Next Thursday, Pallavi Kumar will be speaking at the National Communication Association's 109th annual convention Opening Session: Engaging Communities: The Power of Communication in Catalyzing Social Change along with professors from Gallaudet University, Johns Hopkins University, Northwestern University, and Howard University.
A coalition of SOC professors and graduate students will also be on a panel at the NCA conference at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, MD. Professors Sherri Williams, Whitney Harris Christopher, Natalie Hopkinson and Gillie Haynes and doctoral students Tirrea Billings and Tambra Stevenson will participate in the panel "Stereotypes and Stigma: Liberating Black Women's Images, Demanding Authenticity and Reflecting Humanity" on Friday Nov. 17 from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the National Harbor in National Harbor 12, convention center, second floor.
Incoming SOC Research Professor Kathy Kleiman attended ICANN78 in Germany to engage in ongoing Internet policy negotiations. She served on various panels to discuss whether law enforcement requests for personal data of domain name registrants can be anonymous and how to finalize rules for applications of new Generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs). She also joined the ICANN celebrations of 25 years managing the Internet’s global Domain Name System and unique Internet identifiers.
Take a look back at guests Pallavi Kumar and Isis Amusa on this week's throwback episode of Media in the Mix as we talk about everything SOC3. SOC3 Provides opportunities to students for hands-on learning while also giving them course credit and compensation. In other words, it's true real-life work experience in the communications world! Watch here.
Patricia Aufderheide's article on the Double Exposure Film Festival, which focuses on investigative documentaries, was published in Filmmaker magazine.
On Monday, as part of the AU CORE (freshman) program, Kurt Braddock organized a trip for his class (CORE 107- Disinformation and Conspiracy Theories) to Comet Ping Pong Pizza for a brief lecture on the Pizzagate conspiracy theory and pizza party. The excursion was intended for all the classes in Kurt's CORE; 60 students attended, had pizza, and learned about the dangerous implications of disinformation on a susceptible audience. Kurt also discussed other classes in SOC with students, as well as communication-based majors.
Kurt Braddock authored a chapter in the Routledge Handbook on Radicalisation and Counter-Radicalisation (Routledge, 2023), due to be released later this month. Kurt's chapter, “The Pen and the Sword: Cognition, Emotion, Communication, and Violent Radicalization” deals with the ways in which thoughts and emotions can intersect and interrelate to push someone toward violent extremism.
In October, Profs. Claudia Myers and Laura Waters Hinson's short documentary The Test won Best Documentary Short at the Santa Fe International Film Festival. SFiFF was named a top 50 film festival by Movie Maker Magazine.
Last month, The Test also screened at the Rocky Mountain Women's Film Festival, (the longest running women’s film festival in North America) and at The United Nations Association Film Festival (one of the oldest international documentary film festivals in the US, focused on human rights).
Most recently, The Test had a sold-out screening at the Austin Film Festival. Now in its 30th year, AFF is considered one of the premier film festivals in the US.
