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CoMC director recognized with campus diversity award

Jul 8, 2020

Julia Heard Witt, M.Ed., senior director of advising and recruiting for the College of Media & Communication, was recently recognized with a President’s Excellence Award for her work in promoting diversity, equity and inclusion on the Texas Tech University campus.

tags: Creative Media Industries, Spotlight, Staff, Communication Studies, CoMC News, Media Strategies, Advertising, Journalism, Digital Media & Professional Communication, Public Relations

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: M.A., CoMC News, Spotlight, Students, Research, PhD

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.

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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: Research, Spotlight, Digital Media & Professional Communication, Faculty, CoMC News

CoMC Professor Receives Fulbright Award to Study Augmented, Virtual Reality

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: Journalism, CoMC News, Creative Media Industries, Faculty, Research, Spotlight

CoMC Welcomes New Faculty for 2019 School Year

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.

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