Ph.D. Alumna Pursues Career at Trinity University
Dec 1, 2019
Rebecca Densley is a stand-out alumna who earned her Ph.D. earlier this year.
tags: Ph.D., Research, Faculty, Alumni & Friends
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Dec 1, 2019
Rebecca Densley is a stand-out alumna who earned her Ph.D. earlier this year.
tags: Ph.D., Research, Faculty, Alumni & Friends
Oct 31, 2019
The College of Media & Communication offers a variety of graduate student assistantship opportunities for students in our master’s and doctoral programs. In addition to tuition fee waivers and monthly stipends, graduate students on assistantships receive quality experience that can help prepare them for careers as communication professionals, researchers and educators.
Oct 23, 2019
In the last decade, the popularity of social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat has skyrocketed. Eric Rasmussen, an associate professor and director of the doctoral program in Texas Tech University's College of Media & Communication, led a team of researchers on a study to see what about social-media use impacts emerging adults' mental well-being.
tags: Research, Communication Studies, Advertising, Public Relations, Faculty, Spotlight, CoMC News
Oct 14, 2019
With so much information floating around, it's hard for users to sort through it all and know what is credible and what is not. According to new research by Erik Bucy, the Marshall and Sharleen Formby Regents Professor of Strategic Communication in the College of Media & Communication at Texas Tech University, a certain level of procedural news knowledge – background information about how mainstream media operate – helps users sort legitimate content from disinformation.
tags: Spotlight, Faculty, Research, CoMC News, Digital Media & Professional Communication
Oct 8, 2019
As the Hispanic population continues to grow in the U.S., so does the representation of Hispanic characters on television. Punyanunt-Carter, along with assistant professor Marilda Oviedo and instructor Samer Melhem, studied college students' perceptions and portrayals of Hispanics on television and how those potentially impact their beliefs about race.
tags: Research, Communication Studies, CoMC News, Faculty
Oct 4, 2019
David D. Perlmutter, Ph.D., professor and dean of the Texas Tech University College of Media & Communication, was inducted as president of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) on Aug. 9 at the annual AEJMC conference in Toronto.
Oct 4, 2019
Nick Bowman, an associate professor of journalism and creative media industries in Texas Tech University's College of Media & Communication, received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award to study augmented and virtual reality tools. This award will put Texas Tech and the College of Media & Communication at the forefront of this technology as it is used for information, persuasion and entertainment.
tags: Faculty, Journalism, Research, CoMC News, Creative Media Industries, Spotlight
Sep 27, 2019
Faculty from the Texas Tech University College of Media & Communication have been awarded two grants from the National Science Foundation, a prominent source of federal funding and an unusual funding agency for communications-related fields.
tags: Communication Studies, Journalism, CoMC News, Center for Communication Research, Faculty, Digital Media & Professional Communication, Research, Creative Media Industries
Sep 27, 2019
The research shows how communication between students and their mothers and fathers differ based on gender and intact-versus-divorced families.
tags: Faculty, Research, Communication Studies, Public Relations, Spotlight, CoMC News
Sep 27, 2019
Asheley Landrum is collaborating with KQED in California to study science media engagement among millennials after receiving a grant from the National Science Foundation.
tags: CoMC News, Faculty, Research, Advertising, Spotlight
Sep 25, 2019
The training program will educate people on how to distinguish predatory journals from legitimate ones.
tags: Research, Communication Studies, CoMC News, Faculty, Center for Communication Research
Sep 1, 2019
The Texas Tech University College of Media & Communication is proud to welcome 13 new full-time faculty members to its ranks for the 2019-2020 academic year. These industry professionals and research experts will help meet the needs of our growing student body while producing scholarly work and research partnerships that support Texas Tech’s Tier One status.
tags: Spotlight, Research, Faculty, Public Relations, Journalism, CoMC News, Advertising, Communication Studies, Media Strategies, Creative Media Industries, Digital Media & Professional Communication
Aug 26, 2019
After serving as vice president and president-elect, David Perlmutter will be installed at the organization’s annual conference today.
Aug 2, 2019
More than two dozen Texas Tech University College of Media & Communication faculty, students and alumni will participate in the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) 102nd Annual Conference, scheduled for August 7-10, 2019, in Toronto, Canada.
tags: Ph.D., Research, Faculty, Center for Communication Research, Communication Studies, Journalism, Alumni & Friends, Advertising, Thomas Jay Harris Institute for Hispanic and International Communication, Students, M.A., CoMC News, Media Strategies, Digital Media & Professional Communication, Public Relations, Creative Media Industries
Alumna Marisa Hohensee (M.A. MCOM, 2018) was among one of many sports media students who used her time in the program to gain real-world experience with an internship as a Festival-Support Community Outreach Intern with the 2018 Orange Bowl in Miami.
Jun 3, 2019
College of Media & Communication master's student Jeanette Moya has always drawn strength from larger-than-life types of characters that exemplify power, strength and honor.
May 23, 2019
More than 50 College of Media & Communication faculty, students and alumni will participate in the 69th annual International Communication Association Conference, to be held May 24-28, in Washington, D.C., at the Washington Hilton Hotel.
tags: Faculty, CoMC News, Center for Communication Research, Students, Alumni & Friends, Ph.D., M.A., Research
Read the latest news from Texas Tech University College of Media & Communication.
tags: Faculty, CoMC News, Research, Creative Media Industries, Communication Studies, Journalism
Apr 4, 2019
Along with doctoral candidate Derrick Holland, Coy Callison examined how experience and ideology play roles in effective messaging of water conservation.
tags: Research