Media, Technology & Society
Posts concerning the impacts of media and technology on our society.
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Digital Proxemics – Available Now
Fifty years ago, Edward T. Hall’s The Hidden Dimension uncovered proxemics for a generation of scholars and students of human communication. Today, Digital Proxemics: How Technology Shapes the Ways We Move examines the study of proxemics in digital, hybrid, and digitally enhanced spaces. The study of proxemics—the human use of space—is reimagined for the digital…
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From Classroom to Zoom Room
When the pandemic shuttered classrooms around the nation, educators scrambled to find new ways to teach. Online instruction, notably via Zoom, helped them do that. But as innovative as that was, it presented teachers with some challenges to their nonverbal communication, said John A. McArthur, professor and chair of Furman’s Department of Communication Studies. Among…
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Mobile Media Unmasked
This visual archive was created by COM 419 – Mobile Media Space + Place in Spring 2021 during our discussion of authentic and inauthentic representations of memory, and the role of the (public/private) digital archive in our constructions of place.
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Placemaking and Play at NCA 2020
Our presentation at the National Communication Association annual conference was featured by Furman this week across its news, public relations, and social media properties. Check out the story below or in its online form at Furman. December 8, 2020 by Ron Wagner ’93, Senior Writer Research by Furman Associate Professor of Communication Studies John A. McArthur ’02…
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The Archive and Political Cartooning
Cartoons have chronicled the history of polarizing political rhetoric throughout major shifts in US politics. When US Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina and other noteworthy Democrats shifted their allegiances to the Republican party in the early 1960s, cartoonists captured the swing of the political pendulum. Using Strom Thurmond’s personal papers in the Strom Thurmond…
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Placemaking and the Dali Erhai Lake Science Education Center
The Dali Erhai Lake Science Education Center is an integral part of the campaign to tell the story of Erhai Lake in Yunnan, China. The lake had remained one of China’s most pristine until pollution pushed the lake toward a eutrophic state at which point conservation efforts were employed to restore the lake from Class…
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NACC 2020 Keynote: Digital Proxemics and Communication Centers
Thank you to the National Association of Communication Centers for inviting me to serve as the keynote speaker for the 2020 annual conference. The conference was hosted by Clemson University and took place online due to COVID-19. Nevertheless, the conference attendees were full of interest in digital proxemics, augmented reality, and their potential use for…
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we were here.
Mobile Media, Space + Place Furman Hall 110 and then online | Spring 2020 a digital archive Mobile Media Space + Place
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Social distancing has changed how we commonly interact with friends and neighbors
The following article, by Liv Osby, was published online by the Greenville News on Monday, March 23, 2020 and appeared on page 2A of the Greenville News on Tuesday, March 24, 2020. Social distancing. Two words that have changed lives as we try to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus. No large gatherings, we’re…
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Op-Ed: Social Distancing feels weird, but we should do it anyway
The Op-Ed below was published in the Greenville News, Saturday, March 21, 2020 (p. 8A). Read full text online here. Social Distancing feels weird, but we should do it anyway. The global pandemic of the coronavirus (COVID-19) has called into question everything our culture has taught us about how we space ourselves in relation to…
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On the need for spaces for discourse in human communication + technology
I was invited to join the inaugural Editorial Board for a new journal, Human Communication and Technology, edited by Dr. Jeffrey A. Hall at the University of Kansas. When I look at the names of the scholars on the editorial board, I am honored to be among them. In addition, I was invited to submit…
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