Behind the Scenes: Making News About Sea Level Rise

This article describes a student multimedia capstone project. The project can be viewed here

MMC 6402 Theories of Mass Communication

This class is built around two areas: Communication Theory and Cultural Theory as they apply to strategic communication of messages to specific audiences and with the intent of introducing students to academic research and application to the profession through community engagement. This class is heavy on writing, interacting with each other, and reading. Time management is a must. Readings will come from the books below, but each week may be supplemented with an example scholarly article that will provide recent information about the topics at hand and will guide students on how to prepare their own academic research paper at the end of the class. This class is also project-based and is aligned with eyesontherise.org, which is a grant-funded project related to sea level rise at SJMC. Furthermore, students in this course may find themselves grouped with SJMC undergraduates and MAST @ FIU high school students, as those in this course plan and measure messages associated with the project. The purpose of this project is to conduct research to guide an advertising and social marketing campaign to increase awareness about sea level rise in South Florida and change related behaviors. The work will be grounded in theories examined in the course

Students Digitize SLR Work

Description of student work related to curating and archiving Sea Level Rise content in collaboration with FIU Libraries

VIC 4001 Visual Storytelling & Production

Think visually. Merge mediums. Take risks. Be simple. Work

MEDIA Alert: Students Build Water Sensors in Prep for King Tide Day

Announcement of collaborative work between the MAST@FIU BBC and FIU\u27s School of Journalism and Mass Communication for King Tide Day events on October 9, 2015

JOU 4341C Senior Multimedia Project

Students will use this course to collaborate with community members, faculty, and other students in setting an editorial agenda for the Eyes on the Rise project. Students will also create original content that will be considered for publication with media partners and on the forthcoming project website, eyesontherise.org. From this experience, students will experience the basics of community journalism, media management, and will express their knowledge about media through assessment, interaction, and production. Because this is the final class for the major, students are expected to treat the course as a job. Students should also be aware of the minimum grade required at the completion of this course for the course to count toward their respective programs. Finally, because this course is packed into a summer semester, students are expected to spend time outside of the classroom conducting interviews, reporting, and producing material. Quizzes in class will assess how well students are dissecting the reading material, relating the material to the course, to class lessons and discussions, to their own reporting, and to what they view in media

Eyes in the Sky: ALTA Partners Begin to Capture Rising Seas

FIU-ALTA Partnership Captures High-Resolution Images of SLR

Fall Update: See What We\u27ve Been Doing

This post includes text related to the required October Interim Report for the Online News Association, which was submitted on October 28, 2014