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Mar 12, 2020
The annual Texas Tech Public Relations Showdown, now in its sixth year, is a week-long competition that brings together teams of undergraduate students to test their skills through daily challenges.
tags: Alumni & Friends, Students, Faculty, Public Relations, Student Organizations, CoMC News
Mar 12, 2020
The 2020 Thomas Jay Harris Distinguished Lecture Series was held Friday, March 6 at 11:30 a.m. at the International Cultural Center at Texas Tech University and featured speaker Robert G. Picard, Ph.D., an established academic expert on media management and economics.
tags: Alumni & Friends, Thomas Jay Harris Institute for Hispanic and International Communication, CoMC News, Faculty
Feb 28, 2020
Anwen Pope, a senior majoring in creative media industries from Austin, was one of this year’s recipients of the Student Academic Leadership Awards from the Texas Tech Parents Association’s annual Faculty & Student Awards Breakfast Reception.
Feb 20, 2020
Haoran Chu, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the College of Media & Communication at Texas Tech University, studies how motivation is affected by message framing.
tags: Research, Public Relations, CoMC News, Faculty, Spotlight
Feb 19, 2020
Bolanle Olaniran, a professor of communication studies in the Texas Tech College of Media & Communication, studies organizational communication in a variety of ways, still focusing on the computer-mediated side, but paying attention to new technologies, such as social media, and their impact.
tags: CoMC News, Spotlight, Research, Communication Studies, Faculty
Feb 7, 2020
A professor in the Department of Journalism & Creative Media Industries at the Texas Tech College of Media & Communication, Eko's work focuses on media and communication in a variety of forms – human rights, freedom of expression and comparative and international communication.
tags: Research, CoMC News, Spotlight, Creative Media Industries, Faculty, Journalism
Jan 15, 2020
The College of Media & Communication at Texas Tech University has been leading the charge to meet the demand for broader curriculum offerings and research related to video games. Megan Condis, Ph.D., assistant professor of communication studies, is one of the faculty members who have been brought on board to do just that.
tags: CoMC News, Research, Faculty, Spotlight, Communication Studies
Jan 10, 2020
In the College of Media & Communication Graduate Program, master’s students must complete a final research project in the form of a master’s report or thesis project. Find out which of the two options is the best fit for you.
Jan 6, 2020
After graduating with a bachelor’s degree in Public Relations in 1999, Randy Wade is welcomed back to the College of Media & Communication as Director of Development.
tags: Alumni & Friends, Spotlight, Public Relations, Staff, CoMC News
Jan 6, 2020
Kerk Kee, Ph.D., an associate professor of professional communication in Texas Tech University's College of Media & Communication, is using his NSF CAREER grant to develop a framework to measure, build and improve virtual organizations’ capacity.
tags: CoMC News, Research, Faculty, Spotlight, Digital Media & Professional Communication
Dec 18, 2019
Students in PR 4412, Public Relations Campaigns, are working to rebuild and strengthen the local student chapter of Habitat for Humanity, a nonprofit group focused on providing affordable housing for low- to middle-income people in the Hub City area.
tags: Faculty, Public Relations, CoMC News, Students
Dec 1, 2019
Nick Bowman, Ph.D., an associate professor of journalism & creative media industries in Texas Tech University's College of Media & Communication, has been awarded funding from the U.S. Fulbright Program to travel to Taiwan to engage in further research on the subject of video games and interactivity.
tags: CoMC News, Research, Journalism, Creative Media Industries, Faculty, Spotlight, Center for Communication Research
Dec 1, 2019
Derrick Holland (Ph.D., 2019), is one of many Ph.D. alumni who have gone on to secure prestigious opportunities upon graduating from the CoMC program.
tags: Research, PhD, Alumni & Friends
Dec 1, 2019
Rebecca Densley is a stand-out alumna who earned her Ph.D. earlier this year.
tags: Alumni & Friends, Research, Faculty, PhD
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: Advertising, Staff, Faculty, Students, CoMC News
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: Journalism, Faculty, Alumni & Friends, Staff, Dean's Student Ambassadors, Advertising
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: Advertising, Public Relations, Communication Studies, CoMC News, Faculty, Research, Spotlight
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: Research, Spotlight, Digital Media & Professional Communication, Faculty, CoMC News
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: CoMC News, Communication Studies, Research, Faculty