The MEDIAconnection Mass Communications DEPARTMENT NEWSLETTER Volume 7 Issue 1 June 2011 MASS COMM DEPARTMENT Student Paper in ECA Top Four Inside this Issue: Senior Spotlights Genesa Rodriguez ........2 Cory Zalewski . .3 Internships ...........2 Alumni News Loriah Webby Visualizes Future in Design..........4 Stan Phillips Talks Radio ...5 Seniors Joseph Thomas, Liz McCann, Elizabeth Butler, and Ms. Michelle Schmude, Department Chairperson and Professor, display their student poster at the Eastern Communications Association Logo Design Winner Undergraduate Scholars Conference. Dave Castro .............6 By Elizabeth Butler The findings were astonishing – over 65% of respondents were unaware of the Faculty Profiles Joseph Thomas, Elizabeth McCann, privacy settings they had in place. Our Full-Time Faculty . .6-8 and I recently presented our senior study demonstrated that if users didn’t undergraduate research paper, which was take the time to educate themselves on Adjunct Faculty ........9-11 chosen as one of the top four papers, out Facebook’s changing privacy policies, of more than 125 submissions, in the they were often times exposing more WRKC Radio Eastern Communications Association information about themselves than they ...............9 Undergraduate Scholars Conference, had intended. Awards Arlington, VA, on April 15. When Thomas, McCann and I Our team worked fervently through- were selected by judging professors to Inquiries or comments? out the Fall 2010 semester in COMM submit our research to the 2011 ECA 493, Research Methods, to conduct Undergraduate Scholars’ Conference, we Contact us at: research. We chose to examine privacy were flattered and proud. Earning place-
[email protected] settings on the social networking site, ment in the top four, out of more than 125 Facebook, and its users’ knowledge of submitted papers, meant that we would Visit the Mass Communications just how secure their profiles are.