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.
Chayko’s promotion, likely the first of its kind at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, recognizes her outstanding teaching, innovations in course delivery and new media use, and national and international impact.
A majority of New Jerseyans support mandatory vaccines for school children when available.
In a paper addressing the challenges of teaching about secrecy, Associate Professor Jack Bratich explores the importance of secrecy literacy and how teachers can provide students with the foundational skills they need to better manage secrecy in their professional and everyday lives.
SC&I faculty member Richard Dool and the students in one of his Master of Communication and Media classes collaborated on the book, and the result is a guide that offers a compendium of 10 competencies for leading successfully in the 21st Century.
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.
Joe Biden will be sworn in as the 46th president of the United States at noon on January 20.
Rutgers Today interviews Assistant Professor of Journalism and Media Studies Khadijah Costley White.
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.”
