Associate Professor Donnalyn Pompper, STRC and MMC, has published “Masculinities, the Metrosexual, and Media Images: Across Dimensions of Age and Ethnicity,” in the special issue, “Fiction, Fashion, and Function: Gendered Experiences of Women’s and Men’s Body Image,” Sex Roles: A Journal of Research.
Click here to read the study.
Professor Nancy Morris, BTMM and MMC, has been invited to give a keynote address at the Global Fusion 2010 conference at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, on Oct. 22-24.
More information about the conference is available here.
Professor Matthew Lombard has been elected to a two-year term as director of the Mass Media & Communication (MMC) program. The MMC community owes a great debt of thanks to Professor Carolyn Kitch, who has served the program so well in that role for the last five years, and is now director of SCT’s Study Away programs.
An article by Professor Donnalyn Pompper, STRC and MMC, has been published in the open access online Journal of Research Practice. The article is titled “Researcher-Researched Difference: Adapting an Autoethnogrpahic Approach for Addressing the Racial Matching Issue” and appears in a special issue dedicated to Autoethnography as Research Practice; it can be accessed here.
An article by Melissa E. Markaridian Selverian, BTMM ’99, MMC ’05, and Professor Matthew Lombard titled “Telepresence: A ‘Real’ Component in a Model to Make Human-Computer Interface Factors Meaningful in the Virtual Learning Environment” has been published in the journal Themes in Science and Technology Education. The article appears in a special issue (volume 2, number 1-2) on Virtual Reality in Education.
A paper by Interim Dean Tom Jacobson; Lingling Pan, MMC; and Li Meng, a visiting scholar from China, has been accepted for publication. “Universals and Particulars in Modernization: A Chinese Analysis Using the Theory of Communicative Action,” will appear in the book Intercultural Turn of Journalism and Communication, edited by Shan Bo and published by Shanghai Jiaotong University Press. The paper was originally presented at the 5th International Conference on Intercultural Communication in Wuhan, China, Dec. 9-10, 2009.
An opinion column by Professor Renee Hobbs, BTMM, MMC, has been published by the Philadelphia Daily News. “A Computer Doesn’t Make Kids Smart” appeared in July 19 edition of the paper and can be found here.
MMC will have a record 23 faculty members for the 2010-2011 academic year. They are:
Nora Alter (FMA)
Undrahbuyan Baasanjav (BTMM)
Chris Cagle (FMA)
Deborah Cai (STRC)
John Edward Campbell (BTMM)
Roderick Coover (FMA)
Fabienne Darling-Wolf (JOUR)
Jan Fernback (BTMM)
Renee Hobbs (BTMM)
Tom Jacobson (BTMM)
Carolyn Kitch (JOUR)
John Lent (BTMM)
Matthew Lombard (BTMM)
Michael Maynard (ADV)
Andrew Mendelson (JOUR)
Nancy Morris (BTMM)
Patrick Murphy (BTMM)
Priscilla Murphy (STRC)
Donnalyn Pompper (STRC)
Hector Postigo (BTMM)
Cornelius B. Pratt (STRC)
Michael Ryan (FMA)
Timo Saari (BTMM)
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An article by Karl Horvath, TYL ’93, MMC ’06, and Professor Matthew Lombard, BTMM, MMC, has been published in PsychNology Journal. The article, ”Social and Spatial Presence: An Application to Optimize Human-Computer Interaction,” is in a special issue that features work originally presented at PRESENCE 2009, the 12th International Workshop on Presence, and includes an editorial introduction by Lombard.
The issue is online at http://www.psychnology.org/328.php.
Professor Nora Alter, FMA, MMC, participated in a panel titled “Thinking About Art: New Media Art” with Gertrud Koch, Paolo Rosa and moderator Pier Luigi Sacco at the OPERE/Works Festival of Contemporary Art in Faenza, Italy, May 21-23.
Details about the event are available here.