PC05: The Pedagogy of Civility: Facilitating Civil Discourse in the Classroom During Uncivil Times Wed, 11/15: 8:30 AM – 12:30 PM, Sheraton Room: City View 7 – Fourth Floor During and since the 2016 United States presidential election, stereotypes, biases, and negativity have taken over civil discourse. As a result, educators face unprecedented challenges teaching students how to speak and …
Call for Papers: Doctoral Colloquium Pre-Conference
Call for Papers: Doctoral Colloquium Pre-Conference of the International Society for Media, Religion and Culture http://www.colorado.edu/ismrc/ Pre-Conference date: 7th of August 2018 Deadline for Paper proposals: 15 January 2018 Notification of acceptances: end of February 2018 The International Society of Media, Religion & Culture will be hosting a Pre-Conference for doctoral students on the day before the ISMRC bi-annual …
Gaming Religion at SXSW
Subject: Gaming Religion at SXSW – please vote The Network for New Media, Religion and Digital Culture Studies is sponsoring an exciting panel for the 2018 SxSWedu festival. Gaming Religion: Finding Faith in Digital Games will bring together Heidi Campbell (Texas A&M University) to talk on Digital Religion, Greg Grieve (UNC-Greensboro) on Buddhism and gaming online, Vit Sisler (Charles Univ.-Prague) on Muslim …
Call for Papers: Media, Religion and Public Scholarship
Call for Papers: Media, Religion and Public Scholarship Conference of the International Society for Media, Religion, and Culture Conference location: Boulder/Colorado, United States Conference dates: 8-11 of August 2018 Deadline for Panel and Paper proposals: 4 of December 2017 Notification of acceptances: Mid February 2018 The new visibility of religion in public life is a theme of growing relevance in …
Media Worldwide
Spring 2015 Com 506 syllabus-3 Media Worldwide– Pepperdine University, Malibu, Calif. This course studies media in relationship to other institutions in various countries worldwide, and examines those media as a part of the total system of cultural, political, economic, and educational developments in our world. Toward that end, intercultural factors relating to the individual working with media, or served by …
Syllabus, Popular Culture
Syllabus 2017 Paul Patton, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Communication and Media Spring Arbor University Here are the course objectives: The student will begin to develop the beginnings of a biblically-informed theology of culture and philosophy of technology. The student will possess adequate skills necessary for “reading” a popular culture artifact. The student will possess an adequate awareness of various “grids” for …
Syllabus, Communication and Religion
2017 Syllabus.pages Coms 165 Summary Lect 1 Realm of Rhet2 Coms 165 Charted Dr. Mark Williams This is a syllabus for Communication and Religion taught by Dr. Mark Williams, Professor of Rhetoric, California State University, Sacramento. In addition to the syllabus, included here is the “summary” that Dr. Williams provides students near the end of the semester and one handout …
Syllabus, Christianity & Communication
COMM-495 syl F15 Dr. J. Matthew Melton Here is the course description: A course providing a theoretical integration of the Christian faith with the field of Communication. Reviews fundamental themes connecting faith with communication practice for Christians from the time of the early church to the present, with special emphasis on practical responses to cultural and historical shifts in worldviews. …
Book Announcement, Talking Black and White: An Intercultural Exploration of Twenty-First-Century Racism, Prejudice, and Perception
Book Announcement – Available Now Written and Submitted by: Dr. Gina Castle Bell, Assistant Professor, Saint John’s University (grcbell09@gmail.com *contact for questions) Foreward by: Dr. Mark C Hopson, Associate Professor and Director of African American Studies at George Mason University Talking Black and White: An Intercultural Exploration of Twenty-First-Century Racism, Prejudice, and Perception. Talking Black and White investigates domestic race-related …
Syllabus, Religous Communication
COMM 480-Fall 2016-syllabi-FINAL COMM 480-900/RELS 480-900: Religious Communication Prepared by Dr. Heidi Campbell, Texas A&M University Here is the course description for the syllabus. “This course will explore the relationship between religious communities and the media, and how media contribute to our understanding of lived religion. This will involve studying how religious communities and institutions respond to and utilize different …
