AEJMC at San Francisco, 2025
Receiving top (theory) paper award (2nd place) at the this year’s AEJMC conference at San Francisco.
Paper title: A proposal for remodeling of Hierarchical Influences Model to explore “variance influencing factors” in a society.
Abstract: Media sociology offers various theories, including field, gatekeeping, and framing theories, to understand influences on media content. This study, using a sociological lens, investigates these influences in a specific society. This theoretical essay re-conceptualizes Shoemaker and Reese’s Hierarchy of Influences (HoI) model as the Single Society Model (SSIM), to explore “variance influencing factors” for a focused analysis of why media organizations within the same social context produce varied news framing.
You can find further details about my model here.
SSIM is also seen in the photo below.
Also, presented paper titled “Framing the Conflict: A Comparative Analysis of the NewYork Times and Al Jazeera’s Coverage of the Israel-Palestine Conflict, in a scholar-to-scholar (poster) refereed research session.
ICA@75, Denver, CO, 2025
Ahmed, A. T. (2025, June). In search of Habermasian Ideal Public Sphere: Dynamics, Patterns, and Nature of Bangladesh’s Digital Public Sphere [Conference session]. South Asia Communication Association panel at the International Communication Association Conference, Denver, CO.
Ahmed, A. T. (2025, June). Double-Edged Sword of Commemorative Journalism in Bangladesh: Impact on Objectivity and Professionalism in Media Practices [Conference session]. South Asia Communication Association panel at the International Communication Association conference , Denver, CO.
Philly AEJMC, 2024
Presenting another paper in the 2024 AEJMC at Philly. This is basically the theory part of my Ph.D. dissertation in which I have remodeled Reese & Shoemaker’s famous hierarchical influences model — the most comprehensive model in media sociology for understanding influences on the media content — to develop kind of a methodological extension of it to understand influences in a given society. I call this Non-hierarchical Single Society Influences Model or NSIM.
The Hierarchical Influences model is meant for understanding influences from a universal perspective that shows how the media content is influenced from social systems, social institutions, journalism routines, media organizations and the journalists. In other words, this model is drawn from a perspective of multiple societies as a whole. My model is a slight departure from the hierarchical influences model, only as a methodological extension of it, ostensibly to make it a fit for a single society, to better understand the differentiating influencing levels or factors on media content in any given society where we can hold three levels – the social system, social institutions and routine – constant.
The second paper that I presented in a poster session in this conference is titled: “Exploring impact of people’s political ideology and social media use on media trust: Evidence from Bangladesh.”
Bangladesh Conference at UT-Austin 2024
Presenting paper titled ‘Exploring nature of Indian influence and scratches on Bangladesh’s sovereignty” at the Bangladesh Conference 2024: Critical Perspectives organized jointly by AIBS and South Asia Institute of University of Texas-Austin.
AEJMC Midwinter 2024
Presenting paper titled “A news framing war between NYT and Al Jazeera on recent Israel-Palestine conflict, at #AEJMC Midwinter 2024 conference at the University of Oklahoma (March 2024).
Detroit AEJMC, 2023
Presented two papers 1) ‘Politics or business – what overpowers in the political economy of media industry: A perspective from a South Asian country’ and 2) ‘What pushes journalists, media to self-censor: A perspective from an authoritarian regime in a South Asian Country?’ at the 106th Annual Conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) at Washington D.C..
World Social Science Association Conference 2023
Presented a paper titled ’Constitutive Rhetoric: A case of construction of deemed citizenship in Bangladesh’ at the Annual World Social Science Association Conference 2023 in Tempe, Arizona yesterday. It was an excellent experience. Panelists, discussants and the chair – all are in one frame!
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Abu Taib Ahmed 