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FMA aluma has acting debut in The Observers

By Chia-Ching Lin | Published: May 14, 2012

Filmmaker Katya Gorker, FMA ’12, takes a turn in front of the camera in her acting debut in Jacqueline Goss’ The Observers, playing a short run this week at Anthology Film Archives in New York. Gorker and Dani Leventhal, also a filmmaker, play climatologists who go about the solitary and steadfast work of measuring and recording the weather on Mt. Washington in New Hampshire. Based in part on the Nathaniel Hawthorne story The Great Carbuncle, the film features the extreme and varying beauty of the windiest mountain in the world.

Reviews of The Observers have appeared in Time Out … Read more »

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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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FMA class shows off installation during Diamond Screen

By jcronin | Published: May 11, 2012

At the end of the Spring 2012 semester, students from the Media Arts Theory and Practice class displayed their exhibits in Annenberg’s Studio 2. Here, Paul Hinson displays “How to Build a Bee Box to Attract Solitary Bees.” The interactive exhibit asked viewers to remove screens from a box and place them on a framework to reveal hidden videos.

photos by Ryan S. Brandenberg/Temple University … Read more »

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FMA announces winners of Diamond Screen, departmental awards

By jcronin | Published: May 11, 2012

The 2012 Diamond Screen Film Festival results were announced May 7 at the closing night ceremony at the International House in Philadelphia.

For more information please visit: http://diamondscreen.org/

Diamond Screen Film Festival Awards

Best Long Form Screenplay (Juried by Scott Currie)
Magic Ghetto by Matthew Flocco

Best Short Form Screenplay (Juried by Ian Markiewicz)
Praise and Blame by Shane Book

Web Interactive Design (Jury Award) (Juried by Andrew Nicholas)
Between Leaving & Arriving by Joseph Kraemer

Web Interactive Design (viewer’s favorite) (Online poll winner)
Jake Rasmussen’s Site by Jake Rasmussen

Best Cinematography Film (Juried by Dave Lamm)
Mehul the Music Man by Cameron S. Mitchell

… Read more »

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SCT celebrates class of 2012

By jcronin | Published: May 10, 2012

The School of Communications and Theater held its graduation ceremony May 10 in Pearson-McGonigle Hall. Approximately 650 undergraduate students and 24 graduate students graduate this spring.

The ceremony featured Carl Cherkin, RTF ’72, as the alumni speaker and Vanessa Destime, COMM ’12, as the student speaker. … Read more »

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Moving Camera Olympics test cinematography skills

By jcronin | Published: May 9, 2012

photos by Ryan S. Brandenberg/Temple University

Medals gleaming from their necks, the proud champions celebrated their victories as John Williams’ “Olympic Fanfare” filled Annenberg Hall’s Studio 2.

The events didn’t involve javelins, running shoes or volleyballs. Instead, each competitor was strapped into a Steadicam Pilot. Their goal was to beat their fellow Film and Media Arts students in a series of competitions designed to show off their cinematographic skills.

The “Moving Camera Olympics” were part of the week-long Diamond Screen Film Festival. Over the past semester, the students have honed their skills with this piece of equipment that allows the … Read more »

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SCT announces 2012 faculty awards

By jcronin | Published: May 2, 2012

The School of Communications and Theater honored four faculty members at its May 1 faculty assembly.

Associate Professor Gregg Feistman, Strategic Communication, Service Award

Associate Professor Christopher Harper, Journalism, Creative Award

Associate Professor Donnalyn Pompper, Strategic Communication, Research Award

Associate Professor Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon, Theater, Service Award … Read more »

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Four more Pulitzer winners added to SCT alumni ranks

By jcronin | Published: May 2, 2012

Four SCT alumni were among the winners of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize awards.

A team from the Philadelphia Inquirer won the Pulitzer for public service for their series “Assault on Learning.” SCT alumni on that team were Kristen Graham, JOUR ’00; Dylan Purcell, JOUR ’00; and Sharon Gekoski-Kimmel, COMM ’73.

Read more here.

 

Also, The Huffington Post won its first-ever Pulitzer for, “Beyond the Battlefield,” by David Wood, JOUR ’70.

Read more here.

 

 

Other SCT Pulitzer winners include:

• John Dotson, JOUR ’58. He was publisher of the Akron Beacon Journal when it won the prize for … Read more »

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Group earns Beyond 2012 crown for innovative invention

By jcronin | Published: April 30, 2012

By Kara Hallissey
Strategic Communication student

Rize Inc. won the judges’ votes by a close margin with their creation, uHome. A search engine that allows college students to easily find housing near the school they attend was named the winner of the Beyond 2012 competition April 26. Through uHome, students can search for housing by cost or the number of bedrooms, among other standards.

Beyond 2012 is a media innovation competition that Professor James Marra, ADV, holds each semester in his Introduction to Media and Society class. Teams of students develop new or improved media innovations they think would … Read more »

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