Congratulations to 2nd year PhD student, Ben Brojakowski, on winning the Top Graduate Student Paper at the Ohio Communication Association Conference this past weekend. Fantastic news!
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Fan Zhang, a second-year SMC doctoral student, had her paper selected for presentation at the Honors Graduate Student Seminar
Fan Zhang, a second-year SMC doctoral student, had her paper selected for presentation at the Honors Graduate Student Seminar sponsored by the NCA International and Intercultural Communication Division (IICD). The paper will be later published in a special issue of the International Journal of Interactive Communication Systems and Technologies(IJICST). Congratulations!
SMC Research Colloquium 10/3/2014, 3:00 PM @ 314 BTSU: Demystifying Academic Book Publishing
SMC Research Colloquium
October 3, 2014, Friday, 3:00-4:15 PM,314 BTSU*(room change this time only)
Demystifying Academic Book Publishing (3:00-4:00)
Panelists: Drs. Al Gonzalez & Thomas Mascaro
Dr. Gonzalez is Professor in the School of Media and Communication. His research is best located at the intersection of rhetorical criticism and intercultural communication. This Friday, he will speak primarily from his experiences writing these books: Planting the Future: The Rhetorical Legacy of Wangari Maathai, (under contract with Troubador Publishing); Intercultural Communication For Everyday Life (2014), Wiley-Blackwell; Mediating Cultures: Parenting in Intercultural Contexts (2013), Lexington Books; Our Voices: Essays in Culture, Ethnicity and Communication, 5th Edition, (2012), Oxford University Press.
Dr. Mascaro is Professor in the School of Media and Communication. He earned his MA from the University of Michigan (1990) and Ph.D. from Wayne State University (1994). His dissertation was on TV documentaries in the Reagan years. Most recently, he wrote Into the Fray: How NBC’s Washington Documentary Unit Reinvented the News (Washington, D.C., Potomac Books, 2012—now University of Nebraska Press) and was nationally recognized for the work.
Epilogue (4:00-4:20)
Presenter: Sasha Allgayer
Sasha Allgayer is first-year doctoral student and will be presenting his research at the Global Fusion conference to be held in UT-Austin, Oct. 24-26. Before going to the conference, he would like to share his research entitled, “#OGiganteAcordou (#TheGiantHasAwoken): Memes During the 2013 Brazilian Protests,” first with his professors and fellow graduate students. Your attention and feedback will be appreciated.
Dr. Ha and Ph.D. students co-authored the refereed “International Advertising” entry in Oxford Online Bibliographies
BGSU School of Media and Communication faculty Louisa Ha and Ph.D. students Mohammad Abuljadail and Weiwei Jiang co-authored the refereed “International Advertising” entry in Oxford Online Bibliographies.
It is published and available at http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199756841/obo-9780199756841-0153.xml#obo-9780199756841-0153-bibItem-0005
HA NAMED JMCQ EDITOR
Dr. Louisa Ha, chair of the telecommunications department in the School of Media and Communication, will assume her position on Oct. 1 as editor-in-chief of Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, the flagship journal of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). Her term runs for three years.
She has been an associate editor of the journal since 2007 and is a fellow with the AEJMC Leadership Institute for Diversity, created to provide training and mentoring for women and people of color interested in becoming academic administrators in journalism and mass communication.
At BGSU, she is the founder and chair of the Emerging Media Cluster in the school, and is leading a four-year study of northwest Ohio media use.
Franklin Yartey, 2012 graduate of SMC doctoral program, receives the Outstanding New Teacher Award for 2014 from the Iowa Communication Association
Franklin Yartey, Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Dubuque, was selected by the Iowa Communication Association to receive the Outstanding New Teacher Award for 2014. This award is presented to an exceptional speech communication teacher in the state of Iowa who has been teaching professionally for fewer than seven years. The decision is based on teaching philosophy, teaching strategies, contributions to his/her institution and to the communication discipline, and recommendations by other faculty, administration, and students.
Yartey, originally from Ghana in West Africa, began teaching at the University of Dubuque in the fall of 2012. Yartey teaches several courses which include Intercultural Communication, Language and Social Identity, Public Speaking, and Communication Careers. He has proposed a new course to advance the digital communication studies track within the major. In addition, he advises undergraduate students in the department, is an advisor for Lambda Pi Eta, and serves as advisor for the Black Student Union and as a mentor for the University of Dubuque Wendt Center’s Character Scholars’ Program. Yartey has authored numerous communication articles and book chapters and presented several conference presentations and professional lectures. Yartey earned his Bachelor’s degree in Communication at Northwestern College in Iowa, his Master’s in Communication from Indiana State University, and his Doctorate in Communication from Bowling Green State University in Ohio.
Yartey will receive his award during the Awards Banquet of the Iowa Communication Association’s Annual Conference on Friday, September 19, 2014, at the Conference Center on the Ankeny campus of Des Moines Area Community College.
Gajjala featured in South Asian Literary Association Newsletter for work #DHpoco
Dr. Gajjala was featured for her work on Digital Humanities Postcolonial (#DHpoco) along with collaborators from other institutions – Dr. Roopika and Dr. Rahul Gairola – in the South Asian Literary Association Newsletter over the Summer of 2014.See – http://cyberdiva.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/salaam-38.1-Summer-2014.pdf
TCOM faculty and graduate students to present 7 papers in 2014 AEJMC Conference in Montreal
Department of Telecommunications faculty (in bold) and graduate students (italics) will present 7 refereed competitive papers in 2014 AEJMC Conference in Montreal:
1. Ha, Louisa, Xu, Ying, Yang, Chen, Wang, Fang, Yang, Liu, Jiang, Weiwei, Abuljadail, Mohammad, Hu, Xiao and Gabay, Itay (2014). News Content Engagement or News Medium Engagement? A Longitudinal Analysis of News Consumption Since the Rise of Social and Mobile Media 2009-2012. Paper to be presented at the Mass Communication and Society Division, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada, August 6-9.
2. Abuljadail, Mohammad, Yang, Liu, & Wang, Fang (2014). What Motivates Online Shoppers to “Like” Brands’ Facebook Fan Pages.
Paper to be presented at the Media Management and Economics Division, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Conference, , Montreal, Canada, August 6-9.
3. Lee, Yen-I & Tetteh, Dina (2014). Mobile Health Apps Use: The Role of Ownership, Health Efficacy and Motivation. Paper
to be presented at the Graduate Students Interest Group, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada, August 6-9.
4. Kim, J., & Park, Sung-Yeon (2014, August). The Effects of Generation Identity and Fit to Prototype on Hostile Media Perception and
Willingness to Speak. Paper to be presented at the Korean American Communication Association Session, Association for
Education in Journalism & Mass Communication Annual Conference, , Montreal, Canada
5. Yun, Gi Woong, Morin, David, Park, Sanghee, Joa, Claire, Labbe, Brett, Lim, J., Lee, S. & Hyun, D. (2014). Tweeting flu and setting agenda on Twitter network. Paper to be presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada.
6. Yun, Gi Woong, Park, Sanghee, Joa, Claire, Jiang, Jing, Ha, Louisa, Morin, David, & Lim, J. (2014). Local vs. Hyperlocal newspaper: Community actor perception, readership, and advertising effects. Paper to be presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada.
7. Morin, David & Yun, Gi Woong (2014). Peering over the ideological wall: Examining priming effects among political partisans. Paper to be presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada.
Gajjala to speak at Cal State San Bernardino – November 2013
Radhika Gajjala, a professor of media and communication and director of American Culture Studies at Bowling Green State University, will speak on “Automating Subaltern Labour: Circuits of Care in Developing World Health Care Support Systems” during a guest lecture at Cal State San Bernardino on Thursday, Nov. 14.
For further details – see http://news.csusb.edu/2013/11/lecture-examines-subaltern-labor-and-health-care-in-developing-countries/
11/14/2013 Livestream of Femtechnet Video Dialogue on “Place” for DOCC 2013 (Gajjala in conversation with Irish and Juhasz) at Pitzer this week
What is Femtechnet? – see http://femtechnet.newschool.edu
What is DOCC 2013 – see http://femtechnet.newschool.edu/docc2013/
What is a Femtechnet video dialogue? – see http://femtechnet.newschool.edu/about-video-dialogues/
Livestream: Radhika Gajjala and Sharon Irish on Thurs, 11/14, 10-11 am PST.
The Livestream will be available here: http://www.pitzer.edu/webcast
A quicktime file of this live event will appear on the Commons and our Vimeo page soon thereafter.
The Livestream will be available here: http://www.pitzer.edu/webcast
A quicktime file of this live event will appear on the Commons and our Vimeo page soon thereafter.
For discussion while the livestream is in progress or after –
See for details:
http://www.pitzer.edu/offices/mcsi/2013-14/fall_events.asp
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