Our term will come to an end in August. We want to thank all RMIG members and friends for your support and help. We have learned a lot this year through our service. We have put out 4 excellent newsletters (thanks particularly to Greg for his time and effort) and come up with an exciting program for this year’s conference in Montreal. Please come join the fun and meet your RMIG colleagues. Below is a list of panels RMIG is involved in. Make sure to have your passport ready for the trip! Hope to see you all in Montreal.
****
Tuesday August 5
9 am to Noon
Media Management and Economic and Media Ethics Divisions and Religion and Media Interest Group
Workshop Session: Writing It Right for Academic and Scholarly Audiences (Session I)
Moderating/Presiding: Bozena Mierzejewsja, Fordham
Pre-registration is required.
1:30 pm to 5 pm
Media Management and Economic and Media Ethics Divisions and Religion and Media Interest Group
Workshop Session: Writing It Right for Academic and Scholarly Audiences (Session II)
Moderating/Presiding: Bozena Mierzejewsja, Fordham
Session III: Writing For Scholarly Journals: Tips from the Editors
Presiding/Moderating: Tom Cooper, Emerson
Panelists: Judith Buddenbaum, co-editor, Journal of Media and Religion, Colorado State
Hugh J. Martin, editor, Journal of Media Economics, Ohio
Patrick Plaisance, editor, Journal of Mass Media Ethics, Colorado State
Daniel Stout, co-editor, Journal of Media and Religion, BYU Hawaii
____
Wednesday August 6
8:15 am to 9:45 am
Religion and Media Interest Group
Refereed Paper Research Session: Islam and media: Rhetoric, framing, and representation
Moderating/Presiding: Paola Banchero, Alaska Anchorage
Panelists: Just add a verse from the Quran: Effects of religious rhetoric in gain (and loss) framed anti-alcohol messages with a Palestinian sample, Saleem Alhabash, Michigan State; Nasser Almutairi, Michigan State; Mohammed Abu Rub, Birzeit University
Mediatization of religion: How the Indonesian Muslim diasporas mediatized Islamic practices, Yearry Setianto,* Ohio
Night and day: An illustration of framing using moral foundations to examine public opinion about the 2010 Oklahoma sharia ban, Brian J. Bowe, Michigan State; Jennifer Hoewe, Penn State
Us and them: A meta-analysis of research on media representation of Muslims and Islam from 2000 to 2013, Saifuddin Ahmed, Nanyang Tech; Joerg Matthes, University of Vienna
*Top student paper
10 am to 11:30 am
Religion and Media Interest Group
Refereed Paper Research Session: Salvation in pop culture and new media
Moderating/Presiding: Julia Duin, Memphis
Panelists: Do you want to feel the love of Christ? There’s an app for that: Understanding tablet media as the new electronic church, Jim Trammell,* High Point
The new scroll: Digital devices in Bible study and worship, Kathy Richardson, Berry College; Carol Pardun, South Carolina
These will not inherit the kingdom of reality TV: Media Elites’ views on religion and the paradigm of corporate media, Rick Moore, Boise State
Pop music and the search for the numinous: Exploring the emergence of the secular hymn in post-modern culture, Steven Thomsen, BYU; Quint Randle, BYU; Matthew J. Lewis, BYU
*Top faculty paper
1:30 pm to 3 pm
Religion and Media and Sports Communication Interest Groups
Research Panel Session: The Religion of Sports
Moderating/Presiding: Chiung Hwang Chen, BYU Hawaii
Panelists: Turning the Other Cheek: The Faith of Jackie Robinson, Chris Lamb, IUPUI
The Rise of the Use of Prayer in Sports, Alan Goldenbach, Utica
Sports as Religion, Mary Lou Sheffer, Southern Mississippi
Openly Religious Sports Figures, Paola Banchero, Alaska Anchorage
Tim Tebow’s Time, Howard Schlossberg, Columbia College
____
Thursday August 7
8:15 am to 9:45 am
Religion and Media Interest Group and Media Management and Economic Division
Research Panel Session: Theorizing the Religious Media Marketplace: God, Media, and Money
Moderating/Presiding: Debra Mason, Missouri
Panelists: The Praise that Pays: Marketing, Money, and Christian Media, Jim Trammell, High Point
Christian Commerce, Creationism and Capitalism: Religion in the Retail Marketplace, Anthony Hatcher, Elon
The Currency of Cool in the Christian Culture Industry, Brett McCracken, Biola
Balancing Ministry and Commerce: The Christian Artist’s Perspective, Barry Blair, Asbury
11:45 am to 1:15 pm
Religion and Media Interest Group
Refereed Paper Research Session: Framing religions, religiosity, and religious symbols
Moderating/Presiding: Myna German, Delaware State
Panelists: Newspaper coverage of Christianity in South Korea, 1996-2005, Taisik Hwang, Georgia
Magazine iconography: portrayals of religion on magazine covers, Joy Jenkins, Missouri; Mimi Perreault, Missouri; Gregory Perreault, Missouri
Facebook and revival in Appalachia: Some qualitative analyses of attitudes toward serpent-handling, Julia Duin, Memphis
Does inner peace correlate with giving a piece of your mind? Religiosity, media exposure and tolerance for disagreement about religion, Mariam Alkazemi, Florida
1:30 pm to 3 pm
Religion and Media Interest Group
Business Session: Members’ Meeting
Moderating/Presiding: Chiung Hwang Chen, BYU Hawaii
____
Friday, August 8
8:00-10:00 am
RMIG Social: Religion and Media in Montreal
Panel discussion on Quebec’s Charter of Values and other issues. Featuring professional journalists in the Montreal region
12:15-1:30 pm
Religion and Media Interest Group
Refereed Paper Research Session: Scholar to Scholar
Panelists: The religious and moral beliefs of university leaders and the beginnings of American journalism education, Jeffery Smith, Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Bishop Richard R. Wright Jr.: The Christian recorder and social responsibility, Robbie Morganfield, Maryland
____
Saturday, August 9
11 am to 12:30 pm
Religion and Media and Small Programs Interest Groups
Teaching Panel Session: Teaching applied ethics at a denominational or sectarian institution
Moderating/Presiding: Michael Ray Smith, Campbell
Panelists: “To participate in the creation of a more just and humane world”: Social justice and utilitarianism in journalism education, John Jenks, Dominican
Media ethics and the Point-of-Decision Pyramid, Mitch Land, Regent
Negotiating meaning between sacred and profane: Doing cultural studies at religious institutions, Chiung Hwang Chen, BYU Hawaii
Introducing pluralism to moral absolutists and relativists, Ginny Whitehouse, Eastern Kentucky