“We are just at the beginning of understanding what the digital media curriculum of the future will look like. But we can’t let the constraints of accreditation and untrained faculty slow us down.”
Nieman Foundation at Harvard
Cindy Royal is an associate professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Texas State University and a 2013-14 John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford. She completed Ph.D. studies in journalism and mass communication at the University of Texas in May 2005. At UT, she focused on the effects of the Internet on communication and culture. Her dissertation, entitled Gendered Spaces and Digital Discourse: Framing Women’s Relationship with the Internet, dealt with the ways women’s media and web sites represent women’s usage of the Internet. Prior to doctoral studies, she had a career in marketing at Compaq Computer (now part of Hewlett Packard) in Houston and NCR Corporation in Dayton. She has an MBA from the University of Richmond and a BS in business administration from the University of North Carolina.
