The Forensics Team at Florida State University started 2019 continuing the success they had during the 2018 Fall semester. This past weekend, the team attended and won two tournaments hosted by Southeastern University. The first tournament was in the British Parliamentary style. Mai Rubin and Josh Schulster competed as a team, and Kaitlyn Applegate and …
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News from the Media Communication Studies at Florida State University’s College of Communication & Information
FSU Forensics Team Starts New Year Continuing Success
Veterans Communication Internship Honors Dr. Jay Rayburn
The Jay Rayburn Communications Internship is awarded through the Student Veterans Center and aims to foster student’s connection with the communication field and working directly with veterans at Florida State. This internship is named after Associate Professor Dr. Jay Rayburn from the School of Communication within the College of Communication & Information. “In addition …
CONTINUE READINGComm Alumnus Directs New York Times Film on Criminal Justice Reform
School of Communication alumnus (’98) Ritesh Gupta has collaborated with Roc Nation and Meek Mill to direct a New York Times op-ed film “Meek Mill: Prisoners Deserve a New Set of Rights”. Gupta wanted to emphasize the importance of adversely impacted individuals, such as minorities and the impoverished, by highlighting the need for criminal justice reform and …
CONTINUE READINGComm Doctoral Students Publish Research on Feminism in Disney Films
School of Communication doctoral students Abigail Reed and Kailash Koushik recently had their research paper Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Beauty and the Beast, and Disney’s Commodification of Feminism: A Political Economic Analysis accepted for publication in the Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) on November 18, 2018. According to the paper’s abstract, the research “seeks to …
CONTINUE READINGFaculty, Students Highly Recognized at National Communication Association Convention
On November 8 – 11, 2018 students and faculty from Florida State University’s School of Communication attended the 104th annual National Communication Association (NCA) convention in Salt Lake City, Utah. The National Communication Association advances Communication as the discipline that studies all forms, modes, media, and consequences of communication through aesthetic, humanistic, and social scientific inquiry. NCA …
CONTINUE READINGCCI Alumna Spearheads Coast Guard Donation to Panhandle
On November 16, 2018 a crate full of 1,239 pounds of Hurricane Michael relief supplies arrived shortly after noon in front of FSU’s School of Communication. This was no ordinary delivery as the return address was from the United States Coast Guard in Boston, Massachusetts. Lieutenant Commander Krystyn Pecora is a School of Communication alumna (M.S. ’13, …
CONTINUE READINGKrystyn Pecora: Comm Alumna and Executive Officer for Coast Guard Cutter Seneca
Lieutenant Commander (LCDR) Krystyn Pecora graduated from FSU’s College of Communication & Information in 2013 with her Master’s degree in Media Communication Studies. She’s now serving as the Executive Officer of Coast Guard Cutter Seneca. Seneca is a 270 foot cutter currently home-ported in Boston, MA. “We have over ninety crew members serving aboard who come …
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