Be bold. Be diverse. Those were the words CBC senior producer Mandy Luk ended her presentation with when she visited Marlene Murphy’s course COMN 4222 News Next: Creating News in a Platform Society. The experienced journalist spoke to the class in a very engaging presentation on diversity. Working for prime-time newscast The National, Luk explained […]
This article originally appeared in YFile Christopher Innes From Sept. 26 to 28, Founders College is hosting an event series titled “Calypso, Carnival, Steel Band: Expressive Cultures of the Caribbean Diaspora” in honour of the late York University Professor Christopher Innes, whose contributions to the study of carnival have been inspirational to the event organizers […]
Executive Producer, Digital, at CBC News, Pras Rajagopalan, visited Marlene Murphy’s course COMN 4222 News Next: Creating News in a Platform Society on September 20. Rajagopalan was there to present on analytics/metrics, audience development, evolving storytelling on digital platforms, and the challenges he and his team face in today’s online landscape. Pras began by discussing elements […]
Two Communication Department Professors are award recipients in the 2019-20 Insight Development Grants competition from SSHRC! Professor Natalie Coulter received a grant for her project Evangelisms, Entanglements and Superfans: Young People’s Creative Labour in the Visibility Economy. The grant will explore how young people’s creative labour is being taken up by the marketing activities of the […]
During the 2019-2020 year, Communication Studies is celebrating 40 years as a program and 10 years as a department! Beginning as Mass Communication (Media) Studies and housed in the Division of Social Science, the now distinct Department of Communication Studies is a top ranked program in the province and country. In professional and everyday life […]
On June 17, York University held convocation ceremonies for graduands of the School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design and the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies. We caught up with a few Communication Studies students before and after the ceremony and asked them their thoughts on the day as well as “what […]
Internship Program Who do you contact about the internships? The staff at the YU Experience Hub were extremely helpful. They were very hands-on in terms of assisting with a range of items pertinent to landing the internship: resume assistance, advice on interviews and excellent workshops to help prepare me for seeking and eventually landing a […]
Global News announced today the launch of the network’s first original daily news podcast Wait, There’s More, hosted by journalist and Department of Communication Studies alumna Tamara Khandaker. The podcast will be available daily beginning Monday, June 10, 2019 and will provide a deeper understanding of current events for those listening. Khandaker will explore the […]
Communication Studies Professor Jonathan Obar was recently featured on Global National, discussing research co-authored with Anne Oeldorf-Hirsch from the University of Connecticut. The study looks at terms of service and privacy policies. How often they are read, and how quickly the agree button is clicked. He found that 93% of more than 500 participants (from […]
Congratulations to Professor Emeritus Wade Rowland on his new publication Morality by Design. The eleven short, linked essays represent a culmination of two decades of research and writing on the topic of moral realism. The readers are first introduced to the basic ideas of leading moral thinkers: from Plato to Leibniz to Putnam. He then explores the subject through […]