Master of Communication and Media
My name is Adam Abou-Nasr, and I graduated from Rutgers — New Brunswick in May 2023 with a Master’s in Communication and Media and a specialization in Digital Media. I was driven by the question, “How do we teach culture to each other through media?”
This research culminated in my capstone paper, “The Cultural Dimensions of Publicly Funded Children’s Shows,” in which I applied Geert Hofstede‘s Cultural Dimensions model to popular children’s shows from national broadcasters around the world.
While at Rutgers, I completed the U.S. Department of State’s Critical Language Scholarship Program for Japanese in summer 2021. I also spent the final year of my undergraduate degree at Meiji University in Tokyo on the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship. Through Japan, I studied what we share across cultures and how international media connects people.
I graduated from the University of Nebraska at Omaha in May 2020 with a Bachelor of Science in Journalism and Media Communication with a specialization in Public Relations and Advertising and minors in Marketing and International Studies. I acted as Lead Copy Editor on the 2019 issue of CommUNO, the School of Communication’s alumni magazine, which won an Award of Excellence in the professional category from Nebraska PRSA.
Early in my undergrad, I started at Nintendo World Report, where I learned firsthand how the media processes news and dissected the impact of interactive media on the public. I saw the importance of intention in every step of communication.
Before I enrolled in school, I was the Assistant Manager of Sales at the top RadioShack in Omaha, Nebraska, and twice earned the highest sales of the year in the district. From the ground level, I analyzed tech marketing and the impact of messages on everyday consumers.
Communication is not about messages, it’s about connections. Every entity is nothing more than a collection of stories, and the need to share those stories is the very essence of humanity. We crave to connect, to learn, to belong; the field of Communication is the study of humanity itself.
And I am a Master of Communication.
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