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Communication Studies

UM Debate Wins First Tournament Championship of 2015… In Spanish!

The University of Miami Debate Team earned top honors at the University of North Georgia debate invitational over the weekend of Sept. 25-27.  Eight students represented The U in Parliamentary Debate competition in English and in Spanish at the event in Gainesville, Georgia. Two of the four teams advancing to the final round of Spanish language debate were UM teams. The UM team of Juliana Carvajal (junior, political science) and Victoria Ormaechea (sophomore, media management) won first place honors and Natacha Larnaud (junior, journalism) and Maria Victoria van Eerdewijk (junior, [...]

September 29, 2015|Communication Studies|
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SoC Professor Nominated for Third Emmy

Professor Jeffrey Stern was nominated for his third Emmy in the category Outstanding Sound Editing For A Series as Dialogue Editor on the HBO series Boardwalk Empire. Stern has been with the show for all five seasons.  As dialogue editor, he is responsible for editing everything that is recorded during production-- and he is given only six days to edit all the recordings he is given. “It’s definitely a sprint more than a marathon,” Stern said. Being a professor and a dialogue editor for an Emmy-winning show are both time [...]

2019-12-17T19:36:30-05:00September 21, 2015|Communication Studies|
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Rwandan Debaters to Visit UM

In their first-ever appearance in Florida, Rwandan debaters from the African country’s iDebate Rwanda program will visit the University of Miami for a public debate about genocide recovery, forgiveness, and justice. The UM Debate Team is hosting the event, which will be held at 7 p.m. on Monday, September 28 at the Shalala Student Center Senate Room. The event is part of the Rwandans' second annual tour of the U.S. that runs through the end of October. The “Voices from a Post-Genocide Generation Tour” started in 2014 and aims to share the [...]

September 18, 2015|Communication Studies|
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Robert’s Rules for Summer Camp

Summer is a time when students are free from school and parents scramble to find a camp their child can have fun in, but that is also educational. With so many camp choices, probably the hardest sell for a parent to make to their free-from-the-constraints-of-learning child would be... debate camp. I can hear the conversation now: "You mean a camp that's like school,” asks a dumbfounded child. "Kind of, but I swear it's fun," says a parent with a trembling voice. This is the part when tears and arguments start [...]

August 22, 2015|Communication Studies|
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A Special Message for Supporters of the SoC

This past year, alumni, parents, and friends of the University of Miami have invested their time and money to help make extraordinary enhancements in the lives our students. Watch this special report produced by our very own School of Communication students at our UMTV studios.

August 22, 2015|Advertising, Broadcast Journalism, Communication Studies, Doctoral, Electronic Media, Interactive Media, Journalism, Media Management, Motion Pictures, Public Relations|
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Four Decades of Giving: A Model Alumna’s Unwavering Support of the U

Twenty-three years after graduating the University of Miami, the ties that drew School of Communication alumna, Jeanne Wolf A.B. ’61, to her alma mater ran deep. That spring of 1984, she established the Jeanne Wolf Scholarship Fund — an award to help make a UM education accessible to a deserving School of Communication student. Her generosity did not go unreciprocated. The very first recipient of her scholarship, Michael Robin, graduated in 1985 and went on to produce some of Hollywood’s biggest television hits, such as Nip/Tuck and The Closer. Her [...]

2023-10-26T13:28:24-04:00August 22, 2015|Advertising, Broadcast Journalism, Communication Studies, Doctoral, Electronic Media, Interactive Media, Journalism, Media Management, Motion Pictures, Public Relations|
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Debate Team Wins Big at ADA Nationals

By Lizzie Wilcox University of Miami’s debate team is comprised of veteran, novice and humble debaters. Regardless of how many years of experience under their belts, Hurricane debaters won awards across the board at the American Debate Association National tournament March 13-16 at the University of Georgia. Partners Melissa Cavell and Anna Shah won tenth and eleventh place for individual speaker at the tournament over spring break. The duo also got second place for the Front Royal Cup in the novice division, which, according to Shah, is a new award [...]

2019-12-17T19:40:16-05:00March 23, 2015|Communication Studies|
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Game to Reduce Indoor Tanning Use

School of Communication professors Soyoon Kim and Clay Ewing are recipients of the Center for Communication, Culture and Change's 2015 Research Award. Their project, which will focus on using an innovative digital game to reduce the use of indoor tanning among young adults, will assess the game's effectiveness on psychological and behavioral determinants of indoor tanning behavior. According to Professor Kim, “The period of young adulthood is a vulnerable one, and using indoor tanning facilities without realizing or downplaying its risk is one of many other consequential unhealthy choices that our target audience can [...]

2019-12-17T19:40:48-05:00March 13, 2015|Communication Studies, Interactive Media|
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Examining Social Comparison Effects on Facebook

Research Award recipients Professors Cong Li and Nick Carcioppolo will soon begin work on their Center for Communication, Culture and Change project "Do Our Friends Make Us Feel Worse? Examining Social Comparison Effects on Facebook​," which will study the influence of social comparison on Facebook users’ emotions and life satisfaction through an experiment using perceived psychological closeness and perceived message relevance.  “Facebook users consume a large amount of information provided by their friends every day," said Professor Li.  "The most interesting part of this project is to demonstrate how such [...]

2019-12-16T18:49:33-05:00March 12, 2015|Communication Studies|
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The UM Debate Team Does it Again: Novice Debaters Bring Home First and Second Place

With the promise of cold weather and stiff competition, the University of Miami’s debate team travelled to Indiana to compete in the fifth annual Hoosier Invitational Tournament in Bloomington. From Jan. 31 to Feb. 2, the UM team debated their way to the top of the rankings. UM Novice Debaters clinched first and second place for the University of Miami. The UM team of Kladius Maynard and Lucas Baker won five of seven preliminary debates, advancing into the semifinal debate where they won a 3-0 decision over the team from [...]

February 11, 2015|Communication Studies|
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