Session Details

AIE conference touts innovative sessions designed to inform, energize, and involve participants. Sessions include cutting-edge industry panel, relevant research presentations, innovative technology session, and directed round-table discussions.

 

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What’s New? What’s Hot and what’s not! What do you need to know to keep up in this insanely fast-paced technological environment? This panel will bring you up to speed with the latest in media technology and how you can incorporate that technology into your curriculum. Stay current with the cutting-edge technology that is taking over the industry, and your student’s lives.

The Changing Technological Landscape

With stations and networks cutting costs and laying off staff, how do we best prepare students to enter the mass media field? What issues are Christian media professionals facing? What are the legal issues Christian broadcasters and media professionals are facing now with the new political administration? What are the road blocks our students will face as they try to enter the workforce? This dynamic and expert panel will answer these questions and more.

The Changing Christian Media Landscape

These are round-table dynamic idea exchanges. Attendees bring their expertise to one of three moderated round-table discussion groups sharing ideas and solving problems in mass media education.

Innovative Round-Table Exchanges

This panel will present ground breaking research dealing with the changing media landscape. This panel of top researchers will present their relevant and practical research in a fast paced session you won’t want to miss.

 

***If you are interested in participating in the research panel, please email us your name, institution, title of your research project and an attached abstract.

 

Contact: Heidi D. Campbell

Email: heidicampbell@sc.edu

 Relevant Research Panel

For educators in the field of mass communication, the changes in the academic landscape are tedious and complex. There are at least two major challenges media educators are constantly faced with: the  convergence of communication technologies and the debate over balancing practical with the theoretical approaches to teaching within the field. These issues have forced educators to re-evaluate their programs and make constant adjustments to the curriculum.

This panel will deal with the hot topics in mass communication education and will provide a foundation for how we can set new standards in the field of mass communication education.

The Changing Academic Landscape