New Agendas in Communication Conference
Twelve of the top young scholars in agenda-setting research come to Austin to present their research as part of the Agenda Setting in a 2.0 World
New Agendas in Communication conference Sept. 30 and Oct. 1 in the Lady Bird Johnson Room of the Jesse H. Jones Communication Center.
The conference will honor retired School of Journalism professor Max McCombs for his numerous contributions both to the School of Journalism and to the communication field at large. The 12 researchers will discuss agenda setting in terms of changes in the media environment of the 21st century.
Below is the schedule for the two-day conference
Friday, September 30
9:00 – 9:15 a.m. Welcome and Introductions
Maxwell McCombs and Thomas Johnson
Conference Organizers and Book Editors
Stephen D. Reese
New Agendas Series Co-Editor
Conference Participants
9:15 – 9:30 a.m. Keynote speech by David Weaver, Indiana University at Bloomington
9:30 – 10:30 a.m. Session 1: Agenda Setting and Election Campaigns
Sharon Meraz, University of Illinois at Chicago
Media influence in the Tea Party Facebook group
Jason Martin, DePaul University
Agenda-Setting online (news and candidate websites) during campaigns
Discussion
10:30 – 10:45 a.m. Short Break
10:45 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. Session 2: Theory Building and Agenda Setting
Sebastián Valenzuela, Catholic University of Chile
Value resonance and the origins of issue salience
Yonghwan Kim, University of Texas at Austin *
Contingent factors of agenda-setting effects: Revisiting need for orientation
Discussion
12:00 – 1:15 p.m. Lunch in the Burson Conference Room, CMA 4.128
1:30 – 2:30 p.m. Session 3: Attribute Agenda Setting
Lindita Camaj, Indiana University at Bloomington *
Consequences of attribute agenda-setting in Kosovo
Lei Guo, University of Texas at Austin *
Network analysis of attribute agenda-setting
Discussion
2:30 – 3:30 p.m. Session 4: Political Effects of Agenda Setting
Jennifer Kowalewski, Texas Christian University
It's not just a laughing matter: How entertainment news programs influence the transfer of the media's agenda to the public's agenda similarly to traditional hard news
Soo Jung Moon, University of West Georgia
Consequences of first and second-level agenda-setting for civic engagement
Discussion
3:30 – 3:45 p.m. Short Break
3:45 – 5:00 p.m. Session 5: Online Generations and Agenda Setting
Jae Kook Lee, Indiana University at Bloomington
Generations and agenda-setting
Hai Tran, DePaul University *
Online agenda-setting: A new frontier for theory development
Discussion
Saturday, October 1
10:00 – 11:00 a.m. Session 6:Expanded Views of Agenda-setting
Vanessa Higgins Joyce, Southern Methodist University
Consensus building role of agenda setting
Matt Ragas, DePaul University
Agenda-setting role of business news
Discussion
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Discussion of chapters
