01/22/08 - Department of communication hosts conference to set new agenda for media studies

The Department of Communication at Texas A&M University will host a conference titled “Exploring New Media Worlds:  Changing Technologies, Industries, Cultures, and Audiences in Global and Historical Context” from Feb. 29-March 2, 2008. The international conference will address issues in the growing and ever changing field of media studies.

"The 'Exploring New Media Worlds' conference will address the changing configurations of media in social life and in historical and global contexts,” said Eric W. Rothenbuhler, professor of communication and conference committee chair.

Keynote speakers include Larry Grossberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Steve Jones, University of Illinois at Chicago; Vincent Mosco, Queens University in Ontario, Canada; and Ellen Seiter, University of Southern California.

Visit the event website for a more thorough explanation of the themes to be addressed. http://comm.tamu.edu/mediaworlds/index.htm.

The conference is hosted and co-sponsored by the Department of Communication, College of Liberal Arts, the Glasscock Center for Humanities Research and the Program in Presidential Rhetoric, Texas A&M University, with support from the National Communication Association. For more information about the conference or a schedule of events, visit website link.

http://comm.tamu.edu/mediaworlds/index.htm

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Contact: Holly Lambert, hollyalyselambert@libarts.tamu.edu, 979.862.4879