January Monthly News 2020

Department of Communication Studies

January 2020

Newsletter

Welcome back to the winter semester! Here are this month's events and opportunities in the Communication Studies Department. In This Issue:

• What’s Coming Up

• What's Happened What’s Coming Up

Professor Anne MacLennan will be hosting Peixin Hua, a Globalink Mitacs research intern from Sichuan University in China. She will work on work on her SSHRC-funded research project with Professor Katie Moylan of Leicester University in the UK. The research, Programming, Practices, Production & Policy: Canadian Community Radio will go beyond chronicling the challenges of Canadian community/campus radio stations to work in stages to identify the successes or best practices and challenges to provide a conduit of information on initiatives and innovations to help sustain and advance the growth of community/campus radio stations.

Professor Michelle Mohabeer was just awarded/recognized by the Berlin Underground , as best female filmmaker 2020 for her feature creative doc, Queer Coolie-tudes (2019).

She will also have the US premiere of Queer Coolie-tudes at the Third Horizon Film Festival, in Miami February 6 - 9, 2020

Congratulations!

COMN 3551: Advanced Issues in Digital Media and Culture (Winter 2020)

Melodie Cardin, a PhD Candidate and an Instructor in the School of Journalism and Communication at will be presenting The Biopolitics of Prenatal Testing on Tuesday Feb. 25, 8:30am- 11:30am in ACE 003.

We're Hiring! The Department is hiring a Full Time Professorial Stream - Assistant Professor in Diasporic Media. The application deadline Feb. 14, 2020 and start date is July 1, 2020.

Course Director Steven Pinter is giving a paper on Neo-Primitivism, Podcasts and Political Discourse: Variations on the Frontier at the The Eleventh International Conference on The Image, in Sydney, , September 9-10, 2020

SOSC/COMN AWARDS CEREMONY

Our Social Science & Communication Studies Awards Ceremony (held jointly with the Department of Social Science), is scheduled for Wednesday, March 11th from 1:00PM - 4:30PM at the New Second Student Centre.

The awards include: Penny Jolliffe Scholarship, Dalton Kehoe Prize, Eric Koch Award, Jerry Durlak Prize, Reva Orlicky Memorial & Founding Friends Award, Fokus Media Award #1 (COMN 3700 & 3701), Fokus Media Award #2, York International Exchange Award and, Arthur Siegel Memorial Award.

Call for applications: Undergraduate Research Fair 2020

Students are encouraged to apply to this year’s Undergraduate Research Fair before the Jan. 31 deadline. The multidisciplinary event offers monetary prizes in different categories and all student-presenters will receive an invitation to submit an article on their project to be considered for publication in the fair’s e- journal, “Revue YOUR Review.”

The eighth annual Undergraduate Research Fair takes place on March 4.

If you are in the last term of your program and expect to graduate, you must apply to graduate. Once you apply, the Degree Audit Office will evaluate your eligibility to graduate. What's Happened

Professor Natalie Coulter, in the Department of Communication Studies in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS), has been appointed the new director of the Institute for Research on Digital Learning (IRDL), an Organized Research Unit (ORU) at . Coulter’s appointment went into effect on Jan. 1.

Read more details on her exciting new role!

Girls on Wikipedia: IRDL Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon Event

On January 13 2020, IRDL in conjunction with the GSRN (Girls Studies Research Network), held a wiki-a- thon to attempt to rectify the imbalance of girls and women being overlooked on Wikipedia.

IRDL members Hannah Maitland and Tanya Poduba ran the drop-in workshop, and attendees created one new Wiki article, edited nine existing Wiki articles, and completed eighty nine edits to existing Wiki pages.

Chair Anne MacLennan and many Communication Studies Students attended the event "Hot Chocolate with the Dean" on January 15th!

Our Field Experience Placement Course COMN 4140 course allows students to gain experience in the workplace while earning credits. This year, the course was revamped and we are excited to share some student profiles!

The Experiential Education (EE) Symposium showcases experiential education at York University and celebrates the achievements of students and faculty who have participated in EE.

This multi-disciplinary, annual event was held on January 21, 2020 from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. and January 22, 2020 from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. in Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Building Room 1014.

The Dean’s Award for Research Excellence (DARE) is open for applications and the deadline is Saturday, February 8th at 4 p.m.

In the Department of Communication Studies, Professor Jonathan Obar and Professor Anne MacLennan are offering positions.

Jonathan Obar's research project is Clickwrap Attack: Understanding Digital Clickwraps and the Online Privacy Threat. This project intends to address the extent to which digital service providers employ clickwraps, and threaten privacy deliverables as a result.

Click here to apply

Professor Anne MacLennan's research project is Community/Campus/Indigenous Radio. This research will expand the possibilities of radio within the context of current programming, practice, production, and policy realities of Canadian community/campus radio.

Click here to apply

Please have a look and apply if you are interested. The award is a research position over the summer and DARE students receive $5,000 per student (paid as a monthly stipend over the summer months). To be eligible students will normally have a minimum GPA of 7.0; and will have completed at least 48 credits by the time they take up the award (i.e. by May 1, 2020).

The Winter 2020 Career Fair took place at the Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Building on January 23, 2020. This event was a great opportunity for COMN students to meet employers who are looking to hire for a variety of opportunities, including part-time, summer, internship, and full-time positions after graduation.

Did you know that once you have applied to graduate with an undergraduate degree you can verify your graduation status online? The system will indicate if your application to graduate has been received, if your file has been audited and if you are eligible to graduate. Academic decisions have been released on the web.

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