By Tiger ShiWeb Content Contributor “I find your lack of faith disturbing.” This was what Darth Vader said disapprovingly in Star Wars towards an admiral who expressed arrogance and disrespect. This is also how I felt when my relatives in China and my family friends within the Chinese-American community viewed my major in mass communication and journalism as “unsatisfactory” to their standards. It is simply because it is not STEM […]
By Brittany AndersonWeb Content Contributor For mass communication majors, mid-October is an exciting time to be on campus. It’s when Mass Comm Week happens: a week-long event that spans across a collection of different panels with speakers, resources, workshops and more aimed towards giving mass comm students career tips, new skills and opportunities for their future in a communication and media-centric career. In the midst of “fake news,” deep fakes […]
By Timia CobbWeb Content Contributor Brant Freeman, ESPN+ announcer and broadcaster for the Texas State Athletics Department, spoke at Mass Comm Week about what it takes to do his job televising live sports. Freeman is also the video productions coordinator for the Texas State athletics department. As a Texas State Alumni, Freeman shared the experiences he gained when he attended Texas State. He said these opportunities and resources pushed him […]
By Piper BlakeAssistant Web Content Manager The School of Mass Communication and Journalism (SJMC) is one of the largest schools within Texas State with a wide array of majors students can choose from. These majors include public relations, journalism, advertising and digital media. That is why we have Mass Comm week once a year that allows SJMC students to get more information on their chosen career and to create connections […]
By Allison Johnson Blog Content Contributor My senior year of high school, I applied to Texas State to study mass communication. That year, I began to expand my range of where I received content from, knowing I would someday like to write entertainment columns one day. I became an avid visitor of satire sites such as Total Sorority Move and The Onion. Out of all the platforms I visited daily, […]
By Allison Johnson Blog Content Contributor I feel like almost everyone I meet at Texas State is a business major. Nothing wrong with it of course, but some of them are almost unnerving when I tell them I’m an electronic media major. “What is mass communication?”. Communication of the masses, duh. No, but really, I love my major and I get excited when talking about the influence digital media has […]
By Angelique Paccione News Reporter The School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Texas State launched its new major in Digital Media Innovation (DMI) this fall. Texas State University System Board of Regents approved the undergraduate degree last February, and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board gave final approval in August. Founding Director of the Media Innovation Lab, Cindy Royal, was a Knight Fellow at Stanford in 2013-2014 when she […]
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