Friday, March 7, 2008

Inside CCI - Newsletter for the College of Communication and Information faculty, staff, and students

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ADVERTISING AND PUBLIC RELATIONS

--PR students' campaign encourages middle school students to buckle up
More than 1,000 students and teachers at Knoxville's South-Doyle Middle School took part in the Big Orange Buckle Campaign 2008 during a Feb. 27 event led by UT public relations students. The outreach campaign, which focused on seatbelt safety, usage, and awareness, was part of the Public Relations Student Society of America's Bateman competition. The competition challenged public relations students across the country to create and execute a month-long campaign for a designated client. This year's client was Chevrolet's Safe Kids Buckle Up in cooperation with General Motors and Chevrolet. The event was made possible by West Chevrolet and the Tennessee Highway Patrol.

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JOURNALISM AND ELECTRONIC MEDIA

--"UT Today" to air on local NBC affiliate
"UT Today," a news magazine program produced by journalism and electronic media students, will begin an eight-week run this Saturday on WBIR-TV Channel 10. The show will air on the NBC affiliate at 1 p.m. Saturdays through April 28. The 30-minute news magazine program has three sections: news, features and sports. Stories focus on UT Knoxville or provide a UT perspective on national and international news. WBIR-TV provides airtime for the show to UT. Students in a media sales class sell advertising time for the news magazine and proceeds are used to offset the expenses of the program. For more information, visit http://www.cci.utk.edu/node/5229.

--Annual Hill Lecture set for April 25
Alan Boyle, award-winning science writer for MSNBC.com, will present the annual Alfred and Julia Hill Lecture at 8 p.m., Tuesday, March 25 in the Shiloh Room of the University Center. Boyle will speak on "Britney Spears vs. Chimps with Spears: Talking about Science in a Tabloid Culture." Boyle joined MSNBC.com when it was founded in 1996 and has been has been the science editor for the site since 1997. The program is free and is open to the public. For more information, contact Dr. Mark Littmann at (865) 974-8156.

--Students win top prize at annual conference festival
A student project created for the fall 2007 semester JEM 336 has won the Best of Festival Award for the entire student video division at the Broadcast Education Association's annual Festival of Media Arts. Four students--Doug Griffey, Alyssa Walker, James McLendon, and Kirby Reitz--created the piece titled "Fourth Wall." It will be showcased at the BEA convention in Las Vegas this April. The student video competition is a peer-reviewed event with acceptance rates that rival major discipline publications. The award carries with it free Avid software and a $1,000 cash prize for the participating students.

--Kabrich accepts teaching position
JEM doctoral student Jeanine Kabrich has accepted a full-time teaching position at one of the military academy specialty schools. Kabrich will be a public affairs instructor at the Defense Information School at Fort Meade, Md. beginning March 17. She will be responsible for teaching and certifying military officers in public affairs, and she also will teach journalism and radio/TV courses to enlisted soldiers, sailors, airmen, Coast Guardsmen, and Marines.

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CENTER FOR INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION STUDIES

-- Symposium committee names winners
Congratulations to the 30th Annual College Research Symposium award recipients:

• Best Doctoral Paper - James E. Miller, "'Students Don't Just Have Carte Blanche to do Whatever They Want': A Qualitative Investigation of Public College and University Administrators' Perceptions on their Role as Overseers of the Student Press after Hosty v. Carter"
• Best Master's Paper - Amanda Womac, "Frames of Mountaintop Removal in Print Journalism"
• Best Collaboration - Dr. Michael Palenchar and Bernardo Motta, "Awareness, Attitudes and Utilization of Community Right to Know: Public Relations Practitioners and Environmental Risk Communication"
• Best Poster - (Tie) Karen Freberg, "From Supersizing to Healthy: Can McDonald's Change Its Image Among Today's College Students?" and Tulika Biswas, Taewoo Kim, Lei Wu, Liuyan Yang, "Asian Stereotypes Lost or Found in the First Season of TV Series ‘Lost'?"

Presentations made available for posting will be added to the college's website next week at http://www.cci.utk.edu/symposium/program. The keynote presentation by Reggie Murphy is already posted on the site.

--CICS staff member attends Web 2.0 conference
Mary Bartolini, assistant director of grants for the Center for Information and Communication Studies, is attending the Institute of Museum and Library Services 2008 WebWise Conference on Libraries and Museums in the Digital World March 6-7 in Miami Beach, Fla. The theme for this year's conference is "WebWise 2.0: The Power of Community." The conference explores how libraries and museums can utilize the new Web 2.0 "architecture of participation," in terms of preservation and access to museum and library collections.

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TELL YOUR STUDENTS

-- Graduating seniors can RSVP online for spring/summer 2008 commencement
Registration is now open for eligible students who wish to participate in the College of Communication and Information Spring/Summer 2008 Commencement Ceremony. Students must RSVP online by Friday, April 25. The event will be held at 2 p.m. on Friday, May 9, in the Knoxville Convention Center.

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MARK YOUR CALENDAR

--SIS Alumni & Friends Day 2008, 1-4 p.m., Saturday, March 8, McClung Museum Auditorium. Attendance is free and the event is open to the public. RSVP to Linda Sherman at lsherman@utk.edu or (865) 974-7916 to attend.

--College Research Forum, 12:15-1:30 p.m., Monday, March 10, Arena Dining Room C. Dr. Michael Palenchar will present "Secret Persuaders: Ethical, Legal and Rhetorical Perspectives on the Use of Public Relations Front Groups."

--Spring Break, March 14-20. No classes.

--Spring Recess, March 21. No classes, most offices closed.

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