Communication professor Dmitri Williams visited virtual world "Azeroth" to lead an academic conference on the relationship between role-playing games and the real world
Communication professor Douglas Thomas' co-authored article, "The Gamer Disposition," says online gamers make excellent employees because of five distinct positive traits
The first comprehensive analysis of Spanish-language TV network coverage of US politics was unveiled during a webcast news briefing on Thursday, February 17. Researchers from the Lear Center Local News Archive , a project of the USC Annenberg School for Communication and the University of Wisconsin, studied network and local news coverage by Univision and Telemundo stations in Los Angeles, Miami and New York in the weeks leading up to the 2004 local and national U.S. elections. Media advisory
Local TV news broadcasts offered minimal coverage of politics in 2004, according to a new Lear Center report released on Tuesday, Feb. 15. In fact, local stations devoted 12 times as much coverage to sports and weather than they did to coverage of local elections. The...
Public relations professor Craig Carroll presented his research into media influences on corporate reputation at the fifth international Agenda Setting conference on September 24 in Bonn, Germany. The conference, hosted by the Media Tenor Institute, featured participation by international leaders in media and corporate communication, including Mark Adams , Head of Media Relations, World Economic Forum, Geneva; Frits Bolkestein , EU Commissioner, Brussels, Belgium; Peter Eigen , President Transparency International, Berlin, Germany; Fred Kempe , Editor-in-Chief, Wall Street Journal Europe; Irene Khan , President, Amnesty International; Robert S. Lichter , President, Center for Media & Public Affairs, Washington, DC. Conference Program»