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News Archives James P. Zappen Participates in Communication Conferences - 02.20.2007 LL&C Prof. James P. Zappen delivered "'Why Not Change the World?': Developing and Sustaining Technical Communication Research and Graduate Programs in a Technological University," Plenary Session, Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication, 33rd Annual Conference, San Francisco, California, Oct. 12-14, 2006. He also delivered "The Many Rhetorics of Plato's Gorgias," American Society for the History of Rhetoric, 2006 Conference, San Antonio, Texas, Nov. 15, 2006.
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Want a Degree in Communication? - 02.11.2007 Undergraduate programs in LL&C provide students with the multidisciplinary education that is essential for leadership in an "information society," a society that is rapidly being transformed by new communication processes and technologies. Read an invitation from the Department Chair Learn about our undergraduate programs in communication Participate in Accepted Students Day (April 14, 2007)
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Interested in Grad School? - 11.30.2006 For over 30 years, our graduates have been the leaders in the study of the relationship between communication and technology. As new forms of technologically-mediated communication emerge, our research and scholarship put our graduate programs on the cutting-edge. Review of applications begins January 15, 2007 Read an invitation from the Department Chair Learn more about our graduate programs in communication and rhetoric, human-computer interaction, and technical communication
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Rensselaer Awarded Major Grant From National Science Foundation - 10.19.2006 The National Science Foundation has awarded Rensselaer a major grant for Institutional Transformation through its ADVANCE Program for Increasing the Participation and Advancement of Women in Science and Engineering Careers. Under this grant, Rensselaer aims to address the advancement of women to the senior ranks through a multi-level effort aimed at reforming advancement processes, improving mentoring, and repairing the pipeline. LL&C's Prof. and Dept. Head Cheryl Geisler serves as Principal Investigator on the project, with Prof. Deborah Kaminski (Engineering) and Robert Palazzo (Acting Provost) as co-PIs.
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Audrey Bennett Publishes Book, Design Studies - 10.17.2006 LL&C Associate Prof. Audrey Bennett published Design Studies (Princeton Architectural Press, 2006), a collection of 27 essays from international design researchers. The book highlights the immense changes the discipline of graphic design has undergone, and the importance of research-based design processes. For more information, visit: www.graphicdialogue.org
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Barbara Warnick, University of Pittsburgh, Delivered Talk on Contemporary Presidential Politics and Advertising - 10.08.2006 Barbara Warnick, Chair of the Department of Communication at the University of Pittsburgh, spoke at a recent LL&C Colloquium. Her talk, "Intertextuality and Web-Based Public Discourse," explored the multiple layers of textual and intertextual meaning in Web-based parodies and satires of contemporary presidential politics and advertising. Author of Critical Literacy in a Digital Era: Technology, Rhetoric, and the Public Interest (Lawrence Erlbaum, 2002), Warnick is best known for her work in digital rhetoric. Her most recent work, Rhetoric Online: Persuasion and Politics on the World Wide Web (Peter Lang, forthcoming), adapts existing rhetorical theories to the study of online persuasion as co-produced, customized, de-centered hypertext discourse.
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David Seelow Has Book Review Published in CHOICE Journal - 09.21.2006 LL&C Adjunct Prof. David Seelow recently reviewed George De Stefano's book, "An Offer We Can't Refuse: The Mafia in the Mind of America". The review appeared in the September issue of CHOICE, the journal for librarians in higher education.
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LL&C Receives Major Research Grant From STC - 09.19.2006 The Department of Language, Literature and Communication has been awarded a major research grant from the Society for Technical Communication (STC) for its project, Usable Content in an Interactive World. Cheryl Geisler, Audrey Bennett, Jan Fernheimer, Roger Grice, Bob Krull, Patricia Search, and Jim Zappen make up the faculty team responsible for the effort. Up to six graduate students will be supported. The 18-month effort aims to develop a set of useful paradigms for the analysis, design, and testing of usable content in a post-document world. Five projects provide breadth: - in cross-cultural graphics (Bennett), - in cultural websites (Search), - in web gallery interfaces (Zappen), - in wikis for collaboration (Fernheimer), and - in distance education environments (Krull). Geisler serves as overall project director and Roger Grice as usability test manager. This award for $138,000 represents the first grant awarded by the STC in its major Research Grant program. Rensselaer was one of three universities who won a planning grant last year, and it was based on the year of work done for that grant that the current award was made. The final proposal can be found at: Usable Content in an Interactive World
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Review Published for David Seelow's Book - 09.01.2006 A very positive review of LL&C Adjunct Prof. David Seelow's book Radical Modernism and Sexuality (reviewed by Professor Nadine Cooper) appeared recently in the journal English Literature in Transition 1880-1920, Volume 49:4, 2006, pages 485-487, under the section entitled "Précis Reviews." For more information on the journal, visit: English Literature in Transition
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Sin-Hwa Kang Presented at the International Workshop on Presence - 09.01.2006 LL&C doctoral student Sin-Hwa Kang presented "The effect of static anthropomorphic images on emotion perceptions in mobile-phone communication" at the 9th Annual International Workshop on Presence held in Cleveland, Ohio, August 2006. LL&C professors James Watt and Katherine Isbister were co-authors. For more information on the workshop, visit: International Society for Presence Research
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Princeton Review Ranks Rensselaer Number Two College With "More To Do on Campus" - 08.28.2006 Rensselaer ranks second among colleges with "more to do on campus," according to the 2007 edition of "The Best 361 Colleges," distributed by Princeton Review. The publication also named the Institute "one of the best Northeastern colleges." Read the full press release: Campus.News for the Week of September 4, 2006
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Katherine Isbister Uses Video Game To Produce Public Art Exhibition - 08.03.2006 Using surveillance cameras and the popular video game The Sims 2, LL&C Associate Prof. Katherine Isbister will create a public art installation called SimVeillance: San Jose as part of the ZeroOne San Jose Festival, taking place August 7-13, 2006. For the full news article, visit: SimVeillance: Game Environment Mirrors Real-World Public Space
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Paul Booth Published Article in Games and Culture - 07.24.2006 LL&C 2nd-year doctoral student, Paul Booth (along with co-author Robert Brookey), has had an article published. "Restricted Play: Synergy and the Limits of Interactivity in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Video Game" appears in Games and Culture Vol. 1, No. 3, 214-230 (2006). For the article abstract, visit: Games and Culture
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Market Block Books (Troy, NY) Hosted Book Signing and Reading by Katherine Isbister - 07.18.2006 On Thursday, July 6, Market Block Books in downtown Troy, NY, hosted a book signing and reading by LL&C Associate Prof. Katherine Isbister. Isbister's book, Better Game Characters by Design: A Psychological Approach, brings theory from Social Psychology and related areas of research to designers of video games, to help them understand the foundations of what makes characters lifelike, engaging, and appealing. Isbister teaches a course based on the material in the book in Renssealer's Game Design course series and is part of the team working to build the new Game and Simulation Arts and Sciences undergraduate major. Isbister directs the Games Research Lab at Rensselaer. The book signing was covered in the Albany Times Union on July 9, as part of a story about the growth of the game development industry in the Capital Region. For the Times Union news story, visit: In the Game
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Katherine Isbister Published Book Entitled Better Game Characters By Design - 06.21.2006 LL&C Associate Prof. Katherine Isbister's book, Better Game Characters By Design: A Psychological Approach, was released this month by Morgan Kaufmann. The book explains how concepts from psychology and social science can be applied to character design to create powerful social and emotional connections with players, drawing upon Dr. Isbister's more than 10 years of research and industry experience. Better Game Characters is appearing on store shelves at a time when industry experts are increasingly engaging in discussions about the potential for games to move players emotionally, and the need to explore the limits of game design. It will be used as a textbook in the course Dr. Isbister teaches in the game studies curriculum at Rensselaer. For the full news release, please visit: New Book Reveals Player Psychology Paramount To Designing Better Game Characters
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James P. Zappen Presented at Conference of Rhetoric Society of America - 06.19.2006 LL&C Prof. James P. Zappen presented "Digital Rhetoric: Theory and Practice" at the 12th Biennial Conference of The Rhetoric Society of America in Memphis, Tennessee, May 2006.
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James P. Zappen Presented at Conference on Digital Government Research - 06.19.2006 LL&C Prof. James P. Zappen, along with RPI Profs. Sibel Adali and Teresa M. Harrison, presented "Developing a Youth-Services Information System for City and County Government: Experiments in User-Designer Collaboration," dg.o 2006 at the 7th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research held in San Diego, California, May 2006. For more information on dg.o 2006, visit: http://dgrc.org/dgo2006/
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Junho Choi and Sin-Hwa Kang Published Article on Generational Use of Internet in S. Korea - 06.19.2006 LL&C Assistant Prof. Junho Choi and doctoral candidate Sin-Hwa Kang published an article, "Generational Use of the Internet in S. Korea: The N, X, and 386 Generations," in the Journal of Asian Communication Research, Spring 2006.
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Sin-Hwa Kang Presented at Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences - 06.19.2006 LL&C doctoral candidate Sin-Hwa Kang attended the 5th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences, May 31-June 3, 2006. Ms. Kang presented a paper, "The Ethnographic Study of Female Teens' Mobile Phone-Mediated Activity in the US" in the cross-disciplinary session where she also acted as a session chair.
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Raymond A. Lutzky '02 Receives Alumni Key Award - 05.15.2006 LL&C alumnus Raymond A. Lutzky '02 (B.S., Electronic Media, Arts, and Communication) is the recipient of a prestigious Rensselaer Alumni Association (RAA) Alumni Key Award for 2006. The Alumni Key was created in 1965 by the RAA Board of Trustees to recognize outstanding service, supporting the advancement of Rensselaer (such as chapters, classes, fundraising and special events), by either alumni or friends. Nominations are made by any member of the Rensselaer Community, and recipients are chosen by a committee of the RAA and approved by the RAA Executive Committee. A maximum of nine awards may be presented each year. The Alumni Key Award is a certificate and medal, presented by the President of the Institute, assisted by the President of the RAA. Raymond Lutzky's medal and award will be presented to him at this year's annual Alumni Awards Dinner on June 9, 2006. For more on the RAA Alumni Key Awards, visit: www.alumni.rpi.edu/board/awards/alumni_key.html
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