John Cabot University Department of Communications

To our students, to our alumni, to our prospective students:

As a department, we hope to empower students to be, and to encourage scholarship that is, politically aware, ethically proficient, and conscious of injustice.

In this regard, we as faculty of the JCU Communications and Media Studies department, affirm the rights of women to make decisions about their own bodies and lives. We are losing rights, won through social struggles, that appeared to be untouchable and that are now under attack and being questioned. We amplify the voices of, and add our voices to, the fight for sovereignty of women in Iran, in India, in the USA, in Italy, and in every other nation where women are systematically oppressed.

We will continue to work in solidarity with our extended JCU community, for a university space that not only provides a place of safety for all, but that actively seeks to end misogyny and patriarchal domination.

The Department of Communications and Media Studies

We want to let you know about our mini-summer masterclass that features our own Fede Gianni co-teaching with Hollywood director, writer and producer Steve Pink (Grosse Pointe Blank, High Fidelity, Hot Tub Time Machine). This is a really great opportunity for our students to have a production bootcamp experience with lots of hands-on activities to write, direct and produce during a three-week intensive.

This Tuesday.

Open to current students and alumni to attend.

Some course highlights for the Fall 2022 semester.

A really great collection of podcasts came out of the inaugural podcasting course this summer. Feel free to check them out here: https://soundcloud.com/jcucompodca.../sets/dmadjrn-340-sum-1

We are hosting another hybrid event! This time JCU will team up with the Video Vortex network, a network of scholars and artists investigating questions connected to the production, distribution and consumption of online videos and emerging video-sharing platforms (e.g. Tiktok). The Video Vortex network will host its 13th meeting online from Amsterdam and Ankara. JCU will host an on-site event in the Guarini courtyard open to the participation of JCU students and community only. The event will be hosted by Comm-e the robot, together with amazing performers such as Gabriele Marino, Patrick Licthy in dialogue with Geert Lovink, Natalia Stanusch, Aras Ozgun in dialogue with Andreas, and Marco Ferrari.

Please RSVP at [email protected]
The on-site spots at Guarini campus are very limited!!!

We wanted to share with you the impressive work of students from the DMA 328 Promotional Video class.

Students had to produce a 50'' max promo for CINEMAX (a premium cinema channel with a prevalent male target), promoting a STUNT (theme oriented programming strategy) with four female action films (Alien 4 / The Hunger Games / Star wars 7 / Revenge). When creating a stunt, the theme (women kicking ass) is more important than the films. They also had to find a catchy title and write a pitch.

Professor Chloe Barreau supervised the work as a creative director, making them re-do the work many times until it fit for going on-air.

DMA 328 female action stunt promo This is "DMA 328 female action stunt promo" by chloe barreau on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

We are hosting another event for the DDD Lecture series!
Join us tomorrow on Zoom at 6pm CEST
Please RSVP at [email protected]

Some featured COM courses for FL21.

Don't miss out this amazing workshop!
Extended to the whole JCU Community.

Please RSVP at [email protected]
The event will be held on Teams March 19th from 10:30am to 12:30pm CET

Q***r Dada is a live performance of writers from across nations, genders and the intersections that make up the human species. It is a trans-space inhabited by artists reaching out from beyond cultural boundaries, gender binaries and the violence of the anthropocene. In defiance against datafication and the quantification of the self, we celebrate queerness and the fluidity of dada.

March 30th at 6:00PM CET
Please RSVP at [email protected]