UMBC Media and Communication Studies
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In a time when communication technologies are increasingly digital, interactive, and global, participation in the public sphere requires critical engagement across a range of media, genres, and cultural contexts. UMBC’s Media and Communication Studies Department represents an innovative and interdisciplinary response to this need.
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How London Responded to Beijing in the 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony
The shadow of Beijing looms large in Danny Boyle’s 2012 London Olympics Opening Ceremony, whether one admits it or not. The spectacle on July 27 has done everything to out-perform the 2008 Beijing extravaganza by following ... -
How To be a Critical Consumer of Media
(UMBC Magazine, 2017-10-03) -
Public Issue Radio: Talks, News and Current Affairs in the Twentieth Century
(The Institute of Historical Research (IHR), 2020-07-20)Hugh Chignell’s well-researched volume tells the story of the development of current affairs programming on British radio, which, we learn, is inextricably tied to the ‘painfully slow development of news’ programming on ... -
Criminal: journalistic rigour, gothic tales and philosophical heft
(University of Wollongong, 2017) -
Serial, Season Three: From Feeling to Structure
From the start, host and reporter Sarah Koenig presents the 2018 season of Serial as a corrective to the universe-in-a-grain-of-sand approach typical of earlier seasons and much of the work of This American Life, from which ... -
Reflexive and participatory practices in digital storytelling: the legacy of documentary methods
While sharing commonalities with documentary practices, digital storytelling has not developed simply as an extension of existing documentary genres. Recognizing digital storytelling’s unique qualities, it is still worth ... -
Reflexive and participatory practices in digital storytelling: the legacy of documentary methods
While sharing commonalities with documentary practices, digital storytelling has not developed simply as an extension of existing documentary genres. Recognizing digital storytelling’s unique qualities, it is still worth ... -
Moments of danger: The struggle for community-based public radio in Baltimore
(2019)This article explores the struggle of The Center for Emerging Media, an independent community media organisation in Baltimore with roots in the radical traditions of the American left, and aspirations for leveraging new ... -
Cluster-Based Join for Geographically Distributed Big RDF Data
(IEEE, 2019-08-29)Federated RDF systems allow users to retrieve data from multiple independent sources without needing to have all the data in the same triple store. The performance of these systems can be poor for large and geographically ... -
Media Anthropology: Meaning, Embodiment, Infrastructure, and Activism
Media is a word that can be used to describe a set of technologies that connect multiple people at one time to shared content. Media anthropologists study mass communication (broadcast radio and television) and digital ...
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