Vamsee Juluri (Professor, Media Studies) was interviewed on Public Radio International (PRI)'s The World for a story on inter-collegiate Bollywood dance contests in the U.S. (February 21, 2013)
NBC Bay Area article about alum Toan Lam - "Former SF TV Reporter Inspires Through His Work."
Radio Survivor article, "Live DJs return at revamped KUSF.org." (October 11, 2012)
Dorothy Kidd was one of the judges for the "Community Journalism" section of the Annual Excellence in Journalism Awards for the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ NorCal Chapter) on September 15, 2012.
David Silver's research on the farm at Black Mountain College is featured prominently in this recent article in Carolina Public Press.
Alumnus Anthony Congi ('07), a reporter and anchor for WIVB-TV in Buffalo, NY was awarded televisions's Rising Star award during a ceremony on April 13, 2012 by the Buffalo Broadcaster's Association.
Ed Lenert (Adjunct Professor, Media Studies) has contributed a co-authored analysis concerning federal and state programs that address the emerging digital divide in Technopolis Race, Class, Gender, and the Digital Divide by Joseph Straubhaar and a team of researchers based at the University of Texas, Austin. (February 27, 2012)
Bernadette Barker-Plummer’s (Professor, Media Studies) article, "Fixing Gwen: News and the Mediation of (Trans) Gender Challenges," was recently accepted and will appear in Feminist Media Studies 14. (February 21, 2012)
Alumnus Toan Lam is truly inspiring. Read about him in USF Magazine. (November 11, 2011)
Bernadette Barker-Plummer, "Fixing Gwen: News and the Mediation of
(Trans)Gender Challenges" has been accepted for publication in Feminist Media Studies 14 (October 2011)
Spin article, "End Transmission: Are These the Final Days of College Radio?" (October 14, 2011)
KQED News article, "On College Radio Day, KUSF Staff Fight (and Spin) On." (October 12, 2011)
Read "College Radio Day: An SOS for student-run stations" in The Washington Post. (October 11, 2011)
SF Gate article, "KUSF license sale awaits FCC approval." (September 18, 2011)
The Bay Citizen article, "Federal Regulators Zero in on KUSF Sale." (August 27, 2011)
The Bay Citizen article, "KUSF Sale Still in Legal Limbo." (August 15, 2011)
KUSF in Exile is voted Best Radio Station 2011 by SF Weekly!
David Silver's essay "Twitter Meets the Breakfast Club," appears in The Chronicle of Higher Education. (May 8, 2011)
Dorothy Kidd kicks off UCRN Conference with keynote presentation, "College and Community Radio and Communication Rights." Read about it in Radio Survivor. (May 5, 2011).
Media Studies seniors, Elle Robinson and Erika Myszinski, were chosen to screen their films, "Nice Country" and "Ugandan Days" at the deYoung Museum for "Where to? The Call of the Times," a pop-up installation of visual art, music and gallery talks by students on April 22, 2011.
Dorothy Kidd's book chapter, "Indymedia.org: A New Communications Commons" first published in 2003, was just re-printed in "The New Media Technocultures Reader," edited by Seth Giddings with Martin Lister and published by Routledge.
Dorothy Kidd spoke on "The Role of Youth and Social Media Tools in Egypt" at a Teach-In at USF - Egypt's Uprising: The Road To and From Liberation Square, sponsored by the Yalla! Students and Muslim Students Organizations. (February 28, 2011)
Radio Survivor article, "Students Hold Wake for KUSF." (March 25, 2011)
Melinda Stone, founder of How-to-Homestead, was written up in SF Gate - "'Back to the land' living for S.F. urbanites." (March 20, 2011)
Dorothy Kidd, professor of media studies, participated in the panel called "How to Save College Radio" at South by Southwest (SXSW) in Austin Texas on Saturday, March
19, 2011.
KUSF Coverage in The New York Times (March 19, 2011)
"Battle Rages Over a College Radio Station's Sale"
Save KUSF Coverage (March 18, 2011)
On February 18, 2011, Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi was interviewed by The GuardsmanOnline. San Francisco Chronicle's article "Save KUSF claims victory in early skirmish; station could still be sold" has been picked up by UPI.
FCC Dismisses University of San Francisco's Request to Move KUSF Transmitter (March 17, 2011)
Read the full article in Radio Survivor.
Bernadette Barker-Plummer's Monograph
Bernadette Barker-Plummer's monograph, "News and Feminism: A Historic Dialog" was published as the Fall / Winter 2010 issue of the Journalism and Communication Monographs series (No. 12, Vol. 3/4).
Her review of Christian Davenport's (2010) "Media Bias, Perspective, and State Repression: The Black Panther Party (Cambridge, Mass: Cambridge University Press) was published in the spring issue of International Journal of Press-Politics (Vol. 16, No. 1).
Save KUSF Rally
On January 19, 2011, a day after the University shut down KUSF, there was a community meeting at Presentation Theater. A very full evening of discussion. Click here for the full transcript.
Andrew Goodwin On Popular Culture
Professor Andrew Goodwin will be giving a paper on ‘The Political Economy Of Led Zeppelin: Economic and Cultural Capital’ at the Experience Music Project conference Music and Money: Cash Rules Everything Around Me, to be held at UCLA February 25th-27th 2011.
Goodwin recently completed an essay titled ‘Lady Gadget: 10 Endings’ for a forthcoming book on Lady Gaga, to be edited by Meghan Vicks and Kate Durbin for the CUNY Feminist Press and published in 2011.
Goodwin’s essays ‘Sample and Hold: Pop Music in the Digital Age of Reproduction’ [first published in 1988] and ‘World Beat and the Debate About Cultural Imperialism’ [which is co-authored with Joe Gore, and was first published in 1990] are to be reprinted in a forthcoming collection titled Popular Music, edited by Chris Rojek, to be published by Sage Publications in April 2011.
Two blog posts by Andrew Goodwin (‘The Future Lasts Forever’ & ‘Drag School’) are to be linked to the next Teaching Carnival at the Chronicle of Higher Education. [Goodwin blogs at www.professorofpop.blogspot.com]
Andrew has also recently posted two analyses of Led Zeppelin tracks at Professor Steve Smith’s blog Hooks. The tracks are ‘Black Dog’ and ‘Whole Lotta Love’. (1/25/2011)
David Silver and the September Project
The September Project, a grassroots effort to encourage public events about freedom in all libraries in all countries throughout the month of September, recently received a nice write-up in American Libraries Magazine . The project was co-founded in 2004 by David Silver, Associate Professor in Media Studies. (9/27/2010)
Vamsee Juluri's Novel - "The Mythologist"
Vamsee Juluri, Professor - Media Studies, has written "The
Mythologist," a novel published by Penguin India. Also, he recently had
a short essay appear in On Faith, the Washington Post's religion blog . (5/10/2010)
Melinda Stone and How-to-Homestead in The New York Times
"That Big Farm Called San Francisco" highlights the work of Professor Stone, Director of Film Studies and Professor in Environmental Studies. (4/23/10)
Natalija Vekic's Screenplay a Finalist
Adjunct Professor Vekic's screenplay for "Solace" is a finalist in the San Francisco Film Society and the Kenneth Rainin Foundation Filmmaking Grants Competition. The grants support films that through plot, character, theme or setting significantly explore human and civil rights, antidiscrimination, gender and sexual identity and other urgent social justice issues of our time.
Utopia in Four Movements Shown at the San Francisco International Film Festival
Professor Sam Green's live documentary, Utopia in Four Movements, was shown at the 53rd San Francisco International Film Festival . The Festival is the longest-running film festival in the Americas, featuring some 150 films and live events with more than 100 filmmakers in attendance. The Festival attracts an annual audience of more than 80,000.
Sam Green’s Documentary Film Screened at the
2010 Sundance Film Festival
Each year the Sundance Film Festival
selects 200 films for exhibition from more than 9,000 submissions.
Professor Green’s film, UTOPIA IN FOUR MOVEMENTS was one
of the few chosen to screen at this prestigious festival!
Caitlin Ryan and Corner Store
Senior
Media Studies student Caitlin Ryan is currently the Associate Producer
for Corner Store, a feature length documentary introducing Yousef Elhaj.
Yousef left Palestine 10 years ago during the Second Intifada, forced
to leave his wife and children behind as an economic refugee. During the
interceding decade, Yousef has not only worked alone in a corner store,
but has also lived alone in its stock room. In the documentary,
Yousef's dreams become a reality as the camera follows his return to
Palestine, his family's emotional reunion, and his reaction to the
realities of living in the occupied West Bank today.
The documentary was recently awarded the Audience Award at the
San Francisco Independent Film Festival and has been featured in The New
York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, Bay Guardian, New America
Media, and Pirate Cat Radio.
Check out the trailer and more information about the film at: www.thecornerdocumentary.org
Melinda Stone Quoted in San Francisco
Bay Guardian
Director of Film Studies, Professor Melinda
Stone, was quoted in the San Francisco Bay Guardian article "Celebrating Sid Laverents and Amateur Cinema Clubs. "
Adjunct Professor Natalija Vekic's Film
Written Up in the New York Times
A film Professor Vekic has
been working on as a Producer since 2007, STRAND: A Natural Histsory of
Cinema by Christian Bruno was written up in the New York Times
Adjunct Professor Michael Dougan -
Published & Produced
USF adjunct professor Michael Feit
Dougan’s article, ”From End to End: The Creative Compass” on developing
story endings will be published in Now Write: Screenplay, to be released
by Penguin in September 2010. This collection of screenwriting
exercises and observations also includes the writers of Cape Fear,
Jumanji, Brokeback Mountain, Mystic Pizza, Heroes, Trauma and others.
This publication joins 2009’s release of the international award-winning
documentary City of Borders as examples of Michael’s screenwriting and
story consulting expertise. Michael teaches Screenplay Foundations and
Postmodern Screenwriting in the Media Studies Department.
Student Film Debuts in Italy, Travels to
Cannes
When junior media studies major Alexandra Platt
studied film production abroad last summer in Rome, she had no idea the
documentary film she’d make, "Sono Niente (I am Nothing)," would be part of the 2009 Bologna Human Rights Nights International Film Festival in Italy.
Davies Forum Remakes the News
The
Davies Forum was back last semester with Professor Dorothy Kidd. Her
speakers consisted of industry leaders, who shared their experiences in
“Remaking the News”. The class explored and learned how citizen
journalists remade the news to benefit citizens, journalists and social
movement groups. Read the following Davies Forum articles in the
Foghorn: Davies Forum
Remakes the News , Davies Forum Hosts Innovative Real News Network CEO ,
Pulitzer Winner Highlights Technology, Multimedia
and Award Winning Filmmaker Encourages Students to
Create Their Own Films .
Adjunct Professor Natalija Vekic - A
Screenwriting Competition Finalist
San Francisco Film Society and The Kenneth Rainin
Foundation announced today the 12 finalists, among them Professor
Vekic for her film "Solace," and 4 honorable mentions for the initial
$35,000 SFFS/KRF Filmmaking Grant, to be given to a narrative feature
film with a social justice theme being made in the San Francisco Bay
Area. Over the next five years SFFS and KRF will disburse a series of
annual grants totaling $3 million.
Chris Begley - A Winner at the WCC
Basketball Tournament
The West Coast Conference basketball
tournament invited a representative from each University in the
conference to come and shoot, report, write, and create packages for
each game played. Junior Chris Begley, who created USFtv's very first
sports show, was chosen from USF. The student would represent their
school for each game, and the two would co-produce the package. Students
also created feature packages, and were told that the best package
would be chosen, and played during the Men's championship game at
halftime. Chris shot and edited the winning package on the WCC's
innaugural "Hall of Honor" and it played during halftime of the Gonzaga
vs. St. Mary's Men's final, with 7,845 fans in attendance.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMBsMHuTrME
Professor Silver Teaches New Democracy
in Poland
Prof. Silver was invited to be part of a new
media/new democracy forum held in Poland and sponsored by the U.S.
Department of State. Read more about
this forum here .
Professor Julluri Writes About Oscar
Winners' Speeches in The Huffington Post
Read "Om, Oscar, Om: Slumdog Millionaire's Sound Sages ."
Professor Silver's Interview in The
Foghorn
Read what students in Prof. Silver's Introduction to
Media Studies course are accomplishing in "Class Defines
USF on Wikipedia ."
Adjunct Professor Sam Green’s
Documentary Film Screened at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival
Each
year the Sundance Film Festival selects 200 films for exhibition from
more than 9,000 submissions. Professor Green’s film,” Utopia, Part 3: The World's Largest Shopping Mall ”
was one of the few chosen to screen at this prestigious festival!
(1/28/09)
Professor Vamsee Juluri writes "Obama's
Inaugural Gesture to Hindu America"
Read his essay in The Huffington Post .
(1/21/09)
Professor J. Michael Robertson Speaks at
the University Club
On January 16, Chair of the Media Studies
Department, Prof. Robertson, served as panelist at the historic University
Club in San Francisco, speaking on the survivability of the print
edition of the San Francisco Chronicle . This event marked the
paper's 144th birthday.
(1/16/09)
Professor Vamsee Juluri in The
Huffington Post
Read his essay "How the West Lost Us: A Critique of
Media Coverage of the Mumbai Attacks. ”
(1/12/09)
Lose Yourself: Ty Segall Does Punk Right
Read
the complete story on media studies major, Ty Segall, in the San Francisco Bay Guardian .
(9/23/08)
Al Gore's Current TV to Air USF Student
Documentary
View “Pop!
How Japanese Culture Took Over My Life ”.
(7/21/08)
Foghorn Editor Questions U.S.
Representative Nancy Pelosi
Read about media studies major and
journalism minor, Laura Plantholt's interview .
(4/17/08)
Media Studies Students Film Music Video
for Wyclef Jean
View the music video on Wyclef's
YouTube/MySpace pages .
(3/05/08)
Professor Andrew Goodwin in Slate
Read his
article "Stairway To
Stardom, If Led Zeppelin reunites, will they play the song that almost
destroyed them? "
(12/04/07)
