Communication and Media Studies Department
News
Posted April 5, 2013
"Identity, Belief and Rhetoric in the National Gun Debate: What's Changed Since the Passage of the Brady Bill" a talk with Emily Shaw
Thursday, April 18,
7:00 PM, in Wishcamper 133 on the Portland Campus. Free and open to the public!
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Posted April 2, 2013
CMS 315 Broadcast Newswriting students recently toured the WSCH Channel 6 newsroom in Portland. Lee Nelson (pictured second row, far right) has been morning anchor at WSCH NEWS CENTER since 1990 and teaching newswriting for communication and media studies students since spring 2011.
Posted February 11, 2013
Graduating communication major Jessica Hallett is presenting her paper "Seeking Critical Thinking in an Undergraduate Seminar: Is the Motivation to Think Deeply and Willingness to Communicate Associated with Critical Thinking?" at DePauw University’s 39th Annual Honors Conference in Indiana this April.
Posted January 7, 2013
The Journal of Intergenerational Relationships, Volume 10, Issue 4, 2012 features Undergraduates Mentoring Older Adults: Breaking Stereotypes by Lenny Shedletsky, Professor of Communication. This practice-based article explores the perceptions undergraduates develop about older adults after mentoring them.
Posted November 15, 2012
IGI Global has published an interview with Professor of Education Jeffrey Beaudry discussing the recent International Visual Literacy Association Conference in Portland. Communication Professor Lenny Shedletsky presented his work on mind mapping at the conference in October.
http://www.igi-global.com/newsroom/archive/interview-jeffrey-beaudry-organizer-international/1373/
Posted October 23, 2012
Professor of Communication Lenny Shedletsky presented his research article, Getting from Discussion to Writing-with Maps, on October 11, 2012 at the 44th Annual International Visual Literacy Association Conference in Portland, Maine. Professor Shedletsky also served on a panel at the IVLA conference with Professor of Education Jeff Beaudry discussing their forthcoming book, Cases on Teaching Critical Thinking through Visual Representation Strategies.
Posted October 15, 2012
Dr. David Pierson, associate professor of media studies and chair of the Department of Communication and Media Studies, presented a research paper titled, "AMC's Mad Men and the Politics of Nostalgia" at the Flashbacks 2012: Nostalgia and Mediated Forms of Nostalgia International Conference at the University of Geneva in Geneva, Switzerland on September 14th, 2012.
Posted September 14, 2012
Kate Kaminski, Communication and Media Studies instructor, was profiled as one of Maine's innovators in Maine Women magazine. Read the interview at keepmecurrent.com.
In October, Ms. Kaminski will be the keynote speaker at the 2nd Annual LGBT film festival at The Grand Auditorium in Ellsworth, Maine.
Posted August 9, 2012
Dr. David Pierson discusses his newest book, "The Fugitive", on Good Day Maine. Good Day Maine is a Fox 23 production.
Posted June 27, 2012
Media Studies senior Dylan Martin decided to devote the last six credit
hours of his undergraduate degree to work in the field: looking forward
to a career in journalism, Dylan is interning this summer as a news writer
for the Bangor Daily News.
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