Description: Cindy Royal - online: media design code research
I'm a professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Texas State University teaching digital and data-driven media skills and concepts. I completed Ph.D. studies in Journalism and Mass Communication at The University of Texas at Austin in May 2005. At UT, I focused on the effects of the Internet on communication and culture. My dissertation, entitled "Gendered Spaces and Digital Discourse: Framing Women's Relationship with the Internet," dealt with the ways women's media and Web sites repre
In 2016, I founded the Media Innovation Lab and launched the new undergraduate major in Digital Media Innovation . In 2020, I received Texas State's Presidential Award for Excellence in Service for Senior Faculty . In 2018 and 2019, I received the Everette Swinney Faculty Senate Excellence in Teaching Award at Texas State. In 2013, I was honored to receive the Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching at Texas State University and the AEJMC/Scripps Howard Journalism and Mass Communication Teacher of the
Here are the links to my course sites. Feel free to use the handouts and tutorials: