Student Ashley Tressel Earns Award for Paper, “Media and Drone Strikes: Understanding Newspaper Tutorials”

This fall, Media & Communication Studies student Ashley Tressel received the Competitive Communication Scholarship Student Top Paper Undergraduate from the Florida Communication Association (FCA) for her paper, “Media and Drone Strikes: Understanding Newspaper Tutorials.” The paper focused on the increased use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, since 2008 and examined the issues that are emphasized by the …

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Dr. Art Raney Attends International New Media Forum in Shanghai

Dr. Art Raney recently delivered a keynote address at the 2015 International New Media Forum in Shanghai, China. This was the second time the event has been held and the second time he has been given this honor. The forum was sponsored by Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the International Communication Association. One of only …

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2016 South Asian Media and Cultural Studies Conference Announced

South Asian Media and Cultural Studies Conference January 21-23, 2016 Center for Global and Multicultural Engagement Florida State University Call for Papers and Presentations We invite students to submit proposals for papers and presentations for the South Asian Media and Cultural Studies Conference, to be held on January 21-23, 2016, at the Center for Global …

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Fulbright Scholar Annalise Fletcher Visits SCSD from New Zealand

This Fall there will be a new face in the School of Communication Science & Disorders: Fulbright Scholar Annalise Fletcher. Fletcher is a PhD student in her final year at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Interested in speech production changes in aging speakers and those with neurological disorders, a disorder known as dysarthria. She …

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CCI Graduates Three Garnet & Gold Scholars

Each semester, the College of Communication and Information (CCI) bids farewell to a group of graduates who will go on to change the world. Within that group, a select few are inducted into the Garnet and Gold Scholar Society.  Of the 528 students inducted in the past 5 years, 70 are from CCI. Members of the Garnet and …

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iSchool’s Kathy Burnett Keynotes in India

The 2nd International Conference on Innovation Driven Librarianship (ICIDL) took place June 11-13 at SRM University in India. Dr. Kathy Burnett, Director of the School of Information and F. William Summers Professor, delivered the keynote address. The conference was organized by the Central Library at SRM University, in association with the Korea Society for Information Management and the …

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FSU South Asian Media Research Presents at IAMCR 2015

FSU research on South Asian Media was well-represented at the July 12-16, 2015 meetings of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) in Montreal, Quebec. The annual conference moves to a different location each year, and was hosted by the University of Quebec in Montreal in 2015. Awais Saleem, a doctoral student in …

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