MCOM News

 

The Department of Mass Communication
is pleased to announce the approval of
the new FSU TV3 logo

 

 

Thomson Delivers the Grass Valley Indigo AV Mixer to Maryland's
Frostburg State University

Paris, France/Nevada City, Calif., Sept. 28, 2007 - Frostburg State University (FSU), located in Frostburg, Md., has purchased a Grass Valley™ Indigo™ AV Mixer from Thomson (Euronext Paris: 18453; NYSE: TMS) for its Department of Mass Communication to support the production of a wide variety of programming seen via cable TV throughout the area. Frostburg State University, a comprehensive regional university that serves as an educational and cultural center for Western Maryland, is one of 13 institutions in the University System of Maryland. (click here for complete story).

 

 

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"[J]ournalism school and other mass communication curricula are not best used when they train students for the first six months of their employment; they should rather prepare their graduates for the years that follow the first six months: not in the skills which enable the young employee to do well at first, but rather in the understandings which enable him to do well throughout his career. There is no reason why he should not learn some skill, too; but, whenever there has to be a choice of time between learning the vocational skills and gaining the broad understanding of society and mass communication's place in it, the time should always be used for the broader and less immediately useful studies. The schools should aim for the long, not the short term; for on his job the new man can much more easily learn the skills of his job than he can learn to understand human beings, social organization, government, economics and science."

--Wilbur Schramm, Early Mass Communication Scholar

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