File HELP INFO
Written and placed on
LISTSERV@CMICH.EDU
by
Elliott Parker
(rakyat [ @ ] eparker.org)
Rev. 6 Nov 2006
(Also available from
http://www.well.com/user/eparker/helpinfo.html)
1.0 Introduction
2.0 Explanation of subject line and list of divisions
3.0 Search and
retrieve via WWW at LIST.MSU.EDU
4.0 Comments or suggestions
1. INTRODUCTION
Complete papers from the 1993-2006 Assn. for
Education in Journalism and Mass
Communication (AEJMC)
conferences and some early conferences of the Broadcasting
Education Association are
available from two sites.
It will probably save you time to start your search by
subject line in most cases. The
explanation of the subject
line is below in Section 2.0.
Not all papers are included.
Not all divisions elected to distribute their
papers electronically and some
papers were sent on
disks which turned out to be unreadable. Also, papers
are not included if the author did not give permission
or did not sign the permission form.
No editing has been done. They
were archived just
as received. To give widest
access through email, the
papers were converted to low-ASCII, so even though
all the information is present, the paper may not look
"nice." This is particularly evident in tables or
where proportional fonts were used.
Some still have
control characters.
In general, if papers were submitted in "pieces,"
they were recombined with the cover, or title page at
the beginning of the file, followed by the abstract,
the body, tables, references or bibliography and
appendices. Some pieces may be
missing, especially if
they were in different directories or folders. If
several versions were submitted, the latest was
archived.
The AEJMC at MSU is a Revised Listserv mail
distribution list, but each "message" is,
in fact, a complete paper.
No messages can be sent to
the list and there is no automatic distribution, but
all regular Listserv commands will work.
The examples below may not generate exactly the
same results as shown.
Upper and lower case letters can be mixed. The
machine is case-insensitive. To the
machine, Parker,
parker, and ParKer are equivalent.
2.0 EXPLANATION OF SUBJECT LINE AND LIST
OF DIVISIONS
Each paper has a subject line.
The first three
letters indicates if it is a paper from AEJMC or BEA.
The next two digits indicate the year.
The lead author of the paper is indicated next.
This is formed by taking the first seven
letters of
their last name followed by the first letter of the
first name; e. g., AbrahamD is the
abbreviation for
David Abrahamson.
This is followed by the abbreviation, in the case
of AEJMC, in
which the paper was presented:
ADV Advertising
ADVW
Advertising and committee on the
status of
women
CCS Cultural and critical
studies
CJ Civic and Citizen
Journalism Interest Group
COM Community Journalism
Interest Group
CTM Communication theory and
methodology
CTP Communication
technology and policy
DIS Media and disability
interest group
ENT Entertainment Studies
Interest Group
ETH Media ethics
GLF Lesbian, gay and family
diversity interest
group
GRAD Graduate education interest
group
HIS History
INTL International
IP or (INTERN) Internships and placement
interest
group
IRE Council of Affiliates
(IRE Competition)
LAW Law
MAC Minorities and
communication
MAG Magazine
MCS Mass communication and
society
MME Media management and
economics
NWS Newspaper
PR Public relations
QS Qualitative studies
REL Religion and media
RTVJ Radio television
journalism
SCH Scholastic journalism
SCI Science communication
interest group
SMP Small programs
TFCUR Task force on curriculum
TEACH Teaching Standards
VC Visual communication
WOMAN Commission on the status of women
And last, the title, abbreviated title, or list of
keywords.
3.0 SEARCH AND RETRIEVE VIA WWW
Most people will prefer searching and accessing
the papers via the web interface at
http://list.msu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?S1=aejmc
To save time and focus a search, the
subject line
can be used. It is explained
in Section 2.0 (above).
For instance, entering "06 AEJ" in the subject box
will give a list of papers presented at the 2006 AEJMC
conference. (Terms are connected with a Boolean "and.")
Using the subject line syntax, quick
searches can be
run for division, author, subject or some combination.
Entering a term or terms in the "search for" box
with no qualifiers will search for a text string in the
3300 papers (166 megabytes).
A very good explanation and illustration of using
the web interface can be found at
http://research.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/simplesearch.html
It is written for another list, but is
easily transferrable
to searching the AEJMC papers.
AEJMC is *not* a discussion list.
It contains only
papers from the Assn. for Education in Journalism and
Mass
Communication annual conferences.
For information on how to use the list, send
listserv@cmich.edu the one line
get help info aejmc
A help file will be returned as email. This
is the file
you are currently reading.
4.0 If you have comments, suggestions, or
problems, let me know.
Elliott Parker
Associate Professor
Journalism Department
Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859
Voice:
+1 517.774.3540 or +1 517.774.3196
Email:
rakyat [ @ ]
eparker.org