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Category Archives: Mass Communication
UMSL alumnus part of Emmy Award winning news team
UM-St. Louis graduate Steve Johnson was part of a team that won an National Emmy Award for outstanding regional news spot news. Johnson is the news director of KFOR in Oklahoma City. The reporting for which they won the award … Continue reading
Posted in Alumni News, Mass Communication
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Diversity (or the lack thereof) in 2014’s movies
A recently released report by researchers at the Media, Diversity, and Social Change Initiative at the University of Southern California describes the representation of women, people of color, and people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender in American movies. … Continue reading
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Digital Natives, or Why Your Professors Are So Stressed!
Twenty-somethings are constantly on their smart phones, doing 5 things at once! Seniors didn’t grow up with computers, so they probably aren’t very good at multitasking! Young people have short attention spans and are easily distracted! When it comes to … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Media, Faculty News, Mass Communication, Miscellaneous
Tagged faculty, multitasking, research
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Twitter and Conformity Effects
A topic that is covered in many of our mass communication classes as well as on this blog is the growth in the use of “second screens,” where a TV audience member uses more than screen at once. (An example … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Media, Mass Communication
Tagged Second Screens, Twitter
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Women in the movies in 2013
2013 was a year in which female characters were unusually visible at the box office. Several of the year’s top grossing films, including The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Gravity, and Frozen, featured female protagonists. However, a recent study released by … Continue reading
Posted in Mass Communication
Tagged Hunger Games, Movies, Women in the Media
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Non-professional journalists in the digital news environment: How much can they do?
News, of course, fulfills more than one function in society. It can be a business that is expected to make a profit. However, it also has social and civic roles to play. Among other things, those who report to the … Continue reading
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Breakthroughs in Human History – The Role of Communication
The Atlantic newsmagazine ran a story this month listing the “50 greatest breakthroughs since the wheel.” It’s not, of course, a scientific ranking, but it is interesting. They gathered a panel of 12 historians, engineers, scientists, economists, and entrepreneurs and … Continue reading
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Making Money in the Movie Industry: Go big or go really small?
As Memorial Day kicks off the summer movie season in earnest, it’s interesting to take a look at some the strategies that movie distributors are pursuing – it helps explain the kinds of movies that are available on our local … Continue reading
Posted in Mass Communication
Tagged movie industry
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A tale of two video game companies . . .
Two articles were published in the last few weeks that feature video game companies. The contrast between them illustrates ongoing trends and tensions within the industry. One of the articles, published in The New York Times, is a feature by … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Media, Mass Communication
Tagged Video Games
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First Copy Doctrine in the Digital World
Something that is changing as the media industries shift to distributing products digitally is the means through which media companies make money. Back in the day, companies like music labels and book publishers earned income by selling copies of their products … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Media, Mass Communication
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