Mara Alper, associate professor in the Department of Television-Radio, was mentioned the new book, The Power of Forgiveness by Kenneth Briggs for her documentary work. She recently published an article in "Inside Mexico," about the Huichol tribe, a group she is currently filming for a documentary titled, Visions of the Huichol. The documentary was will be exhibited at the Kampo Museum, an art museum in Kyoto, Japan, in November 2009. She also served as VP for the University Film & Video Association (UFVA) conference at the University of New Orleans in August.
Julie Blumberg, assistant professor in the Department of Cinema, Photography and Media Arts, attended the "Future Of Television Conference" in March 2009. While in Los Angeles, Blumberg did research for the school’s television writing curriculum. She met with major show creators of "The Shield," "The Unit," "The Closer" to discuss if technology is affecting how industry professionals write and pitch. She also spoke on a panel entitled, "Teaching Television Writing in the Post-Network Age," at the University Film and Video Association (UFVA) Conference in August.
Dennis Charsky, assistant professor in the Department of Strategic Communication, was an invited speaker at the "Games in Education" symposium in August 2008. He gave a presentation, entitled "A Framework of Integrating Games into the Classroom," and was part of a panel discussion, "Learning Outcomes with Games." He also published a paper in the September/October 2008 issue of TechTrends, entitled, “Integrating Commercial Off-the-Shelf Video Games into School Curriculums.”
Changhee Chun, associate professor in the Department of Cinema, Photography and Media Arts, finished his documentary, "Lost Baggage." The film is a glimpse into the lives of migrant workers in South Korea and was screened at the University Film and Video Association Conference (UFVA) conference in New Orleans this summer. He also presented a session at the conference titled, “Find Your Inner Seoul! Developing Cross-Cultural Documentary Research & Production Course in South Korea.”
Nancy Cornwell, professor and chair of the Department of Television-Radio, presented a paper at the University of Melbourne Law School's Centre for Media and Communications Law annual conference on Media, Communications and Public Speech in November 2008.
Cathy Crane, associate professor in Cinema, Photography and Media Arts, received a 2009 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Film. Her recent short film, Adrift, screened as part of Newfilmmakers series at Anthology Film Archives in New York City and was juried to screen at NEWPORT MILLS in Newport, NH from August 8- November 7, 2009 as part of the H2O FILM ON WATER art exhibit. This film project received support from the Provost’s Office for Creative and Small Project grants. The Carrying Place, a feature-length fiction film screenplay Crane co-wrote with Lee DeLong, made the second round in competition for the Sundance Screenwriters Lab.
Matthew Fee, director of the Park Scholar Program and a lecturer in the Department of Cinema, Photography, and Media Arts, has been published in the Routledge anthology, Genre and Cinema: Ireland and Transnationalism. Fee's essay, " 'Sometimes the Imagination is a Safer Place' -- Fantastic Spaces and The Fifth Province," explores how the genre of the fantastic has defined national identity in Irish cinema.
Arhlene Flowers, assistant professor in the Department of Strategic Communication, and Katalin (Kati) Lustyik, assistant profesor in the Department of Television-Radio, presented a paper, titled "Battling Junk Food Advertising in Cyberspace: Positions in the UK and Hungary," at the conference "Beyond East and West: Two Decades of Media Transformation after the Fall of Communism," which took place at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary in June 2009. Lustyik presented a second paper, titled "Promoting Regional Content but Raising a Global Consumer: Minimax, a New Regional Children's Television Network in Eastern Europe."
Ron Jude, associate professor in Cinema, Photography and Media Arts, had his work featured in an exhibition at Gallery Luisotti in Los Angeles this summer. He also completed work on a new book called emmett, and will be published by The Ice Plant in 2010.
Scott Hamula, associate professor and director of the Integrated Marketing Communications program, proposed and moderated a panel, "Working Social Media Before it Works You: Best Practices for Advertising and Public Relations," at the 2009 AEJMC Convention in Boston.
Fifteen photographs by Janice Levy, Professor of Cinema, Photography & Media Arts, are being featured by Photo-Eye, an on-line gallery based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The images are from Levy’s “Out of Place” series made in Madagascar. Photo-Eye Galley includes contemporary fine-art photography by internationally renowned photographers. Levy’s photographs will be exhibited through Summer 2010.
Scott Hamula, associate professor and director of the Integrated Marketing Communications degree program, has joined the Advertising Division of the Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication executive board as the Teaching Standards Chair. The Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication (AEJMC) is a non-profit, educational association of faculty, administrators, students and media professionals that is dedicated to promoting the highest standards for education.
Howard Kalman, chair of the Graduate Program and associate professor in the Department of Strategic Communications, presented at paper at the annual international convention of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) entitled, "A Student Perspective: Laptops in the College Classroom" in November 2008. Professor Dennis Charsky presented the paper with Kalman. Kalman also co-authored an article titled, "A Framework for New Scholarship in Human Performance Improvement," published in a special issue of Performance Improvement Quarterly.
Ari Kissiloff, assistant professor in the Department of Strategic Communication, currently serves as the Director of New Media for the New York State Communication Association.
Kurt Komaromi, instructor in Department of Strategic Communication and School of Business, presented a paper, “Marketing 2.0: Changing the Paradigms of the Four P’s,” at the Northeast Association of Business, Economics and Technology (NABET) conference in State College, PA.
Janice Levy, professor in the Department of Cinema, Photography, and Media Arts, made a presentation at the annual meeting of the American Conference of Academic Deans (ACAD). She was on the panel, "Learning to Bridge the World: Strategies for Global Partnerships," and described the College's offerings in Antigua. She recently had fifteen photographs featured by Photo-Eye, an on-line gallery based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The images are from her “Out of Place” series made in Madagascar. Photo-Eye Galley includes contemporary fine-art photography by internationally renowned photographers. She
Kati Lustyik, assistant professor in the Department of Television-Radio, presented at the international conference, "The Ends of Television: Logics, Perspectives, Entanglements," which took place at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam, June 29-July 1, 2009. Her paper was titled, "Transnational Children's Channels in Post-Socialist Europe.” Lustyik also wrote a chapter in the new book titled, Chapter in Youth, Media and Culture in the Asia Pacific Region.
Mead Loop, associate professor in the Department of Journalism, was appointed to a two-year term as a director of the National Scholastic Press Association and Associated College Press, which work to improve student media in colleges and high schools. He also teamed up with Maura Gladys '10 to conduct research on the credibility and practices of the reporters who cover fantasy sports - the first such research of its kind in the country. Their work is featured in the December 2008 issue of Quill magazine, the national publication of the Society of Professional Journalists.
Virginia Mansfield-Richardson, associate dean of the Roy H. Park School of Communications and associate professor in the Department of Journalism, is author of the book, Asian Americans and the Mass Media, and author of the chapter "The Essential Role of Chinese as the World's Leading Logographic Writing System in Global Communication" in the book Chinese Communication Theory and Research. She is also director of the TREES Institute (Teaching and Research in Environmental Ethics and Sustainability) and the Park Sustainability Project. She was a reporter at The Washington Post for 12 years.
Nicholas Muellner, associate professor in the Department of Cinema, Photography and Media Arts, published a book titled, The Photograph Commands Indifference, that features personal, historical, and philosophical inquiry into the relationship between photographs and monuments.
Tom Nicholson, associate professor in the Department of Television-Radio, worked on the two-hour PBS documentary "The Gold Rush." The show aired as part of the American Experience series.
Jack Powers, assistant professor in the Department of Television-Radio, presented a paper at the AEJMC conference titled, “Depictions of Minority Characters on Popular Children's Cable Programs: A Content Analysis" in August 2009.
David Priester, director of Technical Operations, was elected to a seat on the Society of Broadcast Engineers Board of Directors. The Society of Broadcast Engineers (SBE) is the only organization devoted to the advancement of all levels and types of broadcast engineering. The organization has more than 5,500 members and 112 local chapters.
Megan Roberts, associate professor in the Department of Television-Radio, and Raymond Ghirardo, professor in the Department of Art, received a grant from the Individual Artist's Program of the New York State Council on the Arts to create new work in their series of video/sound installations. They were also recently awarded Artist in Residence Fellowships at the Skaftfell Cultural Center in Seydisfjordur, Iceland, and the Robert M. MacNamara Foundation in Westport, Maine.
Gordon Rowland, professor in the Department of Strategic Communication, served as guest editor of a special issue of Performance Improvement Quarterly on the topic Implications of Complexity. He contributed two pieces to the issue, including “The Challenge of New Science: A Primer on Complexity,” and “Performance Improvement Assuming Complexity.” Rowland also published an article in Educational Technology Magazine and gave the keynote address for the Design and Technology special interest group (SIG) at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2008 Annual Meeting.
Todd Schack, assistant professor in the Department of Journalism, had a chapter titled, "Perpetual Media Wars: The Cultural Front in the Wars on Terror and Drugs" published in the edited volume of The War on Terror and American Popular Culture: September 11 and Beyond.
John Scott, assistant professor in the Department of Television-Radio, had his documentary, "Scouts are Cancelled," selected into The Hot Docs Documentary Film Festival in Toronto in April 2007. Hot Docs is one of the most competitive film festivals in the world, with about 5 percent of submissions selected for screening. The film also won top prize in the documentary category at The University Film and Video Association's 2007 conference and was screened at The Festivalletteratura, Italy's largest literature festival, and at The Atlantic Film Festival in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Steven Seidman, associate professor and chair of the Department of Strategic Communication, had his book, Posters, Propaganda, and Persuasion in Election Campaigns around the World and through History, published in September 2008. In October 2008, he published an article entitled "Studying Election Campaign Posters and Propaganda: What Can We Learn?" in International Journal of Instructional Media. He was also elected vice president of the International Visual Literacy Association, and presented a paper at the organization's conference.
Michael Serino, student media adviser for The Ithacan, presented three sessions at the Spring 2009 College Media Convention in New York City in March 2009. The topics were “Narrative Journalism,” “Multimedia: A New Kind of Storytelling,” and “Philosophy for Journalists.” The conference draws thousands of students, advisers and media professionals to the city each spring.
Gossa Tsegaye, assistant professor in the Department of Television-Radio, premiered his documentary titled “The Jungle’s Edge” in September 2007. The film is about daily life in the Jungle, the wooded area in Ithaca's Inlet area that for decades has served as a home for the homeless.
Stephen Tropiano, director of the Los Angeles Program and associate professor in the Department of Television-Radio, has been appointed to the executive committee of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. He will represent the academic branch of the television academy, a professional organization of more than 15,000 members. As a member of the executive committee, he will be involved in the planning of the Emmy Awards and work closely with the Academy Foundation. He is also featured in You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story, a five-hour documentary chronicling the history of Warner Brothers in honor of its 60th anniversary. The documentary aired on PBS’ American Masters in September 2008. He can also be seen in the “making of” documentary on the recently released DVD of Risky Business. Tropiano also published a new book titled, Obscene, Indecent, Immoral, and Offensive: 100+ Years of Censored, Banned and Controversial Films.
Cory Young, assistant professor in the Department of Strategic Communication, has authored a book chapter entitled, “Out and Studying Abroad: Unique Challenges to Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Students,” which is published in the book, Educational Access and Social Justice: A Global Perspective. She also authored a chapter in the recently published book, Visual Impact: The Power of Visual Persuasion. Young’s chapter is entitled, “The Power of Visual Images: Constructions of Mexicans in Two 1996 Presidential Advertisements.”
Patricia R. Zimmermann, professor in the Department of Cinema, Photography, and Media Arts, co-presented a lecture and curated screening with Pamela Wintle, senior archivist of the Human Studies Film Archives of the Smithsonian Institution, at St. Mary's College of Maryland. Zimmermann presented at the lecture at the University of Iowa and served as a juror for the Iowa City International Documentary Festival in April 2009. She was an invited panelist at the opening symposium of the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. Zimmermann will also serve as the Shaw Foundation Endowed Professor in the Wee Kim Wee School of Communications at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore from December 2009-August 2010.
