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SoC Student and Faculty Member Take Part in the Ninth Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change

Seventy-six students from 20 countries on five continents came together with three major global partners in Salzburg, Austria this month with one shared goal: to discover how digital media can tackle issues of both local and global concern.  The international cohort of the Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change, together with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre and Global Voices, and led by academic, development and media experts, sought to develop innovative media tools to better understand media literacy and address challenges [...]

August 22, 2015|Broadcast Journalism, Doctoral, Electronic Media, Interactive Media, Journalism, Media Management|
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The Miami Hurricane Takes First Place at the Sunshine State Awards

The Miami Hurricane, UM’s student-run newspaper, won first place in two categories at the 21st annual Sunshine State Awards held on Saturday, August 15. Winning the top award for Best Student Publication (High Frequency) and Best Website (High Frequency), The Miami Hurricane staff’s hard work was recognized during the statewide contest sponsored by the Society of Professional Journalists Florida Pro Chapter. Faculty adviser to The Miami Hurricane Ileana Oroza began working with the staff in 2014. “It's very nice to have SPJ reward the hard work of our student journalists. [...]

2019-12-17T19:37:12-05:00August 22, 2015|Broadcast Journalism, Electronic Media, Journalism, Media Management|
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SoC Faculty to Research Effect of Social Media on Healthy Behavior Choices

School of Communication faculty Jan Boehmer and Maria Scott are the most recent recipients of a Center for Communication, Culture and Change research award. The two faculty members from the Department of Journalism and Media Management and the Department of Strategic Communication, respectively, will collaborate to identify the processes that influence young people to make healthy behavior choices. Children and adolescents continue to make poor lifestyle decisions and Boehmer and Scott are hoping to find out why. “We want to build a bridge between sport and health communication - a connection that seems natural but is somewhat understudied," said [...]

2019-12-16T18:43:29-05:00May 18, 2015|Journalism, Public Relations|
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New Visiting Knight Chair Announced

Data analyst and visualization design specialist Lynn Cherny will be the next Visiting Knight Chair for the Center for Communication, Culture and Change. Beginning in August, Cherny will teach data visualization and data analysis and will help support Knight Chair in Visual Journalism Alberto Cairo launch the Data Visualization and Journalism track in the School of Communication's Interactive Media department. Before joining the University of Miami, Cherny worked as a user interface designer and consultant, spent 20 years as a corporate designer and manager at companies including TiVo and Adobe, and has had two books published, "Wired [...]

2019-12-16T18:44:05-05:00May 13, 2015|Interactive Media, Journalism|
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UM Publications Take Top Awards at CMA

University of Miami publications received two Gold Crowns and nine Apple Awards at the College Media Association Conference in New York City held March 11-14, 2015. The Crowns are honors given by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association and are the highest award a publication can earn from CSPA. Apple Awards, given in honor of David L. Adams, are a Best in Show award given each year at the CMA Spring Conference in New York City. The College Media Association is a source for media educators and advisers of student publications, [...]

2019-12-17T19:40:32-05:00March 20, 2015|Journalism|
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Producer Stresses Media Experience

Flourish Klink is a writer, producer and self-proclaimed fangirl who is now working as a transmedia producer and writer for the Hulu original series “East Los High.” On Thursday, she spoke with students at the School of Communication about her work in the transmedia field, which she described as storytelling “across multiple delivery channels” where, ideally, “each medium makes its own unique contribution to the unfolding of the story.” “East Los High” was created with the motive of exploring the range of possible Latino characters stepping away from the traditional [...]

2019-12-16T18:50:26-05:00February 4, 2015|Broadcast Journalism, Communication Studies, Electronic Media, Interactive Media, Journalism, Media Management, Motion Pictures|
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UMTV’s Spring 2015 General Body Meeting Recap

By Kayla Haley A new crop of prospective UMTV members gathered in the Cosford Cinema for an inside look at the station, as well as the unveiling of the new website, on Jan. 21. Nick Swyter, station manager, hosted the event that introduced students to UMTV’s six shows and gave them the opportunity to get involved. Executive producers of each program extended a personal invitation to students to join their shows.The headline of the night was the unveiling of UMTV’s new logo and website. Attendees cheered as the new logo was [...]

January 30, 2015|Broadcast Journalism, Journalism, Media Management|
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Tableau Workshop at the SoC

On Wednesday, Feb. 11, the School of Communication and the Center for Computational Science will be hosting two identical sessions of an introduction to Tableau. This workshop is part of the VizUM series. Tableau has rapidly become one of the most popular data visualization tools on the market. Attendance is free, and no previous experience with Tableau is necessary. To sign up for one of the sessions, follow these links: SESSION A: Feb. 11, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. (3 hours) SESSION B: Feb. 11, 3 p.m.-6 p.m. (3 hours) Location: University of Miami, School of Communication, 5100 Brunson Drive, Room CIB [...]

January 23, 2015|Interactive Media, Journalism|
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Flourish Klink, Transmedia Writer and Producer, Speaking at the SoC

Come tomorrow from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. to CIB 4053 for a presentation by Flourish Klink, a transmedia writer and producer for "East Los High," a popular entertainment education program targeting young Latinos.Flourish has been working with an interesting and accomplished interdisciplinary team of writers, producers and social scientists to create a highly interactive program that goes beyond mainstream television programming to incorporate interactive online elements to improve health and create social change.You can read more about Flourish and her work at flourishklink.com. Learn more about East Los High, which is [...]

January 21, 2015|Communication Studies, Electronic Media, Interactive Media, Journalism, Media Management, Motion Pictures|
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Professor Alberto Cairo Named Next Knight Chair in Visual Journalism

The Center for Communication, Culture and Change is excited to announce that Alberto Cairo will be named the next Knight Chair in Visual Journalism at the School of Communication!Cairo will bring his internationally-recognized expertise in multimedia data visualization to Center-related projects including interdisciplinary cancer communication initiatives. A potential project on the horizon for the new Knight Chair includes working on a website that would provide cancer patients with the information that they need about clinical trial participation and whether or not it is useful. This site would use infographics and [...]

December 1, 2014|Journalism|
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