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CCI Dean Mike Wirth has been selected as the winner of the 2021 Broadcast Education Association’s Distinguished Education Service Award (DESA). Congratulations to Dr. Andrew Brown on successfully defending his dissertation, “The Issues Management Process in Nonprofit Organizations.” Special thanks to his dissertation chair Professor Candace White and committee members: Professor Sally McMillan, Associate Professor […]
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CCI Chancellor Donde Plowman and the University of Tennessee have announced plans for spring commencement. CCI’s ceremony will be held at Neyland Stadium on May 8 at 10 a.m. with the College of Architecture and Design, College of Social Work, and Tickle College of Engineering. Advisor Lexi Hartley and Sonia D. Hayes’ (Department of Educational […]
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National Conferences Faculty and graduate students from CCI presented 10 peer-reviewed research papers at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication’s (AEJMC) annual conference, which was held virtually Aug. 6-9. Read more about the AEJMC conference. From May 20-27, professors and students from the School of Advertising and Public Relations, the School of […]
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CCI Congratulations to Melissa Ann Greene-Blye for successfully defending her dissertation. Special thanks to her dissertation committee chair Associate Professor Amber Roessner (JEM) and other committee members: Professor Emeritus Ron Taylor (ADPR), Associate Professor Michelle Violanti (CS), and Associate Professor Julie Reed (History). The title of Dr. Greene-Blye’s dissertation is “Miami in the Margins: Identity […]
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Advertising & Public Relations Associate Professor Moonhee Cho and Giselle Auger (Rhode Island College) received the 2020 Page/Johnson Legacy Scholarship Grant, sponsored by the Arthur W. Page Center ($4,000) for their research proposal on developing a scale of organizational listening. Recent media coverage/follow on work focused on DeForrest Jackson Professor Mariea Hoy and Alexa K. […]
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CCI Research Symposium Remember, the annual CCI Research Symposium will be held Monday, March 2, in Patrick Auditorium (COM 321) and the Scripps Convergence Lab Theater (COM 402). Please make plans to attend the symposium sessions, which begin with registration at 8:30 a.m. immediately followed by a Poster Session at 9:00 a.m. in the lobby. […]
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UT Social Media Week The ninth annual UT Social Media Week will be held February 18-20 in the Communications Building. All sessions are free and open to the public. Full speaker details are available on the UT Social Media Week website, and each session will be streamed to the CCI YouTube channel. DAY 1 – […]
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Advertising & Public Relations Doctoral Student Alex Carter was featured in the Compass article, “Touchdowns and Fumbles,” about social media reactions to Super Bowl advertisements, which Carter tracked in real time at the Adam Brown Social Media Command Center. Associate Professor Michael Palenchar had two papers accepted for presentation at the International Public Relations Research […]
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Advertising & Public Relations Assistant Professor Derrick Holland and PhD student Anna Kochigina’s paper, “Transparency in a Crisis: Examining the Impact of Message Strategies on Organizational Perceptions,” was accepted for presentation at the International Public Relations Research Conference in Orlando, March 5-7. Assistant Professor Matthew Pittman recently published two articles: “eWom Anatomy of Online Product […]
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Advertising & Public Relations Professor and Interim Director Sally McMillan, the first graduate of the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Communications’ media studies doctoral program, was a keynote speaker at a symposium celebrating the 25th anniversary of the program. Center for Information & Communication Studies Research Associate Natalie Manaeva Rice spoke to the […]