Category Archives: Media, Technology & Society
e-Books, Tenure and Promotion
“The ‘Publish or Perish’ model in academia might be missing a third ‘P’ - Profit,” says Mel Odom, a successful e-book publisher and faculty member at the University of Oklahoma. Odom, … Continue reading
e-Books and the Changing Dynamics of Publishing
The front page of this morning’s USA Today Money section heralded the importance of e-books and the high quality of digital book readers in an article by Edward C. Baig. … Continue reading
Unexpected Use for iPad — Jumbotron
I stumbled across a new use for the iPad – one I didn’t expect. The Biltmore Estate, well-known for its Christmas decorations and Candlelight evenings, has to decorate the house … Continue reading
Academics and Technology: Early Adopters or Left Behind?
Alexis Carreiro, assistant professor in the Knight School of Communication, offers that the adoption of technology might be a strange marriage of Goldilocks and Marshall McLuhan: “When we rush to adopt technology, … Continue reading
Town Crier? Village Idiot? We each have role in public space
Town crier? Village idiot? We each have role in public space CharlotteObserver.com & The Charlotte Observer Newspaper This column ran in the Charlotte Observer on September 30, 2011 on the opinion/editorial … Continue reading
Presidential Tweets lead to vote of “no confidence”
College of Charleston Student Government Association (SGA) president Ross Kressel faced an impeachment vote yesterday after allegedly posting tweets that disparaged minorities, women, gays, and his SGA colleagues. The vote did … Continue reading
Earthquake has East Coast a-Twitter
When our office started quaking this afternoon at Queens University of Charlotte, one of my colleagues thought his vertigo might be flaring up. The bushes shaking outside my window disconfirmed … Continue reading
A History of Social Media
Technology and media have always been social. This was my message to the Dialogue & Discovery Group at Charlotte City Club, June 1, 2011. Van King, Dean of the Knight … Continue reading
Diffusion vs. Translation
…or, “Why we want to hear from the President rather than Twitter.” Due to what news anchors called “technical difficulties with the press conference,” Twitter users and the news media … Continue reading
