SMC News

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 [...]

Arpan Yagnik was recently awarded the Linda McKeever Award for Top Paper titled, “Construction of Menstruation in Indian Television Commercials” presented at Society for Menstrual Research (SMCR) Biennial Conference 2011 (June), Pittsburgh. SMCR_news_Fall2011

Oliver Boyd-Barrett:   invite or guest presentations over the past few days to four universities in Sao Paulo and Recife in Brazil. The presentations were supported by the US Consulate. (2011) Invited speaker and panelist at a seminar on International News coverage and its New Challenges (A cobertura internacional e seus novos desafios), with the additional [...]

Rohit Chopra and Radhika Gajjala, Global Media, Culture, and Identity: Theory, Cases, and Approaches (New York: Routledge, 2011). http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/books/details/9780415877916/ This edited volume examines the ways that global media shapes relations between place, culture, and identity. Through the included essays, Chopra and Gajjala offer a mix of theoretical reflections and empirical case studies that will help [...]

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BGSU Forensics & Debate Team Kicks off Season with a Win This past weekend the Falcon Forensics Team kicked off the 2010-11 season with a win at the Ohio Forensics Association Fall Tournament at Ohio University – Zanesville Campus. Participating were Heidelberg University, Malone University, Muskingum University, Cedarville University, Marietta College & BGSU with a [...]

Dr. Oyer had his paper “Effects of Crisis Type and Interactive Online Media Type on Public Trust During Organizational Crisis” accepted to Public Relations Journal and has also been asked to serve on the editorial board.

Terry L. Rentner presented “Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Prevention Among American Indian-Alaskan Native Communities: Reaching Underserved Populations and Reducing Health Disparities” to the Center for Disease Control’s National Conference on Health Communication, Marketing and Media Aug. 17-19 in Atlanta. Drs. Lara Lengel and Lynda Dixon were co-authors on the paper. Rentner, T.L. & Lengel, L. [...]

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 [...]

Department of Communication Assistant Professor Stephen M. Croucher was appointed to the editorial board of Mass Communication and Society, the official journal of the Mass Communication & Society Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC)