Faculty member's yearlong study focuses on availability and cost of internet access in Pennsylvania — and the potential for investment to solve the problem.
Award-winning director and writer Megan Griffiths will screen her latest film, "Sadie," at 7:30 p.m. on Dec. 3 in Carnegie Cinema on the University Park campus.
A book-launch event to celebrate "Guerrilla Marketing: Counterinsurgency and Capitalism in Colombia," written by Alex Fattal, an assistant professor in the Department of Film-Video and Media Studies at Penn State, will be held at 4 p.m. Nov. 30 at Webster’s Bookstore Café in State College.
A research team led by a Penn State faculty member was one of 20 projects — from a pool of over 600 proposals from around the world — selected to receive funding from WhatsApp to study misinformation.
An open design to encourage collaboration and creativity anchors state-of-the-art plans for the Donald P. Bellisario Media Center, set to open in the heart of Penn State’s University Park campus in 2020.
Ten Penn State students have been selected as the inaugural group of Bellisario College Fellows in the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications. The 10 students, two each from the Bellisario College’s five majors, were selected after initial faculty recommendations and by completing a rigorous application process that included reviews by alumni and faculty, as well as personal interviews.
Mary Beth Oliver, a Penn State faculty member renowned for her research in entertainment psychology and her mentorship of students, has been named the inaugural Donald P. Bellisario Professor of Media Studies.
Joe Cruz does not have a one-track mind. If he did, he wouldn’t be in his third year of doctoral work in Penn State’s Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications, where he studies politics through the lenses of comic books, film and social media.
Everyone loves a good story, and those stories can have emotional and political effects that are long-lasting. Fuyuan Shen, professor of advertising-public relations at Penn State, wants to know more about the impact of stories. He studies narratives, their influence and what makes them effective or ineffective.
Two award-winning journalists will speak at the annual Foster-Foreman Conference of Distinguished Writers, a series of free public lectures Oct. 24 and Oct. 25 on the University Park campus.
Three Penn State alumni, a faculty member and an award-winning Pennsylvania television leader earned the top annual awards from the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications Alumni Society Board.
Penn State alumnus James P. Jimirro -- whose illustrious career has included roles as the founding president of both The Disney Channel and Disney Home Video, and who revived the National Lampoon brand -- has endowed a $1 million professorship in the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications.
A panel of experts, including media members and faculty, will address the potential impact of legalized sports gambling on the landscape of athletics during a free public session at 6 p.m. Oct. 3 in 121 Sparks Building.
