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JL MC 4600: Law of Mass Communication

Spring 2025

Course Information

JLMC 4600 covers First Amendment law, libel, privacy, obscenity, contempt, copyright, trademark, the Federal Communications Act; laws affecting advertising, legal publication, and other business activities of the media.

Section 1

Section 2

Professor: Jan Boyles

Professor: Gary Sawyer

Email: jboyles@iastate.edu

Email: gwsawyer@iastate.edu

Phone: 515-294-0484

Phone: 515-294-1260

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Library Workshops - Spring 2025

See The Library Events Calendar For a More Up-To-Date List.

January 29: Wed, 12:00pm -1:00pm Introduction to Citation Management Tools (Online)
January 30: Thu, 3:40pm-4:55pm Market Research 101 (In Person)
February 6: Thu, 3:00pm-4:30pm Grad Students: Everything You Need to Know About The Library But Were Afraid to Ask (In Person)
February 7: Fri, 2:30pm-4:00pm Grad Students: Everything You Need to Know About The Library But Were Afraid to Ask (In Person)
February 12: Wed, 11:00am-11:50am Data Viz 101: Effective Design (In Person)
February 13: Thu, 11:00am-12:15pm Data Viz Glow Up: Pick a Chart Type (In Person)
*February 14: Fri, 1:00pm-2:00pm Love Data Week Celebration (In Person - Not a Workshop)
February 18: Tue, 1:00pm-2:30pm Making LaTex PDFs Accessible in Adobe Acrobat PC Pro (In Person)
February 18: Tue, 2:10pm-3:25pm Introduction to ArcGIS StoryMaps (in Person)
February 19: Wed, 1:00pm-3:00pm Unix Command Line Fundamentals (In Person)
February 24: Mon, 1:00pm-5:00pm Part 1 of 2: Fundamentals of Accelerated Computing With CUDA C/C++ (In Person)
February 25: Tue, 2:10pm-3:25pm Starting a Digital Humanities Project (In Person)
February 26: Wed, 1:30pm-3:00pm Git Basics For Absolute Beginners (in Person)
February 27: Thu, 12:00pm-1:30pm Unpacking (Cy)Box For Better File Management (Online)
March 3: Mon, 1:00pm-5:00pm Part 2 of 2: Fundamentals of Accelerated Computing With CUDA C/C++ (In Person)
March 4: Tue, 2:10pm-3:25pm Teaching With Twine (In Person)
March 5: Wed, 1:30pm-3:00pm Unix and Git Basics Follow up (In Person)
March 13: Thu, 2:10pm-3:25pm Getting Started With LaTex and Overleaf (In Person)
March 27: Thu, 11:00am-11:50am Introduction to DataShare and the ISU Digital Repository (Online)
April 7: Mon, 1:00pm-5:00pm Part 1 of 2: Generative AI With Diffusion Models (In Person)
April 14: Mon, 1:00pm-5:00pm Part 1 of 2: Generative AI With Diffusion Models (In Person)

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