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Director Susan Seidelman to Lead Master Classes and Screening

Director Susan Seidelman, known for Desperately Seeking Susan, She-Devil, and episodes of Sex and the City, will lead several master classes and host a screening at University of Miami School of Communication from February 24-26. Susan Seidelman’s arrival on the indie scene was heralded more than thirty years ago when she was the first American to have a film (The Smithereens) nominated for the Palme D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. She has led the way for filmmakers seeking alternative routes of financing, production, and distribution ever since. To date, [...]

February 18, 2016|Interactive Media, Motion Pictures|
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World Information Architecture Day Comes to School of Communication

University of Miami School of Communication is hosting World Information Architecture Day (WIAD) on Saturday, Feb. 20, 9:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.  The event brings together a diverse community of information architects, user experience designers, content strategists, product managers, developers, scholars, and students to share their experience in designing information in a manner that is useful. The full day occasion will celebrate WIAD along with 69 other locations across the globe. This year’s theme is Information Everywhere, Architects Everywhere. Featuring keynote speaker Richard Saul Wurman, the event has a line up [...]

February 17, 2016|Interactive Media, Journalism|
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Drawing Out Big Data for the Public Good

Computational science and journalism students dive deep into data and discover new ways to visually represent their findings to non-scientific audiences. If you’ve ever spent time analyzing financial reports at a corporate meeting, or analyzing reports from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, you likely enjoy the process more when the data is accompanied by interactive graphics to illuminate key findings. Yet who exactly conceives and creates all of the detailed charts, maps, and infographics that appear regularly in newspapers to break down complex topics such as The New York Times report [...]

November 20, 2015|Interactive Media, Journalism|
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British Broadcasting Corporation Executive David Jordan will Visit the University of Miami

David Jordan, one of the top officials of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in London, is speaking to more than half a dozen groups of University of Miami students and faculty on the Coral Gables campus next week on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday – Nov. 16, 17, and 18. “We’re delighted to be bringing such an accomplished journalist to the University of Miami,” said Greg Shepherd, dean of the School of Communication. “He brings a global perspective that fits perfectly with the work our students and faculty are doing.” Jordan, [...]

November 12, 2015|Advertising, Broadcast Journalism, Communication Studies, Electronic Media, Interactive Media, Journalism, Media Management, Public Relations|
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Workshop with Acclaimed Video Game Creator

Navid Khonsari, known for his work at Rockstar Games on the Grand Theft Auto and Max Payne series, will present his latest independent game 1979 Revolution, a documentary cinematic game about the revolution in Iran. The workshop will include a presentation showing the game from conception to its current form, as well as the process of crafting a narrative cinematic experience through an interactive medium. The workshop will take place at University of Miami School of Communication on Oct. 22, at 12:30 p.m. in Wolfson 3032. Navid will also introduce [...]

October 16, 2015|Interactive Media|
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Professor Cairo Interviewed by Pew Research Center for article “The Art and Science of the Scatterplot”

In a recent survey of what Americans know about science, we asked people to interpret the chart you see here and tell us what it showed. Six-in-ten (63%) identify the best interpretation of this chart as “the more sugar people eat, the more likely they are to get cavities.” This kind of chart — known as a scatterplot — is very familiar to people who are used to working with numbers, such as economists, scientists, researchers and data journalists. It is a good way to show a relationship between two variables.

September 16, 2015|Interactive Media, Journalism|
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Canes Film Showcase Screens Student Projects

From a migrant worker in Beijing to a would-be “Marielito” in Cuba, from hacking computers to “hooking up” in college, the Canes Film Showcase offered a wide variety of subject matter and style for the 450 attendees who filled the Directors Guild of America theater on Hollywood’s famed Sunset Boulevard, Thursday evening, June 4. The annual event, in its tenth year, showcases five student films selected by judges as the best of the Canes Film Festival, held each spring at the University of Miami. Those students then get to travel to Los [...]

August 22, 2015|Interactive Media, Motion Pictures|
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Calle Ocho at 360 Degrees

In a strip mall on Eighth Street in Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood, there’s a typical Cuban coffee shop named Pablo’s Cafecito. The only way to get a seat at the counter is to put on your Oculus. Pablo’s Cafecito is the setting for Calle Ocho, the University of Miami School of Communication’s first venture into 360 degree filming. Previous films using virtual reality (VR) technology have taken viewers to the tops of mountains or on bike rides through the country. Calle Ocho is the first student-produced narrative 360 degree film, [...]

August 22, 2015|Interactive Media, Motion Pictures|
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Unsavory Earns Gold Honor in International Serious Play Competition

Unsavory, the mobile game developed by NERDLab at the University of Miami’s School of Communication in collaboration with Restaurant Opportunities Centers (ROC) United, won a gold honor in the Games for Good category at the 2015 International Serious Play Awards competition. The competition recognizes outstanding examples of titles that deliver a high quality of engagement and learning opportunities for students, employees, or other education or training situations. Unsavory places game players in the role of a restaurant employee at an eatery named Rocket Taco to see if they can prepare [...]

2019-12-17T19:39:18-05:00August 22, 2015|Interactive Media|
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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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