Dr Gajjala has been invited to participate as an invited panelist at the “Africa and IT” conference at Urbana-Champaign in September 2013. She will be on a panel (with Dr. Sharon Irish and Dr. Safiya Noble of UIUC) detailing the work she is doing as part of the “DOCC 2013” initiative led by Anne Balsamo and Alex Juhasz through “Femtechnet”. See press release for more on this.
During her visit to UIUC, she will also be giving a talk at the Institute for Communications Research at UIUC.
Dr. Radhika Gajjala (Professor, School of Media and Communication, joint-appointed with American Culture Studies program) was invited to develop a featured panel for “The World Social Science Forum” convention of 2013 (see http://www.wssf2013.org/). She, along with several others including a BGSU School of Media Communication Phd graduate Dr. Yeonju Oh (employed at Nanyang Technological University) are featured speakers on a panel that examines issues around “Care Technologies and the Labor of Caring” through critical feminist and political economy frameworks. Gajjala’s paper is entitled, “Automating Subaltern Labour: Circuits of Care and Capital” and Oh’s paper is entitled, “My Nanny is a Robot”.
School of Media and Communication: A Tradition of Excellence for more than 35 years
Welcomes New Director Dr. Laura Stafford
Newspaper and Online News Division, 2013 American Copy Editors Society’s Research Competition Winners: Drs. Louisa Ha and Xiaoqun Zhang
Top-three finalist in the 2013 AEJMC Tankard Book Award: Dr. Tom Mascaro
Grad Student Info Expo: Meet representatives from 18 universities offering doctorate and master’s programs in journalism and communication to get your questions answered about the right graduate program for you. See more info here http://dc13.aejmc.org/grad-student-info-expo/
Please join us at our reception in the Renaissance Hotel, Saturday, August 10, at 9 p.m.
NFL KICKS OFF NEW “SPORTS JOURNALISM & COMMUNICATIONS BOOT CAMP” MAY 13 AT BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY
Four-day program for current & former players includes “final exam” covering Toledo Mud Hens baseball game
Twenty current and former NFL players took part in the first-ever NFL Sports Journalism & Communications Boot Camp from May 13-16 at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. With the new longer offseason, the boot camp is one of a record 10 training programs for post-NFL careers that NFL Player Engagement offers to current and former players.
The four-day program focused on improving each player’s writing skills for newspapers, radio, and the expanding digital media industry. A field exercise at a Toledo Mud Hens home game included a mock press conference as part of the player’s game coverage. Players wrote and recorded their own radio commentary as part of one of the other planned exercises.
Several of the outside faculty from the NFL’s popular Broadcast Boot Camp were also be involved as well as former NFL players-turned-journalists MATT BOWEN (Chicago Tribune), MATT CHATHAM (Boston Herald), and BUCKY BROOKS (NFL.com and NFL Network).
The boot camp was hosted by the BGSU School of Media and Communications and the Sport Management program and was developed with NFL Player Engagement, under the auspices of the Richard A. Maxwell Sport Media Project. BGSU Faculty participants included from the Department of Journalism and Public Relations: Drs. Jim Foust, Kathy Bradshaw, Catherine Cassara, Terry Rentner and Lecturer Kelly Taylor; from the Department of Telecommunications: Lori Liggett, lecturer and Stephen Merrill, instructor; from the Department of Communication: Dr. Michael Butterworth; and from the Department of Sports Management: Dr. Nancy Spencer.
“BGSU is both honored and thrilled to welcome the inaugural NFL Sports Journalism & Communication Boot Camp to our campus. We have both highly skilled professors and alumni teaching interactive sessions and providing excellent instruction in the fast-changing sports media industry,” said DR. TERRY RENTNER, professor and director, BGSU School of Media and Communications.
“We are excited to work with Bowling Green State University as we continue to take advantage of the expanded offseason to provide current and former players opportunities to explore a wide variety of disciplines and get hands-on experience,” said TROY VINCENT, Senior Vice President of NFL Player Engagement.
Player enrollment criteria include previous participation in NFL Player Engagement programs, prior media experience, essays, and NFL playing experience.
For further information, please visit https://www.nflplayerengagement.com/
Four-day program for current & former players includes “final exam”
covering Toledo Mud Hens baseball game
Twenty four current and former NFL players will take part in the first-ever NFL Sports Journalism & Communications Boot Camp from May 13-16 at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. With the new longer offseason, the boot camp is one of a record 10 training programs for post-NFL careers that NFL Player Engagement offers to current and former players.
See the attachment here (2013SportsJournalismBOOTCamp)
Sentinel Tribune covered our debate team’s achievement.
Click here for the story.
SMC colloquium, April 28th.
Click here to see SMC Colloquium , April 28th
News coverage of SMC
Recent SMC doctoral program closure recommendation by the administrators draw some attention from media. Here is a list of media coverage on this issue.
http://bgnews.com/opinion/phd-closure-is-arbitrary/
http://m.toledoblade.com/Education/2011/04/15/BGSU-could-cut-7-graduate-programs-to-save-money.html
http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2011/04/16/5449464.htm
http://www.foxtoledo.com/dpp/news/local/bowling_green/BGSU-may-cut-7-graduate-programs
http://bgnews.com/campus/doctoral-program-protests-deans-recommendation/
“Reducing Global Health Disparities through Collaborative Health Communication Partnerships”
Tuesday, November 30 at 7 pm, 107 in Hayes Hall.
Dr. John Parrish-Sprowl received his Ph.D. in Communication from BGSU in 1983. He is Co-Director of the Global Health Communication Center in the Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis School of Liberal Arts. Prior to this position he was Chair of the Department of Communication Studies. He is internationally-known for his applied communication research and project consultancies in Belarus, France, Ghana, Indonesia, Kenya, Macedonia, Poland, Russia, and Thailand. He has been honored with awards from universities in Macedonia and Poland for his work. Currently he is contributing to the Community Health Engagement Program of the Clinical Translational Sciences Institute of Indiana and collaborating with World Health Organization to work with Ministries of Health in developing countries to create better health communication to improve health care access and indices.
RESEARCH SEMINAR
Thursday 20th May 2010
14:00-16:00, Room U103 (First floor, Tower 2)
“Laboring to Produce Agency:
Marketing Empowerment through Online Networks”
Professor Radhika Gajjala
Bowling Green State University
Presentation Abstract: Online Social networking tools in recent times are increasingly being used by non-profits and NGOs who are reaching out globally to find connections and networks to empower various marginalized groups in specific locales. This leads to advocacy issues being taken into global spaces where the local context is displaced and re-presented in an effort to garner material and social support for the causes that are taken up by the non-profits. Individuals who train in “social entrepreneurship” skills, mostly using online networking tools, work in these non-profits thus labor continuously to communicate across diverse contexts. The individuals form a particular kind of labor force in these online settings that are in a sense both “IT professionals” and “social workers” that perform “communicative labor” (Dempsey, 2009). In my presentation I will discuss the notions of “empowerment”, “voice” and “agency” that emerge in these online spaces.
About Professor Radhika Gajjala: Radhika Gajjala is Director of Women’s Studies and Professor of Communication and Cultural Studies at Bowling Green State University, Ohio. Her book Cyberselves: Feminist Ethnographies of South Asian Women (2004) was published by Altamira Press. She co-edited South Asian Technospaces and Webbing Cyberfeminist Practice and is currently working on a couple book length projects – one is on “Technocultural Agency: Production of Identity at the Interface” and the other examines “Affect and Placement in Indian Digital Diasporas.”
