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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.

Congratulations – Dr. Joshua Atkinson’s new book published

COMM, Faculty, Graduate Program

Dr. Atkinson’s book has just been published – Alternative Media and Politics of Resistace: A Communication Perspective, published by Peter Lang Publishing (http://www.amazon.com/Alternative-Media-Politics-Resistance-Communication/dp/1433105179/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1260558744&sr=1-2-spell#reader_1433105179)

Croucher research pod publication

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Dr. Stephen M. Croucher, Samara Anarbaeva, Jacob Turner (BGSU grad 2009), Deepa Oommen, and Ian Borton (BGSU grad 2008) had the following article “A cross-cultural analysis of argumentativeness among Christians in France and Britain” accepted for publication in Speaker & Gavel. The article will be published in the spring/summer 2010 issue. The research is part of a research pod from spring/summer 2007.

Dr. Michael Butterworth to serve on editorial board for the Journal of Sports Media

COMM, Faculty

Congratulations to Dr. Michael Butterworth!

Dr. Michael Butterworth has been asked to serve on the editorial board for the Journal of Sports Media. JSM received an honor from the Broadcast Education Association. At the BEA conference next April 15-17 in Las Vegas, one of the panels from the Sports Division will focus entirely on JSM authors discussing their research.

For those going to BEA, there are 12 panels in their newly-created Sports Division. If you’re interested, you can contact division chair Michael Bruce at Oklahoma Baptist, mike.bruce@okbu.edu. There’s more on the conference at: http://www.beaweb.org/staticcontent/staticpages/2010conv.htm.

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.

Stephen Croucher was elected to a three year term as editor of Speaker & Gavel, the official journal of Delta Sigma Rho-Tau Kappa Alpha (DSR-TKA)

Faculty

Congratulations to Stephen Croucher who was elected to a three year term as editor of Speaker & Gavel, the official journal of Delta Sigma Rho-Tau Kappa Alpha (DSR-TKA). The journal currently publishes one online issue a year but is prepared to go to two issues a year. The journal’s call is very inclusive as it publishes: “refereed articles addressing all aspects of communication theory and practice.” We are so proud to have this journal housed in the School of Media and Communication.

Dr. Oliver Boyd-Barrett has been invited by the European Alliance of News Agencies to speak

Faculty

Dr. Oliver Boyd-Barrett has been invited by the European Alliance of News Agencies to speak at a conference entitled “News Agencies: Concerns – Challenges”  to take place November 15- 16 in Limassol, Cyprus. The conference brings together CEOs and other leaders of member agencies of EANA (Europe), ANAM (Mediterranean) and OANA (Asia-Pacific) news agency associations. Dr. Boyd-Barrett will be talking on News Agencies in the Turbulent Age of the Internet.

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.
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