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As part of the 2009 Carolina Summer Reading Program, first-year students are reading Paul Cuadros’ new book called, A Home on the Field. It is the first book the selection committee has chosen that was written by a UNC faculty member. It is also a true story that the committee thinks will spark discussion about immigration in North Carolina.
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Jock Lauterer, took his journalism students to Spring Hope, North Carolina to work for the town’s newspaper while the editor was on sick leave. Lauterer recently formed an emergency response team of community journalists for North Carolina to help report the news following natural disasters or other emergencies.
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Philip Meyer is a professor of journalism who has studied public-opinion research for decades. Newspapers typically use polls to collect public opinion data, but according to Meyer, they could use more in-depth social science methods to find underlying reasons for people’s decisions and actions.
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Barbara Friedman, a professor of journalism, recently explored how British and American media worked to respond to and shape images of how women and men should behave during wartime. In her upcoming book, she discusses how media romanticized American men to encourage British women hospitality, promoted homemaking among American women, and contributed to the resentment of foreign marriages.
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Jane Brown, professor of journalism and mass communication, led a project interviewing teenagers about their sexual attitudes and behaviors. Results suggest that the media is how adolescents receive sex education. Brown encourages parents to be open and talk with their kids early about sexual content.
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26169
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Anti-violence messages are making their way onto television in the form of public-service announcements (PSAs). UNC researchers are studying the effect of PSAs on adolescents. So far, they’ve found that the anti-violence messages are too vague and don’t appear enough to overcome the influence of other programs.
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Longtime editor of the Chapel Hill Weekly and professor in the UNC School of Journalism since 1975, Jim Shumaker inspired the comic strip \"Shoe.\"
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8.Renowned N.C. Journalist Shumaker Honored at UNC by Lucas, Liz The State Vol. 62 Issue 3, Aug 1994
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Jim Shumaker, well-known North Carolina journalist and the inspiration for the nationally syndicated cartoon \"Shoe\", was honored by the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Journalism and Mass Communication with an endowed professorship, effective August 1.
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26211
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Ethical dilemmas often occur in newspaper journalism. According to Philip Meyer, professor of ethics, journalists' ethical codes are often oriented toward public relations rather than effective ethical scrutiny. Ruth Walden, a media law expert, says there is a fine line between courts and journalists regarding the freedom of speech and invasion of privacy.
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26218
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Journalism doctoral candidate Kim Walsh Childers is investigating how adolescents use the media to learn about sexuality. She is trying to see how teens’ existing beliefs about sexual relationships influence their interpretations of male-female interactions between television characters.
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26251
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Frank Biocca, professor of journalism, conducted a study on audiences of the 1988 presidential campaign. Participants used an audience response system to indicate their agreement or disagreement with what a candidate said on television. Biocca found that audience opinion is partly influenced by nonverbal or inadvertent information.
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For over twenty-five years, Oscar J. Coffin has been a pre-eminent professor of journalism at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, providing newsrooms around the state with the best graduates.
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