News & Events
Spring 2009
April 29, 2009 -Telecom graduate Sunitha Chitrapu received the Top Dissertation Award of ICA
Sunitha Chitrapu, who defended her dissertation," Linguistic diversity and changing technology in India’s regional film markets” in December, 2008, has received the Top Dissertation Award of the Global Communication and Social Change Division of the International Communication Association.
April 24, 2009 - Sujin Choi awarded the best graduate student paper award at the ITERA
Telecom graduate student Sujin Choi was awarded the best graduate student paper award at the ITERA (International Telecommunications Education and Research Association) conference last weekend in Atlanta. The title of her paper is “Winner-take-all Online Search Advertising Market and Implications for Antitrust Policy.”
April 22, 2009 - GameZombie Wins 2nd Straight Webby Honoree Award
GameZombie.tv, a video game-based web production team run by the students of T436, recently won a prestigious Webby Honoree Award for a student production for the 2nd year in a row. Over 10,000 websites were screened, but only a handful were chosen for the award that is considered the Oscar of the Internet.
"The Webby Awards honors the outstanding work that is setting the standards for the Internet," said David-Michel Davies, executive director of The Webby Awards. "GameZombie.tv's Official Honoree selection is a testament to the skill, ingenuity, and vision of its creators."
Freshman Ryan Padgham, GameZombie's business developement leader said, "It's incredible to see what our team has been able to produce in such a short time period. Competing against some of the top websites in the world and being recognized as one of the elite is truly inspiring for young media producers like ourselves."
(If you are interested in learning what it's like to be part of the GameZombie team, check out its internship program by contacting Andrew Benninghoff at andrew.benninghoff@gamezombie.tv)
April 17, 2009 - Telecom Students win campus-wide awards
William Taylor, a graduating senior in our department, received the 2009 Ronald E. McNair Scholar of the Year award on April 15. He has also been accepted into our graduate program and will become an MA student in Fall, 2009.
At the same ceremony, Younei Soe, a Ph.D. candidate in our department, received a Grant-in-Aid Award from The University Graduate School for her doctoral research. Her dissertation titled, New Media, Youth, and Political Socialization, is in progress. Professor Erik Bucy is her dissertation advisor.
February 26, 2009 - Student-run GameZombie.tv garnering millions of views
The students of T436 - 'Web Video & the Game Industry' have produced over 200 original videos centered on the video gaming community that have been seen by millions around the globe. They were also just shortlisted for their 2nd consecutive Webby Award. The students complete every step of the production process and build connections that will last long after their tenure at IU.
GameZombie.tv was founded by IU alumni Spencer Striker. Currently, Striker is the instructor for T436, the class out of which creative GameZombie content is produced.
The class offers positions in movie editing, 3D motion graphic design, production management, web design, acting, and new media marketing and public relations, alongside more specialized classifications. The students work with industry standard programs to create professional-level web videos.
GameZombie allows IU students to interact with industry professionals from around the world, providing them with invaluable contacts for later in life.
To date, GZ videos have accumulated over 6 million impressions across the web, and have been featured multiple times on the front page of top-100 websites, including YouTube, Bebo, and Dailymotion.
A Google search will turn up over 400,000 web results for GameZombie's videos, indicating its wide syndication.
GameZombie.tv is producing some of the highest quality web videos on the Internet, and it's all being powered by IU students. The website's success is sure to spread far beyond video sharing sites, giving young women and men experience in a cutting edge field.
February 9, 2009 - Rob Potter presented research to the Indiana University Neuroimaging Group research entitled Brain Activation and Risk The Influence of Trait Motivation on ACC Activation during Choice and Consequence. It is work he co-authored with the ICR's Annie Lang along with Josh Brown, Adam Krawitz, and Rena Fukunaga of the Cognitive Control Lab in IU's Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences.
