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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Opel, four MP students attend 2012 Full Frame Festival

Dr. Andy Opel, associate professor of Communication and the director of the Media Production Program, and four Media Production majors took part in the Full Frame Fellows Program at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham, N.C., April 12-15. Thanks to the generous support of the Bickel Scholarship, Cat Sullivan (’12), Pierce Kafka (’12), …

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Adams to participate in Veterans' Entrepreneurship panel

Dr. Jonathan Adams, Associate Professor at the School of Communication, has been invited to participate in the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans’ Families (EBV-F) on the Venture Pitches panel. The Venture Pitches and judging will be held at the Residence Inn on Gaines St. on April 17, 2012 from 12:00pm to 5:00pm. The Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans …

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CCI students present at Undergrad Research Symposium

Three students in the College of Communication & Information presented their research at the 12th annual Undergraduate Research Symposium from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday, March 27, in Strozier Library. Nic Arete and Lauren A. Dickinson from the School of Communication and Claire Dolly from the School of Communication Science & Disorders were among …

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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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