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molly kalan
Media studies student & oxford comma enthusiast.
I love coffee, adventures, typography, & to-do lists.
molly.kalan@gmail.com
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- Summary
I am currently working on my thesis, which investigates how concepts of online identity and community change or mediate grieving and memorialization processes on social media sites. I am also collaborating on several research projects ranging from smartphone use and functionality to the "coming out" narratives of public figures in online media.
My research interests also include media convergence and fragmentation, social TV & multimedia interactivity, online memorialization, and consumption of heteronormative representations and images.
While I am interested in further research opportunities, I am also pursuing a career in which I will apply my background in media analysis, criticism, and production on multiple media platforms.
Experience- May 2012 - PresentGraduate Production Assistant / Syracuse University - Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion
Shoot and edit videos for the Lerner Center's Healthy Monday campaign. Videos vary from informative and interview style to creative and script-base, and will be part of the ongoing Meatless Monday and Healthy Monday efforts at Syracuse University.
Videos are conceptualized by the Lerner Center team during pre-production. I assist in this conceptualization during video production shoots and post-production editing.
- Aug 2011 - May 2013Instructional Associate / Syracuse University
I assist in the classroom in an undergraduate multimedia production course (COM117 - Multimedia Production). I also instruct students in lab sections, in which I teach production skills and how to use FinalCut (X and Express), Photoshop (CS5&6), Keynote, and Wordpress.
- Jul 2012 - Sept 2012Communication Strategy Leader / Y INTERACT
Contribute to various campaigns and projects, including conceptualization and design using HTML, Photoshop, and other multimedia programs. Coordinate with clients, and assist in day-to-day operations. Also responsible for website testing and copy editing. Organization and project management skills utilized.
- Aug 2008 - May 2011Office Assistant / Center for Peace and Justice Education at Villanova University
Provide aid for faculty and staff on a daily basis. Set-up, organize, and participate in events held by the center. This includes photographing lectures and other events, and coordinating with other organizations or departments. Other responsibilities include creation of flyers and graphics, Microsoft Excel spreadsheet use, and working to send out the Journal of Peace and Justice Studies (editing, mailing, etc.) Additionally, I act as a member of the CPJE Director Search Committee.
- Jun 2010 - Aug 2010Interactive Media Intern / Redlasso
Watch and review news broadcasts for relevant content. Format raw media content into video clips. Update social networking sites Twitter and Facebook. Compile and edit contact lists of interactive media websites.
- May 2010 - Aug 2010Radio Broadcasting Instructor / Julian Krinsky Camps and Programs
Adapt radio broadcasting and production course for campers ages 13-18. Instruct campers in basic radio broadcasting and production techniques over a 3-week course. Organize and supervise field trips to other radio stations off-site.
Education-
2011 - 2013Syracuse UniversityMA in Media Studies
Activities: Instructional Associate for freshman course - Multimedia Storytelling, Newhouse Student Representative on Awards Committee and Graduate Program Committee. -
2007 - 2011Villanova UniversityBA in Communication: Media Studies and Media Production
Activities: 89.1FM WXVU Villanova Radio, Led Villanova University Mission Trip to El Salvador (Fall 2010), Pi Beta Phi Fraternity for Women, Villanova Communication Summer Program in Greece (Summer 2009)
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Honors:Deans List, Villanova University, 2007-2011 Corinne Hammond Gray Fellowship Recipient, 2011-2012 Student Leadership Award, Villanova University, 2011 Pi Beta Phi Friendship Fund Scholarship Recipient, 2010-2011
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Interests:New media, online identity, reality TV, multimedia marketing, graphic design, typography, visual communication.
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Tweets
- can't stop drinking iced dirty chai. send help plz. #sosMay 22, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- i love that @whiteboardis uses @chatype, but i'm even more impressed by their attitude toward brand identity. you guys are refreshing!May 22, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- (i know movies shouldn't be in quotation marks, but it looked so strange without them.)May 20, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- even more excited to see "frances ha" now that i've seen this fantastic website: http://t.co/SkkLSQDEvxMay 20, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- May 19, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- RT @AlexMLeo: I effing love the Baby Bachelor http://t.co/5DZ5COlLgfMay 17, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- @freemusicarchiv is pretty great, but finding good, free, instrumental music is still maybe the hardest part of editing for me.May 17, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- going to college means that sometimes you forget what little kids are like, until they run into your coffee shop & startle you.May 15, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- RT @pkafka: Netflix + Arrested Development = Really Entertaining Viral Marketing, courtesy @brigademrktng http://t.co/96itAWgMFVMay 15, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- counting down the days (slash overanalyzing) with @vulture... can hardly wait for @arresteddev http://t.co/DQ0SCimshHMay 14, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- May 13, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Congrats to you guys too @jwon0919 @SaraZhuqingChen! And the rest of my fellow media studies grads!
- Hmm who is aly nagle... That was supposed to say @NewhouseSU. Congrats fellow grads! @camila_espina @imondonawa @aliciavwright @DanAmernick
- Convocation celebration wooo @alynagle @ Carrier Dome http://t.co/Jqhs1DOWKZ
- Parents are visiting for graduation and craziness ensues. http://t.co/rIkTJVDcZ0
- Having one of those moments when I love my research and am so excited for how this paper is shaping up. Can I plz feel like this forever?
- Today I'm feeling like I never want to leave Syracuse.
- Writing up some research results slash listening to neighborhood gossip. http://t.co/RZFoliT4mF
- easily distracted from real work by website design. story of my life.May 04, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- it's that time of year when i can't tell if my headache is from too much or too little caffeine.May 03, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
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Posts
#lastprintissue of Newsweek from December 31st, 2012.
I finally got around to reading this issue and it made me think a lot about journalism practices and the digitization of print media. I used to be sad that this day would come, since I’m generally nostalgic and hate change, but the attitude of the Newsweek team - although reflective and somber - made me excited for the future of journalism and news coverage in this country.
A plan is in the works to bring NBC’s “Tonight” show back to New York.
While the network has yet to complete a deal, it has made a commitment to Jimmy Fallon, the current host of its “Late Night” program, to have him succeed Jay Leno as the next host of “Tonight,’’ according to several senior television executives involved in the decision. The show would move from Burbank, Calif., back to New York, where it first started in 1954 with Steve Allen as host.
Some details remain to be worked out, including an exact timetable for the switch, though it is expected to take place by the fall of 2014 at the latest, the executives said in interviews this week.
NBC has quietly begun work on a new studio in its headquarters building at 30 Rockefeller Plaza as the home for the new “Tonight” show. The studio is part of a general reconstruction of the building being undertaken by Comcast, which this week completed a full takeover of NBC Universal.
An NBC spokeswoman declined to comment on the move, other than to say the network was building a new state-of-the-art studio for Mr. Fallon.
The New York Times, “Tonight Show Expected to Return to New York, with Fallon.”
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(via inothernews)
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isn’t it weird when a text message to a friend feels intimate? or that you’re being too direct? like rather than post something on their facebook or instagram or instaface or whatever you decided to speak personally & directly to them… via text, that is.
it makes me sort of sad - for that friendship, but also in general i suppose. sometimes i think that studying media & communication doesn’t make me any more aware of how it affects me until moments like these.
The victim-blaming, slut-shaming reactions to the Steubenville rape case keep pouring in. You can check out my first post on it here. Pointing out the worst responses and reactions to this all would not be complete without posting a clip of CNN grieving over the “ruined lives of the boys.” Watch…
Twitter reactions to the Steubenville rape case are difficult to read at times, but they also make me consider attitudes toward rape in our culture in a new way. Do the Twitter reactions accurately reflect these attitudes, or just those of a specific group of people? Is there something that unites those who are willing to share these really negative - and sexist, victim-blaming, slut-shaming, etc. - opinions on Twitter? And what is that something?
The reaction online to verdicts like the one in the Steubenville case seem to illuminate an important undercurrent of dialogue in America that reflects an important, if minority (but is it? I can’t tell) opinion about rape. And I think making these tweets public by reblogging screenshots is a really effective way to (hopefully) lead to more constructive public conversation.
Our lives, relationships, memories, fantasies, desires also flow across media channels… Sometimes we tuck our kids into bed at night and other times we Instant Message them from the other side of the globe.
Henry Jenkins, “Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide.” (via midatlantic)
I’ve been mostly silent on the whole Lena Dunham issue all year due to constant back-and-forth waffling on forming an opinion, but here is my ultimate conclusion.
Despite the aching honesty and frequent hilarity of Girls, at times it’s a bit difficult for me to watch because of the dueling…
I really love Girls, and one of the reasons is the fact that criticism leads to criticism of that criticism: http://www.collegehumor.com/article/6874239/if-people-talked-about-seinfeld-like-they-talk-about-girls
The Internet becomes a metamedium that incorporates the postal system, television, computer programming, the telephone, newspapers, magazines, bulletin boards, advertising, banking, and gossip.
- W.J.T. Mitchell, in “Image” (part of this collection)We’re using tech to soften the impact that death has and dehumanize it. It allows us to think about death in a more logical way and detach ourselves from it.
James Norris, founder of DeadSocial as quoted in this piece on using social media even in death, via CNNThe Life Magazine, April 1949, categorized the new U.S. social structure in the growing and modernizing post-war years. The high-brow, low-brow and middle-brow types were categorized in the chart above, according to ideas of Harper’s Magazine editor Russell Lynes.
If you look at the rather cruel chart, the new modernist achievements (Eames chairs, laboratory glass decanter, industrial-use ashtray, modern dance, French salad dressing, literature magazines, Calder sculpture etc.) were topping the taste hierarchy. Beer, musical theatre and mail-order furniture were located at the lower end.
Did Lynes’ work somehow create the future division of what is considered a civilized taste and of high-culture. In 1949, the Eames Lounge Chair Wood (LCW) had only been in production for couple of years, and already it was considered an it item?
While the modernist elitism is not a new observation, it’s somehow surprising to me that the class differentiation was actually made this obvious. I mean, sure, class divisions have been connected to different “aesthetic cultural spheres” since forever, but because of modernist designers’ ethos of creating a new world, this has always seemed to me a more later development of things, coming from art historic appreciation for vintage design, and its resale and niche value. And, remembering an earlier post about Karl Lagerfeld’s note on Alvar Aalto’s Maison Louis Carré, I’ve always more thought about the irony of the original modernism-consuming wealthy elite being somehow oblivious to their actual elitism, still a product of the same principle of bringing new development to all as mass-housing, for instance.
Is it only when we “hipsterize” the whole setting into something ironical, we can become the beer-loving-ballet-hugging-miniature golf enthusiast?
I’d like to see this chart updated. I feel like I identify with more than one of these lifestyles and that makes me wonder what has changed culturally - are we more likely to cross cultural boundaries of high/low brow, or are there still stringent rules concerning cultural class and we’ve just changed what high versus low brow means?
Does anyone use Scribd? It seems awesome and makes me wish I had a Kindle or something, if only to read books on digital media (HOW META). Here is a limited version of what you can get for free (!!) if you sign up for a trial of the service.
Isn’t it weird to think that digital media is the reason that I found this book? And that I can read it? And that the platform on which I read the book will totally inform my interpretation of Campanelli’s words and may even result in a different reading that intended?
So many mediated & meta things to consider!
Web Aesthetics How Digital Media Affect Culture and Society by Vito Campanelli
Check it out!
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iiii meant to blog this on my other tumblr… too many media platforms jeez.
You’re welcome.
You Have to Watch Leonardo DiCaprio’s Japanese Jim Beam Commercial
how lost-in-translation…
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