Mass Communication

Find out about major and minor requirements, the latest news, scholarships, and student organizations here (Opens a new tab).

A must-read creative and technical resource for live entertainment professionals in lighting, sound, staging, and projection. As the official publication of the LDI Tradeshow and Conference, Live Design provides designers, programmers, and technicians with tips and trends, news and reviews of the latest gear, reports from the field, and industry viewpoint and commentary (Opens a new tab).

An online magazine that taps into the brains of the world’s most insightful writers, thinkers, and storytellers to bring you the smartest takes on topics that matter (Opens a new tab).

Explore the creative work of others and post your own work (Opens a new tab).

The International Center of Photography (ICP) is the world’s leading institution dedicated to photography and visual culture (Opens a new tab).

PRINT focuses on a broad stroke of visual culture today, covering everything from publication design to interactive work, motion graphics, corporate branding, exhibitions, illustration, and socially conscious design (Opens a new tab).

This website and annual competition recognize and celebrate excellent web design. Use as inspiration for your own web design, or use their blog to find more in-depth information (Opens a new tab).

Read the latest findings from the world-class usability design firm on how to best make a visual impact on your website (Opens a new tab).

A web design blog with writers who deliver the best insights on design, user experience, and freelancing, because they’re real designers, working with real clients, bringing real world experience (Opens a new tab).

A digital magazine with articles about web and graphic design, trends, business, mobile, UX, typography, and how to work in the design industry (Opens a new tab).

Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes, and trends shaping the world. They conduct public opinion polling, demographic research, content analysis and other data-driven social science research (Opens a new tab).

OAB is a statewide organization of radio and television stations working to promote, protect, and enhance the Oklahoma broadcast industry (Opens a new tab).

The Oklahoma Broadcast Education Association is an association of broadcast educators and electronic media professionals (Opens a new tab).

The Society of Professional Journalists is dedicated to the perpetuation of a free press as the cornerstone of our nation and our liberty (Opens a new tab).

The Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) is the nation’s largest community of public relations and communications professionals (Opens a new tab).

As a leading organization for marketers, AMA is a go-to resource for marketers and academics (Opens a new tab).

Movies with historical, cultural, and/or educational value chosen to reflect attitudes, perspectives and beliefs of different times. Majority of films are free to download in varying formats (Opens a new tab).

DVIDS makes available real-time broadcast-quality video, still images, and print products as well as immediate interview opportunities with service members, commanders, and subject matter experts (Opens a new tab).

Provides online access to unique and historically important content produced by the public television and radio station WGBH. Open Vault contains video, audio, images, searchable transcripts, and resource management tools available for individual and classroom learning (Opens a new tab).

Consolidates NASA imagery and videos in one searchable location. Users can download content in multiple sizes and resolutions (Opens a new tab).

Millions of artifacts, works of art, specimens, and other open access archival materials held by the Smithsonian Institution (Opens a new tab).

Provides online access to unique and historically important content produced by the public television and radio station WGBH. Open Vault contains video, audio, images, searchable transcripts, and resource management tools available for individual and classroom learning (Opens a new tab).

This is a collection of 1450 sound effects tracks recorded by producer Greg Smith during his 20 year career in the film and television industry. This collection was provided to the American University Library for the benefit of filmmakers and video and audio producers around the world (Opens a new tab).

These 16,000 BBC Sound Effects are made available by the BBC in WAV format to download for use under the terms of the RemArc Licence. The Sound Effects are BBC copyright, but they may be used for personal, educational, or research purposes, as detailed in the license (Opens a new tab).

Great resources for folk and historical music. Downloadable midi files can be easily remixed. Read Contemplator's use guidelines for proper attribution (Opens a new tab).

Audio and MP3 library containing over 2,000,000 free digital recordings ranging from alternative news programming, to Grateful Dead concerts, to Old Time Radio shows, to book and poetry readings, to original music uploaded by users. Many of these files are available for free download (Opens a new tab).

A collection of NASA sounds from historic spaceflights and current missions (Opens a new tab).

This searchable database features all types of recordings made from the late 1800s to early 1900s, including popular songs, vaudeville acts, classical and operatic music, comedic monologues, ethnic and foreign recordings, speeches, and readings (Opens a new tab).