Scholars at the School of Communication and Information take an interdisciplinary approach to research that spans the fields of information science, library studies, communication, journalism and media studies.
The Executive Director of the American Library Association has appointed Associate Teaching Professor Joyce Valenza to the ALA Business Advisory Group. The group, ALA said, will explore and advise ALA on strategies related to new business development.
Rutgers Today interviews Assistant Professor of Journalism and Media Studies Khadijah Costley White.
Joe Biden will be sworn in as the 46th president of the United States at noon on January 20.
Matthew Weber, a communication scholar whose research examines media, organizational change, and communication dynamics, has rejoined SC&I as an associate professor with tenure after having served for several years as an endowed faculty member at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities.
Rutgers researcher explains how understanding media and advertising helps with substance abuse among adolescents.
In a chapter titled “Networked Street Life,” published in the new “Oxford Handbook of Sociology and Digital Media,” Assistant Professor Jeffrey Lane addresses a new area of ethnographic field research that “links the inequality concerns of urban sociologists and digital scholars who are studying inequality, and particularly digital inequality, in urban neighborhoods.”
Alumna Barbara Burton’s new book explores Westfield’s 300-year history, including events during the American Revolutionary War, the day in 1838 when the train arrived, and the 1918 influenza pandemic.
Renowned Handbook includes a chapter by Chayko on the practice of identity, and one by Paris on information, technology, and work.
SC&I Assistant Professor Katherine Ognyanova has published new survey data from The COVID States Project, which explores the economic hardships confronting Americans.
Cheryl Klimaszewski, Ph.D ’20 was awarded second place in the Jean Tague Sutcliffe Doctoral Student Research Poster Competition at ALISE for her dissertation research that combined aspects of autoethnography and visual data combined with textual and visual analysis to understand these homegrown, grassroots Romanian museums.
