Category Archives: Mass Media & Communication

Professor Morris, BTMM, MMC, presents conference paper in Uruguay

By Matthew Lombard | Published: May 14, 2012

Professor and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies Nancy Morris presented “De lo normativo a lo practico: Nuevas direcciones para a investigacion en comunicacion participativa” (“From the normative to the practical: New directions for research in participatory communication”), co-authored with Silvio Waisbord, at the conference of the Latin American Association of Communication Researchers (ALAIC), May 9-11 in Montevideo, Uruguay (details about the conference are here). While in Montevideo, Morris was also an invited participant in a public roundtable discussion, sponsored by a Uruguyan think tank, on the role of communciation in development processes (details here).
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Lingling Pan, MMC, successfully defends dissertation

By Matthew Lombard | Published: May 14, 2012

Lingling Pan, MMC, successfully defended her dissertation on April 23, 2012. The title of her dissertation is “Performance Evaluation, Communication Environment, and Decision Legitimacy: A Case in China.” The members of her dissertation examination committee were Thomas Jacobson (Chair), Kaibin Xu, Shanyang Zhao (Sociology) and Cornelius Pratt (Strategic Communication; outside reader). … Read more »

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Beth Haller, MMC ’95, has book published

By Matthew Lombard | Published: April 11, 2012

A book Towson University Journalism Professor Beth Haller, MMC ’95, Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media, was published in August 2010 by The Advocado Press. “Haller’s 20 years of research into disability and mass media inform this one-of-a-kind collection on advertising, news, entertainment television, film and Internet new media. The book is ideal for disability studies students and researchers as well as disability activists.” More information is available at media-disability.net and at Amazon. … Read more »

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Michelle Amazeen, MMC, has article and book chapter published

By Matthew Lombard | Published: April 9, 2012

An article by doctoral student Michelle Amazeen, MMC, has been published in the journal Social Semiotics. The article is “The Dole ‘Godless Americans’ Advert: Representations of the Unfaithful, Disloyal Villains” and it is available here. Also, a book chapter by Amazeen titled “Just Window Dressing? The Gap (RED) Campaign” appears in Case Studies in Organizational Communication: Ethical Perspectives and Practices (2nd Edition), published by Sage; more information about the book is available here. … Read more »

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Tina Peterson, MMC, successfully defends dissertation

By Matthew Lombard | Published: April 4, 2012

Mass Media & Communication doctoral student Tina Peterson successfully defended her dissertation on March 22, 2012. The title of her dissertation is “Seeing, Believing & Cooking: Visual Communication, Food-Media Literacy, and Self Efficacy.” The members of her dissertation examination committee were Renee Hobbs (Chair), Michael Maynard, Andrew Mendelson and Krishnendu Ray (New York University; outside reader). Peterson will soon hold a full-time lecturer position in the new Program in Writing and Communication at Rice University, where she will teach writing-intensive topics courses on food studies and media studies. … Read more »

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Rick Popp, MMC ’08, has book published

By Matthew Lombard | Published: March 30, 2012

Richard Popp, MMC ’08, an Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, has had a book published by LSU Press. The Holiday Makers: Magazines, Advertising and Mass Tourism in Postwar America explores how advertisers sold tourist travel in popular magazines between the 1930s and 1960s, transforming consumer culture in the process.

Details are at Amazon here.

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Professor Cai has article published in Human Communication Research

By Matthew Lombard | Published: March 29, 2012

Professor Deborah Cai, STRC, MMC, is an author of an article in the April 2012 issue (Volume 38, Issue 2) of Human Communication Research. The article is titled “The Effect of Conflict Goals on Avoidance Strategies: What Does Not Communicating Communicate?”; the first and second authors are Qi Wang of Villanova University and Edward Fink of the University of Maryland.

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SCT professor, doctoral student, undergraduate to appear on panel at ICA conference

By Matthew Lombard | Published: March 28, 2012

Professor Barry Vacker, BTMM, doctoral student Angela Cirucci, MMC, and undergraduate Genevieve Gillespie, BTMM, will be part of a panel accepted for presentation at the 2012 International Communication Association (ICA) conference in Phoenix over Memorial Day weekend. The panel is titled “Whole Earth, Fragmented Cultures and Apocalyptic Futures: Visualizing Community and Destiny on Spaceship Earth” and the papers and participants are:

Angela Cirucci — “Social Media and Facebook: Fragmented Communities, Virtual Tribes, and Video Games at the Center of Everything”
Genevieve Gillespie  — “Spaceship Earth in a Violent Universe: Apocalypses in Science Documentaries”
Jarice Hanson (University of

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Angela Cirucci, MMC, has article published in Telematics and Informatics

By Matthew Lombard | Published: March 28, 2012

An article by Angela Cirucci, MMC, has been accepted for publication in a special issue of Telematics and Informatics on “The Facebook Phenomenon.” The article is titled, “First Person Paparazzi: Why Social Media Should Be Studied Like Video Games.” … Read more »

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MMC alumna wins International ABERJE Award

By Matthew Lombard | Published: September 12, 2011

Maria de Fatima Oliveira, MMC ’05, of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, won the International ABERJE Award at the 14th International Public Relations Research Conference in Coral Gables, Fla., in March 2011. The award is for research conducted on South American public relations and corporate communications and includes a $1,000 prize. Her paper, based on her dissertation, is titled “Multicultural Environments and Their Challenges to Crisis Communication” and is available here. … Read more »

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