Thursday, March 19th at 6:30pm
West Hall Room 121
Sponsored by the Department of Journalism Florence & Jesse Courier Foundation
Congratulations to Deepa Oommen, whose paper originally for Dr. Canchu Lin’s COMS 655 Organizational Communication class spring 2008 has been accepted and ranked as a Top Three Student Paper in ICA’s Organizational Communication Division for the 2009 Convention. This award is also accompanied with a grant of $250 plus a waiver of conference registration fee.
Stephen Croucher in the Department of Interpersonal Communication had an article published in the Journal of International and Intercultural Communication: “French-Muslim Reactions to the Law Banning Religious Symbols in Schools: A Mixed Methods Analysis.”
Croucher also had an article published in Communication Education along with current doctoral students (Bridget Long, Michael Meredith, Deepa Oommen and Matthew Lamb) and former MA student (Emily Steele): “Factors predicting organizational identification with intercollegiate forensics teams.”
Croucher was also awarded a top paper award by the Language and Social Interaction Division of the 2009 International Communication Association for this year’s conference for the following paper: “How limiting linguistic freedoms influences the cultural adaptation process: An analysis of the French-Muslim population.” He will present this paper at the ICA convention in Chicago in May.
Oliver Boyd-Barrett: Publications
Dr. Oliver Boyd-Barrett published the following articles towards the close of 2008:
Boyd-Barrett, O. (2008) News agency majors: Ownership, Control and Influence Revisited, Journal of Global Mass Communication, Vol. 1, No.1, pp. 57-71
Boyd-Barrett, O. (2008) News agencies, history of, in Wolfgang Donsback (Ed), Blackwell International Encyclopedia of Communication, Wiley-Blackwell
Boyd-Barrett, O. (2008) Jeremy Tunstall: The media were American: US mass media in decline, Global Media and Communication, Volume 4(2): 201-207
Rantanen, T. and Boyd-Barrett, O. (2008) Global and national news agencies , in A. De Beer and J. Merrill (eds) Global Journalism: Topical Issues and Media Systems, 5th Edition, pp. 33-47
Oliver Boyd-Barrett: Invitations
Oliver Boyd-Barrett is invited by the News Agency of Catalonia (ACN), Spain, to publish an edited volume on the future of national and regional news agencies, in recognition of the tenth anniversary of this predominantly internet news agency, covering the most prosperous region of Spain. The book will be published by EADOP (Generalitat de Catalunya).
Oliver Boyd-Barrett is invited Keynote Speaker at the Conference on Communication Technologies and Social Change, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in March.
Oliver Boyd-Barrett is invited to offer a video-conference presentation to graduate students of the International Communication program at UNITEC, in Auckland, New Zealand in April.
Oliver Boyd-Barrett and Srinivas Melkote are invited by the Assistant Direct General of Communication and Information, UNESCO, to proceed with a suitable collaborative arrangement with an African partner to be identified among UNESCO-designated Potential Centres of Excellence in Journalism.
BGSU Falcon Forensics & Debate Wins 8th CFA Tournament in Montreal http://www.bgsu.edu/offices/mc/monitor/02-09-09/page61055.html
Dr. Gorsevski’s application to the FRC for the Faculty Mentoring and Enrichment Program has been funded. – congratulations!
Dr. Raymond I. Schuck’s essay “Babe’s in Tourland: How Babe Ruth was Well-Suited for Barnstorming” was published in the edited volume Baseball and the ‘Sultan of Swat’: Babe Ruth at 100, which was released in fall of 2008. Also in the fall of 2008, two other of Dr. Schuck’s manuscripts were accepted for publication. His essay “Bob Dole and the Brooklyn Dodgers” was accepted for publication in an edited volume on politics and baseball and his essay “From Politics to Personal Expression: Representations of Sport in Walter Dean Myers’ Young Adult Works” was accepted for publication in an edited volume on young adult literature. Additionally, in October 2008, Dr. Schuck gave a presentation on “Ancient Greece and the Origins of Rhetoric” as part of the Western Civilization Speaker Series at Ohio Northern University and he presented the paper “When ‘Mazings converge: Contextualizing ‘Mazing Man’s trip to Shea Stadium” at The Comic Book in Popular Culture Conference at Bowling Green State University.
