Mass Communication Week, April 18-22, 2016
Re-Imagining Media:
Opportunities & Challenges
Monday, 4/18
11-1:30 p.m. Dunham Hall Patio Area
First Amendment Free food Festival
2-3:15 p.m.MC 333, DH 1012, TV Studio
“Surviving/thriving as a freelancer,”
Ashley Seering and Tom Atwood
Tuesday 4/19
9:30-10:45 a.m. MC 454, DH 2007
“Seeing, Sensing, and Representing Islam and Muslims”,
Dr. Maryam Kashani, Washington University
2-3:15 p.m. MC 421, DH 1015
“What you wish you knew before you graduated”
Panel of recent MC alumni:
Eric Sykes, Mobile Developer/Multi Platform Content Producer, KMOV TV Channel 4;
Mollie Rittenhouse, Association Marketing Director, Gateway Region YMCA;
Ashley Seering, Videographer/Owner, Night Owl Productions;
Jason Frazier, MindsEye Radio, 101 ESPN and Development Director, Producer/Board Operator;
Becky Lairson, Social Media Manager, Socially Jen
Wednesday 4/20
130-2:45 p.m. MC 403, DH 2007
Men, magazines, and masculinity in globalizing India,
Dr. Suman Mishra, SIUE,
Thursday 4/21
8 a.m. – 9:15 a.m. MC 402, PH 1405
Reimagining “ethnic press” for a digital age,
Kenya Vaughn, Web Editor for the St. Louis American
9:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. MC323, DH 1014
Reimagining the “mediated self” with consultants
Dan Schmidt, AppleCore Consulting, and Alex (Felix) Burkart, Never Industries
11 a.m. – 12:15 a.m. MC330, DH 1014
Twitter and reimagining what it means to be a news “source” –
The Case of Ferguson with Dr. Amber Hinsley, Saint Louis University
Friday 4/22
6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. DH 1012, TV Studio
Mass Comm Alumni Night
Communiqué 