Dr. Stephen M. Croucher, Samara Anarbaeva, Jacob Turner (BGSU grad 2009), Deepa Oommen, and Ian Borton (BGSU grad 2008) had the following article “A cross-cultural analysis of argumentativeness among Christians in France and Britain” accepted for publication in Speaker & Gavel. The article will be published in the spring/summer 2010 issue. The research is part of a research pod from spring/summer 2007.
Congratulations to Dr. Michael Butterworth!
Dr. Michael Butterworth has been asked to serve on the editorial board for the Journal of Sports Media. JSM received an honor from the Broadcast Education Association. At the BEA conference next April 15-17 in Las Vegas, one of the panels from the Sports Division will focus entirely on JSM authors discussing their research.
For those going to BEA, there are 12 panels in their newly-created Sports Division. If you’re interested, you can contact division chair Michael Bruce at Oklahoma Baptist, mike.bruce@okbu.edu. There’s more on the conference at: http://www.beaweb.org/staticcontent/staticpages/2010conv.htm.
Harvard Law professor, Creative Commons founder and free culture activist Lawrence Lessig will be on campus Dec. 2.
Lessig has spent his career battling overly restrictive copyright regulation in front of the U.S. Supreme Court and in the U.S. Congress. He’ll address his role in the copyright wars and his new role as head of Harvard’s Safra Center for Ethics. There, he is focusing on questions of governance, corruption and the growing use of private money in public institutions.
Thanks to Tech Trends, the Dept. of Journalism and Public Relations, the School of Media and Communication, the College of Technology, the Dept. of American Cultural Studies, BGeXperience, the Dept. of Telecommunications and the Dept. of English for supporting his visit.
His lecture, titled “From Copyright to Corruption and Back Again,” will be at 7 p.m. in the BTSU theatre. All are welcome.
Congratulations to Stephen Croucher who was elected to a three year term as editor of Speaker & Gavel, the official journal of Delta Sigma Rho-Tau Kappa Alpha (DSR-TKA). The journal currently publishes one online issue a year but is prepared to go to two issues a year. The journal’s call is very inclusive as it publishes: “refereed articles addressing all aspects of communication theory and practice.” We are so proud to have this journal housed in the School of Media and Communication.
Dr. Oliver Boyd-Barrett has been invited by the European Alliance of News Agencies to speak at a conference entitled “News Agencies: Concerns – Challenges” to take place November 15- 16 in Limassol, Cyprus. The conference brings together CEOs and other leaders of member agencies of EANA (Europe), ANAM (Mediterranean) and OANA (Asia-Pacific) news agency associations. Dr. Boyd-Barrett will be talking on News Agencies in the Turbulent Age of the Internet.
Lin, C., & Ha, Louisa (2009). Subculture and use of a communication information technology in higher education institutions. Journal of Higher Education, 80 (5), 564-590.
Drs. Yun and Park’s article, “Selective posting: Willingness to post a message online,” has been accepted and will be published in the Journal of Computer Mediated Communication.
Rosati, Clayton and Mitchell, Don. (2009). “‘Live Monster’: Black Friday and the All-Consuming City.” Human Geography, 2(1).
Dr. Louisa Ha was selected to be the faculty fellow to attend the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Faculty Seminar in Los Angeles from November 10-14, 2009 where she’ll meet with many different broadcast and cable network executives on the latest in the production, management and programming in the TV industry. She’ll also meet with TCOM alumni in LA during her trip.
Jose Cardenas is the featured filmmaker in the current issue of the Student Filmmaker magazine. See the article in the School showcase under TCOM.
