Michael Slater has won the ASCoR Denis McQuail Award 2007 with his article:
Slater, M. D. (2007). Reinforcing spirals: the mutual influence of media selectivity and media effects and their impact on individual behavior and social identity. Communication Theory, 17, 281-303.
The ASCoR McQuail Award is an annual award for the best article advancing communication theory published in a peer-reviewed journal in the previous year. An international Award committee, chaired by Denis McQuail, makes the selection. The committee’s selection is based on the quality of the article, not the author(s)’ professional or personal credentials. The number of nominations of an article plays no role in the selection process: Each article that has been nominated at least once will be considered. The Award entails, amongst others, an invitation to visit the Amsterdam School of Communications Research ASCoR in Fall 2008 and give the McQuail Lecture, as well as an invitation to become an ASCoR Honorary Fellow for one calendar year. For more information see the ASCoR website: http://www.fmg.uva.nl/ascor/
Eric Rothenbuhler, Texas A&M University, gave the Keynote Address, “From ritual to communicative form to media worlds,” at the Nordic Research Network on Media, Religion, and Culture, Reykjavik, Iceland, May 28-30, 2008. Rothenbuhler lso gave the public lecture, “Signs of secular faith: Religious symbolism in the public response to 9/11 in New York City,” at the University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland, June 2, 2008.
Randy Kluver, Texas A&M University, received an $8600 grant from the Japan Foundation for strengthening Japanese studies on campus.’
Heidi Campbell, Texas A&M University, was a Visiting Researcher at the Centre for Islamic Studies (ISAM), Istanbul / TURKEY and CRI Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies in Computer Science-University of Haifa, ISRAEL in summer 2008.
The Department of Communication at Texas A&M University hosted an international conference, “Exploring New Media Worlds,” February 29 to March 2, 2008. About 100 participants gathered from 53 universities in 14 different countries to address changing technologies, industries, cultures, and audiences in historical and global perspective.
