East Brunswick Resident, Best-selling Author, Dr. Mary Chayko, Keynotes at Media and History Conference

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Dr. Mary Chayko, professor and chair of the College of Saint Elizabeth sociology program will deliver the keynote address at The Fifth Annual Media and History Conference at Saint Peter's College.

MORRISTOWN, NJ (04/10/2012)(readMedia)-- The College of Saint Elizabeth (CSE) professor and best-selling author, Dr. Mary Chayko, a resident of East Brunswick, N.J., will be the keynote speaker with her address entitled, "Time, Space, Technology, and Togetherness" at The Media and History Conference, held at Saint Peter's College in Jersey City, N.J., on Thursday, April 12, 2012, beginning at noon.

Dr. Mary Chayko, professor and chair of the sociology program at CSE, is the best-selling author of Portable Communities: The Social Dynamics of Online and Mobile Connectedness (SUNY Press). In 2009, it was ranked sixth on the top 20 best sellers list in the social sciences by the Library Journal and recognized by the Association of Humanist Sociology at their annual meeting as Book-of-the-Year runner-up.

Her latest co-authored publication, Pioneers of Public Sociology: 30 Years of Humanity and Society (Sloan Publishing), has expanded her literary list with anthology authorship. Through partnering 25 articles, many taken from the journal Humanity and Society, with a contemporary rejoinder or update, she was able to illustrate a correlation in relevance of today's issues to those journals reviewed by authors during three decades.

Says Dr. Chayko, "I strongly believe that sociology is something people do and not just study. Sociology is a life skill, not a list of vocabulary words to be learned. It is a way of taking action to make people's lives better."

Saint Peter's Hosts Fifth Conference

The Saint Peter's College departments of history and communication's Fifth Annual Media and History Conference takes place on the College's Jersey City campus in Pope Lecture Hall from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. The theme for this year's conference is "The Technology of News." Aside from Dr. Chayko, Dr. Ira Chinoy of The University of Maryland will speak on "From Telegraph to Hologram: Election-Night Experiments in New Technologies for News."

Sponsored by the Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth, Convent Station, N.J., the College of Saint Elizabeth enrolls more than 2,100 full- and part-time students in more than 25 undergraduate, 10 graduate and one doctoral degree programs. For information on other activities or programs, visit the College of Saint Elizabeth web site at www.cse.edu.