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Revisiting early debates about TV content and censorship from industry and government perspectives, The Television Code: Regulating the Screen to Safeguard the Industry recounts the development of the Television Code, the TV counterpart to the Hays Motion Picture Production Code. The broadcasting industry’s trade association, the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), sought to sanitize television content […]
Dr. Lei Guo (Assistant Professor of Emerging Media Studies) and other BU faculty including, Dr. Margrit Betke (Professor of Computer Science), Dr. Derry Wijaya (Assistant Professor of Computer Science), and Dr. Prakash Ishwar (Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering) have been awarded $1,000,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for their proposal titled, BIGDATA: IA: Multiplatform, […]
Special Issue of Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture Deadline: September 1, 2018 Podcasting is a paradoxical medium. Its form and content are encoded with markers of the both the popular and the elite. On the one hand, it is a medium deeply embedded in the everyday practices of everyday people. We […]
Dr. Denis Wu of Boston University and Dr. Renita Coleman of University of Texas at Austin receive the Mass Communication and Society Research Award at this year’s AEJMC Conference in Minneapolis.
Dr. James Katz of Boston University, along with 11 others, were honored as ICA Fellows in Fukuoka, Japan at the 2016 International Communication Association conference. Dr. Katz is one of the initial, central, ongoing, and influential scholars in the study of mobile communication. He served as chair of ICA’s Communication and Technology Division and as […]
Boston University’s Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering honors Dr. Lei Guo and Dr. Jacob Groshek with Hariri Research Awards: Statistically Principled and Scalable Computational Tools for Transforming Communication Research, led by PI Lei Guo from the Department of Emerging Media Studies, in collaboration with Margrit Betke (Computer Science), Prakash […]
The CRC is excited to announce its recent adoption of iMotions, a modular software platform for physiological assessment, for a variety of uses in experimental media research. Faculty and students are now able to measure eye tracking and emotional arousal. The remote Eye Tracking Module is an easy-to-use platform that provides robust data quality and […]
To study TV viewers’ engagement with shows and stories featuring “anti-hero” characters, assistant professor and co-director of the Communication Research Center Mina Tsay-Vogel is looking beyond the past research that suggests viewers enjoy watching “good” characters win and “bad” characters lose. Check out the article here in COMtalk.
In February 2016, Edward Downes was one of 25 “Frank Scholars” chosen to participate in an original conference sponsored by the University of Florida’s College of Journalism and Communication. The conference focused on the value science-based/data-driven approaches to strategic public communication–and a receptiveness to interdisciplinary scholarship–to create “meaningful and lasting social change in the public interest.” […]