Professors and graduate students in CCI’s School of Communication recently published a paper researching the positive effects of Facebook. The paper, titled Self-transcendent emotions and social media: Exploring the content and consumers of inspirational Facebook posts, consisted of two different studies. “Results from the quantitative content analysis in Study 1 show that inspirational Facebook posts …
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Mainstream media stories about CCI faculty, staff, students and programs, usually published as a result of a CCI press release.
Facebook: Friend or Foe? Comm Faculty Publish Research
iSchool Professor Presents Health Informatics Research at MEDINFO 2019
Over the summer, Dr. Zhe He of the iSchool had four papers, four posters, and 1 panel accepted to MEDINFO 2019, the world’s largest conference in medical informatics. These presentations centered around Dr. He’s eHealth Lab. He explains the research as: “The research in the eHealth Lab is centered around a core question: ‘How can we find ways to improve …
CONTINUE READINGFSU NSSLHA Awarded 2019 Gold Chapter Honors
The College of Communication and Information has over 15 clubs under its name, including the Florida State Chapter of the National Student Speech Language Hearing Association (NSSLHA). Recently, NSSLHA awarded the FSU chapter with the 2019 Gold Chapter Honors. These honors are awarded to chapters that demonstrate an outstanding effort to support National NSSLHA’s mission …
CONTINUE READINGFSU Professor Collaborates on New Online Resource Detailing the Heroic Activism of Fannie Lou Hamer
For the past 10 years, Professor Davis W. Houck from CCI’s School of Communication has worked with Maegan Parker Brooks, an assistant professor at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon to create the “Find Your Voice” collective. “We’re finally at the launch of the Fannie Lou Hamer project, and we couldn’t be happier,” says Houck. “Find …
CONTINUE READINGListen Camp Connects Children Experiencing Hearing Loss
Founded by faculty member and speech-language pathologist Linda Sasser, FSU’s L.L. Schendel Speech and Hearing Clinic hosted its first-ever Listen Camp in late July. Partnering with the FSU School of Communication Science and Disorders graduate program in Speech-Language Pathology, the camp provided fun activities for eight campers suffering with hearing loss. Aged from kindergarten to …
CONTINUE READINGChristy Chatmon Receives ISACA Academic Leadership Award
Christy Chatmon, an instructor and doctoral student in FSU’s School of Information, is the recipient of the Academic Leadership Award from ISACA Tallahassee’s SheLeadsTech. “For demonstrating exceptional academic leadership within the community,” ISACA Tallahassee presented the award to Chatmon at their July meeting. “Receiving this recognition is a great encouragement and motivation,” Chatmon says. “Programs …
CONTINUE READINGCCI Professors Receive Fulbright Awards
Two professors in the College of Communication and Information received awards from the U.S. Fulbright Scholar Program. The program began in 1946 when President Harry Truman signed into legislation the Fulbright Program, named after Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas. The goal of the program is to “increase mutual understanding and support friendly and peaceful …
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