Meet Christine Nieves: CCI’s Entrepreneur in Residence

Christine Nieve‘s bright smile and seemingly endless energy will be a common sight in the College of Communication and Information starting this Fall. Christine has been hired as CCI’s Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR). She brings her extensive experience as a communicator, network-waver and catalyst for change to CCI, with aspirations to further the College’s students and faculty. …

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CCI Welcomes New Faculty

This Fall, the College of Communication and Information welcomes four new faculty to the CCI team. Jinghui (Jove) Hou (Assistant Professor) joins CCI with a Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Southern California. Previously, she served as a Visiting Scholar/Adjunct at the University of Arkansas’ Department of Communication and Department of Marketing.     …

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Harlow Honored at AEJMC

In August, thousands will travel to San Francisco for the annual Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference. Among those attending is School of Communication’s Summer Harlow. Harlow will be honored at AEJMC for her dissertation, Liberation Technology? Toward an Understanding of the Re-appropriation of Social Media for Emancipatory Uses among Alternative Media Projects in El …

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iSchool’s Kathy Burnett Keynotes in India

The 2nd International Conference on Innovation Driven Librarianship (ICIDL) took place June 11-13 at SRM University in India. Dr. Kathy Burnett, Director of the School of Information and F. William Summers Professor, delivered the keynote address. The conference was organized by the Central Library at SRM University, in association with the Korea Society for Information Management and the …

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FSU South Asian Media Research Presents at IAMCR 2015

FSU research on South Asian Media was well-represented at the July 12-16, 2015 meetings of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) in Montreal, Quebec. The annual conference moves to a different location each year, and was hosted by the University of Quebec in Montreal in 2015. Awais Saleem, a doctoral student in …

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Malia Bruker Films Klasse, Featured in Art Exhibit

School of Communication professor Malia Bruker participated in a site-specific art exhibition spread across various locations in Tuscany. Bruker was an artist-in-residence at M’Arte 2015, a contemporary art project. While overseas, Bruker traveled to Germany and worked on dance film Klasse with School of Dance’s Hannah Schwadron. Klasse Schwadron’s grandmother Ursula Lievendag was a Holocaust survivor who lived in …

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Merle pens editoral for the Orlando Sentinel

  In May, School of Communication professor Patrick Merle penned a guest editorial for the Orlando Sentinel. Merle, who served as an international journalist years, wrote about a healthy democracy’s need for uncensored media. Healthy, tolerant society needs satire touched on recent Charlie Hebdo attacks and controversial representations of the Prophet Muhammad. Merle argues that censorship is …

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