Communication@UMass PhD Program Info Session Virtual Open House over Zoom November 16, Tuesday, 1130AM-1230PM EST [Zoom registration below] The Department of Communication at UMass Amherst invites interested PhD applicants to a virtual visit and meet-and-greet with faculty and current graduate students. The one-hour Zoom session aims to introduce you to faculty and their current research projects, connect you with graduate students, and answer questions that can help demystify the application process. For 49 years, the Department of Communication has produced innovative, influential, and interdisciplinary scholarship about communication and its centrality to social, cultural, and political processes. Our diverse areas of focus include digital technology studies, film and media studies, media and cultural production, media effects, rhetoric and performance studies, social interaction and culture, and the political economy of communication. From across these areas, our faculty and PhD student community share a commitment to address issues of social inequality and work toward equity and social justice through our empirical research, multimodal scholarship, community outreach, and teaching and mentoring. PhD students admitted to our program receive five years of funding. They are welcomed to the department’s vibrant research culture and the hospitable environment of the Five Colleges in the Pioneer Valley, including UMass Amherst, Amherst College, Smith College, Mt Holyoke College and Hampshire College. They benefit from diverse resources, including the option to pursue certificate programs in Film Studies, Feminist Studies, Ethnographic Research, Data Analytics and Computational Social Science, and Caribbean, Latin American, and Latino Studies. Recent PhD grads have taken tenure-track job posts at Emerson College, the University of Colorado, the University of Houston, Vanderbilt University, and Simon Fraser University. Come and ask all your questions to our faculty and grad students. For other inquiries, contact PhD program Admissions Chair Dr Jonathan Corpus Ong at jcong@umass.edu <mailto:jcong@umass.edu>. The registration link is: https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUudu2gqjouG9LHNAbb_CE33HUd9... <https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUudu2gqjouG9LHNAbb_CE33HUd9dWiRx_9> ===== Jonathan Corpus Ong, PhD Associate Professor of Global Digital Media University of Massachusetts Amherst Shorenstein Center Fellow 2020-2022 Harvard Kennedy School Webpage: https://www.umass.edu/communication/node/1525 <https://www.umass.edu/communication/node/1525> Twitter: @jonathan_c_ong Recent Articles: 1. Human Rights in Survival Mode. Shorenstein Center. https://mediamanipulation.org/research/human-rights-survival-mode-rebuilding... <https://mediamanipulation.org/research/human-rights-survival-mode-rebuilding-trust-and-supporting-digital-workers-philippines> 2. The Contagion of Stigmatization: Racism and Discrimination in the Infodemic Moment. SSRC MediaWell. https://mediawell.ssrc.org/literature-reviews/the-contagion-of-stigmatizatio... <https://mediawell.ssrc.org/literature-reviews/the-contagion-of-stigmatization-racism-and-discrimination-in-the-infodemic-moment/versions/1-0/> 3. Southeast Asia’s Disinformation Crisis: Where Regulation Is a Bad Word. SSRC - Items. https://items.ssrc.org/disinformation-democracy-and-conflict-prevention/sout... <https://items.ssrc.org/disinformation-democracy-and-conflict-prevention/southeast-asias-disinformation-crisis-where-the-state-is-the-biggest-bad-actor-and-regulation-is-a-bad-word/>