JAMcArthur
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Developing a mindset of innovation
Breakfast was good at this morning’s meeting of Social Media Charlotte, but the real star was SapientNitro’s Joey Wilson. “A company’s mindset is more important than it’s organization,” says Wilson. Change in a mindset leads to a changes in the way a company might operate. Here are some current mindset changes that could lead to corporate…
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Honored by Lambda Pi Eta
Thank you to the members of the Lambda Pi Eta Chapter at Queens University of Charlotte for honoring me with the Lambda Pi Eta Award for service to the Knight School’s undergraduate programs. I feel humbled that the students in our school chose me for this award from among a very talented and caring faculty…
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Rate My Professor
The end of the term is upon us. And, once again, the time for course evaluations has come. The sum total of my experience with course evaluations leads me to believe that many mis-perceptions exist surrounding the infamous end-of-term ratings. Here are some of the most frequent, from students and professors alike: MYTH ONE: “No…
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In Memory of Audrey Crain Alley
On June 28, 2008, I delivered one of the hardest and most important speeches of my life: a eulogy in tribute of my grandmother, Audrey Crain Alley. Today, on her birthday, I thought I would finally make public the speech I designed 2 years ago in her honor.
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Are newspapers all washed-up?
Even though our copy of the Greenville News was drenched by a downpour this Saturday morning, my commitment to reading the paper did not wane. As I stood in my garage methodically drying wet newsprint with a discarded hair dryer, several things occurred to me: Content is king. As I dried the paper, I crumpled…
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Popular Music meets Digital Subcultures
“Digital Subculture: A geek meaning of style” was selected as a chapter for the Sage Benchmarks in Culture and Society reference text, Popular Music. The research article — originally published in the Journal of Communication Inquiry — was an argument that subcultures could gather in digital spaces the same way that they convened in coffee houses and…
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Academically Adrift (Arum & Roksa, 2011)
Academically Adrift: Limited learning on college campuses (by Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa, 2011) Almost half of students in college may not learn anything in their first two years, say authors Arum and Roksa. In a discussion at Queens University of Charlotte’s Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL), faculty members from around the…
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Ballantyne Magazine
Ballantyne Magazine, a Charlotte-area publication, released its Spring 2011 issue featuring the wired generation of “echo-boomers.” Alongside other Charlotte-area twenty- and thirty-somethings, I was included in the cover story, by Carol Gifford, as both an example of and researcher of the intersection between daily life and technology. Check out the Spring 2011 issue of Ballantyne…
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Going Mobile: Phones in Class
A student glances quickly around before secretly texting a classmate. Holding the phone just out of sight of her professor, her attention turns to the keypad on her blackberry. The message is sent. She looks quickly up and feigns interest. Her classmate sees the text pop up on his iPhone. He glances around. Holding the…
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Building a Class Twitterfall
Mobile phones keep surfacing in the classroom. As students multitask (or just get bored) they often turn to the closest iPhone for a brief moment of respite. Instead of discouraging phone use, I wonder if it could be harnessed. Twitterfall served as my most recent attempt to do just that. In my integrated strategic communication…
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