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Franklin University Switzerland offers an education that goes beyond boundaries. It is a school where nationalities and cultural perspectives meet and create unique experiences. It is a learning method that incorporates travel and interdisciplinary study into the core of the curriculum.

About Franklin

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Franklin University Switzerland students come from all over the planet to have an immersive, international learning experience. Choose the kind of education that will open your mind, widen your perspective and give you the tools to excel in your career path.

Admission to Franklin

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Whether you seek a bachelor’s or a master’s degree, at Franklin you gain a new perspective and a better understanding of other cultures. Recent events, from 9/11 to the Syrian crisis to Brexit, make international education programs more essential than ever. Franklin has emphasized thinking internationally since it was founded nearly 50 years ago. Our international study programs provide cross-cultural perspectives and affect the direction and meaning of your university experience, life and career.

Academics at Franklin

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Studying is at the forefront of attending Franklin, but student life including the variety of activities, events, trips, and programs enrich the entire experience. As a citizen of the Franklin community, you become a member of an international culture that has its own traditions, events and characteristics, but that has no borders and no limits.

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Franklin students, faculty and staff are active and involved in many academic and social initiatives. Our calendar is full of events organized by faculty and students for learning and interaction that go beyond the classroom environment. Take a few minutes to read our stories and find out how our students and faculty are succeeding in their endeavors all over the world.

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Franklin offers a wide range of services for students, faculty, staff and friends to support life, work and learning on campus. Making use of these assets can help to achieve success both in and out of the classroom.

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Communication and Media Studies

Welcome to the Department of Communication and Media Studies.

Faculty

  • Satomi Sugiyama

  • Alison Vogelaar

  • Nello Barile

  • Antonio Bova

Research and Initiatives

Professors Gabriel Gee and Alison Vogelaar Publish New Book

Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Communication, Gabriel Gee, and Associate Professor of Communication and Media Studies, Alison Vogelaar, have co-edited a new publication entitled “Changing representations of nature and city: the 1960s – 1970s and their legacies”, in Routledge Advanced Series in Art History, 2018.

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Publication Highlights

Sugiyama, S. (2015). Kawaii meiru and Maroyaka neko: Mobile emoji for relationship maintenance and aesthetic expressions among Japanese teens. First Monday, 20 (10), DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5210/fm.v20i10.5826 http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/5826

Vogelaar, A. (2015) Staging Revolution: The OWS Encampment at Zuccotti Park. Media Fields, 9. http://www.mediafieldsjournal.org/staging-revolution/

Barile, N. (2015). Branding the self in the age of emotional capitalism: The exploitation of prosumers, from the rhetoric of “double bind” to the hegemony of confession. LOGOS, 25.

Barile, N., & Sugiyama, S. (2015). The automation of taste: A theoretical exploration of mobile ICTs and social robots in the context of music consumption. International Journal of Social Robotics, 7(3), 407-416. DOI: 10.1007/s12369-015-0283-1

Bova, A. (2015). Promoting learning and development of students through argumentative interactions in the classroom. A study of the teacher’s questions in the learning contexts of higher education. Teaching Innovations, 28(3), 130-144. doi: 10.5937/inovacije1503130B

Majors and Minors

Communication and Media Studies

The Communication and Media Studies Program at Franklin focuses upon four key threads in communication and media studies:

  1. Media forms, practices, technologies and industries
  2. Empirical and critical media and communication research (with an emphasis on emerging and social media)
  3. Media uses and effects (individual, relational, cultural, and social)
  4. The relationship between media and global processes.

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Minors