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Dr. Srinivas Melkote, Professor in Department of Telecommunications, School of Media & Communication, has been selected as a Fulbright specialist. He will be on the panel of experts and program requests from international institutions will be matched with his expertise in media and communication. Dr. Melkote is being considered to serve as the consultant to [...]

Bowling Green State University seeks a Director for the School of Media and Communication. The School consists of three departments, Communication, Journalism & Public Relations, and Telecommunications, with 37 faculty members who teach and conduct research in a broad range of theoretical and applied areas. The graduate program offers an M.A. and Ph.D. in Media [...]

1. Dan McClintok of WQRN who will speak to the TCOM4610 Audience Research THIS WEDNESDAY, September 26, 2012 at the TCOM 4610 Audience Research class, in room 226 Olscamp Hall from 6pm-9pm. Mr. McClintok will talk about current radio research, how it is gathered and applied on a local basis. A question and answer session [...]

TCOM faculty Drs. Xiaoqun Zhang, Louisa Ha, and Sung-Yeon Park’s paper, “Diffusion of news services and political news in mobile media: A time budget perspective,” won the 4th place faculty paper in the Communication Technology Division at the annual conference of the Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication, Chicago, IL, August 2012.

TCOM faculty Drs. Park and Yun and graduate students won this year top paper in the Minorities & Communication Division of AEJMC  Park, S., Flynn, M. A., Stana, A., Morin, D. T., & G. Yun (2012, August). Where do I belong, from Laguna Beach to Jersey Shore?: A content analysis of minority characters on popular MTV reality [...]

Dr. Sung-Yeon Park,  Ph.D. alumnus Kyle Holody and doctoral student Xiaoqun Zhang’s article studying the Virgina Tech shooting news coverage, “Race in Media Coverage of School Shootings: A Parallel Application of Framing Theory and Attribute Agenda-Setting,” has been accepted by Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly and will be published later in the year.

Dr. Terry L. Rentner is co-investigator on a $514,500 grant on high-risk drinking and prescription drug abuse prevention. She is collaborating with the BGSU Wellness Connection and the Counseling Center.

Dr. Sung-Yeon Park and Mark Cruea coauthored article, “Gender disparity in video game usage: A third-person perception-based explanation” has been accepted for publication in the refereed scholarly journal, Media Psychology.  Mark Cruea is a Ph.D. graduate of the School of Media and Communication of BGSU and currently an assistant professor at Ohio Northern University.

Ph.D students Ling Fang, Xiao Hu, Kristy Shi and TCOM Department Chair, Dr. Louisa Ha, won three debut top paper awards in two divisions of 2012 Broadcast Education Association Annual Convention in Las Vegas.  Ling Fang and Louisa Ha’s paper, “Who are the heavy Facebook Users among College Students?” won the first place debut paper in Interactive Media and [...]

May 3rd, 10:00 A.M. BTSU theatre Click this link for the video: https://dvss.bgsu.edu/public/publicPlayer.php?movie_id=6871ad64a75d07e48c7907fecf6fbc32 Agenda 10:00 – Dr. Michael Butterworth, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Communication ” Process, Timeline, and Shared Governance” 10:10 – Dr. Alberto Gonzalez, Professor, Dept. of Communication “Diversity Issues at BGSU” 10:20 – Dr. Sung-Yeon Park, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Telecommunications “How Not [...]