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April 18th, 2024

CCT is excited to feature Professor Matthew Tinkcom in our latest professor highlight! Tinkcom earned his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh, his M.A. from the University of Texas at…

March 18th, 2024

CCT is excited to share that professor Mohamed Zayani published a new book titled The Digital Double Bind, focused on technology, development, and social change in the digital era. Published by…

March 5th, 2024

CCT is excited to feature alum Josh Scacco (CCT ’10) in today’s alumni highlight! He was appointed founding director of the Center for Sustainable Democracy at University of South Florida late…

February 26th, 2024

CCT is excited to feature adjunct Professor and CCT alum Mary Madden (CCT ’02) in today’s professor highlight! Madden majored in English and Cultural Studies with a French minor at the…

December 20th, 2023

CCT is excited to highlight Ryan Powers (CCT ‘23), who is part of the second cohort of the U.S. Digital Corps as a Fellow at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). In this role, Ryan helps…

December 13th, 2023

CCT is excited to feature adjunct Professor Owen Agho in our latest professor highlight! Agho was an undergraduate Political Science major at the University of Michigan-Flint. After…

November 21st, 2023

In honor of Entrepreneur’s Day today, CCT is excited to feature alum Ken Williams (CCT ‘16), the new Georgetown University Entrepreneur in Residence, adjunct CCT professor, and Co-Founder…

November 17th, 2023

CCT is excited to focus on Professor Michael Koliska in our latest CCT professor highlight! Koliska received his first masters degree in Sociology and English with a focus on Cultural Studies…

November 9th, 2023

CCT is excited to feature Professor Diana Owen in our latest CCT professor highlight! Owen went to undergrad at George Washington University, majoring in Political Science with a goal to go…

November 3rd, 2023

The CCT Program is excited to feature CCT students James Doyle (CCT ’24), Archit Mehta (CCT ’25), and Ava Schafbuch (CCT ’25), who secured all three spots in the fall 2023 McCourt Tech &…

October 26th, 2023

CCT is excited to highlight Karen Kranack, who is both an alum that was a member of CCT’s first graduating class, and is an adjunct professor, who started teaching in August 2023. Kranack…

October 5th, 2023

CCT is excited to feature Professor Mark McDonald in our latest CCT professor highlight! McDonald has a background in economics and journalism, as he graduated from Liverpool University with…

September 29th, 2023

The annual Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Conference was held in August and CCT is excited to spotlight our students who have participated in recent years.…

September 21st, 2023

Today CCT is featuring Visiting Researcher José Manuel Noguera-Vivo. José Manuel is an Associate Professor of Journalism and Head of Research for the Faculty of Communication at Catholic…

September 13th, 2023

CCT is excited to highlight Professor Evan Barba in honor of Programmer’s Day!  Professor Barba has a diverse background that covers many fields. He originally started out attending…

September 5th, 2023

CCT is excited to highlight Professor Michael Macovski, who has been with the program for 17 years! Professor Macovski attended UC Berkeley as an undergrad and studied in England under the…

August 31st, 2023

We are one week into classes and wanted to look back at last week’s new student orientation to share more about how incoming CCTers were welcomed into the program! Orientation started…

August 1st, 2023

CCT is excited to highlight Professor Leticia Bode and congratulate her on the recent announcement of her Full Professorship position at Georgetown University. Professor Bode has been at CCT…

July 27th, 2023

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July 24th, 2023

CCT Congratulates alum Shavini Fernando (CCT ’18) on winning first place at the 2023 GEA Pitch Competition! In honor of winning this prestigious award, Shavini shared more about her…

July 19th, 2023

Today CCT is excited to highlight Professor William Vogt’s professional background, academic research, and interests! Professor Vogt is the recently published author of “Foundations of…

July 17th, 2023

CCT is excited to feature students Mac Milin Kiran, Dhriti Gupta and Zach Ferry along with CCT Professor Leticia Bode, who were part of the first Ideathon organized by the Georgetown Technology…

July 11th, 2023

CCT is excited to feature alum Bill Kirst (CCT ’04) in our latest alumni highlight! Although it has been nearly two decades since he graduated from the CCT program, Bill spoke highly of his…

July 5th, 2023

CCT is excited to feature our new program director, Dr. Jeanine Turner, who will assume the Directorship Position on July 1, 2023. Dr. Turner has been a professor with the CCT Program since 2006…

July 3rd, 2023

CCT Students: Are you familiar with the IBD Certification Program? The Landegger Program in International Business Diplomacy (IBD) is an honors certificate program that offers students the…

June 20th, 2023

Today CCT is excited to highlight Professor Jeanine Turner’s work and interests! Professor Turner has taught at CCT since 2006 and her research explores the impact of communication…

June 12th, 2023

Are you an avid podcast listener? Today, we are featuring two podcasts hosted by CCT students that offer unique insights into important topics. “Minority Report with Salomón Flamenco” focuses on…

May 9th, 2023

CCT is proud to highlight second-year student Andrew Edghill, who won the Viewers Choice Award at the Georgetown University Library Showcase competition earlier this year for his short…

May 2nd, 2023

CCT wants to extend our most sincere thanks and gratitude to Dr. Matthew Tinkcom, who recently announced he will be stepping down from his role as Director of the CCT Program on June 30, and…

April 28th, 2023

In honor of the GNOVIS Journal Vol. 23 being released today, we wanted to highlight the Gnovis Team and get more insight into the process of creating a peer reviewed journal. Here they share…

April 25th, 2023

Janhvi Bhojwani holding her Emmy Award. CCT is excited to highlight alum Janhvi Bhojwani (CCT ’19) and congratulate her for winning an Outstanding Live Breaking News Coverage Emmy Award earlier…

April 17th, 2023

CCT is excited to highlight Class of 2020 alum Matt Lindia in honor of his recently published article “Following Orders: A History of Amharic Typing” in the John Hopkins…

April 12th, 2023

Congratulations to second year CCT student Victoria Mangio, who is among the 54 Georgetown students selected for U.S. Presidential Management Fellows Program!Out of 10,000 applications, only 850…

April 5th, 2023

CCT is proud to highlight Professor J.R. Osborn’s current fellowship with the Centre for Manuscript Studies (CSMC) at Universität Hamburg and how it ties into his 2017…

March 28th, 2023

Erika Heeren-Moon CCT is proud to highlight that second-year student Erika Heeren-Moon recently had a paper published in Telecommunications Policy. Her article, “Risk, reputation and…

February 27th, 2023

Last month, Georgetown Communication, Culture & Technology Professor Diana Owen received a new grant from the U.S. Department of Education for $11.65 million in conjunction with her…

August 4th, 2022

The Communication, Culture & Technology Program welcomes new faculty member, Laura DeNardis.…

April 27th, 2022

Second-year CCT student Victoria Gomes-Boronat received a prize of $1,000 at the Georgetown Entrepreneurship Challenge finals held in April 2022.…

April 14th, 2022

First year CCT student Xinglan (Steven) Shi took part in the Climate Innovation Ideathon held on April 9-10, 2022, where he and his team won second place.…

April 13th, 2022

Four CCT students presented a paper, coauthored with CCT Professor Diana Owen, at the 79th Annual Midwest Political Science Association Conference in April 2022. …

February 28th, 2022

CCT Faculty member Evan Barba and his co-investigators have been awarded the National Science Foundation’s Sustainable Regional Systems Planning Grant.…

February 22nd, 2022

In December 2021, CCT Professor Denise Bedford was nominated to join the International Association for Knowledge Management.…

May 19th, 2021

In May 2021, CCT student Heba Khashogji shared her newfound perspective in an article published in Arab News.…

May 14th, 2021

Kristi Pelzel (CCT 2020) adds White House Correspondent to her role at Today News Africa alongside her United Nations and State Department press credentials.…

May 12th, 2021

Adjunct faculty member, Prof. Leslie Harris, has been named acting President of the International Digital Accountability Council. …

May 11th, 2021

Zungui Lu and Chuqing (Seven) Wu found their true passion in UX design/research during their first couple of months at CCT and proved their professional capabilities by bringing a more elegant, accessible, and user-friendly online registration system to the Georgetown community.…

May 6th, 2021

Josh Scacco (’10) In March of 2021, former CCT student Josh Scacco co-authored his first book titled “The Ubiquitous Presidency: Presidential Communication and Digital Democracy in Tumultuous…

April 23rd, 2021

Expanding on their research from CCT Director Dr. Matthew Tinkcom’s Global Science Fiction Film class in Spring 2020, Reed Piernock will present at the upcoming Popular Culture Association 2021 National Conference.…

April 19th, 2021

This semester, CCT students Fan Wang (‘21) and Shana Inofuentes (‘21) received GradGov Research Project Awards (GRPA) to help support their research and professional development. …

April 9th, 2021

In her work, Shana Inofuentes grafts physical community into digital space and helps shape attitudes and behaviors to right injustice, strategies she intends to apply to other social impact campaigns in the future.…

March 22nd, 2021

Christine Feldman-Barrett’s (CCT ’03) academic and professional journeys have taken her on a number of thrilling adventures in various industries and corners of the world.…

February 4th, 2021

Whitney Maddox (CCT 2019) has been selected to serve as NPR’s first Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Manager and assumed her inaugural role early February.…

December 2nd, 2020

One of the greatest perks of being in the CCT Program is the opportunity for curious and engaged students to collaborate with professors who are experts in their respective fields. This year, Prof. Jeanine Turner has teamed up with several CCT students to conduct research, co-author, and present papers at the Annual National Communication Association Conference. …

November 6th, 2020

Second-year CCT student, Fan Wang, receives Conference Travel Grant from the Graduate School to support presentation at the National Communication Association’s 106th Annual Conference. …

November 4th, 2020

Second year CCT student, Nick Genovese, wins first place in Georgetown Entrepreneurship’s Rocket Pitch Competition…

November 3rd, 2020

Adjunct professor Irene Wu sat on a panel with university colleagues to discuss the newly published book Cultural Values in Political Economy to which she contributed. The panel was sponsored by the Asia Program of the Wilson Center for International Scholars which promotes intellectual discourse on the topic of political, economic, and social climates of the Asia-Pacific region as well as American interest in this economically dynamic region. …

October 12th, 2020

Leveraging the current political climate, CCT professor, Diana Owen, and other Georgetown colleagues held a panel discussion on the book How We Vote: Innovation in American Elections, published by their peers from Auburn University.…

October 9th, 2020

In September, one of our very own CCTers had the incredible opportunity to host an exclusive interview with Tijjani Muhammad Bande, President of the 74th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). The interview was conducted at the Nigerian Consulate in New York City and broadcasted by KAFTAN TV Nigeria.…

September 24th, 2020

Last month, Professor Mark MacCarthy published a report on facial recognition software for The Brookings Institution’s Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technology (AIET) Initiative as part of their AI Governance series.…

August 14th, 2020

CCT alum Gregory Perreault (’10), who is currently is a multimedia journalism professor at Appalachian State University, has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award to Austria. Perreault…

May 12th, 2020

CCT student wins honorable mention in Ora Mary Pelham Poetry Prize…

April 19th, 2020

Dr. Jeanine Turner has published an article for Fast Company’s Secrets of the Most Productive People series.…

April 19th, 2020

Dr. Leticia Bode consults with the World Health Organization on Correcting Misinformation on Social Media During the COVID-19 Outbreak …

April 15th, 2020

Second-year students Brittany Panetta, Yamel Sarquis and Kristi Pelzel win top prize at the McCourt competition.…

February 10th, 2020

Team “Adiona,” was awarded third place at the Global Social Innovation Lab for their solution targeting transient refugees with need for weather durability of their living conditions. The team created a durable material to help extend the life of tents and that can also double as a poncho. This team included two CCT students Evelyn Dan Epelle and Andreas Beissel, along with fellow Georgetown Students Tessa Bloechl and Kane Wagner.…

January 28th, 2020

Second year CCT student, Evelyn Dan Epelle, recently joined the Georgetown Africa Business Conference organizing committee as Director for Media and Communications…

January 24th, 2020

Second year CCT student, Yamel Sarquis, was featured by Georgetown for her unique work helping women and girls in Mexico.…

January 9th, 2020

CCT student, Nicholas Genovese, wrote a medium post about his relationship with technology and why he chose to Georgetown’s CCT program.…

December 11th, 2019

Kristi Pelzel, Yamel Sarquis Elias, and Brittany Panetta’s final project for their CCT class led to a consulting offer from Hyde Closets to implement the communications plan they had pitched.…

November 7th, 2019

Second year CCT student, Yamel Sarquis, shared her personal and professional story at “Catrinas in Potomac” event.…

November 5th, 2019

Second Year CCT student, Kristi Pelzel, is the most recent recipient of the Tillman Foundation Scholarship.…

October 25th, 2019

Dr. Jeanine Turner joined faculty from the McDonough School of Business in teaching modules on management and communication.…

October 18th, 2019

State of Technology in the Global Newsroom Study Released …

October 16th, 2019

Second-year student Kristi Pelzel led a session on stakeholder mapping and discussed trends in social media.…

October 2nd, 2019

CCT student’s art installation and workshop at Digital Humanities Forum…

September 25th, 2019

Second-year student, Kim Duron, worked at a tech-centered non-profit organization focused on strengthening democracies in Latin America.…

September 23rd, 2019

Zak Rogoff (2019) spoke on “Five Free Expression Safeguards from a Facebook User’s Perspective” at the Research Conference on Communications, Information and Internet Policy.…

September 12th, 2019

Professor Diana Owen and Kathryn Hartzell (CCT 2019) presented at the American Political Science Association conference in Washington, D.C.

July 9th, 2019

Dr. Leticia Bode was honored for her outstanding research in communication, digital media, and political participation.

June 11th, 2019

Kristi Pelzel beat thousands of applicants to be selected for a 2019 Pat Tillman Foundation Scholarship.

June 7th, 2019

Lukas Chandler spoke on the influence of Georgetown’s Kennedy Institute of Ethics in the invention of the field of bioethics, as well as his own research in telehealth. 

June 4th, 2019

CCT student Kate Colwell’s play, Guardians, was profiled in a podcast for new works of theater in the D.C. area.

May 21st, 2019

3 CCTers played active roles at the STGlobal Conference in DC.

May 7th, 2019

Dr. Diana Owen and students, Katie Hartzell and Jenny Lee, led a workshop at the Western Political Science Association conference.

April 8th, 2019

Second-year CCTer, Roma Abhyankar, won the People’s Choice Award for her thesis presentation.

March 23rd, 2019

The critically acclaimed Networked Publics and Digital Contention has won another book award, this time from the International Studies Association.

March 17th, 2019

First-year CCTer and gnovis editor-in-chief Kimberly Duron won Staff Pick and a Social Impact Award for her documentary film.

February 13th, 2019

The award was announced during a ceremony at the British Academy. This is the second recognition for Letters of Light this month.…

February 13th, 2019

Second-year student Lukas Chandler will speak at the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics conference in Baltimore in March.…

January 31st, 2019

lewis levenberg (CCT 2010) just published a new book, Research Methods for the Digital Humanities.…

November 30th, 2018

Don Undeen, who teaches Creative Web Development at CCT this semester, received the Georgetown University President’s Excellence Award.…

November 27th, 2018

The Middle East Studies Association praised his book for spanning “topics ranging from Qur’an manuscripts to Unicode across a thousand years of history.”…

November 20th, 2018

CCT Adjunct Professor Amy Zalman delivered an address as part of the NDU President’s Lecture Series on November 7th.…

November 15th, 2018

Highlights included attending the launch of the country’s first Department of Linguistics…

October 29th, 2018

Rachel Plotnick (CCT 2007) Publishes Her First Book…

October 2nd, 2018

William J. Vogt (2016) founds Weilian Poder Global Consulting…

August 27th, 2018

This summer, CCTer Deborah Oliveros joined students from around the world to examine distrust of the media and develop tools to resist this digital epidemic.…

August 20th, 2018

Dr. Osborn’s latest book made the shortlist for the prestigious 2018 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize.…

August 15th, 2018

Dr. Barba spoke on why we need to understand the politics inherent in technology.…

August 13th, 2018

Dr. Ashley Bowen (CCT ’09), Mellon/ACLS Public Fellow, Digital Engagement Manager, and DC Rollergirl.…