UoM-Communication Studies

Check the first video online on the Mediacom Studio weblog at:
http://www.mediacomstudio.com/

It is also hosted on YouTube at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfpmvhGkxTk

The video is about the Innovation Week 2008.

Feel free to comment and disseminate.

Christina Chan-Meetoo

The MCA is a parastatal organisation under the aegis of the ministry of education and human resources since 1985,established under the MCA Act. The object of the college is to promote education, arts, science and culture generally through mass media.

One of the two operational arms of the MCA is the Media Division, which produces audio-visual materials for Educational purpose…..a support for primary and secondary schools, as well as for adult and continuing education.

I will be very grateful to you people if you could share with me your views and perceptions about the educational programmes of the MCA.  Teachers and even students of several secondary schools  have confirmed that these programmes are very useful, where images have proved to be better than thousand words. Various subjects are better understood.

What is your opinion on having audio-visual sessions inserted into the University’s modules? Do you think it will be worth for the MCA to start produce programmes for tertiary level as well,as it’s objective is to provide educational services??? For example, won’t it be interesting for year 1 communication students to view a programme of how a press or advertising company works? so many programmes could be produced for the various courses of the different faculties.

Do you think the creation of  an educational television channel for the MCA would be a good idea? Finally, instead of the MCA and MBC to be complementary or partners,do you get the impression that they are rivals?

please do share all your opinions with me as it will be of a tremendous help in writing my workplacement report. 

Just trying find out good recommendations for the MCA..lolllzzz

LIONGURL

Avis aux étudiants qui recherchent actuellement un stage (plus particulièrement les étudiants de 3ème année):

L’ODEROI (Observatoire des Droits de l’Enfant de la Région de l’Océan Indien) cherche au moins 2 stagiaires (de préférence 1 fille et 1 garçon) pour collaborer avec son équipe.
Le Centre d’appui de l’ ODEROI assure actuellement la conception de 3 minutes de clip vidéo chaque jour à la MBC.

Voici, à titre indicatif, les missions des stagiaires:
- Contribuer à la conception d’une série d’émissions radio et télévision par les jeunes et pour les jeunes sur les thèmes de l’Etude sur les Adolescents;
- Assurer le suivi des travaux de post-production des émissions en cours à la MBC;
- Concevoir et réaliser une série de 6 émissions radiophoniques de 5 mins ayant pout public cible les jeunes sur un thème défini par les stagiaires avec l’ODEROI.

Consulter le site de l’ODEROI pour plus d’information à l’adresse suivante:
http://oderoi.uom.ac.mu/oderoi/

Si vous êtes intéressés, contactez Mme Mariam Gopaul en lui envoyant un courriel à l’adresse suivante: m.gopaul@uom.ac.mu

Storytelling is what politicians use to set the agenda of agenda-setters. Communication Advisors engineer plans to CONTROL what is said about their boss in the media. That is they voluntarily feed positive stories about their boss to the media and the latter, innocently, depicts the intended image.

An example, according to Envoyé Spécial, is the romance [and mariage] of Sarkozy and Bruni. Magazines and newspapers, which shouted on roofs tops that they got the latest about the Sarkozy and Bruni affair, were apparently fed by the comm office of the President. At that time surveys showed a drop in the number of people who still see him as the President of France.

I was surprised when I saw the report titled ‘Actualité’ of Envoyé Spécial and this puts into question what we are served everyday in newspapers. That is the audience’s agenda is set by media houses and the latter’s agenda is set by politicians.

Hopefully the MBC will broadcast that episode of Envoyé Spécial on Monday 19/05/08. Below is the URL of the site of Envoyé Spécial.

http://envoye-special.france2.fr/index-fr.php?page=reportage&id_rubrique=392

Yaveen.

I am pleased to announce that the Communication Studies Unit is now equipped with a multimedia studio which I have set up with (a lot of) help from Avinash (my husband who is a lecturer in the Computer Science dept). The studio has been baptised Mediacom Studio and even has a website which we have launched yesterday at www.mediacomstudio.com

The facility has been created thanks to funding from the UNESCO-IPDC which approved my project last year. Avinash has been the mastermind behind the technical setup and has spent a lot of time selecting and fine-tuning our equipment list. We had a lot of constraints such as limited availability of certain items and also the dollar exchange rate which shrunk our budget. But, we managed to have a nice setup nevertheless with:

- Apple iMacs complete with the iLife and iWork suites
- Panasonic HD camcorders with tripods and a lighting kit
- Olympus audio recorders with tie-clip microphones
- Philips LCD TV, DVD player and an Apple TV
- a gigabit local network

The idea is to provide more hands-on practical training to our Communication and Journalism students, to give them the opportunity to come up with professional products and showcase them on the website.

Christina Chan-Meetoo

There will be an interesting talk on the following theme:

An Interdisciplinary and Intersectional Approach to Discourses of Inclusion and Diversity

by Benita Bunjun (University of British Columbia, Canada)

Date and time: 30th April 2008 at 2pm
Venue: Lecture Theatre 1 of UOM

Open to all. Students are particularly encouraged to attend.

I have received a copy of the training toolkit for Media professionals on Education for sustainable development from the UNESCO representative in Tanzania which I am making available here for all journalists who may be interested in the issue of sustainable development.

Please feel free to disseminate to all colleagues in the news media.

Media as partners in education for sustainable development

The file is a pdf of approximately 2.7 MB

C. Chan-Meetoo

Hello,

well ish and yav thought of writing something on our blog but havnt yet got time to really write… so just something to share ‘en passant’!

I discovered it some days ago and guess I am the last one to know about Internet Public Library. Well, if am not then check it out for yourself @ www.ipl.org. The site appears to contain reliable sources for almost any reference question. There are links to Blogs by subject. There are style and writing guides and on and on. What i found really fantastic is the ‘newspapers around the world’…indeed I had a look on Indian and African different newspapers!!!! hhhhmmm virtual librarianship 2222 goooood.

Does anyone else out there use this resource a lot??

cya……Liongurl

We are finally there. Four English teams ( Mant Utd, Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal) out of the eight that qualified. The other four are Barcelona (Spain), Roma (Italy), Fenebahce (Turkey) and Schalke (Germany).

Some ( the canal + guys) say that this will be the consolation prize for England as it ll watch Euro 2008 with no particular interest.

They also add (since Lyon is out) that Arsenal is the favourite, with its gamut of frenchies headed by Arsene.

So what the draw of the quarter finals( scheduled for friday 14/03) has in store? Liv’pool vs chelsea, Man utd vs Barca, Arsenal vs Roma? Que du gratin…

The pity is that anyone can play anyone in the last eight, meaning English teams may be drawn against each other.

What about Man Utd vs Liv’pool, for the kops to forget the previous humiliation?

Yaverpool.

Article paru dans l’Express d’aujourdh’ui…concernant Internet et le journalisme
Check here to read article…

Ish