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New Master's Degree In Media Literacy And Digital Culture Announced, Lori Bindig Oct 2014

New Master's Degree In Media Literacy And Digital Culture Announced, Lori Bindig

Lori Bindig

Sacred Heart University is announcing a new master’s degree in media literacy and digital culture expected to launch in the fall of 2015.


Nbc Peacock North Fall 2014, Peacock North Staff Oct 2014

Nbc Peacock North Fall 2014, Peacock North Staff

NBC Peacock North Newsletter

Highlights include: Marilyn's Page -- NBC Sports Reunion -- WNBC-TV Courtroom Sketch Artist Exhibition -- Don Blair Recalls NASA Recovery Mission -- Silent Microphones


Nbc Peacock North Summer 2014, Peacock North Staff Jul 2014

Nbc Peacock North Summer 2014, Peacock North Staff

NBC Peacock North Newsletter

Highlights include: Martin Fletcher, Author -- Brokaw News Center Dedicated -- Peabody Awards Honor Tom Brokaw -- NBCU Opens New Studios on Universal Lot -- NBC Extends Olympics Deal Through 2032 -- Spring Luncheon Photos


Nbc Peacock North Spring 2014, Peacock North Staff Apr 2014

Nbc Peacock North Spring 2014, Peacock North Staff

NBC Peacock North Newsletter

Highlights include: Comcast Buys Time Warner Cable, --Jimmy Fallon Tonight Show Debut -- Official Sound of Music Live -- Cheryl Gould and Russ Ross Retire --Silent Microphones


Nbc Peacock North Winter 2014, Peacock North Staff Jan 2014

Nbc Peacock North Winter 2014, Peacock North Staff

NBC Peacock North Newsletter

Highlights include: Connie Chung Guest Speaker at Spring Luncheon -- Tomorrow Show's 40th Anniversary -- The Rosen Report --Marilyn and John Fider in Africa -- Peacock Apples: Jan & Greg Kasoff


The Value Of International Experiences For Business Students: Measuring Business Student Attitudes Toward Study Abroad, Sean Heffron, Peter A. Maresco Jan 2014

The Value Of International Experiences For Business Students: Measuring Business Student Attitudes Toward Study Abroad, Sean Heffron, Peter A. Maresco

WCBT Faculty Publications

The value of an international experience—especially for students of business—continues to be an area of focus at colleges and universities. Students across all disciplines within the business curriculum: accounting, economics, finance, management, marketing, or sport management are expected by employers to possess knowledge of, and appreciation for, other cultures. Using as a backdrop two unique study abroad programs that immerse students into an intercultural business experience and have them interacting with—and learning from—the local residents as well, the survey research in this study measures student attitudes before and after they study abroad and it notes the changes that students report …


Visuality And The Difficult Differences In Networked Knowledge Communities, Anita August Jan 2014

Visuality And The Difficult Differences In Networked Knowledge Communities, Anita August

English Faculty Publications

This chapter argues that as Networked Knowledge Communities (NKCs) become increasingly the way knowledge is constructed, represented, and circulated, visuality in information-based societies is also being shaped, and shaped by, the interactive and collective ideologies of digital technology environments. Like the written text, which constructs and imposes hegemonic ideals of identity through discursive practices, visual representations of identities also serve as powerful discursive reservoirs of subordinating representations. By focusing on NKCs as an epistemic space that reflects, recirculates, and reacts to bodies of knowledge produced by the institutions of power in the larger social culture, this chapter examines the vulnerability …