Canes Film Festival

The 16th annual Canes Film Festival is fast approaching, May 3rd through 5th.

Run by our Department of Cinema and Interactive Media, the 2013 Canes Film Festival is a competitive festival open to students enrolled in our Motion Pictures program.  The films are juried by a panel of professionals from the film and television industry.

Click here for the schedule. Click here for samples of work from last year. Contact here if you want more info, or directions to the cinema.

Career Opportunities in the Professional Industry

The School of Communication has an online section of Career Postings in the area.

They include:

• Associate Producer, WESH-TV, Winter Park, FL
• Producer, CBS 4/WFOR-TV, Miami, FL
• Staff Assistant Positions, Miami Dolphins, Davie, FL
• News Photographer, WPBF, Palm Beach Gardens, FL

Click here to read more of the posts.

Faculty member develops Apple App

Clay Ewing, Assistant Professor in the Interactive Media department, has developed an iOS Apple app that helps New Yorkers report illegal advertising by turning social policing into a game.

According to Ewing:

New York City has an illegal advertising problem.  An illegal ad can be fined up to $25,000 a day, yet these fines are rarely collected.  Outdoor advertising companies are able to skirt the laws and regulations put in place by the city for three reasons: ads are everywhere, documenting wrongdoing is an arduous task, and many people believe that illegal advertisements are in fact legal.

Ad Patrol is a mobile game that attempts to address the shortcomings of current law enforcement for illegal advertising.  Using permit data from the Department of Buildings, the game maps out legitimate advertising in the city and then turns policing into a casual game experience.  Players seek out new and existing ads to claim them for their own.  To claim an ad, a player takes a photo and documents the company being advertised.

You can read more about Ewing designing the app (iPhone screenshot pictured below) here and here.

You can read more about the app here. Ewing’s Web site is here.

 

Summer Internships

Tomorrow, Friday, Feb. 8, representatives from Dream Careers, a program for communication-related summer internships, will be meeting with students for advising
appointments throughout the day.

It is an all-inclusive program (housing, staff, transportation, events, etc) that offers guaranteed internships in PR, advertising, film, television, marketing, radio, music, event planning, fashion and many other fields in major cities around the world, including: New York, London, Los Angeles, Chicago, Barcelona, Boston, San Francisco, Hong Kong, Barcelona and Washington, D.C.

Examples of past internships:

Marketing / Advertising / PR: Edelman, Ruder Finn, MWW, Ogilvy

TV, Music, & Film: Comedy Central, NBC Universal, CNN, Warner Music

Fashion: Vera Wang, Chanel, Gucci, BCBG, Betsey Johnson, Dolce & Gabbana

Click here to book a meeting.

Professor Stacks Elected Chair of Commission, Unveils New Blog

Dr. Don Stacks, professor of public relations, is the newly-elected chair of the Institute for Public Relations (IPR) Measurement Commission.

Also, Stacks unveiled a blog he will be running, in conjunction with the IPR, called “Stacks on Research.”

“As chair of the Measurement Commission and a Trustee of the Institute,” he writes, “I will be focusing on research standards, standard-setting, best practices, and how all three contribute to an objective evaluation of how well we did what we set out to do.”

The IPR is an independent nonprofit foundation dedicated to the science beneath the art of public relations.

Click here to read more about the commission announcement.

Click here to read Dr. Stacks’ blog.

Click here to read more about the IPR.

Priority Deadline is Tomorrow

The priority deadline for applying to the MA and Ph.D. programs is tomorrow, Dec. 1. These are competitive programs with many applications being submitted for a limited number of enrollment slots.  

Although we have a “rolling deadline” — e.g., applications are allowed to be submitted for full review after the priority deadline — we encourage you to submit your materials as soon as possible for the best chance of admittance. Applicants who complete their submissions by tomorrow’s priority deadline receive priority treatment by the review committee and program directors.

For more information about how to apply, click here. Frequently Asked Questions are answered here.  The online application is here. To learn more about the faculty in our programs, click here.

We hope you apply, and we look forward to receiving your application. Contact us if there is anything we can do to help you during this process.

 

Professor Ranked Fifth Most Prolific Scholar in Communication

Dr. Michael J. Beatty, Professor of Communication Studies, was listed as the fifth most productive active scholar in the history of the communication discipline, according to a recent ranking published in Communication Education journal.

The journal article, entitled “Prolific Scholarship in Communication Studies: Five Years in Review,” attempted to ascertain who the most prolific scholars and active researchers are. They compiled publication rates for the top-tier academic journals, from the past several years, as well as since 1915.

A professor who works closely with graduate students at the University of Miami, Beatty has been Editor of Communication Monographs and Communication Research Reports. His research runs the gamut from marketing and politics, to communication biology, and research methods (he’s teaching a class next semester on CFA), and social influence and public relations.

A Table presenting the journal article’s data (from page 388) is reproduced below. The full Communication Education article can be read here.

Active Authors with 40 or More Articles, 1915-2011

Rank             Previous Rank         Name                        Total articles     Institution

1                      1                                    McCroskey, J.C.   170                         AL-Birmingham

2                     3                                     Benoit, W.                90                           Ohio

3                    3                                      Richmond, V.         84                          AL-Birmingham

4                    2                                      Burgoon, J.             83                          Arizona

5                    5                                      Beatty, M.               82                           Miami

6                    9                                      Levine, T.R.           79                           MSU

7                    5                                       Behnke, R.             78                           TCU

8                   19                                      Myers, S.A.            67                           WV

9                    8                                       Infante, D.              64                           Kent State

10                 13                                     Martin, M.M.         62                            WV

Application Deadlines Fast Approaching

Application deadlines are fast approaching. We hope you apply for our graduate programs.

The MA and Ph.D. programs have a priority deadline of Dec. 1. That’s only a few weeks away. Links to information about each of our Ph.D., MA, and MFA degrees are here.

The Master of Arts program offers students a flexible opportunity to do advanced research across the communication field while developing an individual concentration. The Master of Fine Arts program emphasizes critical understanding of moving image practice in diverse social and cultural contexts for the creation of work that is relevant and impactful. The Doctor of Philosophy in Communication is a highly individualized program of research and action, collaborating across content and creative areas, methodological orientations, and platforms of expression for engaged scholarship and immersive experience, globally and locally.

Apply online here.

The School of Communication is charting new territory with its curriculum that not only reflects contemporary professional practice, but embraces the future with a vigorous intellectual excitement.

For more information about “How to Apply,” click here. Answers to “Frequently Asked Questions” are here.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Communication Networking Night

Wednesday, Nov. 7, the School of Communication is hosting a Networking Night.

It will start at 6 p.m., in the SoC Courtyard.

Here are some of the communication industry professionals that will be attending in hopes of recruiting to fill positions:

·         ACCORD PRODUCTIONS ·         ANSWERQUEST EXECUTIVE SEARCH ·         AREA PERFORMANCE GALLERY ·         BLUE COMPASS GROUP ·         CLOWNFISH PRODUCTIONS ·         DEL TORO ·         HBO LATIN AMERICA ·         INCUBATE MIAMI ·         KAAREN STYLES

·         MAX BORGES AGENCY ·         NORWEGIAN CRUISE LINE ·         PARK 1 ·         SAPIENTNITRO ·         SOCIAL MEDIA CLUB OF SOUTH FLORIDA ·         TARGET WIDE, LLC ·         THOMPSON REUTERS ·         TOTAL QUALITY LOGISTICS

 

 

Steinberg: VP Debate heat is on

The presidential election could be impacted by the upcoming Vice Presidential candidate debate, according to David Steinberg, Lecturer in the Communication Studies department, as quoted in a recent article by Reuters.

According to the article:

“Biden has a chance to undo some of the damage from the first debate,” said David Steinberg, a debate coach and political communications specialist at the University of Miami.

“The vice president’s biggest job will be as a fact checker,” he said. “He can come in and say, ‘Well, this is what Governor Romney said last Wednesday, and this is why it’s wrong.'”

…

“It would be nice to be Biden,” Steinberg said. “He’s got a wider range of stuff he can say and people go, ‘Oh, that’s just Biden.’ If Ryan said it, they will be looking at him through a microscope.”

Click here to read the full Reuters article.