Dr. Sharee Broussard won 2010 CASE Research Award

Congratulations to Dr. Sharee Broussard, who received her doctoral degree in Mass Communication from the University of Southern Mississippi in December, 2009.

Her dissertation, "Source-Message-Receiver in Integrated Marketing Communication A Study of U.S. Institutional Advancement," has been chosen as the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation winner for the 2010 CASE Alice L. Beeman Award for Outstanding Research in Communications and Marketing for Educational Advancement.

More information about the award:
http://www.case.org/Award_Programs/Research_Awards_in_Educational_Advancement/Alice_L_Beeman_Research_Awards_in_Communications_and_Marketing_for_Educational_Advancement.html

Synergy

Congratulations to Jim Coll and Alice Ferguson for getting their papers published in the inaugural issue of SYNERGY, an interdisciplinary graduate student journal. In celebration of the university’s centennial, which occured on March 20, 2010, this issue features work exclusively by USM graduate students submitted from each of the five colleges.

Southern Miss alumni at SSCA

USM Graduate Symposium

This week

Big week for doctoral students. Tim Nolcox and Pam Parry successfully passed dissertation proposal defense. Muriel Everton successfully passed dissertation defense. Eight students are presenting research papers at the graduate research symposium this Friday. Congrats to all!

USM Graduate Student Research Symposium

Congratulations to the following students who will present their research paper at the USM Graduate Student Research Symposium on March 26, 2010.

Kaylene Armstrong

COVERING THE MORMONS: THE INFLUENCE OF NEW OWNERS OF THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE ON COVERAGE OF THE GENERAL CONFERENCE OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS

MAKING IT PERSONAL: REPORTER/SOURCE RELATIONSHIP IN THE 1985 MURDER TRIALS OF THE LAFFERTY BROTHERS

Thomas Broadus

THE PAY WALL, THE AMERICAN NEWSPAPER AND NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO

Alice Ferguson

ECOLOGICAL AFFORDANCES OF H1N1 PANDEMIC NEWS COVERAGE: NEWS MEDIA FRAMING AND DELINEATION OF BEHAVIORAL OPTIONS

FCC TO CITIZENS: GO JUMP OFF A (DIGITAL) CLIFF – BROADCAST REGULATION HISTORY, IDEOLOGY AND THE MYTH OF THE DIGITAL TELEVISION TRANSITION

Casey Hart

DIS-ENCHANTED: THE EVOLUTION OF THE DISNEY FAIRY-TALE PRINCESS

Sid Muralidharan

SPOOFING: SOCIAL COMMENTARY OR EFFECTIVE MARKETING TOOL? TESTING THE RECIPROCAL MEDIATION HYPOTHESIS IN SPOOF ADVERTISEMENTS

Pam Parry

SECOND FIDDLE, NOT SECOND RATE: ASSOCIATE ROLE OBSCURES ANNE WHEATON’S CONTRIBUTIONS TO PUBLIC RELATIONS

Leslie Rasmussen

WHAT ACCENT? THE MARGINALIZATION AND ASSIMILATION OF LATINOS ON TELEVISION: A CONNOTATIVE READING OF ABC’S MODERN FAMILY

Judith Roberts

OBAMA’S USE OF NEW MEDIA IN THE 2008 ELECTION: HOW ACCESSIBILITY, INCREASED DONATIONS, AND COMMUNITY SUPPORT HELPED HIM WIN THE ELECTION

Master's Comps 2010-01