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The School of Communications on Aug. 2 welcomed students enrolled in the second year of the master’s program in Interactive Media, a day that culminates with the group taking its first class as graduate students.

Elon University warmly welcomes the second class in the Master of Interactive Media program to campus for its Orientation on Monday, August 2, 2010. Please review the information below to find out more about the day's activities.

Sang Nam, an assistant professor in the School of Communications, delivered a talk at the 28th annual conference of the National Association for Korean Schools in Bellevue, Wash., July 24.

Paul Parsons, professor and dean of the School of Communications, led the administrative sessions for delegates attending the World Journalism Education Congress in South Africa on July 4-7.

Janna Anderson, associate professor in the School of Communications, led a special event on issues tied to hyperconnectivity, Web 3.0, cloud computing, user-generated content, social networks, ubiquitous computing and ambient intimacy, and augmented and virtual realities at the WorldFuture 2010 conference hosted by the World Future Society in Boston July 9.

Detroit proved to be an eye-opener for three Elon University School of Communications students, who participated in the Journalism That Matters Create or Die unconference June 3-6.

An effort conceived by Elon University associate professor Michelle Ferrier to reinvent journalism’s role in the nation's underserved communities, by seeding entrepreneurial media and technology ventures, will bring together this week several dozen leading media entrepreneurs and observers to an "idea summit" at Wayne State University in Detroit.

Associate professor Frances Ward-Johnson has been named the new associate department chair in the School of Communications. Ward-Johnson's appointment was made by Dean Paul Parsons and new Department Chair Jessica Gisclair. Ward-Johnson succeeds Gisclair in the role.