Dear MAC members:

It’s time to submit your panel proposals for the 2011 AEJMC Convention in
St. Louis.  Please send your proposals via e-mail (as a Word document
attachment) by October 17 to MAC’s Vice-Head/Programming Chair Petra Guerra
at [log in to unmask]  We are seeking proposals for panels on research,
teaching, and professional freedom and responsibility (PF&R).  At the end of
this document, I include a description of what a teaching panel should
contain, some general tips for writing the proposal, and a sample research
panel proposal.  

All proposals should be one page in length and include the following:
(1)    Panel Title
(2)    Panel Type:  Indicate whether the proposal is for a TEACHING, PF&R,
or RESEARCH panel.
(3)    Panel Sponsorship:  Indicate whether you are proposing a MAC-only
panel or a co-sponsored panel.  For co-sponsored panels, list other AEJMC
divisions or interest groups for 
which this proposal might prove relevant.  
Please note: MAC sole-sponsored panel proposals will be considered. 
However, the majority
of  AEJMC panels tend to be co-sponsored across divisions and interest groups.
(4)    Description of Panel:  Provide a succinct description in paragraph
form of the key issues or subject matter to be addressed by the panelists.
(5)    Possible Panelists:  Indicate individuals who would be appropriate
participants for this panel (may include academics, professionals, advocacy
organizations). For those you list, indicate whether they have been
contacted and have committed to participate.  If you plan to 
recruit a local professional for the panel, indicate this as well.  
Please note: It is not necessary to have a full slate of four participants
at the proposal stage.
Best to commit no more than 3 participant speakers at this point since other
divisions may want to contribute one or more speakers once they agree to
co-sponsor a panel.
(6)    Moderator:  This can be you or someone you nominate to moderate the
panel.
(7)    Contact Person:  Include your name, mailing address, e-mail address,
and telephone number as the contact person for this panel proposal.
 
I look forward to reading your proposals and ideas, 
Petra Guerra
MAC Programming Chair

GUIDELINES FOR TEACHING PANELS
Each TEACHING PANEL should address one of the following four general areas
identified by the AEJMC Standing Committee on Teaching Standards. Teaching
panels submitted to the MAC division should attempt to link these general
areas to specific pedagogical challenges and opportunities related to
teaching diversity/multiculturalism.

1. Curriculum: the philosophy, design, and examination of issues, 
developments and trends in the journalism curriculum.  Examples include
online media, 
web innovations, visual literacy, intellectual property, interactive multimedia
design, civic journalism, race and gender issues, historical context,
convergence, and ethics.

2.  Leadership: the administrative and organizational efforts used to 
manage and improve the evolution of the field of journalism and mass 
communication.  Examples include unique mentoring projects or activities, an 
examination of teaching accountability, credibility or history, or exploring
the 
future of teaching and learning in J-Schools.

3. Course Content and Methods: examining teaching techniques and strategies.
 Examples include strategies on writing and rewriting, syllabus exchanges,
distance learning opportunities, developing handbooks and other teaching aids,
using videos and other technology in classrooms.
 
4.  Assessment: weighing the effectiveness of journalism education.  
Examples include surveys and reports on teaching effectiveness, seminars or 
workshops to assess the state of the field in general or more specific areas, 
various activities evaluating course content, textbooks, journalism programs 
and syllabi.

GENERAL TIPS FOR PROPOSAL WRITING:
If you are proposing a panel for the first time, these tips may be useful. 
In formulating your proposal keep in mind:
1)	Relevance of the topic for the mission of the MAC Division
2)	Recent programming to avoid repetition of topics (see list of 2010 panels
below)
3)	Diversity in the scope of panels (variety of angles, speakers,
theoretical and methodological perspectives)
4)	Availability of prospective speakers
5)	Currency and transcendence of topics selected

Topics of non-refereed panels in MAC 2010 Programming: 
Research Panels: 
Political Communication Focused on Ethnic Minority Populations and Media:
Teaching and Research Tips for the 2010 and 2012 Electoral Campaigns
Media Framing of a Possible Brown Menace to Whitestream: Gender, Class and
Ethnicity in Sonia Sotomayor’s Journey to the Supreme Court

Teaching Panels:
Working Diversity into the Curriculum: One School’s Experience.
Environmental Racism: Lost in the Green Storm of Media Coverage and
Journalism Education
Using Digital Resources in Ethnicity, Race and International Communication
Classes
Teaching session: A Minority is a Minority is a Minority

PF&R Panels: 
Health Promotion, Minority Populations and Health Reporting: Challenges for
2010 and Beyond. 
The Tenure Process from the Perspective of Minority, Women and International
Faculty: Strategies for success
Contemporary American Indian/Native American Cultures and the Ethics of 
Addressing Indian Country in the News Media
Media Ownership and Control by People of Color


SAMPLE RESEARCH PANEL PROPOSAL

AEJMC Panel Proposal
Division: Minorities and Communication

1) Title: Advancing Inter-ethnic and Interracial Communication Research
among Latinos, Asian-Americans and African-Americans 
2) Panel type:  Research
3) Possible Co-sponsorship:  MAC and Mass Communication and Society
4) Description of Panel:    
A dominant trend in the study of minorities and communication has been to
examine communicative practices and media representation of racial and
ethnic minority groups in isolation or in exclusive relation to the white
population—and often within a black/white binary that tends to overlook the
complexities of a multicultural public sphere.  This panel shifts the focus
to stress the relevance of studying communication and media representation
among Latinos, African-Americans and Asians with two main goals.  First,
panelists will share their current research on interethnic and interracial
communication.  A second objective of this panel is to discuss theoretical
constructs, methodologies and broader frameworks of understanding--for
instance, liberal multiculturalism as a dominant discourse, racial formation
and public sphere, social scientific methods, media literacy, etc.--that
would allow researchers to advance the study of communication across
racialized minority groups.
5) Prospective Panelists (listed in alphabetical order):
	Yuki Fujioka, Georgia State University.  
	Catherine Squires, University of Minnesota 
	Michael Thornton, University of Wisconsin, Madison
(6)    Moderator/Chair:  Ilia Rodriguez, New Mexico
(7)    Contact Person:  Ilia Rodriguez, Department of Communication &
Journalism, MSCO3 2240, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131,
(505) 277-2103, [log in to unmask]

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