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Vol. 15 Winter 2005–06 Star Trek’s Jeri Taylor: a new star in IU galaxy eri Taylor was awarded the Distin- Star Trek: The Next remembers that his very fi rst broadcasting guished Alumni Service Award at a Generation to be class was taught by Jeri! Jceremony in Bloomington on June given to the Lilly Taylor was one of the fi rst women 18. This is the highest award given by Library. sportswriters in the country. Later, she Indiana University that is reserved for IU Jeri (Suer) Taylor taught herself screenwriting and built a alumni. Recipients are chosen for service graduated Phi Beta career as a writer and producer. When she and achievements in their fi eld of endeavor Kappa in 1959 with started working, she was a single mother, and signifi cant contributions benefi ting the a BA in English, raising three children ages 12, 9, and 2. community, state, nation, or the university. although many of Her approach to establishing a career was Taylor is best known as writer and Jeri Taylor her memories are one of steely determination: “I focused a executive producer for Star Trek: The Next Deborah Conkle, IU Photographic Services from classes and great deal on goal-setting. I devised my Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, involvement in the RTV department. One own formula for setting goals, took the and Star Trek: Voyager. To these and other of the few females in the department at the steps I outlined, and faithfully recorded my programs, Taylor brought her identifi cation time, she worked on a variety of projects, progress. This process kept me centered with the disenfranchised and her strong, including some teaching for RTV. Ken as I tried to carve out a career in a very optimistic belief in tolerance and decency. Beckley, president and CEO of the IU competitive fi eld.” She helped arrange for all 178 scripts of Alumni Association and a telecom alumnus, (continued on page 6)

POST-PRODUCTION CELEBRATION: Studio 5 was transformed into an accounting offi ce by students in this semester’s T436 Advanced Studio Production class. Slow Children at Play, affection- ately known as SCAP, is in its 12th season. Students work cooperatively to write, direct, act, and produce original comedy. This 30-minute sitcom, “Account for Everything,” included studio and fi eld production tapes. The story-line follows a newly hired replacement in an accounting fi rm and his trials and relations within the offi ce. The show was produced live to tape before an audience of more than 100 students and parents and aired on campus IUSTV in October.

1 DEPARTMENTAL NEWS

ver the past several years, telecommunications has been (You can read that article at www.iub.edu/~telecom/telecomment. deliberately moving into the arena of interactive games. html.) Here, you’ll read about a pioneering conference hosted OAlways striving to lead, rather than follow, the department by professor Ted Castronova that required participants to engage has hired faculty to teach a growing array of courses on games, in a game in order to generate serious, concrete results. You’ll game design, and the game industry. The last issue of Telecomment also learn about a team of extremely talented students who have highlighted the department’s expanding curriculum in interactive developed a sophisticated interactive game that you’re invited to games, especially as it was implemented at the undergraduate level. play online.

Edward Castronova, associate The reality of virtual worlds professor of telecommunications, is ideo games are changing. There are do to the rest of society? The IU Depart- a leading expert on online still teenage loners who while away ment of Telecommunications will play an societies and the videogame indus- the hours in front of game consoles important role in answering these loom- try. Since 2001 he’s been studying V in their basements. However, the more fre- ing and challenging questions. Similarly, online social games to research the quent usage pattern is for people, mostly in the opportunities will involve institutions possibility that these represent a their 20s and 30s, to get together in small like our department. Think of it: here we newly evolved economic and social groups and join online games that consist have pocket societies, patterned with all frontier. He regularly consults with of still larger groups: dozens, hundreds, the forces of genuine human society, but leaders in business, government, even millions of people sharing the same existing in a controllable environment. education, and software design online activity at the same time. Synthetic worlds are like a petri dish for about the implications of virtual Online games have evolved into full- social research, one that we’ve never had worlds. In September 2005, he fl edged synthetic worlds, replicas of our before. Imagine what tragedies could have convened Ludium I, a gathering of world but with some magic and mysterious been avoided if we had had the opportunity 34 academics and game designers things added. A medieval themed world to set up and study some small Communis- on the IU Bloomington campus, to will have the same kinds of markets and tic societies, under controlled conditions, play a competitive game of concept romances and politics as our world does before deciding to reshape entire countries generation. In December 2005, — remember, these are real people inter- according to those principles. Castronova was part of a lengthy acting in it — but, being medieval, it will Far less dramatic examples of exciting news story about video games and also have magic wands and dragons. And research possibilities immediately spring to synthetic worlds on National Public while the magic wands and dragons aren’t mind. Concerned about human social and Radio’s All Things Considered real, the trading, negotiating, fi ghting, economic response to the spread of things and appeared on the CBS-TV pro- and boasting that surround them certainly like Bird Flu? Well, we have no place to gram 60 Minutes. In this article, are real. When millions of humans share a study that, really, unless we want to design Castronova describes the evolution space, even a fantasy one, the society they a virus and set it loose in the real world to and signifi cance of online synthetic constitute exhibits all of the patterns of see what happens. Instead, why not build worlds. (To learn more, visit http:// our society. If supply and demand work a pocket world and let folks put characters mypage.iu.edu/~castro/ and follow basically the same way in all kinds of human in it? Psychological research shows that links to the Terra Nova blog.) settings, from ancient Athens to modern people do identify with these characters and Manhattan — and they do — then they would certainly try to avoid losing them to work the same way in a killer virus. Then we would have a tool Middle-Earth, Nar- for studying not only how viruses spread, nia, or any other kind but how the combination of administra- of densely populated tive organization, information networks, synthetic world that and the economics of vaccine production the game industry industries interact to help or inhibit the might build. Thus, as disease’s effects. video games evolve into Many other examples — money supply an ever more robust theory, political structures, environmental alternative to daily life policy, and on and on — could be cited, on Earth, they present but while these would all be extremely both challenges and interesting to study through synthetic opportunities. worlds, there is a cost. Synthetic worlds are The challenges in- expensive to build and maintain, so we are volve the explicit com- talking here about a Social Science Super- parison of our world to collider — a project that costs millions but these best-of-all-worlds produces millions in benefi cial research. It emerging online. Who would be cool if such a thing were to be will go there? How built at IU — the coolest impact of video much time will they game research that I could imagine. spend? What will that — Edward Castronova 2 Guardians of Kelthas magine that the emperor of Kelthas has died and a civil war has erupted among his heirs. Monsters and bandits are ravaging the Iland and its citizens. So, Hero Companies are formed to provide protection. You become one of the Hero Companies and battle the competition for control. Sounds like fun, right? For graduate student Steve Cornett, it has taken nearly three years and a 200-page document to envision, craft, organize, and now manage this massive digital card game. So, maybe that doesn’t sound like “fun” anymore. But for Cornett and his ever-growing team of designers, this is a labor of love, as well as hands-on training for the job of their dreams. Cornett has been hooked on computer games since he was 4 or 5. He came to IU in 2001 after considering several top-tier schools. “I found the computer science and design programs very infl exible at other schools. In contrast, IU offered me the Indi- vidualized Major Program.” The IMP allowed Cornett to build a curriculum based on his end goal of becoming a lead designer of interactive computer games. He’ll graduate in May 2006 with four degrees in fi ve years: the BA in game design through IMP, ‘Guardians’ IU team members a master’s in telecom’s MIME program, and the BA and MA in Current IU graduate students computer science. • Steve Cornett (lead designer, lead producer, “Guardians of Kelthas” is the offspring of a much simpler game, programming), MIME “Heros Inc.,” Cornett’s fi nal project for T570 Art Entertainment • Mike Green (senior artist), MIME & Information, taught by Thom Gillespie. In summer 2004, • Rory Starks (senior artist), MIME Cornett and his partner, Mike Green, a telecom graduate student, • Charlie Hoyt (senior musician), MIME decided to expand the game. “Heros was created in Flash, which • Josh Bonner (programming), computer science had too many limitations. So we essentially started from scratch in • Will Ryan (senior programmer), informatics developing ‘Guardians’ but kept the concept of Hero Companies.” As the game has expanded, so has the design team. From a small Current IU undergraduate students core of artists and programmers based at IU, the “Guardians” • Jordan Neuren (audio editing), telecommunications team now includes 60 individuals, mostly students. “Game creation • Michael Donahoe (associate producer), business is huge and labor-intensive,” Cornett explains. “Now our team is • Jackie Brown (artist), individualized major international and we have contributors from UAE, Scotland, and • Nick Mendel (programming, playtesting), even a high school student from Finland.” individualized major Thom Gillespie, director of telecom’s Masters in Immersive • Olivia Lewis (senior musician), music Mediated Environments (MIME) program is Cornett’s faculty sponsor. Gillespie says, “‘Guardians’ has been in production almost three full years and is representative of the future of game design at IU. Projects that span two to three years will become the standard simply because real game productions take a long time to move from story through functional specifi cations, to asset development, marketing, testing and implementation. Essentially, the design of a real game covers almost all areas of a college degree, including IDEAS abound at festival content areas such as psychology, history, religion and/or politics, The Indiana IDEAS (Interactive Digital Environments depending upon the game idea itself. The study of games at IU Arts and Storytelling) Festival, held April 23, attracted tal- started with MIME at the graduate level. But the potential will ented artists, designers, programmers, and visitors for the only be completely realized with a combination of undergradu- competition and juried show of audio, visual, and interac- ate and graduate students who can devote several years of intense tive work. This year, IDEAS accepted entries from states work to a single large project. Essentially the production pipeline housing all Big 10 schools as well as the states that border becomes the curriculum.” Indiana. It was open to individuals or groups of any age. Even as it is still under development, “Guardians” is being The keynote speaker was Gordon Walton, vice presi- exhibited and entered into competitions. It garnered three awards dent/executive producer of Sony Online Entertainment, at the 2005 IDEAS Festival (a regional digital art show and who has been authoring games and managing game competition sponsored by the telecom department) including Best development since 1977. The festival was coordinated by Game, People’s Choice, and Best Screenful. The game was recently Elena Bertozzi, (formerly of telecom and now teaching exhibited at Michigan State’s FuturePlay conference and has been at University of Wisconsin–Whitewater), and assisted by submitted to the Independent Games Festival and Slamdance game Thom Gillespie and Norbert Herber (telecom), Margaret competitions. Dolinsky (fi ne arts), Rob Shakespeare (theatre), and John Try your hand at “Guardians of Kelthas”: www.kelthas.com. Gibson and Jeff Hass (music). See www.ideasfest.org for Alumni are invited to join the development team, particularly as a complete listing of the winners and for individual and play testers. corporate sponsorship information. — Legene White

3 MultiVisions vitalized by generous sponsors pril 1 marked the 15th annual MultiVisions Communications Con- Aference. For the fi rst time, contributors were sought to underwrite particular conference expenses. The department is pleased to recognize the companies and individuals who provided fi nancial support. • WTHR Channel 13 Indianapolis — sponsor of “What’s on TV?” panel • TIS/Tichenor Publishing — provided all printing for the eighth year • Optimus — underwriter for MultiVisions Dinner • Insight Communications — underwriter of Networking Luncheon • MediaVest Worldwide and Interep — supporters of Selling and Marketing Media panel • Dennis, BA’70, and Linda, BA’69, Spalazzi of Bright Light Productions • Tony Williams, BA’87, of Midwest Uplink • WFIU/WTIU, the IU Alumni Association, Fox 59, and alumna Tara Carroll-McKee, BA’79 Special thanks go to the Media Showcase MultiVisions is a fi rst-rate event entirely cially among the 18–25 demographic; com- sponsor, Creative Street, a media production planned and implemented by a committee pany branding on promotional materials; fi rm based in Indianapolis. Company presi- of undergraduate students. Consider the and affi liation with a dynamic, signifi cant dent Steve Katzenberger, BA’77, hosted benefi ts of becoming a conference sponsor conference with a proven, 15-year track a networking reception for winners of the in 2006: access to young talent educated record. For more information, contact Media Showcase, the student planning com- in a leading university communications pro- Legene White, conference adviser, at (812) mittee, and his Creative Street staff. gram; exposure for your company, espe- 855-7086 or [email protected].

The familiar ambience of Studio 5 is perfect for casual conversation over lunch between students and professionals attending MultiVisions. 4 Special thanks to our expert panelists he Department of Telecommunications Theartily thanks the panelists of the 2005 MultiVisions Communications Con- ference, held April 1. A complete listing, including job title and location, is at www. indiana.edu/~telecom/multivisions.html. Post-Production (moderator: Ron Osgood, professor): Jonathan Dilling, BA’91, Turner Studios; Charles Hodge MS’82, Final Cut Video Productions; Craig Leffel, ’88, Opti- mus; Zachary Neumeyer BA’00, Red Car; Nathan Shuppert, BA’94, Filmhouse Inc. Selling and Marketing Media (moderator: Paul MacArthur, lecturer): Bruce Feniger, BA’84, Interep Radio; Lauren Hanrahan BA’03, MediaVest Worldwide; Heather Porter, BA’93, FOX Broadcasting; Brad The Telecom Rookies panel offers insight to the transition from college to work. Auerbach, BA’02, WXRT Radio. Members of the panel included, from left, Brian Rogat, BA’03, production assis- Telecom Rookies (moderator: Susan Kelly, tant, Pacers Sports; Steve Rosen, BA’02, division coordinator, Midway Amuse- lecturer): Brad Holtz, BA’02, WTTS-FM; ment Games; Erin Kellan, BA’03, assistant media buyer, MediaVest Worldwide; Erin Kellan BA’03, MediaVest World- Josh Stickler, BA’02, freelance assistant director. Not pictured: Brad Holtz, wide; Brian Rogat BA’03, Pacers Sports; BA’02, program director, WTTS-FM. Steve Rosen, BA’02, Midway Amusement Games; Josh Stickler, BA’02, freelance assistant director. What’s On TV? (moderator: Sam Cronk, What do students say about MultiVisions? lecturer): Gary Donatelli, BA’74, ABC- “Although I attended MultiVisions to meet with one speciﬁ c person, the confer- TV; Sarah Gibson Kosem, BA’02, Amer- ence gave me the opportunity to learn about other companies and to speak one-on- ica’s Most Wanted; Dan Nelson, BA’02, one with several people. It was a great way to network and distribute copies of my WLRN-PBS; Rod Porter, WTHR-13; resume. My job at MediaVest is a direct result of MultiVisions.” Greg Williams, BA’79, Associated Images. — Michelle Chiprut, BA’05 The Audio Industry (moderator: Jim Krause, professor): Russ Castillo, telecom “I thoroughly enjoyed MultiVisions. I actually stayed until everything was over and and Castle Creek Recording; Jim Man- was able to squeeze in and talk to some very interesting people. I attended the Tele- ion, BA’80, WFHB Community Radio; com Rookies panel and the luncheon, where I sat with Rod Porter, from WTHR. Michael Stucker, ’02, School of Music and We had a great conversation.” Echo Park Studios; John Wheeler, BA’02, —Alexandra C. Gray, BA’05 Focal Point Productions. Interactive Media (moderator: Nor- bert Herber, lecturer): Jeanette Castillo, telecom; Jason Frankovitz, BA’93, g-NET Media; Sonja Hyde-Moyer, MA’95, Boston Museum of Science; Travis Isaacs, BA’03, RadioTime. Congratulations to the winners of the Media Showcase. They are listed at www. indiana.edu/~telecom/multivisions.html. And thanks to the Media Showcase judges: Don Glass, Michael Paskash, Bob Petranoff, David Rust, Catherine Seltz, Byron Smith, Michele Knoderer, Mark Nisenbaum.

MultiVisions chairs John Ewald, left, and Venetia Pristavec, right, receive recognition awards from Steve Katzenberger, BA’77, host of the Creative Street reception, and Legene White, adviser to the conference. The third chair, Amy Rich, had a class conﬂ ict and was unable to attend.

5 Making the high-cost, high-reward switch to HDTV igh-definition television — prices. As equipment becomes less expen- “In the last couple of years, HDTV has ma- HDTV — is coming. It’s coming sive, however, the final cost could fall under tured enough and the cost has come down Hto consumers’ homes, as more $1 million. The department already has enough that it is a good time to buy in. You people buy HD-compatible television sets. funding in place to complete part of the can second-guess yourself on equipment It’s coming to television schedules, as more transition to HDTV. According to Osgood, purchases all the time. At some point, you networks develop HDTV programming. the department has the means to purchase have to make the decision and move on.” It’s coming to Capitol Hill — again — as the HDV cameras, and the College of Arts Once the equipment has been pur- Congress decides on the timeline for our & Sciences has pledged approximately chased, a whole new process begins: learn- nation’s switch to digital television. $500,000 toward the studio upgrade ing how to use this new technology. The And HDTV is coming to IU’s Depart- — enough to purchase at least the three operation and functions of HD equipment ment of Telecommunications. Over the new cameras and pedestals. are similar to those of analog and standard- next few years, the department plans to “Dean Kumble R. Subbaswamy and the definition digital equipment, Osgood says. convert to HDTV and HD-compatible The big difference is the 16:9 aspect ratio. equipment and software in the studio, “The 16-by-9 ratio is going to force us the field, and post-production. Accord- to rethink everything in shot composition, ing to informal research by professor and “The world is turning to set design, lighting, graphics. Everything facilities manager Ron Osgood, Indiana high-definition television. To changes with the new format,” Osgood University would be one of the first high- says. “We need to make sure that students er-education institutions in the nation to remain at the educational understand that aspect ratio.” adopt HDTV technology, especially on Before the students can understand it, such a large scale. forefront, we have to reflect the faculty will need to adjust to tap- Osgood expects these new tools to ing in widescreen and high-definition’s help the department recruit new stu- the realities of the day.” greater quality. Osgood anticipates that dents. He also believes that students’ — WALTER GANTZ sets and lighting, often afterthoughts in knowledge of and experience with HDTV time-crunched syllabi and production concepts and equipment will make them schedules, will receive greater emphasis due more desirable to employers, particularly as College understand the importance of what to HDTV’s sharper, clearer, warts-and-all HDTV becomes more common. we need to accomplish,” Gantz explains. picture. Currently, telecommunications students “Giving us approval to go ahead with this In fact, a renewed commitment to all at IU Bloomington use digital editing project reflects the College’s strong com- steps in the production process will reinforce systems, and field cameras record on digital mitment to the department. The challenge the department’s goal of teaching the skills tape. These formats are comparable in qual- now for both the College and Telecom is of storytelling. “We don’t train our students ity to traditional analog formats and use a to find the remaining money.” to push cameras or to be studio floor direc- 4:3 aspect ratio. High-definition television, The department could buy the HDV tors,” Gantz says. “Instead, we train them on the other hand, represents the best that cameras as soon as early spring. Osgood to think about producing good program- television has to offer: the highest-quality intends to decide which studio cameras ming — to tell a story, to tell it well, and to picture, the best sound, and the wider, film- to buy after the National Association of produce it for different media.” like 16:9 aspect ratio. HDTV is the most Broadcasters conference in April. He hopes “We’re still telling stories,” Osgood impressive of the FCC-approved digital to finish converting the studio to high-defi- explains. “It’s just that we have new tools.” television formats that the United States is nition by the end of 2007. — Keith Roach, BA’02, gradually adopting. “The timing is really good,” Osgood says. [email protected] “The world is turning to high-definition television,” says Walter Gantz, professor and department chair. “To remain at the tive producer for successful TV series such as educational forefront, we have to reflect the Taylor Walker, Texas Ranger, Quincy, and Murder, realities of the day.” (continued from page 1) She Wrote. (He was honored this fall with the The department’s conversion to HDTV In addition to Star Trek, Taylor cre- Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award will take place in three phases. In the first ated scripts for some of the most popular for Media by his alma mater, DePauw Uni- phase, which has already been completed, TV programs of the ’70s and ’80s, writing versity.) Both Taylor and Moessinger describe the department’s graphics and post-pro- and producing shows such as Little House their years as Hollywood writers as stressful, duction software was upgraded and is on the Prairie, Quincy, Magnum P.I., and time-intensive and not at all glamorous. They now HD-compatible. The second phase In the Heat of the Night. However it’s the have thoroughly enjoyed retirement — vol- will involve purchasing new field cameras. Star Trek series of which Jeri is most proud: unteering, traveling, and reading — and These cameras will likely use the HD-com- “These were shows I could be proud of living well removed from Los Angeles. patible HDV format. The third and most writing and which had impact on many, In recognition of her career in television, challenging phase will be the conversion of many people. The values espoused in the always laced with her intelligence and ethi- Studio 5 to high-definition — beginning series were those I could champion. In all it cal standards, Taylor’s photograph is dis- with the cameras and then progressing to was a wonderful experience.” played on the telecom Wall of Honor. Her the control room. The switcher will be Taylor and her husband, David Moess- advice to aspiring students? “Hard work is replaced, and 16:9-screen monitors will be inger, came to Bloomington in June for the the key to everything. My Midwest work purchased, among other changes. DASA induction ceremony. Moessinger is ethic has stood me in good stead all of my The new studio and field equipment also retired from his career as an accom- life, and most of all in my professional life. would cost roughly $1.2 million at current plished writer, director, producer, and execu- Roll up your sleeves and dig in.” 6 FACULTY NEWS Ali Bryant: Poster child for Service Learning s Alison Bryant tells it, on her very were using similar first night in Bloomington she was techniques. “I was Atold about Rhinos, WFHB, Kids shocked to learn that Alive!, Bachelor Middle School — all local it actually had a name programs where children were engaged in — ‘service-learning.’ producing their own media. My reaction was, Later, as she prepared her class syllabus ‘So, that’s what it’s for Children in Media — her first teaching called!’” assignment as a new assistant professor in Bryant joined telecom — she wondered how to actively telecom as an assistant engage her students in the course mate- professor in fall 2003, rial. That’s when the earlier conversation fresh from complet- came back to her. She decided to experi- ing her PhD from the ment with involving her college students Annenberg School in community-based media activities for for Communication children. By the second week of class, at the University of Assistant Professor Alison Bryant Bryant’s 152 students were assigned to one Southern California. Her research interests that engages the children in working with of six Bloomington organizations. Students focus on communication networks and and learning about some aspect of media. would be expected to volunteer at the or- network analysis, including children’s media To reinforce the relationship between the ganization and develop and complete a se- organizations and global crime. She’s also community service element and classroom mester-long project that integrated course investigating the effect of instant messaging and textbook instruction, students are re- materials with the real-life experience. and text messaging on kids’ social networks. quired to actively reflect on their experiences “It was amazingly exciting … and Bryant is currently editing a book, The Chil- in a series of reflection papers. incredibly draining,” recalls Bryant. “I was dren’s Television Community, with chapters When Bryant first combined community trying to keep up with a huge number of covering all sides of children’s television and involvement with classroom instruction, students and projects scattered all over largely contributed by industry professionals, she thought she was a pioneer. However, the community. About one-third of the rather than strictly academicians. IU Bloomington has been supporting students really didn’t get it and seemed to A woman of varied interests and youthful service-learning for more than a decade. In care less. Another third could see where it enthusiasm, Bryant’s office shelves are filled fact, the number of service-learning classes was taking them and thought it was pretty with the highfalutin books of a professor as taught at Bloomington had grown to such cool. But for the remaining third, the com- well as mystery novels, children’s picture a number that an office was established in munity-based learning totally changed the books, and kiddie toys. She vacations 1998 to institutionalize what had once been person and his/her outlook.” Soon these with her family at their ancestral home a grassroots movement. As Bryant interacts students were dropping by Bryant’s office, in western North Carolina, where she’s with instructors in other disciplines who are excitedly sharing news about an internship overseeing the restoration of her fourth- using this innovative teaching technique, it or job interview that was a direct result of great-grandfather’s cabin. Her academic becomes increasingly apparent that service- the volunteer work and related projects. background includes a broad spectrum of learning is an effective motivational and Somewhere along the way, Bry- study — German, political science, interna- learning tool for college students. ant discovered that other IU professors tional affairs — and a liberal arts philosophy In an effort to support and encourage strengthened by her undergraduate degree even more involvement in service-learning, from Davidson College in North Carolina. Bryant and two other IU professors are This broad philosophy is evident in her collecting stories and concrete examples Your opinion counts pedagogy. The course syllabus for Bryant’s for an upcoming book, Integrating Service What do YOU want to read in Children and Media class reminds students Learning into the University Classroom. The Telecomment? From our ivory to “approach learning not as a solitary book will highlight both the variety and tower, it’s sometimes hard to know experience, but as a social process facilitated best practices of service-learning courses in what alumni will be interested in by … interactions with faculty, classmates, higher education. reading. Do you like to read about people in the community … (and to) see As Bryant sums it up, “Service-learning other alumni and their careers? learning as a dynamic, creative endeavor, assists (students) to see not only the connec- Faculty research and accomplish- not a static, derivative chore.” tions between what they are learning in class ments? Discussions of issues in It was this emphasis on learning outside and its practical value, but also the impor- communications? Student news? the confines of the classroom that plunged tance of civic engagement. For some stu- If you have an opinion, we Bryant head first into service-learning. This dents, the seeds of advocacy and service may want to hear it! Send your semester, students taking Bryant’s Children lay dormant for several years, but when an response to Legene White at and Media course are working with the opportunity or issue presents itself, they may [email protected] or call her at children’s media programs at Rhino’s Youth rely on the attitudes and behaviors developed (812) 855-7086. Center and Bloomington Parks and Recre- in my course to guide their actions.” ation. After receiving volunteer training, the — Legene White students design and execute a group project 7 Faculty FLASH! s director of the Global Village Liv- demic Society, based in South Korea, and Fox is now working with other graduate ing-Learning Center, Herb Terry Xiamen University. McGregor’s paper, titled students on a content analysis comparing Ais guiding the village into its second “Regulating Content on the Internet: One substantive political coverage in The Daily year and recruiting residents for 2006–07. American’s View,” argued that because con- Show with Jon Stewart on Comedy Central Students with international interests should tent is so diffi cult to control on the Internet, and in the broadcast television networks’ contact him ([email protected]) and visit governments should stop trying. coverage of the political conventions and www.indiana.edu/~college/global/. Annie Lang has taken on the new role the fi rst presidential debate in 2004. The Ron Osgood produced the video for of associate dean for research in the Col- Daily Show is becoming an increasingly John Mellencamp’s summer “Words and lege of Arts and Sciences. Her primary important source of political information Music” tour. Osgood also completed a goal is to facilitate faculty research in the for under-30 voters. documentary, “Earthquake Preparedness in College and oversee contracts and grants Andrew Bucksbarg continues to share Indiana,” for the Indiana State Emergency administration. Lang continues to work in his digital video and interactive media Management Agency. the Institute for Communication Research artwork in the United States, abroad, and David Waterman’s book, Hollywood’s Lab on several ongoing research projects. on the Internet, including in Armenia, Road to Riches, published by Harvard Among these is a new multi-year project Ireland, New Zealand and Spain. He has University Press, is the fi rst full-length eco- funded by the National Institute for Mental also worked as a producer and curator for nomic study in more than 40 years of the Health to investigate the role of media in digital media art, launching a new version movie industry. It combines historical and creating mental health stigma and how the of Mediatopia.net, an Internet art Web site, economic analysis to show how, beginning media might be used to lessen stigma and as well as being awarded a grant from IU’s in the 1950s, a largely predictable busi- encourage people with mental illness to New Frontiers in the Arts and Humanities: ness has been transformed into a volatile seek out mental health services. New Perspectives competition to produce and complex multimedia enterprise now Julie Fox and two colleagues, including an international media arts festival in commanding more than 80 percent of the graduate student James Angelini, recently Bloomington. Bucksbarg is also happily world’s fi lm business. published a content analysis examining the designing noisy, mobile sound and light Michael McGregor was invited to pres- broadcast television networks’ presiden- instruments with simple electronic circuits ent a paper at the Digital Contents and tial election coverage from 1988 to 2000 for performance. Media Regulation conference in Xiamen, (Journalism and Mass Communication Ted Castronova has stepped into the China, in June 2005. The conference was Quarterly, spring 2005). They found the role of director of graduate studies for the sponsored by the Cybercommunication Aca- coverage to be more hype than substance. (continued on page 9)

Assistant Professor Mark Deuze: Shoot, score! ne of the fi rst things Mark Deuze did after moving to mecca with multiple departments and many faculty examining OBloomington was to join the telecom department club new media from the perspective of their traditional disciplines. soccer team. His friends back in the Netherlands were as- The faculty in telecommunications includes artists, producers, tounded to learn that Bloomington is a hot soccer town with musicians, researchers. I think it’s a Indiana University a powerhouse in the sport. perfect fi t for me.” “It’s one of the many things that drew me to put down Deuze’s research examines the roots in Bloomington,” says Deuze, new assistant professor cultural and technological convergence in the department. “It’s a small town with a cosmopolitan of media production and consumption feel. After living in large, metropolitan areas, Bloomington at a time when the traditional distinc- is an easy place to live so that I can bathe in what I like best tion between making media and using — teaching and research in media.” media seems to be disappearing. He Deuze grew up in Eindhoven and holds a BA in journalism explains, “We use and make media at from the School for Journalism in nearby Tilburg, The Nether- the same time, multitasking almost Mark Deuze lands. He worked for seven years as a newspaper journalist while all of the time. We watch TV and text completing his master’s degree in history and communication message our friends, we read a magazine and update our Web studies from the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. At logs, we make phone calls and contribute to citizen journalism that point, he planned to become a high school teacher and Web sites, and modify our own versions of computer games. someday move to the United States. But he was persuaded to All of this suggests that when we educate prospective employ- enroll in a brand new PhD program, receiving his degree in the ees for the media industry, we have to prepare them for an social sciences from the University of Amsterdam in 2002. With interactive, participatory and at the same time extremely com- PhD in hand, Deuze received a prestigious Fulbright scholar- mercial and global industry. That is where I see my role.” ship and spent a year at the University of Southern California’s As Deuze looks out over the Arboretum from his offi ce Annenberg School for Communication. window, he refl ects, “For media scholars, the U.S. is the most Deuze moved to Bloomington in 2004, teaching for a year fascinating place in the world. Global media are centered here as a visitor in IU’s School of Journalism and Department of and media trends tend to happen here fi rst.” It’s easy to pre- Communication and Culture before joining telecom as an dict that Deuze will fi nd plenty to occupy him as he multitasks assistant professor. According to Deuze, “IU is a new media in southern Indiana.

8 STUDENT NEWS Student’s ‘Sign of the Times’ a winner

le Brereton’s rap music video financially with funding my most recent won a string of awards this year in film, “The Last Drink of Milk.” Ocompetitions normally dominated “I was given incredible encouragement by the major art and film schools on the and financial backing for the trip to the coasts. “Sign of the Times” won first place Cannes Festival from several administra- in the music category of the Academy of tors in telecom, the College, and even IU Television Arts and Sciences Foundation’s President Herbert. It was one of those times College Television Awards — a college-level when IU felt like a small, supportive family.” Emmy. Brereton traveled to Los Angeles in After graduating in May 2006, Brereton March to receive the award. As a winner, he hopes to continue bolstering his portfolio was also invited to participate in the Kodak with further creative work. He’s already Emerging Filmmaker Showcase at the 2005 formulating the storyline for his next docu- Cannes International Film Festival. In addi- mentary, a coming-of-age story. Eventu- tion, the video took first place in the Experi- ally, his path may lead to film school and mental category of the Broadcast Education producing feature films. Until then, he has Association Student Video Competition. Ole Brereton learned this valuable lesson: “Don’t go to Brereton is a senior majoring in telecom- around the world, attended receptions and Cannes without a tux and a lot of money if munications and fine arts photography. educational seminars, and a clip of my film you want to fit in.” He is writer, producer, director, cinema- was showcased. Kodak has also helped — Legene White tographer, and editor of the video, which expresses his feelings against the war in Iraq and about American foreign policy. Recent graduate will go … Farr Brereton is also the talent, performing his original music in rap style while images Kieran Farr, May 2005 graduate in telecommunications and business, was pre- from international news flash around him. sented an Elvis J. Stahr Distinguished Senior Award in April by Chancellor Ken- “Attending the student Emmys and neth R.R. Gros Louis. The award honors seniors who have excelled academically Cannes Festival helped me understand the while serving as active student leaders. Farr was recognized as founder and execu- business behind the film industry,” said tive director of IU Student Television, an entirely student-run station on campus. Brereton. “At Cannes I networked with He has also served as a residence assistant in the halls and as an IUSA senator. established and emerging filmmakers from

department. He was a selected composer ideas. (www.mediajazz.com/dmedia.html) Faculty FLASH for “60 x 60 Midwest Minutes” (voxnovus. The Henry J. Kaiser Foundation has (continued from page 8) com/60x60/2005/Concert_Program_ awarded two grants to Walter Gantz. One department, bringing new ideas and experi- Midwest.htm). His book Flash 8 Savvy was project will study the content of advertis- ence to the position. His book, Synthetic published in December 2005. ing viewed by children and adolescents. Worlds: The Business and Culture of Online Thom Gillespie led a workshop for kids This includes 1,600 hours of television Games, published by the University of Chi- from the ghettos of Brooklyn this past sum- programming with particular focus on food cago Press, is a comprehensive look at the mer, teaching them game design. As part advertising. His other project is a ﬁve-year online game industry, exploring its implica- of the weeklong experience, two telecom follow-up to research conducted in 2000, tions for business and culture alike. alums, Robert Spierenburg, BA’00 and analyzing the extent and nature of public Norbert Herber, formerly a visiting lec- Thomas Wade Murphy, BA’05, came in service announcements. Visiting lecturer turer, is now a permanent lecturer with the as critics to respond to the students’ game Nancy Schwartz will serve as co-investiga- tor on both projects. Two professors are on sabbatical leave during fall semester. Erik Bucy is a research associate professor in the Department of Barrie Zimmerman: Retired Government at Dartmouth University, New It’s hard to believe, but Barrie Zimmerman is no longer darting down the hall- Hampshire. He’s investigating the concept ways of the RTV Building. He retired in October from his position as director of of political appropriateness and writing a operations and engineering for Radio-TV Services at IU, where he had worked grant proposal. Harmeet Sawhney has since 1972. Zimmerman originally came to IU to prepare for a career in educa- taken up residence as a visiting scholar in the tion, completing his BA in education/RTV in 1966. He taught ﬁeld and studio London School of Economics and Political production for telecom in the 1980s. He enjoyed the variety of his job — work- Science, where he is studying the evolution ing with a number of departments and students on a wide range of projects. of the British imperial telegraph network Bloomington remains home for Zimmerman and his wife, Margaret Joseph. after the invention of the wireless telegraph.

9 ALUMNI NOTEBOOK

broadcast year in the National Academy publications coordinator at the University Before 1980 of Television Arts and Sciences’ Cleveland of California, San Diego, I also have a side Samuel P. Simmermaker, BS’54, now region. Rariden lives in Indianapolis. passion of painting portraits. My Web site in his 46th year at WCSI radio in Colum- Walt Ferber, BA’78, received the Virgil now receives over one million hits a month, bus, Ind., won the 2004 Network Indiana Sweet Distinguished Service Award given my art has been shown on Larry King Live, Sports Contest Best Play-by-Play. by the Indiana Basketball Coaches Associa- and the number of commissions I receive is Christine (Gazel) Ballard, BA’69, tion. Ferber is program director for WITZ steadily increasing.” worked as video switcher for Everybody Loves in Jasper, Ind. Lisa M. Bolde, BA’87, works as a dis- Raymond on CBS for eight years. When the Marci A. Reddick, BA’78, JD’84, is patcher at Harrah’s Casino while working series ended, Ballard moved into the same a founding board member of Outrun the toward a graduate degree in accounting at position on ABC’s According to Jim. Sun Inc., a nonprofi t organization dedicat- IU Northwest. She is also trying to publish Jim Brunner, BS’71, recently received ing to raising awareness of the risk factors a children’s book. the IHSAA Distinguished Service Award for melanoma and other skin cancers and Margaret E.J. Broderick, BA’87, is the for calling 34 years of Indiana High School raising funds for melanoma research. author of Passion v. Arrogance: A Dana sports. He has served for 15 years on the Paul Dan Powers, BA’79, writes that his and Goliath Story of Wine, Women and Marion Community Schools board of trust- son, Blake Powers, is an IU quarterback. Wrong, which tells the story of the demise ees. His son, Paige, BS’03, was named the of Broderick’s successful small winery. Indiana High School Cross Country Coach 1980s Michael T. Stephens, BA’87, received of the Year. a 2005 Movers and Shakers Award given Sharon Blair, MS’73, was inducted into Richard Fanning, BA’84, MA’91, is the instrumental music teacher at University by Library Journal. Stephens is the head the National Academy of Television Arts of networked resources development and Sciences Silver Circle for the Boston/ Liggett School, a private college-prep school in Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich. and training at St. Joseph County Public New England chapter in November 2004. Library and is an adjunct faculty member at She lives in Ridgefi eld, Conn. Matt S. Pierce, BA’84, JD’87, represents District 61, which covers most of IU South Bend. Karen L. Rariden, BA’75, MS’77, is James B. Weaver, PhD’87, is a profes- news director for WXIN-TV Fox 59 in Bloomington, in the Indiana House of Representatives. sor of communication and psychology at Indianapolis. Fox 59 won regional Em- Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va. mys for outstanding morning newscast and David A. DeCaro, BA’86, writes, “Although I have a regular job as principal Edward J. Fink, MA’88, PhD’93, is outstanding daily newscast for the 2004 chair of the Department of Radio-TV-Film Cream & Crimson Alumni Weekend at California State University, Fullerton. 1990s Karen S. Elmer, BA’90, of Bloomington, Ind., is national sales manager at For Bare Feet Inc. Christian M. Carroll, BA’91, of Ches- terfi eld, Va., is senior buyer of computer peripherals for Amazon.com. He and his partner, Michael, live in Seattle with their two cats. C. Thomas Fry, BA’92, writes, “After spending the last eight years in Los Angeles acting, doing voice-overs, and recording music, I decided to get back on the radio. I am currently doing the afternoon show on WFWI in Fort Wayne, Ind. I have been able to attend all the home football games and watch IU hoops on local TV (saves on my satellite dish bill).” Sherrie L. Harris, BA’92, is assistant vice president for consumer lending at Union Federal Bank, Indianapolis. Clarissa J. Jacobson, BA’92, writes that though “not famous,” she is still doing voice-overs. She is working on a movie about three women who decide to open IU Department of Telecommunications alumni, staff, and friends, from left, LeRoy Banner- their own auto repair shop. Find out more man, Kate and Bill Kroll, Legene White, Jeri Taylor (DASA recipient), Bob Petranoff, and, in at www.highmaintenancethemovie.com. back, David Moessinger (Jeri’s husband) attended the IU Alumni Association’s Cream and Mary T. Powaga-Anderson, BA’92, Crimson Barbecue on Saturday, June 18, 2005, at the DeVault Alumni Center. (continued on page 11)

10 Alumni notebook (continued from page 10) Yoakam inducted into Hall of Fame writes, “I met my now-husband, Todd, two ichard “Dick” Yoakam, professor emeritus of telecommunications and jour- years ago. On our third date, in Chicago, nalism, was inducted posthumously into the Indiana Broadcast Association’s we attended the IU-Northwestern basket- R Hall of Fame at a dinner in Indianapolis on Oct. 25. A six-minute video high- ball game, as he was a Northwestern alum- lighting his career as a broadcast executive and professor was produced by Jed nus. Over the next year, I had to slowly Duvall, BA’73, with voice-over by Mike Conway, BA’83. convert him to an IU Hoosier, with trips down for Homecoming and Little 500. When we got engaged, it did not take a lot of convincing that we should get married at IU ... so last July we were married at the IU Hall of Murals. Now it’s a very special place to us both.” Derek M. Davis, AS’93, BA’94, is a senior photojournalist at the CNN Bureau in Washington, D.C. Marc J. Smith, BA’94, is in management at a computer-consulting fi rm in the suburbs of Chicago. Kevin M. Zygmont, BA’94, is a manager at Big C Lumber in Kendallville, Ind. Joshua D. Feldman, BA’95, sells national advertising for NBC, in New York. Kathryn Diamond Coffman, BA’96, MS’99, is the director of admission for Franklin College in Franklin, Ind., She and her husband, Thomas R. Coffman, BA’96, had a son, William James, in December 2004. IU faculty, staff, and alumni who attended the IBA induction dinner were, from Paul J. Parmelee, BA’96, of Wilming- front, left, kneeling: Professor Emeritus Herb Seltz, MS’58; Steve Yoakam, Professor ton, Del., is a photojournalist covering the Emeritus Bob Petranoff, BA’48, MS’63; and Jed Duvall, BA’73. Second row: Telecom Philadelphia area for CN8, the Comcast internship coordinator Lynda Haywood-Smith; Telecom director of alumni affairs Network. Legene White; Lori Bullerdick, BA’05; Glenna Shelby, BA’67, MA’73, JD’79, MBA’92; Bonnie L. Sporn, BA’96, lives in Patricia Alt, BA’68; Larry Alt, BA’68, MBA’78; and Bob Jenkins, BS’69. Third row: Chicago and works as the producer for the Michael Yoakam, BA’92; Tony Perkins, BA’80; Mike Conway, BA’83; journalism Pro- Kevin Matthews Show on WCKG. fessor Owen Johnson; Tom Barker, BA’72; and Ernie Nims, BA’65. Fourth row: Karen Melanie (Cobb) Baran, BA’97, of Rariden, BA’75, MS’77; School of Journalism Dean Brad Hamm; journalism Professor Bloomington, Ind., is an account manager Amy Reynolds, MAJ’91; and journalism Professor Dan Drew, MAJ’71, PhD’73. for Symphony Services. Her husband, Mi- chael Baran, MBA’03, is CFO for Indiana Limestone Co. Beth (Felton) Marks, BA’97, of Union ers Big Sisters of Chicago. In October Angela N. Guerrettaz, BA’04, of Mari- City, N.J., writes that she was recently 2004, she was married to Erik Zeliasz. etta, Ga., is the director of an education married. Paul K. Apelgren, BA’01, is the direc- center called Score. Melissa A. Federoff, BA’98, MS’02, is tor of White Cane and Wheels, a documen- Brianne McGuirk, BA’04, is attending a user research engineer at Microsoft Game tary aired on Cinemax on July 7. His fi lm graduate school at Brandeis University. Studios. She was a keynote speaker at the won an award for Best Social Issue Film at Cameron A. Peek, BA’04, of Somers, Women in Games 2005 Conference at the the International Student Documentary N.Y., is employed by Mettler Toledo and is University of Abertay in Dundee, Scotland. Competition of the Chicago International a co-founder of www.newyorknative.net. Documentary Festival. Apelgren is a gradu- Jeremy D. Weinstein, BA’04, of Los 2000s ate student in the cinema-television division Angeles, is an assistant editor for VH1’s at the University of Southern California. Celebrity Fit Club 2. In addition, he is doing Marla S. Hudnall, BA’00, was accepted Jennifer L. Spencer, BA’01, is a some independent sound and music editing. last winter into the Directors Guild Pro- customer service representative for Home Jo Beth Bender, BA’05, and Thomas ducer Training Program in Los Angeles. Depot in Atlanta. She writes that she was Murphy, BA’05, spent the summer in New She was one of 15 chosen from among an extra in the movie Glory Road. York as interns with the International Radio more than 1,000 applicants to the pro- Christian J. Felabom, BA’02, works and Television Society Fellowship program, gram, which allows her to spend two years in the quality assurance department for a a highly competitive and prestigious award. working as an assistant director trainee for medical device manufacturing company in They join the growing number of former various television shows. the Atlanta area. IRTS Fellows from telecommunications. Katie L. (Cimino) Zeliasz, BA’00, Jennifer Lazarus, BA’02, was married works for Weeks Publishing Co., North- to Donald W. 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