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Assistants, Symposia, andScholarshipStephen D. Perry EditorPublished online: 23 Jun 2009.

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EDITOR’S NOTE

Assistants, Symposia, and Scholarship

To start off this issue of Mass Communication and Society, I first want tothank my editorial assistant of the last 2 years, Lauren Bridgeman, forher dedicated commitment to organizing, corresponding, and promoting forthe journal. Her contribution to making the review process run efficientlywas high indeed. Unfortunately for us, her tenure ended with her recentMA degree completion and graduation from Illinois State University.

For the next few issues, Lindsey Michalski will take over the duties ofeditorial assistant. Lindsey was a public relations intern for Mass Commu-nication and Society during the 2007–08 academic year. We welcome herback on board in this official capacity.

This issue of MCS emphasizes the continuing question of mediaviolence effects. Kevin Williams’s work examines violence in the context ofvideo games. This work extends knowledge of the interaction between frus-tration and violent game features on player hostility. Arthur Raney andWilliam Kinnally look at violence’s influence in the realm of sports. Theyanalyze perceptions of violence in college football and the influence of per-ceived violence on enjoyment of the viewing experience for fans of losingand winning teams.

In the realm of journalism, Laura Arpan’s research examines exemplarsto help us understand their influence on perceived news credibility. Shefinds that laypeople’s quote distribution influenced such credibility, whereasanecdotal exemplification did not. Michael McClusky and his colleaguesexamine newspaper coverage of social protests looking at community diver-sity as a factor in how protests are framed. Community pluralism is shownto be predictive of more favorable treatment of protesters.

Marvin Overby and Jay Barth explore campaign ads by medium for theirimpact on citizen attitudes toward participation. Radio ads were found toenhance the political process, whereas television ads had detrimental effects.Finally, Nancy Signorielli finds that the programs that offer mostly minoritycasts have equitable gender distributions but portray the narrowest range ofoccupational options, particularly for Black women.

Mass Communication and Society, 12:247–248Copyright # Mass Communication & Society Division

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Also in this issue is a call for papers for a symposium on ‘‘The FacebookElection.’’ Guest Editors Tom Johnson, who is the Marshall and SharleenFormby Regents Professor in Convergent Media at the Texas Tech Collegeof Mass Communications, and Dave Perlmutter, Director of the School ofJournalism and Mass Communication and Starch Faculty Fellow at theUniversity of Iowa, will oversee this special topic symposium. The call forpapers is found at the end of this issue. Manuscripts are due in Januaryof 2010, with publication of those succeeding in the peer review processscheduled for October 2010.

Volume 12, Issue 4 of Mass Communication and Society, due out inOctober, will include our second annual symposium. This collection ofarticles will focus on Documentary Film: Forms, Functions, and Impacts.

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