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About Us Welcome to the web home of the Mass Media and Communication (MM&C) doctoral program at Temple University, an interdisciplinary program based in the School of Communication and Theater. Our faculty and students conduct communication research on a wide range of topics, especially in the areas of globalization, new media, cultural studies, media effects, and media literacy. Our award-winning faculty members, drawn from five academic departments, are active scholars with international reputations. Our students regularly present and publish their research at top conferences and have won national awards for graduate-student teaching. For more than 30 years, our program-based in Philadelphia, a multicultural city that is the nation's #4 media market-has prepared students for academic careers in teaching and research. Today, more than 150 of our alumni hold positions as faculty, administrators, and communication policy researchers across the world. We invite you to find out more about their experiences and about our program's possibilities. |
Top 10 in Mass Communications/Media Studies 
MM&C Ranked in Top 10 in U.S. in Index compiled by Academic Analytics and published in The Chronicle of Higher Education Click here for details What's New? Richard Popp wins Margaret A. Blanchard Doctoral Dissertation Prize from American Journalism Historians Association MM&C alum Richard Popp has won the Margaret A. Blanchard doctoral Dissertation Prize, given annually by the American Journalism Historians Association to recognize the best doctoral dissertation on mass communication history in the country (more information about the award is available here). Rick will receive the award and present his doctoral research at the AJHA National Conference in Birmingham, Alabama, in October 2009. Rick is a tenure-track assistant professor of journalism at the Manship School of Communication at Louisiana State University. Banu Akdenizli participates in Brookings event MM&C alum Banu Akdenizli, now at the Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ) within the Pew Research Center was a panelist and presented "News Coverage of Immigration 2007: A Political Story, not an Issue, Covered Episodically" at a September 2008 event hosted by the Brookings Institution and the Norman Lear Center at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California tied to the release of "Democracy in the Age of New Media: A Report on the Media and the Immigration Debate." Alina Hogea presents papers at 2 conferences MM&C student Alina Hogea presented "Audience Participation and Online Content of Mass Media in Romania" at Convergence and Society: The Participatory Web, October 9-11, 2008 at the University of South Carolina. And Alina will present "'Being' vs. 'Belonging': The Resonance of Kosovo's Independence in Romanian Digital Newspapers" at the 2009 Southern Political Science Association (SPSA) Annual Meeting, January 7-10 in New Orleans. See SPSA's web site for more information. |
Mass Media and Communication Doctoral Program
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