Ever wonder what it’s like to be a female CEO? To start a business from scratch, raise money from investors (as in, raise Venture Capital in Silicon Valley during the dot com boom when CEOs and investors were predominantly male!) Women on Top will focus on how women can navigate and succeed in male-dominated business… Read More
I am an emerging media aficionado who is always looking for opportunities to be a part of pioneers in new developments and ideas of emerging media, among which I feel proud to be the first members of BU’s Emerging Media Studies program. Upon graduation, I worked as a freelance web developer and worked on multiple… Read More
Assistant Professor, Emerging Media How did you become involved in the emerging media field? Broadly speaking, I began working professionally with communication technology as a mechanic, where monitoring performance and diagnosing problems were becoming increasingly digitized. From there, I continued my training and earned a Bachelor’s degree in technology education while pursuing journalism as an… Read More
Streaming technology lets us access our favorite shows without television. So why are TV execs so excited about it? It was 2013, but Chuck Saftler’s head was in 2020. If he didn’t get creative, the FX exec realized, the deal he was about to cut could prove a bust. He was not about to buy… Read More
Assistant Professor, Division of Emerging Media Studies How did you become involved in the emerging media field? I’ve been doing research for several years. I graduated in 2014 with a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin and my main area is in media effects—basically how traditional media influences public. When I was doing… Read More
Feld Professor of Emerging Media; Director, Division of Emerging Media Studies; Executive Director, Center for Mobile Communication Studies How did you become involved in the emerging media field? I have had a lifelong interest in interpersonal communication technology, starting with the rotary dial telephone in the days before there was such a thing as a… Read More