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Based on a decade of research, a new Rutgers study finds that social media use can de-escalate and even prevent gun and gang violence in America’s urban neighborhoods.

New Rutgers research has found when politicians, newscasters, public speakers, or people engaged in private conversations make a mistake, they will use a communicative process known as over-exposed self-correction to manage errors that may be (mis)construed as revealing their problematic or amoral attitudes or egregious lapses in competence.

A lack of resources, institutional resistance, and the inability to target library practices around misinformation impeded the ability of New Jersey public library staff to address pandemic misinformation, according to a new study by Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science Britt Paris.

Roy Woods Jr. MCM'21 recently accepted a new position as the Director of Communications at Springpoint, one of the Mid-Atlantic's largest nonprofit providers of residential and home-based services and programs for seniors. He credits the Master of Communication and Media program for preparing him to be in a leadership position and providing an excellent platform for developing his communications skills.

Published just in time to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first secular celebrations of Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) in the United States, the new edition documents how the celebration has evolved since it was first observed in the US in the fall of 1972, paying particular attention to how Hollywood films, video games, YouTube and other forms of media have made the celebration even more popular over the past 12 years since the first edition of the book was published.

Martha Hickson received 2022 Lemony Snicket Prize for Noble Librarians Faced with Adversity for her fight against censorship.