Save the Date: Communication Department s Fall Colloquium is Sept. 25

The UC Communication Department will hold its fall colloquium on Sept. 25, at 12:30 p.m., in Room 415-A. The special guest speaker is Alessandro Lovari.

Lovari (PhD in Communication Sciences at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy; MA at the University of Siena, Italy) is assistant professor in Cultural ad Communicative Processes at University of Sassari Department of Political Sciences, Communication and Engineering in Italy, where he teaches Corporate Communication and Social Media for Public Administrations (graduate seminar). He was a visiting scholar at the Department of Communication, Purdue University, and intern at State University of New York at Stony Brook. His main research interests are public communication, public relations, university communication and the relationships between administrations, media and citizens, in particular focusing the attention on the role of ICT and digital technologies. He also studies the characteristics of Web 2.0 and social media and their impact on health organizations, companies and citizens' behaviors. He is author and editor of several books and his works have appeared in national and international journals.

For more information, contact communication professor Eric Jenkins (eric.jenkins@uc.edu).