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The Communication Department at UCSD is a unique academic community of scholars and media artists from disciplines across the Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts, and famous for its cutting edge work in communication scholarship and practice.News
UCSD COMMUNICATION MAJOR WINS CONTEST WITH FAMOUS VIOLINIST, LINDSEY STIRLING
Samuel Lin, a Communication major and musician/violinist entered and won a contest announced by a very popular professional violinist, Lindsey Stirling. Samuel and his friend made a music video on the UCSD campus, playing his own rendition of one of Lindsey's songs and sent it in to complete against about 300 other entrants.
Samuel Lin was announced the winner last Friday!
To view Sam's winning entry click the link below and watch it on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/user/samlinmusic
CONGRATULATIONS SAM!
Communication graduate student Chuk Moran's collection of short essays, Superactually: Micro-Essays on Post-Ironic Life, published by Zero Books.
If you had $20 million to spend on solving a social problem, what would it be? Carol Padden of Communication is one of the MacArthur “Genius” Grant winners asked by the New York Times to propose an imaginary challenge prize.
Academic discussions and networking on Twitter? U.S. News and World Report followed up on a Daily Muse blog post by Communication graduate student Tamara Powell.
Winter 2013:
Talks:
Wed., March 13th: Sheena Lewis
Digital Crime Prevention: Investigating How Communities Use Technology to Address Crime
New Books from Department Faculty
Val Hartouni
Morana Alac
David Serlin
Boatema Boateng
Kelly Gates
Elana Zilberg
Dan Hallin
Job Ads
Open Assistant/Associate Professor Position, Community-based Research in Communication
Open Assistant Professor Position in Digital Media Studies
Congratulations!
Wayne "J.R." Osborn (Ph.D. in Communication, 2008), has accepted an Assistant Professorship at Georgetown University in Cultural History and Communication Technology.
Kelli Moore has accepted a UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowhip at UC Berkeley in the Department of Rhetoric.
Reece Peck has accepted an Assistant Professorship at CUNY Staten Island in the Department of Media Culture for Fall 2013.
