Digital Strategic Communication
Posts related to integrated strategic communication in a digital environment.
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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, it’s too hot. When we wait awhile to adopt technology, it’s too cold. How do we adopt it so it’s just right?” We are surrounded…
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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 page. The link above will take you to the column on the Observer’s website. Facebook is changing the face of our private lives. The impending release…
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Joining the Digital Revolution
Max Kaczynski, now a junior in the Knight School of Communication wrote this article for the school’s website By: Max Kaczynski I began using Xanga in the 7th grade, eventually switching over to Myspace in 8th grade. I loved how I could share videos, pictures, relationship statuses and comments from just one page. Unlike my…
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DM3C Live 2011: digital and media literacy and civic engagement
Starting today, the Knight School of Communication will host its inaugural gathering of the best minds in digital and media literacy on the Queens University of Charlotte campus in Charlotte, North Carolina. Invited experts will explore the relationship between digital and media literacy and civic engagement. In addition, we will discuss the opportunities and strategies to increase digital…
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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 not pass, but the SGA voted “no confidence” in the president, according to the Charleston City Paper. After the vote, Kressel posted this tweet on…
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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 that theory. We turned to Twitter. Eight minutes after the event, we learned that the magnitude 5.8 earthquake shook Virginia 87 miles outside of Washington…
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Google Images doesn’t own images
Google Images is an excellent tool for searching and finding images from across the Internet. Unfortunately for students, the image’s appearance in a search does not authorize its use. I recently wrote an article titled Photos and Copyright Law in which I advocated for appropriate citation in student projects. One issue with citation has emerged…
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Event Hashtags: Lessons Learned from NCA
The National Communication Association (NCA) may have gotten it right – according to its Twitter followers. With the consecration of the #NCA11 hashtag, for this year’s conference, attendees on Twitter might finally be pleased with the selection. However, use of alternate hashtags by the association Twitter account threatens to upend the discussion once again. A…
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Photos and Copyright Law
If you find a photo and place it on your website, in a paper, or use it as an image in some other document, be careful. More likely than not, you are in violation of copyright law. My rule for photos: if you didn’t shoot it with your own camera, draw it with your own hand,…
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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 School of Communication, and I presented to a lively audience at the club. While the real focus of the presentation was the discussion that ensued,…
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