ANZCA2016 conference: student experience
In the first week of July, the University of Newcastle hosted the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association’s (ANZCA) annual international conference. It is a big event on the Association’s […]
Crafting competent communicators
This story was written by Ms Fiona Whitten, Research Writer at the University of Newcastle, and shows what I research here at the University. Dr Janet Fulton is a lecturer […]
I’m a Communication student. What can I do to get a job?
One of the questions we as Communication academics are asked is where are the jobs: students ask us, parents ask us, the media report on the lack of jobs for […]
To our Comm students: Bachelor of Communication Hogwarts style
I love the Harry Potter books and one day I realised that our Bachelor of Communication degree’s majors slot fairly neatly into the four Hogwarts houses: journalism is Gryffindor, PR […]
A PS to my last post about surveillance/privacy
It seems that surveillance/privacy/online persona is on others’ minds as well. The New Daily published this story today: How Google search results can ruin your career with some great examples, including a […]
Who is watching you? Facebook and surveillance
It’s the end of another semester of teaching about digital communication and working/playing in the online space to a cohort that is primarily from the so-called Millennial generation (18-35), also […]
Why should I pay for news?
A few things have happened in the last week that made me think deeply about the issue of paying for news. Firstly, last Saturday, journalist Peter FitzSimons retweeted this from […]