Digital Strategic Communication
Posts related to integrated strategic communication in a digital environment.
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Media Learning Expo
Get some really innovative people in a room together and ask them to share what they do. That’s the simple concept behind the Expo at Knight Foundation’s Media Learning Seminar this week at the Intercontinental Hotel in Miami. At the Expo, I went from booth to booth, hearing about innovative ideas and gathering resources that…
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Media Learning Seminar 2012
To get my head in the game for this week’s Media Learning Seminar in Miami, I went to a community space just outside the conference hotel. Bayfront Park was bustling with families, couples, people exercising, kids on bikes, and groups of teens showing off for each other. As an onlooker, I watched the people, picking…
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Digital Literacy Brainstorm
How would you know if you were digitally literate? In our exploration seminar at Queens University of Charlotte, our central question surrounds digital literacies. For our fourth weekly inquiry, students and invited guests will investigate the markers of digital literacy in a group brainstorm. We’ll start with the white paper Digital and Media Literacy: A Plan of Action written by Renee…
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Does Technology Impact our Health?
Bobby DeMuro, who has been hosting The Bobby DeMuro Show on WBT Radio every Sunday evening since fall 2011, tackles current issues related to public health. This week’s topic: Does technology impact our health? Bobby hosted me on tonight’s show alongside Jason Silverstein, Jon West, and others to discuss current issues in media, technology, and society. My section of the show covered the ways…
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Top Digital Citizens
The results from our seminar are in, and the nominees are: click on the thumbnails above to read about each nominee and see each writer’s honorable mentions. Cast your vote below
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Developing digital skills
What are the skills necessary to be digitally literate? In her white paper Digital and Media Literacy: A Plan of Action, Renee Hobbs suggests that digital and media literacy is a five-part effort including the abilities to access, analyze, create, reflect, and act. In his article Attention and other 21st century literacies, Howard Rheingold names…
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Digital Citizens
What does it mean to be a citizen in a digital world? Who are the best examples of this type of citizenship? In our exploration seminar at Queens University of Charlotte, our central question surrounds digital literacies. For our second weekly inquiry, students will investigate what it means to be a digital citizen. To do…
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Google, Wikipedia black out over SOPA
Even though the widespread and unconfirmed Internet shutdown scheduled for today has not yet happened, major websites are using their own typical strategies to spread the word about SOPA. SOPA, the “Stop Online Piracy Act” (H.R. 3261) currently in process in the US House of Representatives, was introduced by Representative Lamar Smith (R-TX) on December 16,…
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Are you digitally literate?
Are you digitally literate? If you had to describe to me what made you digitally literate, what would you say? In our exploration seminar at Queens University of Charlotte, our central question surrounds digital literacies. For our first weekly inquiry, students will make the case that they are, in their own words, digitally literate or…
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An Exploration in Digital Literacy
I’m embarking on a journey through an untested classroom. At Queens University of Charlotte, the university is investing in a prototype for faculty-student interaction through seminars that explore a specific question or inquiry. I’ve agreed to be part of the pilot project taking place this spring. Fifteen brave students and I will examine the landscape of digital literacy and…
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