{"id":843,"date":"2011-01-05T12:03:31","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T17:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/?p=843"},"modified":"2015-10-20T14:19:38","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T18:19:38","slug":"comlife-places-third-in-clicker-contest","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/articles\/comlife-places-third-in-clicker-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;COMlife&#8217; places third in Clicker contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/nV00kum14mM\/0.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"310\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/buniverse\/youtube\/?v=eg4QFNL\">Watch the debut episode of COMlife<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nCOMlife is a new reality web series produced by the College of Communication\u2019s Follow Suit Productions. It covers the happenings of two COM freshmen as they explore and discover the academic and social landscapes of college.<\/p>\n<p>The College of Communication\u2019s reality web series COMlife <del datetime=\"2011-01-10T20:27:03+00:00\">is nominated<\/del> won third place for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clicker.com\/gallery\/best-web-non-fiction-2010\/\">Best of Clicker 2010, Best Web Non-Fiction<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re very excited to be recognized in this way,\u201d says College of Communication <strong>Assistant Dean Micha Sabovik<\/strong>. \u201cCOMlife, as a student-produced web series, is a great vehicle to showcase their talents. Since it\u2019s gone viral, the College of Communication has also benefited from the program as a multi-media marketing tool.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The series follows two students, <strong>Jason Kashdan (\u201914)<\/strong> and <strong>Kate Scott (\u201914)<\/strong>, through their daily lives as college freshmen and is developed with footage produced entirely by Jason and Kate, and their friends and classmates. \u201cThe nomination is an awesome acknowledgement of everything we put into creating it. It is also a great way to honor <strong>Mark Denega<\/strong>, our director and editor and a graduate student at COM, for the incredible job he\u2019s done in producing the show,\u201d says Kate.<\/p>\n<p>Clicker, an internet television guide, gives out awards to the most popular shows on the Web in categories ranging from Best TV Show Comedy to TV Show with the Most Annoying Fans. In the Best Web Non-Fiction category, COMlife was nominated alongside TIME Magazine\u2019s 10 Questions interview series and The Guardian\u2019s In the Director\u2019s Chair series.<\/p>\n<p>The Fall finale of COMlife, A Very Merry First Semester, aired on December 17, 2010 on the undergraduate YouTube channel at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/bucomugrad\">www.youtube.com\/bucomugrad<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch the debut episode of COMlife COMlife is a new reality web series produced by the College of Communication\u2019s Follow&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9874,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"bu_prepress_billboard":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term_manual":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[372,373,125,78,374,375,376,44],"bu-publication":[],"discipline-type":[],"bu_edition":[],"media_type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/843"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/bu-article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9874"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5495,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/843\/revisions\/5495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843"},{"taxonomy":"bu-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-publication?post=843"},{"taxonomy":"discipline-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/discipline-type?post=843"},{"taxonomy":"bu_edition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu_edition?post=843"},{"taxonomy":"media_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media_type?post=843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}