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Please see the announcement below from Noah Arjomand, who is a sociologist and PPFP fellow in MCS (and actually, an Emmy award-winning director (!)) about an open house for his media lab. </div>
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Director, Laboratory for Technology, Communication and Democracy (<a style="margin: 0px;" title="https://tecd-lab.ucr.edu/" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWA9dda15fa-dfa6-5031-ee96-13d6dbd8eb3c" href="https://tecd-lab.ucr.edu/">TeCD-Lab</a>)</div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, October 23, 2025 9:15 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Kevin M Esterling <kevin.esterling@ucr.edu><br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hello Kevin,
<div>I hope you've had a great summer. I wanted to reach out to invite you (and any poli sci and public policy colleagues you think may be interested) to this open house scheduled for next Thursday.</div>
<div>Starting at 2pm, I'll give a tour of the media lab I'm now co-directing and talk about the kinds of collaboration we are hoping to explore with other academic units.</div>
<div>All best,</div>
<div>Noah<br>
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Date: Wed, Oct 22, 2025 at 3:43 PM<br>
Subject: MCS Open House on Thursday October 30th, 12 to 3 PM.<br>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:12pt"><font face="georgia, serif">I am writing to invite you to MCS Open House on Thursday October 30<sup>th</sup> between 12 and 3 PM at INTS 3156.
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:12pt"><font face="georgia, serif">We are keen to explore collaborative opportunities created around our three refurbished and new labs. Our Media Lab has excellent video production and editing
facilities; the Podcast Lab offers opportunities to record original audio and video digital files; and the Virtual Reality Lab with its cutting-edge technologies offers a space to research and explore virtual worlds.
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:12pt"><font face="georgia, serif">We invite you to explore these spaces and share your ideas with us. Food and drinks are on offer, so please do drop by.
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:12pt"><font face="georgia, serif">We are also keen to share how we have realigned our course catalogue to support thematic streams in Media Production, Media Analysis, Political Economy of Media,
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