Associate professor and director of elondocs Brooke Barnett has produced and released a DVD titled “Documentary Filmmaking: Tips from the Trenches,” which encases interviews with seasoned filmmakers about the technical, legal, ethical and business issues of documentary film.
How will the Internet change the workplace, family life, education and many other foundations of society between 2004 and 2014? Significantly in a future that’s up for grabs – that’s the view of the nearly 1,300 technology experts and scholars who responded to The Future of the Internet I survey.
You could say she had declared her major as a pre-adolescent. At the budding age of 10—still a child—she had already articulated her career aspiration: She had a passion for print, and that was it.
The first half of their day followed a familiar script. They attended meetings. They filled out paperwork. They otherwise hung out in an office and did typical, mundane intern tasks. But in Los Angeles, what first day would be complete without a trip to a television set?
Paul Parsons, dean of the School of Communications, has been elected vice president of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication (ASJMC) during 2008-09. He will become President-Elect in 2009-10 and then ASJMC President in 2010-11.
Janna Quitney Anderson, associate professor in Elon’s School of Communications, has been named the 2008 winner of the Outstanding Educator Award in the Newspaper Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC).
It’s not that she isn’t used to navigating big cities. She grew up in South Barrington, Ill., a suburb of busy Chicago. It’s not that she can’t be away from home. She and her parents are separated by almost 850 miles when she’s taking classes at Elon.
Research by Frances Ward-Johnson and John Guiniven about the ethics of
the social media release appeared in the June 20-26 edition of the
Triad Business Journal in an article headlined “Elon professors
research ethics of social media use.”
Some days she’ll go hours without speaking English. If she’s taking the subway, she’s most likely speaking Spanish. When she gets to work, she’s definitely speaking Spanish.
Connie Book, associate dean of the School of Communications, spoke with News 14 Carolina on June 26 about public records in North Carolina and how citizens' rights to information kept by government agencies is a key ingredient in healthy democracies.
Paul Parsons, dean of the School of Communications, was interviewed
June 16 by statewide cable news channel News 14 Carolina about layoffs announced the same day at the News &
Observer in Raleigh and the Charlotte Observer in Charlotte, N.C.
Paul Parsons, dean of the School of Communications, attended the 2008 New Media Academic Summit in Chicago focusing on blogs, twitters, wikis and other social media being used in business, journalism and politics.
Associate professor Jessica Gisclair was appointed to a two-year term as Vice President of Ethics for the Public Relations Society of America Tar Heel chapter in Greensboro, N.C.
Tom Nelson, an associate professor in the School of Communications, presented a paper June 18 in Montreal, Canada, on the topic of diversity in a university classroom.
Senior cinema major Emily Robinson will attend the Fusion
Arts Exchange program in Los Angeles for five weeks. Robinson was selected from
a wide field of applicants as one of five American undergraduate students to
participate with 15 international students in writing and production workshops
at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts.
Students in the Elon in Los Angeles Internship Program have just
launched their class blog, which they will update regularly throughout the summer.
For their first assignment, students were required to create individual
autobiographies, which were edited together and produced by senior Jess
Linderman.
She sat more than 5,000 miles away from comfortable Elon,
N.C. She and her friends were on spring break, so they had left London and
traveled to Italy for a brief and relaxing respite. It was a perfect time to
visit another country and soak up its cultures and traditions.
Glenn Scott, assistant professor in the School of Communications, and Elon
students Ashley Barnas and Craig Campbell are conducting a research project at the
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Ministerial meeting on
the Future of the Internet Economy in Seoul, Korea, June 16-18.
8-6-0. Eryn Gradwell had mixed feelings about that area code. She yearned to see those numbers show up on her phone. But she also knew they weren’t necessarily the harbinger of good news. A phone call from Bristol, Conn., could mean one of two things: acceptance to the ESPN internship program or rejection. And her chances seemed to be tilted toward the latter.
Tim Barber works Monday through Friday every week during the
summer. Sometimes he may come in at 7 a.m., sometimes at 9. But no matter the
arrival time, it’s always Monday through Friday—a typical work week.
It must have been a surreal moment for anyone viewing the
scene: Two women, sitting in the lobby of the Houston Astros Minute Maid Park,
crying with each other. One spouting tears of happiness and acceptance, the
other of memories and appreciation.
Anthony Hatcher, associate professor in the School of Communications,
is interning for the Durham Herald-Sun during the summer for professional
development.
School of Communications assistant professor Peter Kiwitt will present the
film "Break" Aug. 15 at the University Film and Video Association conference in
Colorado Springs, Colo.
Students in the Elon in Los Angeles program have produced the first of
five "Climbing the Ladder" webisodes. The video, which can be viewed
on Elon's YouTube channel, chronicles the program's 20 students as they
live, intern and take classes in the heart of the entertainment
industry.
Kate Catlin '06, an account executive with the Raleigh, N.C., public
relations firm MMI Associates, has received the Triangle Business
Journal’s 40 Under 40 Leadership Award, which honors up-and-coming
leaders under the age of 40 who are making a difference in the
community.
Professor Randy Piland had a photograph run on the front
page of this week’s American Profile, a weekly, four-color magazine that is
carried in newspapers across the country.
Thirty students from an elementary school in Washington, D.C., spent
two days on campus this month as part of a joint program between the
Elon Academy and a nonprofit group dedicated to helping under-served
youth prepare for and succeed in college.
Elon parents Howard C. and Judy Pickett of Cary, N.C., have made a
$110,000 endowment gift to enhance the university’s Isabella Cannon
Leadership Fellows program. The couple made the gift because of the
transformative experience that their daughter, Hilaire, a senior, has
had as a Leadership Fellow at Elon.
The 2008 Faculty Assisting New Students (F.A.N.S.) have been announced: Earl Danieley, Janna Anderson, Andi Metts, Chris Leupold, Paula Patch, Glenn Scott and Amanda Tapler.
More than 90 new members were
inducted into the Elon University School of Communications chapter of Lambda Pi
Eta at a May 6 ceremony in McKinnon Hall.
Live Oak Communications, Elon
University’s student-run, full-service communications agency, was recently
given the “Community Friends” award by Earth Share of North Carolina (ESNC).
Several School of Communications students took part in Student
Undergraduate Research Forum presentations April 29 as part of Elon’s
CELEBRATE! 2008 program.
An annual event that recognizes undergraduate scholarship took place Tuesday with poster displays during College Coffee and dozens of presentations across campus by students whose research interests ranged from chemical synthesis processes to the politics of smoking in North Carolina.