The Southwest Education Council for Journalism and Mass Communication (SWECJMC) cordially invites you to submit a paper, abstract, or pedagogy best practice to be considered for presentation at the 2023 Southwest Symposium to be held at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro on October 27 and 28, 2023. Submissions must be received by 11:59 p.m. Central time on Sunday, July 16, 2023. Authors will be advised on paper selections by Sunday, August 27, 2023.
Faculty and graduate students are invited to submit English-language-only, completed research papers on any topic related to journalism and mass communication. To encourage graduate student scholarship, we will once again present an award for the top graduate student paper. All scholarly methodologies are welcome. Authors whose papers are accepted will be invited to present at the 2023 Symposium. All papers will be refereed, and the top six complete research papers will be honored with awards and are eligible for publication in the Southwestern Mass Communication Journal spring edition without additional review.
As we did in 2022, SWECJMC will also accept extended abstracts for the 2023 Symposium. Extended abstracts should be 750-1,500 words in length, and they should summarize completed or in-progress research projects. The top paper abstract will be honored with an award at the conference.
Additionally, we encourage faculty to submit pedagogy tips for SWECJMC’s Pedagogy Best Practices session. For this session, submit no more than two pages, double spaced, detailing your best practice teaching tip. Address how you discovered the approach, how you implemented it, and the outcome of the implementation.
2023 Southwest Symposium Submission
DEADLINE:
Sunday, July 16, 2023, 11:59 p.m. CST
Additional Requirements for Papers:
Submissions are restricted to faculty members and graduate students of academic institutions in Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah and Wyoming. You must use your University email address to register at the conference paper submission site. Co-authors from schools in other states are acceptable.
Accepted papers, extended abstracts, and pedagogy papers must be presented at the Symposium by the author or co-author. All presenters and panelists MUST pre-register and attend in person to present. Presenters and panelists who fail to PRE-REGISTER will be removed from the program.
Authors’ names, academic institutions, addresses, phone numbers and e-mail addresses will be entered into our online system. Please do NOT include a title page on your manuscript.
Complete papers, extended abstracts, and pedagogy best practice papers must be prepared for blind review. Remove any identifying marks in the document submitted. Manuscripts with identifying marks will be rejected immediately.
Authors are strongly urged to observe the publication guidelines of the Southwestern Mass Communication Journal (see: Submission Guidelines). Typically, no more than five tables will be published in a single manuscript. The journal requires adherence to APA 7th edition guidelines.
No completed paper, including tables, graphs, figures and citations, should exceed 30 pages. Papers selected from the fall Symposium for the Conference Edition of the journal must be made to conform to this length requirement during final modifications before publication.
Extended abstracts should be 750 – 1,500 words maximum, not including references or tables; but abstracts should include a reference list. Extended abstracts should summarize the study’s purpose, literature, methodology, results or expected results, and discussion. In addition, extended abstracts should clearly indicate the progress of the study, including how much data collection and analysis remains. References, tables, and figures should not be included in the word count. Authors whose abstracts are selected for presentation must submit their completed, full paper to their assigned discussant by Sunday, October 15, 2023.
To be considered for the top graduate student paper, submissions must have been authored by only graduate students; even having a faculty co-author excludes consideration for top graduate student paper award, but studies co-authored by students and faculty will be eligible for top six paper consideration. The top paper abstract will not be eligible for publication in the Southwestern Mass Communication Journal spring edition without additional review.
Papers and extended abstracts submitted for consideration should not be submitted elsewhere until after the conference ends or the authors must withdraw the submission from other considerations if the paper is selected for presentation.
Attendees whose universities or organizations are institutional members of SWECJMC will receive a $10 discount when registering online. Please encourage your university to support scholarship and professional development by joining SWECJMC through a nominal $100 annual contribution. Visit https://swecjmc.wp.txstate.edu/ or contact SWECJMC treasurer T. Phillip Madison (phillip.madison@louisiana.edu) to join.
For more information, contact Kelly Kaufhold at kellykaufhold@txstate.edu and please use SWECJMC in the subject line.