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
Nov 7, 2019
Hosted by the Department of Advertising & Brand Strategy in the College of Media & Communication, the 2019 Hub City Student Advertising Competition brought teams of Lubbock-area college students together to create, develop and pitch an advertising campaign to real-world client, University Medical Center.
tags: Students, Advertising, CoMC News, Faculty, Staff
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 24, 2019
Texas Tech University’s College of Media & Communication recently honored three graduates during the annual Outstanding Alumni Awards ceremony at the Overton Hotel on Oct. 18.
tags: Alumni & Friends, Advertising, Staff, Faculty, Journalism, Dean's Student Ambassadors
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
Oct 2, 2019
With tremendous support from CoMC faculty and the student officers of the former TechPR group, the Texas Tech PRSSA chapter has found its new home in CoMC. The PRSSA, or the Public Relations Student Society of America, is the student chapter of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA), the non-profit trade organization for industry professionals and educators with more than 30,000 members around the world.
tags: Student Organizations, Students, Public Relations, Faculty, CoMC News, Communication Studies
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 26, 2019
The Texas Tech University College of Media & Communication Department of Advertising has elected to change its name from Advertising to Advertising & Brand Strategy to better reflect the current curriculum of the program.
tags: Advertising, Students, CoMC News, Faculty
Aug 15, 2019
As the 2019-20 academic year begins, there are new faces to welcome to Texas Tech University. This year’s cohort from the College of Media & Communication Doctoral Program is filled with well-accomplished and driven individuals from a variety of diverse backgrounds.
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