Two important events have marked the last few weeks. The Inauguration of President Jonathan Scott Holloway was delayed by COVID but proved to be profound and moving when it happened. I don’t think I have seen senior administrators so emotionally engaged since President Obama’s Commencement Address. President Holloway was at his most personal, exploring aspects of his family history and the effect of Jim Crow laws and practices impacting his childhood. I recommend it. The most powerful moment was in the speech from Dwight McBride, president of the New School, who encouraged all to join him in singing the Black national anthem, demonstrating a wonderful singing voice.
The other equally important event for SC&I has been our own much-delayed celebration of graduates from 2020 and 2021. Some 300 graduates were able to attend with families and loved ones, and the event was uplifting. Many traveled long distances to return to Rutgers and SC&I for an event of considerable symbolic importance. The big hand high-five was popular for all—and maybe something we will try out in future graduations. Maybe (almost) normal service will be resumed by May 2022. I am particularly grateful to the staff and faculty who helped with the organization and delivery of the event against a backdrop of considerable uncertainty.
As we put 2021 behind us, I wish you and your family a healthy 2022.
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Research on Misinformation and the Transformation of the News Media Industry Shared at the Fall Colloquium
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SC&I Mourns the Loss of Staff Member Jodi Marcou
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SC&I Alumni Association Advocates for Students, Connects Graduates
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SC&I has launched SC&I Buy, a new online store offering exciting SC&I-branded clothing and other merchandise to show your SC&I pride
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Regina Marchi Named Recipient of The Warren I. Susman Award for Excellence in Teaching |
Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Studies Regina Marchi received the award from Rutgers University “in recognition of outstanding service in stimulating and guiding the intellectual development of students.”
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Melissa Aronczyk’s book, “A Strategic Nature,” co-authored with Maria Espinoza, is available; her research on PR and climate change was featured in the article, “There Can Be No Compromise on a Burning Planet,” in The Nation.
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Mark Beal was quoted in an article for The Food Institute, “Gen Z Consumers Seek Brands with Clear Purpose.”
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Mary Chayko presented the webinar, “How to Use Social Media More Effectively On the Job and in Everyday Life,” at Rutgers University’s Homecoming 2021.
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Mary D’Ambrosio wrote an opinion piece for The Star-Ledger, “They’re not refugees – they’re people in flight."
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Richard Dool and MHCI student Elizabeth Rotolo ’22 presented a paper, “The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Expansion of Telehealth and the Question of Sustainability,” at the International Academy of Business and Public Administration Disciplines (IABPAD) online fall conference.
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Lauren Feldman’s study with co-author P. Sol Hart, “Upping the ante? The effects of ‘emergency’ and ‘crisis’ in framing climate change news,” was published in the journal Climatic Change.
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Kiran Garimella is a co-principal investigator of FACT CHAMP, a project designed to advance scientific understanding of how trust, misinformation, abuse, and hateful content affect underrepresented groups.
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Ralph Gigliotti’s article, “Department Chairs in Distress,” was published in Inside Higher Ed.
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Shawnika Hull and her co-authors published the paper, “Providers PrEP: Identifying Primary Healthcare Providers’ Biases as Barriers to Provision of Equitable PrEP Services,” in the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.
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Shagun Jhaver co-authored two papers, “Evaluating the Effectiveness of Deplatforming as a Moderation Strategy on Twitter” and “Do Platform Migrations Compromise Content Moderation? Evidence from r/The_Donald and r/Incels,” published in Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, CSCW 2021; both articles received Best Paper Honorable Mention Awards at the CSCW conference.
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DemocracyNow! interviewed Deepa Kumar about the newly revised edition of her book, “Islamophobia: The Politics of Empire: Twenty Years after 9/11.”
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Katherine Ognyanova co-authored a special report of The Covid States Project, which found 30% of the population is either vaccinated and unmasked or unvaccinated and masked and that most unvaccinated individuals report wearing masks.
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John Pavlik published a new book, “Disruption and Digital Journalism: Assessing News Media Innovation in a Time of Dramatic Change.” His paper, “Experiencing Cinematic VR: Where Theory and Practice Converge in the Tribeca Film Festival Cinema360,” was published in the Proceedings of the New York State Communication Association.
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Brent D. Ruben, Ralph A. Gigliotti, and Rutgers Emeritus University Professor and Emeritus Dean of the Graduate School of Education Richard De Lisi published the newly revised book, “A Guide for Leaders in Higher Education: Concepts, Competencies, and Tools, Second Edition.”
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Research by Joyce Kasman Valenza and her colleague, Lynn Connaway, “Stop Source-Shaming,” appeared in American Libraries magazine.
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Khadijah Costley White’s article, “Oceanic Negroes: Communicating Pacific Blackness Down, Out, and Under,” was published in the International Journal of Communication, Vol. 15.
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Read more faculty publications here.
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Faculty and students participated in ASIS&T’s 84th Annual Meeting.
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Over 40 faculty and students participated in the 107th National Communication Association Convention.
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Faculty participated in the New Jersey Association of School Librarians Conference.
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Rutgers launched a search for the next Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair.
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Melissa Aronczyk is featured in the Scene on Radio podcast series “The Repair," Season 5, Episode 4, "Up to Heaven and Down to Hell,” a discussion of the climate emergency.
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Mark Beal is quoted in a Yahoo! Finance article, “How to Network: A Step-by-Step Guide for the Young Professional.”
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Galina Bolden led an advanced-level workshop on discourse particles for the Language and Social Interaction Working Group.
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Mary Chayko has been reappointed Faculty Fellow in Residence at the Rutgers-New Brunswick Honors College for 2021-2022.
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Stephen Dalina, who also serves as the university’s assistant director of records management, was elected mayor of Monroe Township.
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Emre Doğan joined SC&I as an instructional design and technology specialist and Mary Jane Smith joined as a Business Specialist.
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Richard Dool was interviewed in the second episode of a four-part followership series of the Warriors at Work podcast, “A CEO's Perspective: Followership with Richard Dool.”
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Sophia Fu was the winner of the NCA’s Bill Eadie Distinguished Scholarly Article Award for “Organizational and Individual Innovation Decisions in an Interorganizational System: Social Influence and Decision-Making Authority,” co-authored with Michelle Shumate and Noshir Contractor and published in the Journal of Communication.
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David Greenberg was interviewed on the podcast “Lockdown Law,” where he discussed the Nixon presidency and present-day politics.
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Alexa Hepburn and Jonathan Potter will lead a virtual Language and Social Interaction Working Group workshop on analyzing emotion on December 10.
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Brian Householder was quoted in The Daily Targum regarding the university’s coronavirus vaccine mandate for employees.
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Amy Jordan discussed her experience temporarily teaching her course in a hybrid format this semester with The Daily Targum in the article, “Amid pandemic, hybrid courses become standard for many at Rutgers.”
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Chenjerai Kumanyika was featured in the American Experience documentary, “Citizen Hearst.”
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Jeffrey Lane published the article, “Social Media as Criminal Evidence: New Possibilities, Problems” in “Footnotes,” the magazine of the American Sociological Association.
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Working with Dafna Lemish, John Bowen and Brenda Sheridan created a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion section on our website found under “About SC&I” that includes resources, events, news, research, and the school’s executive strategic plan for DEI.
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Yonah Levenson presented a session on “Metadata in the Information World” at INFOcon 2021: Lighting the Way.
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David A. Love wrote an opinion piece for The Washington Post, “The courts have served an anti-democratic force for much of U.S. history.”
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During the inauguration ceremony for Rutgers President Jonathan Holloway, Jon L. Oliver, chair of the university senate, lead the procession to the stage while carrying the Rutgers Gonfalon.
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John Pavlik and doctoral student Shravan Regret Iyer presented their research paper, “Of Media and Mediums: Illusion and the Roots of Virtual Reality in Victorian Era Science, Social Change, and Spiritualism,” at the 2021 New York State Communication Association Conference.
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Caitlin Petre’s audiobook of “All the News That's Fit to Click” is now available.
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Teresa Politano’s essay, “Don't Forget the Tomatoes for My Funeral,” was published in the Fall 2021 issue of Gastronomica, University of California Press.
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Yonaira Rivera and her colleague, Ken Resnicow, presented the webinar “Using Social Media and eHealth to Address Health Disparities: Promises and Perils” as part of the National Cancer Institute’s Research in Understudied Populations and Cancer Disparities series.
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Khadijah Costley White is quoted is in a New York Times article, “Online Furor Over a Student’s Hijab Engulfs a Liberal Town.”
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Itzhak Yanovitzky gave an invited virtual talk on “Health Communication in a Post-Pandemic World: Critical Observations and Lessons Learned” to faculty and students at Nanyang Technological University’s Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information.
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Aslihan Bulut MLIS ‘00 was appointed Law Librarian of Congress in August 2021.
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JMS alumna Beth Feehan ‘08 produced “Chief,” a 24-minute film about her father-in-law, First Deputy Fire Commissioner William Feehan, who was one of the oldest and highest-ranking members of the FDNY who passed away on 9/11.
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Carlos Ferreira MCM '21 assisted in the making of the documentary, “Dream Big,” about Nehemiah Queta, the first Portuguese basketball player to play in the NBA. The film premiered in theaters in Portugal in November and is available on YouTube.
- Diana Floegel Ph.D. ’21, MLIS ’16. and co-author Philip Doty received second place for the 2021 Association for Information Science and Technology best long paper award.
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COMM alumna Roshni Kamta ’18, diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer, is now living cancer-free. Kamta shared her story in a Mount Sinai Health System PSA for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
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Violeta Yas JMS ’07, the chief meteorologist for Telemundo62 and NBC10, was the cover story of Philly Current magazine’s Air Issue.
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JMS student and POLITICO intern Daniel Han was awarded the Radio-Television News Directors Association 2021 Presidents Scholarship.
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Ph.D. student Nikhila Natarajan was involved in publications and panel discussions at CyFY, India's premier conference on technology and society. Publications include, “That First Childhood Cigarette: Big Tobacco metaphor drags US Congress to address a bigger dilemma,” published in CyFy Edit 2021, and the commentary, “US vs Big Tech: 10 trends pointing to a fundamental relationship reboot,” in Digital Debates – CyFy Journal 2021. She collaborated on the book, “Kamala Harris: Phenomenal Woman.”
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Elana Ortiz JMS ’23, head sports editor at The Daily Targum, interviewed Commissioner of the Big Ten Conference Kevin Warren as part of a town hall press conference.
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Ph.D. student Maria Ortiz-Myers MI ’16 received a 2021 Association for Library and Information Science Education’s “Doctoral Student to ALISE Grant.”
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Ph.D. student Stacy Welk passed away on November 7.
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Sarah Wilson MCM ‘22, a full-time emergency medical technician and volunteer, discussed how she put her knowledge to use in real-time during Hurricane Ida.
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01/18/2022
Spring Semester Begins
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