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Your interest in mass communication comes at a fascinating moment. Technology and cultural changes have led some to question whether “mass communication” is even still a relevant idea. No longer are we consistently laughing at the same joke at the exact same time. We also live in a world saturated by electronic information, however. In Murphy Hall, we have chosen to fully embrace the complexity of this moment and to recognize that the average person’s everyday life includes substantial engagement with messages produced for mass consumption. Mass audiences might accumulate and grow in different ways than in the days of three U.S. broadcast television networks, but mass audiences nonetheless are still vital to understanding global dynamics. We need new scholarship on mass communication to guide society’s future. We hope you will want to start that work here.
The graduate program in the SJMC offers:
Journalism courses are closing fast. If one of the journalism courses on your major program plan is closed when you register, please put your name on the wait list for this course immediately. We are carefully monitoring course enrollments and wait lists for all journalism courses and will do our best to accommodate students who need courses that are on their program plans. When places open up or new sections of classes are added, we will admit students from the wait lists in order of seniority ONLY if the course has been approved on their major program plans. In high demand classes, we are also checking if enrolled students have the course approved on their major program plans.
(Continue Reading)The Minnesota Daily is hosting a Open House for Students on November 21, 2009 from 11:45-2:00. This is a great opportunity to learn more about what goes on behind the scenes at a newspaper. RSVP online to attend.
(Continue Reading)The New York Times has likened him to H.L. Mencken; Vanity Fair has suggested a strong resemblance to Mark Twain and best-selling author Tom Wolfe compared him to Montaigne. On Thursday Dec. 3, author and editor Lewis H. Lapham will speak at the University of Minnesota about the tribulations of the printed word in the wilderness of cyberspace.
Who: Lewis H. Lapham, author, editor emeritus of Harper's Magazine, and founding editor of Lapham's Quarterly
When: 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 3
Where: University of Minnesota, Elmer L. Andersen Library, 222 21st Ave. S., Minneapolis
Reservations requested by November 25 at 612-624-9339 or stangret@umn.edu.
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