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Drs. Butterworth and Schuck Present at Breaking Barriers Symposium

COMM, Faculty

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On April 15, 2010, Drs. Michael Butterworth and Raymond Schuck from the School of Media and Communication participated in the Breaking Barriers Symposium: The Role of Baseball in Integration panel discussion on the African-American and Hispanic integration into Major League Baseball at Ohio Northern University.  They presented to an audience of around 65 people. Dr. Butterworth presented on representations linking Barack Obama and Jackie Robinson.  Dr. Schuck presented on opportunities lost by the means used to integrate major league baseball.

Success by SMC faculty and graduate students

COMM, Current Students, Faculty, Graduate Program

Communication Studies:  Volume 61 Issue 2

 

Original Articles

 

The Effects of Self-Construal and Religiousness on Argumentativeness: A Cross-Cultural Analysis, Pages 135 – 155

Authors: Stephen M. Croucher; Deepa Oommen; Manda V. Hicks; Kyle J. Holody; Samara Anarbaeva; Kisung Yoon; Anthony T. Spencer; Chrishawn Marsh; Abdulrahman I. Aljahli

DOI: 10.1080/10510971003603994

Link: http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=1051-0974&volume=61&issue=2&spage=135&uno_jumptype=alert&uno_alerttype=new_issue_alert,email

Lynda Dee Dixon continues to serve on the Sequoyah Commission for the Cherokee Nation

Alumni, COMM, Faculty, Graduate Program

Lynda Dee Dixon, Professor in the Department of Communication, is continuing to serve on the Sequoyah Commission for the Cherokee Nation. She was appointed  by the Principal Chief Chadwick “Corn Tassel” Smith. The commission has included special assistant to Chief Smith Chair Dr. Richard Allen;  Dr. Ellen Cushman (Writing, Rhetoric & American Culture, Michigan State University); Dr. Leslie Hannah (Professor and Director of the Cherokee Language Revitalization Program, Northeastern State University OK); Dr. Tom Holm (Emeritus Professor University of Arizona); and until her recent death, former Principal Chief Wilma Mankiller, first woman chief of the Cherokee Nation. The Commission members continue to develop plans as projected by Chief Mankiller for (1)  permanent archives– virtual and hard copy– of research by and about Cherokees from the past, present, and future and (2) language and culture undergraduate BA and graduate degrees at Northeastern State University. The first report was presented to the Chief last year (2009); the second report will be presented to the Chief at the Annual Homecoming for the Cherokee Nation, August 10. Each year in April and in August, Indian researchers submit research papers for review that if accepted will be presented at two American Indian conferences each year. The conference this April was “Fancy Dancing.”

Public Lecture on Media Convergence by BGSU Centennial Alumni Recipient

Alumni, Graduate Program, TCOM

Dr. David Kennedy, a BGSU Centennial Alumni Award Recipient, will give a public lecture organized by the Department of Telecommunications, titled, “Radio, Televison and Convergence, Brought to You by the Web,” on April 23 Friday at 11:30 a.m. West Hall.  A TCOM alumni gathering honoring him will follow after teh lecture.

Dave is the CEO of Flycast, Inc., a mobile media network with cutting edge applications for smartphones.   He is a 1976 M.A. and 1981 Ph.D. alumni of the former Radio Television Film program.

He received many industry awards including the Broadcaster of the Year by Radio Ink and the Beville Award for Audience Research from the National Asssociation of Broadcasters and Broadcast Education Association.

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.

Congratulations to Christy Mesaros-Winckles, a doctoral student who has a paper accepted for publication!

Current Students, Faculty, Journalism

The paper I written by Doctoral Student Christy Mesaros-Winckles for COM 6400, “TLC and the Fundamentalist Family: A Quiverfull of Babies” was accepted by the Journal of Religion and Popular culture for publication. It’s an interdisciplinary/international journal published in Canada, and the journal is published online http://www.usask.ca/relst/jrpc/.

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