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Summer class designs social media campaigns for nonprofits

March 1, 2013 9:58 am

Update (March 29): If you encounter a problem registering, please send us an e-mail and we'll issue an override for you. Here is a…

Posted in: Graduate programs, News, Students | Tagged: campaigns, class, IYLEP, Marcus Messner, nonprofits, organizations, social media, Social Media Institute, summer, vivian medina-messner

‘VCU votes’ campaign wins Democracy Cup

February 18, 2013 10:55 am

Mass Comm and other VCU students won a statewide award for last fall's get-out-the-vote efforts.

Posted in: Journalism, News, Students | Tagged: Active Citizens Conference, ASPiRE, award, Campaign, CEEP, Election, Jeff South, Marcus Messner, president, slideshow, social media, vcu, VCU votes, William & Mary

Knight News Challenge winner works with iPadJournos class

February 13, 2013 4:27 pm

Thomas Grasty, winner of the prestigious Knight News Challenge and developer of the online video editing platform Stroome, is working closely with journalism students…

Posted in: Journalism, News | Tagged: AEJMC, editing, iPad, iPadJournos, Knight Grant, online, reporting, social media, Social Media Journalism, Thomas Grasty, video

The view of Columbia, SC from the 18th floor of the Capstone Building on the University of South Carolina campus, home for the 2012 Convergence and Society conference. Photo by Tim Bajkiewicz.

Bajkiewicz, Medina-Messner present social media research

September 30, 2012 9:52 am

School of Mass Communications faculty members Dr. Tim Bajkiewicz and Vivian Medina-Messner presented their latest social media research at the Convergence and Society conference in Columbia, SC the last week…

Posted in: Faculty/staff, Journalism, News | Tagged: conference, convergence, Facebook, Marcus Messner, Newsplex, Research, social media, south carolina, study, Tim Bajkiewicz, Twitter, vivian medina-messner

Ta-Nehisi Coates, a senior editor of The Atlantic, speaks to a class studying social media and the presidential race.

Atlantic editor discusses presidential politics and social media

September 20, 2012 12:10 pm

Ta-Nehisi Coates, a senior editor of The Atlantic and a writer for the magazine's website, spoke to a Mass Comm Honors class on "Social Media and the Presidential Race."

Posted in: Faculty/staff, Journalism, News, Public relations, Students | Tagged: class, lecture, magazine, messner, obama, president, romney, social media, south, Ta-Nehisi Coates, talk, The Atlantic

Social Media Institute recruits nonprofit clients

May 31, 2012 5:54 pm

The School of Mass Communications is running its Social Media Institute for the third year this summer. Sponsored by a major grant from the international nonprofit organization Read More…

Posted in: Faculty/staff, Journalism, Multimedia journalism, News, Public relations, Students | Tagged: FHI 360, Iraq, IYLEP, Marcus Messner, nonprofit, social media, vivian medina-messner

School wins grant for Social Media Institute this summer

March 14, 2012 1:01 pm

For the third time, the School of Mass Communications has won a major grant by the international nonprofit organization FHI 360 to run a Social…

Posted in: Advertising, Journalism, News, Public relations, Students | Tagged: class, IYLEP, journalism, Marcus Messner, social media, State Department, vcu, vcu mass communications, vivian medina-messner