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Jour 4560/6560: Interactive News/Flash (Syllabus), Jin Yang

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

Course Description: Creation and development of interactive news story for web using Flash and its ActionScript; integrating writing, reporting, designing and presenting audio, video, slideshows elements in production of multimedia story.

Jour 4629tv: Writing/Reporting (Syllabus), Stephanie Scurlock

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

Course Description: Gathering, writing and presentation of news for television. Students will shoot, write, edit, and voice packages for use in both the reporting and producing classes.

Jour 4639: Tv News Producing (Syllabus), Joe Hayden

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

Course Description: Producing, writing, editing and using electronic equipment to assemble a television newscast; emphasis on performing the various tasks in a working newsroom.

Jour 4700: Mass Communication Law (Syllabus), Alexis Luttrell Tutor

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

Course Description: Origin and development of legal principles affecting freedom of expression and provisions of laws of libel, slander, copyright, and other statutes limiting communication in fields of publishing and broadcasting.

Jour 4708/6708: Mass Media Ethics (Syllabus), Thomas J. Hrach

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

No abstract provided.

Jour 4900/6900: Multimedia Mass Communication (Syllabus), Matthew J. Haught

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

Course Description: Using computers to learn process/software/production design concepts involved in multimedia primarily designed for computer communication; digital editing of still images, off-line video editing, animation and production techniques for assembling all into a single CD or video to convey advertising, public relations, or news editorial concepts.

Jour 4998: Multimedia News Lab (Syllabus), Ashley D. Furrow

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

Course Description: Applied skills in writing, videography, editing and studio work to present a multi-media product.

Jour 7000: Media Writing/Editing (Syllabus), Joe Hayden

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

Course Description: Information-gathering, writing, and editing skills necessary for any field within journalism and mass communication through lectures, discussions, and exercises that meld theory to technique; both laboratory writing and field assignments.

Jour 7000: Media Writing/Editing (Syllabus), Joe Hayden

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

Course Description: Information-gathering, writing, and editing skills necessary for any field within journalism and mass communication through lectures, discussions, and exercises that meld theory to technique; both laboratory writing and field assignments.

Jour 7015: Advanced Media Writing (Syllabus), David Waters

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

Course Description: Designed to help students become more precise as well as versatile writers by diagnosing their writing, polishing their grammar and editing skills, and teaching them to write with clarity, cohesiveness, and conciseness.

Jour 7015: Advanced Media Writing (Syllabus), David Waters

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

Course Description: Designed to help students become more precise as well as versatile writers by diagnosing their writing, polishing their grammar and editing skills, and teaching them to write with clarity, cohesiveness, and conciseness.

Jour 7025/8025: Law Mass Communications (Syllabus), David Arant

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

Course Description: The study of laws and regulations affecting mass media with attention to social and political forces that shape the law; exploration of First Amendment theories as well as the constitutional framework of the legal system; in-depth legal research in the student's selected area of interest.

Jour 7050: Mass Communication Theory (Syllabus), Carrie Brown-Smith

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

Course Description: Key concepts and development of theories offered to explain operation and effects of mass communication media; multidisciplinary overview of theories dealing with advertising, broadcasting, print, and public relations messages, media, and effects.

Jour 7075: Mass Communication Research Methods (Syllabus), Rick Fischer

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

Course Description: Familiarization with content analysis, survey research, data analysis, and field studies as practiced by reporters, editors, and public relations decision makers; modern research techniques and class project using computer analysis.

Jour 7100: Entrepreneurial Journalism (Syllabus), Carrie Brown-Smith

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

Course Description: This course will examine business models and new media tools that can encourage entrepreneurial thinking and planning in various fields of mass communication, as well as the theory and practices of traditional media management. Subjects will include environment assessment, organization and strategy, budgeting, decision-making, and other functions in advertising, news, and public relations.

Jour 7450/8450: Public Relations Mgmt (Syllabus), Rick Fischer

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

Course Description: Development and management of public relations practice, department, or consultancy through study of planning and decision-making techniques; aspects of public relations practice that differ significantly from other enterprises; development of proposals and presentations; and management of financial and human resources.

Jour 7450/8450: Public Relations Mgmt (Syllabus), Rick Fischer

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

Course Description: Development and management of public relations practice, department, or consultancy through study of planning and decision-making techniques; aspects of public relations practice that differ significantly from other enterprises; development of proposals and presentations; and management of financial and human resources.

The Purdue Online Writing Lab: Engaging With Local And Global Communities Of Writers, Joshua Paiz, Caitlan Spronk

Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Graduate Student Presentations

In 1995, then writing center director Muriel Harris and her staff developed and launched the precursor to the Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL). Originally, this was an in-house writing resource for Purdue University faculty and staff. Since then, however, the Purdue OWL has become a prime location for community engagement both locally and globally, with over 200,000,000 hits annually. This poster at the Purdue University Academic Community Engagement Poster Presentations demonstrates the impact of the Purdue OWL both locally and globally. It will also highlight how that engagement has changed overtime, through the growth the Purdue OWL’s static resources, to …

Owls Across Borders: An Exploratory Study On The Place Of Online Writing Labs In The Efl Context, Joshua Paiz

Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Graduate Student Presentations

The study reported on in this presentation at the 2013 Symposium on Second Language Writing (SSLW) examined the content creation best practices of four content development teams working on the Purdue OWL. Utilizing focus group methods the study sought to examine what strategies developers utilized to overcome the challenges faced while developing L2 instructional content for a global audience. By examining the various drafts of resources before they finally went live on the Purdue OWL, this study investigated the linguistic and rhetorical choices that developers made in an attempt to create content that would be of maximal user to L2 …

Design And Analysis Of Scalable Video Streaming Systems, Musab S. Al-Hadrusi

Wayne State University Dissertations

Despite the advancement in multimedia streaming technology, many multimedia applications are still face major challenges, including provision of Quality-of-Service (QoS), system scalability, limited resources, and cost. In this dissertation, we develop and analyze a new set of metrics based on two particular video streaming systems, namely: (1) Video-on-Demand (VOD) with video advertisements system and (2) Automated Video Surveillance System (AVS).

We address the main issues in the design of commercial VOD systems: scalability and support of video advertisements. We develop a scalable delivery framework for streaming media content with video advertisements. The delivery framework combines the benefits of stream merging …

Maximizing Resource Utilization In Video Streaming Systems, Mohammad A. Alsmirat

Wayne State University Dissertations

Video streaming has recently grown dramatically in popularity over the Internet, Cable TV, and wire-less networks. Because of the resource demanding nature of video streaming applications, maximizing resource utilization in any video streaming system is a key factor to increase the scalability and decrease the cost of the system. Resources to utilize include server bandwidth, network bandwidth, battery life in battery operated devices, and processing time in limited processing power devices. In this work, we propose new techniques to maximize the utilization of video-on-demand (VOD) server resources. In addition to that, we propose new framework to maximize the utilization of …

Reading The Tea Leaves: The Media And Sino-American Rapprochement, 1963-1972, Guolin Yi

Wayne State University Dissertations

This dissertation aims to find out what role(s) the media in the United States and China played in their historic rapprochement from 1963 to 1972. In order to examine how they covered the major events that affected Sino-American relations, I select seven elite U.S. media and two Chinese official newspapers to study. These media include: the New York Times, Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, CBS, ABC, NBC, People's Daily, and Reference News,

The study is based on the assumption that media, instead of reporting the information "objectively," have the ability to affect the content they deliver and set the agenda for …

The Role Of Online Social Media In The Acculturation Process Of North Korean Refugee Young Adults In South Korea, Sung Mi Han

Wayne State University Dissertations

The purpose of this study is to investigate media's influences on the acculturation of North Korean refugee young adults in South Korea, especially focusing on identifying the role of online social media. The study examined the acculturation and media patterns of the refugee young adults and found evidence that the use of South Korean media and North Korea-related media enhanced the acculturation domains of South and North Korean cultures, and therefore the utilization of both media as a whole can facilitate the pluralism model of acculturation. Specifically, a series of hierarchical multiple regressions revealed that South Korean mass media use …

Examining The Use Of Spirituality As A Form Of Social Support In Computer-Mediated Communication, Kristopher Micheal Paal

Wayne State University Dissertations

Social Information Processing Theory (Walther, 1992) suggests that individuals can develop and sustain relationships in online contexts even with limited cues present. With more individuals using computer-mediated communication (CMC) for relational processes, there is an increased need for examination of how communication is used with fewer cues present. Due to its contributions to holistic health, spirituality is a dimension of support which also necessitates increased examination as well. The present study examines how CMC can be used for the relational purposes of spiritual and social support in online communities. Messages from two separate online bereavement communities were analyzed to discover …

The Death Of The Press Release And The Changing Media Relations Landscape: A Public Relations Perspective, Jenn Crotty

Theses

The public relations industry of today is a much different one to that of a decade ago. The changes that are taking place within the public relations industry are monumental and are not going unnoticed. In recent years the explosion of new media and social networks has led to a distorted media relations landscape. Many academics and public relations professionals have began to focus on the importance of incorporating new media and social networks into their occupation. It appears as though the traditional media landscape is being swept under the rug.

This study aims to challenge the perception that new …

Do Household Cable Tv Viewing Patterns Demonstrate Efficiency And Concentration?, Rae Chang, Pulak Ghosh, Gwangjae Jung, Robert J. Kauffman, Peiran Zhang

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

No abstract provided.

Symposium: Introduction: The Fortieth Anniversary Of Title Ix, Erin E. Buzuvis

Faculty Scholarship

The five articles in this Symposium issue reflect on harassment and bullying in schools, the equal treatment of a high school girls basketball team, and an annotated bibliography on the subject. The articles speak to the effectiveness of Title IX legislation.

Keep Your Update To Yourself, Neil M. Richards

Scholarship@WashULaw

An essay from Wired Magazine (UK)'s special edition, The Wired World in 2013. The essay makes the argument that frictionless sharing of reading habits should decline in 2013.

The Perils Of Social Reading, Neil M. Richards

Scholarship@WashULaw

Our law currently treats records of our reading habits under two contradictory rules: rules mandating confidentiality and rules permitting disclosure. Recently, the rise of the social Internet has created more of these records and more pressures on when and how they should be shared. Companies like Facebook, in collaboration with many newspapers, have ushered in the era of “social reading,” in which what we read may be “frictionlessly shared” with our friends and acquaintances. Disclosure and sharing are on the rise.

This Article sounds a cautionary note about social reading and frictionless sharing. Social reading might have some appeal, but …

Internationalization As De-Westernization Of The Curriculum: The Case Of Journalism At An Australian University, Rhonda Breit, Levi Obijiofor, Richard Fitzgerald

Graduate School of Media and Communications

Internationalization of the curriculum points to the interdependent and interconnected (globalized) world in which higher education operates. However, while international awareness is crucial to the study of journalism, in practice this often means an Anglo-American curriculum based around Western principles of journalism education and training that are deeply rooted in Western values and traditions. This tendency to privilege Western thought, practice, and values obscures from view other journalism practices and renders Western models of journalism desirable, replicable, and transplantable to any part of the world. This article discusses the engagement of a small group of staff in the process of …