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Ed Carter Co-Edits Book About the Right to be Forgotten
Professor and Director of the School of Communications, Ed Carter, will travel to Mexico City during the first week of February to attend the official book launch for “Google: Right to Oblivion and Ethical Challenges in the Digital Media Scenario.”The launch will feature the newest volume of the book co-edited by Carter.
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Riches to Rags: BYU Advertising Professor Goes Back to Being an Intern
Kevin Kelly enjoying life as an intern with hisPR Student: Rachel Zelnick
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Reporting on Our Newest News Media Professor: Miles Romney
Miles Romney graduated from BYU with a B.A. in Communications with an emphasis in broadcast journalism. Now he has the opportunity to return as a professor. Photo courtesy of Kyra Sutherland.
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Beckham Lecture Focuses on the Effect of Memes on Current Culture
From “Bad Luck Brian” to the “Pepper Spraying Cop” and the “Crying Jordan,” memes have had an enormous impact on communication within the social media realm. School of Communications Assistant Professor Dr. Scott Church, recently shared his research findings in his lecture for the Winter 2017 Raymond E. and Ida Lee Beckham Lecture in Communications Series. Entitled, “The Art of Mass Communication: The Sublime, Ineffable and Spiritual Elements of Memes,” Church’s lecture focused on the importance of memes within today’s society and specifically the role they play in proselyting within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
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Comms professor to present on the art of memes for Beckham Lecture Series March 16
The BYU School of Communications will host Scott Church, assistant professor in the School of Communications, in conjunction with the Raymond E. and Ida Lee Beckham Lecture in Communications Series March 16 at 11:00 a.m. in 321 of the Maeser building.
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Comms professor featured during BYU Honor Week
BYU School of Communications professor Robert Walz was featured during this year’s Honor Week. Honor Week celebrates what makes BYU different from other college campuses. BYU Student Service Association leads Honor Week by bringing together multiple entities across campus, hosting events and by asking students and faculty what honor means to them. Professor Walz was asked to share what living with honor means to him:
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BYU PROFESSORS, STUDENTS TEAM UP TO DEVELOP GAME TO TEACH YOUNG STUDENTS STEM SUBJECTS
The College of Fine Arts and Communications and the College of Engineering teamed up to develop an alternate reality game. Tessera: Light in the Dark will be released in January after over a year of development by professors and students at BYU.
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Republican or Democrat, Incumbent or Newcomer? BYU Research Show Substantial Shift in Who Newspapers Endorse for President
Newspapers have shifted from strongly favoring Republican candidates in the 1950s to dividing their editorial endorsements almost equally In the 1948 U.S. presidential election, republican presidential candidate and Governor of New York Thomas E. Dewey was heavily favored and endorsed by more than 80 percent of America’s newspapers. Journalists at the Chicago Tribune were so sure of Dewey’s win that the newspaper printed its morning edition early with the now infamous headline “Dewey Defeats Truman.”
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BYU Adlab reinvigorates future teachers with new Ad Council video
Brigham Young Universty’s student operated advertisement agency’s new video for teach.org isn’t pulling any punches. “This is a warning, and it might be the only one you get,” said actor Stephen Jones in the ad. “For those of you who don’t mind leaving the world unchanged, this is not for you.”The Ad Council, a national PSA organization, selected the BYU Adlab to take on the challenge from their client TEACH.org. The goal was to establish teaching as a competitive career choice for top performing students, and to help both high school and early college STEM students think of teaching as a challenging, rewarding career option.
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Student/Faculty: Read—and Watch—All About It!
With his vividly composed narrative on a 3,700-year-old Peruvian culture, BYU communications student Donovan Baltich recently took second place in the Multimedia Enterprise Reporting Competition of the Hearst Journalism Awards. His multimedia article incorporates text, video, and images.
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Comms Professor Wilson to Participate in Summer Fellowship Program
Communications assistant professor Chris Wilson will participate this summer in the Fellowship for Educators Program, a fellowship sponsored by The Plank Center for Leadership in Public Relations. As part of the experience, Dr. Wilson will spend nearly two weeks at the American Airlines headquarters in Fort Worth, Texas, working with and learning from their corporate communications team. One or more team members will later come to BYU campus to interact with students, faculty, and staff.
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Director of the School of Communications wins award
The Brigham Young University Division of Continuing Education awarded Ed Carter, Director of the School of Communications, the 2016 Faculty Teaching Award for his work with BYU Continuing Education.
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New Faculty Announced
Two new faculty members have joined the School of Communications beginning January 1, 2016.
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BYU’s Laycock Center ‘Puts the Brakes on Drunk Driving’
This news release includes a report on the results of the collaboration of Pat Doyle, Manager of the Advanced Advertising Lab, and Jeff Sheets, Associate Professor of Advertising and Director of the Laycock Center for Creative Collaboration. Local Broadcast TV’s 12th Annual Project Roadblock “Puts the Brakes on Drunk Driving” PSA Campaign has contributed to significant decrease in impaired driving fatalities.
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Mentoring: More than just an education
Before each semester, Ed Carter sits in his office and flips through course notes and syllabi from when he was a student. Now the director of the School of Communications, Carter still thinks about one of his influential professors and how he approached teaching.
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