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CoMC Graduate Student Assistantships

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.

tags: CoMC News, Research, Ph.D., Students, Spotlight, M.A.

Professors Analyze Social Media's Impact on Mental Health in Emerging Adults

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

CoMC Regents Professor Studies News Knowledge's Impact on Digital Disinformation

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

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