This is to inform you of changes to the programme for the MA in Communication and New Media. Please carefully read the following description of these changes. The new curriculum will be implemented the Fall semester of 2013.

Changes to the programme were made in response to comments from Faculty and students who desired greater flexibility. The new programme responds by reducing the number of compulsory courses and offering more thesis options. It also spreads the time required to complete course work from 2 semesters to 3. We believe this will help you make a better transition from undergraduate to graduate studies, comprehend the knowledge and skills taught in each course, and be better prepared to complete the programme.

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A research team led by Prof Chen Huailin and Prof Wu Mei which includes Dr Li Xiaoqin and a dozen master’s and PhD students from the Department of Communication, has successfully completed the consultancy project “Guangzhou Daily 2012 Survey and Research Project” and earned unanimous praise from the middle and top management of the Guangzhou Daily Group, the mainland’s top three print media by circulation and No. 1 by advertising sales. For more information, please visit the page here.

Dear Year 2, 3 & 4 students of the COM11 major :

Please fill the Stream Specialization Declaration Form and return it to FSH Communication Department Office (PLG101) on or before 10:00 am of this Wednesday (6 March).

For more information about the stream courses, please visit here for more information.

Should there be any queries, please contact Dr. Agnes Lam, Programme Coordinator at Tel. 8397 8983 or Jenny of the Communication Department Office at Tel. 8397 8978.

Students of Journalism and Public Communication (JPC), led by Senior Instructor of DCOM, Mr. Hugo Lok Chun Kwan, joined the competition "2011-2012年大學新聞系學報比賽 (Campus Newspapers Competition in Journalism for 2011-12 )" organized by the China Daily Hong Kong Edition in May 2012 and won two Merit Prizes in the category of the 'Best in News Page Design (Chinese)'.

Recipients of the Outstanding Achievement Awards for Macao Research in Humanities and Social Sciences, co-organised by the Macao Foundation, Guangdong Social Sciences Association, and the Social Sciences in China Press, have been announced. Of the 395 submissions from mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan (96 monographs, 299 papers), 28 awards were awarded in the monograph category and 28 in the paper category. Prof. Wu Mei and former student Anni Lam Leong Iok's paper, "Globalizing Macao: News Frame and English Language Press in Macao received a Mention award in the paper category. The award-winning papers have been published in the Journal of Macau Studies, a publication of UM’s Centre for Macau Studies. For more information, please visit the page here.

The 2012 China New Media Communication Association Annual Conference, Macao International Conference (2012 CNMCA Macao), jointly organised by University of Macau’s (UM) Department of Communication, the China New Media Communication Association (CNMCA) and the Macau Association for Internet Research (MAIR) ended with success on Saturday 8 December 2012. For more information, please visit the page here.

The opening ceremony of the conference will be broadcast at 9:30 a.m. on 7th December, 2012. You could enjoy the live broadcast through the following link: mms://eod.umac.mo/live

The 2012 Fall Communication Festival (COMMFEST) will be held from November 23rd to the 28th. COMMFEST integrates work from both year 3 and year 4 students majoring in English Communication.

Prof. Roger Palmer from the UK will give a fantastic lecture about (mis)communication in contemporary art practice on the 16th of November, 2012. Prof. Palmer is an UK based artist who works with photography, sometimes augmented with projects in other media. He divides his time between his home and studio in Glasgow and Leeds where holds the Chair of Fine Art at the University of Leeds. He is currently visiting the University of Macau for three months as a Research Fellow in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities.

All are welcome and for more information, please visit our lecture poster here

The Department of Communication invites applications for the positions of Distinguished or Full Professor of Communication Studies and Full or Associate Professor in Public Communication from candidates with expertise in communication studies. We are especially interested in candidates with leading international reputations for their research and whose academic expertise is relevant to the concerns of Macau, the Greater China region and/or Southeast Asia.

For more information about the positions, please visit the dedicated page for job vacancies here .

    In accord to the instruction announced by the Chief Executive (Dispatch no. 269/2012 http://bo.io.gov.mo/bo/i/2012/39/despce.asp#269) on 25 September 2012, staff members are granted exemption from work on 3 October 2012. Therefore all classes will be suspended on the said day. All tests or examinations scheduled on that day will be postponed and related arrangement will be announced later.

In July, Tim Simpson delivered an invited keynote address at the Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture, a graduate program offered by the Catholic University of Lisbon and the Lisbon Consortium. While in Lisbon, Prof. Simpson and Prof. Isabel Gil, Dean of Human Sciences at Catholic University, also signed an exchange agreement between the UM Department of Communication and the Lisbon Consortium which will allow for student exchanges in the areas of Creative and Cultural Industries.

In May, Tim Simpson delivered an invited lecture at a meeting of the Hispanic Baroque Project, held at the Universidade Federal Sao Paulo, in Brazil. The Hispanic Baroque Project is funded by a Major Collaborative Research Initiatives Grant financed by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. The title of his lecture was “State and Non-State Absolutism in Macau: From Baroque Colonial Empire to Neo-Baroque Empire of Capital.”

Prof. Tan See Kam was recently elected to be Chairman of the Asian Cinema Studies Society (ACSS). His election took place at the 10th ACSS international conference held at Hong Kong University, in March 2012. He is also the new Editor of the Asian Cinema journal, published by Intellect Press, an internationally renowned journal based in the United Kingdom.

The Asian Cinema Studies Society (ACSS), started in 1984, held its most recent conference in Hong Kong. A total of six professors and students from the Department of Communication presented their work to an international audience. A short video Sanity, made by 3rd year English Communication students, was also selected for screening and discussion at this conference. More details on the conference can be found at the conference website.