Become a Garnet and Gold Scholar!

Are you ready for the Garnet and Gold Scholars Society? Find out Oct. 3 at 1:00 PM. Greetings, As an FSU student you can become a member of the prestigious Garnet and Gold Scholars Society.   If you have a 2.75 all college GPA, you are eligible to start the application process. To learn more join …

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Mardis JASIST article analyzes NSF merit review criteria

A research article co-authored by Dr. Marcia Mardis, associate professor at the FSU School of Library & Information Studies, was published in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (Volume 63, Issue 9, pages 1758-1772, September 2012). Here is the abstract from the article, titled “Toward broader impacts: Making sense of …

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Comm alumnus’ book explores ‘Facebook Democracy’

FSU School of Communication alumnus José Marichal (’91), an associate professor of political science at California Lutheran University (CLU), is the author of a new book, “Facebook Democracy: The Architecture of Disclosure and the Threat to Public Life.” Using an ethnographic analysis of 250 Facebook political groups, Marichal explores the impact of Facebook on citizens …

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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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Raney to chair featured research symposium at BEA

Dr. Arthur A. Raney, Professor and Director of Doctoral Studies in the School of Communication, and Dr. Mary Beth Oliver, Distinguished Professor and Co-Director of Media Effects Research Laboratory in the College of Communications at Penn State University, will chair the Research Symposium at the Broadcast Education Association (BEA) annual convention in Las Vegas in …

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Recent Alumni Publications

Check out our recent Alumni Publications   Wayne A. Wiegand, Main Street Public Library: Community Places and Reading Spaces in the Rural Heartland, 1876–1956 Main Street Public Library: Community Places and Reading Spaces in the Rural Heartland, 1876–1956 by Wayne A. Wiegand Review by: Paul T. Jaeger The Library Quarterly October 2012, Vol. 82, No. 4: …

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