The Center for Community Media (CCM) is a digital media production, teaching, and research center supported by Governors State University's College of Arts and Sciences.
Designed to serve all corners of GovState, as well as our neighbors in local communities, CCM combines hands-on experience and impactful community conversations to boost media literacy and media production skills, supporting students, faculty, staff, and community members so that they can keep up with today's fast-paced media environment and use media tools to tell their own stories, regardless of their chosen career path.
CCM supports learning across all all phases of community-based digital media production through participation in its core initiatives: Jaguar Student Media, Media Across the Curriculum, and Media Research Institute Fellowship. You can learn more about these initiatives below.
CCM also strengthens the backbone of GovState’s programmatic offerings with robust co-curricular trainings and events focused on storytelling that connects the local experience with state, national, and global issues. Check out our events calendar.
CCM's overall mission: To serve the mission and strategic plan of GovState through uniting people to build trust, foster media literacy, support democratic engagement, increase civic awareness, and amplify all voices in our community.
CCM'S CORE INITIATIVES
Jaguar Student Media
GovState's student-led, student-produced multimodal digital media network. Jaguar Student Media includes: The Phoenix digital news site; GovState News, our award-winning monthly TV news magazine; and Radio Jaguar, a 24/7 streaming radio station. Read, watch, or listen now!
Media Across the Curriculum
Supporting media literacy, digital media production, and community development in classrooms by partnering student media interns with non-media faculty to guide media projects in any discipline. MAC also produces annual First Voice Story Slam, inviting all students to tell their own stories for a shot at prizes and bragging rights.
Media Research Institute
A year-long Fellowship supporting full-time faculty and staff at GovState in the creation of original pieces of digital media (audio, video, or multimedia) to support ongoing research fostering democratic engagement, increasing civic awareness, and amplifying authentic voices. Learn about past MRI Fellowship projects.