

CHASSIS Meetings

CHASSIS will now be meeting every Friday from 3:30-4:30 in the Hall of Fame conference room, JR106, on the ground floor of the Journalism Building.

Dana Eisenberg selected as a 2009 NCI Health Communication Intern

Congratulations to Master's student Dana Eisenberg for recently being selected to participate in the National Cancer Institute's Health Communication Internship program. Dana will be working in the Office of Partnerships and Dissemination Initiatives, a component of The Office of Communications and Education. Congratulations Dana!

Parul Jain selected to participate in the 2009 NCA Doctoral Honors Seminar

Congratulations to Parul Jain for being competitively selected to participate in the 2009 Doctoral Honors Conference. Parul will present her submission, International Doctors in the US: Implications for Physician-Patient Communication at the conference which will be held from June 1-5 at West Virginia University. The theme of the conference is “Communication as Engaged Scholarship.” Congratulations Parul!

CHASSIS schedule Spring 2009

So you can mark your calendars for the weeks ahead, here's the CHASSIS lineup for the quarter. We'll be sticking with the Friday 3:30-4:30day/time. Discussion leaders, please send me a working title if you haven't already done so.

Thanks to everyone for their contributions to CHASSIS. We should have stimulating discussions in the weeks ahead!

CHASSIS SCHEDULE SPRING 2009

April 10 - Parul Jain with her McDreamy/McSteamy talk rescheduled fromlast quarter

April 17 - Mike Slater and Dave Ewoldsen on categorization processes

April 24 - Adrienne Chung on entertainment education and effects onreducing stigma associated with illness

May 1 - Renu Pariyadath and Meghan Robertson

(May 8 - COMM day, no meeting)

May 15 - Melanie Sarge (and anyone interested in doing a practice ICA talk)

(May 22 - ICA, no meeting)

May 29 - Greg Hoplamazian

Congratulations to faculty and students members of CHASSIS for papers accepted to the 2009 conference in May! Here's a partial list of titles:

Comello, M. L. G., & Slater, M. D. (2009). The effects of drug-prevention messages on the accessibility of identity-related constructs.

Comello, M. L. G. (2009). William James on “possible selves”: Implications for studying identity in communication contexts.

Dossett, A., & Hayes, A. F. Hypocrites and excuse makers: The promises or perils of a mass mediated hypocrisy induction paradigm for behavior modification.

Eno, C. A., & Roskos-Ewoldsen, D. R. The influence of explicitly and implicitly measured prejudice on interpretations of and reactions to Black film.

Hayes, A. F., & Matthes, J. A primer for communication researchers on probing single-degree-of-freedom interactions in regression models, with SPSS and SAS implementations. (Top 4 paper in the Information Systems division)

Kline, S.L., Zhang, S., Horton, B., Pariyadath, R., & Ryu, S. Theorizing the role of relational communication and cultural concepts in marriage conceptions: Comparisons between Asian and US young adults.

Kline, S. L.Sense-making and making sense: Creating selves and intersubjectivity in communication. Dervin workshop.

Kurita, S., Lang, A., Potter, R., Wang, Z., Weaver, A., Bae, S., Lee, S., & Koruth, J. (2009). Gender Differences in Motivational Activation.

Matthes, J., Hayes, A. F., & Shen, F. Dispositional fear of social isolation and willingness to self-censor: A cross-cultural test of spiral of silence theory.

Matthes, J., Morrison, K. R., & Schemer, C. A spiral of silence for some: Attitude certainty and the expression of political minority opinions.

Morrison, K. R.,& Matthes, J. So you think you are popular? Fear of isolation triggers motivated perceptions of consensus.

Nevin, K., Rhodes, N., & Roskos-Ewoldsen, D. R. Cultivation theory and cultural models of romantic relationships.

Oaks, D., Kline, S.L., & David, P.The effect of familiarity and coordination on designing online discussion environments: A comparison of chat and threaded discussion communication modes.

Roberto, A. J., Krieger, J. L., Katz, M., Goei, R., & Jain, P. Predicting pediatricians’ communication with parents about the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine: An application of the Theory of Reasoned Action. (Top-Four Paper--Health Communication Division.)

Roskos-Ewoldsen, D. R. Implicit Associations Test: Just what is the IAT measuring?

Roskos-Ewoldsen, D. R. Methodological perspectives on emotions and mass media.

Roskos-Ewoldsen, D. R. Effects is dead: Long live dynamics.

Slater, M. D., & Hayes, A. F. The influence of youth MTV/VH-1 viewership on increasing rates of cigarette use and association with smoking peers: A parallel process model.

Sohn, D. The effects of social norms on electronic word-of-mouth intention: A comparison of three models.

Wang, Z. (2009). Coactivation: An Examination on Subjective Feelings, Physiological Responses, and Adaptive Functions.

Wang, Z., Morey, A., Srivastava, J., Kruczkowski, A. (2009). Dynamics of Processing Emotional Political Ads.

Latest installment of HINTS data now available

Message from:

Bradford W. Hesse, Ph.D.
Chief, Health Comm & Informatics Research Branch
Behavioral Research Program
Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences
National Cancer Institute

To Our Current and Potential Grantees:

On behalf of the National Cancer Institute, it is with great pleasure that I announce the arrival of the latest installment of public release data from the Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS). Since 2003, the HINTS survey has served as a cornerstone for statistically reliable information on how Americans aged 18 years and older get health information in a time of extraordinary change. This installment marks the release of the third biennial data point in the HINTS series. The installment brings with it a set of important improvements at the HINTS Web site for our partners.

For Communication Practitioners:
We have made it easier to look at questions across years of administration. You will begin with a simplified catalogue of questions, which will make it easy to track the years in which questions were asked. Once you have selected a question to review, a tabbed viewing screen will let you move quickly between presentations of data for individual years as well as an "All Years" overview of trends and comparisons. As before, you will be able to download charts and graphs for your own use in reports and presentations. An embellished Notes field will give you all the information you need to track the details of each year's administration including wording changes and subtle differences in types of respondents asked. While at the site, don't forget to check the latest collection of "HINTS Briefs," summarizing the results of empirical analyses being published on the data.

For Communication Researchers:
A fully documented data package is available for download in SAS, SPSS, and STATA formats. Please note that the latest administration of the HINTS instrument uses a split telephone + postal sampling frame to evaluate penetration of cell phone only households in the U.S. population. Weights are provided for each frame and composite weights are provided for analysis of the two frames combined. Be sure to read the accompanying documentation for instructions on how to analyze data with these newly embedded sampling features. You will also note that we have made it easy for you browse through an expanded set of resources on the site, and to add them to your own toolkit for easy download.

Also, stay tuned for further announcements on the third biennial HINTS Users Conference to be hosted by NCI in Silver Spring, Maryland on September 24-25 2009. We expect a "call for abstracts" to be issued at the beginning of March, with travel awards offered to students and general researchers for outstanding papers. Plans are to include best papers in a journal supplement to be published in 2010.

To all of our colleagues who have shown endless dedication in applying health communication science to the task of improving the health of Americans, we sincerely thank you and welcome you to the HINTS community. Come visit us at: http://hints.cancer.gov/

Sincerely,
Brad Hesse

Bradford W. Hesse, Ph.D.
Chief, Health Comm & Informatics Research Branch
Behavioral Research Program
Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences
National Cancer Institute
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Call for papers - Third Annual National Conference on Health Communication, Marketing and Media

Call for Abstracts is Now Open

Third Annual National Conference on Health Communication, Marketing and Media
August 11-13, 2009
Omni HotelAtlanta, GA

Sponsored by:
National Center for Health Marketing, the Office of Enterprise Communication, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the National Cancer Institute and the National Public Health Information Coalition

Deadline for submission is March 16, 2009

The conference planning committee invites abstracts for both oral and poster presentations in the following submission types - Research and Evaluation, Theoretical and Practice/Program-Based in one of four program tracks:

• Health Marketing: Nuts, Bolts and Beyond
• Social Determinants of Health
• New Frontiers - Trends and Technology
• Partnerships/Collaborations - Synergistic Relationships
  

This conference brings together individuals representing academia, public health researchers and practitioners from federal and state government and the private sector, and provides a forum for collegial dialogue within and across these disciplines. The conference is an excellent opportunity to meet with colleagues and shape the future of health communication, marketing, and media practice. For more information about the about the conference and abstract submission, please visit http://www.cdc.gov/healthmarketing/NCHCMM2009/

CHASSIS welcomes new faculty members!

Four new faculty members who will be joining the School of Communication in Autumn quarter 2009 will also be joining CHASSIS: Jennifer Kam from Pennsylvania State University, Chul-Joo Lee from the University of Pennsylvania, Michelle Ortiz from the University of Arizona, and Stacie Powers from the Univerisity of Connecticut. We look forward to welcoming them in the fall and to their contributions to the group!

Winter quarter schedule

Our first meeting for winter quarter will be Friday, Jan 16, at 3:30pm. Here's the lineup so far:

Jan 16: Dr. Joyce Wang on "Method is Message: Dynamic Signal Detection Theory and Its Application to Media Research"

Jan 23 - Angela Dosset, Myiah Hively, & Teresa Myers on measuring identity> based on their work on environmental identity (aka "the search for a scale that doesn't make you laugh out loud or roll your eyes")

Jan 30 - Dr. Mike Slater and Nori Comello to lead discussion on making> connections among frameworks/measures of identity discussed so far and research interests of the group

Feb 6 - Open

Feb 13 - Jen Moreland on "Conceptualizing Adolescent Risk Behavior in the Rural Appalachian Context"

Feb 20 - Open

Feb 27 - Dr. Dongyoung Sohn: "Social Structural Influence on Information Sharing Motivation"

Mar 6 - Parul Jain on "How Do McDreamy, McSteamy, and the Likes Talk on Television? A Content Analysis of Physician-Patient Communication and Disease Portrayals in Medical Dramas"