Comm student published in Turkish daily newspaper

Zoheb Nensey, a master’s student in the Media and Communication Studies program at the FSU School of Communication, was published in Turkey’s largest English-language daily newspaper this summer while serving as an intern. Today’s Zamam published Nensey’s extensive article on Turkish cell phone policy and its effect on foreigners entering the country, “Cellular blues: problems …

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Raney to speak at international symposium on moral psychology

Dr. Arthur A. Raney, Professor and Director of Doctoral Studies in the School of Communication, will speak at an international research symposium on the moral psychology of fiction at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, in Trondheim, Norway, on September 20 and 21. The symposium will bring together scholars from cognitive film theory, analytic …

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SLIS intern works on historic FSU achives

During her summer internship at FSU’s Claude Pepper Library, School of Library & Information Studies master’s student Kristen Gurciullo worked with a group processing part of the University’s history and put some of her education into a real-world experience. “I was primarily processing incoming archival collections. I also created a finding aid in Archon,” she …

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FSU praised as multicultural marketing program 'model'

Colleges and universities have a crucial role to play as the advertising industry looks for ways to reach an increasingly multicultural America, and the Multicultural Marketing Communication program in the School of Communication is praised as the ‘best model. Read the Ad Age blog:

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AP story quoting CCI’s Jeanette Castillo on social media’s role in Trayvon Martin case published around the globe

Dr. Jeanette Castillo, an assistant professor of digital media in the School of Communication, was quoted in an Associated Press story about social media’s role in publicizing the Trayvon Martin shooting. The AP story has been picked up worldwide. A Google search of “Trayvon Martin” and “Jeanette Castillo” yields 25 pages of results, almost all …

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FSUComm alum shatters glass ceiling, makes Forbes' list of world's billionaires

Spanx entrepreneur Sara Blakely, a 1993 Communication graduate and member of FSU’s national championship debate team,  is featured on the cover of the March 26, 2012, issue of Forbes magazine. She is the youngest woman to make this year’s list of the world’s billionaires “without help from a husband or an inheritance.” Read the article. In …

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