Openings at Le Matinal

The daily newspaper ‘Le Matinal’ is looking for people to be recruited as reporters (as trainees in the first instance).

If you are interested in this opening, please contact Mr Ravin Lama, Chief Executive of AAPCA on his email address at:
ravin.l@apcaglobal.com

Ellen Hume’s slides

As promised, here are Ellen Hume’s slides which she had used for her presentation on 22nd October at the University. Her talk was entitled ‘News Media, New Media and Elections’

Click here to download her presentation slides in pdf.

A video was also recorded and we will try to upload it once it is edited.

Talk on News Media, New Media and Elections

The US Embassy in collaboration with the Communication Studies Unit of FSSH is organisinf a talk on the above theme by Ellen Hume, US Media expert, on Thursday, October 22, 2009 from 12 30-14 00 hours at the University of Mauritius.

The talk will the held in the old Engineering Building in Lecture Theatre 1 (to access, take the lift in the New Engineering Tower to the second floor, then take the long corridor on the left. LT1 is on the right at the end of the corridor).

Mrs. Ellen Hume is visiting Mauritius under the U.S. Department of State’s Speaker Program. The main theme of her program in Mauritius is: Press Freedom and Journalism Ethics.

Ellen Hume is an Annenberg Fellow in Civic Media at the Center for Media and Communication Studies at Central European University in Budapest. Until June 2009, she was research director of the Center for Future Civic Media at MIT. Hume founded the Center on Media and Society at UMass Boston in 2004 in order to work with students and community media. She is a writer and lecturer about journalism journalism’s role in democracy; the Internet; civic engagement and ethics.

All are welcome.

Professional Profile of Ellen Hume

Diksioner Morisien d’Arnaud Carporan

Arnaud Carporan ek so lekip pe faire ene lapel pou kontribision dans zot deziem edision diksioner kreol morisien.

Check ban detay lor mo blog lor:
http://christinameetoo.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/diksioner-morisien-darnaud-carporan/

Maiden Games 2009

This is the first time in Mauritian universities’ history that an inter-tertiary competition is being organised by the Ministry of Youth and Sports.

The Universities involved are as follows:
- University of Mauritius (UOM)
- IVTB
- Institut Superieur de Technologie (IST)
- University of Technology (UTM)
- JR School
- Swami Dayanand Institute of Management (SDIM)
- Mauritius Institute of Education (MIE).

The football preliminaries are as follows (further info about other pools and scores will be updated):

- 08 Oct 2009- UOM (A) vs IVTB (B)  [Final score 13-0]
- 08 Oct 2009- UOM (B) vs IVTB (A) [Full time score 4-0]
- 13 Oct 2009 at MFA House Trianon- UOM (B) vs IST  [10hrs]
- 15 Oct 2009 at MFA House Trianon- UOM (A) vs UTM [10hrs]
- 30 Oct 2009 at CNFF Reduit- FINAL [noon].

Volleyball (Man) Fixtures [the following matches will be played at UOM Gymnasium]

- 09 Oct 2009- UOM vs JR School [10hrs]
- 14 Oct 2009- UOM vs IST [11hrs]
- 20 Oct 2009- UOM vs MIE [10hrs]
- 23 Oct 2009- UOM vs Swami Dayanand [10hrs]

Volleyball (Woman) Fixtures [Venue: UOM GYmnasium]

- 15 Oct 2009- UOM vs JR School [10hrs]
- 27 Oct 2009- UOM vs MIE [10hrs]

Basketball (Woman) Fixtures [Venue: UOM GYmnasium]

- 13 Oct 2009- UOM vs MIE [13hrs30]
- 16 Oct 2009- UOM vs JR School [13hrs30]
- 29 Oct 2009- FINAL [13hrs30]

Basketball (Man) Fixtures

Not Available

Badminton (Single woman, single man, double man, double woman, double mix) Fixtures [Venue: National Badminton Centre]

- 1st Round- 22nd Oct 2009 [10hrs]
- 2nd Round- 23rd Oct 2009 [10hrs].

UOM athletes are expecting UOM’s staff and students’ support.

Yaveen
Yr4.

Also on Write or wrong

Magazine : Scènes de ménage (TV5 Monde)

A voir ce jeudi 1er octobre, 20h45 sur MBC 2

Au sommaire:
SMS et Internet : attention au harcèlement ! Les cas de harcèlement par SMS ou par Internet se multiplient. Insultes, menaces, diffusion d’un numéro de portable sur un site pour adultes, usurpation d’adresse e-mail, publication de photos prises au téléphone portable, ces actes sont désormais monnaie courante. Cela se produit la plupart du temps dans le cas de ruptures sentimentales. L’une des deux personnes ne supporte pas la séparation et se met à harceler l’autre et à lui pourrir la vie. Très touchés aussi les adolescents qui tiennent un blog ou qui chattent sur MSN. En Suisse, un adolescent sur deux aurait été harcelé sur le net.

Insomnies : entre nuits blanches et idées noires…. 30 % des gens déclarent souffrir d’insomnie. Conséquences : fatigue, irritabilité, absentéisme, dépression, le sommeil est devenu un vrai problème de santé publique. Il y a les insomniaques qui se soignent par diverses thérapies, il y a ceux qui prennent des somnifères, il y a ceux qui fatiguent et dépriment et il y a ceux qui vivent avec. Les causes de nos nuits blanches ou grises ? Le stress, les écrans, le bruit, la mauvaise hygiène de vie, les substances excitantes etc. Comment vit-on quand on dort mal ou/et peu ?

Envoyé par Martine Luchmun (4ème année)

Placement or freelance opportunities

To all Communication Students

Here is an opportunity for either a placement or some freelance work. Maujobs is looking for Communication students who can collaborate on the following projects:

- Production of a short movie
- Setting up of a community blog
- Participation in communication micro-projects

Please see the detailed information below sent by Maujobs. If you are interested, please contact Ms Marie J de Robillard on mj2rob@yahoo.fr.

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As one of the pioneers of recruitment as a service, Service Bureau has been a useful ressource for thousands of graduating students during many years. And now, with the launch of www.maujobs.intnet.mu our online recruitment portal we are offering very innovative approaches to the use of IT to start, boost or track a career and are a vivid example, ourselves, of how much can be achieved in terms of communication and collaborative work.

Thus we have recently opened on our website a call for the setting up of a library of keywords related to competencies that will serve to match very precisely expertise with the job market needs. The project is ongoing and has already attracted a lot of contributers who have quickly understood its time-saving and quality-enhancing advantages.

The projects for which we are considering an input from students of your faculty will consist in

a) producing a short movie/footage/animation to be disseminated on various social networks to support the following premise: the exact profiling of specific competencies in a job/HR search constitues a clear value-addition, how can we demonstrate this assumption?

b) building a community blog to provide dialogue forums in order to liaise with local and international freshmen, counterparts, HR managers, recruiters, schools, & so on and

c) various communication micro-projects involving style, design, intelligence, media watch and creative writing.

All projects will imply a temporary and part-time attachment, so will not interfere with the time that they should devote to the normal course of their studies. The idea is to allow them to use the results of their work as thematic subjects in the scope of their project assignments and to have a first hand at the workplace, life-size, and what’s more at one where all modern communication tools are part of the work flow.

Participants will of course receive a stipend depending on the level of involvement they will wish to enter when we discuss with them. We can also provide a progress report at agreed intervals so that you can monitor the various attachments.

We are confident that such a project can provide an excellent opportunity for your students to put in practice what they have been learning and for us the guarantee that we contribute to shaping a work culture that is not only fun but relevant to the future engagements of the young people.

Results of the AMB Mauritius

As promised, the report of the 2008 African Media Barometer for Mauritius are now online on my personal blog at http://christinameetoo.wordpress.com/2009/05/13/results-of-the-african-media-barometer-for-mauritius/
A summary of key findings is also posted.
Please feel free to share and comment.is

Launching of African Media Barometer for Mauritius

Tomorrow, the African Media Barometer for Mauritius will be launched at 10 a.m. in Lecture Theatre 2 of the University of Mauritius.

Mr Dalichau, Representative of the FES (Frierich Ebert Stiftung Foundation), will launch the report in the presence of the media. I will present key findings of the report and a journalist, Sunil Gopal, will speak about his experience.

The African Media Barometer is a qualitative tool for assessing the media on the African continent. It has been conducted for the first time in Mauritius in 2008.

I will write more about the findings after the launch.

Applications open for UOM

Hi all,

Just a note to let you know that applications are open for courses at UOM until 6th March, including for the Communication Studies programme.

If you are interested in applying for the Communication degree, click on the link below for detailed information on how to proceed:
http://www.uom.ac.mu/Admissions/index.htm

To get a copy of the course structure, go to:
http://www.uom.ac.mu/Faculties/FSSH/SocialStudies/courses.htm
The course structure is currently under review and there will normally be more specialisation modules to integrate more practical work in the curriculum. For info, there are two specialisations, Business Communication and Journalism. And if you are interested in both, you should apply for both as the intake is separate (if you are given a seat in only one specialisation, you will not be allowed to change after joining. But, you can take the other specialisation’s modules over and above your regular modules if you wish).

Also, note that this is a part-time programme targeted primarily at employed people. But, there are some seats for fresh school-leavers. Tuition fees apply to all though… If you have a job (whether part-time or full-time), your chances of getting a seat are enhanced, whatever be the nature of the work.

Many prospective students have asked me whether this degree is recognised internationally. The answer is yes. Many of our students have pursued or are pursuing their studies abroad (in Reunion, France, Australia, South Africa, UK, Dubai & Singapore) with no difficulty for entrance in their Masters, Maitrise, DEA and even PhD. Also, many of our students have obtained interesting job offers after studying with us. Some have become prominent journalists, Communication/PR officers, etc. with a few having even obtained management positions.

So, good luck if you are applying! And hope to see a good crop of candidates in August 2009…

C. Chan-Meetoo