Palmer-Wackerly to Study Abroad in India this Summer

Congratulations to Angela Palmer-Wackerly who was competitively selected to participate in Social Work's Study Abroad in India program focused on Health and Mental Health!

Prof. Slater, Hayes, and Ewoldsen's alcohol-related research featured on OSU's homepage

Congratulations to Michael Slater, Andrew Hayes, and Dave Ewoldsen for their alcohol in news research that is currently featured on OSU.edu's homepage under the news category!

Their study analyzed whether new stories that mentioned alcohol in relation to violent crimes and accidental injuries impacted support for liquor law enforcement. Results demonstrated that those who read the articles mentioning alcohol’s role later showed more support for enforcing laws regarding serving intoxicated people, sales to underage youth and open containers, compared to those who had read articles that did not mention alcohol's role.

For more details on the study, please refer to the following: http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/alcoholnews.htm

Also, the full research article will be available in the March 2012 issue of the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drug>>> http://www.jsad.com/

Congratulations again to Professor's Slater, Hayes & Ewoldsen!

Ewoldsen Wins NCA Service Award!

Congratulations to Dr. David Ewoldsen for winning the Service Award from the Mass Communication Division of the National Communication Association.

Dave will receive his award at the Mass Communication Division's Business Meeting on Nov. 18 as part of "Voice," NCA's 97th annual convention, being held in New Orleans.

Congratulations, Dave!

Autumn 2011 schedule

Sept 30: Jennifer Tyrawski presented about Exemplification on Blogs: Taking Brosius and Bathlet (1994) Online

Oct 14: Jim Collier & Melanie Sarge will present a series of studies they completed with Prof. Dan McDonald about media-triggered autobiographical memory

Oct 28: Sanne Opree, visiting scholar from the Amsterdam School of Communication Research, will share her current work with us.

As usual, we will meet every other Friday at 2:30 pm in Journalism Building 106. Reminder emails are sent out the week of our meetings. If you are interested in staying up to date with CHASSIS, please email chung.370@buckeyemail.osu.edu to be added to the CHASSIS listserv and receive our biweekly announcements and reminders. Also, if you have interest in presenting at a CHASSIS meeting, please contact the above email address to schedule a time to share.

Dr. Slater's research supports teen anti-drug campaign

The federal anti-drug campaign “Above the Influence” appears to have effectively reduced marijuana use by teenagers, new research shows.

A study, led by School of Communication professor Michael Slater, of more than 3,000 students in 20 communities nationwide, found that by the end of 8th grade, 12 percent of those who had not reported having seen the campaign took up marijuana use compared to only 8 percent among students who had reported familiarity with the campaign.

The researchers said they believe this is the first independent study to find evidence for the effectiveness of the “Above the Influence” campaign, which was initially funded at nearly $200 million a year when it began in 2005.

Evidence for the success of “Above the Influence” is especially heartening because the primary independent evaluation of its predecessor campaign, “My Anti-Drug”, showed no evidence for success, Slater said.

“The ‘Above the Influence’ campaign appears to be successful because it taps into the desire by teenagers to be independent and self-sufficient,” Slater said.

For example, one television ad in the campaign ends with the line “Getting messed up is just another way of leaving yourself behind.”

Campaigns that only emphasize the risk of drug use may not be effective with many teens.

“We know that many teenagers are not risk avoidant, and consider the risks of marijuana to be modest. A campaign that merely emphasizes already-familiar risks of marijuana probably won’t reach the teens who are most likely to experiment with drugs,” he said.

Frank Lawrence of Penn State University, Linda Stanley of Colorado State University and Maria Leonora G. Comello of the University of North Carolina co-authored the study, which was supported by a grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

The study appears in the March 2011 issue of the journal Prevention Science.

Spring Quarter 2011 schedule

Given the OSU communication department's graduate school visitation day for prospective students on April 1st, and the International Communication Association conference from May26-30th in Boston, CHASSIS will unfortunately be 2 meetings short this quarter! The schedule will be as follows:

4/1: Graduate school visitation day-no CHASSIS
4/15: Jen Tyrawski (1/2 hour), Jen Moreland (1/2 hour)
4/29: Melanie Sarge
5/13: Margaret Rooney, Jen Moreland, Adrienne Chung-ICA practice talks
5/27: ICA conference-no CHASSIS

Meetings are held at 2:30 pm in Journalism 106. We welcome you to join us!

Congratulations to Parul Jain!

CHASSIS member Parul Jain has recently accepted an Assistant Professor of Health Communication position at the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University. Congratulations, Parul! We will miss you next year.

Dr. Chul-joo Lee's research recognized by Miller-McCune article

We congratulate Professor Chul-joo Lee on having his research featured in an article on Miller-McCune regarding how watching local TV news leads to fatalistic beliefs regarding cancer. The article references a study conducted by Professor Lee and Jeff Niederdeppe that was published in Communication Research this past December entitled: Genre-Specific Cultivation Effects: Lagged Associations Between Overall TV Viewing, Local TV News Viewing, and Fatalistic Beliefs about Cancer Prevention. The results of their study find that watching local television news, but not national news, is positively associated with fatalistic views about cancer. The authors' propose that this may be due to TV-viewing generally cultivating a low sense of control over one's life.

Please refer to the following link for the article:

http://www.miller-mccune.com/media/local-tv-news-spreads-cancer-fatalism-27901/

Also, you may access Professor Lee's paper here:

http://crx.sagepub.com/content/early/2010/12/29/0093650210384990.abstract

Once again, congratulations Professor Lee!

Raup-Krieger research on the HPV vaccine discussed on local news

One of our local Columbus news stations recently broadcast a description (with a nice video) of work conducted by Assistant Professor Janice Raup-Krieger examining conversation about the HPV vaccine. See the description and video here.

Autumn 2010 schedule

CHASSIS meetings are held every other Friday in Journalism 106 from 2:30-3:30 pm.

10/1: Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick

10/15: Parul Jain

10/29: Melanie Sarge

11/12: practice presentations for NCA conference (11/14-11/17)

please email: chung.370@buckeyemail.osu.edu if you have any questions or would like to be added to the CHASSIS listserv and receive updates.

Ohio State's School of Communication #1 in Research Production and #3 Overall in Field

September 28, 2010 - The National Research Council (NRC) has released results of its extensive, five-year study of 83 doctoral programs in the field of communication. The reports reveals The Ohio State University' s School of Communication to be firmly situated among the elite communication programs in the country based on several metrics. The OSU School of Communication faculty achieved an absolute rank of #1 in research activity (e.g., average number of peer-reviewed publications per faculty member). In addition, the School as a whole achieved a #3 ranking in the field based on its achievements along twenty different criteria - these criteria reflected faculty research (e.g., % of faculty with grants), quality of graduate students (e.g., GRE scores), graduate student support (e.g., % of students with full financial support), and a broad range of diversity measures (e.g., % of female faculty, % of female students).

The extensive analyses conducted on the NRC data identified only five programs which could state with 90% certainty that they rank as one of the top 10 programs in the field. Joining OSU's School of Communication on this list are Stanford University's Department of Communication, the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication, University of Wisconsin-Madison's School of Journalism & Mass Communication, and the Speech Communication program at the University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign (now the Department of Communication). This is truly elite company and the NRC rankings are a reflection of the significant advancements made by The Ohio State's School of Communication.

It is important to place the NRC rankings in some additional context. The 2010 NRC report is based on data collected only up through the 2005-2006 academic year. OSU's School of Communication has seen its level of research productivity grow exponentially since that time. A quick review of the broad range of works generated of late by the School 's faculty and graduate students and placed in the field's top peer-reviewed journal outlets (see http://www.comm.ohio-state.edu/AboutUs/Publications.aspx?ID=1) offers much hope that the School of Communication is maintaining its steady progress toward becoming the single best place in the country to study communication.

Slater selected to be ICA fellow

Congratulations to Dr. Michael Slater for being selected as a 2010 ICA fellow at this year's conference in Singapore!

Congratulations

Congratulations to Jen Moreland for winning the ICA Health Communication Thesis of the Year award and to Myiah Hutchens for winning the AEJMC Mass Communication and Society division's Promising Professor Award.

Also, congratulations to Myiah Hutchens and Nori Comello for their assistant professor job placements in the coming Fall. Myiah will be joining Texas Tech's Public Relations department and Nori will be joining UNC Chapel Hill's School of Journalism and Mass Communication. We will miss you both!

CHASSIS Spring 2010 Schedule

Hi Everyone,

As we agreed a few weeks ago CHASSIS is going to alternate with CATS at 2:30 Friday from next quarter. We will be meeting as usual on the first floor of Journalism Building. The schedule for the next quarter is:

4/2 Stacie Powers and Joyce Wang

4/16 KCHC Presentations (Jennifer Moreland; Melanie Sarge)

4/30 Dave Ewoldsen

5/14 Jonathan Cohen

5/28 Available

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Ohio State at KCHC

The Kentucky Conference on Health Communication 2010 will feature the following presentations and posters by Ohio State faculty and students:

Anticipating Selective Avoidance: The Predictive Value of Individual Differences for Information and Frame Selection Preferences
Melanie A. Sarge, The Ohio State University

Extending the Normative Conflict Model to the Nursing Context: Conflict Reporting and Nurse Identity
Jennifer J. Moreland, The Ohio State University

Measuring Beliefs about Smoking in College Students
David R. Roskos-Ewoldsen, The Ohio State University
Nancy Rhodes, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis

A Theory-based Examination of HPV Vaccination Attitudes and Behavior among College-Age Wome
Janice Raup-Krieger, The Ohio State University
Mira Katz, The Ohio State University
Melanie Sarge, The Ohio State University
Angela Dossett, The Ohio State University
Parul Jain, The Ohio State University
Dana Eisenberg, The Ohio State University

Motivational Type and Dynamic Motivated Cognition
Zheng Wang, The Ohio State University

Melanie Sarge wins Top Student Paper Award at KCHC

Congratulations to Melanie A. Sarge for winning the 2010 Kentucky Conference on Health Communication Top Student Paper Award! Her award-winning paper is entitled, “Anticipating Selective Avoidance: The Predictive Value of Individual Differences for Information and Frame Selection Preferences.”

CHASSIS Winter 2010 Schedule

Happy New Year to all! Here's the CHASSIS lineup for the quarter. Our focus will be on "dimensions of message engagement"; aptly we will kick start the quarter with the first presentation from Dr. Jonathan Cohen. We have many other exciting presentations lined up so please mark your calendars!

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!

Date Presenter
1/8 NO CHASSIS
1/15 Dr. Cohen
1/22 Adrienne Chung
1/29 Dr. Jennifer Kam
2/5 Drs. Wang and Powers
2/12 Dr. Sohn
2/19 Dr. Lee
2/26 Melanie Sarge
3/5 Parul Jain
3/12 Last day of classes: NO CHASSIS

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.