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Guest lecturers in Professor Ken Doyle's section of Jour 1001 this semester have included Nora Paul, Director of the INMS, Tim McGuire, former Editor in Chief of the Star Tribune, Adjunct Instructor Ken Stone, and Adjunct Instructor John Rash, Director of Media Negotiation, Campbell Mithun Esty.
In Teaching Specialist Gayle Golden's Jour 3101 class the Washington Post's Tom Wilkenson spoke about the qualities newspaper editors look for in young reporters and Mark Anfinson, attorney for the Minnesota Newspaper Association, spoke about the laws for accessing public records.
Star Tribune columnist Doug Grow was a guest lecturer in Visiting Associate Professor Chris Ison's Public Affairs Reporting class and Laurie Hertzel, the writing coach and acting assistant managing editor/projects at the Star Tribune, was a guest lecturer in his News Reporting and Writing class.
Ph.D. student Amy Mattson Lauters had two guest speakers in her Jour 3745: Mass Media and Popular Culture this month-- Steve Kurth, artist for comic book creations "Ghostbusters" and "G.I. Joe" on the comic industry and his work as an artist. Julie Jones, Ph.D. student and veteran broadcaster spoke about the language of moving pictures and the early development of cinema.
Professor Sherrie Mazingo's “People of Color and Media” class took a weeklong look at Asians in Minnesota with visits from Twin Cities Public Television's Fred de Sam Lazaro, SJMC student Susie Vang, and Ilene Her, Executive Director of the Council on Asian-Pacific Minnesotans.
Roshini Rajkumar, reporter for UPN 29, talked to Adjunct Instructor Ken Stone's Advanced Electronic Reporting Class about putting together a resume tape and how to pursue that first job.
Nate Witkins, May '03 SJMC graduate, talked to Stone's Newscast Producing Class on how to produce newscasts in a small market newsroom. Nate's 6pm Newscast on KTTC-TV, Rochester recently won a regional Emmy for Best Small Market Newscast.
The Second Annual “New Research for New Media” conference was held in Tarragona, Spain on September 30 – October 2. This international gathering of new media researchers featured panel presentations on quantitative methods, ethnographic research, research ethics, issues with historical research, and content and discourse analysis. The conference was co-sponsored by the Universitat Rovira i Virgili and was held in their state of the art conference facilities. The website of the conference can be found at: http://www.inms.umn.edu/convenings/newresearch_2004/main.htm Be sure to check out the blog for the conference at http://blog.lib.umn.edu/npaul/NRNM/
Gravel Community Meeting: On October 19, Matt Taylor from Dunwoody Academy came to discuss the project he is working on with School of Journalism and Mass Communication professor Kathleen Hansen and INMS director Nora Paul. They are using the NeverWinter Nights computer game modification tools to create an information gathering simulation for students of Hansen's information gathering course.
Undergraduate student Nick "Scoop" Walsh, was the reporter on a news package about voter registration among young adults. His piece aired October 30 on ABC's overnight newscast. Helping Nick was Lou Raguse, Chris Kallal and Shannon Schaefer.
Professor Jane Kirtley received the Edith Wortman First Amendment Matrix Foundation Award at The Association for Women in Communications Annual Professional Conference in Charlotte, NC.
Congratulations to senior Tyler Richter, who won a Regional Emmy for his report "Drum Major Tryouts."
Professor Ron Faber was quoted in an October 10 MPR story about groups that traditionally spend a lot of money on political advertising cutting back this year. The story is available here:
http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2004/10/04_mccalluml_ads/
Visiting Associate Professor Chris Ison's commentary, " ''Security'' is new threat to public's right to know," was published November 1 in the Star Tribune Commentary section. The story is available here: http://www.startribune.com/stories/562/5059781.html
Professor Jane Kirtley was quoted in an October 4 Eugene Register-Guard story about the impact of media law. The story is available here: http://www.registerguard.com/news/2004/10/04/b3.cr.sullivan.1004.html
Kirtley was quoted in an October 16 Los Angeles Times story about the sexual harassment lawsuit against Bill O'Reilly.
Kirtley was quoted in "Health TV spots blur line between ads, news" in the Charleston ( South Carolina ) Post and Courier on October 16. The full story is available here:http://charleston.net/stories/101604/loc_16healthtv.shtml
Kirtley was a guest on KPCC radio (89.3 in Pasadena , California ) for "PM with Patt Morrison" on October 22. The topic was free speech in war time.
Kirtley was quoted in an October 27 AP article about media being wary of new law limiting access to polls and in a similar St. Paul Pioneer Press article. The story is available here:
http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/entertainment/10032001.htm
Kirtley was quoted in a Boston Phoenix article about First Amendment Rights under the Bush administration. The article is available here:
http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/dont_quote_me/multi-page/documents/04224667.asp
Kirtley was quoted in an October 28 Hollywood Reporter article about entertainment and politics.
Professor Brian Southwell was quoted by KSTP (Channel 5) regarding Internet advertising and direct mail use by hate groups, and was a guest on The Pat Miles Show on WCCO (830 AM), along with guest co-host John Rash, to discuss the impact of mass media on voting.
Professor Linus Abraham did a presentation on “Visual Communication in Public Diplomacy,” as part of a lecture series on Public Diplomacy and Global Communication at North Dakota State University on October 20.
Ph.D. student Kate Edenborg and Professor Hazel Dicken-Garcia, will present their paper, “The Darlings Come Out to See the Volunteers Drilled: Depictions of Women in Harper's Weekly During the Civil War” at the Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga on November 11-13
Visiting Associate Professor Chris Ison was a panelist at the University of Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists Freedom of Information panel discussion on October 18 in Murphy Hall. He spoke about how to use the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act and the federal Freedom of Information Act to access public information.
Professor Jane Kirtley appeared on a panel, "What Do E-Voting Machines Know About My Vote?" at a symposium, "E-lection 2004: Is E-voting Ready for Prime Time?" sponsored by the Center for Information Technology and Privacy Law at the John Marshall Law School in Chicago on October 1. http://evoting.jmls.edu
Kirtley delivered a lecture, "Libraries, the First Amendment and Intellectual Freedom" at the Minnesota Library Association's Annual Conference in Duluth, MN on October 6. http://www.mnlibraryassociation.org/Annual%20Conference/Schedule/October%206.htm
Kirtley's presentation, "Comity, Shmomity: Will U.S. Courts Continue to Refuse to Enforce Foreign Libel Judgments?" was part of a panel, "Exporting the First Amendment Abroad: Sullivan's Global Impact," at a conference, "New York Times v. Sullivan Forty Years After: Its Impact on Freedom of the Press in the United States and Abroad" on October 8, at the University of Oregon in Eugene. The conference was co-sponsored by the University of Oregon 's School of Journalism and Communication and by the School of Law. http://jcomm.uoregon.edu/sullivan/
Kirtley was a panelist for "Indecency in the Media" at the Minnesota Broadcasters Association Annual Conference in Minneapolis on October 25.
Kirtley was the featured speaker at the October 26, luncheon meeting of the University of Minnesota Retirees Association held at the Campus Club at the University of Minnesota . Her lecture was: "The Right to be Wrong -- Squaring Media Responsibility with the First Amendment Paradigm."
Ph.D. student Jennifer Moore will present her paper, “A Survey of the Newspaper Industry's First Professional Trade Publication, The Journalist (1884-1907)” at the Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga on November 11-13. http://www.scpr.org/programs/pm/
Professor Dona Schwartz's recent photographic activities include:
Sanctioned Sex, a survey of exotic dancers and their patrons in Twin Cities strip clubs, is represented in the collection of The Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College , Chicago , as a part of the Midwest Photographers Project. She is currently included in the 14th Annual Center Awards Juried Competition exhibition at the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel , California . The juror was Philip Brookman, Senior Curator of Photography and Media Arts, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Sanctioned Sex is profiled in the current issue of Leica World magazine.
This summer Schwartz had two photographs from her ongoing project, In the Kitchen, included in Visual Proof! the 9th Annual Photographic Competition Exhibition at the Photographic Center Northwest, in Seattle . She was awarded an Honorable Mention for her submissions by juror Roy L. Flukinger, Senior Curator, Photography and Film, at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, UT Austin
An article on user control measurement by Professor Brian Southwell and Ph.D. students George Anghelcev, Itai Himelboim, and Julie Jones was accepted by Computers in Human Behavior (a psychology journal dedicated to human-computer interaction).
Silha Center 2004 Fall Forum
Featuring Barry Allen, Executive Director of Film Preservation and Archival Resources with Paramount Pictures
“Ethics and Copyright Issues in Film Restoration”
Thursday, November 11
3:30 p.m.
100 Murphy Hall
Allen's multi-media presentation will describe and demonstrate the decision-making process and the actions taken to preserve and restore a classic Hollywood movie.
The Silha Center Forum is free and open to the public, and is supported by generous grants from the late Otto Silha and his wife, Helen. For additional information, contact Lauren McKay at (612) 625-3421 or e-mail silha@umn.edu .
GRAVEL Grant Project Review
November 16
University of Minnesota
The recipients of GRAVEL grants in Spring 2004 will be presenting reports about their findings and the next steps they intend to take with their research. The afternoon long session will kickoff with a speech by human-computer interaction and girl-game expert http://www.tauzero.com/Brenda_Laurel, followed by the grantee reports, and concluding with a discussion by UM professors who are using, or exploring, game technology in their work.
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November 8, 2004