New communication advisory board members to discuss role of citizen media
Victoria - Six prominent communicators and educators have joined the advisory board to the School of Communication and Culture at Royal Roads University.
The new advisory board appointees are: veteran CTV national news reporter Craig Oliver, Hudson Mack, the anchor and news director of A News in Victoria, Dr. Myer Horowitz, president emeritus and professor emeritus of education at the University of Alberta, educator Dr. Bill Muirhead from the University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Rian Bowden, founder of Daily Splice a social media and podcasting business, and Susan Danard who manages media relations at B.C. Hydro.
The new appointees join current board members Parm Bains, a B.C. provincial media relations officer, Jas Cheema, manager of diversity services with Surrey Health Systems, professor Yang Daping from Shandong Normal University in China, York University professor emeritus Dr. Fred Fletcher, Douglas College faculty member Maureen Nicholson, and Simon Fraser University professor emeritus Dr. Jan Walls. Robyn Quinn, president of Big Bang Communications and the former president of the Canadian Public Relations Society, chairs the board. For more biographical information on the board members, visit the website.
To honour the new advisory board, the school is hosting a public forum March 9 that will discuss the drastic changes underway in the communication profession.
Entitled Civic Media in Canada: Communication and Politics in a Complex Time, the forum will be moderated by Fletcher with Quinn, Oliver, Mack and Bowden as panel participants.
The forum will raise important questions facing communicators, mass media and audiences, such as: What does the civic function of media mean? How does citizen journalism change news values and journalistic practice? What impact do social media have on how people share information about issues and form public opinion?
The forum will take place Tuesday, March 9 from 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. in the Hatley Castle drawing room at Royal Roads University. It is free and open to the public. Please contact Charlene Kerr to RSVP by e-mailing charlene.1kerr@royalroads.ca
Royal Roads University was established by the Province of British Columbia in 1995 specifically to deliver quality applied and professional programs to advance professionals in the workplace. The university blends online and on-campus learning with current, real-world relevance for graduate and undergraduate degrees, certificates, diplomas, executive and custom education.
