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The Future of the News
James Banhardt Student Activity Center, Salons AB
UNCC Main Campus, April 25, 2016 – 7pm – 9:30pm
Who will report the news, how will readers get it, and what will that mean for a rapidly diversifying America? Join featured speaker Tim Grieve, Head of News Strategies for Washington-based McClatchy and panelists Rick Thames, Editor/VP News for The Charlotte Observer, Joe O'Connor WFAE President and Julie Szulczewski, News Director at CMG Charlotte (WSOC-TV/WAXN-TV/wsoctv.com) in a discussion moderated by Ed Williams, former editor of The Charlotte Observer (Pulitzer Prizes in Public Service, 1981 and 1988) about how they see the news evolving over the next 10 years and what these profession's forecasters see as the challenges and opportunities ahead.
The department of Communication Studies is pleased to congratulate our graduate students and colleagues on the excellent job they did representing our department at the Organization for the study of Communication, Language and Gender (OSCLG) conference in held in Bowling Green Kentucky this October. Following are the presentations presented by our students and faculty.
Jade Myers, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Emma Butterworth, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Discomforted research and teaching: Using physical and digital archives in gendered health communication
Bethany Johnson (Research Affiliate to our department), University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Stories of Hope campaign: Personal stories really do matter! How sharing these narratives help donor families and recipients cope
Jaclyn Marsh, UNL
Intersectionality Matters: Rhetorical Strategies of Inclusivity in the #BlackLivesMatter Movement
Jade Myers, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
New Conceptions for Menstruation Persons: Non-Teleological Directions for New Discourse on the Subject of Menstrual Blood and the Human Race
Molly McKinney, University of North Carolina, Charlotte (Public Health student that took COMM 6000 with me in 2013)
High-Society Framing: The Brooklyn Eagle and the Popularity of Twilight Sleep in Brooklyn
Bethany Johnson (Research Affiliate), UNC Charlotte
Margaret M Quinlan, UNC Charlotte
Congratulations to Cris Davis' for her feature in the Charlotte Observer on death and communications.
Congratulations to Loril Gossett for the publication of her article, "Concealing Communities Within the Crowd: Hiding Organizational Identities and Brokering Member Identifications of the Yelp Elite Squad" in Management Communication Quarterly. The article was co-authored with David Askay, a graduate of UNC Charlotte's Organizational Science doctoral program who now teaches in the Department of Communication Studies at Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo. The article is currently available through MCQ's "Online First" portal (available through Atkins Library). It will appear in print in the November 2015 issue of MCQ.
Dr. Ashli Stokes has been selected as a finalist for the Nat Fuller dinner banquet, an interracial feast orinially organized just weeks after the end of the Civil War. The dinner will be held in Charleston, SC.
Dr. Min Jiang has been elected to serve a three-year term (2016-2018) in NCA's legislative assembly as an at-large representative. This is a great honor and Dr. Jiang will be an excellent addition to this assembly as she represents our department and our discipline at large.
Congratulations to Dr. Quinlan for her two recent publications.
Vishnevsky, T. (graduate student), Quinlan, M. M., Kilmer, R., Danhauer, S., & Cann, A. (accepted). “The keepers of stories”: A grounded theory study of posttraumatic growth and wisdom in a sample of oncology nurses. Journal of Holistic Nursing.
Quinlan, M. M., & Bates, B. R. (2015). Unsmoothing the cyborg: Technology and the body in integrated dance. Disability Studies Quarterly. http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/3783/3792
Congratulations to Dr. Jiang for her recent publication, The networked practice of online political satire in China: Between ritual and resistance in International Communication Gazette. She has also recently conducted interviews with Foreign Policy and The Diplomat that are avaible online.
