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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Mainstream media stories about CCI faculty, staff, students and programs, usually published as a result of a CCI press release.
FSU praised as multicultural marketing program 'model'
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 …
CONTINUE READINGFSUComm 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 …
CONTINUE READINGThree articles by FSU-SLIS authors in JASIST, March 2012
Research articles by two SLIS faculty members and one doctoral graduate are among those in the March 2012 issue (Volume 63, Issue 3) of the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology: Dr. Sanghee Oh (Assistant Professor, FSU-SLIS). The characteristics and motivations of health answerers for sharing information, knowledge, and experiences in …
CONTINUE READINGCastillo interviewed on students, social media & election
Dr. Jeanette Castillo, an assistant professor of digital media in the School of Communication, was interviewed for a story on students using social media to stay informed in this year’s election, as well as to voice their opinions on the issues and the candidates. Listen to the story on FSU Headline News.
CONTINUE READINGEverhart in news article on Ohio school library closures
Dr. Nancy Everhart’s comments were referred to in a Nov. 29, 2011, online article in The Columbus Dispatch, “Cutbacks shut elementary’s library, threaten middle school’s.” Read the article: http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2011/11/26/cutbacks-shut-elementarys-library-threaten-middle-schools.html
CONTINUE READINGEmeritus SLIS Professor Wayne Wiegand discusses his new book, "Main Street Public Library", in American Libraries Magazine
http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/features/09272011/main-street-public-library WAYNE A. WIEGAND is F. William Summers Professor of Library and Information Studies Emeritus at Florida State University in Tallahassee, president of the FSU Friends of Libraries, and director of the Florida Book Awards.
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