October 28, 2013
Faculty members in CSUN’s Journalism Department have participated in a variety of conferences during the summer and fall of 2013.
Dr. Marcy DeVeaux attended the 47th Annual Meeting of the Oral History Association in Oklahoma City, which took place in early October. This year's theme was "Hidden Stories, Contested Truths: The Craft of Oral History."
DeVeaux participated on a panel, "So, What Do You Do?" where she presented examples of how she uses oral history in the classroom. She shared two examples from her tutorial, J498: Storytelling. She also joined two small discussion groups sharing best practices. DeVeaux presented her research in a paper, "In Search of Solid Ground: Oral Histories of The Great Migration" with two other professionals in a conference session titled "Lives of Dignity: African American Stories of Migration, Desegregation and Long Lives.”
Dr. Bobbie Eisenstock was honored with the Westin Family Award for Excellence in Activism and Advocacy from the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) at the organization’s annual conference in Washington, D.C. this month. The award was for a service-learning civic engagement project about media literacy and body image that she and her students completed for NEDA last year.
Eisenstock and her students are collaborating again with NEDA this year on another project to develop a digital media literacy toolkit that will be accessed on NEDA’s website. While at the NEDA conference, she also facilitated a workshop titled “Advocacy and Eating Disorders: The Power of Speaking Out.” In July, Eisenstock presented her community engagement project at the National Association for Media Literacy Education annual conference in the workshop “Spot the Photoshop: A Civic Engagement Campaign to Tell the Truth about Advertising.”
Dr. Elizabeth E. Martinez participated in the Crawford Family Forum’s panel "Beyond Snowden: When Free Press and National Security Clash.” The event took place at KPCC (89.3, Southern California Public Radio) in Pasadena earlier this month. The event was sponsored by the Los Angeles chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. The discussion examined questions of journalist privilege, surveillance and government whistleblowers.
Dr. Stephanie Bluestein took first place in a poster competition at the 96th Annual Conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication that took place during the summer in Washington, D.C.
She presented her paper, “From Switchboard Operator to City Editor: Agness Underwood’s Historic Rise in Los Angeles Journalism,” based on interviews she conducted with journalists who worked with Underwood in the mid-20th century. The winning poster highlighted the findings of her study in the History Division of the Scholar-to-Scholar Refereed Paper Research Session. Research about Underwood, the country’s first woman city editor of a major metropolitan daily, included reviewing her personal papers and photos which are housed in the Special Collections and Archives at CSUN's Oviatt Library.
Dr. Taehyun Kim presented his research at the 96th Annual Conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication that took place in August in Washington, D.C.
In the Korean American Communication Association Refereed Research Paper Session, Kim spoke about “The Last Resort: An Examination of Radio Korea’s System Maintenance Function During the 1992 Los Angeles Riots,” in which he analyzed audio clips and found that the Korean-language radio station served three critical functions: command post, elder-statesman, and resource mobilization functions. Kim’s paper shed light on media dependency theory, which suggests that the public’s need for the news media will increase when the social order is disrupted, and that the system maintenance function of the ethnic news media will be strengthened accordingly.