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TCOM summer course offerings in 2010

TCOM

Summer 2010 one final

Summer TCOM 2

Department of Telecommunications SUMMER CLASSES 2010: register now

–          All online classes that you can take any where

–          Open to all majors

 

 

First six weeks classes (May 17-June 25 )

  1. TCOM2700 Minorities in Video and Film (Mr. Dave Moody) – fulfill university’s cultural diversity and Arts and Sciences college’s humanities requirement
  2. TCOM3550 Global Telecommunications System (Dr. Ewart Skinner) – required for all TCOM majors and minors, and fulfill Arts and Sciences college’s social science requirement

 

Second six weeks classes (June 28- August 6  )

  1. TCOM3600 Media Research (Dr. Srinivas Melkote) – required for all TCOM majors and fulfill Arts and Sciences college’s social science requirement
  2. TCOM4520 Online Social Media (Dr. Yun) – required for TCOM interactive media focus area and fulfill Arts and Sciences college’s social science requirement
  3. TCOM4530 Media Sales and Promotion (Dr. Louisa Ha)– required for TCOM media business or radio focus area and the career focus area of Sales and Communication, and Advertising in the Department of Communication
  4. TCOM4670/WS4670 Gender, Media and Culture  (Dr. Sung-Yeon Park) – fulfill university’s cultural diversity requirement

Dr. Ha is “Emerging Media and Challenges in Chinese Communities” special issue editor for the Chinese Journal of Communication

Faculty, Graduate Program, TCOM

Dr. Ha is the “Emerging Media and Challenges in Chinese Communities” special issue editor for the Chinese Journal of Communication.  Papers will undergo a double blind peer review process.   Planned publication date is December 2010.

Launched in 2008 and published by Routledge, Chinese Journal of Communication (CJoC) is an English language scholarly publication aimed at elevating Chinese communication studies along theoretical, empirical, and methodological dimensions. This special issue of the Chinese Journal of Communication (CJoC) is to address the impact and nature of emerging media in Chinese communities or comparison with other countries or ethnic communities.  Emerging media is defined as message delivery vehicles achieving higher utilization among the general population, but has neither universally accepted technical standards for content transmission and display, nor established operation models such as revenue sources and content strategies.  Examples of emerging media are digital television, webcasting, podcasting, cellular phones, IPTV, blogs, social media and networking sites, etc. 

 China is at the forefront of emerging media.  The number of Internet users in China is the largest in the world and Chinese consumers are among the most avid users of media technologies.   The adoption of these media can have significant political, social, and economic implications on Greater China and present challenges to the current media industry structure there.  The use of the emerging media by overseas Chinese can reconnect them to the mainland and connect them to the Chinese around the world.

 Topics for papers could include, but are by no means limited to:

  1. Political, social or economic impact of emerging media on Greater China and other Chinese communities
  2. Public perception of emerging media and their role in politics and formation of public opinion
  3. Comparison of the use of emerging media between Chinese and non-Chinese markets
  4. Comparison of emerging media use in different Chinese markets
  5. Business models of emerging media in Chinese markets
  6. Market competition and management of emerging media in Chinese markets
  7. Comparison of  the use of different emerging media by Chinese consumers
  8. Policy and regulatory issues on emerging media in Greater China.
  9. Online advertising, online games, and Internet search services development in Greater China
  10. Audience measurement of emerging media in Greater China
  11. Methodological issues in studying emerging media in Chinese communities

  Both quantitative and qualitative approaches to the issue are welcome.  We especially encourage the collaboration of Chinese scholars and non-Chinese scholars to submit manuscript to this issue to facilitate exchange of ideas and offer cross-national perspectives on the issue.

 Submissions should conform to the editorial guidelines of the Chinese Journal of Communication to be found at http://www.informaworld.com/cjoc under “Instructions for Authors.” Papers for consideration in this special edition should be emailed to: louisah@bgsu.edu.

 Chinese Journal of Communication (CJoC) is a refereed journal serving as an important international platform for students and scholars in Chinese communication studies to exchange ideas and research results. Interdisciplinary in scope, it examines subjects in all Chinese societies in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau, Singapore, and the global Chinese diaspora.  The journal will be published quarterly beginning 2010.

The CJoC welcomes research articles using social scientific or humanistic approaches on such topics as mass communication, journalism studies, telecommunications, rhetoric, cultural studies, media effects, new communication technologies, organizational communication, interpersonal communication, advertising and PR, political communication, communications law and policy, and so on. Articles employing historical and comparative analysis focused on traditional Chinese culture as well as contemporary processes such as globalization, deregulation, and democratization are also welcome.

Published by Routledge, CJoC is institutionally based at the Communication Research Centre, the School of Journalism and Communication, the Chinese University of Hong Kong . For more information and submission instructions, please visit http://www.informaworld.com/cjoc

 

Jose Cardenas is Director of Photography of supernatural thriller film to be premiered this March

Current Students, TCOM, Tcom highlights

Jose Cardenas is the Director of Photography of the supernatural thriller Closed for the Season. The film will be premiered on March 14 in the Monster-Mania. The film was produced by BGSU alum Jay Ellison’s ShadowCast Pictures and several TCOM students were crew members for the movie.

Congrats to Kathryn “Kat” Sibio, an undergraduate TCOM student of Dr. Lori Liggett

Alumni, Current Students, Faculty, TCOM, Tcom highlights

During Spring semester, 2009, the TCOM 260 class: “Writing for Electronic Media”  at Bowling Green State University, ran a “contest” to produce a :30 second public service announcement for the  National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Northwestern Ohio Chapter.  The “prize” for the contest was to have the writer’s script produced to air on FOX Toledo, WUPW-TV.

BGSU graduate, Trisha Courtney-Tishler, Director of Media/MS Promotions, was to judge of the scripts and choose the one showing the most universal appeal to air year-round.  Fellow Alum and BGSU Adjunct Instructor, Dave Skorupski, Research Director for FOX Toledo, WUPW-TV, volunteered to produce the spot.

The “winning” script was written by (then) Sophomore student, Kathryn “Kat” Sibio, a student of Dr. Lori Liggett.

Sibio’s script was chosen because of its simplicity and reinforcement of the “Movement” theme used by the National MS Society.  The script emphasized the differences between being an active participant in life and sitting as an observer.  The script also drew attention to the relationship of MS patients to their families.

Due to scheduling difficulties, Sibio was unable to be present during taping of the PSA, but she was present for the editing process.  As she discovered, even though she envisioned her script to appear a certain way, additions, subtractions and other revisions were still necessary to complete the spot.  Some of the biggest surprises in production came in choosing video clips, music, graphic fonts as well as scene transitions.

These simple, yet complicated decisions, can play a major part in the mood and feel of the piece and should not be taken lightly.

Ph.D. Alum Dr. Joy Chao received 2009 Emerald/EMFD Outstanding Doctoral Research Award

Alumni, Faculty, Graduate Program, TCOM

Dr.  Joy Chao, the dissertation advisee of Dr. Louisa Ha and our Ph.D. graduate in 2008, received the 2009 Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Award in the Leadership and Organization Development category for her dissertation titled,”Cultural values and anticipations of female leadership styles in non-profit organizations: A study of Rotary Clubs in Taiwan and the United States.” The dissertation excerpt will be published as an article in Leadership & Organization Development Journal. She’ll also receive a cash award of 1,500 pounds. Joy is now working as an assistant professor in the School of Communication in the University of Nebraska-Omaha.

Harvard’s Lawrence Lessig here on Dec. 2

COMM, Graduate Program, Journalism, TCOM, Tcom Public Event

Harvard Law professor, Creative Commons founder and free culture activist Lawrence Lessig will be on campus Dec. 2.

Click here for the Poster

link to the lecture: http://wbgustream.bgsu.edu/bgsu/dvss/9905584.html

Lessig has spent his career battling overly restrictive copyright regulation in front of the U.S. Supreme Court and in the U.S. Congress. He’ll address his role in the copyright wars and his new role as head of Harvard’s Safra Center for Ethics. There, he is focusing on questions of governance, corruption and the growing use of private money in public institutions.

Thanks to Tech Trends, the Dept. of Journalism and Public Relations, the School of Media and Communication, the College of Technology, the Dept. of American Cultural Studies, BGeXperience, the Dept. of Telecommunications and the Dept. of English for supporting his visit.

His lecture, titled “From Copyright to Corruption and Back Again,” will be at 7 p.m. in the BTSU theatre. All are welcome.

Drs. Louisa Ha and COMM faculty Canchu Lin’s Blackboard research project results published in two journals

COMM, Faculty, TCOM
  • Drs. Louisa Ha (TCOM) and Canchu Lin’s (COMM)  universitywide study of the BGSU Blackboard system is published and in press in two prestigious referee scholarly journals:  Journal of Higher Education and Journal of Computer Information System.  The former journal is the top academic journal in higher education and the latter is the identified as an A* journal in Information Systems by the Excellence in Research in Australia.

Lin, C., & Ha, Louisa  (2009). Subculture and use of a communication information technology in higher education institutions. Journal of Higher Education, 80 (5), 564-590.

  • Lin, C. and Louisa Ha (in press). “Subculture, Critical Mass, and Technology Use,” Journal of Computer Information Systems.