Grad student tackles social media for Zonta Club of Tallahassee

Amarin Cannon spoke to the Zonta Club of Tallahassee on Wednesday evening at the Capital City Country Club. Amarin is a graduate student in the School of Communication in the Media Communication Studies program. After finishing her Bachelor’s degree in Communication from Florida Gulf Coast University, she came to Florida State to pursue visual communications. …

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FSU Chapter of Lambda Pi Eta grows by the dozens

The Florida State University Chapter of Lambda Pi Eta (LPH), the official communication studies honor society of the National Communication Association (NCA), has grown to nearly 70 members from a mere 6 actives in September 2014. Lambda Pi Eta was founded in 1985 at the University of Arkansas with foundations in logic (Lambda), emotion (Pi), …

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Houck talks Project South on NPR

Davis Houck, professor in the School of Communication, was featured on NPR’s history department blog on March 13. The article is a plea for “historical crowdsourcing” using an archive at Stanford University called Project South. Initiated in summer 1965, eight students spread throughout the South under Stanford’s Institute of American History and KZSU, a campus radio …

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Bruker and Opel work on Co-Parenting Grant

Faculty and students from the Digital Media Production Program have a new project on their plate – developing a toolkit for Successful Co-Parenting After Divorce. Fueled by a $250,000 grant from the Vandermark Foundation, Florida State University is working to create a new online toolkit designed to help create healthy co-parentings in families going through a …

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Democrat announces Top 25 Women, 6 CCI Alumni

Earlier this month, Tallahassee Democrat released it’s list of Top 25 Women You Need to Know for 2015. The list included 16 graduates from Florida State, of which 6 graduates from the College of Communication and Information.   Amanda Clements, BA – General Communication Kelly-Ann Fasano, BA – Media Communication Studies, MA – Media Communication …

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CCI students visits Kre8 Media

College of Communication & Information students recently visited Kre8 Media in Orlando. Already in the area judging at the Technology Student Association (TSA) Conference, the students visited the agency to see what a successful business looks like in-action (and to connect with alumni). Kre8 Media is one of the quickest growing direct response agencies in …

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