Video Commercial Contest

Honda of Bowie has set up an interesting contest that might be a great project for some of your students. This contest asks for them to create a thirty second commercial for Honda of Bowie and the winner will receive a 2009 Honda Civic. The winner will also have their commercial used in an actual tv ad campaign. Below is the link for more details, but if you have any questions do not hesitate to contact me.

www.youtube.com/bowieautoguys
http://www.hondaofbowie.com/EVP.cfm?pageid=126909&pagetype=26&featureid=-1

Thanks,

Paul

Paul Hively
Account Executive
The Caplan Group
Ph:410.992.7579 x107 Fax:410.992.9643

Videopalooza 2008

The Department of Communication is celebrating its annual exhibition of student films. The films will be shown in Decker Auditorium on Wednesday, May 7 and Thursday, May 8. Videopalooza is free and open to the public.

Wednesday, May 7

6:30 pm "Behind the Lens" by Michael Chittenden
7:15 pm "Untitled" by Steve Eggers
8:00 pm "Fresh Grad" by Emica Boutilier, Cal Calcagni, Michael Crittenden, Kenny Ditto, Steven Eggers, David Nasongkhla, Ben Keating, and Jonathan Slade

Thursday, May 8

6:30 pm "Playing in the Dark" by Taylor Hebden
7:15 pm "Player's Thumb" by Billy Duffy
8:00 pm "How You Land" by David Nasongkhla
8:45 pm "Optional Start: A Wrestling Team Rebuilds" by Aaron Janowski

Call for Papers

The 2008 New Media & the Global Diaspora Symposium at Roger Williams University is an interdisciplinary humanities conference addressing the global migrations of the past 100 years and the role media has played in transmitting "living traditions," particularly as these traditions are subject to loss, gain, and interpretation. What impact do media have on the forging and sustaining of cultural identities? How can the humanities guide us to understand why "living traditions" are at the nexus of questions about the global diaspora? This three-day event will feature paper and roundtable sessions, an International concert, and culminate in a tour of Newport, Rhode Island, a significant immigrant destination for nearly 400 years.

The symposium is a plenary experience; no overlapping presentations will be scheduled. Symposium participants hear all presentations and stay for the entire program in order to build the kind of feedback and informal discussions that mark the nature of this event. Most presentations are given a time slot of 20 minutes. This format allows for a respondent and audience questions. We are very pleased that the proceedings of this symposium will be published in our new peer-reviewed journal Reason & Respect: civil discourse in a global context, to be published beginning Fall 2008.

The organizers of the 2008 Symposium invite the submission of position papers addressing one of the following topics:

· Locating Interdisciplinarity: Technology and the Humanities

· Real Places-Virtual Spaces: Creating Cultural Communities

· Exploring Gender at the Crossroads of Media and Culture

· Seeing Diaspora: Media, Community and Visual Rhetoric

Paper Submissions
Authors should submit complete papers (not to exceed 20 pages). As these papers will be blind peer-reviewed, please follow the submission instructions carefully:

Papers should have a top sheet with the Title, Name of the author(s), Email address, Affiliation and Position.

The abstract section should give a clear sense of the scope of the paper and the method of inquiry used.

Please remove all identifying information from the body of the paper.
Please EMAIL your paper submission to roconnell@rwu.edu.

All papers must received by June 15, 2008.
Authors will be notified by July 15, 2008.
Registration is now OPEN
new media symposium logo 2008 Register for the Symposium
Regsitration is open for all participants and attendees.

Accommodation is not available on campus as classes will be in session. However, there are a number of small hotels and bed & breakfast inns in the Bristol area. Please check the Accommodation page on the website for location and pricing. We are negotiating a limited number of rooms at the Bristol Harbor Inn for a special conference rate. Details to follow.

Symposium Details
New Media & the Global Diaspora
Roger Williams University
One Old Ferry Road
Bristol, Rhode Island 02809
October 2-4, 2008
On-site check-in begins at 12:00 pm Thursday.
Deadlines
PAPER SUBMISSIONS:
June 15, 2008

REGISTRATION:
August 1, 2008 - Participants
September 15, 2008 - Attendees
New Media & the Global Diaspora
Roger Williams University
One Old Ferry Road
Bristol, Rhode Island 02809

We hope you will join us for our 2nd Symposium on New Media & the Global Diaspora.

Roxanne M. O'Connell
Director, New Media & the Global Diaspora Symposium

Call for Papers: Rock Music on Film and Video Conference

We invite panel and individual-paper proposals for the Rock Music on Film and Video Conference, to be held at Plymouth State University (Plymouth, New Hampshire) October 10-11, 2008.

The members of the conference committee are seeking contributions that examine the diverse uses of rock music in noteworthy cinematic and televisual artifacts, from any historical era and from any area across the globe. Possible topics include (but are certainly not limited to) film sound and the cinematic star vehicle; rock music as subject; rock and music videos; direct cinema, cinema verite, and the "rockumentary"; the rock musical; and rock music as soundtrack and genre device. Participants are encouraged to interpret the conference theme broadly and innovatively. Individual presentations will be limited to 20 minutes in length.

We encourage submissions from scholars, educators, and students at all levels, and from disciplines including anthropology, communication, cultural studies, film studies, history, LGBT studies, media studies, popular culture, sociology, and television studies. Given adequate participant interest and high-quality submissions, we intend to publish selected papers (with author's permission) in a special anthology pertaining to the conference theme. As a bonus, please note that the conference dates correspond with the ideal time to enjoy New England's breathtaking fall foliage!

Persons submitting individual-paper proposals are asked to submit a one-page abstract with complete contact information (name, institutional affiliation, mail and e-mail addresses, daytime telephone number). Panel proposals (featuring three paper-presentations total) should include panel title, brief description of panel theme, name of the panel chair, one-page abstracts of each paper in the panel, and complete contact information for each presenter on the panel (name, institutional affiliation, mail and e-mail addresses, daytime telephone number). In order to be considered, all proposals must be received no later than July 7, 2008.

Please mail or e-mail conference proposals to: Rock Music on Film and Video Conference, Attn: Kylo-Patrick Hart, Department of Communication and Media Studies, Plymouth State University, 17 High Street, MSC 60, Plymouth, NH 03264; krhart@plymouth.edu

For specific inquiries prior to submitting a proposal, please contact Kylo-Patrick Hart at (603) 535-3122 or krhart@plymouth.edu

Student Publishing Opportunity

The Rocky Mountain Communication Review is an online, peer reviewed student-run journal that is published by the University of Utah Department of Communication. We have recently begun to publish non-traditional forms of scholarship including films and interactive media. If any of your students are interested in publishing in these areas, please pass on the following call for works:

RMCR is pleased to announce that it seeks nontraditional forms of scholarship to broaden the scope of the journal and to address a growing enthusiasm for technological innovations in the communication discipline. The electronic format of the journal offers an outlet for a wide range of submissions. Scholars should consider the full spectrum of critically informed creative possibilities that online publishing can offer. Works that would serve graduate students as
beginning scholars and teachers are sought. Examples include recorded technologically enhanced performance pieces, linear and interactive documentaries, e-games, interactive websites, visual and digital rhetoric.

Given the innovative nature of such submissions, traditional review processes may not apply. RMCR will work with the author/developer to ensure an impartial review of the project. All entries and suggestions should be directed to Rulon Wood at rulon.wood@utah.edu

Deadline: June 1

Communication Department Party

The Communication Department's annual end of the year party will be held today from 4:30 on the third floor of Lewis Hall around the Communication suite. All Communication majors are invited. Join us for good food, good conversation, and hopefully good music.

Congratulations

Senior Communication major, Paul Boyd, was crowned Mr. McDaniel at the Alpha Nu Omega sorority's 5th Annual Mr. McDaniel fund raiser last night. Wear your crown proudly, Paul!