Media And Communication

Mar 10, 2021 • Caitlin Burns

Dr. Mullin Researches Impact of Student Media on Careers

By Nikolai Kachuyevski '21 Dr. Chris Mullin ’20EdD, assistant professor of Media and Communication, wanted to know how student experience at collegiate papers and magazines impact career trajectories for women in media. She wondered if there was a link between this experience and the...

Rikki Rosenthal • Mar 3, 2021 •7:00 pm

VLOG: Academics at Arcadia

Anthony Carbonetta • Dec 30, 2020 •7:00 pm

Make a Stock Footage Film of This Year Like No Other

It is so easy to call 2020 “literally the worst year ever” all over social media, especially with so many headlining issues and conflicts that affect our everyday lives. You could write off this year as the biggest buzzkill the world has ever seen.  I personally could fall into that same...

Danita Mapes • Dec 29, 2020 •7:00 pm

Loco Mag: Arcadia’s Hidden Gem

As a bright-eyed freshman, I wanted to experience all that Arcadia had to offer. So when Lisa Holderman, chair of the Media and Communication department, recommended I take a practicum related to my interest in journalism, I jumped at the chance. Practicums at Arcadia aren’t just...

Rikki Rosenthal • Dec 23, 2020 •7:00 pm

Student Advice for the Media and Communication Department

A pandemic couldn’t keep Arcadia’s Media and Communication faculty and students away from building community within their department, which held its first student advisory board meeting in the fall.  The board consists of six faculty members and 16 Media and Communication students, all...

Anthony Carbonetta • Dec 2, 2020 •8:51 pm

Promoting With a Platform: How to Optimize Your Website

Self-promotion can be so crucial to a career in the fast-paced age of social media and personal branding. Making a name for yourself almost becomes a necessary step to advancing your career for the better. Sure, your resume and list of accomplishments are important, but are you trying to show off...

Danita Mapes • Nov 24, 2020 •8:00 pm

Why You Should Be a Media and Communication Major

Arcadia is known for the strength of our health science programs. Though many majors are offered, Biology is clearly one of the most popular ones, and it’s probably what people think about when they think of Arcadia. And while it’s a perfectly fine major, I’d like to shed a light on the best...

Sep 18, 2020 • Caitlin Burns

Atkins Publishes Op-Eds on Pandemic and Social Justice

Over the summer, Adjunct Professor of English Larry Atkins published three op-eds about the pandemic and recent social justice movements.  On June 25, Atkins discussed President Trump’s aversion to wearing a mask and his strategy to change in an op-ed in the New York Daily News, where he...

Anthony Carbonetta • Aug 19, 2020 •10:55 am

Coronavirus: Behind the Camera

In troubled times like these, where motivation may seem more scarce than ever, coronavirus-quarantine-living can lead many to lay comfortably with soda and chips in hand without a bother to be had. As for myself, I have been trying my hardest to use this time effectively to better my...

Jul 28, 2020 • Caitlin Burns

Bryant ’21 Receives Emma Bowen Foundation Award

By Caitlin Joyce '20 Media and Communications major Lashanna Bryant ’21 was honored with the Emma Bowen Foundation’s Storytelling Award for her video project “Realizing What’s Wrong: Mental Health in the Early 2000s,” which explored the importance of mental health in black families. The...

May 7, 2020 • Jen Retter

#ArcadiaStrong: Faculty and Staff Standouts During COVID-19

We asked our social media followers to share outstanding faculty and staff experiences they've had in the wake of COVID-19.    "Jodi Bornstein has built a community for ED110 that has been super supportive."  "Kathy Trainor has been very supportive and...

Rikki Rosenthal • Apr 17, 2020 •5:02 pm

Self-Isolation Reading Recommendations

Hello, friends! As we are all doing our best to social distance, I figured it was prime time to recommend some of my favorite books and share my reading list with you. I thought it would be fun to assign books to majors, so here we go. Creative Writing The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo If...