August 2023 - News Articles

Wang majored in Communication with a specialization in Public Relations and minored in Digital Media. An unexpected change in her graduation date left Wang scrambling. “Unsure what to do, I spoke to my advisors and professors about my dilemma. They helped me explore my options and introduced me to the MCM program. With their encouragement and a leap of faith, I decided to pursue a graduate degree at SC&I.”

Greenberg has been awarded the prestigious grant to support his work on the biography he is writing, “John Lewis: A Life in Politics.”

Artificial Intelligence (AI), one of our society’s hottest topics, is intensely debated, often hyped, and rarely understood. Critical AI at Rutgers, an interdisciplinary initiative, organized and led through a steering committee with support from the Center for Cultural Analysis and the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science, is a leader in the study of this profoundly social and cultural phenomenon.

Louise Barkhuus, professor of Computer Science at the IT University of Copenhagen in Denmark, studies how sociotechnical systems are able to support our everyday practices in privacy-sensitive ways. She will teach and conduct research at SC&I this year.

SC&I has launched a new website to showcase current and past research by SC&I faculty members that directly impacts the lives of New Jersey residents.

"We can help academic immigrants feel valued as well as develop their sense of belonging as full participants in our institutions,” wrote SC&I Interim Dean Dafna Lemish.

“The MCM program taught me more than I can imagine in just 15 months.”

Designed to encourage reflection, critical thinking, and the development of communication competencies at an early age, Ruben said the book provides a “primer” for elementary and middle-school children.

Faculty members from the Communication, Journalism and Media Studies, and Library and Information Science Departments have published books this year.

Jennifer Dunne Keeney, a student in the Master of Communication and Media (MCM) program, comes to Rutgers via a lengthy career as a performing and visual artist. After receiving her BFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Keeney has performed in numerous Broadway shows, national tours, international productions in foreign languages, music videos, and television appearances such as the “Tony Awards” and “Late Show with Stephen Colbert.”

CI-119 has been updated with state-of-the-art technology which will greatly enhance teaching and learning at SC&I, and the new design will serve as a future use case for building innovative classrooms across Rutgers and other U.S. iSchools.

The aim of a new NSF-funded project is to develop a learning ecosystem to enable up to 1,000 high school students in Rhode Island to explore and learn how Machine Learning and AI are impacting equity in healthcare. Associate Professor Charles Senteio is a consultant on this cutting-edge grant.

The Rutgers University awards program offers “grant opportunities to support faculty research and especially to encourage scholarship in tackling challenging disciplinary problems in the sciences, social sciences, humanities, and creative arts.”

Professor of Professional Practice Steven Miller speaks with SC&I about the critical role campus media plays by both disseminating information and training aspiring journalists and other professionals.

In a newly published opinion piece, SC&I Interim Dean Dafna Lemish said she explores larger questions the Children and Media scholarly community could ask to better address public concerns surrounding the impact of media on children.

Three SC&I graduates came back to campus – virtually – to give insights to students about job searches and the workplace, in an online panel discussion conducted by the MCM/MHCI Graduate Student Association (GSA).

Bromberg discovered this internship through Rutgers Handshake. She said she was excited to apply after searching for an opportunity to contribute to the future of “meaningful” TV shows and movies for the next generation of young people.

Bolden has been elected for the 2023-26 term. The International Society for Conversation Analysis (ISCA) serves the needs of scholars of language and social interaction across a variety of disciplines and applications.