The Department of Communication at UMass Amherst once again had a strong presence at the National Communication Association annual conference in Seattle, WA this year.
The Department of Communication at UMass Amherst once again had a strong presence at the National Communication Association annual conference in Seattle, WA this year.
The UMass Amherst team, led by project co-PI Jonathan Corpus Ong, associate professor of global digital media, will lead the ethnography and customer discovery aspects of the project, which aims to build capacity of AAPI organizations in response to the networked harassment and hate crimes that their communities have experienced over the past year.
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Assistant Professor Weiai (Wayne) Xu has been named to the 2021-22 Scholars Program of the UMass Amherst Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR), which promotes excellence in social science research.
Xu will join seven other faculty members from across UMass in the yearlong interdisciplinary ISSR Scholars Program. The scholars will take part in regular seminars to help develop a strong research grant proposal.
In honor of our 2021 UMass Amherst Communication graduates, we paid tribute with a special video to salute our seniors and wish them well in their next chapter.
Approximately 100 students joined a Zoom Industry Speaker Webinar event with Amir Moini ’11 in April. Moini is the employer branding lead at Netflix and author of 22 Life Lessons, and took students behind the scenes at his place of employment, Netflix, and talked about what it’s like to work for the innovative streaming giant. Moini shared information about his role, which includes recruitment, social media management, creative video directing, photoshoots, and interfacing with the media.
Mari Castañeda, dean of the Commonwealth Honors College and professor of communications, and Dean of Students Evelyn Ashley are part of a group of leaders working with the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education on its equity agenda. “It is an honor to be part of this effort to reimagine the New Undergraduate Experience and to be in conversation with colleagues from across the state about racial equity in higher education,” Castañeda said.
Best-selling author and associate professor at UCLA, Safiya U. Noble, Ph.D., gave a virtual talk titled “New Paradigms of Justice: How Knowledge Curators Can Respond to the Information Crisis." Approximately 185 faculty, staff, students, and alums tuned in for the talk in April, when Noble argued that data discrimination is a real social problem that demands new paradigms of justice in the technology sector.