This book explores the origin and future of "upgrade culture," a collection of cultural habits and orientations based on the assumption that new technologies will rapidly, perpetually, and inevitably emerge.
Our Publications and Projects
Discover the groundbreaking research and creative work produced by our faculty and students in the fields of Media, Journalism, and Film. From in-depth publications to dynamic student projects, this page highlights the powerful intersection of storytelling, media analysis, and visual culture at the heart of our department.
Recent Strategic Communications Faculty Publications
This study adopts a relational empowerment approach to view the company as a change agent in corporate political advocacy. The study examines the public’s commitment to a company after assessing its cause advocacy initiatives driven by a public-serving motive.
The internet brings new urgency to the study of folklore. The digital networks we use every day amplify the capacity of legends to spread swiftly, define threats, and inform action.
Governments use public relations to promote their interests in international venues like the United Nations. To understand how governments market their value in environments of elite competition, I compare Canadian, Irish, and Norwegian narratives while campaigning for seats on the Security Council.
With expansive global coverage from an international range of experts, Dr. Li contributes to this unique volume that critically examines the stakeholders and influences on the production, dissemination, and consumption of advertising – from its early history via the development of mass advertising to the emergence of the digital age.
This study proposes that a dynamic perspective can help resolve that conflict. Both traditional static post-exposure and real-time dynamic measures were used to examine four cognitive processes: attention, presence, self-referencing, and real world-referencing.
Media and Communications Faculty Publications
- Associate Professor Mack Hagood’s article, “,” published in The Washington Post (November 4, 2022).
- Associate Professor Andy Rice directs documentary,
- Associate Professor Mack Hagood’s podcast explores the world of sound in the arts, music, technology, and culture. Launched in 2018, Phantom Power is a podcast about sound and listening that features some of the world’s foremost experts and artists working in sound.
- Professor Ron Becker publishes the 13th edition of textbook.
- Associate Professor Matthew Crain appeared on the.
Media and Communications Student Projects
- Students Jake White, Josette LaFramboise, Katherine Wagner, and Mia Zurich produce. A young boy makes an unlikely friend after struggling to make a paper airplane.
- Students Nick Lipsitt, Tayler Stephens, Jane Edwards, and Jack Tincher produce. This short film shines a light on the significant amount of trash plaguing the Oxford community and shows the citizens who fight to make a change.
- Students Grace Grover, Lily Bayer, Maddie Hinz, and Grace Shelly produce a short film about discovering the balance between a woman’s profession and going home to tend to the family.
- Students Abby Bammerlin, Lauren Kelley and Lauren Simon produce Shana Rosenberg, founder of a non-profit in Oxford, aims to reduce textile waste in the surrounding community.
- Students Lauren Tolliver, Matthew Dampier, Kade Schuman, Abagail Gibbs, and Kristina Lynnes produce. Three college friends document their heist of a taxidermied squirrel.
- Students Cordelia Stubblefield, Benny Farbstein, Kethan Babu, Faye Smith and Brenna Custer produce. A couple finds getting married harder than expected when their wedding is continuously interrupted.
- Students Alex Ambro and Diego Smith produce. An unarmed man encounters a mysterious figure on a dimly lit bridge where he is forced to face his fears.
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