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Sweeney Todd: Adaptation Across Media & Time

Name: Jack Williams Major: Communication Studies Minors: Music and Global Media & Digital Studies Advisors: Dr. Oscar Mejia and Dr. Ahmet Atay The character of Sweeney Todd has […]

Elijah Miller

Feelin’ Groovy: A Visual Rebranding of Radio Corporation of America Records

Name: Elijah Miller Major: Communication Studies Minor: Global Media and Digital Studies Advisor: Ahmet Atay Second Reader: Nii Nikoi In this project, I explored […]

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INSIDE OF INFLUENCERS: An analysis and framework of social media influencers’ self-branding practices

Name: Alison Lindsey-Noble Major: Communication Studies Minor: Global Media & Digital Studies This study aimed to understand the practices social media influencers (SMIs) use to create […]

Rex Mix Award

Wooster’s Communication Studies Department recognized as best in the US

The College of Wooster Department of Communication Studies has received the prestigious 2021 Rex Mix Program of Excellence Award from the National Communication Association […]

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Ahmet Atay co-edits book on mentoring in higher education

Professor of communication studies emphasizes importance of mentors taking a cultural perspective

Delaney Zuver ’21

Independent Study uses a narrative approach to document the summer of 2020

Delaney Zuver ’21 collected and analyzed narratives of how people remember the summer of 2020 at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, mid-2020 election, and during the summer riots against racial injustice.

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Ahmet Atay co-edits book on intercultural memory

Professor of communication studies examines memory through a critical and cultural perspective

Chloe Burdette

The “Shut Up and Dribble” Conundrum: A Qualitative Cyber Ethnographic Analysis of LeBron James’ and Stephen Curry’s Social Media Activism on The Black Lives Matter Movement and Low-Income Education

Student Name: Chloe Burdette Major: Communication Studies Minor: Global Media and Digital Studies Advisor: Dr. Rob Razzante, Second Reader: Dr. Ahmet Atay The purpose […]

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《异乡人》“Strangers”: A Visual Ethnography about Expat Teachers in China during Covid-19 Pandemic

Name: Xinyu Martina Pei Majors: Communication Studies, East Asian Studies Minor: Global Media and Digital Studies Advisors: Dr. Ahmet Atay, Dr. Ziying You This […]

Laura Haley

Who’s Watching Who? Inverting the Capitalist Gaze in News Images of Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos

Name: Laura Haley Major: Communication Studies Minor: Global Media and Digital Studies Advisors: Dr. Rohini Singh, Dr. Melissa Rizzo Weller The purpose of this […]

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Ahmet Atay receives award recognizing his impactful contributions to gender and sexuality studies, queer studies

Ahmet Atay, professor and chair of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS); Global Media and Digital Studies, and Film Studies programs at The […]

Ahmet Atay, professor of communication studies and chair of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Global Media and Digital Studies, and Film Studies

Ahmet Atay coedited two books on intercultural communications studies

Professor of communication studies highlights underrepresented perspectives in the field

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German and Russian studies professor to give virtual lecture at Museum Ludwig

Beth Muellner will discuss photograph collection of Empress Elisabeth of Austria

: Hayward (center) com worked with colleagues (from left to right) Benjamin Hernández Pacheco, Michelle Prain Brice, Tess Henthorne ’16, Maria Paz Zegers Correa at the Digital Imaging Lab of the National Library of Chile in the summer of 2019.

Jennifer Hayward leads Chilean newspaper digitization project

The National Library of Chile publishes nineteenth century Anglophone newspapers digitized by a transnational team that includes Wooster students

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Ahmet Atay Hopes Ideas from His Recently Published Books Resonate In and Out of the Classroom

Mediated Critical Communication Pedagogy and Queer Communication Pedagogy were both published in November