iSchool’s Katy Comellas defends Master’s Thesis

Katy Comellas started her graduate degree in the School of Information in 2012. She had just finished her Bachelor’s at University of Central Florida and joined the MLIS program with the intention of studying children’s literature. “I’ve always found international children’s literature fascinating,” she shared. In the iSchool, and many other graduate programs, a thesis …

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COMM’s Art Raney discusses social TV in Shanghai

Art Raney, Ph.D., delivered a keynote address at the 2014 International Forum on New Media in Shanghai, China, on October 24. The conference was jointly sponsored by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Media and Design & the International Communication Association. “The conference brought together scholars from more than half a dozen countries to discuss how …

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COMM undergrad awarded by Florida Communication Association

Shauna Gillooly, a second-year sophomore at Florida State University, was given the Best Undergraduate Paper award at the 84th Annual Convention of the Florida Communication Association in Orlando on October 16-18. Shauna’s paper, ‘A Media Framing Analysis: The Coverage of Rape in Indian and Western News Sources’  examines the framing techniques news sources used in representing India’s “rape …

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iSchool presents at TPRC42

Florida State University’s Information Institute presented the preliminary findings of the National Science Foundation-funded Assessing Information Technology Educational Pathways that Promote Deployment and Use of Rural Broadband project at the nationwide Telecommunication Policy Research Conference, TPRC42. The conference was held at the George Mason University in Arlington, VA from September 12-14, 2014. Doctoral candidate Jisue Lee presented …

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COMM doctoral candidate presents at Governor’s Hurricane Conference

In anticipation of hurricane season, the state of Florida hosted the annual Governor’s Hurricane Conference (GHC) on May 11-16 in Orlando and Florida State University School of Communication doctoral candidate Mariam Shaikh attended as a scholarship recipient, student volunteer and presenter. The annual hurricane season in the Atlantic begins June 1 and ends November 30.   …

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iSchool doctoral student published in The Journal of Research on Libraries and Young Adults

The Journal of Research on Libraries and Young Adults, the official research journal of the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), published Florida State University School of Information doctoral student Abigail Phillips’ research paper “More than Just Books: Librarians as a Source of Support for Cyberbullied Young Adults” in the newest online, open access issue (Volume …

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