Everyday Ebay Everyday eBay is the first scholarly analysis of the internet marketplace that has become a global social, cultural and economic phenomenon. The eighteen new and classic essays gathered here examine eBay from a wide variety of perspectives as a bellwether of taste and material culture; as a rich site of cultural, racial, and [...]...
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Publications by the faculty of the Department of Communication Studies. Places of Public Memory Though we live in a time when memory seems to be losing its hold on communities, memory remains central to personal, communal, and national identities. And although popular and public discourses from speeches to films invite a shared sense of [...]...
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UNC Global has a story on Professor Della Pollock’s summer in Kenya working on an experimental education program: Students Conduct Oral History Seminar in Kenya...
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Associate Professor Pat Parker is featured in the ChapeHillNews for organizing a high school recording session that attracted the attention of R.E.M....
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Congratulations to Professor Della Pollock for receiving the 2011 Robert L. Sigmon Service-Learning Award!...
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Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Chris Lundberg is featured in a WRAL news video entitled “Is Civility Disappearing in the US?”...
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Through teaching, research and service, the Department of Communication Studies: addresses the many ways communication functions to create, sustain, and transform personal life, social relations, political institutions, economic organizations, and cultural and aesthetic conventions in society; promotes competencies required for various modes of mediated and non-mediated communication; and develops skills for analyzing, interpreting and critiquing communication
problems and questions.
The Department of Communication Studies includes 25 faculty, 50 graduate students and over 750 undergraduate majors. The Department and personnel are recognized for significant contributions to the profession and to the University, state, and nation.
The Department of Communication Studies supports the University’s core values encouraging diversity and equal educational and employment opportunities throughout the University community. These values are articulated in the University’s non-discrimination policy and by the office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs.